The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-24
now 90 on vim THE STORY

iIfniNH fN. hoping 8Df news from Dan.
appointment. Dams love seems 70 have
cooled Mounle piqued. accepts Miss
Cory invitation The dav they leave
Belvedcre Dan returns
NOW 90 on WIN THE STORY
CHAPTER TWENTY-N NINE Con
tinued)
Got everything?' This from Kay
packing and sorting the under
things Wasn't it sweet of Ger
trude TO bring those suede gloves?"
yes" Mrs. ODare sighed. Ger
trudes an awfully nice girl I'm SO
fond Of her"
Mother you can't choose Bills
wife for him. Don't you know
that?' Kay said. smiling.
"Of course she does. Hasn't she
proved it,"
Monnie gave Kay warning
glance. 1T is too bad about Ger
trude and Bill He used TO like
her lot and I know she still
cares about him"
so does Angie" said Kay. bent
on mischief.
We know that" Her mother
looked up from mending a slip of
Monnie's Angles a good little
thing said Mrs. ODare Loyalty.
"Only well it can't be helped
now"
It's the ones with the dash that
succeed ' Kay murmured IF Cor
trude would give that mousy hair
Of hers a henna rinse and redden
her flngernailS if she'd use eye
shadow and lipStick, she'd look a
lot better. She's not bad looking
only she gets herself up to look
like Jane Austen"
You tell her that some time
Miss Smarty," said Mark. WHO had
come in nOiseleSsiy and stood grin
ming in the doorway.
you belong in bed, young man,
Kay told her brother loftily. Be
lieve I will tell her, now that you
mention it,
children, children!"
Jaw, we weren't fighting, Nuns
only Kay thinks she knows it all.
Mark put his freckled paw beside
his mothers thin one.
Wed better all get to bed" she
told her brood We've got tC
get up early. Monnie's train IceveS
at $50"
THERE was a sharp rat-a-tat al
l. the door and Mark blunderec
to open it. He returned in a mOmen
bearing a square white florists box
Monnie's heart gave great leap
Her thought, as always, was that i
might be from Dan-Dan who wa!
in far away Wyoming
Kid Eustace's chauffeur" grinneC
Mark, brought it."
Monnie, hiding her disappoint'
ment. cut the green tape and lifted
from the crinkllng paper cluster o
bronze and green orchids, delicate
exotic. Charles had scrawled OF
the card, ITO wear on your going
away day. Good luck!"
They're much too grand for Bel
vedere," sighed Kay, enviOusly
Keep them fresh till you get K
New York. Charles must have wireC
to get them"
They'll be lovely with your new
coat" the mother cried, touching
the frail blooms with a reveren
finger.
Monnie didn't sleep much tina
night. When, toward dawn, she fel
at last into fitful slumber she wa
haunted by dreams in which Dan
Cardigan, dressed in chaps ant
sheepskin, rode toward her, bearing
a sheaf of giant orchids.
She felt some one Juggling at thu
bed clothes and opening her eyes
wake up, lazybones." Kay wa
smiling.
Monnie came back to life. 1t wa
the day she was to leave for New
York with Miss Anstice. TomOr
row they would be sailing for Eng
land. She had to pinch herself t
see if she we're really alive.
An hour later, flushed, starr!
eyed, the orchids pinned to the
brown fur collar of her new hunt
er's green coat, she faced them al
on the platform.
"Oh, l can't leave you-!"
Her mother patted her shoulder
"NonsenSe. Well get along al
right"
"All aboard!' The bell began Il
toll. Miss Anstice, nervously eX
cited, hoped up on the platform
She saw their faces through a blur
"Good-by, good-byW The train wa
moving
That" said Miss Anstice a mo-
ment later is the down train from
the city. Wonder who's on it. He
curiosity excited, she peered out.
quite a crowd murmured Mis-,
Anstice. Monnie did not hear Mo-
did she know that the tall youne
man shouldering his way along the
platform they had Just left wa
Dan Cardigan.