Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1931 — Page 11

DEC. 24, 1931

: THREE KINDS cf LOVE •

BEGIN here today rErmicsK C^i L l'..£ n<l ,_ mary-frances nce wealtht V *- Wlth th, " lr Krandparents. AnnVg .nd *° Impoverished that houeho*d and ttSJ v J!.f arrl, L** * u P t,ort the TtK sister* have been orP -rv?f and * lnc childhood, tivelv * r ,* n ?!P,^To*T_. a , re ltnown rcsper - and V th,v R 9 SALIE * nd "GRAND" •f thelr y t ormVr wm, PlD * “ P P reWnJ,M ■aro-k n i , nH ß 'f nd Cecily, • do Vcretarial school wi, Mar .?' Kr * ncc *- 15 " still in v£,2 ° K When the story opens. Anne has von no. 10 Philip ecroyd, Ot - Th y can ler, T. 5 y because Anne knows her slsmanaV? foVXnT' dePenrt 00 h " t 0 to C d'inL. brln .?£ ? ARRY McKEEL home Z ilh *l r 8h l * fallln m him- Mary-Frances and her the"? - pMINTRUDE. are excited about Vnn=£. rrlva ..rl a stock company actor known as EARL DE ARMOUNT. .Oby meet him on the street and he ♦ R£iii*j to them. Mary-Pranccs ir inrllled. agrees to meet him that night •tter the performance Phil telephones Anne, asking her to on a picnic. Bhe refuses, because it is her night to cook at home. Phil annoyed, takes LETTY KINO, a filing clerk, on the picnic. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER FOURTEEN CECILY owned but one pair of evening slippers—spike heeled, P-rt, narrow things of black satin with tiny imitation cut-steel buckles ~-but unfortunately they were a size too small for Mary-Frances. She had put them on at 9 o’clock. She dared not take them off for fear she could not crowd them on again, and they pinched her tiptoes cruelly and did burning things to her heels as she crept, each step a fluttering trepidation, each equeaking board cold panic absolute, through the long upper hall, past Grand’s and Rosalie’s door, past the bathroom, past Anne’s door with its frightening streak of light, past Cecily's room, and the east spare rooms and the west spare rooms, and went stealthily limping down the back stairway. She and Ermintrude had decided aarlier in the evening that an ethereal effect was more important than conventional, fashionable attire, and since her last summer’s white dresses were each of them several inches too short (“How that child does grow!’’) she wore the white Grecian robes that she had Worn for her solo dance in parents’ assembly, and an old white chiffon scarf of Rosalie’s, long discarded, was strung about her shoulders. All during the evening, until the past half hour, Mary-Frances had been composing speeches for herself and for Earl—though chiefly for Jlarl. The slippers had brought praises of fairy-feet, and parts of that poem which Rosalie sometimes repeated: “Sweet, thou hast trod on a heart”—umpty-umpty, something or other about men, finishing chivalrously, “Women as fair as thou art must do such things now and then.” Not that Mary-Frances intended treading on hearts, now or ever. Her views concerning women who did such things, heartless flirts and coquettes, were bitterly derogatory. But, of course, it could easily turn out that it had all been a terrible mistake and misunderstanding, and that the lady not really had trod on r heart at all. The scarf, while its raveled edges had been reverently kissed, had produced references to angels and things high abov^— the type of womanhood most approved by Mary-Frances. But, for the past half-hour, all that had been put aside, and forgotten. Mary-Frances had become possessed of but one purpose and one resolve—to get to the walnut tree five minutes after half-past 10; to keep those pretty slippers on if they killed her. St tt tt SHE kept the slippers on, teetering tortuously on the high heels down the graveled driveway. She reached the walnut tree at precisely 25 minutes to 11. Earl was there. Earl was waiting for her under the walnut tree. An astonishment in itself, without the additional bewilderment of finding anew Earl, an impetuous, whispering person, who said, “Aw, you sweet baby, you,”' and captured her icy trembling hands and held them firmly while she responded with only an odd, low, croaking sound. “What’s the matter, baby? You’re shaking all over. I wouldn't hurt you for the world—see?” “I never did think you'd hurt me,” she replied with a choice little dignity. "I—l guess I’m just kind of nervous of something.” “Excited to see me, baby?” He

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| kept hold of her hands and began j drawing her closer and closer to him. | It was cold, and-his arms and woolly coat felt nice and warm; there was an enticing odor, like passing a barber shop, with an added whiff of wintergreen, and MaryFrances said, “No man ever kiSsed me on my lips before.” It was not a boast, nor was it an accusation. It was a statement of circumstance made more to herself than to Earl. "Cripes!” he said, and his voice was husky. “Some little sweet baby. I’m crazy about you—no fooling. Crazy—see?” Mary-Frances drew away from him. It was time now to talk. She I loved him, of course; but vaguely ! something seemed to be the matter with something. Her feet hurt, and standing on | tiptoes made them hurt worse; but that was not the trouble} Possibly 1 there was no trouble—really. How . could there be so soon, and with a great love like theirs? How could she have rather the same feeling that she’d had last Friday evening when the girl had made a mistake and served her the vanilla parfait instead of the pineapple one she had ordered? Mr. Hill wouldn’t let her send It back, because she had eaten the whipped cream off the top before she had discovered the mistake. Vanilla In place of pineapple is disappointing. “Stingy!” he rebuked. “You aren’t going to be a little stingy, cold baby, are you, sweetness?” Mary-Frances said, “Don’t,” and stood on her heels to ease her toes for a moment. “I guess,” she added, “I’d better go back in now.” “Say! You got a date with the ice trust or something?” “No. I just kind of thought I’d better go in now.” “Cripes! You can’t go rushing off now. What was the use of me coming all the way up here? You give it another think, baby. Don’t you do it. Don’t you go in now.” tt tt St TJE was beseeching her to stay. It was thrilling. “And then he beseeched me to stay,” she could tell Ermintrude. Nonchalance savored with winsomeness. It sounded easy, but how exactly should she go about it? “Why do you want me to stay?” she asked. “I was just telling you, wasn’t I, that I was crazy about you and all? Wasn’t I, baby? And then you get stingy and go rushing off on me before we got time to make friends or anything. Just crazy about you, sweetness, that’s me.” “Will you love me forever and ever?” she asked. She thought that he had told her that he loved her. Things were not disappointing any longer. She was keeping her first tryst, and it was Life and Love and Living and everything. * “And how!” he vowed, and tried to kiss her again. “Don’t,” said Mary-Frances. “Aw, gee, baby!” he complained. “If we kiss all the time,” MaryFrances elucidated, “we can’t make friends like you said, nor get acquainted nor anything.” “Snap out of it,” he urged. “Say, listen, baby. We wouldn’t be kissing if we wasn’t friends already, would we?” Mary-Frances pondered that for a moment. “Well-no,” she admitted. “I guess what I mean is that so many things are so much more interesting than kissing.” It was Earl’s turn to ponder, and he did so for a moment before he produced his first sincerity of the evening. “Cripes!” he said. “If you aren’t the darnedest funny little kid! ” Ermnitrude must never know. No one must ever know. It must be kept always a secret smarting in her breast like that old Spartan fox. Dignity softened with coyness? Mary-Frances had no present disposition for coyness. “Well, Mr. DeArmount, I must say! If that’s what you think about me, I'm glad you told me before it was too late, and we’ll part forever right now. “I’m going straight into the house. But I will add, Mr. DeArmount, that I don’t think that is a very nice way to talk to a girl who is IB years old, and you knew how old I was, because I told you this

i afternoon in the drug store, and ' now I’ll say goodby.” a tt n HE took her by the shoulders and held her, gently enough. “Leave me explain, hon,” he said. “I didn’t go to make you sore. On the square, I didn’t —see? Wait a minute. Give me a break.” “ ‘Funny little kid,’ ” mocked Mary-Frances. “Well, it may be yours, but it isn’t my idea of a nice way to talk.” “Say, listen, hon. I’m sorry, honest. I didn’t mean anything like you think—see? I like you. Ojj the square I do, I like you a lot better than I thought I was going to—see? I mean to say, you being so—so, well different and innocent seeming and all, you’ve kinda got me going, in a way. See?” ' “Different?” she questioned, with a note of hope. “I’ll tell the world you’re different. Say, listen, hon, and I’m talking on the square to you nowsee? No line or anything like that —see? “I’m talking like a pal. straight goods. You’re as different from the run of girls as—as—well, say, if you’ll excuse me getting kind of flowery, you’re as different as a little innocent violet from one of these here big gaudy cabbage roses—see?” “ ‘You are as different as is a modest violet from a flaunting crimson rose.’ ” Perfect material for Ermintrude. “Howsosomeever,” said Earl, and from where in the world he dragged all that word it is hard to tell, “I got to say; in justice to myself, Frankie, that I ain’t altogether to blame for kind of getting off on the wrong foot, as the saying goes. “Listen, hon. I’m a man of the world, myself—see?” (A man of the world! Mary-Frances breathed deeply over that.) “And—well, that’s what I kind of am. A man of the world. “Now, there’s a lot of things you wouldn’t understand. I know that now—see? But I wasn’t sure of it before, and that’s why I’m going to say something to you. I may not get thanked, but just the same I think the world and all of you—” (The werlc and all! My! “Ermintrude, he said , . .”) —“and I’m going to tell you that you’re taking chances when you make dates with strangers and all like that. “Course, in my case, it was all right—see? Absolutely. I’m a good judge of character and all—see? But the next guy might be a bad egg or anything. It sure gets me going, Frankie, a girl of your type and all taking such chances.” Oh, but, Earl, I don’t! I never did before. You are the very first one I ever did speak to or anything.” (To Be Continued)

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen Delons: to: Morris Recenstries. 715 Union street. Ford roadster. 54-979, from Maryland street and Capitol avenue. William Kiesel. 622 West Tenth street. Marmon sedan. 62-380. from 622 West Tenth street. W. M. Darlinu. 213 East Forty-sixth street. Ford coach, from Court and Pennsylvania streets. J. H. Knoop, R. R. 10. Box 251, Ford street?* from Vermont and Adelaide _ Carl Clouse. 2542 Brookside avenue. Chevrolet coaAh. 63-760, from Tenth street and Highland avenue.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belong to: C. H. Kirk. 5264 Park avenue. Pontiac coupe, found at Lawrenceburg, Ind. Edward R. Lawrence, R. R. 9. Box 826. Ford sedan, found in front of 38 Virginia avenue. Sollie Guthrie. 1735 Thompson road. Chevrolet coupe, found at Fifteenth street and Cornell avenue. David Alderdice. 1624 North Delaware street. Chevrolet coupe, found at Capitol avenue and Fourteenth street. Baxter Company. 1142 North Meridian street. Marmon coupe, found at Pike and Hovey streets. J. K. Shepard. 1301 West Thirty-sixth street. Ford coupe, found at Alabama and Market streets.

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