The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-10
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~VOU can't treat me like this,
i Carleton Meade"
"AH right What are you going
to do about it?"
You think because you've gotten
by with it for ali these years -
Gotten by with what? Ever
since we've been married you've
done nothing but make my life
miserable by your unfounded jeal-
Ousy and suspicion. Why don't you
get a divorce instead of talking
about 1t all the time?"
You've given me ground enough"
That's not true, Arlene. You'd
like to get something on me and
can't"
I've got enough on you to get a
divorce any time I want one. And
since Jacqueline Bordini came back
-"
IF you must discuss this in her
apartment at least lower your voice.
Some one will hear you"
Let them! I'm tired acting as if
I were deaf. dumb and blind. You
gave her that pendant she is wear
ing. I could tell by the way she
looked when I asked her about it"
Good God, Arlenel Are you los
ing your mind2 JacqueLne BordOni
is nothing to me. I'm thrown in
with beautiful women all the time.
Can't you understand that 1 can
appreciate their beauty without be-
ing in love with them?"
Her voice rose Historically.
"You think you can talk me out of
it as you have before, but this time
I'm serious"
please pun yourself together
dear. I don't want to be unkind.
but I can't put up with scenes like
this much longer. At least, postpone
the discussion until we are at home"
"I can't put UP with any more,
either. One more break on your
part is going to be the last. I'm
warning you"
Threatening me, you mean" he
said coldly. Let me tell you some
thing. You aren't fooling me at all.
You don't want a divorce. You
wouldn't get one If you did have
cause, which you haven't. You're
700 fond of playing that part Of an
injured wife"
"You dare say that to me"
Howell, shivering behind the
screen. heard the sound of blows as
her fists beat against her husbands
face. Heard him push her away
and the sound of his heavy foot
steps down the hall. Then the
abandoned, Sickening sound of the
woman's sobbing.
IT was a long time before she, too,
i went away. Howell was tortured
by the fear that some one else might
come.
What If Carleton Meade found
out that he had been waiting be-
hind the screen? Supposing JAG
quelin told him?
It seemed hours before the maids
heels clicked down the hall and he
was taken out according to instruc-
tons.
BY that time he was 80 nervous
he was ready to agree with Ray
nond. Jaqueline'S idea was silly and
would probably fall fiat. a fake
policeman raiding a Hollywood
partyl Good Lord, what nextP
Because he had promised he
pulled himself together and deter
mined to go on with it. If he had
obeyed his impulse TO run he proba-
biz would have been a motion pic
ture extra for the rest of his life.
Instead, he pressed the electric but
ton. opened the door and entered
boldly upon the final stage of his
career.
Hands upl"
His voice cut sharply across the
hilarity of the crowded room.
Laughter died in midair. Smiles
froze.
MY God! It's q policeman
See here. officer e"
Over in the corner by Jacqueline
and Carleton Meade a famous come
dian dropped upon the floor and
approached on hands and knees.
Shoot me, of1cerl Shoot me in
the heart!"
Howell lifted his pistol. There
we're screams,
Don't do that. He doesn't know
what he's doing"
Grinning ~sardonically at these
grown-ur children, Howell cried,
Get hack where you belongs Why
should ! be partial to your