Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1931 — Page 9

AUG. 31, 1931

GUILTY# UPS fy LAURA LOU BROOKMAN

BEGIN HERE TODAY Pretty NORMA KENT. 20-year-old secretary in a law office, sees MARK TRAVERS for the first time when they rescue as puppy from downtown traffic In Marlboro. mlddlewestern metropolis. Nonna 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 dudov to the shabby anartment she shares with CHRISTINE SAUNDERS. She fears Chris is falling in tore with her married employer. BRADLEY HART, proprietor of an advertising agency. Next day when Norma inserts an advertisement about the ptipov In the lost ana found column of the Marlboro Press, the first person to answer is Mark TravHe tries to make a date, but Norma declines his Invitations. __ A small bov comes to claim the nnnnv and takes It home. Norma .receives telephone calls from Travers, but Ignores them. She goes for a drive with Bob Farrell and ho tells her he is leaving Two days after she meets Travers on the street and goes to lunch with h m. This Is the beginning of a whirlwind courtship. Norma finds herself send Travers awsv bcause of some secret, of the vast. Chris invis secret, declares that If Norma loves Travers, all else Is unimportant. Mark Is Invited to dinner at the apartment and Norma Is alone there making preparations when a “ r s* v .l s ’ He tells her he is Mark s father and demands her affair with his son shall end. In the midst of a heated speech, Ma NOW P GO r! ON WITn THE STORY! CHkPTER TEN (Continued) The wide-eyed gaze seemed to Irritate the man. "Os course I’m his father!" he snapped. “Why else do you think I’ve come here? Os course I’m his father!" "But— but Mark never told me ” Ruddy color mounted In Travers’ cheeks. “Mark’s an idiot!" he exclaimed angrily. “I’ve already told you this affair is ended. You’re not to see the young fool again. “And the slightest show of fight on your part, young woman, and you’ll find out what it means to try to interfere with F. M, Travers! Don’t try that innocence game with me. It may work with Mark, but not with me. “I know what you are, all right. Oh, yes, I know! And I tell you I won’t give you a penny!” “Oh!” The girl’s cry cut the air. She turned to hide her face. It was at that moment the door from the hall opened. “What’s going on here?" Mark Travers demanded from the threshold. CHAPTER ELEVEN AT the sound of his son’s voice Travers whirled. “So it’s come to this!" he snorted. “Love nest!” The man’s face was livid and terrible. “Gone to the gutter, have you?” he roared at the youth. “You’d leave a decent home and parents who’ve given you everything in the world for a cheap intrigue with a common—!” With one bound Mark Travers was in the room, slammed the door behind him. “Stop it, father!” he demanded. "Have you gone crazy? And don’t you say one word against Norma! She’s the sweetest, finest girl I’ve ever known. You’d better apologize for that remark!” “Apologize!” The elder Travers’ voice fairly sparkled. “Apologize! Do you know what you’re saying, you young fool?” Mark came nearer, eyes blazing. “I do,” he said with alarming calm. “I do know and I demand an apology to Miss Kent. Well—" he went on as the older man’s cheeks took on an apoplectic tinge, “are you going to begin?” The older man broke in violently. “Are you trying to make an idiot out of me? Trying to pretend something hasn’t been going on that I’ve seen with my own eyes? “The girl and I understand each other. She’ll listen to reason all right. Now, Mark, you get out of here " It was Norma who came forward. “Just a minute," she said in a voice that struggled to steady itself. “Mr. Travers, I—l’m beginning to see what you think of me. It’s not true, though. It’s not true! “Mark’s never even been in this room before. He came tonight because he was invited to dinner. I live here with another girl. Oh, you mustn’t believe there’s been anything wrong! I tell you it’s not true!" She turned because she could not keep back the tears. Mark was at her side instantly, his arm slipped about the girl. “Please don’t cry, darling!” he

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begged. “Please don’t even think of what father’s been saying ” It was only an instant’s pause in the storm. “Let me tell you, Mark, you’re making a fool of yourself!” the elder Travers roared. m m m A ND now it was the younger xV man whose voice rose. Color ebbed from Mark’s cheeks. “For Gods sake, father!” he cried, “haven’t you done, enough here? You’d better leave! “I dont know what your idea was in coming here, but I wish you’d stayed away. I was going to tell you in a day or two, but you might as well now now. I’m going to marry Norma! “She and I love each other and nothing in the world is going to stop us! Nothing in the world—do you hear that?” The girl was sobbing quietly, her face hidden in Mark’s Tweed shoulder. “Marry her?” shouted F. M. Travers. “Marry her! Well, well see about that! You’ll do nothing of the sort, if I have to turn you over to the police!" “I don’t know how you can interfere. I’m 23, you know. I’ve the right to marry whom I please and that person happens to be N:rma. All I have to do is convince her I’m worth taking " “Look here—once and for all you’re going to stop this nonsense!” Mark moved a step forward. “Let’s see you try to make me!” he said warningly. “By heavens, I’ll show you what I can do!” “Oh, no, you won’t. You may be the tin god of the Century Realty Corporation and the big boss of the West Side, but you’re not going to tell me what to dol” “Mark, persist in this insanity and I swear to God you’ll never touch another penny of my money! You can starve for all I care. “You can come whinnhig to the door and I won’t lift a finger to help you. Marry the girl, huh? Insolent puppy, don’t you see it’s your money she’s after? That’s all a girl like this wants. “Well, she’ll never get a cent of it and neither will you. Defy me and I’m through with you! Through with you—do you hear?” The choleric outburst had spent itself. Almost before the last word was out Mark was lashing back savagely: “We don’t want your damned money! Norma and I can get along without your help. We’ll show you how much we want your rotten cash ” He broke off abruptly. The elder Travers whirled to see what Mark was looking at. Norma uttered a low pitched cry. There, leaning against the door and watching them, was Chris Saunders. None of the three had heard her enter the room. None knew' how long she had been there. In the sudden silence Chris' Immobile gaze moved from one to another of the trio. Her dark eyes missed not a detail of the situation. “Well,” Chris spoke slowly, calmly, “just what is this? About time to put in an ambulance call, I should think. Norma, dear, why don’t you suggest to your visitors that this house is not an institution for deaf mutes?” It’s just possible some of the neighbors may not be interested in your conversation.” The elder Travers moved impatiently. “Come, Mark,” he said, “let’s go—” “I’m not going, father." u m a CHRIS strolled casually toward the davenport, took off her hat and dropped it there. “You. might introduce me, 1 Norma,” she said in the same deliberate tone she had used before. The girl’s attractiveness, her selfpossession and air of indifference seemed to infuriate Mark’s father. It was so obvious that between such a young person and F. M. Travers there could be nothing in common. Travers glared at her suspiciously, then toward his son. “Are you coming?” he snapped. The query was addressed to Mark. “Nol I told you I’m not leaving.” There was anger, too, in the young man’s voice, Travers turned. “I’ve said my

last word!” he roared. “I’ve told /ou what you can do and I mean It. vlarry this girl and 111 disown you. “You won’t get a cent of my money and furthermore I never want to ’ay eyes on you again. Remember It’s throwing away your whole life. It you’ll get some sense knocked into your head and leave this creature alone you can come home. “If you’re determined to act like a headstrong fool, go ahead—and be damned to you!” The door slammed sharply on Travers’ back. For an instant the three young people remained in silence. A sob from Norma broke the tension. She had moved a little away from Mark. Now he was beside her again, his arm around her shoulder. “Please !” Mark began, “Please don’t cry! You mustn’t feel so badly, Norma. Try to forget what’s happened. We don’t care about anything Dad says. “There—!” He raised her chin tenderly, kissed the eyelids that had been striving bravely to blink back the tears. “There, dear. Don’t you see everything’s going to be ail right?” m m a SHE let him kiss her, rested In his arms while Mark patted her shoulder as one might comfort a child. After a moment Norma straightened. “But, Mark,” she said in a voice that was not sure of itself, “this means ” The words died. Norma could not bring herself to finish the sentence. There was more tender comforting, more murmuring of endearments before she was able to go ahead. “It means we can’t see each other any more,” the girl said miserably. “You mustn’t come here again.” “Why, Norma!” Mark looked at her in astonishment. “Nothing of the kind! We’re going to be married. Right away! Why, darling, I wouldn’t give you up for anything in the world. Don’t you know that?” “Oh, it’s sweet of you to talk that way, but we can’t. Throwing away your whole life—that’s what your father said it would mean. “I—l can’t let you quarrel with your father over me. He said you couldn’t ever come home. You’ll have to go, Mark ” “But I tell you I won’t! Sweetheart, we’re going to be married right away. Tonight! Please, Norma. Won’t you marry me tonight? Oh, you darling !” mum SHE felt his kisses on her lips, her cheek, in the soft hollow of her throat. His dear head bent to hers. It was a maddening, utterly unanswerable form of argument. It banished haunting terrors that had been like knives in Norma’s heart. It opened vistas of rarest rapture. Now, if she only dared ! Chris Saunders, feeling her presence neither called for nor heeded, had stolen from the room. When she reappeared after a discreet interval, she found Norma and Mark still in each other’s arms. They greeted her exuberantly. “Chris—you can’t guess!” “It’s going to be tonight. Congratulate me! Isn’t this wonderful? And don’t you think I’m the luckiest guy in the world?” “You’ll have to come with us, Chris!” The older girl stopped short, surveying them. “Am Ito take all this as a wedding announcement? Remember, I haven’t even met the young man yet, Norma. Do you honestly mean you two are planning to be married tonight?” They chorused assent. There followed half an hour of excited, incoherent planning. Norma and Mark were to drive to Woodbury in the next county to be married. Chris was to come along. Mark departed to give the girls time to dress, to hunt up an acquaintance to act as the second witness and to fill the car with gas. It proved an evening of surprises. The friend Mark brought to make the fourth in the wedding party was Bradley Hart, Chris’ employer. Mark had run into Hart on the street. There were swift introductions. With a minimum of flurry they were off In the roadster at last, headed for Woodbury. Mark drove with Norma beside him. Chris and Brad Hart were in the rumble seat. By 9 o’clock they were passing through the outskirts of Marlboro. Ahead lay the state highway. The roadster’s speed increased. Nine fifteen found them plunging through darkness. At that very moment, Bob Farrell, anxiously gripping the receiver in a pay station phone booth, waited for the voice to come over the wire. There was none, Five seconds. Ten seconds. At last he heard the operator’s crisp soprano, “They don’t answer!” Farrell put up the receiver and turned away. (To Be Continued)

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