Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1936 — Page 18

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= Joss of his money and his home. % #¢ Major went to the barn, | . hitched Dobbin to the phaeton = and drove guietly off to town. The z hours. = Had Jeff Howard known that his

~ would * humiliations for Kate Meed, his - mind would have been : reached a dangerous pitch mentally; _ ate love of,

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{ Party, she knew, had annoyed him

oe BEGIN JERE TODAY and Careline Meed live on a , Meed Meadows, with their indolent . Javable grandfather, Major Sam ‘and twe old Negre servanis, Althy “Zeke, Kale is engaged to Morgan i whe neglects her for Eve EiBeautiful and wealthy. Meed loses the farm to Jef a bitter young mountaineer owns coal Jands. The Meeds move an old tenant house nearby. Kate Jeff Howard for taking their home. . persuades Althy and Zeke to go ih Ber ome night to dig for the Meed

58 , buried on Jeff's land. Jeff shoots to frighten them, sccident"ally wounding Kate's shoulder. This Kate's hatred of him, but Jeff to realize his love for her. Om Ber recovery, Kate plans a hayride. ~ Be persuades Caroline to enlist the help of Mr. Grayson, a widower whe is in %e with Careline. Rain makes the ~ parity a dismal failure. "NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

© = CHAPTER EIGHTEEN : HOWARD no longer went F to. town directly by the State He cut through to the Mount road and when he passed y House he gathered such that he left gray limestone it in his wake. To do him justice, was not trying to raise a dust. | ‘Was drawn ‘to the place as an t is drawn to a drug, and his ) was from nervousness. “During the week of Kate's conrestless “Moody. He wondered frantically "How she was, and had no way of finding out. Pinally, passing the

holise, he found Major Meed at the

in the act of extracting

yesterday's newspaper.

Jor Meed,” he said. “How're you

The Major recognized him and smiled politely, always anxious to

no grudge against him. “Pretty good, Mr. Howard. Pretty good for

80 old fellow. And how are you?”

“I stay healthy,” Jeff told him. “And your family, Major?” - “Pretty good, pretty good,” replied the old gentleman, glancing

“I reckon you're young fellow, bein’

from .a mountain county?”

- “Yes, sir. I think best.

But I always vote as It’s right hot weather I look for rain to-

I hope not.” man - anxiously scanned

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endin® up at Girayson’s ‘lake.

They've been pre-

parin’ for it two-three days—"

» F J » HOWARD felt vast pelief That Kate Meed was well again.

felt bitter hatred for all the young men who would be on the hay wagon. He hoped it would pour rain and drench them. He hoped $0 Heaven it wouldn’'t— “Good day to you,” he said, and

had been called to the weather, he it his consideration.

He consulted the newspaper. ‘Fhe weather man, too, an-

“Poor things!” he said passion- | meaning his granddaughters. | | loose stone from the foundation i extracted a pint bottle that ‘was hidden there. He uncorked it

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t 9 o'clock. She was wearing a but shrunken white dimity made her look like an overchild. His coming amazed

falling asleep the night bethat she would never see him as a lover. That miserable

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| N-I-N-G, | 65th-st, New York City. The mes- | sage is: LARRY , . , t Harry—L, as in Larchmont. That's frove away. | right.

Now that the Major's attention | wo you read it back, please? .-.

Yes, | That's right. Thank, you, Good-

| was rain coming, as sure as |

he lived! { and shot past the green car ahead

{of him. He noted the clock on the i dash. A little after two. Good—only

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Kate swallowed. went to the Elwells" didn't you?” “Yes. Eve said they had some Georgia watermelons on ice, so we dropped by to sample ‘em. Listen, Kate, there's something we ought to talk about—" “Yes?” anxiously. “We've been practically engaged for over a year. Something ought to be done about it. I've been thinking it over.” ;

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“ H, Morgan!” Then caution seemed to walk toward her, finger on lip. Maybe he was trying to end it! Go slow, Kate. Save your pride....“Yes, Morgan?” she said, quietly and attentively. He spoke bluntly, “We could get married anytime if you would do | something conclusive about the situation at home.”

“At whose home?” Kate asked blankly, “What situation, Morgan?” “Your family, I mean. You

couldn't expect a young man just | getting started to shoulder a burden like that, you know.” “What is there to shoulder, Mor-

gan?” “Your grandfather,” he replied impatiently. “And Caroline. And

the Negro family.” Kate was bewildered. She sought |to set him right. “They'd have | nothing to do with our marriage, { Morgan. I'd go to you. They'd stay |at home, where they are.” [ “I've thought it out,” he re{marked in a courtroom voice. | “They'd be living on us in no

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ATE'S face flamed in the dark- | ness. Her pride was smart- | ing, yet, because she loved the per- | son who was wounding her, she humbled herself to reason with him.

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can pension, And the littie house and 20 acres of land. Why

{should he and Caroline and Zeke

and Althy want to come and live with us?” “They’ll find the pension barely keeps them. How’ll he pay his taxes

bacco crop next year.” “Hell not succeed,” said harshly. “He's dlways been a failure.. You might as well face it. And

* | there's Caroline. | Trained to. do

nothing, and as helpless as a child. As for Zeke and Althy, their working days are about over. They're going to be a dead weight on somebody’s hands soon. The little one ought to be sent packing, 100.” . “Rutherford’s got a mean stepfather,” Kate said apologeticaity.

.a person hypnotized, “What is it you want done with them all, Morgan?” : » - - i “YJ WANT you to send Zeke and 4 Althy away. The boy, too. 1 want you to see that Caroline takes a short vocational course: of some kind and gets a | job. Preferably not too close to home. The farther away she gets, the more backbone

she'll develop. And I want to see your grandfather settled in some! good home for old veterans.” “You'd scatter us, Morgan. Like | war!” Kate sat quietly; not able to think very clearly because he had put his arm around her. Then, “You don’t know what you're asking! It would break their hearts. It would crush Gran’dad’s pride and spirit and heart. Listen, dear,” pleadingly, “we're all he has left to love. No matter how comfortable the. home was, he'd eat his heart out for his own roof and his own flesh and blood. You can't uproot old people, Morgan—" “Sometimes it’s | necessary,” ‘he answered stubbornly. “If you and I get together, we’ll have to clear the way.” He was thinking in exasperation, “Why do I care whether I get her or not? I bdlieve I could have Eve. Why in the devil do I find this one the more attractive of | the two?” It was the only thing in his successful, selfishly planned young life that failed to conform.

“Gran'dad has his Spanish-Ameri- |

(To Be Continued)

ELLO. Western Telegraph? This is Mrs. Edwin Mitchell . that'sright . . . 124 Shore Road. I want to send a telegram to Miss Rhoda Banning, B-A-N-Stillwell Apartments, no, not LARRY WILL COME AT ONCE. Signed LOUISE MITCHELL.

Larry Mitchell eased down to 50

about four hours to go, and he’d be in New York. Rhoda was waiting

Gosh, how he'd missed her — though he'd seen her less than-a week ago. But the wedding bells would be ringing for them soon— another 11 days. A sweet kid, Rhoda. Pretty, that golden hair. and those brown eyes. And plucky! Rotten, the tough breaks she'd had to take. =i He held the wheel easily, thinking of her pathetic note, so consciously casual and so frightened underneath, suggesting she'd like to see him as soon as he could get down to New York. Nothing special, but she'd like to see him anyway, and would be please drive carefully? = t J = RIVE carefully! He could understand how she felt, all right. It was an awful thing to have hanging over any one—and Rhoda blamed herself, and brooded over it. As if any one in his right mind could hold her responsible for two unfortunate but perfectly unavoidable happenings. . . . Good thing he'd told his mother to send Rhoda a wire that he was coming. Larry grinned when he thought of his mother calling out, “What shall I say in the telegram?” Such a precise little fuss-budget! And he had answered, as he climbed into the car, “Oh, say ‘Larry on his way’ or ‘Larry will eome at once,’ if that pleases you better. Oh, anything, mother—just so she gets the idea!” > Larry's foot pressed harder on the accelerator, and the car leaped on —faster. His thoughts went back nine—no, almost ten—years, They were all in high school then, pe and Harry and Rhoda. Of course, e’d been in love with her even then, but Rhoda was Harry's girl —and Harry was his friend.

E remembered how heavy his heart had been when Rhoda appeared at school one morning a few weeks before he and Harry were to be graduated, wearing 's class pin. Engaged! Kids, all of

them. And a week later Harry was dead. . Driving Rhoda home

wrong turn, a terrific crash, Rhoda slightly bruised, but Harry Killed, instantly.

[THE THIRD TIME

| By Irma Hallen Daily Short Story

from the senior prom, somehow a tified

answered - the entreaty in her eyes. Of course Harry. wouldn't mind. Rhoda had never found out the truth about Bronson. Two days before the wedding, he was found dead, of acute alcoholism in a shady roadhouse; his glittering companion had fled. Larry's lips tightened. The car picked up speed. They'd kept the rotten details from Rhoda, told her only that he’d died suddenly -of a chronic cardiac ailment. Then she went to pieces. For a while they all: thought she would lose her. mind. She became obsessed with the idea that there was some sort of curse hanging ‘over her |’ —sudden death for any man she loved! The terror and the strain almost broke her. Months and years passed, Slowly she began to come out of her nightmare of unhappiness—but the|shadow of her fear was always with her. She told Larry she would never marry. She couldn't stand another :tragedy. The ‘sun’ was slipping lower, and a .warm. haze hung over the countryside. . Tonight would be a beau-: tiful night—a sky full of stars. Larry decided he would take Rhoda to a swell place for dinner, and they'd dance..... -| :

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UNNY, how it had happened all at once with Rhoda and him. He had pleaded and argued, reasonably and with cold logic sometimes—and at others with violence and accusation. Anything to wake her out of that dreadful, frightened numbness. He had had to give it up. : Then one day, he noticed he looking at him with strange eyes— as though she were seeing him for the first time. After that came the wonder and the never-ending delight of Rhoda’s awakening love for him. He had laughed away her fears. Everything was all right when he was with her. But when he wasn't there, the old doubts assailed her. The struggle tore her to pieces. She would imagine horrible catastrophes, sudden illness, death for. Larry. - And it had been worse, of late. Many times in the past weeks Larry had urged her to get married right away. But Rhoda's mother objected—the plans, the invitations, the wedding. . . . And

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‘HEY make few rough-and-ready football players in the modern era of the game who: could stack up with Ernest J. (Pug) Rentner, Northwestern University’s All-America halfback in 1931-32. Pug . | was all football, and Big Terr and intersectional opponents of the Wildcats uring .| his career will confirm that. : His best year was in1981, when he ram-. ‘bled 1551 yards, 648 from scrimmage. He was particularly poisonous to Minne- -. sota that season. ‘Against the Gophers he | streaked 95 yards from a kickoff for a - touchdown, and later dodged 80 yards with

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