Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1937 — Page 15

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CAST OF CHARACTERS KAY DEARBORN-—heroine who inherits a yacht for vacation. MELITA HOWARD—Kay's room-mate and coadventurer. PRISCILLA DUNN-—the third adventurer. FORREST BROTHERS and GRANT HARPER—young scientists whose expedition turned out te be a rare experience.

Yesterday: Enthusiastic after looking ing over Kay's new boat, the three girls decide to talk over plans for a cruise vacation with the little yacht.

CHAPTER THREE

INING long past their usual hour, the three found themselves with healthy appetites. But the food didn’t interfere with their discussion of the exciting topic of a vacation cruise. “Think of it!” Priscilla Dunn invited. “A private cruise in our own boat!” “What do you mean?” laughed Kay. “*‘Our own boat!” Did I say I

was giving you each a third interest |

in the good ship Chinook?”

“You'll have to,” Melita pointed | “Priscilla and I will share the |

out. work and contribute to the out-

fitting that Mr. Pike mentioned.” Kay smiled at their enthusiasm. “Do you really think we ought to make the trip?” =

“Yy HAVEN'T heard you put forth any good reason why we shouldn't. And Mr. Pike dealt very effectively with the ones you did offer.” “Well, it all seems very easy to Mr. Pike,” Kay told Melita. “But suppose we had trouble? Suppose we didn’t read the chart right, or the compass didn’t work, and we struck a—a reef or something?” “Or ran into a battleship in a fog,” suggested Priscilla helpfully. “I saw a movie once where three girls were out in a sailboat and

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a battleship hit them. It was thrill- |

ing.” Of course the sailors ail jumped overboard and saved them. Then the girls fell in love with three officers.” “I'm serious,” said Kay. “And there aren’t any sailors on a reef, or whatever it is we might hit.”

SAW life preservers on the boat,” retorted Melita. “And in a window the other day I saw some life jackets made just like sport coats. We might wear those and then if anything happened, there we'd be, floating around as nicely as you please.” Kay looked at them humorously. “I really believe you two would do it» “We certainly Priscilla both Melita. “All right,” said Kay Dearborn suddenly. “Then I'm for it, too!” They telephoned Jim Pike from the restaurant; and Kay, who delivered the message, found him delighted.

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> ww Ww “ GOOD! I'll have a man working on her in the morning. I know a fellow who'll do a good job and isn't too expensive. He can clean up the bilge and check the engine for you, too. I'll order the paint, and I suggest you girls get set to spend some evenings and a couple of week-ends working as you've never worked before.” Aye, aye, sir, said Kay. Replacing the receiver, she turned to the waiting Melita and Priscilla. “That man is exhausting—but I like him. Well , .. it looks like we're going to see the sea!” But in the days that followed, they discovered what many an amateur mariner had discovered before them—that getting even a small power cruiser ready for summer cruising is not child's play.

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YET they enjoyed every minute of it. All day long on their respective jobs they looked forward to 5 o'clock. At the stroke of this hour each rushed to the street car which would take them to the West Shore Boat Moorage. Meet-

ing there, they changed into the |

slacks, sweater, and sneakers which Jim Pike assured them were practical. Then, grateful for summer's lagging twilight, they would set to work. Sometimes they worked after dark, until hunger drove them into more presentable clothes and a food shop. “I've got painter's colic, maid's knees, and blisters on both thumbs,” complained Priscilla. I had to do that much work in the apartment I'd simply die.” “I've noticed that,” mentioned Melita pointedly. “But I confess to the same complaints. can't figure out is, why do we like it?”

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KAY shook her head. “Darned if I know. Jim Pike says it gets you. He says when you do spring housecleaning ashore you haven't anything to look forward to except getting everything dirty again. But with a boat you can look forward to

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moorage again he had them watch O THAT evening found them closely: at the controls. grouped around Jim Pike's big “Why, it's easy!” exclaimed Kay. (ple a glowing ship's lamp over"8 = { head, watching him work with pen- ~ ELL . . . now that I got you cil, dividers, and parallel rule, talkinto this,” said Pike, “I want ing happily all the while. to warn you it ain’t just as easy as | “This ain't all,” he said. “I got to

it looks. Another way a boat is like | \ a woman is that just about the time | teach you a few seamanlike knots

you think you got her figured out, | before I send you out.” she ain't. Never pays to be cocksure | Not a little baffled by all that Jim Keep your head of | Pike had tried to cram into their

with a boat. your shoulders all the time.” > the | heads, Kay ventured, “I wish you | could go with us, Mr. Pike.”

Suitably subdued, Kay and cthers listened and watched. “Now if youll come over to my| «I wish I could, too. But this is place tonight after dinner I'll 1ay I my busy season here and I got to out your cruise for you on the charts. | stanq to business. Besides,” he I figure I'd better do that this time | grinned at them, “if 1 went on a —but next summer you'll have to de | cryjse with three fine-looking girls it yourself. Howsomever, I want you |jjke you there'd be a lot of talk. (to observe how I do it. I got aly got an aunt in Tacoma and if cruise figured out for you, one that {che ever heard about it she'd be Mr. Crandall and I took once. It's |yjlq!” about a two weeks’ jaunt there and |

back, with a day or two to spare.” (To Be Continued)

Daily Short Story

JADE RING—By Calvin Stuart White

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| | | “Is that all?’ she asked.”

QYOMEWHERE along the Shanghai down and began slowly unwrapping

street an orchestra was putting | them. . “Here's silver cigaret box. A bit of embroid-

forth a thrill paean to the Dragon | a boat festival. On this day all debts | Beauty, isn't it? [were paid, all scores evened. Legend |dery for you, my dear . . . and a 'said that the celestial dragon of [cloisonne vase.” [Cathay was drifting swiftly in his| One after another he unwrapped | yellow boat down the Yangtse to a dozen gifts. Mrs. Huntley frowned. | the China Sea. By nightfall he | Where was the ring? Richard took | would cross the bar and the souls |his mess jacket from the closet and lof all who had failed to square ac- [began to change. |counts would be drawn with him | Is that all>” she asked. lacross the endless waves. | "Is that all?” he laughed. But the music came only faintly [isn’t it enough, sweetheart?”

|to Mrs. Richard Huntley, where she | Yes, ves, of course. I only meant .” Had the delivery boy

| walked slowly along the paths of | - stolen her arden, - artaried from the |it? Could Richard have suspected? street by its high wall. In her hand | Was he playiig some devilish joke? |she held a ring of deep, lustrous| As they drove to the Country Club she sat in turbid ‘silence, creating

| green, with tiny lotus flowers carved | eat ‘on its face. Priceless jade, probably countless explanations and rejecting

lof the Tang dynasty or older. But | €ach of them. {how foolish of Kent Marden to send | 2 |it! How did he think she would T dinner she was seated next to explain the gift to her husband? | Kent. She tried to catch his

For a month now it had been con- | . : : eve, to convey mutely her troubl |cealed in a drawer of her dressing 2 : ubled

| table, but a ring that must be hid- | Er re a (den is little good. Mrs Huntley | tohtiveness to the hostess | slipped the band on her finger and 3 | tried to think what another woman | might do. Kent's wife, Aileen Mar- | den, for example . . . but then it would be simple for her, because {she had an income of her own and |was in the habit of casually pick- | | Ing up whatever jewels or ours | took her fancy. A wisp of a smile | _. : 4 . | blushe d Mrs. Huntley's cool, finely | aware of Aileen Marden's conversa-

| led § tion. | modele face. | “Lovely, don’t you think?” she | ? a

| was saying. “I bought it from one | HY comic to imagine sweet and |

of my favorite merchants. . . .” simple Aileen Marden receiving | Mrs. Huntley heard a murmur of | gifts from a lover! Always chatter-

| approval about the tablz. They were ling, easily pleased and as easily

ness and was looking at Aileen. So, that she suspected Mrs. Huntley of | she realized suddenly,

| 1 was Kent. | taking her husband. It was a silly, | And his face was

! curious. Lips | mismatched sort of a world. (drawn thin, eyes wide and hard. As Mrs. Huntley turned to walk to

| Then Kent's wife held her hand the house a brief whisper of wind | “b above the bowl of flowers on the brought the street music louder. She |

| table. " ror Ii ito” { stopped. This was a festival day. Do you like it?” she asked Mrs. | Richard, because he was thz man-

| Huntley, raising her voice because | ager of one of the large oil com- | HE ean PE. panies, would be getting many gifts! Ge Ie. lat his office from Chinese friends | THE END ‘ana customers. Entering the house Mrs. Huntley | went directly to the writing desk. (Copyright, 1937. United Feature Svndicate)

[She found a sheet of plain paper, ASK THE TIMES

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| table, partly screened by the floral | centerpiece. Aileen was prattling | away at her usual rate and Riclard, | of course, was talking business to whoever would listen. Mrs. Huntley toyed with her fruit cocktail, and as she did so became vaguely

| wrapped up the box containing the | ring and printed Richard's office | address on it in a hand she was | careful to disguise. Then she dropped the small package in her| [Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply handbag and left for tea at the !'when addressing any question of Astor House, an afternoon ren-|fact or information to The Indian- | dezvous that was faithfully kept by |'apolis Times Washington Service the leisured ladies of the foreign | Bureau, 1013 13th St. N. W.. Washcolony. ington, D. C. Legal and medical | When she entered the hotel she |advice, cannot be given, nor can ex- | gave the box to the clerk and said: | tended research be undertaken. | “Please have this delivered.” ile | as | moved quickly at the sight of the| Q—How can I address a letter to | dollar bill. | the National Labor Relations Board? A—Address it to: Chairman, National Labor Relations Board, 1010

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| Aileen | | and Richard were seated across the |

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“Well,” laughed Melita, “recalling | Huntley was very gay. Richard | the interior of Jim's houseboat 1g | Would not be surprised to receive a | say he believes what he says about Hing oh he Jrsger. boat festival and ny Boveaing Bat ur he 7%, PE Cn: ion about this trip as we are» |€ivers always made their most unThere came at last the glorious Lvortny entities known ter, very day when Jim Pike stood with legs |, nl apologies for e

\ humble offering. apart and surveyed the Chinook to | ol say, “She's ready, all right. NOW |p aris afternoon Richard would

Fs : td SCE i he ring home to her and tolet's take a little trial spin, what do |: o5 ! SS : You sey?” p [ night she would wear it to the Car-

They could have cheered. As has- isles’ Sinner party at ‘the ‘Country tily as their stiffened joints would [io Wear it. With no fear of suspermit the trio clambered aboard [PC ory Sorore Richard, Aileen and all the crowd. As she chatted with

and ranged around Jim at the wheel. | 5. other ladies, Mrs. Huntley

® Ww Ww tsilently applauded her own clever- i ; ; a E grinned at them. “Now look | Ness—cleverness which had come | rang TI Tro pr De here. We're tied to the wharf, | In% play more than once during the | for ‘at least two ‘months, ever, if If one of you will go forward and |1aSt tWo years to keep her ‘affair | jt was successful, ; otic ‘aft ‘to ‘See ‘to ‘the ‘moorin’ lines | © ith Kent Marden a secret. Q—How many cylinders did Orville —and the other fend us off a little | At NOME later she waited eagerly | wright's ‘engine have on the mir.

| for Richard. When he came u si re net : p the in “wk on the starboard side till we et | driveway through the dusk in his | ane, In which he made his first

out of the basin—then TI ‘start | co oo "0 holdi the motor and do the piloting.” TieSslia De was 0/ding INaNy ‘par- | “3. per. Not without some confusion, Kay, [C5 2 she knew he would be. For | op, jackstones have any ind oo | the first day in many it failed 10 | rial use? ye. Bis Sa E

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option to buy him from the St. { = i Louis Cardinals, but on April 15 that year the option had expired and it was stated that Mize was being turned back to the Cardinals. The announcement followed a medical report that he required an

operation for a leg injury that

orders. Soon the little boat was |... <2 on amma | Whistled off-key as he ‘walkad | « , HR NA he saiq [Peavy up the steps ‘and that Me oo A Er Dufit On sand he Ce Rg Ss Said |kissed her on the same cheek in | ‘om castings. The jackstones are with satisfaction. For cruising in large tumbling barrels

: the same absent way. | placed speed I'd whip her up some more.| .p Io > , | with the castings, and the barrel This motor will work best that way.” ragon boag festival today, my | :

: dear” he ‘Said. “Lots ‘Of resents, | revolved at slow speed, tumbles the Patiently and subtly he dropped |Great things, these hie holi- | castings and the jackstones onto information to the interested girls. days, eh?” leach other, removing the sand. Such He let each one in turn get ‘the| ipjq you bring something for | Jackstones are of two types: 5-point feel of the wheel, showed ‘them me?" she asked, smiling. ‘and 6-point stars, Large ones of how to line up the bow with a

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“You're a lucky man to get your wish, Mr. Snodgrass—the one in the middle is a boy!”

iron castings, while smaller stars! drops below this point, it loses all ship prior to the enactment of the measuring % inch from point to | economic value. | bill. point are used for cleaning lighter | Q—Can aliens be employed on | Q—Is it true that President and more intricate castings. | WPA projects? | Franklin D. Roosevelt is linked by ©—What is marginal utility? —Under the last relief act, ap-| birth or marriage to the families of A—The lowest utility which ean |

proved June 29, 1937, aliens can-| 11 former Presidents? Justify the production or sale of an | not be employed on WPA projects, A-—-Don Wharton in “The Roose- | disease,

article or element. If its utility | unless they had applied for citizen- | velt Omnibus,” says that he is. ‘Henry Ford.

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Right living is the real cure for| Dictators look upon people as so by preventing disease= | much fuel to feed the war furnace, =Senator Borah (R. Ida.).