Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 95, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1931 — Page 5

AUG. 29, 1931

GUILTY# UPS LAURA LOU BROOKMAN

BEGIN HERE TODAY Pretty NORMA KENT. 20-vear-old (secretary in a law office, sees MARK TRAVERS for the first time when together they rescue a puppy from downtown traffic in Marlboro, middle-western metropolis. Norma declines to tell Travers her name or where he can see her again. 808 FARRELL, young lawyer, asks Norma to marry him and she refuses, though she is fond of him as a friend. Norma takes the puppy Us the shabby apartment she shares with CHRISTINE BAUNDERS She fears Ch'ris la failing in love with her married employer. BRADLEY HART, proprietor of an advertising agency. Neat day Norma Inserts an advertisement about the puppy in the lost and round column of the Marlboro Press. The first person to answer this advertisement Is Mark Travers. He tries to make a date, but Norma declines his invitation. Travers departs and later goes with NATALIE PRICE, deouUnUt on a cay round of the night clubs. Next evening a small boy comes to see Norma, claims the puppy and takes H home. Chris goes to aid MINNIE BAKER, an impoverished friend whose 2-vear-old son has been badly burned. Norma receives telephone calls from Travers and ignores them. She goes foe a drive with Bob Farrell and he tells her he is going to leave Marlboro. Two days later she meets Travers on the street and goes to lunch with him. This Is the beginning of a week of whirlwind courtship. Norma finds herself head-over-heels in love, but thinks she must send Travers away when he asks her to marry him because of some secret of the past. Chris knows this secret, and declares that if Norma loves Travers all else is unimportant. Mark Is invited to dinner at the apartment. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER NINE ("Continued) Blue, laughing eyes looked Into his. “Not even sure that you love me?" the girl chided. “Right now I’m sure I'd like to box your ears!” He did nothing of the sort a little later when they were alone together. Happily the girl slipped into his firms. The darkness of the cab was a blessing because it hid her face. Oh, Norma told herself, she must hot let him know how much she cared! She must not let him guess her love. All next day Norma Kent’s heart was singing happily All through the hours at the office she looked forward to the moment when she would reach the apartment again. How could Nornla know that the one thing she had not dreamr l might happen was to take plaCj that night? CHAPTER TEN THE vegetable trays looked fresh and inviting with crisp, curling lettuce, crimson radishes and ivory-white heads of cabbage. Peas and spinach added gradations of green to the picture and a mound of oranges on the shelf above proved that the grocer’s boy who arranged these wares each morning had an eye for color. Norma Kent lifted a head of lettuce to see if it was solid. She made her selections briskly and the white-coated clerk wrapped the packages. Norma was engaged in mental arithmetic, at the same time trying to list the tasks before her and the order in which to attack them. She paid her bill and left the store with arms bulging with bags and bundles. There was no time to wait for the grocer’s unreliable delivery system to function. Letting herself into the apartment 1 building required almost a vaude- | ville balancing act. She shifted the ; packages so as to free her right hand and foraged in her purse for the key. Another shift when the door opened and Norma started up the stairs. The two flights never had seemed longer. At last, breathless, the girl reached the third floor front. She turned the key and the door swung open. Thank goodnes Helga had done the cleaning! Norma put down her packages, threw off her hat and coat and tucked them out of sight In the clothes closet. She thrust an enveloping apron over her head and set to work. There was so much to do and so little time in which to do it. Barely an hour earlier Chris had telephone that she was delayed at the office. She would hurry along as soon as possible, but in the meantime Norma must prepare the vegetables and put them on to cook, chill salad, set the table and have everything

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ready so that at the last minute the chops could be broiled. Cooking an entire dinner on a two-burner gas stove was a matter for expert timing. Norma was not sure of herself In such matters as Chris was. She could manage each task by itself, but Jumbling them together confused her, She began with the least consequential—flowers for the table. All the way from a cut-rate florist shop down town she had carried a 25-cent bunch of blue asters. Mark, seeing a basket of such blossoms In a shop window a few nights before, had declared that no flowers on earth could equal the glorious azure of Norma’s eyes. The asters, he said, only showed how foolish it was for them to try. Thereby in the secret treasure place of Norma’s heart blue asters had become enshrined.

THE flowers went into cold water in a squat pottery vase. Norma flipped the cover from the- gate-leg table and opened it out to its full size. She discovered that JJelga’s dusting had, as usual, been done in slap-dash fashion. There was no time to go over the whole room, but the more glaring omissions must be remedied. Another bother! There wasn’t a dust cloth to be found in the bag where such things were supposed to be kept. Why did everything always go wrong when any one was in a hurry? A Each minute that fie# by increased the girl’s nervousness. Norma was so anxious tonight’s dinner should be a success! She wanted the food to be delicious, the whole affair to be the gayest, happiest little party she and Chris had ever given. What could be keeping Chris so long? Perhaps she had started now, would there be any minute. Oh, of course she must have started. Norma looked at her watch. Five minutes past 6. Luckily, Mark had been invited for 7 o’clock. Norma told herself that if she would only be calm, take things quietly, there would be time enough. She’d do the vegetables, then set the table and try to steal a few miutes to freshen up after the long day in the office. At least dash cold water on her face and then some powder. The old blue chiffon which had seen two summers’ wear was all right by lamplight. The dress was made with short sleeves and seemed “partified.” . Firmly Norma held a potato in her left hand, bringing the sharp paring knife forward in a vindictive slash. The knife slipped and with a little cry Norma saw a wavering line of crimson stain her fingers. It wasn’t a deep cut—just another five minutes of delay hunting for gauze and adhesive tape. “Well.” though the girl philosophically, “the food’s here. I don’t know when it will be ready or whether we’ll be able to eat it at all unless Chris shows up pretty soon, but at least it’s here!” She bound up the cut finger, returned to the screened off “kitchen” and took up the paring knife again. The bandage made her clumsy, but she finished peeling the potatoes and covered them with water. She was washing lettuce when the downstairs bell buzzed sharply. Who in the world could that be? Not Mark! No—it was a good three-quarters of an hour before he was due. Chris wouldn’t ring. Norma was puzzled blankly. Before she had time to answer the bell rang a second time. The girl ran across the room, into the hall, and peered downstairs i over the bannister. “Someone to see you, Miss Kent!” The voice of Mrs. Hawthorne. the custodian, rose shrilly from the entrance hall. “I’ll—l’ll come down,” the girl agreed. It seemed the quickest way to be rid of the interruption. a tt tt SHE reached thq first floor. Mrs. Hawthorne had disappeared, but through the half opened door

of the vestibule Norma glimpsed a shadowy figure. The girl went forward. “You wanted to see me?" she asked. There was a light in the hallway but it glimmered dimly. Norma saw that the stranger was a large man, stockily built and inclined to plumpness. Middle-aged. He wore a gray suit and held a gray felt hat in one hand. “Are you Miss Kent?” he asked. The tone was crisp, formal. “Yes.” There was an instant’s pause. The man glanced about, faintly ill-at-ease. My name is Travers,” he went on. “F. M. Travers.” He produced a card and handed it to the girl. “There is a matter on which I would nke to talk to you, Miss Kent. It is—of considerable importance. Is there some place not quite so public?” i Norma had been staring at the Card in her hand. Now she stared at the stranger. “But I don't understand,” she began. The man interrupted. “I will explain,” he said. "I—as I said I have come on a subject lam sure will interest you. I think you would prefer to hear what I have to say in private. The words had the precise effect he had expected. “We can go upstairs,” Norma said. The dinner party, the suspended preparations were forgotten. What was this terror clutching at Norma’s heart? Her hands were icy, yet she could feel her temples burning. Travers he had said his name was. Travers! On the third floor landing Norma paused. “This is where I live,” she said. “Will you come in?” The man followed her into the living room. In the brighter light Norma saw that he was handsome. Older tjian she had guessed before. The gray hair was almost white at either side of his face. His keen eyes surveyed the room. They were dark eyes. Brown. They reminded Norma of someone she knew. They were like Mark’s eyes! That was it! Then this stranger must be — “Won’t you—sit down, Mr. Travers?” the girl asked diffidently. ’ “No, thanks. I can say what I’ve come to say standing. Miss Kent, I understand that you know my son. Been seeing a good deal of him lately, haven’t you?” “You mean—Mark? Are you his father? Oh, is there anything wrong? Has anything happened to him?” Her voice rose with anxiety. it tt 'T'RAVERS disregarded the ques- -*■ tions. A hard gleam came into his dark eyes. “You and I can understand each other very quickly,” the visitor was saying. “I don’t waste words, Miss Kent, and I’ve come here to tell you this thing must stop, immediately! “Mark’s a young fool, but it will do you no good to try to continue these secret meetings. I tell you they’re going to end!” The girl fell back as though at a blow. Her face was ashen. “You—you’re asking me to stop seeing him?” The words sounded far away and strange. Now, the man was speaking again: “I’m glad to see you’re taking this sensibly,” he said. “No use taking it any other way. There’ll be no blackmailing and no scandal suits. “I’m a direct man. That’s why I’ve come here tonight. Miss Kent, I warn you that any effort to sensationalize this affair will have serious consequences. As for Mark—he has nothing in his own name. You won’t be able to get a cent—!” “Mr. Travers—are you Mark’s father?” (To Be Continued)

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Long before he saw the men, there came to Tarzan’s keen ears the sound of their voices. Creeping through the bushes he came to within a few yards of the two men-at-arms who guarded the outer way to the City of Nimmr. To his vast astonishment, he heard them conversing in a quaint form of English and marveled at their antiquated costumes and obsolete weapons. For a time, Tarzan lay watching the two, with steady, unblinking eyes.

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Quickly the ape-man dragged his victim into the bushes, while the fellow’s companion fled toward the tunnel’s entrance. Though the black fought and struggled, Tarzan held him as easily as he might have held a child. “Lie still,” he advised, “I shall not harm you.” “Ods blud!” cried the black, “what manner of creature be thou? What wouldst thou with me?” “Many weeks agp a white man came this way. Where is he?” said Tarzan. ,

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“Thou speakcst of Sir James?” asked the Sentinel. Tarzan remembered that Blake's first name was James and replied: “Yes, I mean James Blake. Go before me and remember, your life will be the forfeit for any treachery.” They had not proceeded very far before the ape-man heard footsteps and a strange jgngling and clanking, like chains clashing against metal. As it waspcoming nearer he bade the black stop.

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