Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1933 — Page 11

JUNE 21, 1933

Bargain Jsride fy KATHARINE HAVILAND TAYLOH •’ anviet, r**C

begin here today HARRETT OOLVIN. back in New York !vf,r.,.jL our meet* 20-year-olrt ELINOR STAFFORD nnd f*H* in love with her. Barrett is 35 wealthy and ha* made a name lor himself as an areheoioeUt. FHnor beautiful mother. UDA STAFFORD. has kept the girl In the background, wanting attention for herself Lida is carrying on a flirtation with VANCE CARTER and i* constantly scheming to *ecp In the good graces of MISS FULA REXTON her husband* aunt In order to Inherit a share of the Rev'on fortune. Elinor hates this hvprocrlsv. Barrens half-sister. MARCIA RADNOR, is terrified for fear her husband will learn of an unfortunate episode in her past Year* before Barrett shielded Marcia when a youthful romance ended disastrously Marcia had a son whom Barrett adopted The bov Is 9 years old now Marcia Insists that If her husband learns the truth he will never forgive her HAROLD DEXTER, the boy's tutor, threatens blackmail Barrett, hinting a' knowledge of Dexter’s past 'all or which Is bluff), frightens the man Into promising he will not make trouble At Miss Ella Beaton’s home Barrett meets Elinor Stafford again and takes her for a drive. NOW GO OS WITH THE STORY CHAPTER NINE A FEW moments later, Barrett turked Elinor into the green roadster which he had had the foresight earlier to order left before his door. ' '.Vhat, a nice car!” she murmured. He was absurdly pleased that she liked it. He settled beside her saying, "Must I take you straight home or can we have a short drive?” "I’d love to go for a drive!” Elinor answered. The way she said it made Barrett want to put his hand over hers; wanted to do this with anew and shaken intensity. He had found his anesthetic, he realized. The troubles of the past few days that had been haunting him were already growing dim. Elinor wondered what to say next; she never did know. Barrett, too, was wondering whether she considered him a dull middle-aged bore. He wished he had learned more about women from any one of them he had known. She admitted falteringly a moment later, “I’m afraid you’ll be bored because I never know what to say—” He laughed delightedly. "That's good to hear,” he said, ‘‘because I was afraid you’d be wearied on the Fame score.” . She raised big, amazed eyes to his. For a second he ignored the traffic to look down and his heart told him that she was a darling child and that he was not so old as he had thought. And then all at once they were talking. She didn’t know why it was, Elinor admitted, that she always felt constrained at her aunt's. Did he like Miss Smythe? She thought she didn’t quite understand Miss Smythe. No, Barrett said, he didn’t understand Muss Smythe either. And Craven, she said, made her feel embarrassed too. The way he called out her name when she entered the drawing room. 000 BARRETT had headed the car down town into the narrow streets that are silent and open to echoes on Sundays, the same streets that hum on working days. He turned the car to a bridge, below which the river proclaimed it-, self in the thickening twilight by holding its unsteady mirror to the lights. , “I’ve never been here at this hour. J think it’s beautiful!” she said softly. Barrett thought, "I knew you would.” He did not speak and he knew he did not need to He had never felt so completely that everything was as it should be. He had a flash of misty memory; the same feeling that had been his as a very small boy with his face against his mother’s shoulder. ' That phase had been short. She had died just after his tenth birthday and, within two years, his stepmother, Rita had begun her rule. Rita had never grown quite accustomed to the chills of the northern climate, and had remained heatedly Spanish to the end. She had coqueted or ignored but had never seen him as a child.

- THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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I "I’ve been lonely.” Barrett realized with surprise, “and never even knew it!” He was not lonely now. “I’ve never talked this way to any one before,” Elinor admitted wonderingly. Though the words were close to his lips Barrett did not speak them I love you!” his heart was crying out. “I iove you!” 0 9 0 THE girl was entirely unconscious of all this. She rode be- : side him. drinking in the. beauty of the fading day. Barrett always had been certain that successful marriages were made after a calm consideration and selection. He had thought often, “If I ever marry it will not be because I have been swept off my feet.” Now he realized that he knew nothing of the mind of the girl who was beside him, and yet he wanted —as he'd never wanted anyj thing—to have her by him for the | stretch of his life. He had had many interests to which he had given generously of , his superb energy. Now he knew that old hopes had been frail, that all past interests j would be paled if he had the chance to care for this girl, to give her everything he had. ‘ Better go slowly,” he warned himself. Aloud, he said, “Are you comfortably warm, Miss Stafford?” “Yes, thank you,” she responded in an undertone and not quite steadily. Here, beside her, was a man who would not lie, who was strong and gentle and kind. Asa child she had adored him. Now she was doing it again; willingly, humbly and with all her heart. "Do you remember giving me a box of candy years ago?” she asked. “No. I don’t.” “Well, one day I was at Aunt Ella’s. There were a lot of older people there and you came in and found me sitting on a stool turning j the pages—l suppose rather wearily—of The Lives of the Saints.’ You dropped to the floor beside me to make the most amusing comments on some of the pictures. I’m sure you must have shocked Aunt Ella terribly. They you went away, and half an hour later Higgins appeared with a wonderful oox of candy. For me! A pink box with a ribbon on it. I’ve never forgotten it!” “I’m glad to hear you say so,” he murmured. “I’ve never forgotten it,” she assured him, “and I never shall!” 0 0O ELINOR sat back against the seat, smiling. They passed a corner of the street where the Thropes lived. “Dear Aunt Bessie,” the girl thought. “I must go to see her soon.” The tenderness that was within her was spreading over wide area. Perhaps she would never have such an afternoon as this again. It was a strange mood that had come over her—one she did not understand. Perhaps, she reminded herself, she should be talking. Her companion might be bored by her silence. She turned toward him. “My aunt and uncle live in Brooklyn,” she said. Then she flushed. That must have sounded silly. But he did not seem to think so. “The Thropes?” he asked. “Yes.” “I like women of Mrs. Thrope’s type,” he stated. “She's really wonderful! I love her. She’s been very kind to me.” Again, Elinor hoped as she had a thousand times that Aunt Ella i would put the Thrope boys through I college. Uncle Jim never seemed I to have any luck. Everything ! seemed to go bad for him. Sometimes Elinor, in her young way, felt ; that she couldn’t endure it if Aunt ! Ella didn't give the Thropes the i help they so deserved. They w T ere | so good, so kind, all of them. “I've enjoyed the drive so much!” j she said as the roadster nosed its ; way up Park avenue. I (To Be Continued)

OUR BOARDING HOUSE

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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WASHINGTON TUBBS II

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TARZAN THE UNTAMED

For half a minute Tarzan stood noting distant landmarks that he judged might be in the vicinity of the fallen plane. For no sooner had he realized that the British Lieutenant and the Red spy were again in trouble than his inherent sense of duty to his own kind impelled him once more to iorego hisjplans and aid them.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

He feared from what he judged of the machine’s location that it had fallen among the almost impassable gorges of the wastelands. And he believed that the slender English youth and the slight girl he had befriended were probably killed. Yet there was a chance that they might have landed without fatal injuries.

—By Ahem

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And so upon this slim chance the ape-man started out upon what he knew would be an arduous journey that he might attempt to save the two if they still lived ... Meanwhile, Lieutenant Cecil worked for two days upon the damaged plane, though from the first he realized the case was hopeless.

At last he told Olga. “I knew it,” she said calmly. “I have done my bit for my country; I have found you again, and now. all I hope for is a quick release from prolonged suffering. But while we have food and water, I must tell you what, till now, I have secret from all the world.”

—By Williams

—By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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