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BEGIN HERE TODAY Daphne Brett, charming young New York advertising executive, rents her deceased father's Connecticut estate to Larry Smith, attractive voung bachelor architect, and promptly likes him tremendouslv. Daphne has one sister, six years vounger, Jennifer, just out of college and at her first job. Jennifer resents Daphne's attempts to guide her and procceds to date Tucker Ainsley, wealthy playboy. Next she meets Larry and, finding he is not married, makes a play for his attentions, This develops a struggle between the sisters for the same man, One night Larry dates Daphne: At the same time Jennifer, against Daphne's orders, dates one of Tuck's set and comes home at dawn inebriated., The sisters come to a showdown, conciliate, but Daphne, it is clear. is bound to live her own life, marry Tuck Ainsley. She had set her heart on a rich husband from the beginning, Meanwhile Larry proposes to Daphne— over the telephone, She falls asleep that night deliriously happy. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

less I can't help feeling , . dramatic, Isn't it dramatic to have to say ‘No’ to the man you love when you can’t tell him your reason?” “But you're not going to say ‘No. You're going to tell him that you do love him, that you do want to marry him but you believe that you should both wait a little longer. Tell him you think it is only fair to him, that you can’t leave your job at once, that you know he has work which should—oh, for goodness sake, darling, you'll know what to say.” “That's just it, I don’t! It would be lying. It would be stringing him along and Larry is too fine to get that kind of treatment.” 2 »n ” NNE sat down abruptly giving Daphne a hopeless glance. “Then, since he is so fine and since you feel that he is part of you, why not let him share your

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

URRY up, Jennifer, breakfast is ready.” “I've loads of time.” Jennifer, with her hat and coat on, stood in the doorway to the small Kitchen. “Neat trick of yours, Miss Brett, setting the clock ahead.” She pulled a chair up to the table of the cabinet which served as their morning breakfast table. “Well, you don't want to lose your job, do you?” Daphne poured cocoa

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trouble? Why not come out flatly and tell him that the reason you

| won't marry him is because you feel

that you've got to take care of Jennifer, that you won't marry him until you have a sum of money in the bank to take care of her independent of his help?” “I wouldn't do that to him for anything in the world.” “No, you wouldn't. Well, then, why not do something about Jen-

nifer?” “What can I do about her?”

into two cups and snapped off the switch on the toaster. | “I don’t care much if I do.” i “Oh, Jennifer, please don’t! Thir- | tv-five a week is the best you've! done and were getting along so nicely.” “There isn't much future in being a model,” Jennifer went on nopefully.

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HERE might be. Some day A you might get to be a pha: | tographer’s model and, who knows | maybe the movies will be next.” | “Daphne! Wouldn't that be won- | derful?” Daphne buttered the toast. “Yes, it would, but I wouldn't entertain | the idea. Tell me about last night. | Your girl friends usually have a lot of news.” Daphne was playing for | time. She didn't want Jennifer to | ask her what Larry had said. Jennifer looked at her sister un- | der lowered lids and said casually, | “1 suppose you heard that Jerry | and Peg were married at Armonk | on Wednesday.” “No. They eloped? I think that was a shabby thing to do.”

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n ENNIFER put her cup down very | of carefully. “Why was it? They| are both of age and they knew what |

they wanted. It wasn't anyone else's

business if they wanted to.” “It was shabby, Jennifer, is only 18 and girls that age don't know their own minds. osides Peg’s parents should have been shown more consideration. They

cation and see a few more people before she settled down. I don't | think that was very considerate of | her. I imagine her people will be up in arms.” Jennifer touched a napkin to her | pretty mouth. “Well, they'll have | to like it now. And you're quite | wrong about girls 18 not knowing | their own minds. I think Peg is! well off, Jerry has a little money | and they'll have a ducky time. Evervone will be giving parties for them and she won't have to worry about a job. I'm all for mony. I'm sick of working.” “Lot's of us are,” Daphne admitted, “but getting married just because youre sick of working seems like a pretty poor reason to me. Marrying because you love a man makes it the best thing in the world, but any other way, is my idea of no-go.” » » | laughed. “Grandma | Lavender and old lace!

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ENNIFER Brett! and love! I suppose vou think a bride sits home of evenings and darns her husband's sox while he reads the market reports. Well, I} don't.”

“Don’t you?" Daphne asked and the situation over with Sam and, | California at | 1 the course of his visit, had man- | government in June, 1846.

of herself while he read reports. It was A wistful vision.

saw a vision Larry's side architectural lovely vision. "I do not,” “I think it is cute to find someone | you like, someone who has the same |

sitting her |

| going to have to tell the company

Peg |

wanted Peg to have a good edu- | it out sooner or later.

matri- |

[taken only a little careful manipu-

“I've done everything I know of. She's earning a good salary now, but I don't know how long it will last. She's only 18, you know, and I can’t expect much from her, but if I had a couple of thousand dollars to hang onto until she finds the thing she wants to do or marries some nice boy, I could tell Larry that we could be engaged. But | where can I get $2000?” = = » { “Y HAVE it!” Anne said. “It will | take a lot of determination on your part but you can do it. Tell | Jennifer she must give you $10 a week out of her $35 and jolly well | she can. You can save that. That'll | be $500 in a year. Then, the extra | $50 you got in your raise—and you" can save that—will come to around $600. In one year you can save $1100 A year passes quickly and by that time, Jennifer will have undoubtedly settled down to some-

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thing. Don’t you see?”

Color came into Daphne's face. | |

Oh, Anne, it seems And I have a hunch

“Of course I do! so simple now. that Jennifer will take care of this job because she loves the money. | Darling, I can ask Larry to wait, | can't 1?” Jennifer came in at 6. “Well,” | she said, “that’s that. I am again| one of the great army of unem- | ployed and I can’t say I'm sorry after the passes Mandlebaum made |

Daphne said wearily, Anne didn't know any answer to | that one, |

at me before he fired me today.”

(To Be Continued)

Daily Short Story

JAWS OF FATE—By Clarence Stewart

ORDON peeled the wrapping from a stick of chewing gum and inserted the morsel between his teeth, Somehow, the chewing action quieted his nerves. He had just Killed a man, He had shot old Sam Willowby, because Sam had found out just what Gordon had been doing with the

firm's accounts—found it out though Gordon had thought his tracks were covered. Sam had said, “I suppose you know, Gordon, that one of us is

about this. I'm hoping you'll save me the unpleasantness of ‘squealing’ on a fellow worker.” Gordon had hung his head, looking the picture of contrition, but | his brain had been working rapidly. “All right, Sam,” he had said. “Why did you do it?” Sam had | asked, with a note of pity in his voice. “You must have known you couldn't juggle those figures in- | definitely. Someone had to find I'm truly sorry I had to be the man to discover it.” » n » ELL, that sort of washes me up, I guess,” Gordon had said. “It means prison. You've certainly got the goods on me. But look here, Sam, I wish you'd give me until tomorrow. I've got to have a little time to screw up my courage to tell the boss what I've done. If youll keep quiet until tomorrow, I promise you that I'll confess. Do | that for me, won't you?” Sam had hesitated, but he was a kind-hearted old soul—hated to have | to tell on Gordon-—and so had final|1y agreed to give him until the next [day to confess to his crime. | “Okay, kid,” he had said. [that much for you.” | Then, tonight, Gordon had gone {back to the deserted office. It had

“I'll do

lation to alter the books and make it look as though Sam-—not he—had been responsible for the small but

own, Besides, I've never been | fingerprinted in my life.” “Oh, yes, you have, buddy! off that stool.” | Gordon obliged. The detective | turned the stool upside down, re-| vealing a dozen or so pats of chewing gum pressed to the under side | of the pedestal. “See those? Your fingerprints are | on every one of them, and they match the print on another chunk | of gum we found stuck under the | edge of a table in Sam Willowby's | home. Not another one of your] prints was found there except that | one, which makes it look as though | you had a reason for destroying the! others you were bound to have made. We have testimony, moreover, that old man Willowby had never been seen chewing gum. He ‘chawed’ tobacco.”

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1937. by United Fea'ure

(Copyright Syndicate, Inc.)

The characters in this story are fictitious. Ask The Times Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question ot fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13th St, N. W., Washington, D. C. Legal 2nd medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken,

Q--Who plays the part of “Ruby” on the Amos Mm’ Andy radio program? A—Elinor Harriot. Q—Of what nationality is Charlie Chaplin? A—He was born in London, Eng- | land, and is of English and French | descent. Q—Which is the longest river in| the world? A—The Mississippi-Missouri, | Q—Who plays the role of the | page in the Philip Morris radio! broadcast?

frequent discrepancies.

This job completed, he had come |

| War?”

to the lonely suburban cottage where Sam lived the life of a hermit, had pretended that he had come to talk

aged to sneak Sam's gun out of a table drawer, Killed the old man. Wiping his placed it in Sam's right hand. Then.

after carefully removing his finger-

A—John Roventi.

' @—What was the “Bear Flag A—An insurrection was started in against the Mexican | A small | group of settlers from the United

and had deliberately | States, alarmed by reports which

probably were false, that the Mexi-

Jennifer continueq. | fingerprints from the gun, he had can Prefect was planning to drive

out Americans, rallied under Capt. John C. Fremont and seized some

idea of fun you have and take your | Prints from everything else he had | Government horses and captured |

chance. Also, I think just getting | into a car and going off scmewhere | to be married and coming back and | telling everyone is fun. It's adven- | turous.” “Jennifer Brett! It's twenty of nine! You'll have to catch a cab. Here's your purse. Darling, I'm go-

won't be home much before five. | What time are you coming?” “I never make plans for Saturday afternoon,” Jennifer called back | over her shoulder. “but don't worry | about me.” »

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type, but youre so restless!” |

Ann Cockerell squinted her eves, rubbed her hands on her smock and picked up her charcoal pencil. “Nevertheless, youre a lamb, Daphne, to help me out on your one afternoon off. Just hold it a minute until I fix up the shoulder line and I'll let you off.” Daphne sat motionless on the dais in silence that was unbroken for another 10 minutes. “There, now, I think that will do. Come and tell me what you think of it. Daphne relaxed and stretched her eramped muscles. Then she stepped off the dais and walked over to the drawing board. “It's grand,” she said. time is it? I ought to go.’ “Your date isn't until 7 and it isn’t § yet, so sit down and stop looking like Cornell in one of her tragic moments. Anyone would think you were about to make a mess of your life. Stop dramatizing yourself!” “Please, Anne! Am I really doing that?” Daphne asked surprised.

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oo F course you are.” Ann pasted a tissue cover over her drawing. “It's not like you to do that and I think you ought to snap out of it. Gel a new focus on the situation. I admit that you are right but that doesn't make it hopeless or give you any right to feel like a queen of tragedy.” “Maybe youre right. Neverthe-

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touched, he had departed, an apparent scene of suicide. Now on his way home, he reviewed his actions of the evening, nervously chewing the wad of gum. No, he hadn't slipped up anywhere. They couldn't pin a thing on him. The doctored office books would furnish

leaving

for Sam Willowby’s self-destruction. He hadn't been seen—the isolation of Sam's cottage had favored him there—and he was certain that the sound of the shot hadn't gone far beyond the closed doors.

”

! VENTS came to pass Gordon had planned. {body was found, the defalcations became apparent upon a study of the books, and company officials expressed shock that such an old and trusted employee as Sam Willowby had succumbed to the temptation to steal. Gordon was one of those who loudly lamented the occurrence. The ‘‘suicide” slowly faded out as a topic of office conversation. Gordon’s fears, too, faded out and, in their stead, came a feeling of smug satisfaction—pride in having committed so perfect a crime. The company raised his salary and gave him | added responsibility, because he had | ranked next to old Sam in the book- | keeping department. Gordon secretly gloated. Then one day, while hard at work on a column of figures, he was startled by a tap on the shoulder. He turned on his stool to face two men whose calling was unmistakable. “Come along, Gordon,” said one of them. “You're under arrest for the murder of Sam Willowby.”

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| ORDON tried to feign shocked surprise. “Murder!” he exclaimed. “Why, everybody knows he committed suicide.” “Yeah, that’s the way it looked — at first,” the detective said. “But you can't fool a fingerprint expert.” “Why—" Gordon faltered, “they said there hadn't been a print found anywhere in Sam’s home except his

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| Sonoma. They set up an independ- | | ent republic under the leadership

of William B. Ide. Their flag was | a piece of white cotton cloth on | the hottom of which was a strip of | red flannel, and in the upper Jon | {hand corner was a red star and a Beneath the emblem were | “California Republic.” |

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this flag were about to attack the | | Mexican forces under Castro when | |a courier arrived with news of the! | war between the United States and | Mexico. Fremont raised the Amer- | { ican standard and merged his forces | with the American Army operations | in the conquest of California.

i Q—What are Junkers? | A—The name, pronounced “yoong - ker,” is applied particularlv to a young German noble, especially to | a member of the conservative Prus- | sian aristocracy of any age; gen- | erally it means conservatism, | haughtiness, and social exclusive- | ness. In the 19th Century it was | frequently a term of reproach for | reactionary Prussians, comprised | chiefly of the landed nobility. Q-—~Where is Cloud Peak? A—In the Big Horn Mountains in | Wyoming, near the southeast bor- | der of Big Horn County, about 25 miles southwest of the town of Sheridan, and 15 miles west of the | | town of Buffalo. Q—What is the derivation of the word coffee? A—From the Arabic word qahwah. | The word passed into Turkish, then | to Italian, undergoing slight changes each time. Q--What was the origin of the expression, “Hobson's choice”? A—It is believed to have been derived from the poet John Milton's reference to Tobias Hobson, a Brit ish livery stable man; one had no choice of horses with Hobson, but | took the horse due to go next. Q—What is the plural of the word brick? | A—Bricks, although the singular | form brick is sometimes used collec- | tively as a substance or material; as “a load of brick.” i

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