Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1931 — Page 16

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E°rN here today .H 0 . R ' MA . KErrr . prmy 20-ye*r-old ln a ,aw office, meets MARK TRAVERS. Attractive and wealthy, when together they rescue a frightened puppy from the midst of downtown traffic. Norma refuses to tell the young man her name or where he can see her again. Later she Joins 808 FARRELL, young lawyer, for a dinner engagement. Farrell asks her to marry him and Northe third time, decllnes. The scene of the story Is Marlboro, middle-western metropolis. Norma takes the puppy to the shabby apartment she shares with CHRISTINE SAUNDERS. Norma fears Chris is falling ln love with her married employer. BRADLEY HART, PtJoMttor 0 f an advertising agency. Next day Norma Inserts an advertisement about the puppy in the Marlboro Press lost and found column. The first f; r *? n to answer this advertisement is Mark Travers, who explains he has made every effort, to learn Norma's VJ*titity, He tries to make a date, but she declines his invitations. Travers deUans and goes with NATALIE FHICE. debutante, on a gay round of the night clubs. Next evening a small boy comes to *** Norma, claims the puppv and takes Chriß K° e * t 0 ald MINNIE BAKER an Impoverished friend whose 2-year-old son nas been badly burned. Norma receives telephone calls from Travers and ignores them. Bhe goes for a drive with Bob Farrell and he tells her he is going to leave Marlboro. Bhe is sorry, but does not take this announcement seriously. Two days later she meets Travers on the street and goes to lunch with him. Th s is the beginning of a week of whirlwind courtship. Then one night Chris arrives home to find Norma in tears. “It’s about Mark!" Norma says. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER EIGHT (Continued) She accompanied him on drives of breath-taking happiness through the September night. She seemed to blossom with radiance that made her lovelier than ever before. Bob Farrell telephoned twice, but Norma was not at home and did not receive his messages. Chris Saunders, satisfied that affairs were going smoothly now for Minnie Baker and her baby, packed their belongings and returned to the third floor apartment. Norma scarcely spoke to Chris. The younger girl was preoccupied, seldom at home. And then one evening Chris Saunders, letting herself into the apartment at a little after 11 o'clock, paused stock-still on the threshold. Across the .room in a miserable little huddle on'the davenport lay Chris’ roommate. “Why, Norma! What’s happened?” A blond head, wildly disarrayed, raised. Blue eyes that were redrimmed and swollen gazed at Chris. Norma said in a frightened, choking voice, “It’s—it’s about Mark!" CHAPTER NINE CHRIS SAUNDERS went down on both knees beside the other girl. She put a hand on Norma's shoulder. “Tell me about it, honey!” she begged. “You mustn’t cry. Tell me what’s hjf|ppened!” There was no response from the blond head. Norma’s face was hidden. Her shoulders continued to rise and fall with great, shaking sobs. “Norma!” Chris’ voice was sharply anxious. “Norma—you’ve got to tell me!” The blond head raised for an instant uncertainly. Then it drooped again. From among the pillows came in muffled tones, “It’s—about Mark!” “But what about him? What’s he done?” For an instant the room was tensely silent. At last Norma found her voice. She said weakly, in tones that wavered unsteadily, “He's—oh, Chris!—he’s asked me to marry him!” Chris Saunders straightened back. Blank amazement was * written across her face. “Asked you to marry him!” she repeated incredulously. The huddled figure on the davenport nodded. Norma’s face was concealed again, but she went on in choking syllables, “Mark asked me—to marry him tonight and I—oh, I love him! I love him so!” The older girl’s expression did not change. For a long moment she eyed her roommate. Slowly then Chris got to her feet and made a place for herself among the cushions beside Norma. She drew one arm about the other girl. “But I don’t understand,” Chris began gently. “I’ve never seen this Mark of yours and I don’t know anything about him, but if he loves you and you’re sure he’s the man ypu want—” Her words were broken off. In

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high-pitched, tormented tones Norma cried, ‘But I can’t marry him! Don’t you see, Chris?—l can’t!” The rest was lost in a renewed siege of weeping. Chris let her finish with it. She stroked the shining golden head, patted Norma’s shoulders with soothing little pats. "There, there!” she murmured consolingly. “Things are going to be all right, honey. There, there!” nun GRADUALLY the torrent subsided. Norma sat up and Chris supplied the handkerchief with which to dry her eyes. The lovely face was swollen and tear-marked. With a determined effort Norma managed to control her voice. "Oh, Chris!’’ she whispered, “I do love him so! I—l didn’t have any idea it was going to end this way. It’s going to be so hard to let him go! You’d understand if you’d ever been in love!” If she’d ever been in love! The words struck on Chris Saunders’ ears with curious impact. “If you him so much, you’re not going to give him up,” Chris declared firmly. “But I must! I couldn’t—couldn’t marry him without telling—” The older girl stopped her. “Look at me, Norma Kent,” she said crisply. “I don’t know anything about this man you think you’re in love with. All right then —this man you’re sure is the right one for you. “You haven’t known him very long yourself, have you? Less than two weeks. That’s a pretty short time in which to decide something that’s going to affect your whole life, but I’m not going to try to influence you one way or another. “There’s one thing I do know, though and you’ve got to listen to me! Norma, there isn’t a man living who’s too good for you. Not one!” “But, Chris, how could I tell—” “There’s isn’t anything you need to tell!” Chris went on emphatically. “What’s happened is over. The only way to erase—well, things that should never have happened—is to forget about them. And you can’t forget if you’re going to persecute yourself.” Norma’s two hands clasped the edge of the davenport. Her blue eyes searched the other girl’s hungrily. “Do you—really believe that?” she whispered. “With all my heart and soul! Every one’s made mistakes, Norma. You and me and every one else. It isn’t what’s behind but what’s ahead that counts.” “Oh, if I only could believe it!” There was wistful pathos in younger girl’s voice. Suddenly she caught Chris’ hand. “You’re such a friend!” Norma went on. “You’ve always been such a friend!” The dark-haired girl shrugged. “No more than any one else,” she said brusquely. Then her mood softened. “Getting married’s mighty serious business,” she added. “How much do you know about this boy? “You said he works for a real estate firm, but where’d he come from? Do you think you could live on his salary?” Norma leaned her head back against a pillow. She was smiling dreamily. "I know all that I want to know,” she said softly. “I know that I love him and that he loves me. What else is there that matters?” She was looking across the room at a cheap, framed reproduction of a Corot landscape, but the girl was not really aware of the picture. Chris eyed her for a moment. Presently she arose and disappeared into the alcove. When she reappeared she wore pajamas and a lounging robe. “Listen, Norma,” Chris cautioned. “I said I wouldn’t try to influence you in this thing and I’m not going to. But don’t you think you should .take a little time before making up your mind?” “You mean about getting married?” m m n CHRIS nodded. “Here’s what I was going to suggest,” she continued. “If you’re going to em-

bark on matrimony, I’d certainly like to have a hand in it ” “Oh, but you will! You’ll Ye maid of honor!” “Thanks. My specialty—always a bride's maid! It wasn't the ceremony I was thinking about. I’d like to meet? your young man. Why don’t you invite him to dinner some evening soon' here at the apartment?” “I will! Os course I will. I’ve told him a lot about you, Chris. He’s anxious to know you. Oh, you’ll find out that Mark’s wonderful ” There was a paean of excited tribute then to which Christ listened calmly. Soon Norma’s doubts and misgivings returned. For the next twenty-four hours her moods were to vary from despair to ecstasy. Chris argued and coaxed. Neither girl put into actual words the thing of which each was thinking. It was late before they finally put out the light and went to bed. Even after that their voices continued long in the darkness. The next day dragged. Norma at her typewriter in the offices of Brooks, Welliver & Brooks, counselors at law, thought the lunch hour would never come. She was not meeting Travers. He had explained the night before that there was an engagement from which he could simply not escape. She was to see him at 5:30, though. They planned to go to an inconspicuous restaurant for dinner, a place where there was an alcove table of significant memories. Norma had said she would give him her answer there. As it turend out, she did not make the decision that evening. Instead she compromised, inviting Travers to come to the apartment the nekt night for dinner. Chris would be there, too. “Oh, I see!” Mark Travers cut in as she said this. “Going to give me the once-over. See if I can pass inspection—is that it? Case for scrubbing behind the ears, shining of shoes, watching my table manners ” “It’s nothing of the sort,” Norma objected. “Chris will be crazy about you and you’ll find he’s wonderful. It’s just that I—well, we really ought to be sensible, Mark. “We haven’t been. There are so many things people ought to think about before doing anything so important as getting married.” “I’ve thought of them—every one! Come on, darling! Let’s be married tonight!” He imprisoned her hand from across the table. “Mark! People will see you. Honestly, you mustn’t—!” But I can’t help it. I swear I can t help wanting to take you in my arms when you look at me like that. “You’re so sweet, Norma! I want io hold you and never stop kissingv you. You’re the prettiest thing in all thee world! Darling, I want you so!” ft n n SHE could not trust herself to look up at him. She had drawn her hand back, toyed with a spoon. “Mark,” the girl said in a tremulous, low-pitched voice, “Are you really sure you love me?” “I never was so sure of anything in my life!” “Then—” “Oh, please go on, darling. Say it! Say we can be married right away!” Norma shook her head, smiling. “Then it won’t make any difference if we wait a little longer. Real love, they say, grows stronger all the time.” “What do you know about love, I'd like to know? You’re heartless. That’s what’s the matter with ypu. There isn’t a minute of the day when I’m sure of you; I’m not sure of anything about you!” (To Be Continued)

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