The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-12

let the kid down in the way of
appreciation of her triumph, and
now that 1t was all over and she
could simmer back to normalcy and
her proper subsidiary place in his
scheme of things, he was ready to
acknowledge 1t. He still had a lot
to learn.
He learned 1t.
"Cunny and I are going to New
York." she wrote him, ito dance
in a swanky new night club that's
being opened by friend Of his.
I'll earn more in a week than you
do in month and see lot of men
to compare you with, and that
ought to be good for both of us.
Think things over, honey. You
need to-"
1t made him very angry. It
came in the first mail. He had a
fellow waiting to be shown car.
If he liked it, he was going to buy
20, for all his statesmen. Perry
couldn't put him off. He did ask
him to wait while he wrote an inn
FASHIONED reply and dispatched it by
messenger.
TOO imprisoned. And also, he
Il realized, after it was too late,
commanding. The fellow did not
buy the 20 cars, and when he re-
turned from trying to sell them
he found Flossie's reply. 1t con-
sisted of everything she could get
her hands on in a hurry that he
had ever given her and a brief
message promising the rest when
she returned. I'VE are taking the
1905 train," she wrote. Think
things over" The 1905 blew in
the distance while he read it.
He thought things over. And
over and over. He thought him
self almost into another PERSONAL
ity. He made himself a man-sized
humble pie and he ate it all. And
then he squared away to write his
little dancing darling the most amaz-
ing document that had ever flowed
from his pen; nothing leSs-big ne
man that he was than a declaration
of dependence his dependence upon
her.
He was composing it when
special delivery note arrived from
a friend in New York, inclosing this
from a newspaper columnist's COM
ments: La Bassett and Cunnys
Wolff standing 'em up at the Top
Hat, with a that-way feeling about
each other of such high visibility
that the knowing ones say they'll be
Lohengrinning at their friends from
the aisle of the Little Church most
any day now"
Perry Benedict climbed into his
car and drove to the Top Hat. He
drove practically all night. He was
a good driver, tranquil or angry. He
burned the wind.
LIE WALKED into the softly
l. Il lighted, brightly colored, luxu-
rious and exotic night club just as
the place. was closing. He wasn't
feeling heroic. He was feeling
weary and dreary and dusty and
Rsinine. But he was the stuff, that
penultimate hour before the dawn,
that heroes are made of.
The swing he made at Cunny
Wolff was unheroic in its soggi-
ness and WEAKNESS and bad timing,
but when Wolff side stepped and
laid open his upper lip, he came
right back for more.
Perry was good boxer when he
wasn't toxic with fatigue and
misery and despair, but Wolff had
taught a gym class once and was
better. He knocked Perry Benedict
fiat on the hard polished dance
floor, and from that vantage
ground Perry looked Up into the
furious, perplexed, hurt and fright
ened blue of the eyes of little Flos-
sic, attired for the street, just como
back into the almost empty place
from her dressing room.
you fool!' she said to him in q
sort of angry despair, and sobbed. ,
yes" he said on his feet in one
angry bound, almost sobbing him
self, II am a foolI But we've loved
SoSAA OeAASA oA Jul lives - 1lOJ VIC
sort of Gamn-fool infatuation you've
got for this silky lounge lizard-and
we're always going to. and you're not
going to marry him If I have to -"
MARRY him." she said. MAR
1V1 ry him? You utter idiot
Whatever made you think-?"
This" said Cunny Wolf, and
produced another copy of the clip
ping.
She read it in amazed silence.
And then: i
How stupid" she gasped. "And
and cruel! And meant"
YES" said Wolff. Il was afraid
TO show 1t to you before we danced,
for fear of upsetting you. The |
louise that inserted it has had 1t |
in for me for years. He bribed a
typesetter to stick it into another
mans column just before he sailed |
for Europe. I'm sorry"
He turned gravely to Perry.
I'm sorry for you, too, Mr.. |
Benedict. 1t was a dirty deal. Will |
you-?" He held out his hand. |
What Perry did was to ask him |
to be best man.
you see," he explained with a
good deal of sincerity. you've |