The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-02

pieces about her, her senses swan.
Yet she somehow walked quietly
on, hands clasped in her muff, beau
tiful head erect, and her voice was
quite itself when she spoke.
"You know you have only to ask,
Sidney"
Then silence. They were in the
city streets now.
you'd rather have me tell you
so honestly, wouldn't you?" the man
said awkwardly.
Infinitely"
Silence again.
Let it all be as if it had never
been, Sid" said Patricia, ending it.
I'VE have had some happy times" y
To her own fury her voice thickened
and she could not go on.
We've had the most wonderful
friendship that ever was!" he said
enthusiastically. The girl would
have been glad to stab him to the
heart as he was stabbing her.
"But-but 1 think we'll both adj
nit now that it wasn't the real
thing" he went on with mans
eagerness to convince himself that
/ he has inflicted no wound. Not
since the early days anyway"
They had reached the entrance to
the Palmer home now and she was
standing above him on the shallow
stone steps. A cynical smile curved
/ her mouth.
And you've found the real thing
now Sidney?"
He glanced up, flushed and frown-
ing, looked away again. mo hope
there" he said heavily.
mo hope for Sidney Hutchinson
with the SenSatone Palmers!" she
said in light irony. He looked up
suddenly reproachful.
What have 1 to offer her, Pat?
Sensatone Palmers? Why, she's just
as sweet and clever and refined and
yes, and popular, too, as any one
of them. And she's worth a million,
more than million"
Spare mel" she said with a bitter
laugh. She's just what I've made
herl"
And giving him her hand. she
added easily, "Good-by, them"
LIE shook her hands eagerly
IL would have prolonged the fare
wells. But she had borne enough
A few seconds later she quietly was
mounting the steps, and had been
admitted to the prepoSterous portal,
and without one backward glance
was gone.
But Self-control lasted only until
she reached her room. The hot
tears were running down her cheeks
as she flung aside her wraps and
presently she sank beside her bed
and gave them free vent. Patricia
did not often cry, but the long
checked tide was loosed now. and
she was carried away by the passion
OF her shame and anger.
She cried for a long time. Then
she stopped for a few minutes and
looked curiously at her hands and
at the deep depression her elbows
made in the soft bed. And then she
suddenly remembered: she was
alone in the world, Sidney did not
love her any more; and she began
to cry again.
The clock in her room chimed a
Slivery 3, the glaring afternoon was
wearing away. Her head ached. her
lace burned, her hands were lev
she crept up on the bed and drew
a nufty covering over her. and with
one or Two long, childish, sobbing
breaths, fell fast asleep.
A pleasant, cracking and snau-
ping awakened her, two hours later.
Minna had come in with a trav
had lighted the fire, a bath was
waiting. Numbed. dazed and still
headachy. Patricia stumbled about
the business of dressing. But she
was young. and the hot bath and
the hot Tea worked wonders.
Patricia began to find something
consoling, something almost MOURN
fully beautiful. in the decisive blow.
Perhaps its actual arrival had not
been harder to bear than the vague
and formlesS dread Of it had been
Did Mrs. Palmer send you in
Minna?" she asked, over her Sec
ond cup.
She worried because you didn't
come to lunch" the maid answered.
And she looked in and saw you
asleep. And when Mr.. Palmer. came
in he says you would like a fire and
some tea, when you walked up. And
he'd like to see you for a minute,
please"
why didn't you say so. Patricia
exclaim :. smiling. She went i'm
mediately downstairs.
I'm so sorry to keep you watt
ms. she said to Dan, in the lower