Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1929 — Page 11

APRIL 22, 1929.

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Till' HAS HAPPENTD* LAWS EN< I meet • ■ ■|; ; | <,-. ■ .*■ ; ; < rfSCUC3 Iki f-ir from a tlilfl Their iriend.hip ::.t;! PAMF.LA JL’OSON. daughter " rtred rrriplo- rr. trie;> to lure htm i- • ft< ..rr HfCK CONNOR h+■t.r, Tatuatet -ith Painrla and iiic in both men. Her brother, •AROI 11. !' In love v it! Mildred, dho ‘rn t > eep h.m from Jtambllr.s Tilth in rro-’ and. Mildred lias to tay home a ''*>£ • i. e of an ac'ident to her mother, 'th Pirn rail or. her and Then Pa- • i .nd'. it out he tell* Stephen that Mildred i tr inf to marr- Harold for money He defends her ar.d Pamr . rab>-, her father to discharge her. told tries to ha-e Mildred reinstated. 1 it to no a-all. Pamela succeeds in . ni Stephen • mind azamst Miled and the latter faces drears days ■ s" aTh of -vork ..ick becomes so Insistent that Pame plans to break i ith him. So she ■- . ..In In Stephen’s presence and ' ■ object-, trlhs him that she and e tl ..re engaged Stephen protena ’hr.-, the-, arr alor.e and ahe .ays that t ,e only ta- she could get r-.d of 81 I plead , - ith him to con:..to tile engagemriit. Meano-hIK Huelc . , on-, Harold and commands him to , ” ent Pamelas marriage to Stephen d'r |par of exposure concerning a - <i check Harold tells him he can’t . rrr Pamela and Huck plans to dispose of Stephen. NOW (.<> O.N WITH THL STORI CHAPTER XXIV 'T'HE rlay alter the meeting of ■- Huck with Lefty Flint and Duke Broggan in the latter's office. Lcity mtered the Mettle Agency to look oicr the cars on display there. He seemed most interested in a snappy sports model that occupied riie most prominent window space, hut when a salesman approached and started to “sell” the car to him lie curtly explained that he was “ju. 1 lookin’ it over. ’ But as he continued to "look it over” [or more than a few minutes Stephen came up to him and casually mentioned a. few hidden merits of the model. Lefty’s interest grew and before hr left lie asked about a road test. Stephen consulted the list of names of persons desiring to have the car demonstrated on the road and told Lefty lie could take him out the following Wednesday. “All right, put me down,” Lefty aid unportantly, "but listen, brother. I w ant a test of the car I’m gonna buy, sec?” Stephen shook his head. “Sorry,” he said. "We don't use all our cars for demonstration, But the sports model you're interested in is from stock, same as the car we’ll take out. Lesly bristled. “Nothin’ doin’. I ain't lookin’ for no free ride. I want a car. see. If that baby in the window' will go. 111 take her, but she’s gotta go. sec.” He looked at Stephen and smiled confidentially. "I gotta step fast in my business sometimes." Stephen returned his look with n knowingly raised eyebrow. "Ah,” he said, and there was an inquiring inflection in the monosyllabic. "Sure," Lefty said and managed to assume a pompous air. “Need any good stuff? Right over from Canada.” "Thanks. 1m well stocked up,” Stephen lied to avoid being persuaded into buying anything from his customer. ' Well, here's my card.” Lefty said, good-naturedly. Come around if I can do anything for you. Now, how about that road test next Wednesday?'' nan STEPHEN took the card he proffered and saw in a glance that it bore an address and telephone number as well as the name in larsrc lettering. ‘T'll see what I can do for you, Mr. Flint.” he said pleasantly. ‘ You're sure that's the car you want?” "If she can hit a hundred.” "She ll do more,” Stephen replied emphatically.

When her spasm ot self-loathing : had abated. Tony went on. her voice sounding qucerly detached and j impersonal in the dark: "It was a very small town, not big enough for two hotels, so of course one of 'em was nearly deserted. 'We passed the new one—a horrid, red-brick thing with New Commer- I rial House’ in electric lights—and v §pt on to the end of the main 1 street, where the station was. You sec how it was. Crystal?—We had to put up with a dump like that I because The New Commercial House’ wouldn't have let us in. as . Dick explained—oh. so very carefully and gently! "Ugh. ugh, ugh!" she shuddered “That’s how I felt when I crept into the mean little dump—never saw its name, or heard it. though Dick whispered that it ought to be called 'The Last Chance.' And oh. yes. he pulled me back just as we were going into the door and made me put that terrible 10 cent wedding ring on. Well, we might as well have walked into that awful, dirty, musty. , coal--Tove-heated little lobby with placards announcing our unholy intentions—or, better with scarlet A’s branded on our foreheads. -pvfii.nerous, well-dressed young couples with expensive hand luggage don't ask for a night's lodging in that sort of place, except for one reason. The night clerk—l suppose he was the proprietor, too— was a wicked-looking little old. man with a long clun beard, and the most obscenely merry eyes I ever had to meet in my life. "Winked and chuckled and w agged lu- bceard at us. Wanted us to know he wasn't fooled for a split second. I felt as if I'd turned to ice when Dick signed the register, and that foul old man cackled out: ’J W Smith ana wife of Darrow. eh? Fust an' last, tlicy's a good many Smiths and Joneses dropping in here irom Stanton and Darrow. Hell. heh. hell! That’ll be five dollars cash in advance, young feller and I hope you and the missus enjoy your room. Spankin clean sheets.' "Oh. Crys. you do understand don't you?” she broke off to plead. “Nothing romantic or even thrilling daring—just sneaky and mean ana common. See?”

"All right. Show me." Alter he was gone Stephen went to Mr. Mettle and told him he had a "sale in the bag if lie could fake out the car the customer wanted.' "Who is lie?” Mr. Mettle tnapped. He was an impatient man. given to *mall encouragement of his salesmen when they asked for special privileges. I ‘ He's a bootlegger,” Stephen an- : swered promptly. ‘ H'm. Know anything about him?” “Not a thing, sir. He just dropped in. Fell for that sports model in i the w indow. But it looks like a ’ sale. Only he won't be satisfied with the usual demonstration.” , "Tell him it's the same motor ” I "Os course.” "Well.” Mr. Mettle paused and put down the pen with which lie had been signing letters when Stephen came in. "I don't know whether to trust your judgment or not. Armitage. I . . . cr . . . don't altogether approve of your selling methods.” Stephen flushed. "You mean my i way of making contacts?" lie asked. Mr. Mettle inclined his head without dropping his eyes. Stephen hated that peering out from under lowered brows. | "In your case I think it's a risk." ! the manager said frankly. "If you had an income aside from your earnings here it would be different. "But in the present circumstances | your going about with, the people to whom you desire to sell motor , cars is a mistake, in my opinion. ‘ It is certain to lead you into trou- | ble. I've learned that you’re bor- | rowing money from the other salesi men . . .” | “I've repaid them, except . . But Mr. Mettle would not allow i Stephen to break in before he had ! finished what he had to .say. “And I've been told." he went on. j "that you spend a great deal of I time at a certain club in Wextches- ! ter. That alone must be quite a | drain on your resources." He looked at Stephen as though he expected the young man to confess to some black magic to explain his association w ith Pamela's , friends. n n ft anger began to rise. “At any rate T'm not overdrawn here.” lie said shortly. "And in J my opinion ...” “In your opinion,” Mr. Mettle interjected. "that's just the trouble. Armitage. Your opinion: I don't 1 trust it. It isn't sound.” Stephen's blood was hot now . "In that case,” he began belligerently, but again his employer slopped him. "No need to lose your temper,” he said hastily. "Your sales record, I will admit, is better than the i average. But it seems to me it might be even better than it is if your judgment didn't lead you into wasting so mueh time on prospects that don't, appear to be very hot.” “I believe in building up my clientele on a sound basis,” Stephen answered readily. “I am not a high pressure salesman.” “Y'es, and you believed in the honor system among buyers,” Mr. Mettle snapped at him. “I know all about that bright idea of yours that cost your company out in Indiana a pretty penny.” Stephen's face was now a nice, healthy red. “That was a kid idea." he mumbled. “A kid idea! A crazy idea. Letting the customer take the car out without a demonstrator along. Let him sell himself. Then he'd stay sold. Not bad so far. but when

"Os course," Crystal assured her pityingly. "But how did you escape. Tony?” "Oh, Dick gave me my chance. I'm sure lie meant it to be my chance.” Tony went on. eagerly now that the end of the sordid story was so near. “ ’Before I pay such an outrageous price for a room. Id litre to see if it's half-way decent,’ he told the horrible old man, “And to me, 'You stay here, honey, till I've had a look at the room.' He left our bags, and he and the old man went upstairs. f hc proprietor sputtering and wagging his beard. As soon as they were out of sight I snatched up my own bag and ran out of that awful lobby. "Dick had parked his car right in front of the hotel and I jumped in. Fortunately he'd left the keys. . . I didn't bother about how he'd get back to Stanton—plenty of trains, of course, and I didn't worry about how he'd explain to that foul old man. “I just, drove, as if a million devils were pursuing me. And—well, I'm here, and still technically pure, but I feel as if a hundred hot baths wouldn't wash the muck off. . . Have to call Dick up tomorrow, and—tell him he's won!” “You mean—you'll marry hint now ?" Crystal cried, aghast. (To Be Continued)

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every demonstration car you liad in the place went out on the same day in the hands of a bunch of thieves and never came back ...” “Well. I warned the company they'd have to know who the buyers Were." Stephen defended himself. "But tlic thing worked so well they got careless.” "And now maybe you're getting a little bit careless.” Mr. Mettle snorted. “Your ideas might be fine in a place where you had only one car to sell, but big distributors like those people in Indiana and myself can't afford to see wings on everyone who becomes interested in our cars." "All right," Stephen said quietly, "but we lost a sale.” Mr. Mettle managed co calm himself down a little. “Pretty sure of that?" he asked doubtfully. "So sure of it that I'm ready to give a few hours to stepping the bus to cinch it," Stephen said, his salesmanship overriding his resentment. "This man's a sell, sure enough. Mr. Mettle. And I'm not seeing any wings on him to tell me so. He's a tough customer, but he wants a fast car. and he handles the same money we get from other people.” n a a lt/|R. METTLE hesitated. “You •** * know what will happen if we send the car out on the road and he doesn't buy,” lie said thoughtfully. • We ll have to make a demonstration allowance on it when we put u back on the floor.” Stephen had an answer for that. “I'll gamble on my judgment this time,” he said eagerly.. “Let me lake it out. If the sale flops I'll sign over to you my commission on the next car I sell.' Mr. Mettle agreed, not averse to acceptng Stephen's judgment, when there was a possible gain with no risk to his company. "I have him down for Wednesday." Stephen said, "but I've got his telephone number. Hadn't I better give him a ring? We can't hold the car for him.” "Go ahead, but remember. I warned you.” Mr. Mettle replied, to let himself out in the event that anything went wrong. Stephen was soon in communication with Lefty Flint. They made an appointment for 1 o'clock that afternoon. The day was fair; there hadn’t been any rain for some time, so Stephen had no objection to make when Lefty suggested going out to Long Island. Lefty waxed enthusiastic over the car before they had crossed the Queensboro bridge. He seemed especially pleased with its "pickup"—the way Stephen left other cars standing when the traffic signals flashed him the right of way; the case with which it handled in and out of the slower moving vehicles where there was room for Stephen to maneuver into a better position without too flagrantly violating the traffic • rules, and the smoothness of the gear shift. They made quick work of tlic j Queens boulevard and Stephen j headed for a straightaway lie knew i well on an open side road. There were no crossings for sev- j oral miles, nothing to obstruct the j view , but Stephen covered the dis- j tance with moderate speed, explain- | ing to Lefty that he was giving the ] road a "once over.” There were no ruts or holes, so j lie turned back, remarking to his i companion that the car had been I broken in at the factory. Still, it would be giving it pretty harsh treatment to throw it wide open, he said. But Lefty told him to go ahead. “And if she makes it." he addc-d Importantly* “we'll di’op in at a olacc I know out here and close the -leal.'’ (To Be Continued! TEAR UP GEM SHOP FLOOR FOR WEALTH Gem Dust Accumulated During Last Quarter Century. />’ nili rt /Vr.s-x CINCINNATI. 0., April 22.—An effort will be made to recover several hundred and probably thousands of dollars worth of gold and other precious metals believed to have accumulated under a floor of a jewelry manufacturing firm here during the last quarter century. The firm of Heileman & Roth will move into a new r location soon and officials are going to make sure they remove all their belongings. even to the tiny bits of metals in floor cracks and other inconspicuous parts of the shop. Employes wash their hands in a sink that has no outlet and about SI.OOO worth of precious metals is recovered this way each year. Sweepings from the floor yield about S2OO wdrth a month. Bitten by Injured Dog Hr Turn s kiHcial PENDLETON. Ind.. April 22. John Marshall was bitten by his dog after he accidentally struck it with an ax while cutting down a tree, almost severing one of :ts legs. He killed the animal.

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