The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14

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SO that no one will ever forget them!
I'll teach you, you young Office
vamp, that you can't do this to me
and get away with it, Her scorn
of Mary Rose was in her voice.
'Margery, this is absurd" Mr..
recovered himself. And he straight
ened up and put on eyeglasses that
always added 10 per cent to his dig
nifty.
"Absur! I'll show you whether
it's absurd or not"' snapped his
wife.
you thought I'd knuckle down
and let you carry on with this girl
as long as you wanted, didn't your"
she asked him, leaning over the desk.
You thought I'd do what poor Lydia
Murfin did when that jumping jack
she was married to ran off with the
grass widow, didn't you? Let you
have your little fling, and then take
| you back! Or. better still, you
thought you were smart enough to
keep it from me, didn't you?"
Dexter had nothing to say for him
self, but Mary Rose had made up
her mind that if she died for it, she
would have her say, and have it
now. She got up.
Mrs. Dexter, I don't know what
you're talking about she said,
looking the woman straight in the
eyes. There's mistake some
where"
Mrs. Dexter flung up her hands as
| If in despair Il didn't expect you
| to tell the truth" she remarked. "A
girl who'd try to steal man from
his family could hardly be expected
to be honest, in any way. But
have all the proof / need, so lie all
you want to! 1t won't help you""
| Proof Proof? What proof >of the
love affair between Dexter and Flos-
sic could Mrs. Dexter have? For
by this time Mary Rose realized, as
Dexter did, that Mrs. Dexter had
heard about F'lossie running around
with her husband-and thought that
she, Mary Rose, was Flossie.
She wondered, confusedly, II AL
| ice James had found out that F'los-
sic had had her fired from the
company, and had made up her mind
to get even with Flossie by telling
Mrs. Dexter what she knew about
her. That must be it.
Mrs. Dexter was speaking again:
I'm nobody's fool, even if you think
I am" she said shortly, as If the
remark gave her great comfort.
1--WE been the brains of this COM
pany for years, and / hold most of
the stock in my name! So if you
think you're marrying a fortune
when you get Hilary Dexter, you're
mighty mistaken. Without me- he's
just the ordinary little automobile
repair man he was when married
him. She snapped her fingers.
| At that moment Miss Minnick
drifted past the door, looking in as
she passed, her eyes round with ex-
element. Presently Adolph, the Of
flee boy, did the same thing.
"This has gone for enough" Mary
Rose decided suddenly. and she
sprang up and~closed the door
With her back to lit, she faced
Mrs. Dexter. please let me say
something" she pleaded. her hands
outstretched. You're all wrong
you're all wrong, I've never been
out with your husband in all my
life, Mrs. Dexter! He's a very nice
man"
''I'm glad you think SOL Mrs.
Dexter smiled, sarcastically.
Hes a very nice man, but he
doesn't interest me in the least"
Mary Rose went on as calmly as she
could. IT hardly ever see him
around the Office. ] haven't talked
to him more than dozen times in
all my life"
That's God truth, Margery. She
hasn't" Mr.. Dexter put in his oar.
He nodded solemnly.
"We'll leave God out of this,
Hilary Dexterv' said his wife. IF
you'd gone to church with me little
oftener, instead of playing golf and
poker all day Sunday, you wouldn't
be the creature you are today. You'd
have some notion of what you owe
your family, perhaps. When !
think of those girls of ours, and
that nice boy growing up, I wonder
that you could do the things you've
been doing! You should have been
an example to them, and instead OF
that, you're a disgrace"
A change came over Mr.. Dexter's
fiorid face ''Margery, you haven't
told a word of this to the children,
surely?"
| Mrs. Dexter laughed shrilly. ooh,
haven't II" she asked. why, OF
course, I have! Why shouldn't they
know about. yoli-and what you've
done to their mother?"
Mr.. Dexter seemed to shrink. He
hung his iron gray head.
"And you'd do this to me, just on
some gossip's say-so-" he muttered.
Gossip. nothing Mrs. Dexter
snorted, throwing up her handsome
chin. IT have tangible proof that
you were out with this woman who
works for you, only last night-last
night when you said you were busy
at the office! And I believed you
that's what makes me so furious
She turned to Mary Rose.
| DENY it-deny that you were in
my husbands car last night, If you
can, you young hussyr' she said.
"Why, certainly Ill deny iti''