Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1928 — Page 8

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LILA LATHAM the bride of HERBERT WARE, but the picture of an oid sweetheart, CAPTAIN JACK FARQNAHAR, lurks in her mind. She confides her plight to her best friend. DOROTHY CAINE, an artist. A mysterious letter awaits Lila at Dorothy s studio, and it brings back memories of the war to her. On returning from her honeymoon, she is told that a communication from the War Department is awaiting her. In a flash, she is back in the past Memories of her first meeting with Captain Farquahar, when she was doing war work, come to her. ahe sees again the scene in a little French inn—a dinner to cMebrate her marriage on the morrow to Jack —then orders, that very night, sending his regiment to the front at once. There is no wedding, but, before Jack’s brother officers, Lila promises him that she Will wait for him—that they will be married when he returns, no matter what time intervenes. Jack leaves and, three days later, is reported missing. But he is not officially reported dead until five years later. It is only then that Lila feels herself free to marry Herbert. CHAPTER V. A Dead Finger Points WHEN Lila arrived at the studio the following morning, Dorothy was working at an enormous poster that was stretched across an easel. Over a blouse and skirt, she wore a blue smock —her “badge of the dilettante,” as she called it. “No self-respecting artist would be caught dead in one,” she always said. She leaned forward and kissed Lila. “Be careful you don't get painted,” she laughed. “I’m a mess, and you look like the latest think from Paris.” Lila removed her wrap and repealed herself in one of her prettiest trousseau frocks. “I didn’t sleep a wink,” she remarked, as she drew off her gloves, “and I thought Herbert would never leave this morning. I think my manner aroused his suspicions. Yesterday he was keen abdut getting to the office, but this morning ” She shrugged. “Where is the fatal letter?” Dorothy unlocked a cabinet and drew forth a long envelope bearing the official letterhead of the War Department. Lila tore it open with trembling fingers. “Oh!” she gasped, after a moment. “How awful! They’re turning his insurance over to me—as his fiancee. I never knew he’d left it to me.” “Jack Farquahar’s?” Dorothy came to look over her shoulder. Lila bit her lip. “What am I going to do?” “You don’t want to accept it?” “Heavens, no! I’d feel like a thief.” “And he had no relatives?” “None that he ever mentioned. You see, we knew each other such a short time. And I wouldn’t exactly care to start an investigation. It might prove a—er —boomerang.” Dorothy nodded absently. tt tt * “Why not accept the money—ten thousand, isn’t it?—and turn it over to one of the funds for disabled veterans,” she suggested. Lila stared at her admiringly. “How quickly you think of a way out. It’s the very thing, of course.” She rose and went quickly to Dorothy’s desk. . “I’ll write the letter now, if I may use your stationery.” She scribbled rapidly with the plumed pen on Dorothy’s pretty gray paper, with its silver embossed street number. “There!” she said, using the blotter with satisfaction. “If the money comes here, you’ll have to pretend to be me and sign for it. And then —” she stopped suddenly, struck by a thought. “You’ll have to make the donation, too, Dot. It mustn’t come from me.” Dorothy laid down her brushes, pretty brows contracted a frown. “I can’t do that.” “But don’t you see that it is impossible for me to appear in the thing?” urged Lila. “Everybody knows I haven’t ten thousand dollars to give to charity. Dad’s always kept me frightfully short, because I’m so extravagant, and it’s too early for Herbert to have given me so much.” “Why not send it in as an anonymous contribution ‘in memory of Jack Farquahar,’ or something like that?” suggested the resourceful Dorothy. “Splendid!” Lila’ eyes sparkled. “I must run now. I’ve promised to meet Herbert downtown for lunch.” Dorothy laughed. “Can’t you two love-birds be parted for more than three hours?” “We wouldn’t be parted for one hour, if I cauld help it,” declared Lila unblushingly. “Oh, I’m gone all right, Dot.” “I should say you are!” sighed Dorothy. "It seems strange—” she checked herself suddenly. Lila raised her brows. “You were going to say that it seems strange that I could forget one man r completely and fall so frantically in love with another, Weren’t you?” tt tt a DOROTHY nodded, a little smile playing around her pretty mouth. “I rather liked your Jack Farquahar, you know, even though I never saw him. What was he like, Lila? I don’t mean in looks. You show' me his photo—but the man himself.” Lila shrugged carelssly. “I hardly know. I’m afraid it was only his loe-cs I w’as thinking about. I was such a romantic little fool! Oh, he was fascinating enough—one of the savage, ruthless sort, you know. A man of that type is frightfully difficult, especially as a husband, I should think. Thank Heaven, Herbert’s not like that!” “But Jack sounds so interesting.” “He was interesting,” Lila said, as she drew on her gloves. “He swept me off my feet. We’d known each other only a week w'hen he proposed to me.” “Were you very sad when he went awjf?”

“I don’t know,” answered Lila thoughtfully. Tt all seems so unreal now’ —like a play. But I guess I thought I was broken-hearted.” She sprang up and slipped back into her wrap. “I’ll be late, and Herbert detests being kept waiting. Dot, don’t make me talk about that old episode. I

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Crystal did not see Faith or Bob Hathaway until she went home from the Pruitt Hardware Company offices the next afternoon. It was the last Thursday in June, a wiltingly hot mid-western day. Cherry and her small daughter, Hope, were there, on one of their frequent spend-the-day visits. Mils Jonson, Cherry’s husband, and Rhoda, his sister, were expected a little late for dinner, Faith told Crystal, after she had greeted the girl a little constrainedly. “I’m in for it, about that Mademoiselle Eloise stunt of mine and Tony’s” Crystal reflected ruefully, as she changed from office clothes to the pretty buttercup organdie frock she had worn the night before at Mrs. Tarver’s bridge-and-dance party. “She’d never believe that Tony and I wept buckets afterwards.” , “Cute dress,” Cherry flung at Crystal offhandedly, as the tired little stenographer entered t;he dining room, where the two sisters were setting the able for dinner. “Is that the one you wore last night when you put the middleaged French vamp on the rack?” Crysal’s face flamed and she shot a glance of surprised anger at Faith. “Oh, don’t get sore at Faith,” Cherry laughted maliciously. “Mrs. Harrison, who ran in for an hour’s gossip over the party, spilled the beans. She thought it was unintentional. But I got a hunch about it myself. “Were you two kids paying the Mam’selle back for flunking you or taking your boy friends away from you? But I must say I thought Tony Tarver was a better sport than that.” “Thanks!” Crystal retorted, as sweetly vicious as Cherry herself could be. “Asa matter of fact, Tony and I did do it on purpose, but our motives were surprisingly

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NEA Service Writer (Copyright. 1928, by NEA Service, Inc.) ASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—“ What’s the good of being reelected if you don’t stand for anything?” That question was asked by honest President Grover Cleveland. His disregard for political expediency helped elect him, then defeated him, re-elected him over the man who beat him and finally caused his repudiation by his own party. Being the first Democratic President since Bu- ! chanan, Cleveland was beset by Democratic politicians demanding a clean sweep of federal offices. He compromised with the reforming Mugwumps who elected

him and with his party’s spoilsmen, pleasing neither and enraging the latter when he demanded further civil service reform. He made more enemies when he stopped pension frauds by vetoing many private bills. He fought off radical Democrats demanding free silver. Finally he came out flat against the protective tarff, explaining: “Perhaps I made a mistake from a party standpoint, but, damn it, it was right.” The Republican convention was one more defeat for James G. Blaine. Blaine’s name was before five conventions, from 1876 to 1892, and his only nomination was followed by his 1884 defeat. After 1876 he became fatalistic, but he still tried.

A few months before convention time in 1888 party feeling was overwhelmingly for him. Then he withdrew in two emphatic letters from Italy,-which allowed at least twenty favorite sons to get into the race, including Chauncey Depew and Lincoln’s son Robert. Blaine Is Discarded All through the convention the whole country expected a Blaine stampede, but he never had more than forty-five votes. Benjamin Harrison gained rapidly until his nomination on the eighth ballot. The convention, prolonged for a week, named Levi P. Morton of New York for second place and the ticket entered the campaign on a platform calling for a protective tariff. The national vote was Harrison 5,440,000: Cleveland 5,540,000 but Harrison won 235 electoral votes to 168 for Cleveland. Back in power, the Republicans paid their debt to industry, but got in wrong with the American people. They had bare control of congress and jammed through a legislative program after giving a seat to any Republican who would contest a Democrat’s election. * Consumers Enraged This program included the McKinley tariff bill, raising duties so high that prices promptly „.,ot up and enraged consumers. When the 1890 elections came the voters were angry and taught the party a lesson. They elected 236 Democratic congressmen and only 88 Republicans. Harrison is generally underestimated, but he was a good, able man. His first congress had queered the administration,' however, and led to his -defeat. Leading politicians opposed his renomination and wanted Blaine, who left them fjat in February by refusing to run. although he later expressed grief when not nominated. Harrison won on the first ballot, although Blaine and McKinley had 182 apiece. Bosses Fight Cleveland Governor David B. Hill of New York desperately opposed Cleve-

want to forget, and there’s no reason now why I shouldn’t.” It was nearly a month later that Dorothy rang her up one evening while she was dressing for dinner. “Can you manage to come here at once, Lila? I can’t tell you over the phone, but there’s some unexpected trouble!” (To Be Continued)

noble. I can’t tell any more—” “’Nough said!” Cherry laugived. “So your Mam’selle had menaced Tony’s grand-looking father? That being the case, I take my hat off to you and Tony. Tell her. Faith.” “The heat has been wilting the baby lately, Crystal, and the doctor said Monday that we ought to take him to a high, cool climate for the hottest weather. “Cherry and Nils have been planning to go to Lake Minnehaha, in northern Michigan, and Bob and I think perhaps we’ll go, too—Just for July and August. “You wouldn’t be deserted at all, for Bob would be coming home for a week occasionally, to see about his business, and Rhoda, Nils’ sister, can’t leave her singing lessons for the whole summer and wants to stay here with you. I’d keep Beulah on, of course, to cook for you girls—” C'.ystal W'as getting her lost breath back, her mind darting ahead to the delights of unlimited freedom in the charming Hathaway home, of which she would be the “mistress” for the summer at least . . . Parties . . . Dates . . . No censorship from Bob, who disapproved of her so . . . “Why, Faith, I think that will be splendid for you!” Crystal cried. “Don’t worry about me for a split second. Os course I won’t get a vacation, since I’ve only been working four weeks, but Tony and some of the rest of the crowd will surely be in town, and I’ll have a good time.” Cherry had the grace to look sorry as she corrected Crystal: “I’m afraid you can’t count on Tony Tarver, Crystal. “She ran in this afternoon to tell us that the whole family had suddenly decided to spend the two hot months in Canada. She wants you to come over after dinner.” (To Be Continued)

land’s renomination, getting his state convention to meet in February and elect a full delegation for himself. Cleveland was always unpopular with the bosses and they charged him with defeating the party by injecting the tariff in ’BB. The other states accused Hil! of double-crossing Cleveland in ’BB and told Tammany to -go chase itself, nominating Cleveland on the first ballot. Cleveland won probably because the McKinley tariff had brought great profits to factory owners, but they hadn’t yet passed any of them on in higher wages for workers, and many farmers were seeing their mortgages foreclosed. Cleveland Carries South He carried the south, all doubtful states and Illinois, California and Wisconsin. Fusions with Populists to beat Harrison captured Colorado, Idaho, Kansas and Nevada. Third parties had 10 per cent cf the vote. The popular and electoral count: Cleveland 5,566,000 227 Harrison 5,175,000 145 Weaver (Pop.) 1,041,000 22 Prohibitionists had 255,000 and the Socialists 21,000 popular votes. NEXT: Enter Bryan. Sues Theater After Robbery EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 22. William Pheral has filed suit for $175 against a theater here, alleging that after his pocket had been picked while attending a show, an usher refused to help him in efforts to catch the thief. Pheral says he was robbed of $147. Charges Wife 31 Years FHrts Bti Times Special MARION, Ind., Oct. 22.—George A. Timmons charges in a divorce suit that Alice Timmons, his wife for thirty-one years, is given to flirting.

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