Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1928 — Page 16

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THIS HAS HAPPENED SALLY FORD, ward of the State orphanage from the time she is four, is ‘‘farmed out” to CLEM CARSON when she is 16. She meets DAVID NASIj, athlete and student who is working on the farm for the summer. Carson makes remarks about David’s friendship with Sally and the student strikes him a terrifi c blow. Sally and David flee and join a carnival, David as cook's helper and Sally in a sideshow disguised as "Princess Laila,” crystal gazer. NITA, Hula dancer, who knows the police are after the newcomers and who is infatuated with David, threatens to expose Sally if she doesn’t keep "hands off” the young student. The carnival goes next to Capital City, where Sally spent so many years in the orphanage. She successfully eludes detection under the disguise of the crystal gazer until one afternoon when the orShans troop in with their hostess, a eautiful woman who fascinates Sally. One of the children recognizes Sally and shouts her name, but GUS. the barker, comes to her rescue and diverts attention. Sally is surprised to see the beautiful "Lady Bountiful” stop and talk with a well-dressed, handsome Easterner who earlier in the afternoon has tcasingly read iSally’s fortune in the crystal and asked her to go to supper with him. When a terrible storm blows up and the tent falls, Sally finds herself supported in the arms of the Easterner. He tells her he knows who she is and that the police are after her. When they are rescued, Sally learns that David and Nita are missing. Later that night. WINFIELD BYBEE calls everybody into his car and tells them his safe has been robbed. MRS. BYBEE accuses Sally and David, recalling that Sally one day saw her place money in thi hidden safe. Sally pleads her and David’s innocence and tells of Nita’s menacing voice in the darkness and her conversation with the unknown man STEVE. Bybee says he Will call in police to find David and Nita. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXX POP BYBEE looked down upon Sally’s agonized face with troue bled indecision in his bright blue eyes. He tried to lift her to her feet, but her arms were locked about his knees. The midget had scrambled from Sally’s shoulder to the floor of the car and as Bybee hesitated, her tiny fists beat upon his right leg for attention. “You’re not going to break your promise to Sally, are you, Mr. Bybee?” the tiny voice piped shrilly. “You told her and the boy you'd protect them. She’s told you the truth. Don’t you know truth when you hear it? I always knew Nita was a crook. She never saw a po-

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liceman or a constable or a sheriff without turning white as a ghost. She joined up with the carnival just to tip off her accomplice—this Steve person—where to find the money. That’s why she was spying on Mrs. Bybee that day in Stanton. Listen to me!” “I’m listening, Miss Tanner,” Pop Bybee acknowledged wearily. “And I swear I don’t know what to say or do. If they get clear away with that money the show’ll be stranded. Every cent I had in the world was in that safe. Reckon I was a fool to carry it with mp, but I never trusted a bank, and it was more convenient, having it right with me. Tomorrow’s payday, too, and all of you are in the same boat with me.” “Listen, boss, let’s take a vote on it.” 1 Gus, the barker, spoke up suddenly and loudly. “Now me—l believe the kid here is telling the truth. No college boy could crack a safe like that. It was a professional job, or I'm a liar! Os course Nita may have tolled the boy off with her and this Steve, since she was so crazy about him, but we ain’t got. no proof she did, and as Sally says, if you sick the cops on the boy, the jig will be up with her as well as the boy. Another thing, Dave may be laying in the bushes somewhere ivith a bullet—” “Oh!” Saily screamed, as the full significance of Gus’ words burst upon her. She fainted then, her little body slumping into a heap at Bybee’s feet, her head striking one of his big shoes and resting there.

When she regained consciousness she was lying in the lower .berth which had belonged to Nita, and the midget was kneeling on the pillow beside her head, dabbing her face with a handkedchief soaked in aromatic spirits of ammonia. Mazie and Sue, two of the dancers in the “girlie” show, sat on the edge of the berth, their cold-creamed faces almost beautiful with anxiety and sympathy. “What’s the matter? Is it time to get up?” Sally asked dazedly. I “What are you doing, Betty?” The midget answered in her tiny, j brisk voice: “I’m bathing your face with ammonia which Mrs. Bybee! sent. It should be cologne, and this j ammonia will probably dry your j skin something dreadful, but it was | the only thing we could get. You ! fainted, you know.” “Oh, I remember:” Sally moaned, j her head beginning to thresh from ! side to side on the pillow. “Have J they found David? I know he’s j been hurt!” “They’re looking for him,” the j midget assured her briskly. “Mr. j Bybee took a vote on whether he | was to notify the police about Da- | vid’s being gone, as well as Nita, j and the vote was ‘No!’ That ought to make you feel happier!” “Oh, it does!” Sally began to cry ! softly. “You have all been so kind, so kind! You said Mrs. Bybee sent the ammonia?” she asked wistfully. “She certainly did, and she’s in the kitchen of the privilege car right now, making you some hot tea. She won’t say she's sorry, ' probably, but she’ll try to make it j up to you. She’s like that—always ' flying off the handle and suspicious of everybody, but she’s got a heart as big as Babe, the fat girl.’ “And so have you!” Sally told her brokenly, taking both of the tiny hands into one of hers and laying them softly against her lips. “Ain't love grand?” Mazie sighed deeply. “If it had been my sweetie, I’d a-fell for that line of Ma Bybee's about him running off with Nita, but you sure stuck by him! I was in love like that once, when I was a kid. I married him, too, and he run off with the albino girl and took my grouch bag with him. Every damn cent I had! But it sure was sweet before we was married and he was nuts about me.” “Aw, let the kid alone!” Sue slipped from the edge of the berth and yawned widely. “Gawd, I’m sleepy! If the cops don’t catch that Hula hussy I’m going out looking for her myself, and when I get through with her she’ll never shake another grass skirt! C’mone, Mazie. It’s 3 o’clock in the morning, and we’ve got eighteen shows ahead of us today.”

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“Maybe!” Mazie yawned. “If Pop wasn’t stringing us, we’ll be stranded in this burg. G’night, Sally. G’night, Midge. And say, Sally, even if this Dave boy has blowed and left you flat, you won’t have no trouble copping off another sweetie. Gus was telling us about that New York rube that’s trailing you. Hook up with him and you’ll wear diamonds. Believe me, kid, they ain't none of ’em worth losing sleep over when you’ve got eighteen shows a day ahead of you. G’night.” When they had gone the midget yanked the green curtains together with comical fierceness. then crawled under the top of the sheet that covered Sally. “I’m going to sleep here with you, Sally,” she said. “I don't take up much room.” And the woman who was old enough to be Sally’s mother curled her twenty-nine-inch body in the curve of Sally’s right arm and laid her tiny cheek, as soft and wrinkled as a worn kid glove, in the hollow of Sally’s firm young neck. But long after the midget was asleep, Sally lay wide-eyed and tense in the dark, her ipind a welter of fears and love and doubt. She had pleaded passionately with Pop Bybee for David, fiercely shoving to the dark depths of her mind even the memory of the jealousy tvhich Nita had fiendishly aroused in her heart. But now that she had saved him temporarily by convincing Bybee that the boy could not have taken part in the robbery, doubt began to insinuate its ugly body upward from those dark depths where she had buried it. Did he really love her—a pathetic immature girl from an orphanage, a girl wno had been nothing but a responsibility and a source of dire trouble to him since he had first met and championed her on the Carson farm? Her old feeilng of inferiority rose like nausea in her throat. Life in an orphanage is not calculated to give a girl faith in her own beauty and charm. No one, until David’s teasing, fond eyes had rested upon her, had thought her beautiful. Had he been only sorry for her, glad of an opportunity to “blow,” to get out of the State where he j was wanted on two serious charges? | Was he dismayed, too, by the fact j that moonlight had tricked him into telling her that he loved her, thus adding the responsibility of her future to the burden of protecting her j in this hectic present? Then a sweeter, saner memory clamored for attention. She heard again his fond, husky voice caressing her, his “Dear little Sally!” And ; involuntarily her mouth pursed in j

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memory of his kiss, that kiss that had left her giddy with delight. How unfailingly kind and sweet he had been since that first day, when he had strode into her life, with the sun on his chestnut hair and the glory of the sun in his eyes. He had not failed her once, but she was failing him now, by doubting him? by picturing him as a fugitive in the dark, fleeing with a pair of criminals who had robbed the man whose kindness had protected him from the law. Why, she must be crazy to think for a moment that David could do a thing like that! No one in the world was as good and kind and honorable as David. But where was he? Mrs. Bybee had left him to guard the train. Not for a moment could she believe that he had failed in his trust. Painfully, Sally tried to visualize the dreadful thing that had happened. David alone, patrolling the train, his eyes sharp for intruders. Then—the sudden appearance of Nita and the man, Steve, weighted down with the contents of the safe they had robbed. For Sally knew that the robbery must have taken place before David caught his first glimpse of the crooks. Otherwise the safe would be intact now, even if David’s dead body had been found as silent witness that he had fulfilled his trust. Her mind shuddered away from that imagined picture, went back to the painful reconstruction of what must have taken place. David had seen them, had given chase. Os course! Otherwise he would be here now. Was he still pursuing them, or was he lying somewhere near the road, woiipded, his splendid young body ignoiiiiniously flung info a cornfield? , She could bear no more, could no longer lie safe in her berth while David needed her somewhere. Very carefully, for all her haste, she lifted the tiny body that nestled against her side and laid it tenderly upon the pillow, which was big enough to serve as a mattress for the midget. Then, hobbing soundlessly, she 1 groped for her shoes in the little green hammock swung across the

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