The Syracuse Journal, Volume 26, Number 19, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 31 August 1933 — Page 3

THURSDAY. AUGUST 31, 1933

TANGLED WIVES Peqgij Shane

Looking at herself |»ori* *aw th it she was flushed and bright eyed fr««m the heat, jthe thought that she had never looked better In her Ute. nor felt worse. ' < . . The elevator stopped Ih>- kv <■]■.-!.i-4 the door. “Doria, Doris’" Aocky ’s volce .. I through the apartment. Rocky's wife was not there. A* they went in they saw that the place had not been occupied for a |;.h; time Du«t lay on everything, and there was that an untidy Job if pack ing had bw*n done there, but not re gently. •H—11“ said Rocky. "Aly devoted wife seem* to have left, me, bug ami baggage. She didn't even leave me a note as far as I can discover." He beat over Dori* and seized tier sud denly, by the shoulders, ‘ And MS my young lady. It’s, up t » you t<« explain. Just exactly what is tlte game?" lh>ria stared back at him. "Take youjt hand* off my shoulders." '“When you answer my question." Rut the glare in her eyes had had Its effect.- She saw that tie was pre tending to be moire angry than he actually waa.- They seemed to have reached a deadlock. "This is silly.” said Doris. “You know perfectly well 1 know no more shout your stupid ek! wife than you do." A slight grin announced th.it R<wky knew himself beaten, ills grip on her shoulders became-more friendly "So you think Doris Is stupid."

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“I Doni Think I Car* at AH About Having You Kias Ms," She said Confusedly.

llis lips twisted in amusement. "To !•< or. frank it > oms the alt-rnative to. your kins z member of the crim Inal classes, w h*eh seems very/un He |>ulled a heap of card ! of an easv chair ■M- v“> is a very uritidy packer Sit ■ ' _ Rut Doris had turned to rhe desk ai d was looking at the framed picture of a girl. The face was familiar. She was excited. Was she going to remember something,? "Who I* that? Oh'" She knew. "That's the girl who stole my mopey in the Biltmore \ She spoke Involuntarily. Rocky answered eagerly. “When? What are you talking about? That is Doris." .. . rShe drop(>ed her hands helplessly “< >h ' I 'must ire mistaken then.” She was dn her guard hut her 'mind was whirlin", • Rocky followed fieT thought. “Non sense I wouldn't put It past Doris to steak When did this happen?” "Please —” Doris sat down weakly. “I can’t tell you " "But you’ve got to. You mean Divris took ?>>«r m<mw. and so you decided to set revenge by taking her place.” “No no.. 1 can’t possibly explain. It’s all a mistake probably. I only saw the girl for a few minutes" She was confused. She did not know how to go on She was trying to remember what the girl tn the Biltmore had said, but she couldn’t. And Rocky, stood over her vigorously. Re pelted her with question*. “When was all this?” “The day I met your mother." “Yes. 1 Imagines! that. The day I sailed Now tell me about It. Where did you meet her?" Doris sank down, her chin rested on her shoulder crossed her feet unhappily. “I don’t know whether she stole It or not. I shouldn’t have said that. 1 met her In the washroom. I was talking to her and I left rhe room ■r a minute Whg£ I came back it was gone, and -so was she." "How much was It?" “About nine hundred dollars—* Ut [ tie more.” I Rocky whistled. “That explains many things. Look here, we’ve «ot to I be /rank with each other. I’ll lay al! I my cards on the table.” | He pushed a soiled pink mule off a ' chair and sat-down. “Doni you agree?" “I don’t know. Tell me about Doris." His voice was low. emotional “I can’t tell you what I’ve gone through, worrying about Mother and Doris. It was cowardly of tne to go abroad and leave them together—at least that Is what 1 tried to do. But * until I saw how a different kind of I girl might fit In at home. I"—lds face I twisted as he paused to keep his voice on Tts even level—“l hadn’t , realized—" “1 think I understand." said Dori*, t “Yes —you would If you met Doris." "She was— very pretty. I can w* that a man might find her attractive."

stocky made • gesture oF dissent. I “It was a ghastly mistake. It's hard I to explain, but to me marriage was ' nothing. I didn’t connect it up with j Mother and Dad. or think of it as anything but a rather personal incident in my life until she told me we were going to have a baby. Then I suddenly woke up to the significance of the Ithole thing—the way it fitted In.with Mother and Dad—” nc broke off —”1 expect you’re thinking what an awful ass I made of myself over it.” | Doris said. •’Well. I should think Kou would have fold your family more ■bout It, as It seems you had been Karried for some time” ■ Rocky flushed. “You see I got marled on Impulse. I can't explain it. t ■hen —but when I thought the baby las coming it was different. I wanted loris to change and be with Mother.” le looked at Doris wistfully. “G—d. I got married just the way Id buy a lilt of clothes, or order myself a din ■or. Everybody 1 knew was married lid divorced, and remarried to each |her —" I “But 1 still can’t understand why Im would go abroad without Introliclng your mother to your wife—or B»out the haby or—" ■ “Doris and I had a row the morn Ig that I was salting. Doris wanted Ime money. Rhe wanted a thousand Idiars. I wouldn't give it to her. j ■hen she said she hnd to have It he I |<'ise she was "nine tn have n baby J I. sounded pretty .flshv n>w that I lok hack on it. and 1 thought — wellliere's no use telling what 1 thought, lit I wasn't going to give her a thou Ind dollars and leave her alone to she pleased If she was in condition. So 1 called up Mother Ivrd it so Doris wouldn't have a cent Inless she went with Mother—and Itileil." I Doris sighed. “W't can be mean." | “1 jtuppose so." said Rocky. ■ “Where do you suppose she is now?" I"T don't know. I can't believe she's living a baby. You don't know Doris lie isn’t the l.inA that has babies, ■nd well—the way she told It —I beB>ye It was lust a stall tn get money Bit of me. She defied It while I was Binning Mother, but of course I Bouldn't take any chances.” B“So you thought I was a girl Doris ■<l hired to take her place.” ■"Doris Is d—n resourceful. She gets own way, and she doesn’t care how she gets It.” He smiled his disarming smile, and looked Mpectantly at Doris. "Now will you me how the blazes you got there?" ■ CHAPTER VI Bt would be a relief to tell some Doris closed her eyes. worn out." said Rocky a terribly self absorbed ape. You to eat something." all right.” Bli* pulled, his chair closer to her Hp drew a long breath wondering Half an hour earlier she not have thomdit it possible she could confide in Rocky But friendliness.made her former at!i impossible. She looked at him ■stfnlly. couldn't you eat some laughed falntlv "You're httn yourself. yo>> old fraud. TH -go out and have supper, though. If you like" . 4 He grinned. “You read me like a book. But you honestly look fagged. I'm going to have something sent up from Reubens. They'll semi anything anywhere any time It seems.” He to the telephone. She watched him as he safe the number After all she could n«<t go on this way forever She would have to tell someone in or der to find her.home. “Would you like roast chicken? Lob ster?” “I'd love chicken Say. Rocky 1" “Yes. Karby?” • “All right. 1 will tell you!“ He raised his eyebrows, nodded “O. K. Spill everything. Just a min ute until I finish here." .But It was not until the food had come that site did find the courage to tell him. Meantime she had bathed and was feeling much better. Several openings for the confession had gone by but each time panic seized her. Meantime Rocky wa* hungry, and very friendly. He was frying to make up for his former nnklndneM. It seemed to Doris. “From the way you talked, while I was telephoning for this mess of vita mlns I thought yon had made up your mind to tell me all.” he said. “1 have.” “Well, why don’t you shoot?” “I’m afraid you won’t believe me.' “Well, have a shot at It." She drew a long breath. “Begin at the beginning.” said Rocky .“and re member 1 don't bite and I don't sting But aside from the fact that I’m prob ably dying of curiosity, don’t tell me if you don’t want to." “sou are decent. I’ve got to tell someone, and you're the first person I’ve met who wouldn’t think I was ah solutely craay If I told "the truth” She cupped her chin in her hand and went one casually. “You see I’ve hurt my memory. I lost It quite suddenly, and t don't know where I came from. | don’t’ know who I am, or even what my name la." . Rocky was looking at her with bls Jaw dropping slightly. "The b—l you say I" She nodded, smiling a ttttle at his astonishment . 4 "Then—my—Lord— maybe yon didn’t know whether you were married to me or not?” Doris smiled ruefully. “1 was reasonably certain as soon as I saw you —you didn’t leave me in much doubt.” “I guess I was pretty brutal” Then she told him everything, unable to evade his quick questioning. He found out how she had been riding In a cab with a man she hated, how she had left him, gone to the Biltmore, been robbed of her money ami met the kind little woman who had said she was her mother-in law. As she finished she took off her wedding ring, and showed him the Inscription on the inside. “So you’re married, too," he said thoughtfully.

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Dean J. H. Skinner, Dean of Agriculture Purdue University

The Indiana State Fair to be one of the greatest educational institutions of Indiana, says Dean Skinner. The Indiana State Fair, which will be held this year frdm Sept. 2 to 8, is a great Mid-West Exposition which no one in the state who can possibly get

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there can afford to miss. This is , true of the city man and woman as well as the 180.000 farmers and their families who till the acres in our great Hoosier state. With the economic situation in re gard to agriculture changing so fast, no producer of foodstuffs can afford to be without'the latest information on production and marketing of the crops they- produce. New information is being developed from time to time and from day to day the picture is changing for agriculture as it is for business. Evidences of the “new deal” are everywhere about us. The Indiana State Fair, which always has served as a great educational force for the people of our state, is more important than ever this year. The information one may glean from the educational and the, commercial exhibits is decidedly worthwhile. The agriculture, livestock and farm machinery displays are second to none in America. The State Fair Girls’ School and the boys and girls 4-H club work shows the valuable work the young people from Indiana farms are doing. The display put on by Purdue University alone is worth a trip to the fair for any farmer and his family from any part of the state. Only one idea picked up from any of the displays should mean more to any farmer than the cost of his trip to the fair. My suggestion is to make your plans early to visit the fair, bring your questions along and you are assured of a satisfactory answer. This is only one of the many things the State Fair offers and remember, that it exists solely for the common good ’of all the people of our state. If you do not visit the fair and take advantage of what it has to offer, you are overlooking something that not only will offer a pleasaht trip for the family but also Something worthwhile for every man, woman and child “To somebody I hate—or at least I think so.” Rocky considered. “It ought to be easy enough to find out who you are. You look to me like a girl witlji a large devoted family. Probably all out looking for you? Didn’t you look in the pnjiers to see if there was anything about a missing girl?" “Your far'lly doesn't take any- papers." . "H—l. that’s right. One of the old eccentricities.” His eyes were ten der. “Sav. this is a <l—n shame. I’ll make Inquiries at the jmlice station, and we’ll find out who you are tn no time. Then if you don’t like your husband—you th n’t have to go hack to him. do you?" Doris felt frightened. ”1 don't kmav, There was something dreadful —yod know once I was listening to the radio, and something was sAid. In the news of the day I think it was. that- brought it all back to only* for a second.^then I fainted. It seems as if there is anmething so awtill in my past that I just don’t dare to remember It.” Rocky reassured her. “Dh thM Isn’t very likely, Doris. You’ve been badly shocked. Perhaps you were in an accident." “I've thought thatlf I eottld see the papers perhaps there would be something in them that would help me to remember." “That's an Idea. Ruppbslng we go ont now and buy some papers. It’s much cooler now.” He walked to the long windows and looked down into the street. “We can ride around or something." He looked at her over his shoulder. “Would you like to go and see some girls waving their legs around in the theater? Plenstv letX” She laughed. “Os course; I’d love to." “You're sure? You're positive we oughtn't to sit around and fie tragic this, evening?" He lumped up "Then we're off? I won’t be two shakes." But It was later than they thought when they emerged finally oh the street. They rode over to Broadway In a cab. buying the World-Telegram from a newsboy. In the lobby Doris had a moment to look It over but she found nothing that roused her memory. “1 can't get over the way you Impressed Father." said Rockv during the Intermission. “He was absolutely

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nuts about you He looked down at her happily. ‘ Too didn’t And anything in the paper?” "Nothing seemed to rouse anv echo Rut I did see one comforting thing—an advertisement by a Reno divorce lawyer saying you ''an now get a divorce out there in sis weeks!” “Really? Yes. I remember they did pass a. law like that last year.. Well, that means you can get rid of the man In the cab if he should turn out to he your husband. sjieaklng of men. there are two men in the back of the theater that can’t -take their eyes off yon.” “Where? Perhaps they know me?” Doris screwed around hopefully, but the curtain was rising. As they camb out o's the theater the street was filled with people in evening dress, the women holding their short gay jackets about them. “You know, everybody Is staring at you." said Reeky teasingly as they stood beside the curb. He took her arm as he spoke and she felt a warm protecting glow which seemed to come from his tall body. She looked up at him smiling “Per haps they know me!’* “No—they didn’t act like that More as if they were pointing out a celebrity.” “Where are they?” , “Hey wait a minute&here’s our cah. young lady.” he sroliied. “Hon In and don’t Jump away like that again. Pm a nervous fellah” “But those women—” “Hop in." He lifted her gently off her feet and set her in the cab” A minute later he was beside her. having told the driver to go to a certain speakeasy. . “Rut Rocky—if those people were pointing me out 1t must h.xve been for some reason.” . Rocky settled himself beside her and drew out a cigarette. "Well can tlldly. Raby. I didn't like their looks If they were friends of yours, you’re better off without them, ami while I don’t want to be melodramatic—”• In the gayety of the evening she had forgotten her old conviction that some thing terrible lav in her pas' from which memory had mercifully shut her out. , Rocky laid his hand over hers “For give me." he said. “I was foolish not to go up to those people, bq: I had a hunch-just a feeling— not 0o It.” The cab had stopped at a red light A small boy was darting between the lined-up cars holding out papers. “Oh. Rocky, we forgot about tht tabloids. Let's h>ok in.” "O. K.,’’ said Rocky, feeling In bls pockets. “I've been away so long 1 don't know what the latest scandals are myself.” The urchin jumped on the running board and sold his paper* Dpris’ eyes dropped to the head lines: KILLER BRIDE'S GUN FOUND Diane Merrell’s Father Identifier Gun Discovered on Ferry Boat. The papers slid to the floor For a moment she remembered She knew everything, then she collapsed. She" crumbled into a heap on the taxicab floor, -moaning and clutching Rocky’s knees. When she came to her senses she •was lying across the bed in Rocky's apartment while he leaned over her with- anxious, fear-stricken eyes. "You fainted." ; “Yes —it was; ft was some)hing—" she could not go on. she could not re member what it . was; _ She closed her eves, sighed. “How did 1 got here?” He flushed. "I carried you. Yon were unconscious.” "You were kind." She was too ex hausted to say more. Nor could she bring herself to mention the papers Just as she had forgotten the wordsover the radio, she had again forgotten the headlines In the paper. Her mind seemed to refuse to go hack toward them. She knew that some thing too horrible for contemplation had been revealed to her. She didn’t have the strength to t|iink altont It. Then she saw that 'he was very excited. He walked around the room picking up things, throwing them down. He seemed beside himself with some new strange emotion. “What’s wrong?” He sat down in a chair, biting his lips. He hardly noticed her question She repeated: “What's the matter?" He rose and came to the bedside Seating himself beside her he took her hand. But there was something odd and unconscious in the gesture. “Tell me everything again< Every single thing you remember.” She fixed her dark eyes on his. and something In his earnest seriousness made her begin again. She rehearsed the whole story: the man in the cah her hatred, her Insane desire to get away from him. “The man in the cab? Th* man tn

the cab!" Rocky was pacing the floor again. “What did he look like? fm sure he’s a dark horse” Wondering!? Doris described him “Axe you positive you can't remember a thing about your, real husband?’ His eyes looked careworn and anxious. Her face reflected hits troubled state. “Xo. Not a thing.” He shook his head. “It’s very ter rible.” “Tell me?" “I don't know what to do. I know I ought to—” he paused, resumed his restless pacing. . “What ought you to/lo?" He turned on l^nr grimly. “Well, something I'm not ffiving to do." She could stand tfn more. .’’Rocky, have you found our who I ‘ “Supposing I have found out?’! She was silent. “It must he some thing pretty awful," >he said aftef a pausb. • ' “I don’t know what to She pulled a cushion from behind her shoulders wearily. “You’d better tell me.” Still he walked up and down. “You’ve got to trust me.” He had reached that far In his rea soning: that he could not telli her what he knew, and that she would have to do what he thought was best for her. She sighed. It had been sucji a long hard day, taxing mentally and physi rally. She could not rouse herself to greater effort. . She dozed, slept a little and woke to find him standing with all her luggage in the middle of the floor, a paint brush In his hand. She watched him take a knife and begin to whittle het- bag, on which were the initials D. V. She spoke sharply. “What are von doing?" He kept on working at it, “Better go hack to sleep. Baby. You're going to need all the rest you can get." “Rocky, what are you doing?” “Wantonly wrecking your prop erty” “I see that. But Why?" “I'm going to paint everything black Now look here. Baby, there are a lot of things you don't understand. And this is one of theni. Turn over, close your pretty eyes and go back ro sleep” Doris swung her feet over the side of the bed. “You’re crazy If y«w think I’m going to let 'you spoil my bags lik—that." "You spoke just too late, lady” He began to apply black enamel over the outside. “Raby ?* “What’” (TO BE CONTINUED )

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