Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1936 — Page 28
BY ROBERT DICKSON “Copyright, NEA Service, Inc. BEGIN HERE TODAY Canfield, daughter of wealt Canfield,’ knows that the nei “18 buszing with gossip over i ve of Frank Kendrick, whos ent to Marcia has been anA shortage in Kendrick's funds been discovered. ? goes to the dramatic club tryand is given the leading part in a play. There is a holdup and Marcia _& ring, ‘Wer friend, Helen Waddell, Mar, learns that Frank is in Chicago, es io go there. She takes the first
Chicago, Marcia telephones Helen's isin, John Waddell, and arranges to him next “morning. In the hotel nt Bruce McDougall gives Mars 8 pencil sketch of herself. rank Kendrick again disappears. ix NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
® CHAPTER EIGHT
DNY STELLICCI was not the sort of young man {lo suffer inition when a job needed doing, following the holdup of the Wagon, an entire day passed jhout: his even forming a plan tackling the task that faced
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‘until, without turning, he inquired courteously: i : “Do you like it?”
XN. [ARCIA laughed. £0 / “It isn't flattering, but it is accurate,” she admitted. Bruce McDougall sketched his signature, the scrap of plaid. “At last she’s through,” he said as the woman subsided and pushed some money over the counter. “Now we can all get going.” Marcia thought of the sketch, of herself which he had presented®to her a few hours before. “Aren't you going to give it to the
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paused, outside the hotel doors, and asked himself a question, and having answered with a reluctant negative, had climbed into a taxicab and become an atom in the traffic. plane, Marcia ‘ took her seat and rlanced about her. She could hardly restrain a burst of laughter; three seats ahead, unconscious of her presence, Bruce’ McD was busy with his notebook, glancing frequently: at his latest model, a man across. the aisle who; scornful of the experience of flight, had settled himself ‘for a nap and was falling asleep, a bit grotesquely. The plane wefit down the runway of the snow-covered field and-took off into a gray and ominous sky.
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gp, and that was fruitless: he tphoned the service station and prage which Carlo, his brother, ucted on the road between Bobbs Neck and Stony Point. But
Jarlo was the one entirely unactory element in Tony's life. vi
racterized his younger brother's tence, Carlo had long since left ne and married, and somehow ned a living in various ways, his and most ambitious venfure g the garage where, Tony sus- | the gasoline was watered fid other service and repairs were I ‘a comparable nature. °° FS 5 ” 3 . \N the second day following the ‘robbery—the day when a disinted - Marcia® Carifield was ring to return from Chicago her home—Tony awakened shortfter noon, again gavean excuse his father, and walked the few pow-covered miles to his brother's ge. ut Carlo was not there, Tony | when he inquired of his ther's two employes, ‘who were king haphazardly on a disabled
Starting back toward the vilIage; Tony decided not to let:anther day pass without acting; he. puld look for Carlo at his home. had never visited there—nor Dolly, his sister-in-law, ever him or his father—but he Knew the house, a / short walk fom the garage, and /within a few minutes he had r ed it. ~The doorbell - brought no- re-. sponse, | : ot ‘8. 8 » 3 sidering. He had an imperalive reason for wanting to talk with ‘Carlo, a reason which mus. rorever be kept from their father. - e-had to know whether Carlo as involved by accident or design the holdup of the restaurant. The scene came back to him—two ndits at the door, whispering; a pair of pliers produced from pcket of one, and a hand which
hed across the counter, within,
iehes of Tony's face, to snap the iphone wires; pliers with taped idles, pliers with “CS” plainly fratcheéd deep on one jaw. “He pressed ‘the bell button again; gone answered. There was a winon the porch, and Tony, with a k look around, tested it. It was
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#4 was an hour during which— ¥en though he had come here exfessly ‘to see his brother—he lis4 nervously for the return of tlo ‘or Dolly; an hour during he searched assiduously, and ght have searched in vain had i an incident of Carlo’s boyhood i brought to mind.
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IM let his coupe rip along through the storm. Whistling cheerily in accompaniment to the radio, he was thinking about the stag dinner he'd just attended sat the Grange in Kenton. It was good for a married man to get out with “the 'boys” once in a while. Of course, some of the fellows did it too much, Jim wondered how they got away with it. He certainly couldn’t with Martha. She had even objected to his going to the dinner tonight, even though she knew that he -wouldn’t drink too much .and would be home early. A feeling of. resentment rose within him, Suddenly, through the blurry, rain-flooded windshield, he saw & girl's figure ahead, walking along the road. With quick decision, Jim drew up beside her. Martha had said many times, in her most positive way, that it was dangerous to give strangers a lift, but he couldn't leave a girl out in. a storm like this! He snapped off the radio, reached over, and opened the door. “Want a lift?” he asked. The girl hesitated, then nodded. “Thanks,” she said briefly, and slipped in beside him. J Jim put the ‘car into gear and they started off.
a pause. # + a “Y ALMOST didn’t get in with you,” confessed the girl.
Jim looked at her with a friendly grin. “Not afraid?” he asked:
“Me afraid? That's funny,” replied the girl, her red lips scornful. “Just the same, it's late and . . .” “I guess I'm safe” said Jim, a bit. wryly. “I've been married for nearly five years. That's a long time.” The girl didn’t reply but sat silently in her corner. It was a darn shame, thought Jim, with a protective surge of emotion, for a pretty girl like her to be wandering about at ‘midnight, dripping wet and exhausted. : g ” » » : “ OW about some music?” he asked, turning on the radio. “That's what got me into this fix,” said the girl, with sudden fierceness. “Radio!”
riedly. *No,” replied the girl. est—it n't matter.” The radio warmed up, and tan-
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car as they sped along through the
far Jim was going. 2 8 8 “ S far as you want to go,” he said gallantly. The girll smiled her thanks. “That's nice of you,” she said, putting a hand on his arm. -“Real nice.” :
“Nasty night,” he remarked after |:
“Il shut it off,” Jim said hur-|
talizing dance music filled the little | pelting rain. The girl asked how:|]
He ‘drew her to him and sought her lips. again. - This time, she did not protest. Jim thought of Martha for a brief instant, but thrust the twinge . of .conscience from him at once. This was: life! Then, suddenly, the girl tensed and drew away. He realized bewilderingly that her mood had changed. A: i » » »
“y ISTEN!” she cried. A tenor
radio. yo “It’s. his voice!” she said tensely. “I's Don! He’s gotten a job at last! On ‘a big program!” She turned to Jim hysterically. “I've -got to get to him!” Two hours later, Jim wearily backed his coupe into his garage. He got out stiffly, and entered the house. The old banjo clock was ‘ticking away comfortably. It was 2:30. The girl was well on her way | to New York by now. She had been lovely. Jim’s lips tightened. Lovely . . . and ‘dangerous. “Is that you, dear?” a questioning voice suddenly pulled him out of his reverie. "He went slowly into the living room, where he found. ‘Martha wrapped in a blanket, huddled by the fireplace. “Oh, Jim, I've been so worried,” she said simply, as she got up and put her arms about him. “I was so afraid youd had an accident. It's such a terrible night . .. I'm glad you're back.” ” ” »
IM looked down ‘at her blond head, against his shoulder. A mixture of relief and chagrin swept
married... whom he'd almost forgotten a while ago. :
“I gave a hitch hiker a ride to the Millville station, Martie,” he gaid carefully. “I couldn't leave a person out on the highway on a night like this.” :
All Martha said was, “That was kind of you, dear, but I'm glad you're . home safe! Picking up strangers “like that is dangerous. And now, it’s late. She smiled up at him tenderly as Jim leaned down and kissed her.
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) removed the burden and ened the tray over. Pasted to } under side with strips of adive paper were several objects.
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