Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1928 — Page 8

PAGE 8

,M a SUITORrVATOO MANY 1 iJlkJfc /MILDRED BA&BQUK •

CONCERNING THE ACTION AND <• CHARACTERS ML A LATHAM becomes the bride of HERBERT WARE, but the picture of an old sweetheart. CAPTAIN JACK EARQNAIIAR, lurks in her mind. She confides her plight to her best friend, DOROTHY CAINE, an artists. 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. Shee sees again the scene in a little French inn—a dinner to celebrate her marriage on the morrow to Jack —then orders, that very night, sending his regiment to the front at once. There is no wedidng, 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 interrense. 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 fefeis herself free to marry Herbert. \ _ The letter from the War Department tells her that Jack’s insurance is to be paid to her as his fiancee. CHAPTER VI The Guilty Conscience That the door of Lila’s dressing room happened to be ajar as she talked over the telephone to Dorothy, and that Herbert happened to be passing through the hall at that moment, was one of those maddening coincidences that occur in real life with even more devastating suretly than in fiction. He had paused at the door, arrested by a lover-like impulse to kiss Lila before going to his dressing room. They were dining out, and he had just come from his office, with only time enough to change—to be late for an appointment was to Herbert the second of the seven deadly sins—-but his infatuation for Lila was strong enough to make him risk it. With his hand outstretched to bpen the doro wide, he heard Lila’s voice: "Dot, you frighten me! What is Jt? What has happened?" And, a moment later, with a hint of panic in her voice: “What man? ... I don’t . . . No, no, don’t tell me over the telephone, it's—it’s .. . Yes, I’ll come at once. . . . At once, Dot!" Herbert saw her hang up the receiver. He saw also that her hand was shaking. And then he spoke Sternly to her. She whirled around to face him. Her face was drained of color, but she forced a welcoming smile to her pale lips. “Darling, I didn’t hear you come in,” she hurried to him, her slim arms outstretched. He kissed her rather coldly, held her at arm s length, and searched her face with his candid gaze. “What were you saying to Dorothy?" The necessity for a quick fib nearly made her dizzy. “Oh—l—she wants me to come to her at once. She—she's in some sost of trouble —” w You said you were frightened,” he reminded her sternly. “Yes, yes—for her,” insisted Lila feverishly. “You mentioned a man. What man?” “I wish I knew!” thought Lila desperately. Aloud she said hastily, “That’s just it. It’s a—er—a man who’s bothering Dot, pursuing her, you know. She —she can’t get rid of him. You know what I mean,” she ended lamely. Herbert’s eyes were stern. A flicker of jealous suspicion had lit in them. . “I know of no one more capable of taking care of herself than Dorothy Caine. It strikes me that she Could handle any man pretty well.’ “Not this one,” insisted Lila desperately. “I’ve got to go to her, Herbert. Reafly, I must, darling. I premised.” Herbert took out his watch deliberately. “In half an hour we’re due to leave for dinner. You know I can't ” tolerate tardiness. You haven’t time to go to Dorothy.” “Oh, but I have. I’m nearly dressed, you see. All but my gown. |l’ll simply throw it on and rush uptown and be back here again before you’re ready yourself.” Herbert studied her face deliberately, noting her suddenly flushed cheeks, her averted eyes. “I will go with you,” he announced. tt tt tt rNIC seized Lila, but she clung clung to a semblance of outward calm. . “No, no, darling. It isn’t at all necessary. I can make it so much quicker—” “If a man is annoying Dorothy,” he accented the ‘if’ in a way that gave Lila sudden chills, “you will need me to send him properly about his business.” “Oh, Dot wouldn’t like that!” declared Lila. “She— Herbert took her by both arms. “See here, Lila,” he said quietly, “you’re not telling me the truth. If there’s a man at Dorothy’s studio, he’s somebody you know and want to see; he’s an old suitor, maybe a fiance.” Jealousy was burning now in Herbert’s eyes. His fingers hurt her arms. On a sudden desperate impulse, Lila took refuge in tears. “You—you’re i-insulting. You s-suspect me of awful things. I wish I’d n-never m-married you! With her face buried in her hands, she wept convincingly. They were the first tears that Herbert had ever seen her shed. They terrified him. He was routed. He asked her pardon, dragging her hands from her face and kissing away the drops that lingered on her long lashes. Lila seized her advantage instantly. “I’ll forgive you,” she promised prettily, “if you ■'prove you trust me by letting me go to Dot—alone Anyway,” she played another trump, “we couldn’t make it together and be in time for dinner. So just let me run ” tt u a IN the car—forunately it had not been returned to the garage after bringing Herbert from downtown— Lila tried to gather her thoughts. Now that she was alone; terror took possession of her. She shivi

ered in her furs; her hands were clammjh But terror of what? she asked herself. At Dorothy’s studio, a man was waiting to see her. She told herself that she was being an idiot to let that simple face demoralize her. But who was the man? Why was she so frightened? Jack Farquahar was dead and buried. But

It was a subdued and almost frightened Crystal who invaded Tony’s bedroom at half past seven. Two months without Tony, and—yes, without Faith, for she did love Faith. “Oh, darling Crystal, don’t look so heartbroken!” Tony said, gathering her chum into her arms. “Tony’s sorry! It’s Pat’s idea, you know. He’s so terribly chastened after last night, wants to make up to Peg and me for what he thinks was his desperate wickedness. So he elected Canada, and Winnipeg, of all places!’” “Why ‘of all places’?” Crystal asked, choking on tears of real grief. “Why, poor innocent Pat has no idea that Dick Talbot's family owns a summer lodge in the wilds of Canada,” Tony laughed. "I’m sure it’s somewhere near Winnipeg. "Pat hasn’t said a word about desiring to remove me from the Dick Talbot danger zone, but I'm sure that’s at least a minor consideration in this sudden scheme of his. “I'd give up seeing Dick entirely, except when we met at parties of the Country Club, of course, if Pat came right out and asked me, but since he hasn’t—’’Tony left the sentence suspended and dived into her capacious closet for the dress she was to wear that evening. “Dick this evening?” Crystal asked, as Tony emerged with a “period costume” frock, of ivory white taffeta, exquisitely embroidered with cornflowers. "Right-o!” Tony replied. “Find me the blue satin pumps that match this dress, won’t you, darling?....! can’t help seeing him as long as he’s so determined. And I do get more kick out or Dick than any other boy I ever knew. “Now please don’t ask me again, ‘Why don’t you marry him, if you

iiipiis e „ n * ry into the political arena and his defeat by McKinley and an Pafade e - e R t orfn^ 1 ? P r. lg . n K fu . nd or , e sul) jets of this chapter of • The Presidential Parade, Rodney Dutcher s series on presidential politics. BY RODNEY DUTCIIER NIIA Service Writer (Copyright. 1928. by NEA Service. Ini!.) HASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—N0 campaign ever saw the Issue between “Big Business” and the "common people” so closely drawn as the Bryan-McKiniley fight cf 1896. Panic-stricken at the thought of the “Boy Orator of. the Platte” reaching the White House, the industrial and financial east chipped in with an unprecedented campaign fund of $16,500,000 to defeat the radicals of the east and west. The country was so thoroughly saturated with propaganda to the effect that Republican victory meant prosperity and a Democratic administration panics and hard times that the Democratic party still is forced to fight that theory. Bryan lived to see many of his proposed reforms enacted into law bank notes based on something less material than silver, an inflation which gave the country something Hike a 30-cent dollar instead of the 50-cent dollar he was charged with advocating, and many more radical innovations than he dreamed of in his first campaign. Bryan took the party away from President Cleveland, whose second administration was marked by panic and business paralysis. The party in power naturally was blamed. When a Republican Congress was elected in 1894 the Republicans soon began to say they could “nominate a rag doll” and win the presidency.

They nominated McKinley at St. Louis. His principal opponent was Speaker Thomas B. Reed of Maine, supported by Roosevelt and Lodge. Elaborate and expensixe pre-con-vention campaigns were made for both, but Mark Hanna made the best one for McKinley. New Deal Demanded Cleveland was a strong gold standard man and hoped to beat the radicals at the '96 Chicago con vention. But Democratic conventions in thirty states had howled for silver and many new leaders demanded a strong silver plank if only to win over the Populists, who had grown enormously and in some western states outnumbered both old parties. Bryan, already noted for his prosilvec speeches in Congress and regarded in the west as a Messiah, had been working for the nomination for two years. A gold delegation from Nebraska was unseated and Bryan and his "silverites given its place. Speaks Immortal Words The climax came when “the boy orator” threw defiance in the enemy’s teeth and summoned the lowly to battle under the silver standard against "this crown of thorns” and “a cross of gold.” Sweeping aside the old-line eastern Democrats they voted down gold two to one ahd repudiated Cleveland’s administration by refusing to commend it. The convention gave Bryan 500 on the fi£th ballot and quickly added the few votes needed to meet the two-thirds rule, Arthur Sewell of Maine was named for Vice-President. It appeared first as if there would be no eastern Democrats and no western Republicans. The Populist

intuition told her that some phantom from the past had risen and was waiting for her behind the bronze-green door of Dorothy's cheery studio. She lifted her gloved hand and sounded the old brass knocker. (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1928. Metropolitan Newspaper Service. New York)

love him?’ The answer is, ‘I don’t want, to get married to any one, just because he gives me a thrill, and I wouldn't marry any one if he didn’t, and I don’t believe in marriage for Tony Tarver anyway, and I don’t really love Dick, though I suppose I'm temporarily in love with him. “Thanks, Crys Ouch! Pinches my toes! But maybe it’s a good thing the pumps hurt a little. No girl can lose her head if her feet hurt her.” “I'm going to miss you unbearably, Tony,” Crystal gulped, her eyes adoring as Tony stood there. “I’ll write often,” Tony promised. “I’ll miss you, too. Poor Crys! It’s a shame you have to stay in the hot city and slave for Mr. Lincoln Pruitt! Say! I’ve got a luscious idea! I’ll make Pat invite you to come along as our guest. He’ll be glad to have you.” “Thanks, awfully, Tony, but I couldn’t possibly go. I’d have to give up my job and hunt another one when I came back, and Mr. Pruitt pays me a decent salary. I’ll have to make up my mind to live the life of a working girl, honey,” Crystal answered, with surprising wisdom. Tony answered only by kissing Crystal, but there were tears in both blue and haze! eyes. Tony was ready to join Dick Talbot, who according to Annabel was “mulligrubbin’ ’round downstaii*s ’cause yo’ late,” when she thought of something else: “Mrs. Pruitt, George and Selma will spend the summer at their place in Wisconsin, but Harry Blaine will be in town. “He told me so today, and promised me you wouldn’t miss the rest of the crowd too much. Bye, darling!” (To Be Continued)

I and Natiohal Silver parties also nominated Bryan. Gold Democrats seceded and nominated John M. Palmer and General Simon Buckner. G. O. P. Losses Offset Many later voted for McKinley, offsetting the large swing of silver Republicans to Bryan. The Republicans and the eastern bankingcommercial interests were in a panic for a time, however, lest Bryan win wit the south and the west. The campaign had two outstanding features. One was Bryan’s remarkable 18,000-mile speaking tour, the greatest personal campaign in history. The other was the brilliant campaign waged by Hanna, who appealed to bankers and business men to protect themselves and levied assessments on corporations, banks and insurance companies on the basis of the party’s stand for “sound money” and protective' tariffs. Standard Oil forked over $250,000. With this money Hanna sent out 1,400 speakers and 120,000,000 pieces of literature to disprove Bryan's case. McKinley’s popular majority was 600,000 in 14,000,000 votes. He took the east, midwest and part of the northwest by big majorities, including some formerly Democratic border states as against former Republican western states which went for Bryan.. ‘ Bryan had the south and everything west of the Mississippi except California and Oregon. The farmers had taken their great political licking. The popular and electoral vote: McKinley 7,111,000 271 Bryan 6,509,000 176 Palmer had 133,000; Levering, Prohibitionist. 132.000; Matchett, Socialist, 36,000, and Bentley of the Free Silver Prohibitionist faction, 14,000. NEXT: McKinley and Taft.

THE nmiAVAPOLIS TIMES

OUR BOARDING HOUSE

MS /AM 7 -SMfiFP/ WAS Ipjf (jgrf SUMPIAi IfA /H M£a\ 7 ~ls ) 3bS-f UP-so-st( T OUIL r S * WIU- MoY 3 CLUB M/LsoR 7 •' AM 7 'TH' jj ALL H LlMl*f MV Bows ARC SAWRA 7 NoD'fcE 1 (A -TH’ Bl<3 CAMPARSA f EUMMIM 7 A6A(AI Yofc- CAMPAUSAS i { SPE£CH£S 311531 C- 3HIS ELECrf/OAi j-~J \-f MAW McTf tf/WE \ TOR TTUSTIcC, / saw 3X' worp K MirrtfiM’-fo po vtintf ) wi-nj small X ILL <SO OAi 3H' S3UMP -RLIMMI/A’ YoR JUSTICE,/ K \ YoR. WoLl' - WHA3 PIP 1 Tjii—i* I WILL SUIAV WOB PROMISE ’EM LAST' \ k rtAAJP / p/vdh' \ USURERS 7 so I_ Repeat 1 LE< US i wrrH 'iHeiß < l j ] I Ma - u ml Ii W

|! -IS AND tliMt bt ill ill-'

f / • ~j Awii-yv Ht<b WEVE .BOOTS y WANT I A*"'vvw2? DO TOOUVi' > I S TOO JO tAEVT THE ' I MONOCLE , 'bah ( / 60VSJ ov HONOR Ij H " kttffT\Tsri fbAM vr wy 1 l ,•- - - ill /Mi IH I I n"' BE m tUERSTHINC. F~~~r\ \ BOtOGWA'. r— \ f jH| THAT ~ 3-”-- 'J' g? j . -■ -Q .

FRECKLES AND H-IS FRIENDS

f \NEC£ ) VMM AT kIMD OF fo*R PERIOD ) A VTT ' I A IS 3£ r , fc-E-Q-S-T-O-N \ BKSvWOftOFOR < IDD^/-7jILPLo, lOr / cnLk I _M-i-Q-r>-D-o J MANY 'WORDS IDQWT A oPS ir ISMT q..Lg -T •• / V c "'“ 7A£ AAEANINS /SCARLET FEvJSR’* L> Isr .. rl BE SOASE /. OP7£OS'B L X LETS' GO DOER t A 0 __ _'

WASHINGTON TUBBS II

IJ* ftfl U\VbS THfM'l eve ft.. JAVA VULLS l\ NIFTV RESCUE, FUT \> V'NOf 6000 WGS It 00 if ft SENDS 010 HUDSON DEV 1 _ \ ■ .Jtii.i. ...so w

SALESMAN SAM

'VJeLL.V'UfvDDA Wt-W VIE. WOT. SHftKlN’ TEAM, ftN’ Vie WOT- ViOULO IT 0€ T'OO GOVS / DICE IN OOH ALL 63 AN’ OKAY FO 1 US TA,KEEP ON VJIF OUR GAME WANT? J A COP MADE US STOP- DOWN IN Vo' CELLAH?

MON’N POP

jPLwSO V NES, I vm \ AILLi BEPoRf voUIeAD ThE IT iEARIMG. A SIOO BILL YOU to COME 3 f WAS VOU’D BETt£R TAKE A Lan 'N TWO THE MEW OVD? TO THE PAI2)C. ]) LNst LOOK &T VOCRSEIF nei&hbop sane mike o’wm?e. and mas the J because when i fjmiSh K tough. One WA.UF WITH £EST MAN COME /[ EEMODEUN& SOUR MU& YDU'LL the unc>eqsta I ndin& that back J I look So new sou’ll have

the hour of knowledge

• During Madison's secolid term war was declared against Great Britain. In August. 1814, the British army landed on the coast and made a quick march to the capital. The- President and his cabinet retired to Virginia: but Mrs. Madison stayed behind in the presidential mansion, shudderingly straining her ears for the sound ,of the cannon at Bladensburg. 10 23 Bj NEA. Through Special Permit, .on e'J^rubhehert^nu^Booh^lnanowledg^C^rrtgO'lTafc^

By Ahern

A carriage was ready at the door, filled with household silver and government paoers, while Mrs. Madison awaited her husband's instructions.

OUT OUU WAY

/VS(VW-o*A VvJDEM X \ 'tfv . / WAS U-rtLE MW \ 3--tv USED T' s^ Cv < \ /fTfPI / l AROOVIO AN’KteCP ’er \ iff ft // v\ vVk-v HME- OM ME, AM* Keep /? 1 / l 4\n cA v \ \ me OoYurt MESse*G. A ' /} / \ MOtKERS RA'MT 3KET V S Y A / \ some gads X XX GOOOFOf? MAM OR eg AST

, I CAAWMtO —A6Mm\ Wtn_! ctcw CHVWtTOAVt—^ OWtajWilt ■ | I . J-AWMCT VILVUMO L? J CK\l -OWWtVtOAVfc MOW \ J QUVtt VOVPING, Ki and nt voRT- ??? ■ ‘ ‘ . ..—............. u,...

I WyA CMIGQUPOOISr ) * sr*7 IS A MAN 7HAT TEiVCAES ) r - B| CANARIES r O / / J>3 * ' —~~ E< Br U NlA P Scwvtcg, iwc. / $' C

An' \f TrtAX OLD 60V Vy' DON'T VNO,RM ABOUT S Tj DUST EMIR. CATCAES US HUVTrt [ DIDN'T OAOA AUM OfP ms CAMELS?) f n ni . nt tviPG TUC \ JAON—vK)WI \ goess vmf, rtes proS'lw looking eor // ’ nc ' ' VT'S ALL OVER BUT Trt’ V'EtAHEf. HE'S MILES SErtIND. J 1 V\OR.IZOn! SO/M£ON£ lqrnl ofFE I v ———^^pftoACHefrty

7 ieeiTWAT BIG- ['l 'kw/ ONE. CAN KEEP SA £- MM V. ReFRIGGRATOR? WELL, / J//V FRO<3 SHAKIM’ V OF 3A HOP (MSI PE- N. |M THeRe. \

HATIE l Get A DATE AtN/" iT ’^s lD 8 o‘ci.ock t meet a guw i FoiNC rcES IS / vOu SAS s AtL ®SHT,vntH TE W WOE PAEK.HEREi OmE ™ G T ° M W UTftS r T ° 4 ■ M MAtf OF A 8100 bill wues )XJ L i n, M -r U sjfT s FoC y^

A messenger arrived, bearing a scribbled note from the President. Mrs. Madison prepared to fly from the city. iQ-^J

SKETCHES B* BESSET. SYNOPSIS BY BKAtCUEB

i Just as she was about to depart her eye fell on Stuart's portrait of Washington, which hung in the state dining room. She tore the picture from the wall and ripped the canvas from (ts place. "Take care of that," she cried to some friends, "but destroy it before you let it fall into the hands of the British." The portrait la still a White House treasure. Sketches and Synopses. Copyright. 1978. The CroUs SociHy. (To Be Continued )io-23 J

OCT. 23,1028

—By Williams

—By Martin

Bv Blosser

Bv fra no

By Small

By Cowan