The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-02
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Sure. We belong there. We're 60
ing back when we've tied up few
matters Of business"
1T must be wonderful" Mona
said wistfully. NO subways, no
crowds, no"
They'd make you queen" Barry
put in.
/ CHE told Lottie what she had
/ - learned when the girls we're
/ spending a coy evening together in
Lottie's apartment a few evenings
later.
Cooking in" as they expressed
/ it, and having a feminine hour Of
chat.
It seemed that Barry Townsend's
mother had first been engaged TO
the Mr.. Townsend who was Barry's
uncle and Mr. Garretsons friend.
She was half Spanish. this beauti-
/ full mother Of Barry's. Wealthy and
of excellent family. After being en-
gagged to one brother she married
the other. Not the elder one who
had the most money, but Barry's
/ father who was the younger.
The Tilted fiance never recovered
from this blow and the girls father
refused to forgive her for it. She
belonged to an honorable family
and had failed to keep her word.
The father gave his daughter her
doWry, of course, but he never
spoke to her again.
AS a wedding gift he gave her
I some land in Brazil-land that had
not been productive in hundreds of
+ years.
Maybe you'll find a diamond
mine on it," the father had said
He meant it as a bitter jest, but the
land was, after all, in the diamond
/ country.
Then came the amazing part. An
old Negress, crossing the land one
day, picked up a shiny stone. It
was a diamond
Barry's father had worked the
mine, had organized a syndicate for
this purpose, but it always had been
a joke in the Townsend family for
the mine had been a source of ex-
pense instead gain. When Barry's
father died, he left his entire estate
to his son.
1t was Steve who had helped
Barry make something of this prop
erty. Steve was diplomatic in deal
ing with the natives. Together
Steve and Barry had made good.
Now Barry was back in New York
trying to persuade his uncle to re-
lease money that legally would not
belong to the young man until he
was 30, so that they could install
new dredging machinery in the
mine.
Steve, moreover, had found the
gorgeous diamond which they called
the Empress Of Peru.
Now I'll tell one" remarked Lot
tie droWsily, unbelievingly.
The girls had cleared away the
dinner-rem 'kably we'll cooked by
Lottie whose frivolous air concealed
many sturdy qualities.
They were sitting in the little liv-
ing room dressed - two of Lottie's
most attractive negligees.
Lottie was manicuring her nails
and Mona. lying fiat On her back,
abstractedly traced scrolls in the
atmosphere with one finger while
she talked.
Why don't you marry one of
fnnCn 10 Iii 7
presently.
Mona made a slight grimace,
charming and eloquent. mo one
has asked me, silly" she said.
I OTTIE surveyed her nails al
IL arms length rather carefully
Her heart-or what she would have
told you took the place of her heart
-leaped strangely at these words.
She thought to herself, Can il
be that I'm falling in love with
him?" BY him" Lottie meant Steve
Saccarelli.
She tucked her slippered feet be-
meath her on the chaise Tongue anc
her eyes became pensive. Wear.
ing blue velvet@ pajamas, Lottit
looked like blond angel. Hel
thoughts were interrupted by the
shrill ringing of the telephone.
Lottie groaned. Let the thine
ring We can't be bothered. Let i
ring"
This is precisely what the tele-
phone did. The instrument con-
tinued to jangle noisily until Lottit
little silken bedroom and flung her.
self down in chair, prepared fol-
an exhaustive chat.
Lottie was victim of "telephon.
it's once she persuaded herself t.
take up the receiver.
Her voice answered sharply anc