The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-19
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ashamed: st don't know why In
gossiping like tflis!"
Because you can't find another
blessed scrap of work to do, you lit
tie efficiency fiend," Dundee laughed
Come on! Gossip some more My
Magnify case will wait till after
noon, to be mulled over while you're
losing your hard-earned salary al
bridge with rich women"
1--WE don't play for high stakesy
she corrected him. "Just a twenti-
eth of cent a point, though con-
tract can run into money even at
that. The winnings all go to the
Forsyte scholarship fund.
ION wednesday evenings the
crowd plays for higher stakes-a
tenth-and winners keepers. There
fore I can't afford to go, unless I
sink so low as to let my escort pay
nv losses-which 1 sometimes do, ;"
she confessed, her brown head low
for moment.
as this Mrs. Peter Dunlap a
deep-bosomed club woman, who
starts Movements?" he asked. more
to bring her Gus of her depr. sSion
than anything else. Bigger and
Better Babies Movements, and
Homes for Fallen Girls, and Little
Theater Movements"
The brown head flung itself up
sharply, and the brown eyes hard
ened into bright pennies again.
Lois is the sweetest, finest, most
comfortable woman in Hamilton,
and I adore her-as does every one
else, Peter Dunlap hardly more than
the rest of us.
"She is interested in a Little The
alter for Hamilton, but she won't
manage it. That's why she got hold
of Mia Selim. Lois will simply
put up barrels of money, without
missing them, and give grand job
to a little Broadway gold-digger.
Funny thing is, she really delights
in Mia. Thinks she's sweet and has
never had a real chance"
"And what do you think?" Dundee
asked softly.
OH suppose I'm a cat, but I
can see through her so clearly. Not
that she's bad; she's simply an OPP
portunist. She's awfully sweet and
deferential and frank with women,
but with men-well, she simply
tucks her head so that her curls
fall forward enchantingly, gives
them one wistful smile out of her
big eyes that are like black pansies
and-the clink of slave chains! =.
Now go on and think I'm catty,
which suppose ami"
DONNIE DUNDEE grinned at her
II reassuringly. Not for him to
explain that practically all women
and many men found themselves
"goSSiping'' when he led them on
adroitly, for reasons of his own.
Which helped make him the excel
lent detective he was, of course.
$50 all the men in your crowd
have fallen for Mia Selim, have
they?"
practically all, in varying de-
grees, except Peter Dunlap who
never has looked at another woman
since he was lucky enough to get
Lois. and Give Hammond, who's
engaged to Polly Beale," Penny an
swered reluctantly, her color high.
Including your young nan?"
II haven't young man. in the
sense of being engaged" Penny re-
torted, then added honestly: II
have been letting Ralph Hammond
that's Gives brother, you know
take me about a good deal :.
Ralph and Give have plenty OF
she defended herself has
tily. ''They are architects, Give be-
ing the head of the firm and Ralph,
who hasn't been out Of college SO
long, junior partner.
ut was the Hammond firm that
drew up the plans for my fathers
Primrose Meadows addition houses.
L. u L.