Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1924 — Page 8

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CHAPTER I Through the Mist of Dawn S r ~~~ ALLIE PECK was almost the (he las* of the employes to * . I leave the side entrance of the Pair Deal P’ive & Ten, but she seemed in no hurry, as she slopped along through the mud with none of her usual buoyant elasticity. It wasn’t the tedious day behind the counter which had dulled her spirits, for two long years of them stretched in the past, and although they had kept her young body slim and her pretty little face pale, they had not taken the glint from her ruddy gold hair nor the snap from her deep blue eyes. It was

“HUGHIE:” SHE PUT OUT A HAN D TO STEADY THE SLIPPING CRUTCH.

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two nights before; she could almost feel the gentle tug of his big hand on her arm and hear the wistful note in his voice when he asked her, “wasn’t it swell?" Two nights ago, and last night when she thought he was on duty at the station house, hadn't he gone to the Empire Picture Palace, where that red-headed Marne Dorsey played the piano and taken her to supper at the Elite! * Sallie hurried past the picture palace and along the straggling line of shops to the railroad bridge. Maine could play all right. Sallie had to hand that to her: hadn't she plugged away at the latest ballads and jazz num-

bers in the sliest music department at the Five-&-Tm for six months right next to Sal He's own counter? A sharp gust of the March wind 1 caught Sallie as she crossed the bridge and made her clutch >be rail in a grip that split her neatly mended brown glove straight across the j shacy little knuckles, but she hast ened on heedless of the calamity. *Ma Brennan would keep supper hot for her, of course, but Ma had had a hard day’s wash and she wasn't so well lately in spite of all that fat There had been a place for her in that dream of the future which al though it had never been put into definite words had seemed of late to fill the girl’s waking thoughts—a lit tie cottage away from the incessant roar and grime and coal-dust of th*tracks where Ma could sit in com sortable idleness and read the lurid detective stories so dear to her heart and Mike out of the fullness of his experience on the Force would kid her about them when he came home. . . . But that dream was over now. Nora Jenks, of the tinware, hud been |to the Empire the night before and the Elite afterward with her intended and Nora wasn’t the catty kind to tell her what she had seen just to make her feel bad. Louise Groto from the ribbon counter had chimed in. loo; her brother had the beat down near where Marne Dorsey lived and Mike had brought her home more than once latel\. Sallie hud replied with a bravely gay assumption of unconcern but now she brushed angrily from her eyes something stinging which the sharp March winds had not brought there and started to turn in at the rickety litcle gate when a small, misshaped form emerged hurriedly from the gloom and caromed against her. "Hughie!” She put out a hand to

steady the slipping crutch. "Where you going so quick?” “Oh. Sallie. you didn't see Pa as you come 'long, did you?” The boy's voice was breaking with anxiety. 11c > at i again! 1 dunno where he got it and he's gone!” “Gone” - Sallie echoed, winding her arm about the humped shoulders. It s most time for the seven-ten, ain't it? Your Pa’s prob'ly right down there at the junction now. ready to throw the switch same as usual.” I gotta go see!” The hoy took a fresh grip of his crutches, “lie's pretty bad this time. Don't let that Thorkinsen girl know: she said her pa'd report him the next time. He hobbled off as a shaft of light streaked out.on the porch of the house next door, just beyond which he lived with and ilse Thorkingsen's long, inquisitive nose was poked out. Dat you, Sallie? she simpered. “I t'ought somebody bane wit' you. Wanter run over after supper? We got two new records—” ‘Thanks, Ilse,” Sallie interrupted shortly. "I'm tired tonight.” ' Oh, if your faller bane cornin’ to see you—?” “He isn’t. I’m—l'm just tired! Some ether time—” Use shut her door as Sallie went up Ma Brennan's path which paral leled the Thorkinsens’ a scant twenty feet away. Use was 30, lanky and sharp-featured and as sallow as the hides In the tannery where she worked as a stenographer. “Hello, dearie!” Ma Brennan turned smilingly from the stove, her broad face red and moist with the heat. Don’t you bother goin’ upstairs. Wash your hands at the sink an’ set right down. Was it Michael you was talkin' to Just now at the gate?” Sallie ignored the question and sniffed accusingly. “Ma Brennan, that's steak! There was cold ham left—!” ‘Just a snitch that’Tl do for your breakfast. I was thinkln’ a good bit o’ red meat would hearten ye this raw night, child.” She waddled over, placing the heaped-up plate before the girl and then set a steaming cup of tea beside it. "But jou went to the butcher’s for it. after doing up all that heavy embroidered linen of the Eversleys’! Where's your supper?” Sallie remonstrated. "Oh, and I forgot your evening paper, too!” “I've had mine, an’ I bought me a paper cornin’ home from the market." Ma Brennan sank into a rocker which creaked beneath her weight. “What was doin’ at the store* today?” "We got in anew line of beads that sold fine, only they was strung rotten* and the dames all grabbing at ’em broke half a dozen, I told old

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Jake It wasn't my fault, but I s'pose I’ll be docked just the same.” Sallie drank her tea and then courageously attack the food for which she had no appetite, conscious of the kindly, sollcitious eyes upon her. ''Them rhinestone pins,are a frost, though.” “XVhat do folks expect in a five-and-ten? Di monds?” Ma Brennan sported and flipped her paper open, but it slipped down into her capacious lap. "If they dock you. how'll you get that pretty blue suit from Flannery’s that you’ve been savins up for? They

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOAIE TOWN—By STANLEY

mightn’t be holdin' it another week for ye, an’ ye’ll not get another as good for $18! Michael will like it fine on ye—!” ’ “I don't wont It. My old one’s good enough for all the places I’ll be going!” Sallie changed the subject quickly. "Why, that's a New York paper you’ve got!” Ma Brennan rose Innocently to the bait. "It is that! I wanted to see about that big roblTry peakin’ o' di’monda just now! Ten thousand reward, the >..

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Dee-lapeer fam'ly is offerin’ an’ no questions asked. They're after Bayin’ a. gur’rl thief got ’em, an’ the warnin’ lias gone out to the police of ivery city here In the East!" She exhibited the paper, which bore In a large black banner: “No Ti-ace of Delaplerre Diamonds." Below, a smaller headline read: “‘Police Look for Missing Mhid. Said to Be Female Member of Famous Crook Gang.” "Wouldn’t it be fine if the hussy, was to come here to Sha&gtown an' .Michael nabbed her!” Ma Brennan • ( .

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pursued. "Do you mind how proud he was when he first got on the Force, cornin’ around in his blue coat and brass buttons to show himself, an’ you not yet sixteen, flouting him even then when he could ha’ had all the grown-up gur-rls he wanted —!” "He can yet!” Sallie interrupted, pushing her plate away. “True for you!” Ma Brennan responded, unconsciously adding fuel to ihe flame. “There’s but oije he’ll look cross-eyed at, though, and well you know it! When he tuk off than

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

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uniform for the other one and went overseas me heart was in me mouth, an’ I don’t know how I'd ha' got t’rough them months if I hadn’t had the Schmidt woman here in the lefthand half o’ the house to orgy with though you finished srhoot an' went iri Flannery's parcel wrapping, your nose in the air as if there wa; no war at all, at all!” She chuckled ccnlendly but Salih ihivered and bit her lip. She re tnembered those months, when oniy -Lite thought that MJjtp waul# haty^

THURSDAY, MARCH 20,1924

—By MARTIN

—By TAYLOB

expected if of her kept her WMjl head so gallantly high! And MINI “The Schmidt woman had nothin' to say when he come home with tala ey-tations and medals and all for hringin’ In the Lieutenant Trevor under fire’ Such fine letters as be used to get from the Lieutenant!" Ma Brennan went on in garrulous reminiscence. “I must ask Miohasl Alien he comes to see ye the night uoea he iver hear from him aooy more?'’