Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1936 — Page 27

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BY ROBERT DICKSON

(Copyright. 1938 NEA Service Inc.)

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N ARCIA spent most of the following morning with Miss

Both hospital was not

Sellers and Ralph Hanson Jv had been released from the MeDougall, she learned vet 10 leave heard his praises sung of thote he had rescued remembered her own a debt which she to acknowledge only

him out

reany She hy each and debt to him

been able

after seeking

had

He had never ing her oun stay

respects

called on her dur-

pay his and express even polite cone and th aeshite the fact that ad recited evidence caring ver) mich

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WaT outside of his present illness ailed MeDougall?

How had car Or had she been that

and why he stopped

ng? too ready

too sager, to believe he cared?

And, In such a state

the now on

to cpp him

iumble had be

het hone house and lot had hung get her

imperatiy

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an sre McDougall

ted

ani

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in the cond softened

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ve linoleum, that

alf-open door

I thought myself,” said of Peppy Holmes the tragic-faced \ he's and nped in the bay iike I knew he later.” replied Canfield \ hing the door MeDougall : pVves Marcia was toward the

So to

he heerful voice ! N My gosh. i v himself, and gone A coOner o Some murmmn Miss ' said the wide, Oe rd

coming

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told me she said but I wasn't A »

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cay she to avoid her? Pegry Holmes and went

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night I couldn't get over the telewas something about on the hill She said it important and vou wanted Cit right away I could

<he said

» about magine Dougall thought for several without speaking he asked at last, get it right?” \

said McDougall

1 Int" Did 1] s had ne seling be my take. I really right Rnow it was drop | if you ‘ Oh, and Joan 1 had some plans for me Ww am I wrong?” e quits But I didn't Joan to call vou or to tell you hing. I'd like to smack her 1 the nose!” MeDougall said, sly appropriating Mike frequent but never real-

tiny

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" » » looked out the window her embarrassment a joke of some sort 1at’s the lot, up on the aid, picking up the topic dropped But, of course

that

ARCIA to cover

MeDouRow it

Know said

siv. “Hut aw no hope for

she said me see the plans, anys what Joan really said emphatic about it, I asOr shall we drop that,

iy, isn't it?

imily

nigall grimly handed her the

house-—they re “Do you that hare-brained Joan had ‘TAazy notion you wanted the almost built there, nething happened ) g happened?” simply decided to out on the Point nr pada! r—-Never mind.”

Never mind what?” | 'HOUGHT I thought you meant when vou were married.” I'm not getting married.” You are Well, 1 am not!® MeDougall's expression could best have been described as slightly idi-

Ot @ Marcia

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said

once

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L Honest?” he said sald Marcia gall felt rising of a fog had been concealing the world What had been the barriers that Well, for one, he hadn't long enough to ask the of questions, Ah. 1 Was so much younger than second, she had been enbut now, magically, she And third-—-but his voice as ahead of his mind I love you." he was saving. “1 loved you the first time I saw you and the second time I saw vou, and I love you now. I came across that lot on the hill one day while I was walking and thinking ~thinking of you,"the way I've been thinkIng every waking moment I've had since I met you. Why, I even gave it & name Half Acre in Eden' Half acre for size, and Eden with

you." H* stopped abruptly, “But, why can't 1 keep my fool mouth shut!” He half turned away, and Marcia sat unmoving for a long while, ooking at him, “Did it ever occur to you” she said at last, “to ask the lady?” He turned around again. slowly. “And did it ever occur to you," be asked, “what a man 8 wp

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against when he falls in love with a rich girl? “I had a whole set of reasons for not falling in love with you. There was the man I thought you were going to marry.” Do vou remember.” terrupted, “when we were marooned in the farmhouse and you asked me, as a joke and to pass time in front of the fire, to tell the story of my life? Well, man I was going to marry is of the story. 1 could tell it to you now, if you liked, but the of the chapter is that I vas going to be married to him, and now I'm not, and there are no regrets What

ther reasons

vou mart

synopsis

” ” = M DOUGALL was staring out the

window, “This

he said, “is prohably as

declaration as a man ever The other reasons? Well, the big reason is the one I've already given you. A man simply has no business falling in love with a ich girl, and certainly no business mentioning it if he does fall. | . . I wish vou hadn't come wish vou'd go away before I get any lier. I'm ashamed of myself.” Did it ever occur to you” responded Marcia, “that what vou call a rich girl is also ip against something when she knows a man would ask her to marry him if she didn’t have money, but won't ask because she does? If he feels an unfairness in life, dont vou think she does, too? “If IT have to do this whole job

Pe or fa managed.

choose to

for vou, let me explain that I'm not!

Marcia in- |

were your

here. I!

ja rich girl. Dad has some money, it's true, but he'd do some terrible things both to me and a prospective son-in-law if we thought for a moment we'd live on him. My total

possessions are a few bits of jewelry |

my mother left. and that lot on the hill. She left me that, too. = ” ”

“¥ LIVE off Dad. I've been useless

ploiting.

aon't you do something about it?

at the hilltop through the window.

“I thought,” he said, “I wouldn't | the market for real estate!

be in and now I've sunk all my money in a newspaper! Will you mind an apartment?” Marcia picked up his plans.

“I see I'm going to have to be |

I never had a Job, never wanted a career, never felt T had a talent worth ex- | and a | parasite—but if you're as much in! love as you've been saying, why |

Are you waiting for me to propose?” | After a time, a breathless, time- | | less time, McDougall looked again |

By Williams | FLAPPER FANNY

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1036

By Sylvia

VAIS, THET OL’ FELLER 1S TH' COOK! AFTER YUH BEEN OUT IN THIS HEAM COUNTRY FER YEARS, LIKE ME AN' TH' REST O' TW BOYS HEV, YUH GET HARDENED AN'. WELL. YA KIN JUST ABOUT STAND ANY THIN!

NOW DON'T YOU START TO | WORRYIN'? YOU'LL BE EATIN' UP AT TH' HOUSE | WITH TH' MISSUS

the business manager of this fam- !

ily,” she said. “Don’t you

know |

vou can borrow enough to build if |

{you own a lot to build on?” For a while longer there was silence, “And remind me later.” MecDougall said finally, in a vast understanding, “to apologize to Joan.”

(THE END)

The Holiday Mystery

A new serial story starts today on Page 28.

" ARRY him if vou want to— don't ever come back I'll have no loafer for a son-in-law!” Gus Witter gazed sternly across the small kitchen table at his daughter. “But Mary vou haven't about him

“You said

but

here!

pleaded desperately. “And He 's— you met him at the night ¢lub. That's all I* need to know, No honest, hard-working young man wastes his time hanging around night clubs” Witter said emphatically, and rose from the supper table, “That's what cried furiously works in a factory, like you, think he’s no good. There are plenty of good people who aren't poor like us’ Her father glared at her. talk back to me!” Mary braved his eves for a moment, then suddenly burst into tears, She bent over the table and hid her face in her arms.

Mary man

you think!” “Unless a

“Don't

= = = J HEN she looked up, her father had disappeared into the small living room to read the evening paper. Presently, with a weary sigh, she began cleaning up the dishes, father, her supper had gone untouched, but she had no appetite

now, She had anticipated this scene. She knew how suspicious her

father was of the world bevond his |

own narrow groove. He would never understand her love for Roy Halsey, who came nightly to the Tower Club, where she was the cigaret girl, just to be near her. But she had thought her father would at least give her a chance to tell him about off short

At 8 o'clock she came to the liv- |

ing room with her hat and coat. “Good night, dad,” she Kissing him dutifully. He looked up. A crossed his seamed face. Good night, Mary, girl.” Sadly, she set out for the night She loved her father despite his limitations Alone, he had reared her. She couldn't just leave him. It would break his heart. And vet, she yearned for Roy and the happiness he offered her. He would take her out of the smoky factory district which she had grown to hate. If only her father would realize. . | . She despaired of that, knowing him as she did. Her future was a blank

club,

s 8 AX THE club, she changed to A black velvet trousers and a She strapped a tray of cig-

jacket,

arets about her neck. She forced a |

smile and began her nightly rounds of the tables,

By midnight the place was crowd- | ed. The air was heavy with smoke. |

Mary was nervous. Roy would arrive soon. She feit weak as she walked among the tables. She should have eaten her supper.

A slight dizey spell overtook her. | But | not for long. What was the matter |

A drink of water revived her.

with her? The manager berated her for not answering a call from a table. She gritted her teeth and went forward. While she was making change for the customer. the room suddenly spun. She felt herself fallmg. . « “Nerves” said the young doctor, in the manager's office, where they had carried her. Mary opened her eves and smiled weakly, then closed them again. “What had we better do?" the manager asked with concern. “She's evidently been under a strain,” the doctor said. “Better give her a week or two of rest.”

ITTER was aroused from | sleep by a persistent knocking. He went to the door. A cry escaped his lips as the doctor entered with Mary in his arms. | “What's the trouble?" said the | doctor. “She'll need rest and quiet | for a while” { Witter led him to her small bedroom, where the doctor laid her on

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in the morning,” he Ro AR Rag sk A

NIGHT CLUB LOAFER

By James Lumpp

Daily Short Story

vou don't even know him.” |

even let me tell you!

you |

{good. But I'm

In the argument with her |

Roy, instead of cutting her |

said, | loving smile |

Be a good |

J RWILLIAMS,

NM REG 1) & PAT OFF,

“Did you tell her to wrap it as a gift, Fanny? ila “Certainly. ‘When people leave the price tag oft 2 present to impress you, it does=—the wrong way.”

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Whd¥

, He gave Witter some instructions, |

then left.

Mary was feeling better a week |

later. Her father, with the aid of a kindly neighbor, had given her tender care. The doctor had visited her daily. But she was still nervous and unrelaxed. = os = ‘PPLEASE don’t worry,” Witter told her one evening, after the doctor had all right” He “Soon, maybe, you'll find a you.” She looked at “Mavbe so, Dad. But he won't be the kind you want me to marry, You'd be satisfied only with a factory worker!” She turned her face to the wall. “Forget that man at the night club,” he pleaded. “It's best—I know, I am only trying to look after you.”

“We'll never agree,” she said hopelessly. Witter gazed at her sorrowfuly. (“I'm not insisting on a factory | worker—but some one who will be ' good to you. Those rich fellows who run after night-club girls are no not unreasonable. That young doctor, for instance— he's nice. And he seems interested in you—" “You like him?” Mary sat up sud-

| denly,

“Why-—yes,” her father said, surprised. “Ded!” she cried, throwing her arms around him. “He's the one I love-—the one who wants to many me! Dr. Roy Halsey!” THE END

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