The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-28


he meets"
There's gentleman to see you,
Miss Daring" said Mrs. jenkins,
appearing in the doorway. The way
in which she said gentleman" was
a subtle reflection on the condition
of joys other callers.
Joyce went down.
Good evening, Mr.. Deland," she
held out her hand.
Miss Daringv' Carter took her
hand and Joyce momentarily ex-
pected him to kiss it. He bowed.
"You are looking your usual beau
tiful SELF" he said.
Joyce dimpled. "In spite of two
days without seeing you," she
Knocked.
"Now you are testing with my
poor DEVOTION" he answered with
a mournful look, so apparently sin
cere that Joyce felt a twinge of con-
science.
He laughed at her downcast face,
and she joined him. The laugh
cleared the air and Joyce suddenly
felt on very good terms with him.
They went out to his waiting Inn
CUISINE.
He leaned forward to speak to the
driver through the speaking tube
ITO the Cleveland" he directed.
wen have dinner there in the grill
room where it is quiet and where we
can talk" he explained to Joyce.
Then he smiled at her.
~ went down to New Haven from
New York and found Deke rambling
around the Yale campus like a lost
soul. I asked him at once what was
the matter and he said, my girls
given me a shut eye, Carter
"She's given you up for a hand
somer man." told him.
Meaning yourself?" he asked me
at confessed that I had absorbed
all your time since he had left and
that 1 hoped you would write tc
him while was away because
expected to keep you buster thar
ever when I got back. He seemed
relieved and I gathered there was
really serious rival in the offing
Is there?"
Joyce thought of Davey.
81 suppose there is" she admit
ted.
Then I'm doing my old friend
Deke real service to take youi
mind from-Davey Tompkins; that's
his name, isn't it,"
"Why, how did you know" cried
Joyce off her guard.
"a little bird told me. Well,
can hardly think of a nobler and
at the same time pleasanter task
than to keep you from thinking toe
much of this Davey."
Does Deke look well?" Joyce
asked, disturbed in her mind as to
the real meaning of Carriers banter.
Rather pale and thin" Carter
teased her. "As though he were
not eating much"
You're making fun of me now, "
Joyce pouted.
my dear young lady," Carter
protested, II wouldn't for the
world!
Eyes you would" said Joyce, wink
ing back tears. "You let me wear
that expensive dress and everybody
said you'd bought it for me and l
thought it only cost twenty-five dol
lars. AS you sent all those pretty
things when you know how silly it
will look for me to sendethem back
even if 1 don't want them. I don't
want them either, not one of them,
nor that old dress either" she was
half sobbing now and hating herself
for this lapse into childisbness.
Carter patted her shoulder and
picked up the speaking tube. Drive
around for a bit, Roberts," he said.
Now see here" he turned to the
weeping girl. "You make me mis-
cradle by acting this way over such
simple thing"
"She said, Miss Truesdale said,
that you were making fool out of
me. She said I had no strength of
character and that you gave me five
hundred dollars worth of jewelry, =
Joyce was too indignant to sob any
longer.
"Now listen to me, Joyce" said
Carter, speaking very firmly. "You
surely are not going to let a sour
old maid cheat you out of the fun
you have coming to you in life. That
is too ridiculous for words. Why
live for her approval?"
"She called Deke's mother, too
Joyce was sobbing again.
"Kind of her-and characteristic, "
commented Carter. May be frank
with you, Miss Daring?"
Joyce nodded.
II am a very lonely man." Carter
began, leaning back in the soft cush.
ions of the car. when I was much
younger I was engaged to a marvel
Gus beautiful and pure girl. On the
very eve of our wedding she died
1t left me a sorrowful and for many
years an embittered man.
II took vow never to marry. But
being a man with some of the pas
sions and desires of a man, I have
taken pleasure as it came to me
Life owes us all that. I may say
that wherever have found pleasure