Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1938 — Page 25

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FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1038

: SERIAL STORY

~ By Marion White

(Copyright, 1938. NEA Service. Ine.)

CAST OF CHARACTERS JOYCE MILNER, heroine; she took an - Edstér - Cruise. ! Ee “DICK “HAMILTON; hero; he WSumpéd into the heroine. . : ISOBEL PORTER, f{raveler; she sought a mate. ; x

* Yesterday: Matters turn for the worse when Mrs. O'Hara accuses Joyce of - friendliness with her husband during a ship. ddncing party. 3

' CHAPTER NINE

\HE Empress was due to land at - Nassau in the Bahamas early Thursday. Monday and Tuesday the weather had been mild and clear. But late Wednesday the ship rode through a series of sudden, tropical squalls, sending the passengers scuttling off decks. At 3:30 Joyce and Dick and sevéral other young people were swimming about in the outside pool, marveling at the warmth of the water. Then, quite suddenly, the water began to chill, and 10 minutes later the sun was hidden behind a wide, deepening range of dark clouds which had appeared from nowhere. ; “I guess that’s the end of our swimming,” Dick remarked, pulling Joyce up the ladder. “The thermometer must have dropped 20 degrees in the last few minutes.” Next morning the weather was worse, if anything, with heavy east-

erly winds churning up the waves. |

At the breakfast table Dr. Gray held out little hope that they would touch at Nassau that day. -. But the morning brought its bright spot of good fortune to

Mrs. Porter, with an extra day to fill in with entertainment, hastened to arrange a bingo party. : “Let's try our luck,” Dick. Suggested. “It’s always fun to fry,” Joyce agreed, “théugh I've lost a great deal of faith in my own luck.” “Mine’s holding up pretty well. Otherwise I would never have found you on the Empress.” An hour later, he had spent $4

eight unsuccessful cards. “Remember, I warned you,” Joyce reminded. Cha “One more card each,” he insisted stubbornly. “Then I'll be ready to admit defeat.” . And it was on this very last card that Joyce was the winner, with $22 ready to tuck into her lovely but

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S the day wore on and the rain continued, an undercurrent of irritation developed among the passengers. Most of the men had drifted to the smoking room, and there the steward kept them econtented with new and improved games of chance. : Noticing the apparent cheer in that quarter, Mrs. Porter hurried to the main lounge. If the games work for the men, she was thinking, perhaps we'd better get up something like that for the women, Perhaps the horse racing, she decided. Women always enjoyed that. So long stfips of canvas were laid down on top of the carpet, and the whole length of the lounge became a track where wooden horses were raced along the marked canvas in places determined by the fal of the dice. Spectators crowded the room on either side of the canvas strips, and at times when the Empress hit an especially strong wave, they threatened to topple over on top of the horses. But it was amusement and there was always

“You might as well take. another chance,” Dick advised® Joyce as they watched the game through the window. “This is your lucky day.” f «And risk my $22?” Joyce demanded. “Besides,” she pointed out, seeing how people, were crowded back to the wall, “there’s not. room for a mouse to squeeze in there.” . “we'll find a spot,” said Dick. They went into the lounge, and because Mr. Hamilton was a good patron of every ship’s game, the steward managed to discover a few inches of flgor space, close to the .canvas, where they, too, might sit cross-legged and play their ponies. “I'll take No. 6,” Dick decided, as the next race was called. “What . about you, Joyce?” = “I don’t expect two good fortunes in one day,” she decided, “so I'll take No. 6, too, and let: you keep the winnings.” . - or . Soon all six horses were half-way down: the track, directly in front of where they sat, and Horse No. 6 was closest to them, and lagging behind the others. :

Underneath her weight, Joyce felt pins and needles in her left foot, and she shifted to the right. “I'd be more comfortable,” Dick remarked, “if I'd been raised in 4 harem.”

He started to shift, too. And the Empress shifted with him, and because they shifted Joyce's way, her sleeping left foot skidded out from under her. “Another such shift,” she cautioned, “and I'll be riding our horse at the finish.” They laughed and settled back. - Immediately a voice which Joyce was beginning to associate with disaster called out. Eons “Wait a minute, steward,” Mrs. O'Hara ordered. sharply... “Those people in front are cheating. Their horse is No. 6, and I saw that girl deliberately kick it forward.” Joyce looked at the canvas. True, their horse haa slipped forward another pace. She must have kicked it, not noticing because her foot was numb. : Sorin “Sorry, steward,” .Dick called cheerily, moving the wooden horse back. “I meant to kick it over the goal line.” - ay a Mrs. O'Hara's caustic turbed him not at all. Her intimation ‘that he tried to cheat just did not register in his honest mind. But Joyce, feeling the.sharp eyes upon her, flushed uneasily. She could almost hear the curious whispers behind her back. “That's the sante girl she pulled away from her hut last night. . . . didn’t you see ” a

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