Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1937 — Page 20

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CAST OF CHARACTERS JUDITH IRVING, heroine, America’s best dressed woman, PRILIP IRVING, Judith's estranged husband. MARTA ROGERS, BRUCE KNIGHT, classmate. MILLICENT BAYNE, Bruce's protege.

Judith’s rival author, Jydith’s old

Yesterday—Judith arrives back in New York, arouses Phil's ire because of her reported romance with Bruce. She agrees to meet Phil the next day.

But Marta is on hand, too.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

UDITH nodded and spoke to Marta who had so patently come to the couturier’s to guard against any privacy that she might posibly share with Phil at lunch time. She realized that Marta was not subtle, not diplomatic. She thrust herself on Phil at times when her dbsence would have pleaded "her case far more eloquently. The attendants were hurrying with new designs, new models, and Judith surrendered herself to their allurements. She ordered recklessly, lavishly. She had enough money in her own private account to care for the bills. After all, clothes must be her medium of earning her living now. She knew, though, that it was a desire to finish the fashion parade, if finish it she must, in a burst of glory that prompted the shopping expedition. Her innate honesty would not let her be deceived. = »

HEN the measuring and checking of materials had ended she decided to call Mark Price and tell him of her return. To her surprise, Mark Price's warm, welcoming voice made no mention of her status in the fashion world. He made an appointment with her, welcomed her back, and told of the progress of his work. Hardly had she hung up, when an attendant rapped on the door. In response to Judith’s “Come in,” she opened it to admit a tall figure in gray tweeds. “Phil!” Judith said. It was idiotic for her heart to bounce like a rubber ball. She tried to quiet it by saying, inanely: “You're looking well.” He wasn't looking well. His face was thinner, tired, and his eyes were baffled. “You're—gorgeous!” he said. He did not look at the dress, though. “Oh, Judy, it's good to have you back.” For a moment he had forgotten that their meetings, now, were only transient affairs, Judith realized. “Ready?” He smiled down at her. “Where shall be lunch?”

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UDITH named a favorite luncheon place, ore where they had gone many times in the past. She wondered how Phil had evaded Marta. Perhaps he had begun to realize the futility of any lasting happiness with Marta. His next words banished the entire idea. “Mind if Marta goes, too? I asked her last night. She's outside.” “Marta? No, not at all.” So Phil, rather than escaping, was so deeply enmeshed in his devotion or love or infatuation that he would commit an act, clearly of bad taste, to please Marta! Judith decided to have soup and coffee and escape quickly. She kept the conversation moving swiftly in a light vein. She realized that Marta had been defeated in some purpose which she sought. ‘ The next days were crowded and then came the night of the style show. Mark Price had not mentioned her identity to Judith, though she was sure that he must know who she was. Judith had been present at a private dress rehearsal, asking that she be permitted to miss the general one. No one but Mark Price and his fitters knew that she was appearing.

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ER first ensemble was a blue -& dinner gown, svelte and closefitting, made of hundred of plaits that were sharp and definite. Now, at the verge of the stage, her courage left her. How could she have accepted such a role? What imp had possessed her to do this? The music repeated its cue. She must go on! She knew that the silence, at first, was a tribute to the creation. It lasted a little too long. Amazement threaded it. Somebody gasped. A sound like a breeze in a field stirred the audience. Then there was applause, wild and tumultous and approving. “Damn, she’s got nerve!” Judith heard a man’s voice say. “Mighty good publicity. Why didn’t I think of it?” she heard a woman's voice, and her eyes flickered, ever so briefly, in the direction of the sound. The words came from a woman who had been a clothes rival last year. She wondered if Marta had come. And Phil. She mustn't think. Walk to music, she commanded herself. This is your job. Down the ramp, down, down, turn, open the jacket, slip it off, slowly—

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HE show was over at last. Photographers were everywhere. She was asked to pose in this and that. She was asked if she had done the job for charity. There was a supposition that she had. Mark Price’s eyes were incredulous. “How in this world did I keep from recognizing you?” he asked. “You didn’t know?” she gasped. “No. Once or twice, lately, I've thought you knew clothes.” “My picture—the papers . ..” “I haven't read a thing since I returned—only glanced at the headlines. I feel very honored and I thank you. Will you forgive me for being so presumptuous as to think you might work with me in the salon I'm opening? To voice it now looks as though I want to capitalize on your reputation. I'm sorry.” “Don’t be,” Judith answered steadily. “Let's talk about it later. I'm going away day after tomorrow for a while. My other trip was interrupted by the airplane catastrophe. This time I must see it through, When I come back—" She paused. “ll be waiting,” he answered. n #0

ATE the next afternoon, she returned from a fitting and tea

warm she was wearing a simple twopiece frock of blue linen with a natural lined bolero, wide hat, and sandals and gloves of the same material, “There are callers,” her maid, who had now returned to her, told her. “Yes?” she asked. “Who are they?” The maid shook her head slightly. Because she had been with Judith so long, she ventured: “Mrs. Rogers —that Mrs. Rogers—and Mr. Irving.” Judith walked into the hotel sitting room, greeted Marta and Philip. Marta’s dress was black linen and her jacket, beret, slippers, gloves ‘and bag were as pure white as country snow. She looked young, sweet, eager and a little frightened. Only a woman could find the hardness in her eyes. A storm was coming. Jagged flashes of lightning ran down the sky, across the park, disappeared tar over the distant river. Judith remembered that it had stormed in such a manner the day that she had been frightened, first, about Marta. It thundered and Marta shrank

closer to Phil. ”

5 ILL you lower the shades and draw the curtains?” Judith asked him. “It shuts away the storm. And may 1 order something for you? Phil?” All

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through her duties as a hostess she was thinking that once upon a time she, too, had been afraid of lightning. She and Phil had been in a fishing boat, off the coast of Normandie, when the sea had danced riotiously in the wind. His strong arms had held her close as the waves and the sky and the bright curdling lights came together. No good, reminiscing, she reminded herself. Phil's words broke the spell, anyway. “Judith, we came to ask you if you would accommodate your plans to ours a little,” he said. “I'm going to China this autumn and I'd

a world cruise with the business end of the venture.”

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INGAPORE, Bagdad, Hongkong, Rome—once she and Phil had planned to travel the world's far rim together! “I'm leaving tomorrow night.” Judith answered. “It will be a matter of only a few weeks, Phil until you are quite free.” They rose to go but the storm was too fierce. They sat down again. There was a silence. Into that silence came a man’s heavy, drawling voice, as ne refused to let the maid announce him and approached the sitting room. Judith looked up. The man who had been Marta’'s husband looked {down on them.

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HOSPITAL CASE—By Ted Leitzell

RETCHEN STONE reported at 11 p. m. for her last tour of night duty. Five days of vacation ahead! One more night with her babies in the children’s ward, then five days to sleep and loaf before she once more went on regular day duty. Gretchen loved these children, poor pathetic youngsters who held out their arms when she entered their room or came up to the long row of beds in “state patient” wards. All of them called her “Mama.” All of them adored her.

Night work had been fun because she could see that they were all properly tucked in, and sometimes she would stop to tell a story to a restless little fellow who couldn't sleep. But she liked day work the best, for then she could do more for her babies and know them better—bathe. change clothes, talk, tell stories, play games and feed them.

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HIS night she had a special thrill. Dick Bantry had just proposed to her. Dick Bantry, the handsome house physician. Dick, who had interned under Dr. Stein, become house physician and had already published several papers in professional journals. Dick, whom rumor associated with Dr. John Kilpatrick. And she was going to give him her answer tomorrow,

Gretchen had loved her long friendship with Dick and she knew he had a brilliant future as a surgeon. But she remembered one day she had been drafted for work in surgery and the memory made her shudder. Dick was operating, and the patient was little Jimmy, the orphaned waif who suffered such agony from a bone disease in his leg. Dick beligved if he once got the bone clean, Jimmy would some day be able to walk. » » » UT Jimmy's heart was bad. They did not dare to give a general anaesthetic, so he had only a spinal injection before the awful agony of | the operation. When Dick began to work Jimmy began to squirm. Gretchen patted him comfortably, but Dick, to Gretchen's great surprise, spoke to him with almost brutal roughness. “Shut up, you little cry baby.” Jimmy did shut up. He got so mad that he clenched his teeth and did not make a move. Dick worked like lightning, and the operation turned out to be a success. Then some mysterious benefactor had Jimmy transferred to a private room and surrounded him with books and toys, and made him very happy. Gretchen used to hope he would be awake when she came on nights so the could talk to him a few minutes. She felt eternal gratitude to Dick for his wonderful surgery, still more gratitude to the secret person who was helping Jimmy. But she shuddered at the ferocity with which Dick had addressed the young patient in the operating room. & » #8 ICK wasn’t really that kind of person at all. To her, and to others he had always been sweet and gentle. That was why Gretchen loved him and wanted so badly to say “Yes.” But if Dick was so rough when a boy needed sympathy so very very much, how would he be to their own youngsters? Gretchen pondered her problem. while she went through the daily orders with the nurse she was relieving. Her indecision angered her, but she could not decide. As she walked down the hall on her first inspection trip, she noticed a light in Jimmy's room. She started to enter. There was a screen in front of the door, but she could see Jimmy in animated conversation with someone on the other side of the bed. Then she heard Dick's voice. *“... And Jimmy, I'm leaving the hospital this week for a summer camp where I'm going to take care of a bunch of boys all summer.”

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- EE, Dr. Dick, that's swell You've given me enough books and things so I won't be lonesome all summer. Will you send me a postcard once in a while?” Gretchen saw his hand come over and rough up Jimmy’s hair. “When I get back, Jimmy, I'm going into Dr. Kilpatrick's office. Today I was talking to Judge Owens. He told me that if you wanted to you could be my little boy. We'll go to camp together and then next fall we'll live in the same apartment. What do you say, want me to be your old man?” ’ “Oh, gosh, Dick! swellest fellow I know.” “All right, Jimmy. Start planning now for this summer because

You're the

with Anne. Because the day was

you're going to learn how to swim,

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and by next fall you'll be able to start in and play football with the other kids.” Gretchen couldn't understand it. Was this the same Dick who had been so rough? Was it just his conscience bothering him? ‘Then Dick continued:

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“ JIMMY, there is one thing I have to tell you. Remember how mad you got at the doctor who

to know who he was but no one would tell you, Well, Jimmy, that was me. I did it to make you mad so 1 could work faster and not hurt you so much. Do you still want to be my little boy?” Jimmy half sobbed and then grinned. “So that's why you did it, huh?” He was silent a moment and then said, “Say, Dick, can I still come back here some times to see Nurse Gretchen? She's awful nice to me.” “I'll let you know more about that later.” A few minutes later Gretchen walked right past the night superintendent, matronly Miss Keeley, without even seeing her. Miss Keeley frowned and then a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. “I guess I'd better start wondering who to transfer here next fall.”

THE END (Copyright, 1937, United Feature Syndicate) The characters in this story are fietitious

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