Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 11

'A Xr SA A of her own 1 hasn't a brother' I 7 family if I know women" i5 she has an invalid Support Or an old 77iy stopped at an all night lunch wagon and it was there over the hot dog and coffee that he made a startling discovery I '3 4 As he crossed: the dancing floor he saw that Johnny was indeed dancing with the girl in blue and with every evidence of enjoyment He felt family annoyed Philip gave him a wry smile no ear for boop da boop but try to keep an open rnninprtri eyeing his brother thoughtfully a trifle mali "And red he said incredulously un She arose restlessly? "In another moment going to turn cartwheels Do said Philip and to his discomfiture she turned One slotolyvand gracefully in a swirling cascade of chiffon say Hortense and I waited the whole evening expecting ycu to turn up and you were cruising over the half of Manhattan with Bunny Wait Let me get this straight I was with Great guns I was with the Cut ting cousin was "And Hortense was the girl in blue?" "She wore blue yes And if you bad stayed heard her sing some songs She sang Little Gray Home in the and things like that Everybody was crazy about "Um The Cutting cousin Well be Philip put his head back and roared with laughter Johnny regarded him in alarm the matter old man? acting awfully tunny Don you teel well feel fine marvelous wonderful On the top of the can I marry her Marry her with my blessing I think we're going to need a refining influence the ladv has monev What does she Hoytense is in defiantly Philip's eyes glittered After a moment he said with an effort dhncing only or does she walk the slack wire?" "She sings" eagerly really just a home girl used to sing in a choir But she has to support her good to her mother is she? And of course she's put ting her brother through col lege? stiffly "Then father to bed ridden aunt" "I suppose you think 4 voice rose in exasperation came here this afternoon to discuss my future with that con cerns me vitally And you sit there and jeer and jibe may have de murred Philip I never just because a confirmed old woman hater" "I hate them I know them' There was a sardonic twinkle in eye while I'm 10 years older than you my arteries aren't harden ing yet Johnny boy I'll be able to get around to your wed ding in a wheel chair when 25" "I wait until 25" shouted Jdhnny a hoarse voice YoOffiw I think you re a pretty fresh kid" she smiled across the hor rid concoction you like me don't you? es" thought you did or you have run away with me from that gummy party "Well going to drive you back right now something to say to you young lady me she said dreamily All my friends He got masterfully behind the wheel as they started back They rolled for 20 yards and stopped under a spreading oak you in love with why bring him up? Of course you any "No To tell you the truth I think lie's well kind of creaking in the joints if you know what I mean Like the rest of the party" you think like the rest of the He leaned close to her his eyes dark and suddenly ardent She moved too a seductive quarter of an inch Her lips were very close to his Some thing seemed to leap between them Then she moved away laughing silently sing it for she said The fresh breeze blowing aver the hills caught the words of the refrain: may be wrong but I think you're wonderful" 44T take you in" said Philip as they entered the door of the club once more darned if I want to g8 into that stuffy ballroom going to walk home under the wish I could but I came with a will be furious at me but just tell him I had tp Johnny You seem to have him on your mind the most absurd thing in the world but you even know my name I'm Philip Ackerly brother" thought maybe you unimpressed said to Marjorie is that dark hand some man skulking behind the and she said So I just put two and two together and little fraud You adorable Philip! Not here The doorman is looking But who in Sam Hill do you think I am?" Philip chortled gleefully "I knew who you were all along But I had a horrid preju dice to all Philip answered her merely with a glance but it was enough 44pOOD MORNING Mr Ackerly" said Miss Johnson to Johnny in sur prise She forgot to be owlish and looked merely flustered brother isn't here yet Ah so she murmured "I'll wait in here" said Johnny pushing his way into the private office He was still waiting angrily and impatient ly at 10 when Philip debonair and radiant and wearing a bright flower in his but tonhole entered Si the early said Philip heartily burst forth Johnny at once did you run off like that last "I know I shouldn't have run admitted Philip "and I hereby tender an should think you sputtered John ny is this a stall? You said you wanted to meet I met your Hortense and she adorable But you marry do you mean I marry going to marry her myself" Johnny stared "I suppose that is one of your cock eyed legal jokes I was with her all evening and you never came near iiXZOU were What are you talking IND it "dead and buried Something jjMrom the Stone just beenun earthed And she yawned it She' arose restlessly stretching her arms lazily: above her head' another moment going to turn XDp "1 said Philip nd to his discomfiture she turned one slowly and gracefully in a swirling cascade of chiffon hie said nervously do your daily dozen here" bored to death yourself Big Boy When I saw you glowering among the palms 1 thought iHad a kindred Philip Iboked i shocked but slowly in spite of himself a smile overspread his features we ought to introduce ourselves" heavens no prpbablv turn out to be a bank president And red up on bank presidents going to get out of here" said the 'girl suddenly as the music started find my cat and cruise afound for a couple of houfs Try to run down a few bank presidents" said Philip leave Johnny? You do that It do all the things that airily JOHNNY ACKERLY in a new gray suit and a tie of a tender shade of blue jauntily entered the law offices of Woods Ackerly and (putting He was conscious of a discreet flutter of ap proval among the girl clerks and steiibgraphers as he made his' way toward his pri vate office Outside the office howevCr Miss Johnson his elderly and horn rimmed secretary looked up owlishly from behind stacked papers "Your brother is very busy" she said will see you in 10 minutes" Her abstracted glance resting oq his tie she motioned to a bench SoJohnny cooled his elegant Cordovan heels on the bench for 10 mutates and lost consider able of his pleasant glow When he entered Philip office a little later he per ceived that this had been a disciplinary meas ure for Philip was quite alone He sat dark and austere behind the glass topped expanse of his mahogany desk making cryptic notations on a pad'of yellow copy paper He recognized his younger brother by the merest flick of an eyebrow indicating the chair opposite Johnny flung himself rebelhously into thechair and 'as his brother continued his compu tations occupied himself somewhat drearily by studying a pair of largq framed photographs on the wall snapped Philip suddenly laying the pad aside wanted to see me about something "About something certainly" replied John ny hesitantly' "Something very important Phil" "I suppose run out of money resignedly i Johnny smiled touched this allowance even salted away sonib of my "Um" Philips handsome aquiline features relaxed hnnd business oickina so But got a motive He leaned forward suddenly animated "Philip ye most marvelous thing has happened The dark eyes bored him I might have known it in love again "You act" said Johnny angrily if I fell in and out of love every five minutes I tell you this is the real thing She's the most marvelous wonderful said Philip treasures only spring up every six months or so Who drew the lucky number this name is Hortense Hall" she is a treasure Of course I ex pect you to heard of her Never heard of anyof these girls of yours until ate providen tially drops thUm in your lap Why you give' sort of tlje girls of your own crowd a whirl Marjope Cutting for instance "I like girls with largeteeth Hate society girls anyway 46TpHE list to recited Philip I eludes one artist's model one girl Com munist one manicurist one moving pic ture understudy "Oh for sake iPhil begged Johnny neither here nor there I know what loVe was" the little girl the bookshop? in credulously "Why you said she taught you the meaning of was all muttered Johnny I guess I sorta infatuated But this is different" were all the beginning You wanted to marry them all singly of course not collectively a good thing I krtow women Whose wise' ana restraining hand prevented you?" i "You can't prevent me this timel' flared Johnny you can do is to cut off my income from the ladies" judiciously and all ob jected to that And why not? a'sizlble income and a sizable estate And you'll get it all when 25 Johnny if you behave in the meantime youwait?" I to understand coldly you will hot entertain the idea of my marrying until I am arbitrarily No If you pick out a nice girl of ypur own in love with Hortense andI going illlllllllllllllllllllMllldlllllllllllllilllli! Illustrations By GLADYS PARKER entirely bare except for gleaming strips of rhinestone at the shoulders' She' scintillated with beads bangles bracelets and earrings i 1 1 I 1 St I I SS Whv not brine her around to the aer his breath the dowagers will slay ner Cuttings! dance tonight? going to drop in The girl was dancing intimately seductively LLkixw a AaIm trt CMASIa SSH Sr UMUWUl uavh net S' her partner Philip removed his eyes with an effort and scanned the rest of the assemblage They were all there the same old crowd A tall girl in a blue dress standing with Stewart Cutting that would be the cousin from the west But she large' teeth A nice looking girl Now if only Johnny would take to girls like that Philip sighed and' found himself a seat be hind some screening palms The music had stopped but he didift wqnt to go down just yet Curiously he felt weary and a little de pressed 1 'The dry clack of conversation from a group under the balcony came to his ears Stocks and bonds? Bills and notes Corporate trusts Golf He closed his eyes and remembered a girl he had danced with at a college hop years ago a girl like this one HE opened his eyes and rubbed them The flame colored girl waS standing a few feet away from him 'on the balcony He hesitated but a moment eve ning" he said rising Johnny send you up here?" The girl drew closer and Philip saw that she was vividly pretty with a pair of brilliant blue eyes set in an olive complexion you ppund my she said Philip looked at her wildly hiccups" she explained jerkily Philip had seen hiccups before and had never thought them anything but disgusting But this hatefully alluring female had hiccups tn the grand manner She wrinkled her small nose and shuddered her slim shoulders and all her beads and bangles set up a gentle tinkling And presently between resounding whacks the paroxysm passed better" she said throwing him a grateful glance She settled herself leisurely in the chair beside him been drinking too much punch" said Philio severelv sunnose aereeablv nothing can 1 take away the taste of this damned party Philip conceajed hi unhqly joy "You find soothed Philip "wait a week will you laming Youth and go around and look this queen of her sex over" "I want you to meet said Johnny mollified love her" Philip gave him a wry smile mind Now let me see ciously "Why not bring her around to the Cuttings dance tonight 1 late It the last club dance Johnny hesitated "It will be quite all right I'll fix it up with Marjorie She said she had an engaging young cousin she wants you to "All the Cuttings" said Johnny large teeth" "You might do worse Rumor hath it that the cousin is blessed With a "All you think of it money" "And is not too hard on the eye" hard on the eye either a beauty" I will give you credit for that You Cick with looks But the Cutting chit would a lady" i ybu want a good sock on the nose?" "Not especially But breeding tells in the long run my Philip took up his yellow pad again and Johnny departed said Philip a few 'minutes later to the horn rimmed Miss Johnson a great thing" Mr Ackerly" few years ago I cured my brother of a deathless passion for a circus rider by the sim ple expedient of taking her to the Ritz" "Yes Mr' Ackerly" asked for a toothpick" Mr Ackerly" may be a bloodless lawyer with a shriv eled but I know Mri Ackerly" now take a complaint Witherspoon versus the Pennsylvania Railroad Company rrvifc music was in lull swing when rhinp I Ackerly dark and handsome in evening to many1 her not in my she's i dress looked in at the dancing floor Hemiles above me" skirted the weaving couple and moved unob prttty Very 'i? trusively to the balcony overlooking the danter "Ana he care about the money Directing his gaze downward his eyes came either" rather have to rest on a vivid spot of color in the center of the room Philip gasped The girl who was 6 tTTELL refreshing Your late dancing cheek to cheex with Johnny Ackerly lV littlaiplaymates have shown a notable' wore a dress of flame colored chiffon with trail Mt willingness to sell you down the riverM ing petal ends that touched the floor Her slim for a few thousands Bub perhaps the yuig 4 powdered back so far as he could see was vi' t' zn if you mean Johnny Ackerly turned thumbs down on me smitten with that girl in dancing with her all evening "Waitl" said Philip go out of here alone go with He told himself that this was the least he could do for Johnny As they crossed the dancing floor he sawthat Johnny was indeed dancing with the girl in blue and with every evidence of enjoyment He felt faintly angoyed The young ass needn't right about face so quickly AS they breeied along Riverside Drive the lights flowed gently into one and Philip forebore to Took at the speedometer There was a larae and brilliant moon and the wind from the river was cool orf his face He relaxed in hi seat and looked down at the small strong hand on the wheel with its string of absurd jeweled bracelets at the wrist thought Philip with a swift intake of his breath Again he found himself struggling with that curious sense of depression Was it possible that his standards were all wrong? He think about his standards again for a long time They sped along to 181st Street and crossed over into ordham Road and their conversation was only in fragmentary snatches against the swift rushing of the wind Sometimes the girl sang rowdy bits from the current and once she put a warm little hand tentatively down into his and snatched it away again thought Philip "and she's engaged to I of do I not know women?" he asked himself as they turned into the Bronx River Parkway i going to let this gilded child keep me up all night?" THE answer Was that he was and glad of it They stopped at an all night lunch wagon at Scarsdale and it was there oyer the hot dogs and Coffee that he made a startling discovery God I'm in There could bb no doubt about it All the symptoms were there Hot flashes Cold chills A desire to show off his muscle He looked longingly at the girl sitting across from him consuming with delicacy and finesse a hot dog smeared savagely with mustard and drip ping with piccalilli He hitched forward bn hft stool and be ii so very disagreeable do cause the language of love is peculiar slid in (Copyright 1930 By Every Week rilled in JLj The romantic comedy i of a big brother who preaches on a love but practice the way thql he preaches By MADELINE KOHLER 4 A nr af TuX fi c'SK i Xia A dr fc SMt TE ST a It (A ryV jff vr 9 Er fl 111 I B1 Ml 3 fl fl ilfl 7 IfflSh flfll HhW I I I I JI 4 ZXSj ZE Sis I hEniW Hak rt If I miimHiitt nil 111111 llItlllllTtllf inilMBtllllHIHIIHIf till Av lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllttlllllliillinillllllliinillltlliillii in HI I 'UiililijuiiiliinBiiiuiiuiiiiiiiiu XXX 't iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyiiiiii Tin 1 1 i 1 fluK.