Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1938 — Page 24

SERIAL STORY—

EASTER CRUISE

By Marion White

CAST OF CHARACTERS ° JOYCE MILNER. heroine; she took an Easter cruise. DICK HAMILTON, into the heroine. _ ISOBEL PORTER. traveler: she sought -a mate,

hero: he bumped

. Yesterday: Dick is stunned to learn that a jewelry clip is found in Joyce's room. He hastens to the captain's quarters.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

F= hours after Joyce returned 4° to her cabin, after leaving the captain, she waited hopefully for «Dicks Though her head ached and her eyelids burned, she kept the “light burning, glaring down upon her, lest he come and, finding the soom in darkness, go away without attempting to speak to her. But at 2_o’clock she turned off the

light and went to bed. * All through the ‘endless night, she tossed on her pillow, torturing ~ herself with the thought. Dick ‘did not believe in her. - And when morning finally* came, ‘only one thing was clear in her mind. When the Empress stopped ‘at Miami, she would leave the ship and take the bus home. -. She would ask Mrs. Bates to help her pack; the stewardess must be able to testify that she was not leav- = ing the ship with the jewels tucked ‘in her luggage. However, before she could ring for the stewardess there was a knock at the door, and her heart jumped expectantly, hoping against hope. . . . ; It was her steward, with a note. “From the captain, miss.” __She closed the door before she read the message. -“Miss Milner: Do not think it wise for you to try to leave the ship today.” The words danced before her eyes in shattering bewilderment. She sank down on the berth, and read it over a second time. Her hands were trembling so that the paper shook. The note could mean but one thing. She was unofficially under arrest! She spent the day in her cabin, -gloomy and despondent. The ship was quiet. Every passenger but herself had gone ashore; every member of the crew not on duty had taken himself off for a few hours in which he might change places with the world and demand attention. The hours passed slowly. ” ” ” T 4 o'clock the ship began to come to life; in pairs and in parties the passengers returned. “ Joyce felt a rising bitterness toward them. Why should they have enjoyed their day ashore while she was a prisoner in her cabin? She turned over, buried her head in the pillow and cried. Once started, the whole miserable heartache welled up in her throat, choking her, and she could not stop. She cried, first of all, for the injustice of it, that of all the people on the ship she should be accused of taking the woman's jewels, flashy, pretentious adornments that she wouldn’t be seen wearing to a three-ring circus in Fall River. She ~ cried for the humiliation of it. So it was that Dr. Gray found her, a long while afterward. He stood outside her cabin, and as the ‘ curtain across her half-opened door blew aside, he saw her there. When she opened the door, he saw that her eyes were swollen and red with weeping, and he pretended to scold her. “You don’t mean to tell me you have been down here, crying yous eyes out, all ths lonely day?” “I'm not allowed to go out. I'm —I'm a prisoner!” Her tears flowed anew, She reached over to the table, picked up the captain’s note and handed it to him. He read it, frowning ominously. “Hmph! But it doesn’t say anything about being a prisoner. Now - dry your eyes, like a good girl, and wait until I come back. Ill look into this.” Five minutes later he was back with Capt. Boyer. She was more composed now; she had bathed her eyes with cold water and powdered her face care- « fully. Only the swollen puffs under her eyes remained, testifying to . her misery. : w ” ” HE captain came into the room quickly, extending his hand to her. “Miss Milner, I'm sorry!” he said . in hearty apology. “You got me all wrong. But it’s my fault. I was in - such a rush when I wrote that .note—" *’ "She looked up at him, wondering. “Didn’t you tell me not to leave the ship?” : : ; He shook his head. “I didn’t mean

it to sound as hard as that. Matter

of fact, I meant exactly what the note says: I didn’t think it wise for you to go ashore.” : “He means for your own good; my dear,” the doctor explained kindly. “Exactly. You know how this gossip gets around, Miss Milner. I don't know anything about this O’Hara ~ woman, but she’s vicious. There’s no doubt of that. The whole affair is very peculiar. No woman with any intelligence would think of leaving a small fortune in jewels in her cabin, for anyone to pick up. She seems determined to implicate you in the matter.” She nodded quickly, and she breathed more freely than she had all day. The doctor turned to her. “Now, then. You're going to get yourself ‘all dressed up in that nice white frock and you're coming to dinner with me.” She protested quickly. “Please don’t ask me to go up to the dining room, Dr. Gray. I'd much rather have dinner in my room.” f 2 “But why?” ’ : { “Because” — hesitatingly—“everybody will gape at me.” . “All the more reason you should be on hand, to prove that their gaping doesn’t bother you in the least.” “It’s more than that—" : ss = =» : JT was more than that, very much more. But she couldn’t explain

10 him. She couldn’t tell that the real reason’ she didn’t want to go

upstairs was because she couldn’t|

“sit through the meal with Dick across the table, dropping his eyes in uneasy regret. - “I haven't the courage, doctor. --That’s the whole truth of it.”

+ He put his hand on the door-|.

knob. “Well, youre making it 3 ty lonely for me. I'll be at that ‘big table with no better company,

HOLD EVERYTHING

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“How many times must I tell you to bring my lunch in the back door!”

FLAPPER FANNY

“Every time somebody wants an onion, it comes outta my patch. Next year I'm gointa plant something nobody’ll eat.”

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than a few stalks of cold celery.” She looked up in quick surprise. “Where are the others?” “Young Hamilton and Miss Por-

was in a hurry to catch the early

plane for New York, so he told me. and ‘Mrs. Porter has changed he sea 2» 3 5 But she was scarcely hearing him. Dick had left the ship that morning!

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less response, from the depths of her despair. What a fool she had been! What a simple, credulous fool! : “Then of course I can’t leave you eating alone, Dr. Gray,” she said with a hard, forced brightness. “I'll meet you in the smoking room,

but tonight I'm sure I need something much stronger than wine!”

(To Be Concluded)

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