Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1938 — Page 18

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Richest Girl in the (World)

CAST OF CHARACTERS CONSTANCE CORBY—Heroine; est girl in the world. BRET HARDESTY — Hero; builder. RODNEY BRANDON—Connie's fiance. KATIE BLYN—Connie ‘“‘double.”

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she had stayed so long that, undoubtedly, he had become worried. He knew that the papers, the reporters, the whole world, would not rest until the real Constance Corby was found. If it was Rodney’s doings, she

Yesterday: Bret accepts Connie's ex- |cOuld not blame him too much. He planation about the jewels—they were her [1d his pride. She could only blame mother’s. And that night Connie has her | herself for believing she could go on precious hour before she is to tell Bret [and on, living this new life she had

imade for herself, keeping her lovely romance secret and apart. She would have to tell Bret now— tonight. She realized that postiponement had only made this the more difficult. { Would Bret forgive her? 'he understand?

(To Be Continued)

(All events, names and characters in is story are wholly fictitious.)

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self. But each day wore on into the | next, with her courage somehow failing her, her decision wavering. Bret’s bridge rose and expanded | and spread; so that soon it would | be a creation completed in steel and | stone, as well as in a man's mind. | So different was this life to Con-| nie, so complete her happiness and | contentment, that afterwards she] was to wonder if it really had been, if perhaps, she had not really been someone else, during those fleeting |

months, that were over and done, all| URING the 30-minute too soon. ‘

The first faint breath of spring |” Fide np the ‘city ‘Anne descended into the low valley, warm- time to think over what she was ing the little sleepy village into a doing. Her conclusions weren't very new activity, awakening the somber flattering to herself. “You're just a dark hills, brushing the tips of the (little sneak!” she accused ' herself gray trees. Wild things ventured . ~ ° | out to sun themselves, to water at | bitterly. the springs, birds twittered and| The man next to her raised trilled and began to look about for amused eyes from his paper. His a place for their home-making. And amusement gave way to frank ad- |

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Bret. insisted Connie wear high-|miration as he took in her trim lit- | ENT AN’ UPSTAIRS AN’ H'YAR

topped boots for fear she might tie figure, the soft line of her cheek, come across a rattler or copper-head | and the startled large, dark eyes she |

during their walks. “I'll make a hill-billy of you, yet.” | he told her jokingly. He was very | gay these days, was Bret. Gay and | masterful and tender. “When are you going to make up vour mind to marry me, like a sen- | sible girl?” This was another thing | that Bret said, more than once. “I| can’t see why we shouldn't get mar- | ried right away. Except perhaps, | that it might be better—for me—to wait until the bridge is done. You | see,” he adopted his bantering tone, | “I don’t want to let you take my mind completely off my work.”

She told him, laughingly, that she wouldn't give him his answer until that time. “When your bridge is finished,” she said, “then I'll be| sensible and make up my mind. | We'll decide about being married.” | That made postponement easier, | more acceptable. When Bret's bridge was done Connie must tell him who she was, as well as when she would marry him. She was not to be allowed that postponement, however. Perhaps | Fate, if there is such a lady, had de- | cided that she had been kind long enough. That following Saturday Eloise and Connie, in Bret's car, went shopping together. They had driven over | to a nearby town, a larger one | where the stores could more et] factorily meet their demands. Their |

purchases had been completed. they |

“Take your time,” Connie laughed. |

| tically engaged when Bob met Anne,

| Bob had said they were going to— |

| whole weeks. I'm getting tired of | sitting home alone every evening.

|turned on him as she realized she |

Then that made her angry again,

had spoken aloud. |

and she decided she had a perfect right to do what she was doing. After all, she was going to marry Bob Brower—that is, maybe she was!—and if he was not trustworthy time to find it out was now, not when it was too late. Her future Lappiness was involved. It was all that horrid Dave Agnew’s fault. Dave was no good, and everybody, except Bob, apparently knew it. He was a confirmed bachelor who chased every woman that crossed his path and spent all he earned on liquor. But because he worked for Bob in his architect's office and Bob had gone with his sister, Helen, Bob was tolerant. “Dave?” he'd say. “Oh, Dave's all right. A little wild sometimes—but harmless. And he's a darn good draftsman!” But Anne was sure Dave resented her. Bob and Helen had been prac-

and she knew Helen had made a | scene over Bob's quitting her. It would be just like Dave to try to come between her and Bob, and on that premise hung her mission tonight. For Anne suspected that Bob and | Dave were not working tonight =as |

as, so he claimed, they had bean doing every night for the last two weeks. They'd almost quarreled about it earlier tonight. “But, Bob,” she protested, “I've seen only snatches of you for two

Besides, we haven't been anywhere | together in so long people will start wondering. I think you could spare one night away from that old office.”

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UST a little while longer, darling,” he pleaded. “This is a | rush contract, and it means a lot to us to get it out on time——" | She didn’t hear the rest. He'd had ! rush jobs before, and they hadn't |

required working every night to get | them out. “All right,” she'd said! coldly. . “Don’t let me interfere with | your work.” But what had aroused her suspicion was something else. Bob had

| was widely published, but it turns

Eloise had appeared as distressed as | Stopped by late last night and he'd though she had committed a size- | been drinking. “Oh, Dave and I able offense. Connie and Eloise were | dropped in at Harry's for a glass of close friends now. They had had | beer after we finished,” had been many happy hours together, chat- his explanation. “We ran into some ting as only two young girls can of | of the fellows. You know, I've kind everything under the sun and above | Of slipped away from the old gang it; they had, indeed, become like | Since I've had my own office—" “sisters.” | Well, if it hadn't been for Dave Ra | he 4 in rumbled the 46th . BIR 1e train rumbled into the 46t HEY chatted now, driving home | ¢tre0t station and Anne alighted. again, of the latest fashions, as| several blocks down wide, busy predicted in the store windows, how | Broad Avenue, the Prairie Building ridiculous the spring millinery was | Wy jis JHyuisien spire Sit Je ; a3 : i. | Night. Bob’s office was on e 15t going ‘to be yi ns Viwer-lie floor, on the corner overlooking | crowns, profusion of feminine flow- Broad and the intersecting street. ers and feathers and bows—yet how | Standing across from the tower-

altogether delightful—as to wheth-| ing structure, Anne gazed up its

Two pictures to be exact. A por- | trait study of herself that she had | had made for Rodney just before | the announcement of their engage- | ment, and another. looking somehow | like that same girl, yet somehow different—the girl in Connie's polo | coat, the girl who was the real Kate | Blyn. | “ARE THESE TWO GIRLS THE | SAME?” the headline queried. “It | is rumored that Constance Corby, | richest girl in the world, may be in| hiding. Tt is possible,” the story | continued, “that some other girl has been taking her place on board her | million dollar yacht? Rodney Brandon, when interviewed, asserted this | girl, supposedly Miss“Corby, is not | his fiancee.” “What's the matter?” = Eloise | asked. “The matter?” Connie looked up from the paper. She tried to make ner voice sound natural. But it shook a little. “N-nothing . . . nothng,” she said. »

VERYTHING, meant. She knew that this was the end df this girl who stood here, shaken. roubled, carefully refolding the paper again; the end of this Katie Blyn. She knew she would have “to go back, become Constance Corby mce more, She wondered if Rodney was to Blame for this—or had the newsrs made the discovery? Rodney might have given out the story Bocuse she had run away; because

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smooth side. Not a few of the windows were lighted. Her about where she knew his office was. There wer2 two lighted windows on one floor, then darkened panes

lighted ones on the floor over that. Her throat tight with dread, she | counted up. At the 14th story she stopped— : at the two lighted windows. The floor above, the 15th, was dark all the way across; then there were bright windows above it, on the 16th. But the 15th was dark. Dully, knowing it was no use, he counted again, to make certain. But there was no mistake. Annee turned away numbly, Well, there it was. That was what she'd come to find out. Bob had lied to her. It didn’t make any difference why or what he was doina. If he was out at Dave's, with Helen, that was all right, because that was the end for them. As she walked up the steps to the train platform she heard a surprised “Anne!” behind her. She turned to behold Bob's tall, lithe figure.

HE let him kiss her. Before she could say anything he went on excitedly, “Darling, the job is finished. Doyle, the builder, was up, and he liked the plans so well he gave us orders for six more jobs. Six, Anne! Do you know what that means! It means we can be married right away. But what were you doing in town?” She lied, “I—I thought I'd come in to a show. I—meant to stop by and see when you'd be finished, and let you bring me home afterward—" “Well, why didn’t you stop by?” He could ask that! “I saw your office was closed,” she said flatly, He frowned. “But it wasn't. We've been there since 7, Dave and I—" "Working in the dark?” Her voice

“Her Eyes Fastened Halfway Up.”

was dry. “The 15th floor didn’t have a light, Bob.” “But you're mistaken, Anne—" She shook her head. “I counted the floors. I couldn’t be.” Oh, why did he keep up his pretense! “You counted 15 stories?” asked, after a moment. She nodded silently, “You little country goose!” He chuckled affectionately. “Don’t you know there isn’t any 13th floor in these big buildings? It's bad luck or something. You were looking at the 16th!” Much later, on the train, Anne said, in a small voice, “I only hope id make jou the very best wife, ob.

THE END

(All events, mames and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.)

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| duced about 6,500.000,000 cigars and | about 18,000,000,000 cigarets. In 1935 | the figure was reduced to around | 5,000,000,000 cigars and raised to | 135,000,000,000 cigarets. The one new factor of importance outside | of the relatively slight increase in | population was tobacco smoking on | a large scale by women. The exact effects of tobacco on health are not very well understood. | Probably the agitators against tobacco have greatly overemphasized the harmfulness of smoking and those who favor its use have underemphasized its dangers. As nearly as we can put the matter in ore sentence, there is no good evidence that tobacco smoking in | moderation will shorten the average | man’s life; although burning tobacco | gives rise to a considerable number | of substances which in large doses may damage the tissues of the human body, such as nicotine. pyridine, furfural and carbon monoxide.

” ” oo. OME people have irritation of the nose, throat and lungs from tobacco. Others seem to avoid irritation. There is some evidence that the use of tobaceo may produce a | slowing of the circulation in the capillary blood vessels, and smoking has been related particularly

thrombo-angitis obliterans or Buerger's disease, and to other diseases Which are the result of interference with circulation. Cancer of the mouth is more frequent among men than among women. It has been believed that its greater prevalence among men associated with the larger amount of smoking done by men. In recent ‘vears women have smoked in increasing numbers and there is some reason to believe that cancer of the mouth is appearing with greater frequency among women.

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to the smoking of tobacco which need clarification. It has been said that the paper coverings on cigarets contained various habit forming or narcotic drugs or that they contained special substances which interfere with the appetite. As far as we know, there is no evidence that paper on cigarets now generally on the market contains any habit forming or narcotic drugs. There is a general impression that smoking by mothers of young infants or by prospective mothers does harm to the child. Apparently thert has been no scientific study

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OWEVER, knowing that harme ful drugs may be transmitted in the mother’s milk or through her blood to the body of the ine fant, all specialists in these sube jects recommend great moderation, if not complete abstinence, for prospective or nursing mothers, All sorts of preparations have been developed with the idea that they would cause people to stop smoking. Apparently the discone tinuing of smoking, as of any othee habit, depends largely on the will of the person.