Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1937 — Page 22

CAST OF CHARACTERS ROBERT BARRY-—hero, explorer. .MELISSA LANE — heroine, Barry's partner. HONEY BEE GIRL—Indian; of Barry's party. PADES JONES—pioneer; member Barry’s party.

Yesterday: At the end of their endurance, Bob and Melissa are rescued by a strange, brown little people. They start downward in the cavern after them ; ]

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

HEY had no idea where they were going. They were going. They were [just walking, under escort. | ¢ “This is going to make a good story, if we ever get back to tell it,” Lissa ventured at last, Bob smiled through his bewilderment. “I'll say!” ; “We're going down all .the time, Bob.” “Up and down both. I can't estimate how much. But if we suddenly come onto the devil himself I won’t be surprised.” “I'll never be .surprised at anything again!” Know what I'm thinking, dear?” “No, ‘Lissa what?” ” ” ” v BOUT New York. And life there. I used to be so bored with it. Nothing ever happened! That’s why I answered your advertisement.” r 3 The brown men watched them carefully, spoke frequently to each other, showed them a fairly smooth path. Bob held Mary Melissa's arm all the while, to aid her. “Are you sorry, now, that you answered it?” He looked at her. She was even more lovely than he had imaginéd her to be, when they had kissed there in the darkness. JAt least he told her so; actually she was sadly tousled and unkempt, not to mention her weariness. “No,” she ‘declared, smiling. “I'll never be sorry.” » 2 2

HE walk wasn't very long. With that sudden surprise With which a train emerges from a tunnel, the strange party turned an angle in the cave and blinked at daylight. Near the exit they saw other things, too; mostly great baskets and jars, and some stacks of animal skins. The area seemed to be a kind of storehouse. Bob's interest mounted rapidly. “We've surely. stumbled onto another tribe of Indians,” said he, “and lucky for. us. Theyre some tribe strange to me, but probably a few of them speak English. We'll come around hese again and investigate. I thought I knew all about this border country.” Heralds evidently had hurried ahead with the news of the white couple, for as they emerged from the cave, blinking and squinting, they saw some .dozens of men, women and children 4 hastening toward them. They, tqe, were all brown, a8 8% OB and Mary Melissa instantly ) noted the complete absence of any evidence of “civilization.” In dress, possessions, manners, even speech, these people were something from another century, from somewhere back in the middle ages as man reckons time. i “Do any of you speak English?” Bob called. Evidently no one did. All stopped talking, and stared. He tried again. “We are hungry. Please give us food, and water.” He pointed to his mouth, and\to Mary Melissa's. They understood that. At least one dignified elderly man did. He spoke a few words as if in command and two women hastened away. Shortly they were back with earthen bowls, both water and food. The food was a thick hot gruel of carn meal, with some pieces of meat. The hungry pair ate again, gratefully, and strength grew in them. They - could enjoy some sleep, but this ‘was no time for it, they knew.

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OB BARRY—Dr. Robert Wilson L Barry, Ph. D., now—was studying the situation intently. .He bethought himself of andther funda- * mental in human nature, and so + took his shiny gold watch from his * pocket. 3 With some show of pomp, he held it out and walked to the man who had ordered their food. The brown man accepted it, evidently with high pleasure. Instantly the visitors were forgotten while the natives gathered around the shining gift. “They don't. even know what a watch is, Bob! Look.”: Mary Melissa whispered, intensely interested. “Have they never even seen a watch before?” . Suddenly one of them discoyered the ticking, laughed and talked excitedly in announcing it to the others. Everyone had to listen then, as if ‘they were so many children. In time, though, they looked querulously at Bob; he stepped forward and took the watch again.

HE. young scientist pointed at the sun, and at the watch. With extended arm, he swept in an arc from horizon to- horizon, then with his finger he indicated the motion of the hour hand. He held up the watch and the yellow gold gleamed. : As if by royal command, then, a “murmur of awe swept through the brown audience. The leader spoke a short sentence or two, and the entire assembly lifted both hands —held them high as if in worship or salute. Silence reigned, while Bob Barry’s jaw fell. 7 He and ‘Lissa stared in fresh surprise at this phenomenon. Nearly a hundred people had suddenly saluted a watch. : The attitude was undeniably one of respect, of rev erence even. : “Lower the watch—lower it, ~Bob,” whispered ‘Lissa. He had unconsciously kept it held high, to .reflect the sun.

JE got the point. When he lowered: the trinket, and with great show of deference gave it back to the brown leader, the people their arms and began talk-

- that!” Bob murmured. “But it makes sense, by George it does, ‘Lissa! Thege people are sun worshipers. See? It's a common thing. Most of the aborigines: in this country were. All strength comes from the sun, all good all of life. Even the Hopi Indians,

was there and talking to him.

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and the Navajos, have some of that. A Navajo home is always

1 built with the door facing east, to

catch the sunrise, light. Many Indian dances are prayers to the sun. Get it?” “Yes!” she replied. “And Bob— you told them that the watch was a sun, a little sun. See? : It seemed correct. If he had done so, it was a lucky move, he told her. What more likely to impress the simple folk, than to be messengers bearing a “little Sun?” »n 2 2

‘countryside, It was typical of the Mexican border country, as to mountains and cliffs, but immediately before them lay a valley that was cultivated and green. It was not large, maybe a thousand acres.

HEY’ looked then to study the

There was but one village. Houses were built of stone, and were clustered near the great and ‘Lissa had just left. “This is in some kind of a box canyon,” Bob declared, studying the terrain. “Look at those sheer cliffs, all around us.” Their arrival had completely upset the community. Evidently all the citizens—Bob counted 90-odd of them—came to see the white couple. But not one could speak an English word, although Bob caught some phrases much like the speech. of the Pueblo Indians.

again,” he told ’Lissa, “and see what I can do by drawing pictures and making signs.”

(To Be Continued)

Daily Short Story

DULL NIGHT—By Phyllis Carlton

“‘Open that register!’ ”

HE supper rush at the Cozy Cafe was over by 8 o’clock. Jimmy picked up the paper, gave the sec-

ond section to Estelle, and sat down,

wearily on the nearest counter stool. It had been a hard day.

It didn’t take Estelle long to finish the comics. “Well, what's in the news tonight, Jimmy?” she asked. But Jimmy Was buried deep in the paper and didn’t answer. Curious, she looked over his shoulder. “Gang of Petty Thieves Terrorizes Loop,” was the heading over the story Jimmy was reading. Jimmy suddenly realized Estelle “Another parolee on the loose,” he remarked. “At léast, the coppers suspect one of them, a fellow named Jimmy Elson. Cute, isn’t he?” And he turned the paper toward her. . Estelle shuddered. It was a bitter, ugly face. But she quickly forgot Jimmy Elson and his gang as she noted the droop in Jimmy's shoulders. - “Won’t you go home now and get some sleep, darling? Hardly anyone comes in here in the evening, and I can take care of those who

“Don’t 'like to leave you here alone and you know it,” Jimmy muttered. half-heartedly. “Clark street is no place for a girl to be working alone at night.”

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“PUT please, Jimmy. You know you can't stand behind a counter 24 hours a day. We can't afford to hire anyone else till we get the place paid for. And Ill be all right. 1f you sleep tonight, you'll feel like a new man tomor-

morrow night while I relax at the movies.” Estelle spoke flippantly, but she was really worried about Jimmy. He looked so worn out. “You win, kid,” he admitted. “Don’t forget; though. If anything goes wrong, there's a telephone in the hotel across the street. I'll be down here in 10 minutes if you need me.” She watched Jimmy take his shabby coat off the hook and wearily put it on. Sometimes she wondered if he wasn’t too ambitious. Maybe the Cozy Cafe was a crazy idea. Still, if they could only get along a couple of months more, the note would be paid and they could breathe a little more freely. - He handed Estelle the keys and gave her'a quick kiss. “I'll leave the paper,” he said. “You can work the gross-word puzzle. There won't be enough people .in here tonight to

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time of year.” ” ” UT Estelle didn’t pick up the paper after he had gone. stead she walked over to the window and looked out. She didn’t really see anythings though, because she was occupied with memories. Just six months ago she had been outside that window, looking in. She had been hungry and the “Waitress Wanted” sign, coupled with the generous cut of apple pie next to it, had tempted her. For three weeks she had been tramping up and down the streets of the Loop looking for a job. And in three weeks the small funds she had brought with her from Green River had dwindled down so that now she had just 49 cents in her purse. She was so discouraged that she almost believed what they had told her back home. Maybe there was no place for another pianist in Chicago. Not a girl, anyway. ‘= __So she had timidly walked into the eat shop. The young fellow inside—it was called “Jimmy’s Place” then—had given her a startled look when she told him what she wanted, and said, “You bet you can have the job!” : Two months ago she and Jimmy had been married and now it was the Cozy Cafe, her idea, and it belonged to both of them, not just to Jimmy. She was so deep in her thoughts that the sound of the door’s opening made her jump. ” ”" ”

TT man who came in was not one of the shop’s regular cusShe had never seen him before. ‘Anyway, she didn’t recognize as much of his face as she could see beneath his deeply dipped hat. He wasn’t feeling sociable, evidently. He glanced quickly at the menu on the wall, muttered, “Hamburger and coffee” and sat down with his face averted.

Estelle put a hamburg on the | grill, poured coffee, got cream from ;

the icebox, took up the hamburg. As she walked back to sef it on the counter, he suddenly looked up. “All alone in here, kid?” he asked. Estelle’s hand shook as she nodded in the affirmative. It was Jimmy Elson. There could be no mistake. Se o 4 2 HE managed to set down the hamburger plate before him, though it seemed to her she ,was too frightened to move. As she put the plate down he suddenly grabbed her wrist and grunted. hoarsely,

| “Open that register in back of you

—and dont waste any time about it.” “No,” she protested in a small ‘voice, thinking of the struggle she and Jimmy had gone through to save that cash. : His grip tightened on her wrist until it was all she could do to keepy from screaming. “Go ahead; open it,” he urged “or——" But he never finished the threat because just then Estelle came to life and threw the cup of coffee which had been shaking in her left hand square into his face. As he

screamed in pain and put his hands

to his face she dashed to the door, turned the key on the outside and ran across the street. 2

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UT it wasn’t Jimmy she called. It was the police. And she pledged them to secrecy. Because if Jimmy ever found. out he would make her quit working and then they couldn't afford to keep the Cozy Cafe running. At breakfast Jimmy was in high spirts. “Feel like a new man today,, sweetheart,” he bragged. “How do I look? And how was work last night? Anyone. come in?” : “Just a couple of bellhops. I read the paper.” at “Why, Estelle, your wrist’s black and biue! Where'd you get that nasty mark?” . “Oh, that?” Estelle laughed. “Why, I caught my hand in the icebox doof last night. You didn't know you had such a’ clumsy, helpless little wife, did you, Jimmy?”.

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