Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1931 — Page 13

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BEGUf HERE TODAY Pretty NORMA KENT. 20-yea r-ol<J iwcretcrT, marries MARK TRAVERS. on ot ►. M. TRAVERB, millionaire real estate dealer, in spite of the father's threats to disinherit Mark. The story opens In Marlboro, middle western metropolis. Mark sells his expensive roadster to get money for the honeymoon and he and Norma go to fashionable Blue Springs. After two weeks, their money is gone, partly due to Mark's gambling. With • SO®, borrowed, the couple return to Marlboro. Mark sets out on a round seeking instead of hunting When their funds dwindle again, he and Norma move to a cheap apartment. Mark gets one Job and loses It. Then he becomes a floorwalker In Blossomdale's department store. In spite of poverty, the young couple are happy. After a few weeks Mark's father sends for him. offers to take him back Into his business organization If Mark will prove he can make good. His flrst task involves a business trip to Prance Norma is to remain at home. Bhe Is frightened and begs him not to go. but In spite of her protests he departs. Norma, treated rudely at her fatherin law's home, slips away, leaving no trace of her whereabouts. She takes a room In a cheap lodging house and telephones her former roommate, CHRIS SAUNDERS. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY chapter thirty-one (Continued) AT breakfast in the Hannah Spencer hall dining room, Norma considered the results of her rashness. She was miserable. She never in the world would have run away If she had realized It was to be like this! “If I should walk out In the street and be hit by an automobile, not a soul in the world whom I care about would know it!” Norma told herself. She had clipped every bond. By simply walking out of her father-in-law’s home, she had succeeded in hiding herself as completely as if she were in a distant city. She was entirely alone now. Chris didn’t know. They didn’t know at the apartment. She had not told Bob Farrell how to reach her. Jr All that was inconsequerTal. The terrible thing was that oy leaving the Travers home she had cut herself off from Mark. Less than twen-ty-four hours he had been gone. The girl’s were red-rimmed. She had f„arcely slept during the night. Now in the bright daylight the situation seemed even more frightening. There was nearly SIOO in her purse. Mark’s boat had not sailed yet. At this moment he was somewhere in New York. “If only I could reach him!” the girl thought. “Oh, why did I ever let him leave me!” * a u SHE knew it was madness to go on in this fashion. She told herself over and over it would be impossible to reach Mark. Even if there was a means, the effort would be useless. Mark was entitled to the chance he was so eager for. She could not stand in his/ way. "As it is, I may have ruined everything!” Norma told herself. “What have I done? Oh, what I done?” She could nuflilr the well-cooked breakfast. Purse in hand, Norma paid for the meal and lodging and departed from Hannah Spencer hall. On the street corner she bought a newspaper and opened it to advertisements of rooms for rent. She boarded a street car and read the column as she rode. Several of the addresses looked promising and these she checked with a pencil. Fresh air and the bright sunlight gave her courage. Tackling the situation made it seem easier. Norma told herself the thing to do was to believe firmly that everything would turn out happily. An hour and a half later she made the flrst week’s payment on a small rear bedroom in a lodging house that had cleanness and cheapness to recommend it She had telephoned the storage company to deliver the trunk she had entrusted to them the day before. To the landlady the girl gave her name as “Norma Travers,” omitting the prefix “Mrs.”’ She sat in the one comfortable chair in the new bedroom, contra.iting her surroundings with the apartment and the room she had occupied in the Travers home. Undoubtedly this was the poorest of the three. “I can stand it for four weeks!” Norma told herself. "Four weeks can’t last forever! Four weeks—and Mark will be back!"

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WHEN the trunk arrived, sh unpacked her clothing ar hung the dresses in the tiny clo • She put underclothing in neat pi in the drawers of the dressing tabl Some of the things she did no bother to unpack. There was nt use to unpack. There was no use taking out the pretty evening gowns or evening wrap. Once Norma paused before the mirror of the dressing table. It was not her own reflection of which she was thinking. “If only I had a picture of Mark to stand there!” the girl lamented. “Even a little kodak picture would be something.” There was no picture and Norma knew it. She rummaged in the trunk again, brought out an object and placed it on the dressing table. It was a fountain pen Mark had used and discarded. Not very personal—still It had been Mark’s. In the afternoon she telephoned Chris Saunders and agreed to meet her at 5:30 on a familiar comer. Norma reached the place first. She saw Chris, slender and erect, threading her way through the maze of traffic. Norma went to meet her. “Here I am Chris!” she called. The older girl turned her head. She caught Norma’s eye and smiled. Sorry to be late—” she began but did not finish the sentence. “Why, Norma!” Chris Saunders interrupted herself, “what on earth’s happened? You look like a ghost!” “It’s—oh, it’s nothing serious. Mark’s gone away—on business for his father—and I Just thought I’d like to talk to you. That’s all.” “Gone away? Where’s he going?” “To New York. And he’s sailing tonight for France. He’s going to be gone four weeks, Chris, and already it seems like it’s been a million years.” “But I didn’t know he was working for his father? When did all this happen?” Norma’s voice did not betray her. She managed to keep it almost steady as she answered. ‘“I’ll tell you about it. Let’s go somewhere where we can talk.” • “How about the Galley?” “The Galley’s all right.” The two girls made their way to the restaurant. When they were seated at a small table against the wall and had given their orders, Norma repeated the story of Mark’s reconciliation with his father. She told about the business agreement and the trip abroad. Chris listened seriously; now and then asked questions. It was after they had gone over the whole affair and there was a pause that Norma said hesitantly: “Chris—there’s something I didn’t tell you after we came back from Blue Springs. I didn’t tell you I saw Hollis Stone there.” CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO CHRIS SAUNDERS twisted the ring on her finger. It was an oddly engraved band set .with jade. Chris always wore the ring. She had worn it ever since Norma had known her. When she looked up all Chris said was, “Well—?” “He—he didn’t say anything.” Norma went on hurriedly. “Oh, it was terrible that first night when I knew he recognized me! I tried to tell Mark—l’d tried to tell him before, but he wouldn’t let me! “Mark knows him, Chris. He and Stone are some sort of cousins. Mark didn’t guess that I’d ever seen him before though!” The other girl straightened. Her eyes, meeting Norma’s quite levelly, were a mask. “Listen,” Chris said, “you’ve done nothing to be ashamed of. If I were you I’d save my worrying until I had something to worry about. Something real! “Don't lose your head, Norma. Tell .me what you expect to do during the next four weeks?” “I haven’t thought it all out. I’ll have to get a job somewhere I suppose. The money I have won’t last. Anyhow, I'd rather be doing something—” Again Chris was absorbed in the ring. “I understand why you ran away last night,” she said slowly, “but it might have been better if you'd stayed.” “Oh, I couldn’t! Do you think I'd accept anything from people when I know they hate me? I just couldn’t do it, Chris. Mark wouldn’t •want me to stay there if he knew.

“I made up my mind before he r t that I couldn’t stay in that mse. I couldn’t tell him because 3 was counting on the trip so. If e and known how I felt about it, he /ouldn’t have gone. I wasn’t wiling to stand in Mark’s way!” “But don’t you see, dear, running away like this is going to make .rouble?” Norma’s chin lifted but her lips trembled. “I thought you’d be willing to help me, Chris,” she said. “I didn’t know you’d feel this way about it!” “See here, infant, of course I want to help you! I’m just trying to think what’s the best thing to do, that’s all.” “I won’t go back to Mark’s father’s house. I tell you I won’t.” a an CHRIS sighed. “Well,” she said, “that settles that! As I said, I don’t blame you much. If you won’t go back, I think you’d better go to work. “Why didn’t you come to my place last night instead of going to that rooming place?” “You know you’ve no room now, Dorothy’s with you.” “Always have room. We ckn double up.” “No. I don’t want you to do that. You see things are different now, Chris. I’ve got to stand on my own feet. It helps to tell you about things, to talk them over and feel there’s one person who understands. “Oh, I don’t know what I'd do without you. But I’m not going to be one more to impose on your generosity—” “Silly! Why that’s ridiculous!” “Maybe. Anyway, that’s how I feel about it. This place I’ve moved to Is all right. I’ll want to see you often, Chris, but I’ve paid the rent for a week and I think I’ll stay there.” “Suit yourself. I suppose you’ll come to dinner some time?” “Love to. Tell me about Dorothy. What’s she like?” “Oh, Dorothy’s all right. We don’t pal around the way you and I did, but she’s o. k. as a roommate. Say—” Chris’ dark eyes flashed with a sudden inspiration. “Why didn’t I think of it? Why didn’t I think—!” “Think of what? What are you talking about?” “A job for you! Don’t know what it pays, but it would be a lot better than nothing. Dorothy was telling me about it last night. “A girl she knows who works for a literary agent on the same floor we’re on is going to quit Saturday. Getting married. I don’t even renumber the girl’s name, though I met her once. Lucille something - or-other. “She was going to tell her boss about it today. It’s ten to one they haven’t hired anyone else yet.” “What’s a literary agent? What kind of a job is it?” “Oh, the job wouldn’t be hard. Just regular secretarial work. Stuart is the man’s name. Frederick Stuart. “People who write articles for magazines and stories send them to him. He finds someone to buy them. Dorothy says he’s one of the best in the city.” “Do you think he’d hire me?” “Why not? You’re a good secretary. Here—l tell you what I’ll do! I’ll get Dorothy to go in and see this girl in the morning and if nobody’s taken the job I’ll call you to come right down. How’s that?” “Fine. Say, that’ll be great, Chris! I couldn’t very well go to Brooks and Welliver and ask for a recommendation when I left them the way I did—” “We’ll get Lucille to recommend you personally. She’d do that for Dorothy, I’m sure.” Ten minutes later they left the restaurant. Each boarded a different street car. Chris urged Norma to spend the evening with her but the younger girl made excuses. _ * ® * TT was nearly 8 o’clock when A Norma unlocked the door of her newly rented room. The first flash of the electric light was startling. Everything looked strange and different. Shabby in the glow of yellow lamp light. She closed the door behind her and took off her hat.

(To Be Continued)

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