Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1931 — Page 11

SEPT. 21,1931_

GUILTY# UPS n. LAURA LOU BROOKMAN

®£* N ~ERK TODAY *£* NORMA KENT, 20-vrar-old wcrctanr, marries MARK TRAVERS “ n / LIS- TRAVERS millionaire real drftler - J n *olt* of the father'* opposition and threats to disinherit The story opens In Marlboro, middle metropolis. Marks sells his expensive roadster to net money for the iSSSXSSSP rX A and Norma BO to ***nlonable Blue BprlnKs. .I®. Norma meets HOLLIS STONE. tL I .* e . vlde w nt f f om the Blrl's mintn*t she has known Stone before ■ n 4*. for some reason seems to fear him r money la soon Rone. partly due i”_M a JIts 1 ts aambllna. With SSOO borx?^nL* rom ,5 10, ? e nnd couple return* to of ni./P . Mar i : sets out on 6 round 2 Job * UM seeklna instead of hunting PRTrp ,n i r^ Norma to NATALIE i-rucE. a debutante who has lona hoped Mark- When their fundi dwindle again Mark and Norma move I® * chea ,P apartment. Mark begins to hunt work seriously. He gets one Job and loses it. Then he becomes a floorwalker In Blossomdale’s aeoartment store. Norma practices rigid •COnomies at home. When Mark's mother comes to call on them and ynung man to seek reconciliation with his father Mark refuses. He and Norma spend a happv ThanksB'Ving day together. A few days later is®*S? JOHNSON, an employe of the elder Travers, comes to Mark and tells I ?£ he , r wsnts t 0 see hlm - Reluctantly Mark goes to his father’s OujCC, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN (Continued) “I Judged, though, that it might be about business. He—he seemed * very anxious about this matter.” “Listen, Johnson, this is on the level, is it?” "Oh. absolutely! You know me better than to doubt me. You khow I wouldn’t interfere In your private affairs nor those of your father. I’m carrying out instructions, Mark.” "But I’ve got a job. I don't have time to go down there.” ■ “Any time you set I’m sure will suit Mr. Travers. If you could stop at the office when you’ve finished this afternoon, he’ll be waiting for ’ you.” . “I couldn’t make it until 5:30. Might tfe after that.” “Then I’ll tell him you'll be there at that time! He’ll be pleased. I’ll tell him to expect you at 5:30 ’ a a a JOHNSON had risen. He seemed delighted that his mission had been a success. Before Mark could interrupt, the man was gone. The food Johnson had ordered remained Untouched on the counter. Mark frowned. Here was a situation indeed! Johnson had rushed away assuming Mark was committing himself, when actually he had done nothing of the sort. “I don't have to go,” Mark told himself. “I don’t have to go just because Johnson thinks I will. Now, what in the world is Dad up to? Does he really mean it, I wonder?” Complete surrender on the part of F. M. Travers seemed too much to expect. Yet his father had sent for him. There was consolation in that thought. If Mark went it would be because his father had made the first move toward reconciliation. That was indeed a triumph! “And if I don’t go,” came the afterthought, “old Johnson probably will get Hades!” Mark lunched with the problem still unsettled. He thought of it repeatedly throughout the afternoon. At 5:45 he was standing in his father's luxurious carpeted private office. “You mean,” Mark said, slowly, “that you’ll do all that? You really mean it?” The elder Travers leaned back in his desk chair. “I will. That and more! I’m only asking you to meet my terms and here they are—!”" CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT TRAVERS eyed his son levelly. “When I make a bargain,” he began, “I expect fair return for my money. Otherwise I’m not interested. And if you agree to what I’m suggesting, I’ll expect you to keep that agreement as rigidly as any business contract.” “Let’s hear those terms you mentioned.” “All right. Here they are. You are to return to employment in this organization on exactly an equal footing with other employes. Your salary will be fixed on a basis of your work. “If at the end of a year I am convinced you have in you the making of a real business man, you will come into the company as a junior officer with a certain amount of stock to your credit. It will be a year of hard work, possibly in half a dozen different departments. ,“I will issue strict orders that no favors are to be shown you because you happen to bear my* name. Well—what do you think of it?” “Father! You honestly mean this?” “Would I be sitting here wasting hours when I might be much more comfortable at home if I didn't mean it," Emotion he could not find words for overwhelmed Mark Travers. He flushed. “Gee. Dad, that’s —that’s white of you!” he exclaimed. “I want to tell you I’ve been sorcy a good many times for the things I said that night—l didn’t mean what I said —!” “No? Then forget it! I’ve said things I didn’t mean and been sorry about them. Forget it, Mark. It's been hard on your mother, though, to have you away.” “I know. I’m sorry for that too. Oh, Dad—l’ll take you up on this thing! I’ll show- you I can make good too! You’ll see that I’ve changed about a lot of things-r-!” The elder Travers was on his feet, hand outstretched. He took Mark’s hand in his and shook it firmly. “Then it’s agreed,” he said. ‘ When, can you start?" “Why—why almost any time. I’ll tell them I'm quitting tomorrow at Blossomdale’s.” The red of his cheeks deepened. -You knew. I suppose, that’s where I’ve been.” The answer w-as a grunt that might have been interpreted, “Heard something of the sort.” “Dad!” Mark exclaimed jubilantly. “Gee, I can’t believe this has happened! I don’t know what to say to you. It’s—it’s wonderful!” ana IF the elder Travers were equally moved he restrained all signs of it “So it’s settled, then,” he said, stepping back and heaving a sigh of satisfaction. “Remember those terms —one year without favors, unquestioning obedience to superiors, and hard work." “lil show you. dad!” Mark was grinning broadly. "Those terms—arhy they’re nothing at all; lil **how you!” “Fine. By the way,” (the father’s eyes narrowed slightly as he ♦ spoke) “your first Job will be something a little out of the ordinary. Not at all unpleasant, I hope. It’s

a little piece of special work I waht you to do for me—” "What is it?" “Sit down.” Travers dropped to nis desk chair, waved the young man to one beside it. “I told you if you agreed to my terms it would mean a year of hard work. You’ve already agreed. “Today’s Wednesday, isn’t it? Tell them at Blossomdaie’s you’re quitting Saturday. Monday you can begin here. Then Tuesday at midnight you sail for Liverpool.” “Dad!” Travers was nodding. -“Tuesday at midnight,” he repeated. “You have your passport, haven’t you? I’ll have everything else arranged. Monday you’ll be in Liverpool—” “But what on earth—?” Mark cut in. “I don’t know what you’re talking about!” “No. But I’m going to tell you. Promised to obey instructions, didn’t you? Promised *to tackle any job without favoritism! “This first assignment, as I said, is a little unusual. I hope it isn’t going to prove difficult. Now here’s what I’m getting at—!” The father paused long enough to touch a match to his cigar. “I sent Johnson to tell you to come here today for two reasons,” he continued. "One because, well, you’re the only son your mother and I have. “Maybe I seem a harsh man sometimes. I’m not so bad inside. Anyhow, your mother and I need you, Mark. That’s one reason I sent for you. The other is this business in Spain. “You remember—maybe you don’t though—that Jules was in this country for a Spanish copper mining concern when Alicia met him? Looking for American capital. “Well, he persuaded me to go into the thing rather heavily. That was two years ago. Going on three now, and it’s been a bigger loss every year. It’s come to the place where Ive got to know what’s going on— ’’ a a a MARK had been following the words wide-eyed. “But, dad, I don’t know anything about copper mining!” “No. You don’t. It isn’t going to be necessary. I’ve got a man who knows all about it going over next month. “You see, Mark, I can stand the loss. They come and we take them and fight it out on some other line. I can stand the loss. What I’m sending you over there for is to find out just how much Jules is in on this business. “I want to know if the deal is square. If it is—we go on with it and fight. If Alicia’s husband in spite of his high-sounding titles is just another foreign crook I want to know that too. “You’ll go over there ahead of Moffett, the engineer. There’s been nothing said or done as yet to arouse suspicion. That’s why the trip must be made at this time. And you’re the one to make it. “Don’t you see I can’t send an ordinary employe over there and tell him what’s in my mind about my own son-in-law? Besides, you can go about with Jules as no employe could —” “It’s a spying job you’re asking me to undertake, is it?” “Now wait a minute! Not so hotheaded. It’s nothing on earth but a straight business deal. I warn you to go to France for three weeks, drop over at this mine and have a look at it, go to see Juies and Alicia and make certain inquiries about Jules, “It’s a thing that’s done every day in business. A man has to know his associates are honest. If they’re dishonest he has to outsmart them. Well, that’s a brief outline. “We’ll go over the whole thing in detail later. You’re working for me on this job, Mark. Directly under my orders and no one else!” Mark met his glance. “No use to pretend I know what it’s all about,” lie said, “but I’ll try to do'what you want. How long will I be abroad?” “That depends. Ought to make the trip, I should say, in a month or five weeks. We’ll see how it works out.” a a a THE young man was smiling. “Well, a month in France is certainly no hardship. Be able to stop over a day or so in Paris, will I? Say—l’ll get a kick out of showing Norma Paris!” The father pursed his lips. “Certainly you can spend a day or two in Paris. Matter of fact, on the surface this journey is to appear a pleasure trip. You’re to do all the things you would if you were on vacation, “Jules and Alicia will assume that’s why you’re there. On this other matter of taking—er, Normawell, I’m afraid that’s out of the question.” “But, Dad—?” “It will be better for you,” his father went on evenly, “and also for your wife if you make this trip alone. “In the first place, though you are to seem to be on a pleasure trip, you really will be working. It’s a conviction of mine that a man can’t keep his mind on business when he’s traveling with his wife. Arbitrary ruling of the company. “If I let you take Norma along It would be favoritism and I told you there was to be none. On the other hand, she can be more comfortable here. We’ll see that everything is done for her. It would please your mother if she’d come to the house and stay with us while you’re gone. “When this year's ended and you’ve proved you know how to work —if you do—you and she can take a three or four months’ trip abroad and do it properly." a a a MARK said slowly, “I hate to leave her, but, as you say, it may be best. Five weeks is a long time, though ” “Why, five weeks is nothing! Well —do you think you understand your first assignment?” “Enough to say 111 tackle It. I’ll be tied up at the store until Saturday, of course. When will you go over the whole thing with me?” “On Monday. Monday morning. By the way. your mother and I would like to have you and Norma come to dinner Saturday evening.” Mark’s eyes brightened. “Fine!” he said. “By George—do you know what time it’s getting to be? Look at that clock!” The dial of the handsome bronze timepiece on the book case indicated it was after 6:30. “Norma'll be phoning the police!” Mark exclaimed. “I’d better call her right a waif.” He picked up the tele-

phone from his father's desk and gave the number. Presently he was saying Into the mouthpiece, ‘l’m on my way home, Norma. Everything’s O. K. Got a lot to tell you. No, It will have to wait until I get there. It’s good news, though. Wonderful! See you in half on hour. Bye!” The elder Travers was standing, hat and overcoat on. “Harvey’s downstairs with the car,” he announced. “Run you out?’ “Thanks. It’ll be a big favor.” On the threshold—just before they left the room—Mark turned and clapped a hand on his father’s arm. “Dad,” he said, fumbling for the words, “I wish I could tell you how I appreciate all this !” “That’s all right!” a a a THE interview was ended. The pair sauntered down the corridor to the elevator car. Through-’ out the drive to the east side apartment their talk was of irrelevant subjects. The big limousine paused long enough for Mark to step to the sidewalk, then darted away. Thirty minutes later F. M. Travers was relinquishing his hat and coat to a servant. “Where’s Mrs. Travers?” he asked. “I think she’s in her room, sir. She said dinner would be at 7:30.” “Yes, of course.” Travers mounted the stairs heavily. He was not unusually stout, rather wUI built for one of his years, but he had worked hard all his life and moved customarily as though he were tired. Before a door at the head of the stairs he paused and knocked. A voice inside called “Who is it?” “It’s I—Frank.” “Come in, dear!” Travers opened the door. His wife, in a low-cut gown of gray lace, turned from the dressing table and came toward him. “Oh, Frank —” she cried, “did you see him?” Her husband nodded. He placed a matter-of-fact kiss on her forehead. “I did,” he announced. “Everything’s settled! He’s leaving Monday night!” Mrs. Travers raised anxious gray eyes. “And the girl—?” she asked. “The girl!” Travers repeated with an unpleasant smile, “She’ll be gone in a week!” CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE NORMA gave a sharp tug at her slipper heel, then stood up. She locked across the room. “I’m frightened, Mark!” she said. “I wish I didn’t feel this way, but I can’t help it!” “But, honey, you know that’s foolish. There’s not a reason in the world for you to be afraid ” ‘I know! Maybe that’s why I’m so worried. Everything looks all right. It sounds all right when you tell about it, “But five whole weeks—how do you know?—it might be six! Anything can happen in six weeks, Mark! Oh—l don’t want you to go!” She was wearing the peach-col-ored frock that had come from Fanchon’s. The slippers, also peachcolored, had frivolous heels of gold. Norma’s hair had been brushed to a metallic luster. Her arms and shoulders were like warm ivofy. Every detail of her appearance was meticulously correct, but instead of the charming picture she should have presented the girl’s face was pale and her eyes were uneasy. She crossed the room to where Mark stood before the mirror, engaged with his tie. Norma put a hand on each of his arms. “I don’t want you to go!” she repeated feverishly. “Now, see here, Norma, we’ve been over all this before! I’ve told you what it means to me. The chance—the one chance I’ve been waiting for! “We can’t throw dad down when he’s been so decent about everything. Besides, there’s no time to argue. If we’re going to be there by 7:30 w r e’ve got to hurry!” “I’ll do it for you,” Norma offered, raising her hands to assist with the bow knot, but Mark shrugged her aside. He tossed away the tie and foraged in a drawer for another. His coat, freshly pressed, hung on the back of a chair. Mark had not worn dir :er clothes for more than a month. “I’ve told you everything’s going to be all right!” he insisted, attacking the second tie and making a better job of it. “You’re just looking on the black side of things. Instead of five weeks, it may be four.” Norma leaned against the arm of! the davenport, watching him. Her brightly reddened lips quivered slightly. “I wouldn’t mind,” she said slowly, “if I were going with you. I wouldn’t be afraid then ” (To Be Continued)

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