Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1939 — Page 16

UAL STORY— ~ Women ‘Want Beauty

By LOUISE HOLMES

CAST OF CHARACTERS : SUSIE LAMBERT—She served waffles ° and dreamed of being beautiful. DICK TREMAINE—He liked Susie’s waffles but he couldn’t see Susie. JEFF BOWMAN—His chief concern

was to make Susie as beautiful as she

wanted to be.

Yesterday: The Harker store chooses Susie and she is off at last on a startling adventure to become beautiful!

CHAPTER NINE

EOPLE brushed past Susie as] she waited for the Chicago bus}

* scarcely without knowing she was

there. - They looked through and| around and over her, not once di-||

rectly at her. And absolutely never had she been granted that second, flattering glance. Never having had attention she did not miss it, had not the confidence to say to herself, “You'll look at me the next

time I pass this way.” In fact she|

did not believe it. Susie’s dream was not‘one of glory, merely that the ban of homeliness might be lifted a little.

She wore a dark blue suit, the : gkirt of which came almost to her ankles. The ill-fitting jacket hunched at her shoulders and broke at the waistline. Her hat was just a hat, dark felt, up in the back, down in the front, too round, too flat, too everything. She wore black fabric gloves and heavy, mannish shoes. In a side pocket of her worn purse, wrapped in tissue, lay her most treasured possession. A little silver compact with a fraternity emblem on one side. It had never been used, it was a symbol of tragedy, but Susie loved it. The trifie proved that she had gone to a party with Dick Tremaine.

The bus, easing into the depot,|

lumbered no more than did Susie as she climbed aboard. During the long ride to Chicago she was unable to relax, her taut nerves tightened with every mile. And there were moments of light ness, when her spirit surged forward to meet what was to come, when her heart thudded and her eyes shone. On one of these reckless moments she alighted in Chi-

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cago. She looked vaguely about. Mr. Harker had said she would be met.! How would they know her?

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UT at that moment a young man breezed out of the crowd. He had red hair and very blue eyes. His eyes were smiling.” He was vaguely familiar. Snafching off his hat, he held out a hand. “How do you do, Miss Lambert,” he said cordially. “I'm Jeff Bowman. Mr. Harker sent me down to meet you.” Susie gave him her hand, stammering a greeting, trying to remember where she had seen him. “How about baggage,” he said, reaching for her rattan suitcase. ““That’s all,” she managed to say. She was hot and cold by turns and ' dreadfully embarrassed. . Jeff went on being friendly, appearing not to ‘notice her confusion. : ‘He said, “I leaned by car against a curb somewhere around here. Let’s see if we can find it.” : His easy manner released her nervous tension and she exhaled a deep sighing breath. He smiled down at her. “That's right—untie the knots. You're amoung friends.” She glanced at him sidewise from her long eyes. The day was to come when that sidelong glance of Susie's was to be quite devastating. At that moment it did nothing but see .the young man beside her. “Now I know who you are,” she said, quite spontaneously for Susie. “You came in the waffle shop look-. ing for a Lambert family.” He laughed pleasantly. you, didn’t 1?” “Fooled me?” He told her seriously, “I was sleuthing—being a cover-up man— scouting for you. If everything else fails I can be a detective.”

USIE thought this over. When she spoke it was to make one of the first clever remarks of her life. “I guess you were boy scouting,” she said. “I was your good deed for that day.” Jeff's brows shot up. Not so bad. Maybe she did have something hidden under the pounds. “I take it you wanted to come,” he remarked. “I had to come,” she said simply. “I'm tired of being myself, so sick of me.” With a little impulsive rush she asked, “Do you think Mr. Harker can make me someone else?” Right then Jeff saw her as an individual, not merely a subject for the Chief’s well-meant experiments. And right then Jeff liked Susie. Perhaps she knew it without knowing it. Perhaps his friendliness was the first point of the wedge which was to break through her inhibitions. Perhaps the fates had put a finger on Jeff Bowman. They found the automobile and Susie got in. Jeff sat down beside her, & “I'm taking you home to dinner with me,” he said as they drove out " through Lincoln Park. “My mother wants to meet you. You'll like her, she’s swell.” . : “That’s nice,” Susie said, a little trill in her voice. No one had ever wanted to meet her before. Then she remembered and laughed. At the laugh Jeff shot her an amazed glance. The laugh was musical. It was incongruous, it af-

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fected him as Susie's singing had

affected her professors. “What's, funny?” he asked. «I was thinking that naturally your mother would want to meet me. Anyone would want to meet a poor fool.” She said ji quite good-naturedly. Susie’s sense of . humor was coming out of the dark by leaps and bounds. “Say,” that kind of talk. Youre lucky, just plain lucky to be elected.” 8 2 8

£1 SHUDDER of fear ran the LN length of Susie’s spine. “I'm 3 , Mr. Bowman. ‘too fantastic to believe. You and I know that I'm impossible. Mr. Harker will see it in the morning and send me back home.” i «yoy don't know John Harker. He won’t send you home. If there's an he likes its a battle.’ Jeff blushed. “I didn’t mean that just the way it sounds—" Susie laughed again, a soft tinkle. ell find a war on his hands when

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wasn’t so bad Honesty kept him silent. Bad? She ' was terrible. Slumped beside him, stringy hair hanging . from below her hat, eyebrows flaring out pugnaciously, idiotic' button of a nose. Jeff humorously decided the Chief had better junk her and start all over. On one point Jeff was pleased. Susie Lambert was not stupid.

less, he had a strong conviction

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something behind it. Very dubious as to Susie's possibilities for even a

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(All events and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.)

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