Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1939 — Page 28

TO MARRY By Elinore Cowan Stone

_ CAST OF CHARACTERS ~ JANET DWIGHT--Heroine. She was en “gaged to handsome young architect . LANCE BARSTOW, hero, Lance had great dreams for the future. So aid = CYNTHIA CANTRELL, orphaned grand«daughter of great-aunt Mary Cantrell. = Still another dreamer was 3 ~ . BARNEY McENIGHT, newspaperman. _ But Barney was more than a dreamer.

: Yesterday—Mr. Bryant, Janet's attor-

" mey, calls her asking that she come to ||

se TT - CHAPTER SIX

: WE Janet carried her bills up :. to her own room, she was * shocked and incredulous to find out ~ “how much she had spent during the ~+past month. * There were several considerable items that Cynthia had charged to her account. On previous occa“gions Cynthia had charged things Sito her, and Aunt Mary had paid

for them as a matter of course .. . But I can’t give the bills to Aunt “ this time, Janet thought. Not id after this afternoon. > 8 ‘The whole thing came to con-

wsiderably more than her balance at the bank. Her dressmaker’s bills were still to come, and aside from the fact that she would need a great deal of ready money during the ‘next few days, -there was, Lance had told her, an immediate payment due upon the house. = She must make sure, when she ; talked to Mr. Bryant tomorrow, to _ arrange for those payments. And «= perhaps; after gll, there might be enough -margin to take care of the -difference between the rent on this . apartment and that of the smaller ~ one Aunt Mary talked of taking at the Avalon. Janet had just thrown the last envelope into the wastebasket when Aunt Mary opened the door. - “Janet Dwight!” she cried, sweeping down upon her niece with all the indignant authority of her five ~feet two. “Do you mean to tell me that you haven't taken off those wet things yet? Get them off this = minute, and yourself into a tub of hot water. After that, you're going ‘to bed.” ; =- “But, Aunt Mary,” Janet protested, “I'm not ready to go to bed. Besides, I want my dinner. This _ business. of rushing around getting ready to be married burns up the ~~ calories.” © .. “I did not ask you whether or not 4 You were ready. Margy will bring I you a tray in due time.” Eo 8 = 8 O Janet soaked in fragrant warm . MJ Buds for a luxurious half hour; then she slipped into a soft green i negligee, and aiter the hot soup, ~~ . omelet, and salad which Margy brought her, snapped on her bed lamp and stretched out with a new book. It really was blissful to have an

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few weeks’ mad round ‘of fittings .-and showers and late parties.

when a knock sounded at her door,

jt was not that which made Janet put down her book and give her -undivided attention to her cousin. There was in Cynthia’s manner @s she poised there, a slim, blackgowned silhouette leaning against the creamy panel of the door, a strange, almost breathless excite“ment. She was wearing a black dinner frock with a long full skirt that “rippled about her silver sandals in lustrous folds. The slim tight basque had silver buttons up the front “dnd slashes of silver at the wrists. _ It was a dress which Janet did not

. *—-Cynthia’s eyes followed her own as they swept over it. Sa 2 ® 8 = N you've never seen it beNy fore,” Cynthia said. “I'm sorry “gbout it, Jan. ‘I should have asked you first; but after I'd seen it, I just couldn’t risk having somebody beat w me to i hid ' “It does suit you marvelously,” Jan said. “Of course you know I shouldn’t have bought it if I'd known—about Aunt Mary's money. I tried to return it today, but the store had . made a lot of alterations on it.” © “It would have been a pity to sgend it back. It does things for ~ iyou, Cyn. It makes you look like a ~ “princess out out of a story book.” “I know it’s a knockout. That's why I'm wearing it tonight. I have an idea”—Cynthia went even paler and broke off on a caught breath— _ “I have an idea I'm going to make it pay for itself.” ~* Janet exclaimed, “Cynthia—but you can’t mean that you're going to sell it?” : thse]l it?” Cynthia's smile twisted a ‘little. “Perhaps that’s not such a bad way to put it. . . , But not in the way you mean, Jan.” . : Jan opened her lips to ask, “Cyn_thia, what on earth -.are you talking about?” Then her memory echoed Aunt Mary’s words of the .afternoon, “Just as much as Cynthia usually means when she’s feeling dramatic,” and she laughed .softly. “Well, have yourself a good time,”

about the dress. We just won't tell Aunt. Mary.” : 2 # i ‘ HE took up her book again. ‘But J Cynthia lingered, her ‘glance bent as if in complete concentration upon her expertly manicured ‘left hand. In a moment she said in a

ave. . . . Aunt Mary has it, too.

that never goes out . . . J—Jan, if eyer I"

Cynthia she knew.

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‘olit of the room.

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“You're a swell kid, Jan. You've— t something not many people

= Something—oh, I don’t know how to it—like a clear, steady light

- tWhen she broke off again, Janet 1gughed in quick embarrassment. All ne was so utterly unlike the cool,

of Lord, Cyn!” she said. “If u need taxi fare or. something, don’t you say so without all e floral offerings? You know

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Te How like Lance to think he must Later, she was drowsily conscious [say “Good night!” to her after his that someone was turning off her|party, no matter how late it was!| |

lif! her head. “I was—trying to & you something, Jan. Now I . egn’t. . . . I—well, good night, Jan.” ~ tAbruptly she turned and whirled the warm coverlet that lay on the foot of the bed—just conscious

bed lamp, shutting off the steam, by g a widow, and shaking out

enough to murmur, “Thanks a lot,” without opening her eyes, before she

But it wasn’t Lance “who was

(To Be Continued) Aer Wnily

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