Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1929 — Page 10

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rm> has n\rrtNU MILDRED LAWRENCE. stenographer at the Hotel, h*-. her fox fur atolen from her In a crowd out STEPHEN ARMITAGE catch*-' the thief ar.d returns the scarf He asks to take her home No' wishing to seem ungrateful. •he invites him to dinner. Their f ening is spoiled when PA.v.ELA JL'DSON daughter of her employer, phones Mildred to return to duty. Stephen escorts he r to th* hotel where Pamela recognize., him a:, the salesman who had sold her a car She snubs M.ldred and tries to lure Stephen away h* pretending she wants to huanother car Ti"n she meets HUCK CONNOR, who becomes tna':iate<t with her. and she amuse herself bv placing with When Stephen favors Mildred the hotel manager warn* her to be ,-areful or Pamela wi have her discharge^. not t o easy a HAROLD JL'DSON is In lo r with Mildred. He Ir a weakling and Mildred permits him to cal! to keep him trom Huck s gambling crowd. However, he suspects that she cares more for Stephen than for him and refuses to stay one evening when Stephen calls As the weeks pass Mildred realizes that Pamela is winning Stephen froth her and that Harold is hopelessly tangled with Htick’s gamblers. She asks Harold to confide in her but he refuses unless <he 7. ill go out to dinner wi*h him They drive by her home so she can change her (ire,' and they learn that her mother has had a serious accident. .NOW GO ON WITH THE STORV CHAPTER XV CONNIE flew to her mother's bedside and Harold followed, drawn by the alarm in Mildred’s call. He saw the younger girl fling herself down beside the still figure on the bed in an agony of f ! 1 fear. He saw Mildred take her by the shoulders and pull her away. Then Mildred saw him there. "Oh do something." she implored. ! “Take care of Connie. Connie-, stop It Get the ammonia. I think she's _ fainted." "Oh. no. no. she's dead! She's , gone!" Connie shrieked. ‘ She .isn't! She can't! Rub her : hand. Here, put this under her feet." Swiftly Mildred removed the pillow from under her mother's head and thrust it at her sister. Connie took it and did as she was bid. Harold stood by helplessly. Rut when he saw Mildred start frantically to chaffing her mother's uninjured hand he rushed down the hall where he filled a glass with cold water and dashed back to the bedroom. He started to throw the full contents into the unconscious woman’s face, but Mildred stopped him. She ! reached for a towel on a nearby ! chair and wet it. Then she laved ; her mother's face vigorously, but i unavailing!}’. "Rub her hand and feet hard," j she ordered Harold and Connie. While they obeyed her instructions she held th eglass to her mother’s lips and forced a few drops of stater through them. A moan of pain accompanied Mrs. Lawrence's return to consiousness while Mildred held a- handkerchief with a few drops of ammonia on it under her nose. wears of sympathy streamed down Mildred's cheeks. "The doctor will be here in a minute. Mom," she said encouragingly! "Doesn't the oil help at all?" "Oh. I guess so. dear.” Mrs. Lawrence managed to say between biting her lips to keep back her moans. She smiled at Harold when she recognized him. "I'm sorry to spoil ’ Don't, talk." Mildred in. “Oh. therp's the doorbell' It must be Dr. Brill. Answer it, Connie." a an ("iONNIE ran out- of the room _>• and Mildred turned to Harold. “I'm afraid I can't leave mother tonight,” she said, "but if you want

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‘•Did you have a deadly time,, poor darling?'’ Tony asked sym- i pathetically, as the two girls entered | their bedroom to dress for dinner j and dancing. "Far from deadly.’’ Crystal ansevered. "Quite exciting, in fact. I posed for George for an hour and a half, with conversational rests in between—” “What made it exciting?'’ "Hope—” Crystal began, as she lifted her daytime frock over her head. "Hope!" Tony interrupted incredulously. “Hope that George j would—?” “Oh, quit kidding me about j George!” Crystal begged. “I meant , Cherry's baby. Hope, of course. Lena | brought her into the living room j about 4 o'clock, all dewy-eyed and sweet and talcum-powdery from her nap and bath. "I took her on my lap. and George began to sketch furiously. Said he had a great idea for a picture, if he could get her to sit still long enough each day. He's going to ask Cherry's permission at dinner tonight.' That's all—but it was exciting. Hope is the most beautiful baby I j ever saw in my life, and to hate : her sit there so contentedly, cuddling ! against me—” A slow flush crept across the pallor of her cheeks. "I know,” Tony admitted. “I’ve felt the same way when T was holding Faith's baby. Robin. We modern girls are about as modern as Ete, aren't we. Crys? I'm afraid I'rh go- j Ing to find that an anti-marriage ; complex doesn’t mix very well with j an old-fashioned maternal instinct. She darted abruptly into the j bathroom, turned on the water, and came back whistling. Crystal watched her furtively. “And your afternoon. Tony?” Crystal asked at last, when that blithe whistling could be borne no j longer. “Good movie?'' i “Rotten!” Tony rc">rted cheerful- j ly. “ ’Thay no tho. Thuthie!”’ she imitated obligingly the lisping, nasal i voice of the “talkie.” “By the way. f Dick has figured out what that silly phone call must have meant.” “Yes?” Crystal managed a convincing casualness. Was her beautifully worked out theory about Dck and the mysterious “Callie” to come to naught? It came to him in a flash while we were driving to Darrow who this Callie person is,” Tony went on, as she stripped for her bath. “You know his father owns two or three tearooms, as a sort of recreation from banking.

to we can have a bite of dinner here when the doctor's gone." I'd be in the way,” Harold demurred. “Oh, no.” Mrs. Lawrence put in, her hospitable spirit surmounting ! tier suffering. "I’d like to have you here," Mili ired admitted, fearing to be left alone with her mother ill and Connie unstrung. The doctor came in then and Harold told Mildred hurriedly that he would wait in the living room. Connie came to him soon and told him the doctor was dressing the burn. She couldn't bear to watch it. "How did it happen?" Harold 1 asked. "Mother was preparing dinner,” ; Connie explained, “and she tipped j over a pot of boiling lard. Her hand and arm are frightfully burned. • I don't know what I’d have done if Mildred hadn't been here. It happened just after she came upstairs. Oh. dear, there's the telephone. Will you answer it, please? I'm too upset to talk." Harold went out and Connie soon heard his voice raised in angry argument. “No, I won t call Mildred, to the phone,” he said. “You've no business bothering her after office hours, Pam. Besides, she's not working for you. "No, I won’t tell her what you want. Her mother is ill and the doctor is here. What? Well, that's none of your concern. Yes, of course I'm going to stay. They need me." He hung up with a bang just as Mildred appeared in her mother's doorway. "Who was it?" she asked, not having heard Harold's end of the conversation. "Pamela." he said crossly. "I suppose she wanted me," Mildred said. “Did you tell her what has happened?" "I told her you couldn't be bothered. Isn't there something I can do, Mildred?" "Yes, will you take this prescription down to the druggist on the corner and have it filled?” She handed him a’ slip of paper and Harold Hurried out with it. BBS 11 THEN he returned half an hour W later his arms were laden with packages. While he waited for the prescription to be made up he'd bought everything he could and in the neighborhood he thought would be conductive to the comfort of a sick persn. Connie helped him unload them while Mildred took the medicine to her mother. Already she was beginning to worry over the problem that faced her. The doctor had said that, her mother would have an uneasy night; someone should sit up with her. or at least sleep near at hand. That someone could not be Connie. And who was to stay at home during the time that it was necessary for their mother to be kept in bed? Mi'dred knew that, it would worry her mother to have Connie out of school. "I suppose I’ll have to take a few days off." she decided, wondering how a deleted pay envelope could be made to meet the present emergency. Her worry did not show in the tenderly sympathetic face she showed to her mother, however, and presently the restive figure on the bed grew quiet, the spasms of pain

* Takes a deep personal interest in them, too. Dick says. Well, this Callie girl—Wait a minute till I turn off the water!" In a moment she returned. but in that moment Crystal had turned her back and was rummaging in the big clothes closet. “As I was saying, this little Callie person is a waitress in one of the tearooms. I gather that Dick usually sat at her table, when he was short of cash and ate in the tearoom where he could sign his check. The last time he ate there the girl looked pretty sick, he said, and told him she was afraid she would be fired." (To Be Continued)

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passed less frequently across the pinched features and Mildred knew that the mercifully induced sleep had come. She tiptoed softly out of the room and found Connie trying to dispose of the flowers Harold had brought up. "Won't mother love them!” she exclaimed gratefully. “Ana I’ll enjoy them, too, I’ll be home with her for a while. You'll tell them at the hotel. Harold?” • Os course. I hope it isn't going to be serious. I mean ...” Mildred glanced at Connie. "The doctor said he doesn't think the arm will be crippled,” she replied, but there was a note of gravity in her voice. Connie missed it. “Is mother asleep?” she asked in happy relief. Mildred nodded. "I wonder what we can give you to eat,” she said to Harold. “You needn't worry." Connie explained. “He's brought up everything but canary tongues." B B B Mildred sighed, a guest bringing food. Well, there was nothing she could do about it. She didn't feel like making a fuss over a trivial matter, but it always seemed that she must forever be the recipient, and recipients, she w’as certain, knew’ better than others how much more blessed it was to give than to receive. No one, she thought irritably, would take food to Pamela. Orchids and French chocolates, perhaps, but not pate de foies gras and almondstuffed olives. True enough, Harold had brought a large pot of pate and a jar of truffles, but there were more substantial viands as well, which Connie and Harold appeared to enjoy. Mildred ate sparingly. Somehow the food had no savor for her. She left the table several times to slip in and see that all was well with her mother. Connie, assured now that the accident was not a tragedy, was her own self once more and led Harold a gay verbal dance. Mildred would have preferred to have him enjoy himself less, for be stayed much later than she liked. And Connie stubbornly resisted her sister's efforts to send her to bed. Harold might have minded her hanging on in the living room, but he could see that Mildred was not in a mood to listen to him. And Connie was lively. She was all right when you had something to forget. But when 11 o'clock came Mildred firmly put him out. And it was not until she curled up in the big arm chair that she and Connie had hauled into their mother's room that she remembered she hadn’t found out why Huck Connor could bring that look of mingled fear and hatred to Harold's countenance. Well, she'd have to let that go for the present. She had other things to think about. The doctor had warned her that the shock of the accident had been bad for her mother. The patient must be kept as quiet as possible for a while, and there was the matter of the doctor’s fee. Her mother would object to calling hm again, Mildred knew, but there was danger of crippling if the burn were not properly cared for. Mildred slept fitfully and uncomfortably. She was up many times during the night and when morning came she was wan and tired. But she got Connie off to school on time and managed to keep up a cheerful appearance through the morning for her mother’s sake. At noon a neighbor came in, bringing a bowl of hot soup and an apple dumpling. Mildred fed I the soup to her mother and saved | the dumpling for Connie's supper, j She was too tired to eat. but she ! drank a glass of hot, milk which made her feel sleepy. Finding her mother slumbering, she decided to take a short nap. But just as she entered her room the doorbell rang and Mildred’s heart jumped into her throat. She knew that ring. (To Be Continued) MAYOR FOR 26 YEARS Term Broken Only Four Years When Man Was Postmaster. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April 11. —At the conclusion of his present term. Charles S. Ashley will have served as mayor of this city for twenty-six years. A four-year break in his career was served as postmaster. He is 70.

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