The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-19
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DUT she did accept you Thurs
ID day night2" Penny persisted
Yes" the boy admitted, his face
darkly flushed again. This is aw-
fully hard, honey, but I'll tell you
once and for all and get it over
with. took her 10 dinner. We
drove to Burnsville because she said
she was sick of Hamilton.
when we we're driving back she
suddenly became very queer-reck-
less, defiant. And she asked me
II I still wanted to marry her, and
I said I did. asked her right then
TO say when, and she said she'd
marry me June l, but she added
and the boy, to Dundee's watching
eyes, seemed to be genuinely puz-
zled again by what must have
sounded so odd at the tine-"that
she'd marry ME June l if she lived
to see the day"
~Oh!" Penny gasped, then. con-
trolling her horror, she asked with
: what sounded like real curiosity
Then what-happened, Ralph?
Why do you propose to her on
VTnursday and to me on-on Sun
dayP''
"A gorgeous actress sacrificed to
the typewriter" Dundee told him
self, as he waited for Ralph Ham
mond's reluctant reply.
Cant we forget it, honey? d..
You do love me little, don't you?
Can't you take my word for it that
I'm cured now-forever?
Penny's hands went up to cover
her face and Dundee had the grace
to feel very sorry indeed for her
sorry even if she intended to give
her promise to Ralph Hammond, as
sick feeling in his stomach
prophesied that she was about to
do.
How can I know you're really
cured, if I don't know what cured
you? he heard Penny's faltering
voice ask huskily from behind the
screen of her hands.
81 suppose you're right" the boy
admitted rniserably. There's nc
need to ask you not to tell anyone
else. Although I don't want to see
her again ever. Why, Penny,
wouldn't even tell Polly and Give
yesterday, after it happened,
though Polly guessed and went up
stairs. .. I tried to keep her
back"
Il don't - quite understand,
Ralph" Penny interrupted. "You
mean something happened when
you were at Nita'S house yesterday
morning?"
yes. Judge Marshall had prom
ised Nita to have the unfinished
half of the top story turned into a
maids bedroom and bath and a
guest bedroom and bath. Give let
me go to make the estimates.
"Of course was glad of the
chance to see Mia again-I hadn't
been with her since Thursday night.
But she had to take Lydia in for a
dentists appointment, and they left
me alone in the house. I had to go
into the finished half to make some
measurements, and in the bedroom
found-oh. Godi' he groaned, and
pressed fist against his trembling
mouth.
NOU found that Dexter Sprague
n was staying there, was using
the bedroom that used to be mine
didn't you?" Penny helped him al
last, in desperation.
How did you know?" The boy
stared at the girl blankly for a mo-
ment, then seemed to crumple as il
from a new blow. "I suppose il
was common gossip that Mia anc
Sprague we're lovers, and 1 was tht
only one she fooledl
My GodI To think all of yor
would stand by and let me marry
her-a cheap little gold digger from
Broadway, living with a cheap four
flusher she couldn't get along with.
out and had to send for"
Did you - want to kill her
Ralph?" Penny whispered hoarsely