Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1931 — Page 13

DEC. 25, 1931.

THREE KINDS of LOVE • BY KAY CLEAVER STRAHAN c&jfe

®ec.in here today JTCNWtA V C TP ILY ,nd MARY FRANCES ' Ji ve w,th thejr grandparents. An?. r.nH h ?( *}?* *° impoverished that homehrvfrt' 1 ttk *. f, * rn lfK" support the f‘;in.. T S„5So“o? "' n • ♦ ?**£2£? r S nt * * re known respecJft** 7 # “ 4 •■■UfeAia*” and "GRAND 1 and their former 0 wAui? n ' t Up pre,,nMl of *.£S ne ' C * c i 22, do secretarial *9 r **nd Mary-Frances. IS. la still In school. When the storv opens, Anne has been engaged to PHILIP ECROYD, young .swver, for eight years. They can , not marry because Anne knows her sisters and grandparents depend on her to manage their home Cecily brings RARRY McKEEL home to dinner with her. Bhe Is falling In love with him. Mary-Frances and her friend. ERMINTRUDk, are excited about the arrival of a stock company actor known as h/P.L DE ARMOUHT. They meet him on the street and he speaks to them. Marv-Prancs Is thrilled, agrees to meet him that night after the performance. She tells him she is 18 years old, fails to see his obvious cheapness. Mjry-Franees is sure De Armount Is her "great love.” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY: CHAPTER FIFTEEN * , 'V\7'ELJU anyways,” said Earl, “I W want to tell you that girls of your type are sometimes their own worst enemies—see? And, moreover, the majority of men are just sheep in wolves’ clothes.” Perhaps he knew that he was entirely right about that; but MaryFrances, though she said, “I know. I know lots about men," had not *uch wisdom. "Oh, yeah?” There was a smile 1n his voice, and he did something to her chin, rather like chucking it, though Mary-Frances decided that it could be interpreted as a lover’s caress. ‘‘Well, anyways,” he continued, “I want you to cut out this dating up —sec? I—on the square, I got a feeling like I kind of want to protect you or something—see? ‘ I want you to promise me. for your own good, that you’ll cut it, and cut it clean—see?” Promises! As it should be. Protection and promises and everything! ‘‘l promise," said Mary-Frances solemnly. "No kidding,” he admonished. ‘‘lt’s just absolutely for your own good, little girl. Sec?” "Our first promise,” said MaryFrances. “I s’posc we should seal it with a kiss, shouldn’t we? I mean,” since this had not sounded quite ladlylike, ‘‘people most generally do, don’t they?” He kissed her quickly. “I guess,” he said, almost at once, ‘‘that it all comes from your being of such a good family and like that.” ‘‘What does?” questioned Mary- ’ Frances. With honesty he answered, ‘‘l don’t know. Say,” he began again, “are you sure you're not kidding me about being 18 years old? It don’t hardly seem possible.” “I don’t,” said Mary-Frances, and here was an opportunity for the neglected coyness, “think it is so very kind of you to doubt my word, Earl. I wouldn’t doubt your word for anything.” “Cripes,” he said. “I didn’t go to doubt your word, hon, honest. Course, I come from a good family myself, and all like that, but batting around the world the way I do and all, I haven’t contacted many girls like you—see? You’ll have to excuse me.” a u o said Mary-Fran-ces politely. ’’And some time, Earl, I want you to tell me all about your family, and your mother and father and grandparents and brothers and siste.s and all your relatives. Will you?” “Well—sure,” said Earl, but doubtfully. “And all about your wonderful professional career,” said MaryFrances. “Well, that’s kind of lousy right now,” he confessed. “I was in vau-deville-doing pretty good, too, until the bottom dropped out. I and another guy had a swell little hoofing act—see? “Well—well, anyways, the bottom dropped out. Then this other guy, he got a bug about being a salesman t il things picked up—fellow talked him into it—see? Selling,” Earl brought the words out with virulence. “educational desks!” Mary-Frances asked, “Weren’t they good desks?” and tried standing on the sides of her feet. “I guess they was all right, far as those kinds of things go; but nobody wants them—see? Much chance of

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selling those desks as we’d have selling peanuts at a prayer meeting. “Well anyways, we was In Denver when we started, and this other guy—name was Clarence Buttinger —he—well, he got sick—see? He had to go to the hospital—see? “He figured he’d be there about sixty days. So he says for me to light out with the car (Butt, he’d made a kind of deal for it with another guy) and come on out to the Pacific coast like we’d been kind of figuring on doing—see? “Well, the damn pardon me desks wouldn’t go any better out here than they did in Denver. No more culture nor anything—bum steer. I hung around for a while, and then I got a chance to hook up with these lousy hams, and I took it. “I didn’t have to—see? I wasn’t stoney. I ain't yet. I got a piece of change put away in the bank, but I am going to keep it there—see? I got a use for it. “So I’m sticking with this gang, and maybe I'm lucky at that, until things open up. Soon as they do, I got an idea for a swell act. That’s what I'm saving my dough for. . bub MARY-FRANCES’ feet were two burning lunps of tortune. The backdrop was to be made of wide stripes of gold cloth and black velvet, and the partner (feminine) who was to feed Earl in front of it was to be dressed in stripes of gold and black. Finding the partner for his act was going to be most difficult. Sometimes he feared that it was going to be impossible. He stayed awake at night, often, worrying about it. He knew what he wanted; He would have nothing else. He wanted an awn-jew-nay type—very much Mary-Frances’ own type; precisely her type, come to think of it, who woludn’t hog the act if she got a chance. “Look at Dolly and Dicky Diamonds. Dicky had the goods—he had everything. What did Dolly have? Nothing. Nothing but a shape and a swelled head—- “ Earl,” Mary-Frances interrupted desperately, “it is perfectly fascinating to listen to your professional conversation and everything, but I’ve just got to go in. “My sister’s out with her boy friend, and she’s sure to be coming home now, and if she should find me out here, I—well, I just can’t bear to think of what might happen.” “Say, hon,” he demanded, “your folks are all right to you, ain’t they? They ain’t mean to you or anything —are they?” “Oh, well—” said Mary-Frances resignedly, bravely. It had just come to her, with a shock, that she had forgotten all during the evening to use any term of endearment while addressing Earl. It was a regrettable oversight, but not an irremediable one. “They mean all right, I think. Don't worry about it, dearest.” “Cripes!” he said. “You’re a sweet —an awful sweet little girlie.” The instant he left she'd pull her slipjjers off and not take one step in them. “Good night, heart’s beloved,” she suggested. “Won’t you give me a teeny-bitty kiss for good night?” he asked. She should, she supposed. People always did. She lifted her lips to his and winced as she went up on her suffering toes. “Goodby, hon,” he said. “And don’t forget the little promise about dates, will you?” “I won’t, dearest,” agonized MaryFrances. That last tiptoeing had turned the final intolerable screw. “But please go now, dearest! Dearest, please got” a a a HE turned and walked quickly away. Mary-Frances stood stock still. One does not wittingly step out on red-hot knives. She would wait until he was on the sidewalk, and then she’d take off those slippers, and she didn’t care if she ruined her best stockings and—but why didn’t he go on? Couldn’t he hurry even a little? He had glanced over his shoulder, had stopped. He came back to her. “You’d ought to go in, baby,” he said almost tenderly. A small, strained, “Yes, dear,” was the best she could do. “Listen, sweetness,” he asked

oddly, “would you like to meet me here again tomorrow night?” If she said yes she'd be rid of him at once. But Grand’s speech, delivered during dinner that evening, remained strong in her mind. “I can’t tomorrow,” she said. “But day after tomorrow, dearest, I can. Goodby.” “All right,” he said, and if magnanimity were there Mary-Frances did not notice it. “You’re on. Same time, same place, and same little sweetie.” At the first clip of his heels on the cement sidewalk Mary-Frances pried off the slippers and said, “Ouch! Ouch!” and when her feet flattened and spread on the cool grass she moaned aloud with the felicity of her relief before she yawned, picked up the slippers, and went paddling toward the house, composing “He saids” and “I saids” for the unplumbed depths of Ermintrude’s ears. nun half opened her eyes and said, “Um-um-um—“Smat-ter?” to Ann, who was stealing across the bedroom toward the bureau. “Nothing,” Ann answered, and picked up Cecily's alarm clock and pushed the indicator to the “Silent” side. “Go back to sleep, dear. I’m up, anyway. I’ll get breakfast this morning and call you in plenty of time.” “Um-um-um, angel,” Cecily murmured, severely tempted. ” Still—there was something, wasn’t there? Something different and exciting? Something wonderful? Barry! He was alive and here in this city, and there was another engagement, blissfully definite, for this very evening. Brightly, eagerly awake, she scrambled out of the deep hollow in the center of her bed and perched on its edge and reached for her slippers. “He thinks you are beautiful, Ann. And he’s fussy about beauty. He doesn’t think Marta is even good-looking. And he thinks it is so fine that you aren’t vain. “He says most really beautiful women ruin their beauty by the way they wear it—like flowers pinned upsidedown, you know. He says ” “Who does?” said Ann. Cecily gasped before she laughed. “Lindbergh,” she answered. “Who'd you suppose?” and reached for the old dingy blue bathrobe on the foot of her bed. (To Be Continued) ASK FARM BOARD GRAIN Congress to Renew Effort to Get Food for Unemployed. By Scripps-Haward Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—A renewed effort to get congress to authorize the federal farm board to distribute a small part of its vast wheat stocks to the hungry and unemployed will be made after the holiday recess. Although the issue is complicated now with insistence of the board, suddenly presented, to have congress reimburse it for the wheat given away, Senators Capper (Rep., Kan.), McNary ,Rep., Or.), Wheeler (Dem., Mont.), and Democrats and Republicans of the house will contend that the gift should be handled as a bookkeeping entry by the board, and that in the face of farm board losses now of about $200,000,000 it does not have to be repaid by appropriation of actual cash.

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