Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1936 — Page 43

SALUTE TO Lowe

BEGIN HERE TODAY 5 Major Sam Meed, kindly, indolent, lives on a run-down Blue Grass farm with his two orphaned granddaughters, Caroline Meed and Katherine Meed, called Kate, The Major wastes his money in drink. - Kate is engaged to Morgan Prentiss, but when Eve Elwell comes home from college, bringing a visitor, Morgan breaks a date with Kate to attend a party given by Eve. Kate forgives him, ‘being much in love, and defends him when Caroline blames him. The sisters plan to go to Louisville next day with old Zeke, a family servant, to deliver four hams ordered from . the Meed farm. Major Meed comes byme intoxicated, having spent a much- - needed $5 bill. The girls rely greatly “on Althy, elderly Negro cook who is < Zeke's wite. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER THREE HAT ‘night the Major was ill and delirious. Althy and Zeke helped the girls care for him in “his big downstairs bedroom. The two servants would take turns at coming in from their cabin in the yard, anxious to help the old sinher in his extremity. ~Caroline, about midnight, leaned her head against the wall and wept with weariness and vexation. “It’s all such a waste!” she sobbed. “Such a wicked waste! He hasn't any health or strength to spare. He hasn't any money at all, hardly. And yet he spends it all going on sprees!” Kate put a comforting hand on ~ her sister's shoulder, turned suddenly, “What's he raving about now?” she asked. They listened. The Major was no longer dashing up San Juan Hill with his Colonel. He had left the Spanish-American War behind. He had finished also with the World War in which he had lost his only son, the girls’ father. He was now loudly declaiming about “the mortgage” and some “young upstart from the mountains” who was “about to get the farm.” And then his voice died away and reason returned to his eyes. Kate leaned over the bed and felt his forehead. “Grand’dad,” che said clearly, “can you take some broth now?” He smiled at her and nodded weakly. : ” " ” LTHY, who was standing at the foot of the bed, met Kate's eye and hurried from the room. The worst was now over, they Knew. He would take the broth from Althy’s hand as obediently and gratefully as a child. Then he would sleep.

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the girls went upstairs to bed, but their desire to go to Louisville had not abated. They would be up at 5, they decided, Zeke's 7 o'clock departure. The morning routine was rushed “through with a touch of excitement. The Major slept heavily while the rest of the household did the chores. A few minutes before 7 the sedan was ready to start, the girls seated in the back, Zeke at the wheel and the four carefully wrapped hams packed amongst them. Kate said, “I think it’s going to be a nice day, Caroline.” “Meaning the weather?” her sister. “That and everything,” Kate answered. “Do you think, darling, there's any chance of my getting a new dress for the | Dalton dance Thursday night? The old green or- - gandie’s g sickly mess.” Caroline said, “There’s about as much chance of that, honey, as of my getting my senior year at the university.” Kate forgot the dress. “Poor old Cline! Would you really be willing to go back and fish after you've been out a year?” “Would 1!” whispered ‘Caroline feelingly. Kate said, “I didn’t yoalize it meant so much to you. . . . How -much would it cost?”| ; nz =» br Crone answered promptly, as if she'd thought it out long ‘ago, “I could do it $500. Living in one of the co-operative cottages, I mean. If I could get my degree, maybe I could get a| good job and help with the finances. Kate said passionately, dad ought to raise y youl > going to) talk to him u | The conversation not finished for a most startling) reason. They were .emerging on the highway and Zeke was shifting gears; suddenly there was a roar, a rash of sound and an impact. The Meed sedan careened and turn completely over, landing, miraculously, on its four wheels. For a few moments there was a queer, Heavy silence. Then a 0 blended. A strange ing in a foreign language. Zeke was praying in a frightened, singsong monotone. Kate w over her still sister and calling frantically, “Are you Bets Caroline? Are you? Are yous |

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HE Wher of et profane voice got out of a big black sedan— | 20 the sedan that had struck the Meed car—and approached them. He ~ Jerked at the door. When he had gotten it open he pulled Zeke from the car and made him stand up-

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line straightened themselves and took a few experimental steps. “I seem to be all in a piece. How about you, Caroline?” Kate asked anxiously. “I'm all right, too,” said Caroline. “Except for a knot on my head. x thing that's what made me faint.” Over at the side of road Zeke continued to pray, 1 y and ardently, and to in his petitions with the word “ham.” “What's he saying?” asked the stranger, jerking his thumb in Zeke's direction.

ATE explained. “We were taking some baked hams to a club restaurant in Louisville. They're due early this morning. Zeke’'s thanking God that we weren't killed and asking Him how we're going to get the hams there on time.” “Oh, yeah,” said the heavy man, chewing his cigar. “It is important? I mean, have you gotta get ‘em there?” Kate nodded, looking at him with aversion. She did not know who had been at fault in the accident. Probably Zeke, in coming out on the highway. She only knew they must get the baked hams to the Pendennis Club as they had contracted to do. She said decisively

to her trembling sister, “Let’s stand |,

here and hail somebody to pick up Zeke and the hams—" “No!” said the dark stranger, making a quick decision. “Leave it to me. Tl take the old man and your stuff myself. I'll pay damages on your car, too. Stand over there by the gate while I look it over. Stand well back out of the road.” . The girls and Zeke obeyed. Kate whispered to Caroline, “So it was his fault! And he admits it! Pinch me if I'm dreaming.”

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HILE they waited near the stone gate, the man made an expert investigation of the car he had damaged. He tried the motor, which, strange to say, still ran. He examined the lights, the windshield, the windows, the chassis. He used tools from his own car in the investigation. When he had finished he returned the tools to his car, wiped his hands on. a flashy handkerchief from his coat pocket, and approached them. Sensing Kate’s leadership, he addressed her.. “Fifty dollars will

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fix it up.. The motor ain’t hurt.. You'll need a new fender and a few other little repairs.” He drew a roll of bills from his pocket and skinned off the top one. Kate saw that it was actually = and thanked him. A passing roadster slowed ‘to a stop and the stranger waved it on. “No help needed!” he called. A truck, following immediately after, received the same information. To Kate he said confidentially, us2 dragging other people into this. It's our business. Yeah?” Whea the road was cléar again he said briskly, “Well, let's move the meat to my car and get goin’. I can’t fool around.” This was done, but just as Zeke was about to step into the stranger’s automobile, Caroline by saying, “I'd ‘rather Zeke stayed here with our car. My sister and I will go into town with you and deliver the hams. Is your car all right.” 7 2. 2

|B appeared that it was. The luxurious big machine with an eastern license had suffered nothing but a loosened fender and broken headlights. Presently they were moving off. From the back seat Kate and Caroline waved encouragingly to Zeke who was looking after them anxiously. “Poor old fellow,” Caroline said. “He's more dazed than I am. I hope he’ll have sense enough to go and call a garage.” For five miles, perhaps, no one spoke. Then the man said abruptly, “You'll have some spare parts stolen, I'm afraid, while the old man’s telephoning.” His tone implied that he was sorry but could do nothing about it. A few more miles in silence, and Kate made a discovery. “Oh, dear!” she wailed. “One ham’s a wreck! Gravel’s worked through where the paper’s torn!” “Cooked ham?” came an interested query from the front. “Yes,” answered Kate. you smell it Slow baked.” Suddenly the man was looking back at them, a slender, shining knife in his hand. “Cut me a hunk!” he commanded. “I haven’t hdd time to eat since yesterday noon.” Kate took the knife, gingerly. She began to cut the ham. She knew the man had stolen their license plates. She was wondering what she should do.

(To Be Continued)

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HE stood hesitating in the entrance hall of the museum, a small, slim girl in a chic suit. It was the third Saturday of the month—and she and Dick had always spent the third Saturday of each month here. Wandering through the various floors, pretending to call on the Colonial family, selecting an engagement ring from

a case of precious stones, marveling at the mastodons, and prowling among the primates. Now there was no tall, laughipg, dark-haired youth beside her, and there was a great emptiness in Lila’s heart. It was her own fault, of course. . Her silly, unreasoning jealousy had shattered something beautiful and left her hands empty. Only a few weeks ago, she had been laughing at. the sight of Dick’s hat, left behind on one of her living room chairs. Dick could never remember his hat. He was always sailing it away somewhere and then going off and forgetting it. It had been their favorite joke.

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HEY had fallen out just after Dick had found he was in line for an important job that had opened up just above him in the office where he and Lila worked. Dick and Charles Murray were both eligible. Dick had Lila to work for —their dreams of marriage—while Charles had only his sister Anne, who had plenty of money of her own. There had been a time when Lila had feared that Dick would have Anne to work for. Anne had certainly made a play for him, seeking him out whenever she called for Charles at the office, and inviting him ‘to dinner. But he had had eyes for no one but Lila. « He had told Lila so. “I haven’t seen Anne for weeks,” he had said, just before the quarrel. Thus, when Lila had dropped in to see Anne on the day after Dick had supposedly spent the evening at home working on a program to submit in the job competition, it had been a jarring shock to see, on the piano, a familiar light lan hat— Dick's! 3 tJ 2

HE hadn't told Dick why she was angry with him. She had simply refused to see him—refused and refused, until his chin had gone high, and his eyes cold. She wouldn't: have minded his calling on Anne, she told herself. but his lying to her—that was unbearable! Dick had landed the new job, but his success had only made more poignant the ache in Lila’s heart. There had been no celebration

: | such as they had planned—no din-

ner at some impossibly expensive place, followed by a long drive, and maybe a stop in front of a jeweler's window. Perhaps he had taken Anne instead, Lila thought. Then, one evening, on her way out of ‘the office bi .| found Anne waiting in her car for Jer brother, and had stopped to

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O here she ‘was, standing forlornly in the. big entrance hall of the museum. She laid a cold hand on the huge piece of a

meteor that stood there. This lump of metal had come from somewhere clear outside the world, hurtling through infinite space, dwarfing people and their puny affairs. Somehow, the thought gave her courage. With all of that space, and the worlds in it, it couldn't matter if she went bravely searching for love through these echoing halls. But she did not find Dick. He was not calling on the demure Colonial family, nor standing beside the rearing dinosaur, nor gazing into the cases of precious stones. He hadn’t come. He would never come again. It was all over. And then—other visitors to the museum heard a wild, startled little cry, and saw an auburn-haired girl go dashing out in mad flight—or perhaps, pursuit. A huge stuffed gorilla that was not-.yet glass-en-cased stood glowering in one corner of the entrance hall. It was unusually well dressed today, for it wore, cocked airily on its hairy head, a handsome light tan hat! THE END

1936. by United Feature

Syndicate, Inc. (The characters in this story are fictitious)

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