Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 335, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1927 — Page 14

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CHAPTER LIV Continued He thought of this now. “Carter may have attracted the worst in Joyce. There's a ‘worst’ in all of us. But she's never given him her true sell*, her real self. That belongs to me. It can’t be spoiled.’’ His decision was made. He loved Joyce and trusted her irrevocably. “I will go t her and tell her so,’’ he said aloud. “The past is dead. Whatever she h%s done, if she will come to me I will love and cherish her all my life.” He felt that it was a solemn vow he took. Almost that he was beginning anew life. He glanced down at the letter on the laboratory bench. Angrily he tore it up. It must be destroyed. He seized a match and held it to the paper. There was a roar, a splintering cf glass, a flash of Are. Deke staggered back. An explosion shook the laboratory. He clasped his hands about his eyes. Pain unspeakable held him. With an effort of will he took his hands away and tried to open his eyes. It was useless. He was blind. CHAPTER LV Blindness Maddened by pain Deke groped his way to the second floor telephone. He feared the house would burn down from the results of the explosion In the laboratory. Goaded by this fear he put in a call for the fire department, then sunk to the floor, his clasped over his burning eyes. When the firemen arrived they found him lying unconscious by the telephone. A charred and smouldering floor threatened the third story of the house. While the firemen worked to put this out their chief took Deke to the nearest hospital where he was admitted as an cmergeidby patient. Hours later lie became conscious. His eyes were heavily bandaged and he felt faint and sick. He called weakly for a nurse, One came to his side and took his hand gently. “What is it?” she asked.

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“Am I blind?” ho questioned, and strained to hear her answer. He could not see the look of pity In her eyes as she told him, “The doctors think you will be all right in a few days. Try to rest now.” Deke lay silent a few moments. There was so much to think of. Joyce, but that must wait. His parents in the South, the affairs of the chemical plant. He spoke to the nurse again. “Could you get word to a friend for me?" “Indeed I can,” the nurse answered, “if you will promise not to get excited.” “Then telephone to Judge, Robert Perkins and ask him to come to see me as soon as he can.” The nurse left the room and telephoned the Judge. “Blind? Henry Deacon. A. J. Deacon’s boy?" Judge Perkins echoed. “He was apparently working In his private laboratory when the explosion that blinded him occurred. He has only Just now become conscious. His family all seem to be away and he is asking for you.” “I’ll be out at once,” Judge Perkins answered, hanging up the receiver and reaching for his coat. In the half hour before he reached Deke’s bedside, Deko lived through an eternity of suffering. An opiate had dulled his physical pain. His eyes and his burned hands seemed like aching but distinct parts of himself. But his mind raced on unhindered. This was the end then. The work of the plant was at a crucial point. True, new capital might save it, but where was the new capital to come from. He groaned. “Just two weeks more,” he said ljalf aloud. Two weeks more and the crisis would have passed, the business would have weathered the storm. “Blind and poor,” he said to himself. He had no illusions about his father. The elder Mr. Deacon’s days as a captain of industry were passed. The business called now for a man of iron strength, not a querulous invalid, suspicious of every modren innovation. The business was done for. “At least I won’t have to read about that,” he thought grimly. He would ask Judge Perkins to summon Mr. and Mrs. Deacon home. “I'll do what I can to make father see the need of carrying out the reorganization plans,” he decided, “but I know how hopeless It if ror him to try. All we can do is go down with colors flying. Judge Perkins can help me out. Today we can pay every cent we owe, Including pensions to old employes. Next week we may noe even be able to do that.” He turned over ways and means of closing the plant without asking any of their creditors or faithful workers to suffer a loss and marshalled his facts to lay before Judge Perkins when the latter arrived. Consciously he thought of th* business, pushing back in his mind the problem of his love for Joyce. Then Judge Perkins arrived. Deke stretched out an aimless hand and managed to grin. “All In the dark about where you are,” he said, letting the Judge take his hand. “How did it happen?” asked Judge Perkins, a note of deep concern In his voice. “Oh, I was fooling around 'with some chemicals up in my old labo-

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ratory and the darn stuff exploded. Good thing the house didn’t burn down. The nurse says it Just scorched the floor a bit. But It got me all right,” he touched the bandage with his free hand. Judge Perkins still held the one he had taken on entering. “Well, the first thing to do is to get you into a better room, and get you a private nurse and have some specialist out to look at you” he said, trying to keep pity for the helpless figure out of his voice. Deke shook his head. “Can’t afford it,” he said. "They seem to be doing me up pretty well here and I sent for you to tell you the Deacon Chemical business la about to go smash and to ask you to help pick up the pieces.” “I’ll listen to you In a minute, young man.” said the Judge speaking firmly, "but you’re going to have every care that money can buy for you. I owe that to my old friend A. TANARUS! Deacon, your father, and to your dear mother and to—” he hesitated, not knowing how matters stood between Joyce and Deke. “Joyce Daring won't be Interested in whether I’ mblind or not,” said Deke roughly. Judge Perkins thought differently, but he said no more of Joyce. Instead, “Tell me about the business,” he said quietly. Deke outlined what he had been "There’s no one to carry them out doing and his plans for the future, now,” he concluded. "All we can do Is to make as graceful a retirement as possible father Isn’t able physically to take charge of things. Mother has enough money of her own to take care of them comfortably, she can sell the house on the heights for one thing and the girls are old enough to teach school or something. At any rate, by closing down now we may come clean. If we wait there’ll be new consignments of raw material coming in to be paid for, and a lot of other debts.” “Have you got a good production manager?” the Judge asked. "Crackerjack, trained him myself this winter,” said Deke. “And no one is expecting a raise in salary right now?” Deke grinned. “Hardly,” he murmured. “You laid the way for a lot of new orders when you were west,” the Judge went on. Deke moved restlessly, but nodded his head. He knew where the judge was heading. “Then all you really need in this present situation is some capital to tide you over the annual sqmmer slump,” the older man continued. “I wouldn’t ask anyone to put capital into the business now," Deke said. “If I were there to watch it being spent, used wisely, It would be different. But I can’t let any of my friends or my friends throw good money after bad. No bank or investment firm would advance the money in our present ttate, and. I refuse to let mother risk a penny of her slender income.” “Well, I’ll look things over and come in and see you again tonight,” the judge promised. “Meantime, don’t you take this lying down, Henry Deacon. You fought a losing fight this winter at the plant and

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