Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1939 — Page 26

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By Elinore Cowan Stone

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CAST. OF CHARACTERS JANET DWIGHT, heroine. She was 3 engaged to handsome young architect AE - LANCE BARSTOW, hero. Lance had i great dreams for the future. So did * 4¢, CYNTHIA CANTRELL, orphaned grand44+. daughter of great-aunt Mary Cantrell. . Still another dreamer was BARNEY McKNIGHT, newspaper man. But Barney was more than a dreamer.

Yesterday—Cynthia accuses Janet of not loving Barney. That night Barney comes home appearing more tired and - haggard than Janet has ever seen him. . It was alarming.

ve . _ : . CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. & ¢ + -TANET choked down an impulse . =. J to cry out, “What is it, Barney? . » What has happened?” i ~~ “Instead, she said with an artificial |. ®- prightness for which she hated her- . 4. gelf, “Dinner’s practically on the .. table, Barney.” . : «Could it wait?” Barney asked. 1 . ® __there’s something I'd like to get ¢ ¢ 7 off my chest before we eat.”

! "He had dropped wearily upon the . " davenport, his long legs spread be- © fore him. Janet sat down not far ; away, a little stiffly, her hands v Y .“‘- folded in her lap to keep them from ~ % ghaking too much. en “Well, Jan,” Barney said, his grin =. twisting as he spoke, “you see be- ~~ .: fore you a gentleman of leisure. In other words, your husband has joined ‘the ranks of the unem- =. ployed.” . : Le “Oh?” Janet said, her voice thin 2, - and wooden in her own ears. . .- “It’s almost funny,” Barney went ~.,on. “Here I was, the wise guy who knew the inside story of city graft, national corruption, and international trickery, and I didn’t even know what was going on behind the scenes of my own sheet . . . It seems, « © Janet, that the News has been on "the skids for several months. The ~_owner was counting on private “=. * loans to see it through the woods. « ~ Well, the loans were coming from ' -. someone who hdd good reasons for keeping that Serv of mine out of print.” . “But I don’t understand,” Janet _ said faintly in a moment. “Then why did’ they publish any of it?” “Well, the owner's been hunting "somewhere in the wilds where the interested parties couldn't get to him at once; and it wasn't till a _ © day or so ago that old Owlface himself, really knew any more about the financial angle than I did . . . ~ " Now. he’s out on his neck, poor devil, with me at his heels for good measure. . . . I could have stayed “if I'd sold them the rights to the story and let them print it with the hot, parts killed to save their yellow faces . . . But, Janet, I couldn’t.”

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i UDDENLY Janet knew she 2 couldn’t bear the look in his eyes any longer — angry, yet shamed and beaten, above his care_ful :smile—as. if apologizing to her, So .~ begging her to understand. With a 3 - .-.soft rush she was beside him; and taking his head in her arms, she

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‘ _* +_against his forehead. 1 = “Oh, Barney, darling!” she mur- ; 1 ~~ ‘mured.. “They can’t do this to you: -.I love you too much.” ] “When you really love a man,” Cynthia: - had said, “you {feel like . his mother sometimes. That's one way you know.” For ‘a moment Barney sat mo- _ tionless.. . Then he lifted his head and looked at her, and as if completely satisfied, drew a deep _ breath, dropped his head again, .. and put his arms around her. ; “This is the way it ought to be . Jan,” he said. doesn’t - matter now.” <« But it would matter again, Jan — knew, terribly. And so she held

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souffle burned to a crisp. - Finally i“ they went out and dined on steak | and mushrooms at the Auberge, . , , because, Barney said, there was] + . nothing so good for the morale as] € ' + spending money when you hadn’t wilt a any. Not that it was quite as bad as that. The rent, at least, was paid! for a month. Janet had her, ‘monthly stipend . . . Barney swinced a little when she men- . | tioned that, but said, “Swell! We may need it,” And Barney still

_: : had a little money in the bank. : | It would have been plenty, he said, » if he hadn't had to make that # chase across the continent on his si own time because the boss had dei cided the story wasn’t worth follow- + ing up after all. | ” 2 8

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“their staffs. Barney made one or two trips to neighboring towns where he knew editors, only to come back with his grin la bit more strained each time. In the next few weeks Janet learned a great many things she had never ' guessed, even during those comparatively pinched last months with Aunt Mary, bo. She learned that one Jaunaly bill may wreck a week's budget, and spent several back-breaking days

learned that, if windows are to serve their purpose, they must be washed from time to time. She! learned to elbow her way about crowded, untidy markets, because the yare the ones where food is cheapest. The first time Barney found her on her hands and knees, scrubbing the kitchen floor, he turned white, lifted her bodily out of the way, and finished the job—somewhat splashily —himself, Janet laughed at him. - “How did you think these things usually got done, you crazy Irisnman?” she asked. “I suppose you imagined the Little Folk came out of their hiding every night and did the day’s chores for poor but deserving housewives. We're lucky to have plenty of water to wash the floor with. Where Cyn is, they buy it in barrels.” : i 2 2 » ATEVERTHELESS, they got on famously till the day Barney skidded on an icy road. The bill for his own car was $17, beside $87 for the car he hit; and the liability ~~ ins had lapsed the day before ¢ because, Barney reasoned, there was . no use spending money for insurance if you drove with reasonable

The morning after Barney told her that, Janet said, trying to sound very matter of fact, “I think we'd etter plan to move the first of the nth, I saw some places adver-

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BUT TIME AND AGAIN YOU DID THE IMPOSSIBLE. YOU SOLD THOSE MATTRESSES. SAVED ME FROM PRISON. SAVED MY LIFE. IT'S POSITIVELY ASTOUNDING!

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