Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1936 — Page 30

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“See this ring?” said Davenport. “By spring, a future Mrs. Davenport

EE this!” Bert Davenport leaned against the hotel desk and proudly displayed a diamond ring. “By the timeé'I go back North

in the spring, a& Mrs; Davenport—or from

a future Mrs. Davenport—is going to be wearing it. You wait and see!”

“Why, Bert!” exclaimed Mrs. Allison, on duty behind the desk: “That diamond is a beauty! I can see right now that your bachelor days are just about over!” She saw her husband, Vic Allison, manager of the Aurora Hotel, crossing the lobby, and she called to him. “Look, Vic! Look at this fine dismond Bert has bought for some Tr ” :

Allison examined the ring eritically. “Who's the lucky girl, Bert?” 8 » » AVENPORT - grinned a little sheepishly. ' “Well, ‘I don't known just yet, but I'm geing to find her this winter—sure. I'm tired of having Mrs. Allison and the other women around the hotel kidding me about being afraid to get married. I'm gong: to show em. ang this ring is just the first step, I figure.” Vic Allison laughed. “Say, with a ring like that for bait, half the girls in Seattle will be setting their caps for you!” A few minutes later, when Davenport had sauntered away, .Allison said to his wife, “Say; wh t's got into Davenport, anyway? Have you would-be match-makers: ‘around here driven him nuts or , something?”

Mrs. Allison's sniffle was compla- |

cent. “Bert, -shoujd get married. He's making scads'-of money. from his Alaska salmon cannery, and every fall’ as soon as ‘the fishing Season is over, he comes down here to Seattle and just mopes arbund all winter. Hé ought to marry a nice girl'and really enjoy life. He must be 35, and pretty soon he’ll be too old and set in his ways to be anything but a bachelor, . . i » o

[) URING the next few months, however, there was nothing to indicate that Davenport's. bachelor-} hood was drawing ‘to a close. “You can't disappoint us now, Bert,” Mrs, ‘Allison chidéd “him. “With a lovely ring like that, you've Just got to find a girl to go with it.” Bee, grinned. ‘I think that ring mus® be a Jonah. - Seems to me I've never met so few attractive girls as this winter. I can't seem to find the right one.” After the holidays, a business errand took him to San Francisco. “Don’t forget to take the. ring along,” Mrs. Allison reminded him. “There are lots of nice girls in San Francisco, too, you know.” The young cannery owner smiled. ‘I'm taking it,” he assured her. “But if it hasn't found me a girl in Seattle in three months, I'd like to} know what it.can do for me in San} Francisco in three weeks.”

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T= three weeks passed, and the Allisons had heard nothing from Davenport. Bix wéeks, and then, orie morning, a telégram came him:

ARRIVING TUEESDAY MORN-| ING STOP HAVE BRIDAL SUITE|

READY STOP CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER DON'T STOP Mrs. Allison was delighted. “Bert's got married!” she assured her husband. ring worked!” Allison regarded his wife with mock gravity. “Well, the girl—whoever she is—had better be all that Davenport deserves, or the blame’s on your shoulders. You egged him into it!”

Mrs. Allison personally supervised

th preparation of The Aurora's best suite of rooms.. Then, on ‘Tuesday morning, ‘she and her husband were at the hotel entrance to ‘welcome the returning bridegroom:

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17x watched Davenport alight from a taxi. With him was 8 pretty red-haired - girl. ; : “Folks,” he said proudly, “meet Mrs. Davenport!” : The Allisons liked her: at onhce--liked her composure and her quiet, level eyes. . “You know, Ruth,” Davenport reminded his bride, “Mrs. Allison here is really responsible for our getting married. As I've told you, if it hadn’t been for her, I'd never have | bought that ring.” Mrs. Allison's eyes’ had dropped to the girl's left hand. “But—but—where iscried. E “It’s gone—lost—" Davenport told er. “Lost!” ¥ “Sure—and the way. I ‘lost it is

“At! ” - she

the luekiest thing that ever hap-

pened: to me.. Listen]”

Davenport's. words were fumbling

over one another.

“One .night,..I was. ‘showing. that}

ring to a friend of mine in“the lobby

of a San Francisco 'hotél—just the |

way you've seen me do around here.

Two fellows standing close:by saw’

it.. -I recognized them later when they jumped out of an alley and

held me up, demanding the ring.

I tried to argue a little, and one of

fthem hit me over. the head with a ‘blackjack: .They got my: wallet and’

thé ring, ‘dnd left me lying in the

alley, . 1 ended up in a hospital.” -}

RS. ALLISON'S eyes were wide. ]

“Oh, how terrible!” she | [eX~ claimed. “Tefrible? That's how I met Ruth, ' She was my nurse at the hospital! And so,

you see. even if she hasn't got. the | ring, it certainly brought us us. to-4

: géther!” THE END. 5 (Copyright, 1936, by United Peature sm. dicate, Inc.). (The characters nl this story are. fietious)

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