Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1926 Page: 5 of 28
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“APART TWO
WICHITA DAILY TIMES
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take me home. I’m tired
Without a word, Norton beckoned
to the waiter to bring his check.
Parrish and Goldilocks -wore just
leaving the restaurant Audrey sank
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names and situations in this
re fictitious)
” CHAPTER XLI
a sharp exclamation. Mor-
i don the steps.
heaven’s name, Nons," ho
ie
P Lifting her wounded arm, he ex-
amined the lagged gash that ran
from elbow to wrist. It WM bleed-
ins profusely, bat it was not deep
' "What on earth?" he began, but
the girl’s head drooped aad she lay
limply against the arm of the chair,
bar body began to slip gently to-
ward the floor. NA
Picking her up as though she
were, a child, Morton turned to the
stairs. ““Bring cotton, hot water
and some antiseptic," he said to the
butler, who stood staring in the
doorway.
He had just laid Nona oa the bed
in one of the guest rooms when Au-
drey burst in. “Daddy!" she cried
“Hush,” said Morton without turn,
ing around.
“Well," gasped Audrey. "Aren't
you even going to kiss me. after
. our long separation? Who is that
woman? Her face darkened. She
crept around him M that she could
see the face of the girl on the bed.
“Why, it’s Nonal What happened
to her arm?
"I don't know yet. She’s fainted,"
he replied.
Under the ministrations of Mor-
ten and Audrey. None opened her
„ eyes at last. She smiled faintly at
J Morton. "I almost flopped," she
* * “Almost? he repented. "You did
‘flop,’ aad you’ve been under 15
minutes. Do you feel like telling us
what happened?’ “
Nona sat up and pushed back her
€ hair. The wounded arm is its fresh
bandage, lay oa the coverlet.
"It was Joe—Toe and that little
thin girl,” she began.
“The man that tried to get money
from me?" gasped Audrey. !
Nona nodded. “And the girl that
tried the badger game oa Harry
She’s hated me ever since that
“night
“Today I was asleep in my apart-
ment when the bell rang. I opened
the door and Joe and she walked in.
Then, without warning, he threw me
down oa the sofa, and held his hand
A over my mouth. I saw the , girl
“go into my bedroom. I kicked and
struggled. And once," she smiled-
“once 1 bit him. I guess that’s when
t get this. Then I fainted.”
Morton and Audrey were listen-
is raptly. *
“When I came to. they were gone.
I rsa late my bedroom and all my
jewelry was gone, too. Then I got
I a teal and rushed here. I didn’t
1 know anybody else to turn to"
- Morton nodded. “You did just
right. But I imagine it's useless to
Five s police alarm. They’re out of
town by now. Perhaps it’s just as
well. They’ll have enough money
to keep them quiet for some time
if they took those rings aad that
bracelet and pin of yours. Let’s
hope they won’t come back to both-
er us. 31-
Audrey shivered. “Yes, let's hope
I have a horror of that man."
Nona sat up still straighter
against the pillows. I’m not much
hurt, am It I’ve got to be ready
to work next week, on the new
show." W5Ye
5 “No," said Morton, “you’re not
much hurt-dust a shallow flesh
wound. You probably fainted part-
J from nervous exhaustion.”
Nona was making signs to him
behind Audrey’s back. He turned
to the girl.”
“Will you go and select some,
thing for Nona to wear? he said
"Her dress in covered with blood."
Audrey ran out aad closed the door
’ Nona leaned forward. - “I just
wanted to tell you, Harry, that If
you're still interested in that young
tool, Parrish, you'd better get busy
looking after him. He’s going to
get in very hot water, it rm not
mistaken. Maybe he already has.’
„ Morton frowned. “What’s he been
doins
"Well," said Nona, "he’s been
running around with Violet Mont-
gomery, the very wildest woman in
Abe Sunshine’s company. I’ve seen
him with ‘her at Regnelli’s fear
times, since you’ve been away, aad
Mee he was drunk.” N
Morton mused, between smiling
and frowning. Before he could
speak Audrey came back into the
room, with several dresses over her
arm. She was frowning absently.
“Daddy,” she Mid. "I don't un-
derstand Mr. Parrish."
Morton’s eyebrows lifted.
‘‘I just called him up to ask him
to a dinner party because you were
home and Nona wm here, and he
said quite curtly that he had an-
other engagement.” *
Morton laughed. '”1 don't Ms that
that’s hard to understand. Almost
any young man is likely to have en-
gagements for dinner now and
then."
Hs looked at Audrey. She was
the picture of dejection.
"Well. I'll toll you. We three
will have dinner out tonight, some-
where where there to music and
gayety. We all need popping up."
He looked nt Nona, and found her
watching him closely, with a little
mine—even if I make good. It's all
empty."
Audrey, turned around quickly.
“All life is empty," she said, “when
you don’t have what you want” She
leehod meaningly at Morton.
'He flushed an angry red. “Stop
mooning over imaginary troubles,
you two, end be glad things are an
worse for you. A fine pair of din-
aer companions I've brought
along!”
Audrey tried to smile, and Nona
also made a visible effort toward
cheerfulness. The orchestra had
struck up a violent fox trot that
forbade conversation. Couples in
evening dress began to swirl past
their table on the daaoe floor.
Suddenly Audrey sat upright, her
face a mask of consternation.
“Look!
A fleeting smile passed between
None and Morton before they
turned to follow the direction of
her eyes.
Locked in a close embrace, John
Parrish and a rolden-haired girl
were dancing the most extreme
version of the Charleston. The
girl’s diaphanous chiffon gown ree
vealed every lace rosette oa her sine
gle undergarment, and its low
decollette line left a wide expanse
of white shoulder to the public
gaze.
Her hair’ floated in a bale of
glory about her childish pink and
white face.
“Good looking girl," Mid Morton
coolly, while Andrey stared with
horrified eyes.
“She’s a rotten little gold digger,”
said Nona. “And‘s blackmailer, too.
Got enough money out of old man
Crabtree to keep her .the rest of
her life, if she wasn't such a spend-
thrift”
Andrey turned around, her eyes
ablaze. “Why don't you interfere?”
she asked Morten. "He’ll be ruined
— and then what will you do for a
secretary F
“And now," said Morton to the
young maa who stood before his
desk next morning, “tell me how
much money you have borrowed.
Your accounts with me are/O. K."
Parrish threw his head back
haughtily. "Don’t be insulting, Mr.
Morton. Of course, my accounts ere
straight, rm not a thief—but 1 did
borrow."
"From whom?” asked Morton.
“From the moa in the office.”
“Why did yen do it? Was it any
fun?"
“Well,” said Parrish, dropping his
eyes. “Miss Morton said I was a
stick-in-the-mud. And I couldn’t
stand that."
"So you started out to be a cake-
eater and a four-flusher?’ queried
Morton relentlessly.
The young man did not answer.
“How much did you borrow ?‘
"Three hundred dollars. Every
time 1 went out with—Miss Mont-
womery it coot me about fifty dol-
lars. I spent all my savings, too.”
. Morton wrote a check and handed
it to him. "Pay back your friends
a the office, and return this money
to me in weekly installment. And
be glad it cost you only a few hun-
dred dollars to learn that you’re a
young ass,"
Parrish looked directly at him.
“I’ll take the loan, Mr. Morton, and
ru give you a note for it. But I
can’t work for you any more. rm a
failure at everything. Miss Morron
doesn’t like me, aad you are, losing
patience with ma. rm going back
to Wichita Falls aad got another
job."
Morton nodded. “Perhaps it’s just
as well, Parrish.” But his eyes
dwelt kindly oa the downcast face
of the younger man.
When Parrish had gone out, tak-
ing his brief case and his other be-
longings Morton sat very still, ter
some time, staring nt the window.
He did not even smoke.
The door of hie office opened sud-
denly, end he started up. Audrey
came in. “Please come on to lunch
with me. Daddy. I’m so lonely."
He smiled at her, reached for his
coat aad hat, and followed her
FIDAY, MAY M. MM
through the outer office «e the ele-
vator.
Outside the office building he
stopped, and, placing his hands on
her shoulders, turned her eround to
face him. NX
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Audrey’s eyes filled with tears.
“Daddy" she said, solemnly, “let’s
invite Mr. Parrish to dinner tonight.
I feel that Fm to blame for his—"
“Parrish,” said Morton, “has quit.
Me to ano his way to Wichita Falls."
(Continued In Saturday’s Issue.)
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“All right,” said Audrey, listless-
ly. Then, irrelevantly, -Mr. Parrish
and I had a big quarrel while you
were away, daddy, but I didn’t
think he’d hold a grudge."
“What did you quarrel about?
asked Morton.
“He said I was a foolish butter-
Morton concealed a laugh. "There
are better secretaries in the sea
than have ever been caught. It’s his
own inalienable right to go to the
dogs aa he pleases. Don’t let It
worry you." ,
Audrey subsided. But both Nona
and Morton noticed that she did not
eat the food that she had ordered.
She kept her eyes away from the
dance floor, except for occasional
furtive, searching glances. Parrish
and the girl danced again and again.
They had not seen the other group.
"“Daddy,” said Audrey nt last.
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Audrey turned away without
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