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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-08-09
CHAPTER II

yITHEN you have just lost your
w name, your family (if any and
your whole collection Of remem-
brances of your early life, the dis
appearance of nine hundred dollars
does not seem as important to you
as 1t would under ordinary circum-
stances.
Annoyance Mas her strongest
emotion as she walked toward her
luggage. 1t did not occur to her to
try to follow the thief. Her mind
was still too dazed. Her conscious
ness was filed with loss. The money
seemed only part OF the general
wipIng out Of possessions.
But now as she neared her bags
she saw that a fat little woman was
apparently trying to take possession
of them. Waving pudgy little hands
In the air, she was addressing the
bellboy In charge of them.
but naturally, / will take charge
of the baggage"
The woman's voice was low and
commanding, and II had more than
a trace of a foreign accent. She
shrugged her round shoulders as she
spoke In a way that none but a
French woman could do. "Oh my
Cd. But he is stupid The bags
must e Immediately to my car"
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there are a good many like you,
Baby" She leaned over and exam
ined the nameless girls ring more
closely. It's not a bad little item
to hook" she said.
Il think I'll throw it down the
first sewer | come to- said the
nameless girl.
The women grew kindly and fer
vent. There's always, Reno" she
said. She became thoughtful. IF
that cheap-skate husband of mine
weren't so d-n stingy - Baby,
there's always Reno, if you have the
dough. And you seem to have
plenty"
you mean / could get a divorce?"
said the nameless girl.
ITS easy in RenO-specially for
a girl like you with plenty of cash"
The woman's eyes had dropped to
the open hand bag on the dressing
table. The nameless girl wondered
if she could divorce a man whose
name she did not know.
"Reno!r said the girl in the blue
coat. Cd! And II you knew
what | have got to go through you
wouldn't hesitate" She rambled on
In a tone that was full of a resent
ment and self-pity. The nameless
girl paid little heed. Again she no
ticed the woman's eyes on the bills
that were visible In her purse.
Now 1t occurred to her to count
them and find how much she had.
AS she did so a silence fell over
the small room of which the two
were for the moment the only occu-
pants.
There were nine hundred dollars
In bills. And something under ten
dollars In her coin purse.
She closed her purse, and as she
did so, she was aware Of a certain
%tenseness In the atmosphere. She
turned her head to stare at the
other girl, and she could have sworn
that as she did so the woman turned
away as II to give the impression
that she had not been watching the
younger one. Her former friendli-
ness was washed from her face. but
there was a watchfulness In the
lines Of the figure that the name
less girl could not understand. Per
haps the other girl did know her.
Perhaps that was why she had
spoken. And perhaps the lack OF
response in the nameless girl had
offended her.
So she reasoned, not In any way
connecting the girls sudden change
with the large roll of bills she had
shown.
i've met you some place, haven
II" she said at last half tlmidly.
But the other girl no longer want
ed to talk. doubt that" she sale
briefly.
The nameless girl saw a towel racl
and o row of wash stands In an ad
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him? She would have to find him
again sooner or later and tell him
that she must divorce him. She
could do that at Reno-for this
strange chatty girl to whom she
had scarcely been listening was
talking about Reno.
IF ! had the dough. Baby, be-
lieve me, I'd be on my way to Reno
right now"
ITS easy to get a divorce In
Reno, isn't it?"
IF you have the dough! But
that's a big if, Grille"
How much does it cost?"
about a thousand dollars, includ-
Ing the trip and everything, but /
know a girl who did it for seven
hundred and fifty. She had a friend
living out there, and her living ex-
penses didn't cost her anything"
ut doesn't take very long, does
it?"
1T takes exactly six weeks. Oh
ask me anything about Reno. /
know. I've been studying up on
1t like 1t was the Bible. You got
to go out there and establish a resi-
dence, stay there six weeks, then
file your suit. :"
AS she talked the nameless girl
was wondering. 1t was a little fam
tastic to be thinking of Reno when
she did not yet know for certain
that she was unhapplly married.
Gould 1t be possible that the mar In
the cab was not her husband? Sure
ly In a few moments she would be
able to remember about herself.
and when she did there would be
time enough to make plans.
$50 It's actually the nineteenth of
May today"
HI yes. There you go again"
The nameless girl slipped her
wedding ring slowly back on her
finger.
The girl In the blue coat winked.
Not so crazy about it. eh-well,
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The girl hurried forward. I'm
sorry" she said TO the little foreign
woman, but | believe the bags are
mine !"
The woman turned and scruti-
nized the girl for a moment slowly.
Her face was broad and friendly,
her eyes shrewd but kindly. The
long gaze was one of appraisement.
Then she said, "Ah, Doris How
beautiful you are, Doris am glad
you are here!" And she flung her
two fat arms around the girls soft
fox collar and slender throat, and
pressed a firm, wet cheek against
hers.
Dorisl So that was her name,
She hardly felt the embrace, 0
wondered at the tears. Dorisl She
was grateful that she had found a
friend. The woman talked on. Out
Of the tumble Of words, a sentence
suddenly disclosed itself: And so
now with your husband on the seas
we will have to console ourselves
together until he comes back to usl"
She listened breathlessly-her hus-
band on the seasl 1t seemed too
good to be true.
"Oh, she Is frightened" said the
woman fondly, addressing nobody,
as seemed to be one of her habits.
''And no wonder. SO young. And
such excitement. Come. we win get
In the car"
The bellboy still stood beside the
luggage. The fat little woman
turned to Doris, HE would not be-
lieve ! was Mrs. Du Val. He wanted
to guard the luggage we'll" She
shook her head. Louis will car
ry out the luggage"
A liveried chauffeur came forward
and picked up Doris bag. Watch
ing everything, on the alert for
some clue that would unravel more
of her past to her. Doris followed.
A limousine stood at the curb.
DocIlely Doris hoped In after the
little fat woman. There was not a
Qualm In her heart. Undoubtedly
she had known this woman, and
perhaps 1t would soon come back to
her when and where. At least she
would learn her own n
Put Mrs. Du Walls bags In 'front.'"
said her hostess fussily. Doris
stared. Mrs. Du vali The older
woman had been speaking of her to
the chauffeur. SO she was Mrs. Du
Val. Du Val. d. ". She did not
feel quite satisfied.
The baggage was quickly adjust
ed and the ear started through the
traffic-laden New York streets. "Ah,
Rocky Is seasick by now, n'est-ce
pas?" said little Mrs. Du Val. HE
cannot stand travelling, poor fellow"
She tucked a robe anxiously around
Doris. but she mustn't catch cold
at such a Time" she went on. She
CLICKED In her throat like q wor-
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Joining room. She rose and went
In, leaving hat and purse on the
tiny dressing table
Her feeling Of depression had nov
completely lifted. She was sepa-
rated from a man she hated. She
was In a comfortable hotel. She had
plenty of money. She would make
up a name, register under it, and
try to get a good rest.
She washed her hands in warn
water. Then she let ice water chill
her wrists and hands, thinking that
the shock might restore her mem
Dry. She looked up thoughtfully in
the glass. She vas completely
alone. Yet somewhere surely she
must have friends. Perhaps they
were looking for her now. She
smiled. She would remember. or
our she would remember.
She turned to go into the outer
room. The girl was gone.
She went to the small dressing
table and picked up her hat and
fitted Ii slowly on her head. Then
she looked for her purse, made the
gesture OF picking 1t up, and found
that her fingers slid owe the smooth
surface of the dressing cable only.
The purse was not there.
1t was not on the floor. II was
not In the room.
She walked out into the lobby
once more. 1t was evident that the
girl had taken it. but she was mo-
where to be seen.
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az ! Had the Dough. Baby. Believe
ried old hen. "You feel warm? We
have a long ride, you know"
Doris did not know. But she
smiled gratefully. Rocky7 Who
was Rocky7 And why mustn't she
catch cold at such a time?
Her mind vas going around and
around in a circle. Her husband
was named Rocky Du Val He had
sailed for France That much she
gathered. Then the mar she had
been with in the taxicab had not
been her husband. Unless they had
been on their way to the boat. They
had just been married and were GO
ing to spend their honeymoon In Eu-
rope and she had escaped from
him. That seemed very clear.
Then why had her mother-in-law
expected TO meet her at the Bit
more7 No, that theory couldn't be
right. Doubtless 1t was ell simple
enough and would come to her In a
fash. The main thing was not to
let anybody know she did not re-
member, lest they think she had
gone crazy. She felt perfectly sure
she was not crazy, but she didn't
think she could convince anybody
else.
Doris longed to ask questions (:
Where were they goingf But her
tongue was tied. OF course she was
supposed to know where they were
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CHAPTER l-continued


'Not May-Not May the nine
teenth !"
The talkative girl swung around,
and put her hands on her hips. Her
expression was a little sarcastic.
Nov listen. No kidding! Do you
think it's December the nineteenth?
It's May the nineteenth, Grille,
and" She went on talking, but
her audience was no longer listen
Ing. She vas thinking. This was
the nineteenth of May and-her
wedding day.
She looked once more into the mir
ror. Her eyes were starry with ex-
citement. Beside the vanished
face of the other girl she looked
very young and very beautiful. but
she was not thinking Of that now.
She was thinking that some Of the
pictures Of her jig-saw past were
beginning to ft In. She had been
married that day to the man In the
cab. She hated him. The shock Of
marrying him had made her lose
her memory, and no wonder.
Her action In leaving that man
had been purely instructive. But
she was glad that she had done 1t.
Still, she wondered, was 1t as simple
an 1t now seemed? She married a
man she hated and then lost her
memory because he was so horrible,
and then had left him. She was
not satisfied. II seemed too easy an
explanation. Why had she married
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Ne. I'D Be on My Way to Reno Now.~
going. just a few such questions
as that and Mrs. Du Val would be-
gin to think she was queer. Then
there would be doctors. hospitals.
maybe an asylum. She closed her
lips tightly. No, she would tell no
one. And certainly one of these
days she would wake up remember
ing everything.
She told Mrs. Du Val, however,
about the loss Of her bag. The little
French woman was so incensed
that she all but turned the car
straight back to town. but the
police will get her. Oh. She Is a
bad one. She Is veree bad. But I
thought you had no money! Rocky
said he was giving you nothing,
and should give you allf Where
did you get it?"
Doris flushed. Where did she
get 1t? She wished that she knew.
He gave 1t to me at the last mo-
ment," she said. hating TO lie and
yet not knowing what else to do.
Well, perhaps he did. she said to
herself. Certainly she didn't know
that he didn't.
However she decided to be as
mum as an oyster after this expe-
rlence. Even the most innocent
story might trip her up with some
question about her past that she
couldn't answer.
Continued on next page)
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A pretty young woman finds herself in
q saxicsb In New York with a strange man
who addresses her endenringly and speaks
Of San awful shock" When he leaves her
for q moment at a drug store she drives
On. for she fears him.. She stops at the
Biltmore, still wondering who she is. Her
memory is gone. From her expensive cloth
ing she concludes she is married to a
wealthy man. At the Biltmore the name
less girl meets a young woman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-04
SCHOOL TO Give
HONOR PROGRAM
Celebrate Memory of Poet
Loved by Children.

Pupils of the James Whitcomb
Riley school, $50 West Fortieth
street, will give their annual pro-
gram at assembly Friday in memory
of the beloved childrens' poet after
whom the school is named.
The program will be under the
direction of Miss Effie Moschelle.
Each child in the school will have
some part in the ceremony, since
all are asked too bring flowers which
will be collected and placed on Ri
ley's tomb.
The program at assembly will be
presided over by Mona Margaret
Riggin, a pupil. After an introduce
ton by Miss Riggin the program
will be: Sketch of Riley's life by
Marian Goddard; two stories of
Riley's childhood by Riley Hancock
and Robert Sternberger; THE
Bundle Bee" by Hazel Gabbert;
Granny Van Darrell Abrogast.
Several of the poets letters will be
read by Virginia Landreth, Betty
Porter and Mary Kershner; when
the Folks Get Back" by Joan Col
gan; THE Raggedy Man." by Vir-
ginia Schwartz; song by the boys
glee club; "Out to Old Aunt
Mary's," by Marcia Stump; and
showing of the baskets of flowers
for the tomb, by Mary Helen Yates,
Jean Marie Lees and Gene Clair
mont. The Prayer Perfect" by the
entire school will close the program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-04
Washington High Honor
Society Head Is Elected
David Mears Is Chosen by
Chapter; Faculty Is
Sponsor.

David Mears has been elected
president of the National Honor So
ciety chapter of Washington high
school for the coming year.
Other officers elected include Eve
Ign Lewis, president; Mildred
Morrow, secretary, and Edith Car
ter, treasurer. Mrs. Margaret Nc
Williams is faculty sponsor for the
chapter.
Qualifications for membership in
the group are character, scholarship
and leadership.
The Camp Fire Girls of Wash
ington have elected Blanche Chan
ley, president for the current Sc
mester. Other officers include Mil
dred Poland, vice-president; Clar-
ice Kanalac, secretary and scribe,
and Evelyn Stokes, treasurer. Fac
ulty sponsor is Miss Mary Alice Pur-
Wis.
Miss La Vada Rice has been ap-
pointed recorder of the school scrap
book for 1933-34.
The 1888 senior class has pre-
sented the school with a 16-mm.
film protector which will be used
to supplement teaching of various
departments.
The protector is portable, has a
wide variety of ranges and may be
used without a screen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-04
81 Tech Graduates Win
College Scholarships

Scholarships to the John Heron
Art Institute for one year were won
by Paxine st. Helens William Peed,
Richard Aust, Pauline Dingle and
June Hopper. HOLSTER Gahan,
Charles Fisher, Junior White and
Carol Geisler will attend Butler uni
verSity on half tuition scholarships.
Purdue university merit scholar
ships were granted to Arthur Vim
cent Cohee and Albert Lee Hughs.
Gilbert Jay Easley won four-yea
scholarship there.
A one-year scholarship to the
Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Mu-
sic and Butler university went to
Betty Schellschmidt.
Four-year scholarships at De Pauw
university were granted to James
Ali, John Flick and Robert Will
liamS.
A full scholarship for one semes-
ter given by Miss McGregor, organ
instructor at Indiana Central COL
lege, to Thelma Hastings. Half
scholarships went to Rhea Stephens.
Marybelle Masterson, Thomas Tibbs
and Merriam HoWenstine,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-04
SKORTRIDCE TO
Be ACTIVE AT
STATE MEETING
Vice PrincipaI to Speak on
Professional Train
ing.

Shortridge high school will be
we'll represented on the program of
the Indiana State Teachers Asso-
cations annual meetings to be held
here Oct. 10 and 20.
Emmett A. Rice, vice principal at
Shortridge, will speak on PRO
fessional Training for the Teacher"
at a meeting of the secondary
school principals section of the as
ISOLATION, at Manual high school,
Oct. 10.
The social study section, of which
Paul Seehausen of the history de-
partment is president, will hear
Paul Lockhart of the north side
high schools faculty on THE High
Schools Part in Local Archaeological
and Historical Research" at the
Lincoln the same day.
The Shortridge Girls Glee Club.
under direction of Will F. Wise. will
present a program Oct. 10 before
the social studies group at Roberts
Park M. E. church. The Shortridge
orchestra, also directed by Mr.. Wise,
will entertain the mathematics sec
ton at the Columbia Club. E. Carl
Watson of the high schools mathe-
mates department is president of
this section.
A one-act plaZlet will be present.
ed before the teachers CT speech in
the ballroom of the Antlers by the
Shortridge Drama League, spon-
sored by Miss Eleanor D. Theek.
Miss Trella M Wood of the
Shortridge commercial department
is president Of the business educa-
ton section Of the association. Miss
Lois Martin, chemistry department,
is secretary of the chemistry physics
section, and Russell S. Julius, ath-
letic department, is secretary and
treasurer of the Indiana State
Coaches Association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-04
ELECT OFFICERS OF
DEPARTMENT CLUBS
Tech Societies Name Heads
for Fall Semester.

New officers to serve throughout
the current semester were elected
at meetings last week Of three
groups at Technical high school.
The clubs and new officers are as
follows:
Spanish Club-Joan Ley, presi-
dent; Dolores Ferrer, vice president;
Gertrude Walsh, secretary, and Max
Beier, rgeant-at- arms.
Nature Study Club-Thelma Fitz-
gerald, president; Caroline Cooper,
president; Juanita Brann, sec
rotary, and Oscar Kirsch, treasurer.
Latin Club-Mary Mae Endsley
and Hix Meier consuls; Mary Lou
Hamilton scriptor; Louise Norman,
Sterling Meier and Geneva Sene-
field, aediles, and Beverly zolezzi,
custos.
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Ghost Story" written by Booth
Harrington, to be presented Oct. 10,
in Room 7 of the school at no
charge.
Try-outs for the various parts will
be held Thursday afternoon and all
pupils in English v classes will be
eligible to participate. Judges for
the try-outs will be Miss Mabel
Goddard, head of the English de-
partment; Miss Clara Ryan, in
structor in dramatics, and Chelsea
Stewart, faculty stage manager.
Dramatically inclined freshmen
and sophomores will be given a
chance to take the stage later. Only
one-act plays will be presented.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-04
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
SEASON Will OPEN
Films to Be Shown at Pro-
gram Saturday.

The Children's Museum, 1850
North Meridian street, will open its
sixth season of general program for
children Saturday morning at 1920
with two films, one showing build
ingS at A Century OF Progress fair
and the other dealing with natural
history. All children have been in
vited
The programs will be given each
Saturday at the same hour through
out the school year anad are under
the direction of the educational
committee of the museum, of which
Mrs. Robert B. Failey is chairman.
Special class for general science
pupils of junior high school age will
be given Saturday morning at $50.
The class will be conducted by E.
B. Hargrave, principal of Wash
ington high school.
Mr.. Hargrave, who is a member
of the general science committee of
the public schools, will speak on
The Interdependence of Plants"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-04
154 Tech Pupils Named
on Staff Of Cafeteria
5000 to Be Served Daily
on Campus in Three
Lunch Periods.

Serving approximately 5000 per-
sons daily during three lunch hours
is the job assigned to 154 pupils of
Technical high school who have
been appointed to work in the Tech
cafeteria.
The work is done entirely by the
pupils, under direction of only one
adult supervisor, and is considered
excellent business training for them.
A substitute list of twenty pupils,
to serve when the regulars are I'M
able to perform their duties, is kept
by the cafeteria management.
Cashiers, chosen from pupils Of
high rating, include James Brooks,
James CahilI, Orville Hancock, Rob-
ert Hill, Charlotte Keeper, Felix
Masaracha, Beecher McGinnis,
Glenn Meier and Frederick Roehm.
Other pupils who serve at the
steam tables, salad, ice cream and
supply counters and in the Kitchen
include:
Herman Aikens, Della Mae Allen, Edna
Mae Anderson Lille Antle, Lewis Aull.
Roger Aull.
G Boe B M2Ts ba Roert BaTS
Alvia Bats. Charles Bats. Max Beier,
Opal Wee Bennett Bob Bi .9 ne tsd:
Bines. Charles Bowhay, Clarence Boyd,
John Briel, Vera Brown, Charles Bruner,
William Burns, John Byers, Kathleen
Mary Kathryn Garter. Geraldine Christ
man.. Roy Collier. Robert Collins. James
Comfort, Dorothy Crouch.
Rosemary Demarree, Donald Dick.
Warren Evans. Bernard Flaherty. Gath
row Frank, John Frantzreb, John Freeman.
Harold Frost, Harold Fymier.
Viola Gearriess, Miriam Giddens, Cecil
Goode Wanda Goodwin. Dorothy Green,
Albert Habermeyer. Forrest Hale. Charles
Ham, Charles g HaTde5tTY. STRAY Raymond Hardy,
Marjorie Hargon. Ralph Harlow, Richard
Hartsock. Juanita Harvey. Owen Harvey.
Gladys Lee Howe, Harold Howenstine,
Robert Huddleston, Ruth Huettlin, Blanche
HUMPHREYS. Jack Hysar.
Jones.
Harold Kaufman. Elsie Keiter, Jack
King. George King. Keelvern Kraqse.
Dorothy LAGER. Glendola Lancaster,
Venice Lewis, Melinease Lucas.
:. Maurice Mckenzie. William McKinzie
Dorothy Matiilo. Charles Matthews. Ed
ward Meredith. Evelyn Montgomery Conner
Morgan. Vivian Meyer, George Murphy.
Irene Neal Lucille Nelson. Arthur Nooe
Claud Pattison. Edward Perkins. Gerald
Peterson, Victor Peterson. Martha Prit-
chard.
Mary Jane Quillan, Robert Reasoner
Ernest Reepmaker, Robert Reno. Clark
klckard William Rhoades, Don Roepke,
Ruth Ross. Everett Rothman. Ralph Rukes,
John Rush.
Helen Sanders. Virginia Sanders. Harold
Schaeffer, Francis Silver. LIE Roy Snyder,
Marguerite Sommers, Edith Spurlock. Rhea
Stephens, Samuel Stephens.
Martha Stewart. Fout Stewart. Mary
Alice Stone, Arthur Suite. John Switzer.
Traub
Myla Udell Marie Van vleet, Earl Wears.
Mary Jane Wade Harry Ware Betty
Jean Wells. William T. White Virginia Lee
White, Gerald Wiker. Frank Williams,
George Wood. Juanita Wood. Hugh
Wotherspoon
John Zimmerman, Lucille Zion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-04
TECH CANNON PUSHES
SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE
Posters Accented in Campaign I'm
der Business Deal.

Posters, both clever and ultra
modern, are being used in the ad-
vertising of the Arsenal Cannon
subscription campaign being car
ried on at Technical high school
this month under direction of Wal
ter Sinclair, pupil business man
ager of the school publication.
The posters. made by pupils of
Mrs. Roberta Stewards commercial
" class, are especially attractive,
due to a novel idea of using actual
copies of the Cannon, on which the
posters are painted.
Pupils who made the posters are
Wanda Juniper, Eloise Riley, Eu-
gene Holland, Ellen Clark. James
Shrout. Marion Workman, Dorothy
Meyers, Francis Carter, Jean Wetty,
June Fischer, Charles McLaren and
Raymond Poole.