Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1938 — Page 26

By RACHEL MACK

CAST OF CHARACTERS POLLY CHELSEY, heroine; stranded in London when war breaks out. JERRY WHITFIELD, hero; the Yankee whe sees her through. CABELL BANKS, privateer captain.

© Yesterday: Disguised as an old woman, Polly starts from Dover to cross the Channel and meanwhile the woman with the blue bonnet has written her, revealing the truth about Jerry’s abduction. , CHAPTER FIFTEEN ASSENGERS in the Deal coach were surprised to observe the tall old dame in rusty black burst into musical laughter and at the _ same time wipe tears from her eyes. She appeared to be slightly daffy, for her face, now streaked by tears and lamp-black, was the very picture of triumphant elation. Such, actually, was Polly’s state of mind. Elation and joy. She felt that she hadn't a care on’ earth. She was several thousand miles from home in an enemy country with a dangerous journey before her, and Jerry was impressed by the British Navy on a ship called the Sunrise undoubtedly in a helpless and desperate state. Yet she hadn’t a care in the world. Jerry had not deserted her. Jerry loved her. She - read ‘the letter again. If struck her as- being a delightful piece of literature. Even Mazie Miller’s erratic spelling and her peculiar sprinkling of capital letters held a charm. Polly thought, I ought to hate her for what she’s done to us. . . . I do hate her. But it’s not the same kind of hate I've been feeling toward her. . She was nothing at all to Jerry! He didn’t lie about it! He'd never laid eyes on her before she waved at him! . . . Oh, this is beautiful and wonderful

passengers were looking at, her. The coach driver had turned in his seat to say to her reprovingly, “I ask you again, M’am, where is it you 4 to be set down?” “Oh!” said Polly. Then, “Let me oft at Corly, please, south of Deal!” Her voice was ringing with vitality. The: passengers’ faces all betrayed the fact that they had never before encountered such an amazing old woman. A = » 2 } IS Majesty's brig Sunrise, carrying 30 guns, had moved out of the gradually widening Thames into the North Sea. She sailed like a fearless bird that can go where she wills, proud of her plumage and her standing. So sailed all of His Majesty’s ships, the great and the small. And because they were so .proud and so beautiful to look at, the English people loved them and spoke of them vauntingly, as is natural. But a sailing ship that looks like a proud swan from shore can look like a hornet’s nest when viewed by oné on board. It is a small fiéating kingdom, inhabited by too many lusty men, and those in command must rule with an iron hand. So it has ever been on the sea. But so it especially is in this year of Our Lord 1812 when England’s greatness is clouded for the moment by a grasping King and a stupid Prince Regent and by admirals and commissioners who have scrawled two foul words on the Union Jack— Greed and Cruelty. Now where the fair island of England is at its broadest there is a town called Lowestoft. As the Sunrise sailed north she passed within call of this port. The two marines who stood guard at the hatch above the prison hold spoke of this matter. One of them had a sweethears in that port, and when he saw some female figures waving from shore, as women will at sight of a ship, he was moved®to speculate as to whether his girl might be among them. The conversation of the two marines could be heard in the hold. Jerry Whitfield said to Cabell Banks, " “We're close to shore!” * Just those few words, but he spoke them so tensely that Cabell, who was lying in his hammock with closed eyes, came alert. He turned and opened his eyes to see Jerry Whitfield disappear up the ladder with the softness and swiftness of a cat. » » ” . 8 for Jerry, he was impelled ‘by instinct entirely. Reasoning did not enter into it. "He “gained the deck, balanced his slender but powerful body for a moment for its greatest projection of strength, hurled himself toward the two hateful backs and struck down both men simultaneously. , - He had reached the edge of the deck and had a leg over the bulwark before two other marines seized him and brought him back. After that things happened rapidly. There was a report to the Captain who listenéd attentively and smiled oddly. “It was. the large man?” he asked. “Whitfield?” This was as it should be. It would have been awkward, had it been the other one who had bolted. The Captain gave » an order. — A call was piped shrilly, calling all hands. Cabell, listening on the ladder of the hold knew what this meant. He too must go abave. He

went, with sick heart and dragging

feet. To Jerry Whitfield, reason had returned. Instinet still surged within him—the old primitive instinet that writhes at the feel of a ‘whip on naked flesh—but reason dominated. With a proud and scornful dignity he went where he was commanded to go, permitted without useless struggle the shirt to be stripped from his back and his feet fastened to the gratings. He heard the command “Twenty lashes!” without moving his eyes from a distant cloud, He was conscious then of nothing except his own superhuman determination to make no outcry. As he turned to go, afterward, he looked into a ring of faces that had been summoned to witness his punishment. Some were brutally pleased, some stoical and hardened, some pitying. He saw a very young midshipman look at his bleeding back and fall in a faint. He saw Cabell Banks standing with folded arms and frozen expression. . Banks fell into step with him. The two prisoners went below. Banks said, “Here's some salve I bought from the surgeon’s helper. T'll put it on for you.” His aristocratic, ugly face was as white as death

“Thank you” Jerry Whitfield said.

Presently they pulled hemp strands from the damp rope and ‘their game of yesterday, after that they spoke of how e foliage would soon be turning

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in Massachusetts, and of the scarcity of wild turkeys near the settled places. It was not until night, from the depths of a pain-filled sleep ‘that Jerry shouted, “I'll get even with them for this!” It was the threat that cruelty automatically produces.

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I Boston the hour was not so late. Mr. Cabell Banks, senior, was pacing the drawing room floor in his beautiful square Georgian house on Beacon St. while his wife sat erectly before the fire sipping coffee from a small fragile cup and urging him to be calm. Beside Mrs. Banks on: the higharmed regency sofa sat a small, almost-pretty very intelligent young woman, perhaps 22 years old. She too sipped coffee. Her slippered feet with the neat ribbon lacings around her ankles were placed prop-

erly together on the Persian rug.

Her dress was slim and high waisted, squarely cut at the neck—identical in style, indeed, with the frocks of Mazie Miller and the Empress Josephine, for while three countries were warring with all their might, their women stood resolutely together as regarding short waists and tight skirts. Prudence Winthrop was this girl's name, and her father was in business with the wiry old man who paced the floor. She was very much attached to that old man’s son. She confessed as much now to his par-

ents. “If Cabell comes home and asks me, I shall- accept him. He's homely and high-strung but I find him stimulating. I am very fond of him.” “Thank you, my dear,” said Cabell’s plump and proper mother. She leaned to kiss the cool young cheek affectionately. . . . Mr. Banks too was pleased. “This is highly appropriate!” he exclaimed. “Your father and I have wished for some such thing to happen.’ . . . But where is my son,” he demanded, returning to his anxiety. “What assurance have we that he will ever get home to us?” “No assurance,” replied Mus. Banks. “We can only hope and pray.” . .. As it was time for family worship, they called in the servants and set about it in the proper Boston way. Mr. Banks read from the Scriptures and offered up a stout prayer. He mentioned almost everyone in public life except the King of England and the President of the United States, both of whom had offended him by causing this war, They all thought of young Cabell as standing at the prow of the barkentine Hardy, avoiding the British’ and sailing home to them, as good a. Federalist as when he had left them. They little dreamed of his new life, his new ideas and his new friend, Jeremiah Whitfield.

(To Be e Continuéd) (All events, names and characters in this story are whoily fictitious.)

Daily Short Story

THE MEETING—By Sue Blessing

HE cathedral lifted its tall slender spires, like innumerable prayers, into the blue haze of heaven. The warm July sun covered the esplanade with sharp needles of light, piercing and cruel. Inside was the perpetual dusk of evening, save Where the colored windows, murky with the dust of ages, sifted lean shafts of red and blue and rose. They met at the foot of the stairs that led to the carrillon tower.

.There were three others: beside, a

middle-aged man and two middleaged women. Those three were talking among themselves, and it seemed evident that they were all schoolteachers. They, the young man and the girl, looked at each other, and the looks exchanged testimony of a strange acknowledgment.’ The guide began his slow ascent up the narrow stairway. In single file, following after, went the schoolteachers, the women first; she followed after them, and he after her. They went higher and higher up the narrow circular stairway. They rested a while on a landing and were told about the machinery that operated the bells, and about the bells themselves, the largest ones weighing several tons, and the smallest only a few pounds, and fhe schoolteachers made many remarks about the wonders of it. The man remembered a poem by Edgar Allen Poe that goes “Bells, bells, bells . . . ” The two women schoolteachers recited a verse of it in unison. | » ” ” E saw her hide Her smile and that made him want to smile, and they looked at each other and had a good laugh together with their eyes. The guide decided théy were sufficiently rested and so continued on the upward way, lifting one foot

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slowly after the other, dragging a little on the stone steps, and it meade things seem to be a sort of procession as though they were living in olden times and were going to the tep to make an offering. They saw a low arched doorway leading off the circular staircase and a passage that disappeared in shadows and they looked at each other and they almost said, “Isn’t it mysterious?” or “Isn't it romantic?” But they didn’t actually say the words because they did not know .each other, though it was just as well because they understood what the other meant. At several places as they went up they came. to little windows, where they could look out and see far below them some boys playing ball and some girls playing tennis and automobiles going around a curve. And they continued to go, the slow procession,” up and up and around and around, till they came to a narrow catwalk across some sort of structure supporting the bells. She went very slowly, holding

tight to the wooden rail. He would |-

have liked to help her. 8 & = i HEN they came to where the bells were played. There was the real keyboard, the one used to play the bells; there was ane other, not attached to the bells, but with steel strips that gave sounds similar to those of the bells and was for the purpose of practice. They rested there and looked at the keyboard. . The guide told them that up above there was an observation tower and if they wanted:to they could go up. The two lady schoolteachers’ decided they'd gone as high as they cared to go, but the gentleman said he was just catching his second wind. Soon as he got it he started on his way up again, and the young woman followed him, and the young man went after her. So they came to the top, fenced around, so they could look down far below and see the people seeming so small, and the automobiles that seemed to crawl, and the roofs of houses beneath them. The young man and the girl walked around the enclosure, and in this way were able to get a view from all four sides. Meanwhile, the schoolteacher had gone down. They stood together, and after looking down for a while, they looked up at the sky, and she looked quickly at him and started to speak but didn't say anything, and he started to smile but didn’t really smile. Then they walked around the tower together again. ® She turned and started down, and he followed after. The guide was gone, the schoolteachers, too. They went down some steps, across the catwalk then, around and around the circular stairway. At the end they found the schoolteachers resting and the guide preparing to take some others up. One of the lady schoolteachers said, “Wasn’t it a splendid adventure? It really was, wasn’t it? Yes, you can truly call it a splendid adventure!” » ” ”

ES, indeed,” said the man, “it was an advanture. It really was. I don’t know when I've done anything so exciting. I haven’t done anything like this in years.” The. man pushed the brim of his Panama through pudgy fingers, well satisfied with himself. His \ spectacles caught a stray dash of purple light from the big window overhead. He was smiling, His gold top cane rested securely under his arm. A stray breath of warm air from the open doorway lifted a lock of pale yellow hair and set it down slantwise across his forehead. He pushed it back. “Well, IT was just able to manage, I really must confess, I couldn’t have gone another step. Really, that is the truth, I couldn't have managed another step to save my life,” said the third. The young man had been going in one direction and ‘the young lady in another, and they only hesitated because they were curious and out of curiosity wanted to hear what the |- schoolteachers had to say about the going up to the carillon towers. And then, as the schoolteachers stopped their talking, the two were suddenly afraid, and they turned and looked at each other, and the fright showed in the eyes of both. They seemed to start toward each other at the same time; they almost ran. “Would you——" he said qui “would you like to go up Ricky: Would you?” “Yes, let's go again. Yes, we must go again. Hurry! ‘We can still catch he. guide!”

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YOUR HEALTH

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

American Medical Journal Editor ANY people have the idea that an undernourished child is pale, thin, ‘weak or scrawny. Actually a child may be undernour-

ished and appear fat. A diet that

is very high in sugars may make an undernourished child fat. The evaluation of the child’s nourish ment is not an evaluation of its bulk. Indeed there is reason to believe that the undernourished child who is not thin is not®as good a health risk as a thinner child who is perhaps more scientifically nourished. It, therefore, seems that in the future, with the greater knowledge of nutrition that we now have, we will probably have to put much less emphasis on tables of relationship of weight to height and age than we now do. The color of the cheeks of the child by which most people guess at its health is not a sure sign of a .good quality of blood. Some people have more blood vessels in the skin than others; some people have skin thinner than that of

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more fat near the surface than others. These factors are much more important in producing the color of the skin than the actual richness of the blood. The child who is badly nourished may frequently have reddened eyes due to the fact that it has a low resistance to infection. Another child excellently nourished may have a shortage of fat just under the skin so that the areas under the child’s eyes will appear dark and give an impression which many pen. ple associate with illness. 2 8 ” LL of this merely means that the only real way to find out the status of ‘the blood is to take a specimen of the blood for examination under the microscope. By this the number of red blood ceils and white blood cells can be counted to. determine exactly how

much hemoglobin, or red coloring matter, is present in the blood.

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and the amount of each ingredient that should be present in: proportion to the others. However, knowing the diet dnd feeding it is still no guarantee that a. child on such a diet will be properly nourished. If there is any reason because of illness, bad psychology, wrong type of personal hygiene or some similar factor why the diet as taken is not suitably assimilated and used by the body, the child may be

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an adequate diet. This means again that it is necessary to know all those facts which can be determined only by adequate examination before it can be said definitely that undernourishment is present.

SO THEY SAY

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Joe Louis will beat Schmeling next June. Tell you why. If you walk down a dark street sometime and fall in a hole, well, the' next time you walk down, you're careful.— Tommy Farr, English heavyweight.

Sit-down strikes are illusions. They are given an importance ouf of all proportion to their significance.—Frances Petims, Seoretary of Labor.

Mind Your Manners

rect social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authori= tative answers below: ; 1. Is it good manners to monopolize a conversation? 2. Should a handclasp be firm and resolute? + 3.Is it good manners to stress a remark by pointing a ~ finger at the person to whom one is talking? 4 Should one abruptly change a topic of conversation? : ‘5. Is it impoptant to say “Please” and “Thank you” to members of° one’s family and - others with. whom one associates constantly?

What would you do if— You are in a group where the people are discussing a topic about which you know nothing— A. Listen to what the others have to say, asking an occasional question if you wish? . Join in the conversation, hoping you can ¢onvinge the others that you know what . they are falking about? . Try to change the subject? ¥ » = x

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