The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-28

Storyofa Modern Girl
and a Million Dollars

summer house, a miniature OF the
Petite Trianon of Versailles. This
spacious summer house, with It's
broad porches and crystal windows
was famous along the Riviera In
legends more or less romantic. When
the grounds of Villa Annette were
thrown open to some exotic revel
the house in the Annette Trlanon
was the center of bizarre festivi-
ties. From it's porches one might
look along far stretches OF the deep
blue Mediterranean, and weave many
idle fancies about the snakc-ilKe
ships coming in from Suez or steal
ing along to Corsica.
Joanna dropped onto a step De-
meath a window and, with her custo-
mary trick of pulling up her knees
and resting her chin in them, fell
into a profound study. She did not
notice when her riding crop slid
from her listless fingers, nor when
Martha, who had been observing
her, came across the lawns and STUD
bornly spread the cape, which was
heavy enough to BATTLE the always
cool sea breezes, around her slim
shoulders.
OF what Teddy had said to her
only one thing hurt bit. The talk
among that circle of butterflies and
butterfly hunters which make up
the gay colony of gamblers
gamblers in love of one kind or
another as we'll as in money of the
only kind-that credited her with
deliberately stealing" from Yvonne.
one by one, that rich company OF
devotees whose constant hanging on
about her had classified them as her
own particular army of serviceable
gallants. It, was true, of course.
Brandon, for whom, she knew,
Yvonne would have sold whatever
soul she had Roddy Kenilworth,
who had once been much to Yvonne
Coutant, and who, for some strange
reason, might still command her
when he chose, to drop his gallant
mask and tear hers aside; Michael,
the Russian, who had saved his
fortune from the debacle at st.
Petersburg and had been generous
with it to Yvonne's benefit; one or
two others who fluttered around her
in London and Paris and who
counted in a lesser way, and, even,
Teddy Dorminster himself-for there
always had been, before. a sort of
genuine affection between Teddy
and Yvonne which Yvonne had
called upon at those times when she
was little tired of everything. All
of these had made a corral of her
own treasure chest and had climbed
into it, each with his separate man.
ner, and separate intent.
Yet Yvonue had never revealed
the slightest gesture of concern. In
deed, there were times when Joanna
fancied that she gloried in the tickle
ness of her satellites. 1t was almost
as if she deliberately invited it. And,
then, there were other times, Joanna
reflected, when she had surprised
the WEAKNESS in the dense black
eyes of the woman who had been
from her perspective, the ideal pat
tern in the minds of Miss Twenty
Seven and her excessively modern
kind.
~ GAMMA had become so accus-
toned to riddles that she
Ay wouldn't fight them too long
when they persisted in battling her.
A quick, nervous shrug OF her
shoulders was the sign that which
ever way things went they'd get to
where they were going anyway. She
reached for her riding crop which
lay a. her feet. While she was
clasping 1t she was conscious OF
voices that floated out from the rose
hung window just above her.
She would have called out merrily,
for one of the voices was that Of
Yvonne, but one word pierced her
brain as sharply as a sudden shock.
Yvonne was saying-John! Her
mind just escaping from the thrall
of her reverie, 1t was caught and
held again. Joanna was totally un-
conscious, for a time, that she was
listening. Yvonne was saying:
II don't imagine his coming will
make much of difference. II he
told her Of this visit, or II she knew
Of it, she haas not mentioned it. ]
doubt If she knows. 1t isn't a
thing she would be secretive about"
The other voice was Brandon's:
Nevertheless, he will have to be
reckoned with. She hasn't seen him
since she left America, and the situa-
ton is changed now. John Wilmore
isn't the fumbling pauper student he
was a year ago. He's aroused the
popular enthusiasm. He is suff.-
cient Of a celebrity to be acclaimed
in Europe.
THE homage people are paying
him probably has ironed out some
of the kinks In that contorted phil.
osophy which irritated her when she
wanted to find out how fast pace
she could go. He'll probably measure
up fairly decently now"
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