Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1937, Page 28

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, QLOOS’ Nlustrated by Vincentinl THE STORY THUS FAR Carol Clayton postpones her marriage to wealthy Hartley Mad- ison and starts to play the horses so that she can pay Duke Brad- ley her dead father's debt of 876,000 Carol resents the hand- some bookmaker because he had accused her of marrying for money. Her luck is phenomenal Then Duke. warning her of a ner- vous breakdown, gets Hartley to join her in Florida. He is gleeful when Hartley places his first bet with him for Carol has de- terminedly thwarted all his moves in this direction. Carol persuades Hartley to go to California on business. in order to get him out of Duke’s clutches. But when she discovers that Duke is following him out she becomes so enraged that she runs after Duke in her negligee, furiously determined to CHAPTER XYV. h: won the first round That was something, but hp did not delude himself into believing there were not others, harder ones to win, ahead He knew something about women as well as horses. Any woman could be on her meitle now and Carol ! In the six months he had known her he had learned something of her will, of her determi- nation. Grudgingly, at first, he had come to admire her. She wasn't, after all. just a beautiful girl, snobbish and silly. She had character. Jim Clay- ton had been right when he said that “underneath everything she is a fine person.” He, too, was on his mettle now. He had wanted Madison to bet with him from the fi He wanted the money. He needed He knew, given time, he would win. The bookmaker al- ways did. It was the law of averages. | But there was something else involved. | Carol's a e was & challe pride as well as his o not let him lose Madiso “Time is to hin State lin a head s the cont And I do! He wasn't Madison out terd There wor he no cc But, there was Carol to reckon with, Madison found a stack of telegrams from New York waiting for him when they reached the hotel. He put in & number of long-distance calls. He spoke to his Los Angeles representa- tive and got in touch with Pruett, the oil magnate with whom he was to confer about the concessions. Duke heard it all. Madison had told him to “stick around” if he wouldn't be bored. He wa He was interested in watching Madison, seeing what a shrewd hw ness man he was. He was also a e awed by the huge sums which Madizon mentioned in the off- hand manner. been right when she said Madison did not deal with “chicken feed.” But Duke was not only fascinated by what he heard. He was worried. Madison seemed to have become just 8 big financier. He might become so absorbed in concessions and stocks and bonds that he wouldn't go to the races. So his heart almost skipped & beat when he heard Madison say: “‘Of course, Mr. Pruett, we must go Into that right away. It won't take much time, and that's good. Il be here some time and I'm going out to Santa Anita every day. Don't think I came all s way just to talk busi- ness.” Duke left the two men alone when Mr. Pruett ved. He was to wait in the lobby for Mr. Madison to join him in an hov As he turned from the news: where he had gone to get a paper, he gasped Coming zh the entrance were Fritzie—Kiffie—Tip. So the plane was in! Fritzie saw him fist, ran to him and threw her arms around him. The two men shook his hand. “Carol with you?" he asked. “For once we're free of that dame,” gaid Tip. “You see. she wasn't ar- rayed in just the right garments for travel. Gee, I'll bet she was blazing when she missed the plane.” “There’ll be another one soon.” said Duke. thinking he had only this one day when he could be sure of getting Madison to Santa Anita. “What do you do with papers, ducky dear?” asked zie. “Can't you see there on the front page, there's a ter- rible storm somewhere or other be- tween here and Florida? We just got through.” “Fritzie, I love you,” cried Duke. “And that goes for you men, too. I love the whole e world and everybody and everything—especially storms—in it.” For the next four deys Duke did not open the paper, as he always did by force of habit, to the sports page. It was weather news in which he was interested. If only that storm con- tinued he was saved. Or so he thought. But things did not work out as he had planned. The trouble was not that Madison lost interest in the races. With each Vvisit to the tracks, he became more enthusiastic. It was that day after day he picked the winners It was all right for him to win the first day. Even a sucker, Duke knew, needed a “come-on” at the start. But Madison always won and never lost. Duke almost lost faith in the law of averages of which he was always talk- ing. “Cripes, Boss,” groaned Tip at the end of the third day. “Just to think T used to bellyache about that snooty Clayton dame and what she took. Seems like nothing now. Do you know you're out eighty grand on this fellow. And you thought him a sucker. Cripes!” “I know,” said Duke, “but——" “Don't tell me his luck will turn. What's that line about to him that hath?—well we're giving him our #hirts. Could we lose him before we're stark naked?” “We cannot,” said Duke. got to get some of it back.” On the fourth day Tip managed a smile, but it was wry one. “Sure, he lost ten thousand today— But there's a long way to go.” “We'll go it,” said Duke firmly. “And stop being & ory-baby. He's “We've Carol had certainly | throwing a big party tonight—just cast your eye around the Coconut Grove and see me sitting at a table with billionaires, socialites and movie stars.” “That guy should order diamond- studded platinum plates,” muttered Tip. As Duke sat at the ringside table which Madison had engaged for his party that evening he was gay and cC He Duke,” sz beckoned— “Here comes trouble.” charming. Luck was coming his way | and Carol had not appeared. Pruett, suddenly leaping to his feet and holding high his champagne glass. A toast! I give you that ornament big business—that pal ornia oil industry—that sportsman—Hartley Madison, Esquire.’ H artley rose and smiled ank yo he said g more for me to say except have had four of the most | glorious days of my life has been perfect Everything Every one has de- thoroughbreds at Santa Anita, who OZ—->™®C0O VW <XP>OUO®CAHAD>W®V - »necoCc> Yt FUB“’I‘URB | _“Ladies and gentlemen,” cried Mr. | luged me with kindness—even those | two arm chairs. have treated my good friend, Duke Bradley, so badly. In fact, I might have decided to stay on and on. But unfortunately New York calls. That telegram you were kind enough to pardon me for reading a minute ago, makes this a farewell party for the time being. I'll be back—but I'm off on the 6 o'clock plane in the morn- ing. 8o, as time is short, let's not waste any of it on eulogies.” Duke drank the toast. He had to do that. But he could not sit there longer. He had seen Fritzie with Kiffie and Tip at a nearby table. Fritzie, whose heart was as big and warm as her voice was loud and her manner exuberant, might be able to help him. If not, she would give him the consolation he needed. Begging to be excused—he has seen a friend of his for whom he had a message, he explained—he left and walked over to the other table. “Don’t mind if I swipe Fritzie for this dance, do you?” he asked Kiffie. “The only thing I hate as much as horses is dancing,” said Kiffie | “What's the matter?" asked Fritzie, as they danced away. “Plenty. Madison is leaving tomor- row morning.” “Good thing. | you “But his luck is turning. { ten thousand today. The way he’s nicked If only I can old law of averages will do the rest.” “Duke, darling,” said Fritzie, “no- body can win against a bankroll like his. Why don't you forget it all— | maybe this is a hint from fate. Maybe | this is the time for you to leave the | I got back tracks forever as you always say you're going to do.” “Whatll T leave on?” he demanded. Sure I'm going to give it up—that's why I have to stick until I've cashed in big.” “Either of you heard anything from Carol?” “I suppose Madison has. I've not. She always thought I was poison— and now!"” “You're a dear,” said Pritzie, “but you're too dumb to talk to. So let's forget everything but this swell swing music and show what we can do when we step out on a floor and put our minds al it. Maybe I'm not as svelt, or whatever that highbrow word is, as some of these dolls and maybe I'll never take any prizes for my footwork. But do I love it?” “0. K.” said Duke. “Suckers who desert just as luck is coming my way— horses which play me false—girls who hate me—they're all no matter for the moment. We'll start our stuff for all the world to see.” They did not speak again. Fritzie was wondering what she could do to help Dick. If only she could think of something. She could make Kiffie bet with Duke, of course, but she was afraid to do that. He might be as lucky as Madison. Duke was trying to think of something, anything to keep Madison with him for a few more days at least. If he didn't— They were dancing toward the table where Tip and Kiffie sat. Suddenly he saw Tip's jaw drop, his eyes bulge, He was beckoning for them to come closer, “Trouble!” d Tip. capital T. Look." “And with a AUGUST 4, On the stairway leading down into the room was Carol! Carol is not to be shaken off so easily, Duke is discovering. And now she has appeared just when his luck is turning. Can he win her over to his side? See tomorrow's thrilling instaliment. (To be continued.) (Copyright, 1937, Loew's, Inc.) S S S B The Sentiment Didn't Matter. ‘Who said the English couldn't take a joke, and that, immediately? At a hectic political meeting an English politician was hit by a dead cat thrown from the audience. But the thrower immediately jumped up to apologize. 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