The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
y LAURALOU BROOKMAN
AUTHOR OF Trash POMANCE~
ocT. 5. 1870
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Adventure enters the life OF CELIA
fathr she has supposed dead is alive
and wealthy. She leaves her unpreten-
New News YORK YORK with her father. JOHN
MITCHELL. and her aristoeratic grand
MlRGARET ROGERS. her mother
divorced Mitchell and Iemsrried Ian and IS
love with the girl. and before leaving
Baltimore Celia promised to be loyal to
Mitchell asks EVELYN PARSONS. beau
tiful widow, to introduce the girl to
Celia means to win M n;iH 81 aff s;si
tionS and agrees. She invites the girl
to her Long Island home for week
TOD JORDAN. fascinating but with. a
dubious reputation is attentive to Cens'
When the other guests leave. Celia con-
IISI DUNCAN, socially prominent. in
yites Celia to attend a swimming party.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE (Con-
tinued)
In less than five minutes Celia
had pulled on her one-piece suit
and tied a gay orange bandanna
about her head. Then she stepped
into the clogs and ran after Kate
Duncan out onto the sand.
No one thought of introductions.
There were young men waiting
down on the shore. Some of them
were already in the water.
Hello, there!"
She was facing Tod Jordan. Evil
IDENTIFY he had just come from a
dip.
How do you do?" said Celia.
Then she turned and, with a run
ming dive, plunged into the water.
She began swimming rapidly with
easy strokes.
Jordan walked away. He turned
as a sharp cry cut the air.
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
TINE bright orange cap bobbed on
the water for an instant, then
a wave splashed over it. The second
distress call was more feeble than
the first.
Some of the other batherS
turned at the cry, but Celia had
struck off for herself straight out
to sea. Most of the party were
shouting and splashing in the surf.
Others, diving from a raft, evidently
could not hear the girls shout.
Jordan had plunged after her,
His long fast strokes cutting the
waNr caught attention from the
group on the shore.
"Iook-Some ones drowning!"
Kate Duncan's hysterical So
prano rose to a scream. The boys
on the raft turned. Two of them
dived into the waves and started
swimming toward that spot far out,
where a bit of orange cap and a
girls arm, raised and struggling,
could be seen.
Jordan was ahead Of them. He
nearly had reached the spot. Sud
denly the orange cap sank from
view.
There were tumultuous cries from
the shore: "She gone under!"
who is itP" Somebody get a
boat!l" "Oh, why doesn't he
hurry"
A lifeguard came racing down
the beach. His absence had been
against rules. With the aid of the
frantic spectators he launched the
lifeboat.
Lisi Duncan and one of the men
got into the boat with him. There
was one pair of oars. The lifeguard
pulled on them manfully.
Its Celia" Lisi was stammer-
ing. Celia MITCHELL Oh. hurry,
hurry" Lisi was crying and
wringing her hands.
The crowd on the shore watched
as though hypnotized.
He's got her!"
1t was a youth standing on the
raft who first saw Tod Jordan's
arm emerge clutching at a figure
which hung to him tightly.
Hes got herl" the cry rang
louder, taken up by those on the
shore.
Now the two other swimmers had
reached Jordan and Celia. They
we're trying to help him fight off
the girls grasping hold which left
him powerleSs.
Keep her afloat," one of the pair
shouted. The boats nearly here. !"
Jordan struggled to quiet the
girl. The lifeboat reached them.
1t was a matter of several desper-
ate seconds to raise the half-un-
conscious Celia from the water in
to the boat. Strong arms reached
out and pulled Jordan in. He fell
heavily against the seat, exhausted.
=
r Isl and the lifeguard attended
IL the girl while the other youth
a rowed. 1t seemed a long time be-
fore they reached the shore.
Then the guard picked up Celia
, and carried her up the beach. He
laid her down, began to work over
her.
She's all right" he told Lisi.
See-she's come too. Want TO get
ID OF some OF that water she swal-