Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1938 — Page 14

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CAST OF CHARACTERS LINDA GORDON-—heroine. She gave up Manhattan to return te her Blue Grass. BRUCE RADFORD — newspaperman. He would give up anything for Linda. UNCLE SANDY—horseman., He would give anything, too. for a good horse. MONTE HILL—rich racing devotee. He also wanted Linda.

Yesterday: Linda turns her back on New York and on Monte Hill's offer of marriage. She decides to scratch it -out in the Blue Grass.

CHAPTER TWO

HE night was pitch black—a night such as the Blue Grass knows in summer, before a gathering storm; intense blackness, then sheet lightning flaring across: the sky, followed by the rumble of faroff thunder. ;

Linda Gordon was taking a short cut, which would carry her. past the Radford Farm. “It'll just be our luck, Jerry,” she said to the Scottie by her side, “to meet Bruce Radford tonight. Now here's—" She broke off as her car'gave a quick lurch. “Oh, darn!” She was skidding on newly laid gravel, the { car was swerving around—it came to a sudden stop against a tree | looming in the headlights glare. i i «Bent fender. Lucky to get off i go lightly,” she commented, after making a hurried inspection with ) | her flashlight. She had some old sacking in the trunk; this she laid under her front wheels. Got back \ in. Started the motor. Yes, the wheels gained traction on those sacks. Slowly, carefully, she backed to the side of the road again. Then she saw, circled by her headlight, a sign glaring on the tree. It read:

PUBLIC AUCTION

Phoenix Trust Co. Sells to Highest Bidder five 2-year-olds from the Radford Farm, to close estate of late Wm. Radford. Sale cried at Brown's Barn Aug. 31, at 1:30 p. m. sharp. - Rain or Shine!

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blackness. Now the dog was leaping through the opened doorway, was barking a sharp warning. ~«Jerry! Who's coming?”

: called. At that instant a sheet of lightning flared in the heavens; Linda caught a glimpse of Bruce Radford coming up. Then darkness again. “Why, Linda Gordon! Say, this is great!” . He was at the car door. “I—I was coming down to see if the rain | had washed away the creek’s bridge, and I find you.” { The girl felt herself stiffen. But she tried to hide her feelings. She said casually, “Oh, hello, Bruce.” She gave him her hand an instant, then withdrew it.

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iq “You are quite the country squire, aren't you, Bruce?” El “Me?- Oh, I'm just sort of looking

after things—someone’s got to take the responsibility. But tell me about yourself; guess you are down on a surprise vacation.” “Yes, a surprise visit,” she agreed hastily. . : ‘ “Then look here, Linda, I want to see a lot of you. I—” “That’s all in the past, Bruce.” “In the past? You didn’t answer 1 my last letter—after I came back a here.” “Oh, you were a millionaire, and I just a working girl, my lad.” She tried to make her voice sound 1 whimsical. . “Not so rich as you'd think. Uncle left a lot of fool bequests; they got the cash, I got what was left over.

‘4 Tomorrow we're selling off the last e’ 2-year-olds. I'm going to bid one in : —got enough money fgr that. I—” 1 “Oh, going to beco a big horsey : man like our friend, Monte Hill?”

2 8 = HE could sense a coldness on his part. He said: “Maybe, if I have his luck. See his Merry Maid won the Juvenile at Belmont. Well,

this colt I'm buying tomorrow will take the best in America. You wait and see. But look here—” “How’s the great American novel coming, Bruce?” she asked suddenly. “Oh, I still have hopes!” he said. “But first I want to make myself secure. But look here: I'm giving a barbecue tomorrow — bunch {rom Lexington will be out—and, Linda,” he leaned toward her, spoke eagerly, “you've got to come over; some folks I want you to know.” “Afraid I can’t make it, Bruce.”! “But you must. Then, later, you ¢ and I—we’ll go to the auction together. I want you to see this colt. He’s a half-brother of Pompoon.” “I'll be busy with Uncle Sandy to_morrow, Bruce.” She pressed the self-starter. The motor whirred. “I'll see you some time—maybe.” “But look here—” She drove off, leaving a puzzled young man in the dark—a man who couldn’t understand it all.

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ALF an hour later she drove up to a small cottage half hidden by sycamores. One light was shining from a window. Now a hall light went on, as dogs began barking. A man came through the doorway, his tall, stooped figure silhouetted against the light. “Who's there?” ! Linda sprang from the car, bounded up the steps. ; “Somebody you didn't expect!” She threw her arms around him. “Linda—Linda—Linda!” Incredulity blended with happiness. “But child, what are you doing— back home?” : She stood off, put hands on his shoulders, smiled into a timeworn face settling into defeat. On a splitsecond’s inspiration she exclaimed: i “Uncle Sandy, I'm fed up with he New York. I've saved a penny. I'm uy going to take my money—your brains—and we're going to put the Gordon colors back on the track.” In the light from the hall she could see his shoulders straightening—his chin jutting out—a flash coming into faded eyes.

still smiling, “is to buy a colt, a colt by Pompey, from the Radford estate tomorrow.” :

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