Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1932 — Page 13

JULY 13, 1032

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BEGIN HEBE TODAY CHERRY DIXON. pr*tv 19-T**r-Ol<s Ji*’iht.*r of *althv parent*, marries DAN PHILLIPS. newspaper reporter, After a quarrel with her parents. It I* * Leap Year marriage ana Cherry doe* the proposing I She *n<l Dan move Into a cheap aparttnent and Cherry's first struggle* with housework are discouraging. DIXIE f HANNON, movie critic of the New*, is rlendly. Cherry meet* handsome MAX PEARSON. also of the News, who trie* to make love to h*r After several week*. Cherry * mother become* seriouily 111 the girl goes home and there is a reconciliation with her parent*. Pride win not. allow her to accept financial aid from them, however MR. AND MRA DIXON depart, seeking another climate to improve the mother s health BRENDA VAIL. magarlne writer, comes to Wellington snd Dan meets her * Rh asks him to collaborate in writing a play Dan begins to spend most of his evenings at Mis; Vail's apartment. On a night when Cher/v Is tired and nervous. she and Dan quarrel. He goes to eee Brenda, who leads him to believe *he is in love with him. Days pa-s and the rift between Dan and Cherrv widens. Bhe ask* him to mret her Baturdav noon, but Dan doe* not come Max Pearson hsppen* along and take* Cherry to lunch. She sef* Dan with Brenda \ When Dan arrives home, hi* explanation only makes matter* worse He *torms from the apartment and Cherry telephones to Max. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY * CHAPTER FORTY-TWO (Continued.) The words shaped themselves in her consciousness. She said them over to herself and yet they meant nothin*?. Dan was pone. He wasn’t coming back again. He didn't love her never had loved her. Cherry began to move about the room nervously. She picked up the newspaper Dan had thrown aside, folded it and placed it on the table. She straightened the cushions on the couch. “But I can’t stay here,” she- told herself suddenly. “I've got to do something- go away. I’ve got to make plans!” All at, once she was consumed with feverish energy. She pulled on her hat and coat, caught up gloves. Then she was hurrying, almost running down the stairs. “Telephone,” was the word that repeated itself in Cherry's mind. Yes. she must find a telephone. There was one on the table in the entrance hall, but she swept past it. Out in the night the cold wind struck her face and blew her coat back. She bent against the wind, walking rapidly It was almost an hour later that Cherry stood in the telephone booth Os a corner drug store. She gave a number, waited for the answering voice. It. came at last,. “Max!” the girl cried eagerly. “I’ve got to see you!” FORTY-THREE DAN PHILLIPS sighed heavily. He threw one arm upward, tugged at the covers and, with his ryes still closed, screwed his face into a frown. For a few moments he lay quiet. Then the glare of bright sunshine was too much for him Dan stirred, murmuring sleepily, “Cherry—time is it? Cherry ?” ■ There was no answer. Sunlight continued to stream through the window and at last Dan opened his eyes. He raised himself to one elbow, scowled at the offending window blind that hung at a crooked angle midway of the upper pane, and let out a half-suppressed oath. The next minute he was sitting up, rubbing his head ruefully. Dan was alone in the room. It was Sunday, seven days after Cherry’s departure. Dan’s clothes festooned a nearby chair. There were scattered newspapers on the floor and the entire apartment looked out of order. Phillips rubbed the offending forehead again. He rose to his feet, crossed to the window and pulled nt the shade. He did it so sharply that the blind fell to the floor. “Damn!” the young man ejaculated. * It took all of five minutes of annoyed and repeated efforts to get the window shade into place again. When it was done, Phillips slumped into a big chair. The hands of the yellow alarm clock on the table pointed to 20 minutes after ,1 o’clock. •His head was pounding. Should have had sense enough not to go out with the gang last night, he told himself. But then, he had had to do something. Brenda was busy with an engagement. He’d intended to Join 'the card game only for an hour or so and then com* home to get some

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sleep. Instead—well, anyhow he felt rotten! There should be aspirin In the medicine cabinet. Cherry always kept it Phillips checked himself and swore again. He had vowed he would not think of Cherry. A girl who would treat a fellow the way she had treated him! Left him flat. Gone away without even a word or a note of explanation. Just disappeared. Any j one else would have been sensible ; about it. Nowadays marriages and divorces were taken in a matter-of-fact way. Why did Cherry have to work herself into a state of hysterics and create a scene? Why not admit sensibly that their marriage was a failure (because of her nagging and quibbling and narrow-mindedness > and set about arranging a divorce? No wonder Dan had felt last night that a drink or two wouldn’t hrtrt him. A week ago last night he and Cherry had had that row. He had come home and found her gone. For days he had expected some j message from her. Now he knew j none would come. She was through] with him. All right—if that was the way she wanted it! He’d not; make a move to find her. Not a move! 0 A hamper used for soiled clothing stood in the bathroom. Dan kicked at it violently. He had sworn he would not think of Cherry again, and here he was’doing it! nan The aspirin was where he had expected to find it. Dan took two of the pellets, dashed cold water over his face and went to the kitchen. He decided to make coffee. There were unwashed dishes piled in the sink and after a look at them, Dan changed his mind. He returned to the bathroom and stepped into a cold shower. Then he shaved, dressed and presently left the house. Dixie Shannon was coming up the steps. She wore a tawny cloth coat with deep cuffs and collar of red fox. Dixie's hat was blue velvet and both coat and hat were new. She carried a prayer book. “Hello,” Dixie greeted him amiably. “Good morning.” ’’Mqrning?” she laughed. “Maybe it’s morning to you, but my watch says 2:30. I’ve been out for hours —even went to church!” Phillips was not inclined for conversation. He moved slightly as though to continue on his way, but Dixie remained squarely in the middle of the lower step. “I haven't seen anything of you or Cherry for a week,” she went on. "Is Cherry upstairs now? Guess I’ll drop in—” The young man’s expression did not change. “You won’t find her,” he said curtly. Some explanation seemed necessary and he added, "Didn’t you know? Cherry’s gone for a little trip. Visiting relatives. She won’t be back for some time yet.” “You mean—Cherry’s gone?” “Why, yes. I thought probably she’d told you. Left a week ago.” “For goodness sake!” Her tone of voice, annoyed Phillips. He mumbled something about an mgagement and would have brushed past, but the girl stopped him. Dixie’s eyes widened. “Dan,” she said anxiously, “there isn’t anything wrong, is there? I mean—you and Cherry ?” “Os course not!” He snapped the words out. An instant later Phillips was hurrying down the street, his expression as dark as his thoughts. Meddling women! Always nosing into their people's affairs. There was bound to be talk now. Why did we have to meet Dixie Shannon, of I all people, today? Give that Shan- [ non the hint of scandal and she'd stay with it until she’d dragged out the truth. What made her think there was anything wrong between Cherry and himself? And whose business was it if there were? The aspirin hadn’t seemed to help his head. Dan plodded on angrily, reached the corner just too late to catch a street car. He fumbled in his vest pocket, discovered he had cigarets, but no matches. Damn everything! What a day! nan THEY stepped from the cab and Dan handed the driver a bill. Brenda Vail, half-turning, said, “Are you coming up?”

“Don’t mind, do you?” She smiled. “Os course not! Only you really mustn't stay so long as you did the last time, dear. ‘l’ve letters to write—” “Letters? Last night you had a mysterious engagement and tonight it’s letters. Say, Brenda, you're net trying to get rid of me, are you?” “Silly boy! How can you even say such things? Besides it’s your fault if I’ve neglected my friends so long they must all think me dead! You know that, doA't you?” She smiled and to the young man that smile seemed the utmost of devoted tenderness. They were inside the building nowThe elevator bore them upward, stopped, and a minute later they were entering Miss Vail's apartmentShe stood still, letting Dan remove the luxuries fur wrap from her shoulders. Then she moved to a mirror, touched her hair here and there, patting it into the outline she desired, drew a slender gold lipstick from her purse and applied the paste critically. Dan’s head appeared in the mirror behind her. “You don’t need that stuff” he told her. “You’re beautiful without it!” Compliments always pleased Brenda. She tilted her head backward, looking up at him and smiling through narrowed lashes. “Do you really think that?” she asked coyly. “Brenda, you know I do!” Suddenly his arms were around her. He would have kissed her, but she eluded. “Please, Dan!” she protested. "I’ve just finished my lips. You’ll spoil them!” “What of It?” nun HE caught her by the shoulders a trifle roughly, kissed her a dozen times. “Brenda,” Dan whispered, “let’s get away from this place! There’s nothing to stop us now. Let’s go tomorrow!” She broke away from him. “But you must be mad!” Brenda‘ex--7TSODK A DAY BY BRUCE CAJTQN ' | ''HE formula which John Erskine used in his tales of Helen of Troy, Galahad and Adam and Eve was a pretty good one, and it, or something like it, pops to the sur- . face again in “Cressida’s First Lover,” by Jack Lindsay, a sprightly offering of the current season. Cressida was the daughter of an ancient Trojan mathematician, and nothing much ever happened to her; so when her father went to a seaside town on business and took her along, Cressida decided to get busy and make some excitement. She started by vamping a stolid sentry at her host's seaside castle, and it wasn’t her fault that a band of pirates took advantage of the sentry’s absence from his duty to pull off a raid, of which Cressida herself was one of the prizes. Going to sea with the pirates, Cressida found all the excitement she had missed crammed into a few short weeks of hectic living. What with, escaping from the pirates and falling in with an ultrabashful prince, becoming engaged to a dyspeptic king, vamping his prime minister and raising a furore that finally got her sold as a slave, Cressida had a gay tale to tell when she at last got back home; and Mr. Lindsay makes out of it all a yam that will give you a great number of laughs. His story isn’t another “Helen of Troy.” Mr. Ersknie always puts a serious undercurrent into ms stories; this novel is pure froth. But it’s pretty fair froth. “Cressida's First Lover” is published by Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, and sells for $2.

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claimed. “You know we can’t do that.” “Why not? You said you would —you said we’d go to New York ” “After we’ve heard about the play—yes!” she explained patiently. “It would be ridiculous to leave before! You know the' letter from my agent said prospects are hopeful. There’s sure to be a definite answer almost any day now.” "Any day! You’ve said that a hundred times. I can’t wait for ‘any day’ to come! I’m sick of this town and everything in it. “I want to get away from here, Brenda. What difference does it

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make about the play? I’ll get a job —I can find one !” “But the play means so much!” she assured him. Brenda’s lashes had narrowed again. “It’s you I'm thinking of, Dan.” she told him. “You and your future. My dear, you do know that, don't you? We have to do what's best for you.” “Then come away with me!” “What makes you so anxious to leave -Wellington?” “Why shouldn’t I want to leave? I hate the town! They’re all a lot of old gossips here. Besides, it’s the thing to do. If I get out, Cherry can start suit—”

“Oh—Cherry! So you’re thinking about her now?” “Don’t talk that way, Brenda. I have to think of Cherry, don’t I, if you and I are to be married? I mean she'll have to divorce me. Os course It will take time, but meanwhile—” “Meanwhile I told you ‘here are letters I must write. Really, Dan, you should go. It's growing late.” If you want me to leave, promise me one thing! I'm willing to wait a week to hear from that agent. If a letter doesn't come by that time,

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When she had passed, Numa slunk into the trail bebird her. There he followed until the mists of his indecision should be dispelled. So they went through the jungle night—the great lion creeping on stealthy, noiseless pads and just ahead of him the little black girl, unconscious of the grim death stalking her. . . . Many miles away this same night, upon the dank, earthen floor of a large chamber, lay sprawled the motionless form of Tarzan of the APtt.

promise you'll go to New York with me!” “But, Dan ” “.*U right—then I don’t leave! You’d promise, Brenda, if you cared for me as much as you said. You'd promise if you loved me!” Her shoulders moved impatiently. "You’re being very foolish again,” Brenda told him. “Os course I love you. Why do you doubt me so? It's cruel of you!” “Then you will go?” “In a week. Yes—l promise!” As he rang for the elevator a few moments later, Dan Phillips assured

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himself he was the happiest fellow m the world. He was almost able to make himself believe this. (To Be Continued) Broker Falls to Death By T'nitni rrr>s • CHICAGO, July 13. —A man identified as Mark Smith, a member of the firm of Mark Smith <fc Cos., La Salle street grain brokers, was killed Tuesday when he fell or leaped from the fourteenth floor of the Insurance Exchange building. His body was found on the roof of a three-story lobby.

—By Edgar Rice Burroughs

When the ape-man at last opened his eyes he was absolutely bewildered. First to attract his attention were two immense candles, three feet thick and some five feet tall. Each ones wick was fully as thick as a man's wrist, yet they gave off no smoke, nor was the ceiling directly above them smoke-blackened. Then, as Tarzan collected bjs senses, he saw that there were other peopfe beside himself in the chamber.

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