Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1936 — Page 43

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addicted to drink, loses Meed Meagows te JEFF HOWARD, bitmountaineer, whe owns coal Kate encounters Jeff and is rude He responds with inselence, ‘though drawn to her. Meeds move to a tenant house . mearby. The girls learn that the Meed family buried a valuable tea servive on their land during the Civil War. Kate broods over this mews, trying to figure oul where the silver is buried. She hopes fo recover it and sell it. and persuades Zeke and Althy to accompany her on a + dark night to Meed Meadows. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER FIFTEEN N order not to arouse her sister's suspicions, Kate went back to her room, undressed and went to bed. When Caroline came upstairs later she found her there, apparently drowsy with sleep. Kate mumbled faintly, “Too bad for you, Honey. My week next the window—" They took turns weekly sleeping in the more comfortably placed bed. Actually Kate would have been happy for Caroline (who looked pale and lifeless from the damp heat) to have the place by the window tonight, yet she dared not risk it. Much better, she decided, for Caroline to sleep across the room where sounds from “the expedition” would not reach her.” Kate lay still and tense until Caroline's regular breathing told her she slept. Then she got stealthily from bed, dressed herself in dark clothes and tennis shoes -and crept downstairs.

HEN she reached the quarters of Zeke and Althy she found them ready and waiting. Together they went to the barn lot. She looked to see if Zeke had carried out her orders. Yes, Dobbin was hitched to the “spring wagon.” On the wagon floor was the pick, two spades and some burlap sacking in which to wrap the silver, when they found it. Kate took her seat on the sacking and motioned Zeke and Althy to the driver's seat. No mishap accompanied the de-

parture. They went by way of

the pasture gate, Kate closing it silently behind them. They followed the Mount Hebron pike for a mile, then took the crossroad that led to the State Pike. As they were about to make this turn a motor car rushed past them, causing Kate to realize her recklessness in insisting that they carry no lighted lanterns. This narrow escape seemed to rob Zeke cf his courage, to bring him to his senses. He .was all for turning around and going home while there was yet time for caution. “Dis here business,” he announced mournfully, “is bad! It's right sneaky, an’ risky, too. Ain't no good comin’ of it!” » » =

LTHY, always the more adventurous of the two, gave him a resounding slap on the cheek nearest her. “You give me dem lines,” she snorted. “If'n you's fraid of yoah shadow, me an’ Miss Kate can go on by ourselves.” The abuse had the desired effect. Zeke put Dobbin into as brisk a walk as the darkness allowed. A growing excitement gripped them all, and, as they drew near to Meed Meadows, Kate was actually awarc cf her heart pounding at her ribs. “Hurry!” she whispered as Zeke Jdallied with the tying of the horse in the woodland avenue. “Hurry! . Let's get at it!” The night seemed no longer dark. ~The fragment of a new moon was _ showing itself. Their eyes could distinguish outlines plainly. They kept to the shadows. Only ‘at one place was there a greal length of moon-lit space that must - be traversed. This was the stretch that led them to the oak tree near _ the porch. 4 » = = OW!” whispered Kate. She : went to the west of the ‘tree, which was the side farthest from the house. She looked up at the outstretched limbs and with her eyes she measured its height, calculated its shadows on the ground. She _ knelt at a certain spot and pointed to the earth. “Dig here!” she said. Zeke obeyed. The digging was almost soundless. Recent rains had softened the earth until the pick’s contact with the ground was

+ only a muffled thud.

Kate looked at the great square * house with its fluted columns and dark windows. Its loneliness smote her. Never before had she thought of Meed Meadows being lonely for them, as they were lonely for it. Now she sensed this strange thing * =the loneliness of a house that has lost its own. ~ Thud. Thud. Zeke’s pick in the soft black earth. As he paused to

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a monstrously large hole—a

hole deep as a man is tall and as wide the shadow on the oak tree. » Fa INALLY it was Kate who said despairingly, “It's not here!” She climbed out the ditch and the others followed her. Their fajth in this wild venture could not live beyond the faith that'had kindled

it. } Zeke, looking at the piles of dirt that loomed } them, said wearily, “We got to put de dirt back, Miss Kate!” | “Bosh!” - Kate answered. “We'll do nothing of the kind.” Her voice, like Zeke’s, had risen. “Lé#t him shovel it back himself. That's all he has to be—except ” It was then that the discharge of a shotgun shattered the darkness.

“Mercy on us!” Althy moaned. “Don’t shoot no mofe! Us is goin’!” They went. g' the lawn. Following the fence. Stumbling

down the avenue to where Dobbin stood hitched to a tree. Zeke had dragged with him the pick and one spade. Althy was leading Kate, who seemed dazed and strangely submissive. Zeke hastily untied . Dobbin and they got into the wagon, the two servants on the driver's seat, Kate on the floor amid the burlap bags. Napoleon's army returning from Moscow could not have suggested more complete defeat. - s 2 ” HEN they reached home they turned in at the pasture gate and drove into the stable. As Kate got out, she moaned a little. Her right hand, with which she: had been gripping her left shoulder, was damp and sticky with a substance that shone red in the lantern light. “Lawd!” said | Althy again. “Where dat bl come from?” She seized the lantern Zeke had lit and held it nearer to the quiet girl. “From my shoulder,” Kate said ir an odd voice. “Buckshot. He aimed too close to be funny.” Zeke and Althy conferred in low tones. Kate heard the words, “better call Major Sam—-"

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“You'll not call Gran'dad!” ‘she, ceclared violently. “Haven't we had trouble enough for one t? Zeke,

Althy followed her. | Althy tremblingly made a fire and put water on to boil. Then she cut the sleeve from Kate's dress and out of it.

HEY boiled rags and swabbed the wound. Then Kate gritted her teeth while Althy poured- iodine into it. They applied a crude surgical pad, fastened on with adhesive tape. ‘

Kate crept up to bed and covered her head with the sheet while she cried softly ‘and dejectedly. Her bubble had burst, leaving her aching and hopeless in a world without promise. The. fierce pain in her shoulder was no worse than the pain in her heart.. All their troubles, she had thought, would come right when she had found the

at college; their poverty would be relieved; she herself would be a sort of story-book heroine who had .accomplished something daring and clever for the sake of her family. Morgan would hear of it, she had dreamed, and would take her in his arms and tell her how wonderful she was. . . . But she had failed. She had been routed by the mountaineer. It was all Jeff Howard's fault, . . . She slept fitfully and wakened in broad daylight to find Caroline bending over her anxiously. Caroline said, “You've been restless, Kate! - I think you’ve been out of your head. Or else talking in your sleep.” -

(To Be Continued)

IN SEARCH

This was the place where a girl got on the bus—a complete stranger to him, but so lovely to look at that Stanley had ccmpletely lost his heart to her. Her hair was the color of’ gold, and her [eyes the deepest cornflower blue,

Many times, he had tried to catch her eye—but in vain. Once, by the most fortunate of circumstances, she had sat beside: him, but there had been something in her manner that had discouraged any effort upon his part to strike up an acquaintanceship. | {e She always left -the bus at the same place that he did and went directly to the Clairmont Building. This he discovered by the simple expedient of following her, which became a fixed habit, though’ his own office was located in a building in the opposite direction. justified himself with the thought that the extra walk was probably very beneficial to his health. 2 ¥ = HEN, one day, she caught him completely off guard. .Alighting from the bus, she stopped in front of a department-store window, while he dawdled along unsuspectingly. | As he came up behind her, she turned suddenly. “Would you mind telling me why you follow me every day,” she demanded. He gulped. “I; didn’t realize you had paid that much attention to me,” he said weakly. “I haven't paid any attention to you, but I detest being followed.”

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OWEVER, her voice didn't sound as annoyed as her words might indicate. This gave Stanley the heart to swing into the introduction he had plannéd in case the opportunity ever did present itself. “My name's - Stanley Richards, and I'm a partner in the law firm of Carter, Richards & Polk.. I guess I've followed you because you interest me so much. Haven't you ever felt that way about some on=?” “Do you have to make this personal?” “I expect so, since it’s about you. I've discovered, for example, that you always take the express elevator that goes only to the roof of the Clairmont Building, and that the only thing on the roof is the WBHO broadcasting studio. Therefore, you must work in the studio, and now that I've heard your voice, Ill bet I can find out who you are.”

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By Horton Jacques Daily Short Story Every morning at 8:15 Stanley | something more than he had Richards caught the bus down- | bargained for. town. At 8:30, when the bus 2 a =. stopped in front of the Baxter Arms Apartments, his day really began. HEN, one afternoon, Henry

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Carter, the senior partner of Carter, Richards & Polk, ¢ame into

Stanley's office as Stanley was cogitating over the possibility that the voice of the tell-me-a-story lady might be disguised. “Listen,” said Henry Carter. “We've been appointed attorneys for station WBHO.” “We've been appointed what?” “Attorneys « for WBHO. Since you're such a radio fiend, I'm making this your own personal account. Get in touch with them as soon as possible.” Stanley was tempted to break into a gale of raucous laughter. Now he would be required to visit the broadcasting studio. The girl with whom he had made his bargain never “would believe he’ hadn't arranged to do so on purpose. 2 8 = E picked up the telephone book. - & Locating WBHO, he dialed. its number and settled back in his chair. Nira Suddenly, he sat bold upright. “Good afternoon to you, WBHO,” WBHO,” said a voice ‘that sent a thrill through him. “Good afternoon to you, WHBO,” ‘he announced gleefully. “Where did you say I was to call to take you out to dinner tonight?” There was an eloquent pause, and then - the sound of laughter like tiny silver bells. “You win,” said the voice. “But I thought you were never going to

catch on!” THE END. (Copyright, 1938. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

The characters in this story are fictitious.

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