Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1938 — Page 16

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L By RACHEL MACK

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

Cy Yesterday: Nearing America, the Gray

Gull is chased by British men-o’-war, but escapes.

3 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

ORNING found them off the American coast opposite what appeared to be Delaware or Maryfand. A shout went up from the sailors. Polly wept openly for joy, and Jerry's commands to the sailors were husky with feeling. That dim shoreline was beautiful with the magic of homes. Even Cabell Banks -lost his blase man-of-the-world “manner and tossed his hat jubilantly. : To the north several sails were presently spied by the lookouts. Jerry and Cabell consulted. They would maneuver nearer, they de-

“ “cided; if they were American ships

they would speak to them and learn their exact location.

The maneuvering was done, and almost with disaster. The ships were discovered to be British frigates blocking Delaware Bay, the ap- . proach to Philadelphia. The Gray Gull’'s course was promptly shifted southward, and no harm done, save to taut nerves. The approach to . Washington spread clear before them.’ On board there were several reliable sailors who had gone out from Baltimore on the Gray Gull more than once and had stayed hopefully "with her while she lay docked at These men now proved " t infinite value. They were able to "help their New England officers round the treacherous Cape Charles and enter Chesapeake Bay.

® x = HE long blue bay stretched away before them, free of hostile sails. As they passed the

-*mouth of the York and later of the

: Rappahannock River, Cabell stared hard at the Virginia shore. On these rivers and on the James and Potomac, he knew, there lived the Vir- . ginia landed gentry who were said to feel themselves superior even to rich Boston bankers and importers.

. Englishmen under Sir Walter Ra-

suggested, ~y'easily go to Washington by coach clo

"leigh had landed on these shores before the Mayflower had sailed to Plymouth Rock. It was very annoying to a young Bostonian to have to think of it. He was forced to call his new-found patriotism into play “to dispel his malice. Virginia was one of the United States, he reminded himself, and no doubt was a very agreeable place if you didn't mind the heat and if you could excuse the girls for being better edu- . cated in their heels than their ‘heads. . . . Take Prudence Winthrop now. She could talk about other things than the latest dance figure. “A penny for your thoughts,” Polly said. “American money.” “I was thinking I must write two letters home ‘and post them in Washington. One of them to my family,” They both laughed.

ERRY and Cabell supposed the most direct way to reach Washington would be to sail up the “Potomac. The Baltimore sailors, however, with - seamen’s old distrust of rivers, advised avoiding the

- “curving Potomac and sailing direct

"to Baltimore. From there,” they Captain Banks could horseback - and procure the papers, This they agreed to do, Jerry the more readily because of Polly. Baltimore had good coach. service to

° Philadelphia, and from the latter “city she would have no trouble ~---reaching home. °° When they had entered Balti-

" more harbor Jerry went to Polly

who stood at the bulwark watch-

‘low and get ready now, Polly.

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-ing the men drop anchor.

sailor’s wife must be brisk.” © “Get ready for what, Jerry?” - “To -go ashore, my sweet, with “your dog and trunk.” “But, Jerry! You'd not put me ashore in Maryland when I belong in Connecticut?” Her face showed

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Manners

Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering ~} the following questions, then : checking against the authori‘J. tative answers below: 1, Should a casual dinner guest follow the hostess to the kitchen when she goes out to make last minute preparations? :§ 2. Is being able to take leave quickly a social asset? 3. Is it important that guests not over-stay the time for which they were invited, even * though the hostess says, “I | wish you wouldn’t hurry”? 4, Is it thoughtful for a single man who is invited for dinner in the home of married

_ flowers or a box of candy? 5. If a host is going to serve

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you— A. Take the opportunity to talk about yourself and make the most of it?

to turn the conversation toward someone else?

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2. Decidedly.

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Did you suppose I'd keep you an hour longer at sea than I had to?” " “Oh, Jerry! I'd not figured it out, but I supposed you'd take me home to Lyme after you got your papers. I might as well be honest and say I hoped you'd decide to keep me on board, Jerry. The way scme of the skippers out of New England used to keep their wives aboard. I know an old woman at home who’s been around the H on her husband’s ship seven times.” “This is war time, Polly.” He spoke with finality and with such regret that she could not make it harder for®him.

“ LL right, Jerry. But it’s going to take Cabell a couple of days to go to Washington and back. Can I stay here till then?” “I'd thought to put you on a stage coach, Polly, and see you started onyour way. I'd feel easier about you—" - But he could not resist her pleading arm that stole around his neck, nor the prospect of an extra day and night with her on a deserted ship in a friendly port. He said, “I reckon I've earned another ‘sunset and sunrise with you, Polly. Stay if you will.” . That night when the sailors went ashore and Cabell was in Washington, the Gray Gull was their own. They stood at -its bulwarks and watched the lights of Baltimore. Polly made one more effort to snatch at happiness. “You've brought the Gull home, Jerry, and it wasn’t easy. Cabell couldn’t have done it without you. Every man aboard owes you his life or his liberty—" “It may be true, Polly. But what of it?” “This. You've done your part. If Cabell’s so set on going to sea again, let him find another mate for his clipper. You come home to New England.” “Polly, what are you saying!” He held her shoulders and looked down into her face. “I'm saying you don’t belong to the Navy by rights,” she answered fiercely. “Why must you go out there and let an English long gun tear you to pieces?” “This is every American's fight as I look at it, Polly. It’s our way of backing those that died in the Revolution. Our men walked shoeless in the snow and ice till their feet bled, that’s war. That's

Well, that freedom’s being questioned. This time on the sea.” “Oh, I know,” said Polly brokenly. “I must have been crazy for a minute, Jerry. . . . Remind me to mend your coat before I leave tomorrow. You've torn the sleeve—" » tJ 2 - EFORE noon the following day Cabell returned from - Washington, having traveled most of the Lnight. He was jubilant. Mr. Madison had consented to see him in person and had readily given him all the papers necessary to turn the Gray Gull into a privateer to harass British craft. “He says he’s thankful to see so many New Englanders turning out to fight. He thinks our hope lies almost entirely in privateers. . .. . Hello, Polly! Where are you going with your bonnet on?” “Home,” said Polly, holding out her hand. “Jerry wants to get' me started.” . “Won't tomorrow do? I thought a little dinner in Baltimore tonight. . « . It’s quite a place, I hear—" Jerry said, “All our crew came aboard this morning, Cabell, and about 20 extras they were able to recruit. The rumor’s out that the Chesapeake’s going to be bottled. You'll want to go out with the tide tonight. I'm taking Polly ashore now—" Two hours later Polly was jolting out of Baltimore on the road to Philadelphia. She rode atop the coach. Nuisance shared her seat and her dejection.

“You appear sad to part from your young man, Miss. Is he a sailor?” “Yes. A mate on a privateer. He’s going to sea tonight. . . . I wonder what name this war will have?” “Why, Miss, maybe they'll just call it the War of 1812. I figger we’ll have the British licked. before Christmas and maybe annex Canada.” Polly snorted derisively. “Have you ever seen a British man-of-war coming down on you with all sails spread?” “Well, no, Miss. I'm an inland man, rightly.. Horses is my line.” “Then don’t try to be a prophet!” snapped Polly vehemently and began to weep into her handkerchief. . . . Never to see Jerry again. Could she endure it?

(To Be Continued)

how much they wanted freedom.

(All events, names and characters in this story are whoily fictitious.)

Daily Short Story

PAPER COPPER—By Fred J. Ford

EWS here in Lake County is about four times as scarce as red rabbit feathers! so lately, in self-defense and in order to fill up the columns of my weekly Lakeville Eagle, I have been writing what I call detective stories. Maybe they're not quite that, but so far my “paper copper” hasn't failed to get his man. This grand idea of mine appears to bother Old Joe Grant, our actual sheriff, and he often pans me about my hero—one Break-a-Leg Kelly— who is very prominent in all of my yarns. Anyhow, Old Joe sneaks in on me, one day last week, while I'm typing one of my masterpieces, stabs me in the back with his thumb and says “Bang!” I jump four feet straight up, wheel around, see who it is, then taunt: “When will you learn that famous authors must not be disturbed while they are laying their eggs?” . } Grant grins and says, “Bosh!” “My yarns bash, Joe? Maybe so,” I explained, “but I have to print some crime news, and you don’t furnish me with none, any more.” ~ “I've got some for you now. Shortly,” he states. “George Ecker’s Lumber Company office - safe was cracked las’ night.” “Do tell!” I exclaim, and grab up a pencil. “I'm on my way down there now —to investigate—an’ if you'd like to come along—"

grab up my hat, and were off. In a Jiffy we're on the scene.

» ”® = “ FELLER'S s’prized me, sheriff,” Elmer Townsend, Ecker's

night watchman tells us. “I'm comin’ outa th’ lumber yard when this guy puts a gun in my back an’ makes me open th’ office door.” “What time?” Joe asks. “ Bout midnight. Then, sheriff, he ties my hands an’ feet an’ makss me lay down on th’ floor—while he operates. He uses a jigger what he calls a ‘come-along.’ Pulls th’ com-bination-knob plum’ off, as you can see. Darned cuss gets most two thousand dollars of George's money, too! George is away, and when he gets back I s’pose I'll hafta go back to cobblin’ shoes ag’in, but I don't mind that so much ’cause my left hand’s about as good as it ever was. It'll take more’n one pralasiss stroke to keep me off’'n my shoe bench. I—"’ Elmer Townsend, both Joe and I know, is an honest old fellow, but rather windy, so I choke him off by saying: “If you weren't blindfolded, perhaps you can give us some description of this man.” “I can that. He was a tall, skinny cuss. Six foot, I reckon. Wore old overalls an’ a new blue jumper. He was well masked an’ wore a gray cap—well pulled down over his hair. Wore black. vici kid oxfords, this feller ‘did—long, narrer ones. Anyhow 11s or 113s. Left toe was badly scuffed up. They'd been newly halfsoled an’ had rubber heels. Old Joe says, “Once you get to talkin’ about shoes you never run down. Tell us how long after ‘he left beiore you got loose an’ follered him.” “Mighty soon, Joe. I tagged him eight or nine blocks, but lost him in th’ dark.” : 2 ® t J ” HEN Sheriff Grant asks Elmer _& Townsend about this, that and the other thing until I finally get Old Joe away by saying: “Come on, Grant. We've got dope enough.” “I can’t see that weve got any dope,” Old Joe remarks, when we get off: a ways. “Th’ description Elmer give us of this safe cracker'd fit 50 fellows livin’ in Lake County, an’ fit 50,000,000——” “Your yegg lives right .here in ‘town,” I state. “Ye-ah? How come you know SO ” “A strange yegg would have had a car. This bird walked off.”

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“Mebbe so,” Grant agrees, nod-

“Wait till I get my bonnet,” I say,

“Okay, Shorty, you an’ ol’ Break-a-Leg Kelly go right ahead an’ find him!” The sheriff gets a big bang out of kidding me in this way. He admits that I “ketch ’em purty slick on paper,” but says I'm “not so: hot” where real cases are concerned. So I take up his offer, seeing that I have half a hunch— as I call this clue to myself. It’s most noon when old Joe and I parts, and I hunt around town all that afternoon, and up until nearly 10 o'clock. Then I spots a long, leay; lanky bird in Chub Green's tavern—playing Kelly pool. That makes a whole hunch, and from then on it isn’t me that’s on: this job, but old Break-a-Leg Kelly himself! I watch this gent play for half an hour or so, then I go for Sheriff Grant. “Johnny, get yer gun!” I begin, and when old Joe looks up to see if I'm drunk or sober. I announce, “Break-a-Leg Kelly has your safecracker surrounded, Joe, but he will surrender only to you. Come on!” “Break-a-Leg Nellie!” he snorts. I knew he would. He’s about fourthirds hot, too, but I don’t care because I know he’ll cool off. He does, soon, and asks, “Where?” “In Chub Green's. He's playing Kelly pool—with Break - a - Leg Kellyl”

{ 2 tJ » “Q MART guy—both you an’ Kelly. : Who is th——" “Name’s Nash, I guess. He’s new around here. Club calls him Nash, says he works at Lamberton’s garage.” " “Dollars to dolls that you're jus’ as screwy as ever,” old Joe Growls, but he straps on his guns and fol-

lows me up to Chub Green's. Once there, I point out the yegg. “Arrest him, sheriff,” I order,

adding, “Break-a-Leg Kelly personally demands it!” I've oozed a couple of fast ones by old Joe, before now, so the oldtimer is afraid not to arrest this chap; and he’s also afraid to arrest him! He hesitates. “Swear me in—if you don’t want the honor of pinching this peterman,” I urge—whereupon old Joe does his stufl. Later, I explain. “Kelly—Break-a-Leg - Kelly—knew. that this was the right man the minute he spots those long, narrow oxfords.” “Ye-ah? So what?” . “Yeah,” I mocks, and then explains. “You see, Joe, this bird could cover up his face and hair and ‘clothing with things he could discard after the robbery, but Break-a-Leg Kelly tells me he was forced to hang on to his own shoes because in towns this size merchants don’t carry such long, narrow footwear in stock. ... And when I saw that his oxfords otherwise Met Elmer ‘Townsend’s rather thorough description, well I——” “Townsend’s a purty shrewd cuss, at that!” old Joe snorts, but he refuses to admit anything good about poor Break-a-Leg Kelly—my “paper copper.” :

_ (THE END)

(All events, names and characters in this story are wheily fictitious.)

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YOUR HEALTH

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN American Medical Journal Editor UMAN beings are built with thermostat devices which control their temperature. The average man has a temperature when in lLealth of 98.8 degrees F. His temperature is kept at this point by regulating devices in the body which get rid of excess heat or produce extra heat if that is needed. When we perspire, water evaporates from the skin and the temperature of the body is lowered. :

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perature of the body, but to a change in the temperature of the skin. Apparently changes in temperature of the skin send messages to the brain, where there is a keyman who arranges for the temperature to be raised or lowered as needed. : If you happen to have a space heater in your home, you probably have also a device called a thermostat. At night when you go to bed, you set it at a certain temperature. As soon as the temperature falls below that mark, a tube tilts, mercury runs down and completes an electrical connection; the heater starts and continues until the temperature of the room reaches the mark set. Then. the tube tilts in the opposite direction, the connection is broken and the heating stops.

being or of any other living -animal there is a little device that works just like that thermostat. Scientifically, it’s the tuber cinereum. ; About 4 o'clock in the morning your body temperature as recorded by a thermometer in the mouth is 97.3 degrees F. About 4 in the afternoon it will record 99.1 degrees F. If you are sick with a fever it may move up to 104 degrees or higher. In severe infections at the

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