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Mrs. Westcott. though q lady.
surely, was not so smartly gowned
az Mrs. Deane. and wore fewer
jewels. AS Nancy had expected,
she looked like her son. They
had the same black eyes. Mrs.
Deane left again and Nancy did
not see her until it was time to
leave.
For nearly two hours she sat
working, the silence broken only
when she had to ask a question,
or was given some direction by
Mrs. Wescott. All the time the
urge to stand up and scream,
to fling her pen across the room,
welled within her. She wanted
to get out of this house, away
from these people whose ways
she didn't understand.
They were women. who should
be kind and sympathetic, inter
ested in a girl of her age. And
the" were as indifferent AS
though she weren't breathing the
same air. They were the kind
who acknowledged no beauty in
peoDlc out of their class, outside
of their circles.
How they were binding them
selves to things, the real things.
thai were so close to them. AS
close as the distance that sepa.
rated them from the "gar-ul"
from Howard Wescotts office.
Caroline Glendenning-D eane sons
child his was, and a girl to whom
Louise Wescott's son, Howard, had
been making love.
II was for this little girl that
Howard Wescott had so soliti-
ciously helped find an apartment,
tina. was clean and quiet and
pleasant! That she might learn
her SecretariaI' duties quickly.
Whatever imp of fortune it
was who brought these three
people into the same room must
have laughed with a wicked glee.
II believe that will be all for
today" Mrs. Deane said at last,
you may go now"
She rang for the maid and
turned to converse with Mrs.
weScctt.
The maid brought Nancy her
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black felt hat, her coat. She held
the coat so that the women
should not see the worn lining.
She might have spared herself
the effort. Neither OF them looked
" as she stood before the mir.
ror to pat her hair ami give q
dab Of rouge to her cheeks. She
hardly heard them answer when
she said goodbye. IT was such
a restrained, toneless goodbye
she uttered. Nancy didn't know
her own voice.
Once outside she started to run.
Shc felt she must fly from that
house a. far as her legs could
carry her. She was pent up,
suffocat ting. She was exhausted
when she ran up the three flights
Of stairs at the Carmondy and
into theh ever untidy room Of
Ginger Warden.
"Jimminy Gee, thought you'd
never get here" Ginger said.
"Vic and Jerry have been ring
ing the telephone off the wall.
ColIette's going to throw another
party tonight. Vic wanted to go
on. TO Waukesha first. You
know-that place whore We
stopped once. He's got to see
somebody in that big house off
in the trees"
Ginger said this, mockingly,
with a jerk Of her thumb over
her shoulder. Nancy knew what
her inference was. The house
back in the trees was Vic's source
Of supply. the factory" where
he left orders for his customers.
Ginger. can't. I'm going
home tonight. I've got to catch
the Sis train, something has
happened"
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her fingers. The water dripped
off the fine damask cloth onto
the faded carpet in . fOrlorn.
slow trickle. She pushed her
chair back--stood up, pointing q
thick, trembling finger at Joan.
Boys! It's come to that all
ready. Boys You poor, misguided
girl! And moneydOn' talk to
me about your mothers share.
IL I hadn't been the business man
OF this family, investing and saw
ing like. have
But you did lose on that oil
stock Babe quavered.
That word--oil-was enough to
madden Evvie. She had never ad-
n1itted, even to herself, how much
she had lost on that. She had
plunged to recover the losses on
the cactus farm lands and the
Gloria real estate
The last vestige Of her self-con-
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has beenrs Again the thick
finger pointed al the shrinking
Joan. n don't want that ali
ovsr again-do yoO hear me? 4
won't have it.
You won't have what?"
.sEvyie, for my sake please
Babes frizzed gray head was
down on the table now. Little
signs and means. Stifled sobs.
Her thin-veined hand reached for
her handkerchief.
And Joan, her cheeks flaming.
her tawny hair pushed back.
painting. Tell. me -you've got
to tell me now--you've got to-
EvvIA leaned forward, her heavy
black brOws drawn together. tell
you! Yes, I'll tell you. It's high
time you took warning. You're
your mothers daughter. You're
Veronica Van Fleet all over again.
/ can see 1t. You're beginning to
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She dove under the bed to
reach for her suitcase.
You've got to go homer"
Ginger dropped her magazine
with its cover Of blazing colors.
Well, il you don't get tho steam
heated pajAmas for bein' a sur
prise baby. You've got me going
sideways half the time. Why,
kiddo. I'm the short time I've
known you more things have hap
pened to you than happened to
me in six months. An you just
a country kid. Say, what's the
rush act now?"
Ginger" Nancy said Some
thing very unexpected has hap
pened. My mother needs me. I
can't tell you what 1t is. But I
must 60"
mystery Mamie" Ginger ex-
claimed and leaned back on her
lounge with all the airs of a movie
actress as she picked up her
magazine. She knew how to mind
her business and it looked now
as though she were going to
mind it with a vengeance.
'Don't be offended. please"
Nancy asked. "I'Il probably be
back in q few days and then I'll
tell YOU all about it. Ginger it's
something so near to me that l
can't let it go. It's about some
thing that nobody in the world
knows but Mud and Dairy and l.
Don't you understand Ginger"
Ginger got UP from her lounge
and came over to Nancy to put
her arms around her.
sure. kiddo. ! know. I under
stand. What you want to do is
vour own business, only it's .
little disappointing, that's all. I'm
all set for a party IL ever I WAS.
and, well, it seems that we four
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fault / can't go anywhere then
you want TO stop that"
"Joan.' Aunt Babe was hold
ing her head, crying weakly.
Joan, my heart, / can't stand
it!'
Babe! Keep out OF this, viii
your" Evvie's face was purple.
Her hand on the water goblet at
her place was shaking.
Joan went right on. needless Of
them. Il never had any fun. I'm
the only girl in the school now
that can't dance. / don't even
know a boy. Every girl know
goes to dancing class ON Wednep.
days. 1t doesn't cost much.
guess all my mothers share Of
grandfather's money isn't gone.
She'd have let me go-she'd
know How am / ever to meet
any boys. when I can't.
Aunt Evvie's glass snapped In
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act like her. She was boy crazy.
She danced her way to the devil.
I promised my mother on her
deathbed I'd see YOU didn't so the
same way. and wiI-if ! have
to send you to reform school
to do it.
what waywhat did my
mother dot.
ON, God IN heavenp' moaned
sBabe. Look down upon these
s.oh, shut up, Babe! Babe
doesn't want me to say your
mother stole Peter Hastings away
from her, though why. after all
Stl1ie time
sEvvie please please
Aunt Babe and my father
Joan faltered.
Engaged" Eyvie snapped.
She was enjoying it now. She was
getting even with the dead Ver-
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troll vanished. Don't show your
ignorancer' she snarled 1T Babs.
"We'd all be in the poorhoGse
now il 1t wsan't for me. Now
keep out OF this. I'm going to
settle Joan Hastings right now.
I'm talking about boys--boys!
she's boy-struck like her mother
Do you hear me, you silly girl?
It's boys I'm trying to save you
from. we lived doWn one dis
grace in this family"
.Evvie.n Babe was pleading.
Her hands were cIasped. After
all these years--nobody knows.
You wouldn't tell her."
'Nouldn't L? It's been told ut
every tea party we didn't 90 10
for seventeen years, and don't You
ever think it hasn't. skeleton IN
the closet! Bah! Skeleton on the
clothes lines-that's what ours
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1Dear little Ann - He
could think OF nothing else to
say. The night seemed chill sud.
denly and he glanced about,
wishing he might go back to the
cottage. But she was holding him.
half lying in hts arms, and he
could not disturb her without
seeming abrupt. uneasiness was
Snawins at his spirit; he began
TO feel that he had not been en-.
tirely circumspect. The girl had
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filled with tears. I'm glad" she
whispered. so glad for you"
Her head dropped. rested against
his shoulder; she was smiling
little, watching him under her
lashes.
He kissed her agaiYl-heard her
catch a breath--felt her lips, shy
and sweet, returning the kiss.
ooh, Benny" she sighed. You
do care! I'm 30 happy--so very.
yeFy happy
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brought him . surge Of relief;
he would have got up, gone to
meet the returning party, had
not AIMS little hands closed ON
his arm in q grip surprisingly
strong. Not yet. Benny. Wait
till they're in. So wonderful. be-
ing here with you, I don't want
to lose q minute OF IT."
But" he objected nervouBly,
what shall we tell them? Ex.
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taken those couple Of kisses
more seriously than he wished
she would. The result Of mex
perience. But. good heavens. had
she never been kissed before?"
He tried to disengage himself,
pretending to search himself for
a handkerchief. But she tave
him hers, playfully, and he settled
back.
Then the sound Of motors
The Washington times., 1928-09-17
What DO You KnOIu?
ANSWERS TO TODAY'S TEST

Questions Editorial Page
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at banquet beneath single hair 1889
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ke Kevolts. Menelaus Foreign IL Dessert. IL.
Rome. ID. Fire. II. Wasta.
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How Much Of Her Past Must Girl Tell
the Man She Wants to Marry?
That Is JOan's Problem

Nvh0ae Serial ''The Secret Stndio." Made Nation

Whose Serial The Secret ctuuu. Haus !" 4,aS '
CHAPTER l.
<ET DON'T want any fooshness, Aunt Evvie used to
saw when Joan child begged for pet or play,
mate. And Il don't want any foolshness, she still
a5d when l7-vearod asked for silk stockings per-
mission to stay and play tennis after school
That settled it. SO far Aunt Evvie concerned But
sfooshness is easily settled when you are IL ana
it :. spring. - -,
Ii was April The Iacs the old Van Fleet Place had
burst into bloom night Yesterday they were tight
bs and now the feahery blossoms sprayed the
summer house and drpped glorious purple tide onto the
The Washington times., 1928-09-17

that really should write
Sues after all She had had much
particularly heD
what needed This OF hers has the fitted lines that
hesskir On the
ruff
Of
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trouble
How could she
like
to
Snftd maYa also he noted
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Chinese Alphabet Longest Of Any

The worlds onest alphabet Chinese 10000 charac
ere each representing but syllable The SanskIC
the Persian 45 the French To- ana ne
Spanish, q. s4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
MONOPLANE OUT TO
SET NEW RECORDS

Roosevelt Field, N. Y, in "a hours
and So minutes. The previous
eaSt-weSt record of 26 hours
and so minutes was set by Lieut5.
MacReady and Kelley in 1926.
Three months ago the Yankee
Doodle, with a different pilot, set a
mark of Is hours and So minutes
for the flight from California to
New York. On that occasion Art
Goebel, winner of the Dole flight
to Hawaii, was at the controls. Tuck
er is owner of the plane and has
ridden on all its record-breaking
flights.
When the two fliers arrived they
showed the strain of their Is hours
in the air. They were deafened
temporarily by the roar of their
motors. The plane, however, was
in good shape and received none OF
the damage which it sustained in
GoebePs unsuccessful attempt TO
make the westward nonstop flight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
RED CROSS TO MEET
Four Regional Sessions on
Schedule Next Month.

Red Cross chapters of Indiana
will meet at four regional confer
ences in the state next month to
discuss activities of the organization
DR.. H. B. Wilson. Junior Red
Cross national director, and Will
liam Carl Hunt, eastern area as
sistant manager, will speak at each
conference.
A conference will be held at
Seymour Monday in the Lutheran
clubhouse, the Rev. Paul Million,
ShelbSville chapter president, pre-
siding.
There will be a conference at
Terre Haute Tuesday in the Deming
hotel, the Rev. Vincent L. Raphael,
Greencastle, presiding.
The Y. w. G. A. residence at
South Bend will be the scene of
a conference Wednesday. DR.. H. N.
Evans, Porter county chapter chair
man, will preside.
w. ]. Golightly, chairman of the
Howard county chapter, will pre-
side at a conference Thursday in
the Masonic temple at Muncie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
REAL CLEANUP
FOR CITY HALL
But It'll Be for Walls, Not
Inmates.
City hall will get a real cleanup.

City hall will get a real cleanup.
The -four walls" inside which city
councilmen, officials and ordinary
employees spend weary hours mind
ing the city'S business are to lose
their faded, smoke-stained hues.
The board of works and Chris
Hoffman, city hall custodian, will
see to that. Although it may take
months, all inside walls are to be
painted.
No provision was made for paint
for the city building in the 1929
budget, so the board of works and
Hoffman will travel in round about
ways to accomplish their purpose.
Hoffman now has his janitors a.
work cleaning the walls in their
spare time. Two painters on the
payroll of Street Commissioner
Charles A. Grossart are to be bor-
rowed.
The board of works probably will
approve bond issue for the $4,000
or $4,000 necessary to buy the
paints and varnishes.
City hall walls once were green
and tan, when the present coat of
paint was applied ten or twelve
years ago, but Hoffman's taste runs
to lighter tintS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
WILL BE
PLUTOCRATS BRIDE

Johnson of London and New York,
was confirmed today by Mrs
Thomas Mccormick, the girls
mother.
Lawson-JohnSon was reported en-
route to New York for the ceremony
at ST. Patrick's rectory within two
weeks, but at the Mccormick home
it was said no definite date mad
been set. Miss Mccormick is now in
New York with another sister, Mar
garet.
LAWSON Johnson, reputed to be
worth $40000,000, was divorced a
year ago from the former Barbara
Guggenheim, daughter of Solomon
r. Guggenheim, railroad and copper
magnate.
The first intimation Of the ro-
nance came from the former Mrs.
Lawson Johnson, who said in New
York recently that her divorced hus-
band was contemplating a second
marriage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
Philadelphia Next on List,
for Parade and Night
Speech Saturday.
HOPES MOUNT HIGHER
New EngIand'S Reception
Greatly HeartenS
Candidate.
BY PAUL R. MALLON


NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Governor
Alfred E. Smith settled down for
short rest here today, preparing for
swing Saturday into the second
maneuver of his battle of the At
lantic Seaboard."
The Democratic presidential NOM
inee will leave here around noon
tomorrow for Philadelphia, a
staunch Republican stronghold,
where he will parade and deliver
a night speech.
He intends TO move from there to
the country home Of his campaign
manager, John j. Raskob, near Cen
treville, Md. He will remain at
Raskob's place over Sunday, going
into Baltimore Monday for a parade
and another night speech.
Smith probably will remain all
night Monday at Baltimore, because
he dislikes to sleep on trains and
viii return to New York Tuesday,
TO concentrate his efforts the final
week before election in the metro
politan area.
He will speak at Newark probably
Wednesday night, Brooklyn Friday
and Madison Square Garden Satur-
day, winding up his campaign with
big rally there.
It is a hectic closing schedule,
including its five speeches within
eight days and more of the hectic
parades such as he met on his New
England tour.
He denied himself to all callers
at his hotel home this morning,
working leisurely on his Philadelphia
address which his friends say will
be another shot at the state social
ism" charges hurled at his campaign
by the Republicans.
The happy warrior" is happier
now after his New England speech.
If there was any air of resignation
about his personal party before, it
has been dissipated by the unprec-
edented political receptions he re-
Gently has received and the volume
of kilograms which have deluged
his train. At one stop last night
thirty-five kilograms addressed to
him were taken aboard.
He and his friends claim, and they
really believe, change has been
wrought in the general political at
titude of certain sections of the
country. They base this belief not
only on the reports from the farm
belt, where Senator George Norris
of Nebraska is taking up the Smith
cudgel, but also on the impressions
they received during the last two
days in Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land and Connecticut-three ordi-
narily staid Republican states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
Street Cleaning Unit Will
Get ID Motor Trucks
for Next Year.

Within a few months King Auto
mobile will conquer another city de-
partment.
Street Commissioner Charles A.
Grossart is making plans for motor
ization of the street cleaning de-
partment.
Funds for the motorization are
provided in the 1929 city budget and
$48,500 will be available for that
purpose Jan. 1.
Grossart plans to buy fourteen
motor trucks. The chug-chug Of
the fourteen trucks will replace the
whinnies Of eighteen span of mules.
But the change, street cleaning
department officials believe, will re-
suit in greater efficiency in the de-
partment and cleaner streets for the
city, in addition to aiding a more
modern note to the city'S auditory
effects.
Cost of motor equipment will be
saved the city within a year, Will
liam Schoenrog, chief clerk of the
department, believes. Not only will
the city save in mule costs" but in
the cost of manpower. The same
number of workmen, with the adj
vantage of the faster motor equip
ment, will be able to cover more ter
ritory in a less time.
The mules of the city street clean
ing department long have been a
bone of contention and profit to pol
iticians, old-time city hall frequent
erS recall.
The feeding of the city mules or
privilege of renting to the city their
own animals has been eagerly sought
by politicians of the Empower fac
ton in former administrations.
The city barns on Shelby street
where the mules are housed, also
has stirred much trouble. Residents
of the neighborhood have waged
many unsuccessful campaigns to get
the mules moved elsewhere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
Blind MAY VOTE
Physically Handicapped Will
Be Cared For.

Physical handicaps do not prevent
any citizen of legal age from voting
Nov. 6, election commissioners said
today.
Several queries have been received
by them asking how persons who
are deaf, crippled or blind, can vote.
The solution is this: If you are
blind or crippled so that you can
not handle the voting machine, you
have the right to ask for instruc-
tons from the Democratic and Re-
publican clerks at the voting places.
In any case, both c'-~ks must be
consulted and they have the power
to enter the booth and aid the voter
in operating the machine. Com
missioners emphasized the point
that both clerks must be in the
booth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
BOOSTS PEACE PACT
Columbia Professor Talks to
Educators Here.

Declaring that public opinion
should show congress that the
American people stand for the
Briand-Kellogg peace pact as a
genuine American ideal, DR.. James
T. Shotwen of Columbia university
addressed a group Of history pro-
fessors, educators and supporters Of
international peace at Central
library Thursday night.
1.-THE Briand-Kellogg pact affords
the American people O. great re-
sponsibility," said Shotwell. The
lecture was sponsored by the In
diana council on international re-
lations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
CAMERON TO
PROBE using
OF HIS court
Judge Wants to Know If
Politics Entered Into
Filing of Cases.
SO NEGROES ARRESTED
IS Per Cent Should Have
Been Booked Before
Wetter, He Says.
So NEGROES ARRESTED

An inquiry to determine II his
court was used for political maneu-
vering in the filing of cases of sixty
nine Negroes, arrested last week
end in gambling raids, will be made
Nov. Is, IA and Is, when the trials
are held. Municipal Judge Clifton
r. Cameron promised today.
Seventy-f1ve per cent of the ar
rests were made on the west side of
Meridian street and should have
been slated for trial in Municipal
Judge Paul c. Wetter's court, Cam
eron declared.
Police Chief Claude M. Worley
declared he ordered the weekend
raids because he had heard reports
that politicians had spread the word
about the Negro districts that the
gamblers could run wide open until
election.
mot So" said Worley, in effect.
mo one can use my police depart
ment to play for the Negro vote in
next months election"
Why? Asks the Judge
But the question Judge Cameron
now is asking, in effect, is:
why did Chief Worley's police
officers slate all those arrested for
hearings in my court, when the
majority should have gone before
Judge Wetter?"
The two municipal judges who
handle police cases have a work.
Ing agreement that one month one
judge will handle all the cases
originating west of Meridian street
and the other all east of Meridian
The next month the districts shift.
This month Cameron's district is
east OF Meridian. Although rs per
cent of the arrests were made west
Of the dividing line, according to
records, the police arrest slips
turned over to the turkeys mark
the arrests for Stating in Camerson's
court.
Democratic observers at police
station charge that henchmen OF
George V. Coffin aided the release
OF the alleged gamblers on bond and
helped to see that all got ATTORNEYS
He had no choice but to continue
the cases until the dates set. which
are after election, because his docket
Is crowded and attorneys for the
defendants are busy on the few
open dates he has before the No.
vember dates picked, Cameron said
Club Over Heads
Police station Democrats point out
that whatever faction brought about
the arrest Of the men now can hold
f1nal dispositions of the cases over
their heads as a means of attempt
ing to control the Negro votes.
He will ask police officers and
turnkeyS who directed them why
they slated so many prisoners in his
court instead of Wetter's, when the
cases come to trial, Cameron said.
The only reason Chief Worley
could give for the mistakes in Stat
ing was that perhaps the officers
steered clear Of Wetter's court be-
cause ''Wetter treats the officers too
harShly."