Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1928 — Page 28

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CONCERNING THE ACTION AND CHARACTERS HU LATHAM becomes the bride of . HERRERT WARE, but the picture of an old sweetheart, CAPTAIN JACK FARQUAHAR, 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 returnng from her honeymoon, he 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. She 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 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 latter. It is only then that Lila feels 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. Later, Herbert sees Lila being interviewed by a man who has called in regard to the insurance. She tells him the man .is a suitor of Dorothy’s and that ■he is urging him to cease his unwelcome attentions. Herbert’s unsympathetic attitude—for he is jealous of Lila’s friendship with Dorothy—almost causes a quarrel. To make amends, he buys her a bracelet and nuts it in her jewel-rase, as a surprise, Th?re he sees a ring—a diamond circlet .that looks like a wed-ding-ring. He asks for an explanation, and she ■ays the ring belongs to a friend, MRS. VABNEY. She explains further that Mrs. Varney gave her the ring, against her protests, as security for a bridge debt. Herbert believes her story. After this lull, the sight of a certain man in a shon throws Lila into a panic. He is GILROY HOLMES, an army Officer whom she knew in France, and a witness to her pledge to Jack. Lila’s next move, since Jack’s war insurance has been paid to her, is to give it to a fund tor disabled veterans. Although she makes the gift an anonvmous one. a woman in the office of the organization reveals her Identitv. Herbert, meanwhile, meets Mrs. VarSey in a restaurant and the talk turns i Jewelry. She tells him she loves rings—except wedding rings. Thev are a badge of servitude. Herbert furious at Lila, rushes horn to demand an explanation. Dorothy, who is with Lila when he arrives, tells him the ring is Mrs. Varney’s, that it was given her by a French nobleman to whom she was engaged. In compliance with her family’s wishes, the engagement was broken. Some time later, Mrs. Varney’s hus-. band innocently reveals to Herbert the fact that his wife has never been ■broad. Lila manages an explanation of this, only to have anew crisis loom. Herbert learns of her generous gift to the fund for disabled war veterans. She says she was merely the agent for her uncle, who wanted to honor the memory of a soldier son. And then Dorothy telephones that a cable has just arrived from Jack Farquahar. He is alive and well and on his way home. Lila faints. CHAPTER XXI The Dliemna DOROTHY walked in, just as Herbert, terrified by Lila’s attack of weeping, was going to the telephone, for the second time, to call her. She was looking pale and anxious, she' wore a coat over her smock: her hair was disheveled. “Has anything happened?” she asked breathlessly. “I was talking to Lila when—” Herbert looked intensely relieved “So it was you? I wondered who the person was who tould have given Lila such a shock.” Dorothy’s gaze darted to his face She seemed perplexed by what she saw. “What do you mean by ‘shock?’ ” she asked anxiously. “Didn’t you know? Lila fainted while she was talking to you.” Dorothy made for the stairs. . “Where is she? In her room?” Herbert didn’t follow her. He stood in the hallway at the foot of the stairs, frowning thoughtfully. Was Dorothy telling the truth, he wondered, when she claimed that she had been talking to Lila; or was she merely trying to shield Lila? What could Dorothy Caine have said to send his wife into a dead faint? Dorothy, meantime, had found Lila, pale and listless, on her dressing room couch. She locked the door, walked over to the couch, and knelt down, taking Lila’s hands in hers. “I’m fearfully sorry to have given you such a shock, but it had to be. I was frantic when you didn’t answer, after I’d heard that terrific crash and found that the connection was broken. I came rushing down here as fast as I could get my car

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Faith could find no better opportunity to "Jack Cherry up,” as Bob had suggested, than when the two were on a shopping expedition together,, The two sisters were seated In a luxurious little fitting room of Stanton’s most exclusive department store, awaiting the return of the deferential saleswoman from looking over the stock of "junior” dresses. “It’s really a nuisance, having to buy my clothes in the junior department,” Cherry observed with ill-con-cealed satisfaction, studying her tiny figure in the long mirror. “I’d like to be able to buy really grownup clothes in the misses’ or ladies’ section, but—” “No, you wouldn’t, you little f raud! You’re intensely proud of being a small thirteen,” Faith laughed indulgently. “But, Cherry, darling, there’s something I’ve been wanting to say to you—” Cherry’s golden eyes grinned wickedly, as she ran a pocket comb through her short copper-and-gold curls. “I knew it! Alan Beardsley! Whatn shame to pan him when he’s going to take us two tired shoppers to tea at the Randolph.” ;; “That’s just it,” Faith protested seriously. “He’s always taking you somewhere. You’re with him rather constantly, honey, and you know how conspicuous you are in this town. You can’t make a move without the old scandal being raked up—” “Scandals, not scandal, pet,” Cherry corrected her sister nonchalantly. “Oh, here’s Miss Schlossberg!” Cherry had a gift for memembering saleswomen’s names and thus endearing herself to them. “No, not that! Too fussy! Not that—nor that—Put that one aside, please J Haven’t you something in

through the traffic. Lila, how much does Herbert know?” “Nothing,” said Lila wanly, “yet.” There was a long and thoughtful silence. Dorothy’s pretty brows were frowning. “How—what did the cable say?” asked Lila finally, in a low voice. Dorthy, her voice equally low, answered briefly: tt u a “IT was addressed to Miss Lila X Latham and was sent from Paris. It said: ‘Have practically risen from the dead. Am sailing tomorrow for home and you. Jack.’ ” Tears began to roll down Lila’s cheeks. “Oh, Dot, what am I going to do?” Dorothy stroked her hands comfortingly. “We'll find a way out, somehow.” ‘And I loved Herbert so,” wailed Lila. “This is my punishment for being too happy. I had no right to be happy when Jack was dead, as I thought. Even if I didn’t really love him, I should have been loyal to his memory. I should have kept that pledge we made.” Dorothy, sitting on the foot of .he couch in the gathering twilight, rested her chin thoughtfully on one hand. After a silence, she said: “What about Herbert? You think you wouldn’t dare confess?” “No, oh, no! Dot, you can’t imagine what Herbert would be like, if he knew I’d ever been engaged before. He’d leave me instantly. You’ve no idea how jealous he is. I adore it, of course; it makes me certain that he loves me. But, if he ever knew, there’d been another man . . .” She broke off, waited a moment, and added passionately: “I’d die, if I lost Herbert.” “Well, then, what about Jack Farquahar?” suggested Dorothy practically. “You mean, would he understand and not bother me?” “He may have changed, you know, after all these years and the experiences he must have had.” Lila shook her head. “I don’t mean to sound frightfully conceited, but I don’t think Jack is the sort who would change. He was very like Herbert, in certain ways; that is, he was jealous and sure of himself. If he wanted something, he’d get it. And I happened to be what he wanted. The very fact that he’s coming home to me proves that he still loves me.” “Yes, it would seem so,” murmured Dorothy absently. m a tt “T'vOT, how on earth do you supU pose he happened to come to life?” persisted Lila feverishly. “After all these years, it’s perfectly incredible. And Dot,” she added, strickenly by another terrible thought, “there’s that insurance. I’ll have to give it back to the government, somehow, and I haven’t any earthly way of finding ten thousand dollars.” She sighed despairingly. “And it’s only three days since the whole horrible business got me into hot water with Herbert.” “But you explained it satisfactorily. Or rather, Herbert leaped to a satisfactory conclusion.” Lila made a wry face. “Fortunately, yes. But it would be awful, if Uncle Dan should turn up some day. Oh, why did that stupid committee have to recognize me and write to me at Herbert’s club?” "But naturally your home isn’t listed yet,” said Dorothy. “They found Herbert’s name in the social register.” “Oh. Dot, if you keep on being sensible and explanatory, I’ll b?.ve hysterics again!” cried Lila. “Think think, what I’m up against!” “Do you know just what you are up against?” asked Dorothy, with sympathetic tolerance. Lila gave her a pitying glance. “Isn’t it obvious? Here I am, married to a man I adore, a man madly jealous, who has asked me a hundred times if there’d ever been any

transparent velvet just the color of my hair? I suppose 111 have to go in for copper and brown and gold, as usual,” she added to Faith. “And every stenographer in town will be wearing brown this fall. “Now, darling,” she began again, after the saleswoman had departed on another quest. “Pitch into me all you like. But isn’t he a duck?” “Alan Beardsley is a very charming and distinguished man,” Faith admitted, “which is all the more reason why you shouldn’t hurt him. "I think—” and Cherry studied her new manicure with her head cocked imputenly— “that Alan is capable of looking after himself. He’s 39 years old, has been married and divorced, and wigglyed most dignifiedly out of a breach-of-promise suit. Oh, Alan knows his groceries, darling,” she added, inelegantly. “But—does Cherry?” Faith persisted quietly. “Oh, darn that woman!” she exclaimed under her breath as the saleswoman re-entered the fitting room. Not until they were waiting the arrival of the alteration expert did Faith have an opportunity to continue her “jacking up.” “I don’t think Nils is looking very happy these days,” she began cunningly, on anew tack. “I’m sure he hasn’t scolded you, that’s not his way, but you can’t trifle with Nils—” “Trifle! Why, Faith!” Cherry laughed artificially. “I must get pumps the exact shade of this velvet, and a hat, too, of course, with a quill or something spotted just like the dress. “Let’s hurry and I’ll give Alan a treat when he meets us for tea . . . You can alter this dress in two hours, can’t you?” she turned imperiously to the sewing woman. (To Be Continued)

one else in my life, and I’ve sworn there wasn’t. And now the other man appear, expecting me to keep a pledge from which I’d thought his death had released me. And he’ll hold me to it, if I know Jack Farquahar—and I rather think I do, worse luck.” “Os course, there’s just a chance that he mayn’t,” consoled Dorothy. “Pray Heavens!” murmured Liia After a moment, he said suddenly: “Dqt, did he say what ship he was sailing on?” “The Caronia.” •‘Then you’ll have to meet him. Dot. He musn’t be allowed to rush around town, trying to locate me.” Dorothy rose from the couch. Her face turned away, a faint white blur in the dusk. “I’m sorry, Lila,” she said quietly. 'T’d do almost anything to make you happy. But—l won’t meet your Captain Farquahar. I—l never want to see him.” She was gone, leaving Lila staring after her in amazement. * (To Be Continued.) Copyright, 1927. Metropolitan Newspaper Service. New York.

How Bright Is Your Baby?

What can your baby do when he is 18 months old? If he can do any of the following things draw a line under Yes; if he cannot do it, draw a line under No. Then turn to the key and check your answers to see what the average baby can do. 1. Can he tell you his name? Yes No 2. Does baby run? Yes No 3. Does he try to feed himself with a spoon? Yes No 4. Can baby point to mama’s eyes? Yes No 5. Can he walk easily and well? Yes No 6. Can he sit down on a chair? Yes No 7. If you blindfold baby, can he tell what a spool is just by “feeling it? Yes No 8. Can he go upstairs by himself? Yes No 9. Does he use at least 100 words? Yes No 10. Can he roll a doll cab? Yes No 11. Does he build with blocks? Yes No 12. Can he keep time to music? Yes No

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Yes. 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 9 (some children use many more words than do others) 10 12. No. 7. Not until he is about 2. No. 8. Net until he is 2 years old. No. 11. Not until he about 2 years old. Next we will see what a 2-year-old can do. (Copyright, 1328. Science Service. Inc.)

Ante to Kitty! Mousing Tom Gives Rodents Vacation; He Gets Fur Lifted.

/CONTENT in the knowledge his host of friends have not forgotten him. Tom, the Indianapolis postoffice pet, wagged his tail and purred contentedly, today. Tom has been the official feline “Pied Piper” of the postoffice mailing room for several years, ever since he was old enough to know what a mouse was. Tom’s mother wandered Into the postoffice several years ago and, with saucers of milk and various tidbits, was induced to remain as the official postoffice cat. One day she proudly exhibited to the gaze of postal workers a litter of kittens. Among them was Tom. ... Since then Tom has ruled the mailing room with a firm paw. His every wish, made known by a switch of the tail or a “meow,” was the law. Woe unto the unhappy new clerk who threatened the cat with a boot in the ribs. He led a serene, admired existence. Early this week Tom developed a bad case of mange. ’Twas then Tom learned the full meaning of friendship. v n n HURRIED woi k on the part of some of his most ardent admirers resulted in 10-cent contributions by sixty-four postal workers, and Tom was sent to a cat hospital at 1422 North Capitol avenue. Frequent bulletins are posted at the postoffice on Tom’s condition.' The 10 a. m. bulletin today was: ‘“Tom’ is reported as resting as easy as could be expected, with a bad case of mange, which will take some time to repair. Friends may. call during visiting hours.”

UNION CITY FIRM SUED Backstay Machine Company Named in Two Actions. The Backstay Machine and Leather Company, Union City, Ind., is made defendant in two suits filed in federal court. The first suit, filed by Western Shade Cloth Company, Chicago, asks SIO,OOO judgment on a previous $5,532 judgment obtained in city court of Chicago Heights. The Dearborn State Bank, Chicago, asks $25,000 judgment on a $16,992 Cook county, Illinois, circuit court judgment.

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