Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1929 — Page 13

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lllls Il\s HAI'PISMI MILDRED LAWRENCE. tcno*raplicr at the Judson hotel, has her lox fur snatched trom her in a cro'xd. but STEPHEN ARMITAGE catcht the thf! and returns the *carf. He isks to take ner hon e Not wishtnz to seem ungrateful. fin Invites him to dinner. Hh praises tier mother's home cooking and gains favor i:h young COONIE. who hopes that her sister v. ill mix enough rn*p v.ith her old-fashioned manner to hold hr. interest The evening i- polled when PAMELA JUDSON. daughter of Mildreds emijrer. phone lier to return to dutv. 1 ephen escorts her to the hotel where Pamela recognizes lnni a the salesman who hud sold her a ear. She snubs Mildred and tries to lure Stephen away from her b” pretending she wants to buy anothei r;-r Iron. him. Then Pamela meets HUCK CONNOR, who tells Jier hr Is a broker from Chicago Mildred think' that Stephen is forpe*ting her stnee -he wealthy girl is playing for his attention Then he invites her to attend the theater and she accepts. not knowing that Pameliv and Huck Connor are to be there. NOW GO ON WITH IHL STORE CHot’TER VIII PAMELA and Huck arrived at the theater alter the curtain had been rung up on the first act, but that did not deter them from taking their seats at once. They had places on the aisle, Huck having reserved these two for himself when he gave thef remaining pair to Stephen. Both Mildred and Stephen were absorbed in the play. Neither paid any attention to the newcomers. Mildred was leaning forward in her seat, the better to see around the rather large and bushy head of the man in front of her. This brought her features instantly into Pamela's view when the latter took her place beside Stephen. Pamela settled herself quietly, but her lips turned upward in a satisfied sneer that foretold trouble for someone. Huck reached an arm at her back i-o help adjust her wrap, but she shrugged negatively and hugged the ermine closer. Stephen did not become aware of her presence there in the seat next to him until the lights were turned up. Even then he'd talked with Mildred for a full minute before he learned of it. It was a startled expression that suddenly flared over Mildred's features that brought him around to see what had cought her eye. He found himself looking into Pamela's falsely smiling face. “Sorry you couldn't join us.” she said colly. “Better luck next time.” Mildred heard tier, of course, for the insult •was too covert to be openly resented. Instead she waited to hear what reply Stephen would make. Would he pass Pamela's implication that his date with her, Mildred, had cost him better company for the evening? a it a inTEPHEN failed entirely to get the double meaning behind Pamela’s words. He looked past her as she spoke and recognized Huck. His brows drew quickly together In a sharp line of disapproval. Pamela saw it and believed it was inspired by jealousy. She leaned back in her seat and threw her wrap off her round young shoulders with a slow grace. The smile on her face was infuriating to Mildred. “How's the show?'' Huck asked. “Pretty good." Stephen answered. And he had just been telling Mildred it was a wow. Huck. more mindful of his manners than Stephen, looked past the latter to include his companion in his next remark. “Oh. Miss Lawrence," he said in

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“Bedtimc for yon. Crystal!” Cherry cut a dance short at 10:30 to call out the quiet, pale-faced girl who had spent the evening in the room's most luxurious arm chair, made supercomfortabic with many cushions. "I promised Faith to take good care of you. Who will volunteer to carry our interesting invalid upstairs to her room?” “I'm quite able to walk." Crystal protested, rising shakily from her chair. She was exhausted but more with worry over Tony's strange desertion than from fatigue. “I'll carry her." George Pruitt announced firmly. and before Harry Blaine, who had been dutifully dancing with hostess, could reach her side, she found her light body being lifted in the artist's powerful arms. “Good night, darling." Cherry returned her guest’s politeness. "And for heaven's sake, don't lie awake worrying over Tony. After all. the moonlight on the snow is entrancing!" In spite of Cherry's gay reassurance. George found tears entangled in the girl's thick short lashes when he gently set her upon her feet in the bedroom she was to share with Tony Tarver. "Cherry's right, dear. " he said with awkward sympathy. You mustn't worry about Tony. You know how gloriously capable she is of taking care of herself!" “I know." Crystal forced herself to smile cheerfully. ' I'm just a selfi T pig. And Cherry t-isisted so repeatedly on our enjoying ourselves exactly as we pleased. . . Goodnight. George, and thank you. You're a dear." At last Crystal was able to close the door upon him without appearing ungrateful or abrupt. She undressed as fast as her trembling hands would permit, slipped into bed. and adjusted the reading lamp. There was a detective story on the bedside table. She took it up listlessly. She had not been able to master nine pages of the allegedly exciting story in the hour that elapsed between retiring and the faint sound of a doorknob's being cautiously turned. “Tony!" she cried, her voice shrill and tremulous with relief. “Still awake. Crystal? What a bca I've been to keep you up!" Tony's usually gay voice was sober with contrition" as she ran across the room and flung herseL’ upon thej bed beside her chum. A

pleasant surprise. “Glad to sec . you.” Mildred nodded. Pamela looked at her then and inclined her head briefly. Mildred barely returned the greeting and bent her eyes over a program. She was painfully conscious of everything being wrong. Her evening, that had begun so gloriously, was completely spoiled. She felt like a wren beside a bird of paradise. Her new dress might have been a inop : ag compared to Pamela's lovely pink satin. And the small string of artificial pearls around her neck was like a child's plaything in contrast to Pamela's creamy gems and flashing diamonds. Everyone around was either looking at Pamela or whispering about her, with admonitions not to look vet. There were severals reasons for this, the chief one being her rich attire. Her truly beautiful honey-colored hair was another. And. perhaps, not the least of all. was her posing. It may be correct to say that her posing came first. Certainly there were other attractive and bejeweled women in the audience who were drawing far less attention. But Pamela had an air, with Huck on one side of her and Stephen on the other, of holding court.. Few of those who looked saw Mildred at all. She did not glitter and there was only the beauty of quiet perfection to catch the eye, and eyes are not caught that way except when there is nothing more flamboyant to be seen. She tried to tell herself that she mustn't be a fool, that Stephen had every right to feel as he liked about Pamela. But as she saw. throughout the rest of the play, that he had lost interest in it entirely and that he seemed to be much disturbed over something, she knew that it would do her no good to deny that she was hurt. is a a HE couldn't, understand why v3 Stephen had brought her if he might have come with Pamela and so plainly would have preferred It that way. "Unless lie's just jealous because Pamela is here with another man,” she concluded unsatisfactorily. It did not surprise her. when at the end of the performance, Stephen suggested that they all go to the Judson Grill to dance. Wouldn’t a man think of something like that! "But I wouldn't go if I was dresed in gold,” Mildred decided angrily. To Stephen she said she'd promised her mother to come home directly after the show. Pamela overheard her. “Does your mother doubt her success in teaching you morality. Miss Lawrence?” she asked, smiling superiorly. “She leaves such worries to stepmothers,” Mildred retorted, stung to recklessness. Pamela turned her back. “Let’s go. Huck,” she said, and did not speak to Mildred again ever, when she said good night to Stephen. Stephen was silent as- he and Mildred fought through the pushing. milling crowd to the subway. He knew, as everyone knew who read the New York newspapers, that Amos Judson had given his children one stepmother after another. and he did not blame Mildred for resenting Pamela's remark, but her poitned rejoinder worried him.

| “You've been—crying!” Crystal discovered, aghast. “Oh. Tony! What is the matter? What happened? I've been so dreadfully j worried—” “Crys. do me a favor!” Tony cnj treated, hiding her face on her ■ crooked arm. “Bawl me out for 1 fifteen minutes steady—a regular Peg Tarver curtain lecture! Imitate poor old Peg's voice, too—you can!—to make it seem real!” Crystal put her arms about the slim, shaking young body and held her close. “I ♦ can’t scold you. darling. You know T can't. I didn't mean to reproach you for—- ! anything. I'm just so awfully glad j you weren't hurt—" “Wasn't I?” Tony's voice came muffled and strange. “Tony!” Crystal's arms tightened convulsively. “What are you hating yourself for?" (To Be Continued)

Prohibition Pro and Con Hie subject ot Prohibition, its success or failure: its continuance or modification; its justice or injustice, is perhaps the most talked about subject ot public interest and will continue to be so. It dominated the presidential campaign: it called forth the most interesting debate m the United States senate that has been held for years; President Hoover is appointing a commission to study the subject; and wherever two or three persons are gathered together anywhere, any time, it pops into the conversation. Our Washington bureau arranged a joint debate on prohibition between the Anti-Saloon League and the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, in which Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, director of the department of education. Anti-Saloon League of America, takes the affirmative, and Henry H Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, takes the negative. Papers prepared by these worthy antagonists were exchanged, and rebuttals and surrebuttals to the main argument prepared. Forty-two hundred words of absorbing argument pro and con are contained in the bulletin which resulted. Fill out the coupon below and send lor it. CLIP COUPON HERE Prohibition Debate Editor, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D C. I want a copy of the debate bulletin Prohibition Pro and Con, and enclose herewith 5 cents in com. or loose, uncancelled United States postage stamps, to cover postage and handling costs. Name Street and Number City State I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code Vo.)

He believed she had placed her job in jeopardy, and somehow he felt responsible. Os course, he should have known that Miss Judson would not want to be entertained with one of her father’s employes. No doubt her displeasure had Inspired what she said to Mildred, but Mildred's fiery comeback had surprised him. He had no idea she had so much fight in her makeup. And even less did he know' that she had been growing more and more resentful all evening, and that he was mostly to blame for it. He'd have laughed outright at the notion of his being jealous of Huck Connor. But he would not have denied that it upset him to see Pamela alone with the man. He'd heard the story of how she’d met Huck, but he hadn’t supposed it would go any further. Pamela herself had told him she thought Huck might be mixed up in something queer. nan SUDDENLY it occurred to him that Mildred may ha-e resented his attempt to include Pamela in the party. Perhaps she knew that Pamela would not like it. “I certainly was dumb,” lie told himself, and wished that he could explain his reason. He hated to have Mildred thinking he was tactless and inconsiderate, but how was he to tell her that he'd only been trying to see that Pamela went home? That he was afraid Huck would induce her to go to some night club? The noise of the train made intimate conversation difficult. Mildred was thankful that it did. Stephen's manner convinced her that he was certainly not having a good time. Surely this would be the end of their friendship; he'd never want to take her out again. On the walk from the subway to her home Mildred scarcely uttered a word. She was angry with herself because she felt she’d been badly treated. And she didn't want to feel sorry for herself! There was no reason for crying just because a man she hardly knew liked another girl better than her! Chilled by her silence, Stephen had as little to say. She did not ask him in to share the pot of hot chocolate and the nut cake her mother had promised to provide, though he climbed the stairs with her and said good night at the door. It was a good night the coldness of which would have been appropriate for parting enemies, for both were locked in the stiffness of a trifling misunderstanding, and w ; ere as distant as though hatred motivated them. In her room, after making sure that Connie was asleep, Mildred permitted the tears that had been smarting her eyes to roll down her cheeks. She jerked her new dress over her head and threw it on a chair. Stephen hadn't so much as noticed it! And Stephen, hurrying back to the subway, was telling himself that he'd made a nice mess of things. “And iust when I was beginning to like that girl, too. Well, I guess she won't be hanging out any flags if I e’er come back.” He was still in a mood of selfriepre fiat ion when he reached his hotel and found a message in his room. He was asked to call the Judson hotel. (To Be Continued)

TEXAS VOTING QUERY BRINGS FRAUD CLAIMS Committee Urges Mexican Voting Investigation. Htt Timm Si„ri„l WASHINGTON. April 3.—Voting of Mexicans in South Texas will come under the scrutiny of the department of justice and perhaps a federal grand jury if recommendations of a house investigating committee made public today are carried out. The select committee, headed by Representative Lehlbach of New Jersey, has reported that Hidalgo county. Texas, “was tainted with wholesale fraud in various forms" in the primary election of last summer. The committee recommended that its repo-1 be turned over to the justice department for a searching investigation by an assistant attorney general into conditions in the county.

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