Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1938 — Page 14

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This Man, Joe Murray

By William Corcoran

CAST OF CHARACTERS JOE MURRAY-Liked new places, new jobs, new girls. HELEN—Fell in love~hard-—once. TERRY MALLOW--Found love — and kept it!

Yesterday: Joe eliminates Tommy Withers but in so doing he has drawn Terry closer. She now hangs on to him for dear life.

CHAPTER EIGHT OE saw, of course, the obvious little tricks she used to persuade him to make a second visit after that “first one, a third after that, and a fourth—all the artless wiles she practiced to flatter him and interest him. But who could mind? Then he got to wondering which might be true: Did she innocently suppose she was fooling him right up to his Jace; or did she know as well as he that he was not fooled at all, but merely indulgent, and was she still producing her pathetic little bag of tricks nonetheless because in deep, subtle wis-

dom she knew they were irresistible in their very transparence? It was altogether unprecedented, and in no way resembling in the least the terms of the bargain Joe thought he had made with Terry, but it was there, unanswerable. She needed him. He had taken a job on himself, assumed a Tresponsibility. If it weren't so downright serious, he'd probably rebel, on principle. “You crazy kid!” he told her in marvel as he beheld her incoherent delight at the rush and roar of the giant roller coaster out at Merlin Park, = £3 8 ND they rode . . . and imagine Joe Murray riding on a roller | coaster, with a child of a woman | alongside, frightened to ecstasy and hanging on to him. It was a queer, upsidedown ex- | jstence. But it was something to | do, something with significance and meaning. How it would all come out he had no idea. They were two equally lonely souls who found it convenient to pretend a great importance to each other, to

combine in partnership against the almost irresistible pressure of life, and the ending was of no conse- | quence beside the peace of the | moment. They went to Merlin Park several times that spring. They went | for Sunday excursions on the river boats. They went to moving pictures | and to chop suey restaurants and | saw the circus and heard a band concert in Graham Hall. You will be curious to know how | they did all these things in the | face of the grim Mallows. Joe was | curious himself. There had been a | tussle at first. They had set their | face against him rigidly, but he had | ignored them, blandly if with fre- | quent suppressions of temper, and | worn them down. When he was | out with Terry, he stepped into the | parlor with her before leaving her | there, to afford them opportunity | to ask questions if they desired— and to give them a pleasant smile | and a kind of cool, daunting eye if they thought to try. And then all at once they with- | drew all opposition, scrutiny, even | curiosity. They left the two of them alone when he came, even so far as to close the door deliberately be- | tween. They made no comment of | any kind in Terry's hearing when | he had gone. They were not ap- | proving; they were simply holding off, waiting. = u = T came suddenly to Joe that! they were furthering a marriage they thought they saw in the ar- | rangement . . . even to the extent | of leaving him in undisputed privacy for hours at a time with | their unreliable and wayward | granddaughter, in hopes in hopes! It caused a reaction in Joe Mur- | ray. It set him to thinking. A | man begins to go about with a girl, | and pretty soon people smile =

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take matters for granted, and first thing vou know they are married, whatever they may have thought in the beginning. That was right enough. But here he was going about with a girl, and her family were thinking of marriage in| their own twisted way . . . other | people probably drew their own | conclusions as well. . . . His own people. He had long | stopped talking about Terry at] home. Terry had long stopped | dropping in. There was a certain | tension at home; they dared not | broach personal questions, but! they were thinking, and he could feel it. They were like any family anywhere, jealous and particular. They did not think so much of Terry as a wife for him. With that family the best the kid had, you couldn’t blame them. They wanted a fine, proud, beautiful girl for him, somebody with substance and importance and cleverness. He could never make the grade with a girl like that, even if so miraculous a person did happen to want him. He might try. But he would fail. She would be too much like Helen. When he thought of falling in love again, of choosing

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he only thought of Helen, and the other faded to nothingness. And what would they have made of Helen, if he had brought her to them? They called her “Polack.” Not now, but once they had. “Polack!” They knew nothing of the pitiful endearment in that word. They knew nothing of the beauty he had almost, almost possessed. They knew nothing about the happiness, the suffering that came after happiness, the quality and power of his dream. They did not know anything about him. He was alone, among friends, among Kin.

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XCEPT for Terry. That was a strange thing. He was not in love with Terry. She did not stir him; he never felt brutal and tender with her, darkly, hungrily, as he had with Helen. He had even, in the total absence of all emotion, told Terry all about Helen. He was not in love with Terry. Yet she understood him. “You must have loved her terribly, Joe,” she told him, sweetly and solemnly. Terry was not all effervescence and childishness. “I

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once in his life. Because it’s perfect and nothing can ever make the least mark on it. Don’t you feel that?” He did, in the end. But he had a thought, a difficult thought. Perfection was not for an everyday man in a workaday world. A man who has known perfection once is ready to die. There is nothing left. He told her that, gropingly.

“Oh, but there is!” she insisted. She sosmed for an instant to lift

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her bright eyes up to an ever shining vision. “There's so much left. I’ve never had anything, but I always kept thinking of all I was going to have some day.” She laid her face close to his, her cheek touching his; her hand stroked his face gently. “Poor darling,” she whispered to him. No, he was not alone.

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