The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-18
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! Stephen wondered vaguely when
he could have been said TO have
/ rushed Pamela. 1t seemed to him
/ he'd say
She was laughing at him, but
having no sleeve to receive the
sound, she kept it back of her
pouting, half-parted red lips. She
had him going, she told herself ex-
ultantly. He was half bewildered
now
Are you that kind?" she chal-
neged bringing her head around
until she looked full into his eyes.
mo, of CO rise I'm not, Stephen
denied, as vohementIy as though
he had been accused Of some
heinous offense.
Then what we're you doing?"
Pamela asked, her lips beginning
to culver threateningly.
Why why just q.
Just playing with me?" Pamela
put in before he could express his
modern day thought that marriage
was no longer taken for granted
between two eligibles simply be-
cause they we're fond Of each others
company.
She was certain he must have
some such thought in his brain that
would get out if she gave it an OPP
portunity. She had to- keep him
fuddled.
Suddenly she dropped down into
his arms and began to cry. Pamela
crying! The girl of orchids and
sapphires. The girl of ernline and
pearls. The girl Of silks and sables.
Crying in his arms like a heart
broken child
Stephen gulped. His arms tight
ened about her. She was soft and
warm and fragrant. He felt as if
he'd been given a glimpse of the
private life Of an unhappy princess,
a princess that he'd never thought
of as being altogether the same as
other people. Possessing an honest
/ to-gOodnesS heart, for instance.
He pulled her up to him and bent
his head over her. Then he drew
a deep breath
Ordinarily Stephen hated per-
fume. But was this exquisite scent
perfume at all? Or was it just the
aroma Of Pamela's mode Of life?
Just a natural part of her charm?
He was tangled in the golden
snare that Pamela had baited with
tears. And when Pamela put up
h>r lips and he kissed her he was
lost.
DACK in the JudSOn hotel in q
ID room that housed a raging wolf
man, picture that Appropriated
that scene in the taXicab was every
where.
Wherever the man looked, the
fever of his tortured jealousy con-
iured up a girl with honey hair in
the arms Of her sweetheart.
For Huck Conner had taken
| Pamela's announcement as true. 1t
would have surprised him as much
to know that it wasn't so at the
time she said it was as it surprised
Stephen to find it an accomplished
fact.
He went at last to the telephone
and picked UP. the receiver, a light
of hard purposes 'glinting in his mar
roWed black eyes.
See if you can locate Ny. Harold
Judson, please, and ask him to call
my ROOM he told the switchboard
operator when she answered his
signal. Mr.. Conner speaking
His voice was as cold as ice, but
courteous, giving no hint Of the
blazing impatience that had come
to him with his decision to see
Pamela's brother and force the boy
into opposing her e. gagement to
Stephen Armitage.
Harold was found in the dining
room, smoking over an untouched
plate of hors d'oeugre.
When Huck's message was de-
lvered to him he gave only a slight
outward sign of his rejection to it
his fingers curled over his lighted
cigaret until he felt the bite Of the
fame, then he dropped it on a tray
Since Mildred had tried to pray
his secret from him Harold had
been practicing better facial control
His natural pallor-or rather the
pallor that had belonged to him of
late-helped him a great deal. 1t
prevented people from noticing his
sudden paling at sight of Huck Con-
nor
His hands, that might have be-
trayed him by their trembling, he
was learning to keep out of sight in
his pockets.
Now he thrust them under the
table. hating the sight of their tell
tale weakness.
He wanted ii find courage to fight,
to faco the music, to tell Huck Con-
nor to 60 to the devil, but his
soul seemed to whimper at the
thought of actually doing it.
He sat on at the table in silent
rebellion, hating himself, hating
Conner. Twice he lifted his hand
to summon a waiter and send word
to Huck that he wouldn't come.
Each time he dropped it in defeat.
/ And at last he got up to go.
ITO Be Continued