Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1950 — Page 11

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. By Theodore Bonne

Jm § eMudlark . . , . .. . ay nh" H n > — . : might have been a very simple thing is her AA very complex. Wheeler, the little Mudlark, Pe r Castle and has a look at Queen Victoria. in Tate, they McHatten, one of the’ guards, falls in lo things a radio to ery > Queen’s Maid of Honor. . Rothschild, who girl like Emily to understand. If for so little millions for the Suez Canal, doesn’t want his relative |it had crossed her mind that he ; sent to India. The Queen insists the opposite, wishing [was jealous, she would not have ood example, - ~~ to-break up the mateh. Meanwhile poor little Wheeler languishs |entartained the notion — Emily ur telephone “im jail.” Now go on With the story,” = a was not that sure of herself.” at point and / CHAPTER SIXTEEN . on the contrary, she thought that nutes. About IN THOSE DAYS society still was select, and relatively im-he disliked her; and youth canpregnable. Its perimeters were defended by fierce old dowagersinot bear to be disliked by anyvenience be- demanding to see the color of one’s blood rather than one’s money, one, ho ly needs one and within that circle young ladies of the upper class were shut in| Two weeks later, having begun )n, to become yet another circle defended by their mothers. Once; while her her first wait as a Maid of Hony others who family was at New Park, in Cheshire, when she was eight, Emily or, she was riding one early : eluded her Miss Babbings during + Adelaide and knew morning in Windsor Park when 1 use out of an expedition to the village of Ap-|maiden aurt Adela'ch enc, WCHishe heard hoofs beating up beleast a two- “pleton Thorn, and several hours NO more © na #% hind her. She turned, expecting e could burn - later was found dancing with the Lord's shortly after her return. |i; see her groom coming alongsomeone to children of her father's tenants. .pyyyy PRIOR, isn't it?” said/side, and saw instead Lieutenant es She was suitably punished.[, nore voice. McHatten again, in riding clothes, ine which is Emilys were taught never to for-| * 4,3 turning, she saw him— on a tall bay. : . h large fami- get who—whom! they were. lover six feet, lithe, and with the| He reined the animal into pace er get in on .A Maid of Honor had to be a/,,, intensity in his face as in| With hers, with a slightly sarough to get sort of world’s champion youngiiy. voice that had startled her. donic “May I?” : ne who also lady, the model of good breed- ge said he was in the Grenadier| Enilly did not cut him dead. st more than ing, modesty, neatness, punctual-|Guards. Fancy that, she said— She looked "at him with what he ity and industry. ' perhaps they'd be at Windsor to-| Was intended to take for amuseany is really . Emily from the nning was gether one of these days, and she ment, and did. All the grimness we the healthiest little animal in her|told him she was soon to be a he had mustered for the ordeal set. She was vigorous of limb|Maid of Honor. Was she! That of apologizing without - huhbling and exuberant of personality, she|was a piece of luck; he was at himself melted away in a sense was selfish, capricious, head- Windsor already; they'd have Of being made a little absurd. But strong and tmpatient, ~~ fsome times whew she came. [080 €.0, FLAME PUL Firmly, and at times not t- ut dozens of yo : showing the ly, she 3, 3 brought to face rg dazzled by Emily Prior, and she|POse you thought me rude the

toes is actual tural laws of

at the three th are land, girl in her uncompromising ree must re- world. Emily accepted the in-

evitable, if with reservations. LJ

SHE HAD GROWN splendid specimen of

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f these foods E ~ healm. Emily had straight--hair een stored in that was almost black and that an unsound

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I think that shoulders and arms that by can-|thought she could be here.” : dlelight neither men nor women| . “well?” she said, taken aback. ty deal and i “could look upon with indiffer-| “You might—you might at ; ence, and she knew both when to|least—" : every story, display them and when not. “What?” t ont. D. C When she went off to Court,

out there are ining around -

to her destiny, and became at last as docile as any other little

maidenhood.. She was already one of the recognized beauties of the

she wore in ropes around her exquisite skull; a pale forehead; straight dark brows and long blue-black lashes that heightened the impact of the gray brilliance of her eyes; a straight nose; high "cheekbones under which her fair skin faintly bloomed; a rich, tender mouth; a fine chin that she carried slightly upward; a full, graceful throat. She had superb

her mother said to herself with satisfaction that Emily certain

gave this one not another though until months later, turned up at a ball at the Weth erells’ in Park Lane.

staring into the midst of th

a she was, she broke through th

greet him. Whatever is the matter? you lost your partner?” “No!”—a ~ bit roughly. thought, and without seeming a all dazzled. here?”

She’ll be so—"

should have been,

self

when he

She saw him standing alone by the wall,

dancers. and looking rather out of it, and being the sort of girl

ring of her admirers to go and

“Charles! How nice to see you! Have

“Isn't your mother “Yes! Come and speak to her. “Thank you; I won't trouble her just yet.” His dark young face was a shade darker than it

and he was looking at her angrily. “I hardly

“Not make a spectacle of your1] i

” » ” : ALL HER BREATH went out in

other evening.” “I thought you—crude,” she

deserve that. I suppose I was crude. But I suppose I félt—responsible.” 1 “Really,” she protested. “Were you looking on me as a child?” “No! As a woman.” She gave a gay laugh, from pleasure and sense of power, “Yet you said you felt ‘respon-

she Sible.’ Surely you don’t think me”

—she used a reckless word— “giddy?” yMcHatten knew the word that the supporters of her rivals used against her. He set His jaw. “Are you sensitive about that?” She reined up her horse on the instant, fully as angry as she had been at the dance. “You— Whig!” she said. And spurring ahead, she left him at a gallop. It was clear that he was not to follow; - bit -he. had -no intention of following. He thought she had said “pig.” es 3 ; Whenever she saw him after that, she ignored him. But she noticed that he equally ignored her, She did not know how many

pe that Mr. ly would get a duke. But Emily . a single exclamation of shock times he waited for her near that hi 354 he did mot think of the matter In|and outrage: “Oh! The blood|same path in the park, nor that : quite the same terms. B8he pjo0q rushed into her cheeks, and | whenever she appeared only his £ wanted—she knew not what she whirling in a sudden crash of silk, {pride kept him from riding out 50? f wanted. she left him. She swept round the|to overtake her, i Emily *’ remembered Charles room, through the door to the| And that was the extent of : McHatten from her childhood atiterrace, back again, looking for McHatten's acquaintance with the ts New Park: the. Vicars son, a her father. What a beastly thing maiden whose hopeless lover he tall, weedy boy several years old-|to have said! What incredible pre-|took himself to be. High School _er than she, and almost as dark|sumption! And what had she done| The Honorable Emily Prior, ‘as a gypsy. He was terribly su-|—what? Could she help it if— daughter of a viscount and Indianapolis perior. then, treating her at best/She stopped suddenly, wondering granddaughter of an earl! Folly \nge program with the lofty tolerance of his|if anyone else could have thought (to think of her. He thought of n of the city greater. age, wisdom and his rio:|the same as he. Oh no, surely— her hair, her lips, her eyes, her X bler sex. McHatten developed into{no! But when she found Lord|arms, her white throat. Twice a stripling cricket hero of the Stithian, she did not tell him. in his wretchedness he very nearcounty. And then she heard that|That would not have helped mat-|ly attempted to speak to her he had gone Into the army. ters. And lying B bed that Bight. again. Y ay g Three years passed. Emily went her cheeks burned again e “ on THe grand tour with her/shame of it. She stared into the] IT WOULD have surprised him

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to know that he had attracted

his scowls, his tactlesaness,

” HE FLUSHED. “I suppose Ij

her. With his dark good looks

ithe deep vibrancy of his volee, generated an atmosphere of tur bulence and compression, and she’ was a little afraid of him, {

for a Maid of Honor in Victoria's court. Late one evening, having left the Queen cosily” retired for the night, she went as usual (and

to her room, but as she pushed the door shut behind her she saw that this time she was not alone, He stood in full uniform, somewhat melodramatically,” in the center of the floor. The rage in Emily's’ throat burst forth in a savage whisper: “How dare you come here?” . A -good question, though indeed to his superiors an almost equally interesting one mignt have been how had he come here; for, officer of the guard or not, had it been known that he was anywhere inh this part of the castle, let alone in the room of one Queen's maids, it would - have caused nearly as much consternation as If he'd been Wheeler, “You have nothing to fear,” he said in a low voice, nobly. { JLeave at once!” Emily hissed]

{at him across the floor, { “When I've said what I've come! ito say.”

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| EMILY FELL back a step. “Yes! He said. His voice was ‘a rushing force; she could feél

now--this way-—when you have it in your power to destroy me. And I shan’t touch you. Do you think that’s nothing? A poor country vicar's son! A nobody! Was that what you thought? But you see what I am; you see what risk I —everything, Only to fell nothing. It's something to be wanted like this, even by the Vicar's son.” “They faced each other in the moonlight. He said quietly: “Will you call the guard now?” “How-—how did you find my room?” “There is a plan of the castle in the Guard House.” “In the Guard House? 'But— but then anyone—might-—come here.” “If another man came,” MecHatten said, “I would kill him.” All at once the tautness left her, she seemed to wilt; her head drooped forward and she covered her face with her hands. He looked at her in astonishment. He saw her shoulders tremble and heard her sob. “Go—go now , . . Please.” . McHatten crossed the room and went out without a word. The door closed soundlessly behind

im. 3 Then the little gold .clock on her night table absurdly tinkled. It was the night after the arrest of Wheeler, .

(To Be Continued.)

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Banker and baseball magnate Frank E. McKinney was reported under consideration today for appointment as the new Secretary of the Army. Mr, McKinney, Indianapolis Democratic party leader, visited the White House last week-end with Public Counselor William E, Steckler, a candidate for federal district judge here. Mr. McKinney, president of the Fidelity Trust Co., declined to cogpment on the report. The present Secretary of the Army, Gordon Gray, has accepted the presidency of the University jot North Carolina. He will leave this Army post before Sept. 1. Mr. McKinney is president of the. Pittsburgh Pirates and vice president of the Indianapolis Indians, '

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ther’ Says Many ~

a MRS. MANNERS:

I AM “Unknown Mother.” I

isttPeople Have Distorted Minds

made up. Sometimes I wish 1

wrote last week that my pafentsihad a lady to live with my little

{adopted my fatherless child. I hope you'll print my letter as soon boy so I could work and forget

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4 eX OU-820- Mrs. Manners, there are so many -. minds like the one who signed herself “Ex-Friend, City” {(condemn-

y way to work. 2) _ |lots and still be with my with Sisietog aigutse

son at I-have no one to take my prob-

{ing me), that one must be careful. I have lived right here in this|iems to, so please tell me what I

{good city of Indianapolis for the, {past 27 years. I merely said I, lived out of town. * : I” Now the thing is, some inno-| cent girl and her parents are! going to be blamed for a tragedy | that never happened to them. I| wasn't visiting anyone at all. When “ex-friend” starts the ugly rumor and it 1s proved she is a

*{trouble-maker with nothing but

the green-eyed monster of Jeal ousy in ‘her makeup won't her friends, or those supposed to be friends, put her in her place?

with all the others find she's a dastardly snake? That's There is but one thing I regret.

I don't know “Ex-Friend” or I'd this letter.

Your thoughtful letter will be a big disappointment to “Exfriend” who I imagine was delighted to believe something | spicy about someone whose | popularity she envied. I'm giad you wrote, You're getting letters which we'll publish, one of them today. They may help you and other girls and how we hope they'll help the people looking | for dirt and loving to condemn.

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{| “EX-FRIEND” burhed me up {with what she said about “Unknown Mother” who had the il{legitimate child. She means {enemy not friend. “Unknown Mother” probably {would be your best friend when no one else would be with your lattitude, I disagree with you {when you say a girl like “Un{known Mother” is just plain no {good. I know some girla like her land everyone of them is much {better than someone like you. | Deep down, I believe you've al{ways been jealous of “Unknown Mother” or you wouldn't have [turned against her so fast, I don’t think her friends and the friends of her parents, who adopted her child, will think too harshly unless they are all like you. : | "1f she is brave enough, and I [think she is, she will stay right {where she belongs—in her home {town. If 1 were “Unknown | Mother” I wouldn't want anyone {to know you were my friend once. { People like you should be run out of town. : Situations like the one of “Unknown Mother” happen to the rich or poor, good or bad. I say, God bless her and her child. I know that she will make up for ther mistake and will some day find happiness and a husband who {will love her and the baby.

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