Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1932 — Page 21

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BEGIN' nr RE TOD AT Beautiful ELLEN ROSBITER, employed, at department atore, work* niihta as a dance hall hostess. She lives with her mother. MOLLY ROS81TER: her elder sister, MYRA, and her young babv brother. MIKE. STEVEN BARCLAY. 57 and owner f Barclay’*, 1* In love with Ellen. Twio* she refuse* to marnr him because ahe loves handsome LARRY HAAROWOATE, an artist she has met at the dance hall. She love# him despite the fact that his engagement to ELIZBETH BOWES, debutant*, has been announced. Larry asks Ellen to pose for a portrait. Ellen agrees, on condition that Mvra and BERT ARMSTEAD. Myra’s fiance, accompany her to the studio. One night Myra and Bert leave the couole alone. Ellen sees a picture of Elisabeth Bowes on the piano. Larry says casually that Elizabeth Is a friend of his. Later when Ellen Is In the dressing room friends of Larry's arrive. She overhears them teasing him about his little "taxi-dancer.” She emerges from the dressing room and the friends are rude to her. Declining Larry’s offer to accompany her Ellen departs. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER TWENTY-POUR (Continued) “I want you to meet mother—that’s why I came up. You and I will have tea—” his eager voice hesitated a moment “ —because there’s something 1 must tell you alone. Then we’ll see mother in the evening for dinner.” "All right,” said Ellen faintly. She felt the cold dash of rain against her face her bare arms. “You’re a darling.” He leaned forward. His arms were about her, his eager, searchng mouth found her lips. Again and again they kissed in the rain. "What do you think of that!” Larry exulted and then was gone. a a a ELLEN stayed for a long time with the wind and with the rain. When she went inside her eyes were still bright with remembered kisses, her heart kept up its hard and happy beat. Oh, the miracle of love! What an exciting and thrilling and colorful thing life was. She loved the rain outside, the music and the gaiety inside. There was nothing critical now about her mood. She sparkled and shone and danced like one possesssed. For she knew that Larry meant to tell her tomorrow! It could be only one

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thing—there could be only one reason he wanted her to meet his mother. The next day Saturday. Ellen went through her duties at the store in a happy daze. A thousand times she sought the mirror to look at her bright eyes and glowing cheeks. She looked often at the clock as well, convinced that 12 o’clock never would again in her life be so long in coming. Indeed, long-suffering Lorene became somewhat irritated with her assistant. "You’ll never make a buyer if you don’t bone up on your fashion magazines more carefully,” Lorene said sharply. “I’ll bet you’ve turned a dozen pages without seeing a thing. They only thing you seem to see is the clock. Ellen laughed guiltily. “I’ll try to do better,” she promised. “But I—l have a date and I’m sort of excited.” "If I told Steven that you’d gone blind because you were lunching with him I’m sure he’d be flattered,” Lorene observed dryly. "I must say you’re not much help as an assistant.” Ellen opened her mouth, but left the words unsaid. She did not correct Lorene’s impression, but after that she paid more attention to what she was doing. She succeeded in surprising Lorene by the sudden intelligent interest she took in misses’ fashions. At 11:50, however, she closed the magazine without a sigh, replaced the dresses she had taken from stock and began the delightful process of arranging her perky felt hat at its most becoming angle. Lorene snorted and left the room. a a a ELLEN was dressed for the street, satisfied at last with her appearance, when a messenger boy knocked and then pushed through the half open door. "Sign here,” he said. Ellen signed and, wondering, took the envelope from him and tore it open. She read a few lines, a few sentences. Then felt the paper crunch in her hands and watched the walls of the room recede.

Larry’s letter fell to the floor. Every word was seared in her mind. He had written: “Ellen, dear: I’m afraid our engagement today is all off. I don’t know when I’ll get to see you again, my dear. Things are in such a mess. I know most of it is my own fault but that doesn’t mend matters. "Please try to understand until I can explain. Won’t you?" The posing, I’m afraid, is off, too, for the present. But please believe that the minute it is possible I will see you again. LARRY.” Ellen mechanically reached for her handbag and for her gloves. She was alone in the room. She could hear herself sobbing and felt a desperate, agonized pain in her heart. She knew that she could not go out on the street with tears raining down her face. She fumbled for her handkerchief and sat down. She sat there for a long time. When she rose the tears were gone. She felt everything was gone. Her preparations for the afternoon were useless now. It was hard to remember the shining-eyed girl who had powdered and primped and spent such an endless time fixing a hat. She had no place to go and so she went home. She bought a newspaper to read on the subway. When she turned to the society page, she found what somehow she had expected there. Elizabeth Bowes ..had returned from Europe. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ELLEN’S heart burned with a sort of never-ending fire. She was bitter, rebellious, tired, and unhappy. Above all, ’ she was bewildered. It was unthinkable that she should have been so close to happiness, only to miss it in the end. Larry must have meant to tell her that his engagement was broken. Why else should he ask her to meet his mother? Nevertheless there was the cruel, cruel note. Why had he written it? What circumstance had caused him to change so suddenly? To the wretched girl, only one answer suggested itself. The return of Elizabeth Bowes from Europe. Ellen flung herself into work at the store: flung herself with wild abandon into her duties at Dreamland. She would forget Larry; she must. She tried to fill every moment, so there would be no time to think, no time to remember that she had lost the man she had never owned. But there were times when she was shaken with envy and jealousy. While these thoughts seethed and boiled in her mind the girl laughed and danced and chattered. How she talked these breathless August nights to men whose faces faded to nothingness even as they turned away! Tony, the gamin-like little hostess who had become Ellen’s best friend, was not deceived by this gayety. "There's lots of fish left in the sea,” she ventured to say once. "I don’t know what you mean, Tony,” Ellen had replied, lifting brilliant eyes. "Never mind,” said Tony and dropped the matter. Someone else was unwilling to drop matters so easily. Steven Barclay had been watching the change in Ellen, had seen her growing pale and listless even as she burned with energy. Steven had suffered with her. Toward the middle of the second week, he called Ellen into his office. He spoke directly. "I thought you trusted me,” he began. "But I do, sir,” Ellen protested uncomfortably. "Then don’t call me sir.” “It’s just habit. I won’t do it again, sir.” They both laughed. After that, it was easier. All at once Ellen saw Steven Barclay again, saw him in all his kindness and gentleness for the first time in weeks.

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During that time she had had hurried engagements with him, but always his image had been blurred by the image of the man who was absent. “You’re working yourself to death and I won’t have it,” Steven said sternly. "I’m too fond of you to see you deliberately drive yourself to a nervous collapse.” a a a ELLEN found his anxiety comforting, found it sweet to forget the fears and fevers which had consumed her and to be wrapped in this infinite tenderness. She roused abruptly.

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“It won’t be for long now,” she said with a grateful smile. ‘Two weeks from tomorrow I’m giving up my job at Dreamland. I’ve slacked at the store, I know. I’ve been so tired, but I’ll do better soon.” ‘Give up both jobs tomorrow,” Steven suggested suddenly. “Give them up and marry me. Let me take you to Switzerland, where It’s always cool and the whole world plays. "Let me give you the leisure. Let me take over the responsibilities that are wearing you to a shadow!” Switzerland In midsummer. Molly and Mike cared for, Myra a ole to

marry—oh, it was an alluring vision to the weary, heavy-eyed girl. She saw herself with the w>rld for a playground, saw at her side a man who adored her, a man who could give her everything except the will-o’-wisp she had fancied she found in Larry Harrowgate's laughing eyes. “I can’t do it,” Ellen whispered. For the first time Steven experienced the sharp shock of Jealousy. He asked in deadly earnestness the question Larry Harrowgate not three weeks before had put so lightly. “Ellen, is there someone else?”

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Monstrous and awe inspiring was the thing that Tarzan's surprised eyes saw charging him. It angered instead of terrified the ape-man, for at once he saw it was beyond even his powers to combat, which meant it would cause him to lose his kill, and Tarzan was hungry. To, remain was to suffer annihilation—there was but a single alternative. That was flight —swift and immediate! And Tarzan fled, but he carried t&e carcass of Bara, the deer, with him. '

“Not now,” she muttered. The tawny head came up. "There never was,” she amended defiantly, wary eyes on Barclay's face, lest he should read her shame and pain. a a a STEVEN dared not continue. He watched her as she murmured a goodby and slipped away from his office. That was on Wednesday. Ellen pleaded off from her duties at Dreamland and went directly from the store to the Brooklyn apartment. Molly, stretched out on a couch in the cool blast of a tiny, noisy elec-

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tric fan, greeted her languidly, closed her eyes and was asleep again. Ellen bathed, changed into a house frock and pulled her mop of hair straight back from her fore-* head, rigorously taming the rebellious curls at the nape of her neck. By that time Myra was home from the library. They were having a cold supper. She and Myra prepared it in the kitchen, the coolest room in the apartment because of its northern exposure. (To Be Continued)

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Only a dozen paces off was the nearest tree. He saw his greatest danger would be in the towering height of the creature pursuing him. He must not only reach the tree first, but climb speedily aloft before the thing could reach up and pluck him down. If it reared up on its hind feet, it could possibly get him fifty feet above. Incredibly fast came the gryf despite its great bulk; but Tarzan was no 6nail, and when it came to climbing—even the little monkeys might envy Tarzan of the Apes.

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