Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1936 — Page 39

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Kate and Caroline Meed live at Meed Les with their grandfather, Major Sam Meed, and two old Negro servaats, Althy and Zeke. Kate is engaged to Bandsome Morgan Prentiss, who neglects Ber for Eve Elwell, beautiful and wealthy. Major Meed, who is lovable, indolent and given to drink, tells the girls that Be has lost the farm. A bitter young mountaineer, Jeff Howard, holds the mortgage. Howard arrives while the Meeds are packing. In her resentment, Kate is rude ;to him and he responds with insolence. The Meeds leave their elo old home and move into a dilapidated tenant house. During their first day in the miserable _ Hittle house Morgan Prentiss sends Kate three dozen roses. Caroline reflects that a basket of food would have been more helpful. : NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER NINE T= Meeds slept soundly, as , tired people generally sleep. They were wakened next morning By Althy's heavy step on the stair and her matter-of-fact voice calling, “Breakfus!” Kate, the first to be aroused, called “Caroline!” and threw a pillow at her sister in the other bed. It was a new experience for them to share a room. Heretofore each had had a large corner room, spaclously comfortable and touched with her own personality. Now they must divide between them this unlovely cubicle which held only two merfded iron bedsteads, a broken

~ chest of drawers and a pair of un-

related chairs. The morning sun shone in pleasantly, however, and a delicious smell of pancakes and bacon came up from below. "At breakfast the girls greeted their grandfather with cordial cheerfulness, suspecting that their own feelings of having been torn up by the roots and set down in a briar-patch were as nothing compared to his. Kate spoke of the flower garden which she hoped to start at once. oH » ” E meal had not progressed far when Caroline suddenly asked in a disturbed voice, “Isn’t

. this our best table cloth, Kate?”

Kate gave the matter her attention. “Why, yes, I think it is,” she replied. Investigation proved the cloth to be four times folded, yet still touching the floor at the table’s corners. Althy entered, bearing a plate of hot pancakes, and Caroline said - to. her, “Whatever made you put on the best cloth, Althy, on a day like this?” The old woman passed the cakes and avoided their eyes. “It was Zeke’s idyer,” she replied. “Yes'm. It shore was.” : _ “Zeke’s idea?” The three at the table spoke up almost in concert. For Zeke to interfere in his wifes domains was unheard-of. ' Kate insisted, puzzled, “Why would Zeke tell you to use our one and only good table cloth on the morning after we move?. You laundered it so carefully after that Juncheon we had last Christmas, and it was wrapped in a sheet and laid away in the chest.” “Yes'm,” Althy nodded. “Dat’s 80.” But she made no further explanations and a strange stubbornness seemed to have come over her

face. She went from the room and

they heard her talking in low tones to Zeke in the kitchen. ”

" tJ ~ ATE said to the Major and Caroline, “This is getting to be a mystery. Call Zeke in, Gran’'dad, and ask him about it. Won't you?” The Major raised his voice and quavered imperatively, “Zeke! Oh

" Zeke!” and the old colored man

entered, smiling affably. Major Meed said, “We're just curious, Zeke, about this table cloth. Why did you tell Althy to put it on the table _ this mornin’ ’specially?” ' Zeke's eyes carefully examined the toes of his worn shoes. Then he offered, “A big table cloth covers up de table legs so nice an’ neat, Major Sam. It seem like a person pught to use big table cloths whenever dey can.” na Something in his manner and pointless answer made Major Meed come alert. Lifting up a corner of the cloth, he looked intently at the table leg and said, “Well! So that’s it!”

Kate and Caroline hastily did likewise and saw what their grandfather saw. Zeke had brought the handsomely carved drop-leaf serving table from the dining room of - Meed Meadows. ~The Major said sternly, “I told you we'd eat off one of those deal ~ tables that stood in the kitchen, Zeke! I told you the dining room

get went to Mr. Howard when he

took over the house! Do you want to make a thief out of me?” He in genuine anger. “It’s all written down in black and white «signed, sealed and settled. The three large bedroom sets, the par‘Jor and the dining room sets all were to go with the house!” o n EJ ESSIR, Major Sam,” replied Zeke with unruffled calmness. "You done tole me dat. I remem-

~ mers, I remembers perfeck. But

there's somethin’ you done forgot yourself, Major Sam. Dis here littie table don’t belong to de dinin’ room set. It's a heap older. It done . come wiff ole Miss when she married you an’ moved in wiff . her Sunks from Saye Bounty. =e Say her pappy’s people used it in . Virginny, back before the first war!” “By Lucifer!” exclaimed Major Meed. “He's right! And he’s got

jeraton Sek my father bought in A more!” gate sxclaimed, “We'll keep it, of Caroline said, “It would be silly to. It] look sweet, Kate, as a ng table. We'll keep it bare and ished, with its leaves raised and

Shntie downl That, she and Caro-

They had left the old Brussels carpets on the floors at Meed Meadows (not even Kate, the ruthless, had thought of tearing them up) and now there was the question of covering these rough pine floors. They decided on plain, neutral-colored matting for all rooms, For bookcases they would use two

fruit cellar. These and all the woodwork must be painted white. So Kate added three gallons of white paint and some brushes to her list. Caroline said, “We'll have to put the walnut table in the middle of the floor, for lack of wall space. The love seats will balance ‘most anywhere we put them. Maybe we'd better make a focus of this one window, since there's no fireplace.” ”

had found a carved Victorian “center table” with a cracked marble top, and two love seats of walnut, upholstered in frayed haircloth. ‘It was these that they were discussing. : Kate remarked, “We can’t afford good damask to upholster them with, even if we put it on ourselves. We'll have to find something cheap and deceiving.” Caroline nodded agreement. “And let's leave the portraits upstairs in the junk room,” she suggested. “They’d look queer in here.” Kate compromised. “All but Captain Bobby and his wife! We'll put her in the dining room facing the front door because her red dress gives such a touch of color. We'll hang Captain Bobby on this wall space, right here. With the swords crossed under him, as usual. . . . We’ll put the blue Bohemian glass vases on one set of shelves, and the Dresden rustics on the other. . . . There'll be room for the miniatures, too, and the snuff boxés—” Caroline looked at her sister's absorbed face and thought, “When you're in love, nothing really gets you down! She’s bent on making this place slick enough to entertain Morgan in!” 2 ” 2 HAT evening, to Kate's surprise, Morgan Prentiss drove out from

sets of backless shelves from. the

2 = ws N the Meed Meadows attic they.

milk can!

“Oh, a lot!” Kate told him earnestly. “They've cheered me up, too. ‘So Red the Rose’! You're a darling spendthrift.” “I thought you could scatter them all around,” .he said engagingly. “Some in every room.” “Well,” Kate replied honestly, “we haven’t any vases unpacked yet. We had to put them in a big tin milk can. And I set the can on the back porch in the shade to keep the roses fresh—" ” ” #

E burst into laughter, looking offended and chagrined. “In a On the back porch! Lord, what tender sentiment!” Kate almost wept in distress. “Oh, Morgan! Now that I think of it, it does sound terrible!’ But I was only trying to save them. And I slept with your note under my pillow!”

She leaned toward him tenderly penitent, childishly honest. Willing him to understand. Wordlessly pleading with. him to realize how devastating to her was the fall of the house of Meed, how cruel this transplanting, how humiliating these new surroundings. Wanting him to see that she could keep his roses in a milk can on the back porch and still think them heavenly.

But he leaned away from her, lighting a cigaret, nursing his injured pride. She saw his cameo features in the match’s flare, and curl of his crisp black hair. She wanted to caress his hair. But she dared not. He was too angry and remote.. !

He punished her by talking of.

Eve Elwell for half an hour. After that he forgave her and talked about himself. Then he made love to her, and her heart melted again with happiness.

(To Be Continued)

ITH a smile that was not the least bit forced, Al Rossin turned in his seat and looked over the crowded courtroom. Beating a murder charge was not so hard, after all—especially if you could afford a lawyer like Abe Carey. EXxpensive perhaps, but when one’s neck was at stake, costs didn’t count. Carey was examining the last of the defense witnesses.

“You have just testified that you were riding around with the defendant in his car on the night of Jan. 5. Now, can you tell us more definitely just where you were at 8 o'clock on that particular evening?” . Ysa “We were over on the West Side, parked in front of the Casino.” “Just why are you so sure about the time?” “We had the car radio turned on, and the Comedy Hour program had just started as we pulled up to the Casino. We all wanted to listen to it, so we waited out in the car until it was over. That program goes on at 8 every Sunday.”

. OUR witness,” said Carey, turning the man over to the District Attorney for cross-examin-ation. The prosecutor, however, was unable to shake the witness’ story, and finally dismissed him. The judge glanced at the clock and spoke to the clerk, who turned to announce that court would recess until 2 o'clock. In the room allotted to them, the District Attorney and his staff were having a last-minute conference. “Much as I hate to admit it,” the D. A. was saying, “it’s beginning to look as though Abe will fatten his batting average with another acquittal. Here we go to trial with some eye-witnesses who place Al Rossin at the scene of the crime, way up in the North End. Then Abe goes to work on them and, by the time he’s finished, they're not quite so sure it was Rossin they saw. “On top of that, he springs three surprise witnesses ®*who swear Rossin was over on the West Side at the time the crime was committed. Moreover, none of them has a police record, and I wasted all morning trying to break their stories. And with Abe using that radio program to establish the time element—"'

NE of the court officers put his head inside the door to announce: “There's a cop here that wants to see you, sir.” © “Tell him I can't see any one now,” growled the D. A. The officer nodded and closed the door. A few moments later, however, he reappeared and went over to the D. A. to whisper a few words in his ear. “Well, I guess I can spare him

a few minutes,” the prosecutor

RADIO EVIDENCE

By John J. Sheehan Daily Short Story

“Do you patrol the district around

and about the Casino?” “Yes. That is the center of the territory I cover.” “Does the radio in your car enable headquarters to keep in touch with you at all times?” “Not all the time. In the immediate vicinity of the Casino, we have to depend on the police call boxes.” “Now, officer, will you tell the court just why you have to rely on the cel boxes in that particular secion?” : “Because it’s what. the radio ex-

perts call a dead spot. It’s impos-|

sible to get reception there with any kind of a radio receiver.” THE END =

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