The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23

HERBERT WARE. but the picture Of an
old sweetheart, CAPTAIN JACK FAR
QUAHAR, turks in her mind. She con-
fides her plight to her friend. DOROTHY
While in France during the war, Lila
had promised Jack that she would be-
back from the front. Jack is reported
dead, and later his insurance is for
warded to Lila, who gives it to disabled
veterans.
Herbert learns of the gift, and Lila
says the money was her uncle's. and was
given in memory of his son. Several
other complications arise over the gift
Lila one day sees GILROY HOLMES,
a wartime buddy of Jack, and she faints.
She learns that jack is not dead and
She meets him, and he invites her to
luncheon. During the meal, Jack asks
Lila to marry him.
While he is explaining his miraculous
escape from death and the ciroum-
stances of his return, Lila is laying her
She doesn't dare tell him she's mar
ried, so she says ste can't marry him
now, because, to save her father from
financial ruin, she has become engaged
Various crises. after this, keep LiIa's
nerves on edge, but she manages to
keep Jack in ignorance of her marriage
and Herbert in ignorance OF Jacks ex-
Fresh excitement is created by May
Varney'S husband, who hears the rumor
of her foreign romance and asks pointed
Jack renews his demands for an early
marriage, and Lila is again beside her
She meets her father, while in Jacks
company, but manages the situation so
that there are no serious consequences;
Jack meet GilroY Holmes.
She bolts, rather than face him. and
later puts Jack on the defensive by say
his friend to her. The worst jolt, how
ever, comes when her father tells her
that Jack frequently lOiterS near the
Latham home. evidently Shadowing some
one.
CHAPTER XXXIV CONTINUED
After a moment, during which
Lila heard the crackle of paper,
Dorothy read:
my darling Lila: I've acted
like brute and boor. I didn't
realize it at the time, because the
man ran across was our good
old friend, Gilroy Holmes. OF
course, you didn't see him in the
crowd, SO you couldn't know. 1
was very angry when I found you
gone; 1 thought it was you who
had deserted me, and I'm afraid
Gil was rather hurt. However,
irnmed ately I received your note
I got in touch with him and he
understands that the whole af-
fair was the result of my negli-
gence. To even things up, I've
arranged for him to have dinner
with us next Wednesday night.
Surely, for one evening, you can
shake off that bounder who claims
to be engaged to you"
Lila groaned aloud.
ooh, Dot, how awful. And after
all my pains to avoid Gill"
There's more" said Dorothy quiz
city. "He writes: Il shall expect
you for tea today at the same hour
and the same place. All my love,
little wife-to-be.'."
"VXTELL," sighed Lila, 81 suppose
w I'll have to go. But I can't
keep this sort of thing up long. I'm
sure to run across somebody I know
who'll spill the beans"
Her mood was thoughtful and dis
trait when Herbert duly delivered
her at her fathers house. She went
at once to her fathers study.
They were not very close, she and
her father. He had always left her
more or less to her own devices;
she'd grown up with governesSeS
and later a companion haperon,
with whom she had dispensed, at
the beginning of the war.
She knew her father only as a
taciturn, Immediately groomed
man who was engrosSed in business
and his clubs, who had given her
beautiful surroundings and too
much freedom for her own good. 1t
would never have occurred to him
to question her friendships, nor to
her to volunteer information or ask
counsel.
He had never even known that
she was engaged to Jack Farquahar
during the war. When Herbert came
along later, she told her father
simply: dad, I'm going to marry
Herbert Ware
Her father was sitting at his desk
when she came in. He rose and
said casually, "AI, Lila, on time, 1
See."
But, during luncheon, he startled
her.
who's that young chap with
whom you were having tea yester-
day?"