Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1939 — Page 22

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B. 2, 1939

By Williams

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GRIN AND BEAR With Major Hoople.

OUR BOARDING HOUSE sa HE LOOKS LIKE A HOLD-OVER

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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 did CYNTHIA CANTRELL, orphaned grand‘daughter of great-aunt Mary Cantrell. Still another dreamer was BARNEY McKNIGHT. newspaperman. 4 But Barney was more than a dreamer.

* Yesterday—Janet transforms the room ° ‘and Barney is delighted. Then suddenly : he turns from Janet mysteriously.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

wouldn’t have evaded a month “ago. Yowd have just blurted it } ‘out—no matter what it was. Can't ‘we ever be—just natural again? He had turned back from the coat closet. . . “How did you do it, Jan?” he - asked. “You haven't been robbing - & bank or something, have you?” “Just some things I had at home.” “Oh!” he said, and she wondered if she were mistaken in "thinking he sounded relieved. +2 “A few odds and ends do make a lot of difference, don’t they?” ‘She went on chattily. think it will do very nicely for ga while.” - : ' Barney stopped smiling to frown . faintly. “Jan, why do you keep - saying it will ‘do’? . . . You've made . —swell, you've made a home out of nothing.” “Say,” Barney went on, “there’s - room along that wall for the book- ; shelves I left in storage at my old - diggings. Ill get them and unpack my books as soon as I have time.” When they sat down to dinner, Janet said, “Is the war all over at the office? By this time, old Owlface must know that it’s your story that’s selling the News. I coudn’t even get a copy today.” i " |Barney’s face darkened. “Should - you mind talking about something else, honey?” he asked abruptly.

“I've used so many high-powered |

_words on him today that I haven't any left to do justice to the subject.” __ “Of course,” Janet said cheerfully, although she felt snubbed and left out. “Why talk shop, anyhow?” 2 FJ 2

O they talked about Cynthia and S Timothy Benton—who was very much better; about the new trick can opener Barney had; brought home, which he said would do ——everything about the house but answer the door; about the dog show, in which Leslie Pugh was . entering two cocker spaniels, and finally about the fact that Hallowell and Benton had had to lay off

some of their best men, because, it] |

“seemed, Timothy Benton's money had been taking care of the payroll for the last six months. ~~ «“Was—I wonder if Lance was one of them?” Janet asked. And Barney said without meeting her glance. “Why, Lance was -out several weeks ago, Jan. Didn’t

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you know? But he won’t suffer.

1 hear he’s doing pretty well on his

own. At something in his manner, -*Janet set down her coffee cup and clasped her hands tightly. “Listen, Barney,” she said quietly. - “There’s one think I want understood once and for all. Lance doesn’t mean anything to: me. He hasn't -for a long time. If he had, I shouldn’t have married you, Barney.” : . Barney said quickly—too quickly, “Of course not, Jan. I know that.” Cynthia came in early next _ morning, flushed with news. Tim was practically well again, and they were going out of town. A new oil field had. been opened in the Southwest, and a friend who “had heard about Tim's financial reverses had wired him to come on “and take charge of operations .in his holdings. ; “Tim says we may have to live in a tent or a box: car,” Cynthia told Janet, her eyes bright. “He thought I'd better wait here. Imagine! I'm going to love it.” Janet said, “I think you really, will, Cyn.” “And about Aunt Mary’s bills, Jan,” Cynthia said. “We found them in her desk after you left « . » I wonder if you'd mind—they really are colossal—if we sold some of her antiques to pay them. I know you and Barney can’t, and frankly, just now, we can’t either. The rest of the things we'll put in storage until one of us needs them.” “She always meant them for you, Cyn. You must do what you think best.” t 4 ” 8 HEN Cynthia finally got up to go, she 3aid, fumbling with

her scarf and hesitating in a way]

very unlike the old Cynthia, “Janes, I've always hated people who solunteered good advice. But be nice to Barney, won't you? .... Of course I know you don’t love him, but—" : . “You know what?” sharply. “Darling, it’s too obvious. Even Tim, with a temperature of 103, noticed it the other evening. And poor old Barney fairly falling over the furniture for watching you. . . . It was you he wanted all along, Jan. - He never would have dated me if Lance hadn’t been so hard on your heels, and—well, I think he was sorry for me.” All at once Janet began to laugh, rendingly, so that after a time her shoulders began to shake with sobs. : “I can't help it, Cyn,” she apologized between gasps. “It’s all so funny—so preposterously funny— you and Tim and Lance and Barney and I el “I don’t see anything - funn about it,” Cynthia said Detar bewilderment and irritation. “For Heaven's sake, brace up, Jan. I've got to get back and see that Tim doesn’t do some fool thing to make his cold worse. He’s such a baby, and we're starting tomorrow.” T “But that's the funniest thing of all Cyn,” Janet whooped. “You in the - heavy maternal role!” © “Jan”— Cynthia’s tone was mad-

Janet cried

deningly grown up—“I used to|

think you were amazingly wise and sure; but you've got a lof’ to Jjearn. When you really love a fman, there are times when you feel like his mother. . . . That's ‘one way you know.” _ * When Cynthia had sat down shakily. CO it was obvious—even to Tim- . othy Benton—that she did not . Jove Barney! She hated herself for

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would pretend so well that not even Barney could accuse her again of pretending.

As soon as she had dinner almost ready, she took a hasty shower, gave her face, hair and hands an extra few minutes and put.on one of the prettiest of her trousseau frocks. She set the table with the daintiest of her linen, the silver bowl of roses, and ivory candles in the sil-

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