Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1938 — Page 20

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SKI'S THE LIMIT

By ADELAIDE HUMPHRIES

_ CAST OF CHARACTERS | SALLY BLAIR ~— Heroine. She h “ever g that popularity could win Addr, excep! fo : : : D REYNOLDS «— Hero. He might ‘have’ had Sally but while he was king on skis : COREY PORTER was king of the social . whirl. 80. «. . But go on with the story. :

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HOLD EVERYTH OUR BOARDING HOUSE

THAT'S A MODEL FER SHOW THIS TO YOu SHOOTING DOIN : ‘GUYS NOW, BECAUSE AIROPLANES AT NIGHT... I'VE APPLIED FER TH’ YOU JUST TURN TH* PATENTS ON IT=-BUT, || SEARCHLIGHT CN A ~ BOYS, MY DAYS IN AIROPLANE AN' PULL MACHINE SHOPS IS TH TRIGGER OF TH’ NEARLY OVER! . CANNON AN DOWN : COMES TH’ PLANE -= AS SIMPLE AS THAT!

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DEY'S DE THINGS MISTAH MASAH'S BEEN COLLARIN! TO MAKE HIS NEW INVENTION wre ‘BUT ‘WHEN AH ASKS HIM WHAT IT IS HE JEST KEPT ON TALKIN' TO HISSELF LIKE AH WASN'T THERE}

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CHAFTER TWELVE { © ALLY was furious with Corey for | x coming out to interrupt her talk «with Dan just then. She knew he “had done it purposely. She was furious with him for referring to the dare’ before Dian. oo ~~ But it did nat seem fo boiner Dan, : 3 ‘ When Sally said quickly, “Oh, bu | pe] ! g : = I just asked Dan to be my partner!” Goer is : : : E PARTS = ‘Pan smiled and said, “That's all ; 12:23

right, Corey. Sally can be your partner—especially if she owes it to LI'L ABNER °

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while tonight, I'm going to call a cab.” : : ; Sally was so disappointed she|} could have cried. “You're not going to do anything of the sort!” she said. “Please don’t go, Dan.” Her birthday party would indeed have proved a failure if Dan did that. “IT really must,” Dan returned quietly. His gray eyes smiled into hers. Perhaps he meant that he X SST knew he did not belong in her world ; > p 2 Ea] yet. But perhaps that smile meant ) Hr INA that in time hie might. For he add- 21 4 2 : 2 7 i > ro ed in his same grave manner that . . 7 z J h ZN somehow said more than the words w i 7 : a themselves: “You are forgetting a I 7) :

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are friends I'm going to come soon again.” “In that case,” Sally returned, as gravely as he, “I'll let you go, if you really feel you must.” Long after he had gone she remembered what he had said--‘now that we are friends.” She knew that Dan did not give friendships lightly. ® 8 8 T was Corey now who wore his stubborn look. Sally was paying up her debt—he had her for his partner—but somehow Corey knew that he had not come off victor, after all. ! : Could it possibly be that Sally really imagined herself interested in Reynolds just because she felt sorry for him? Hadn’t she realized that Dan did not fit in? Hadn’t she seen how different he was from all their friends? Had Corey only realized that very difference was what drew Sally to Dan. It was far more than just pity ‘or remorse. I; was something that lay within this odd boy himself, his fine courage, his high principles, his simple honesty. I Sally was to hear her fathegF praise Dan for much those same gualities a few days after her birthday party. “This young Reynolds is getting along very well,” Sam Blair in- . formed his daughter, during their twilight stroll. “I talked with Frank Devons today and he said the lad certainly is a worker. Steady, conscientious, ambitious. He is bound to make good. Just to show you the sort of stuff the lad has, Devons says. that Dan walks back and forth to work every day—and it’s a hike of several good miles, too!— but that’s only the beginning. It seems that instead of taking the elevator Reynolds climbs those Eeven flights | of steps, day after ay.” “Whatever makes him do that?” Sally asked. If only her father knew how his words of praise warmed her heart, how proud they made her of Dan. “It seems,” Mr. Blair explained, “that Dr. Hartford told the boy it * was entirely up to him whether his leg ever got as good as it was again. Hartford told the lad he would lose that limp in time if he made up his mind to it. And it also seems,” Sam Blair chuckled, “that the boy is bound to prove the great surgoons Words He's out to get the est of that—and; unless I miss my ‘ guess, the lad will do it!” THIS CURIOUS WORLD Se HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN YOUR

HAT was the best thing Sally \ had heard in all her life. Thet ; | ‘one day Dan's lez might be the same as it had been, that he might walk as he had before. That would mean that one day Dan might ski again, too! This thought was so tremendous, so (wonderful that Sally ~ was almost afraid to allow herself to think about it. Though maybe if she believed it hard enough, maybe if she borrowed some of Dan’s high courage and faith, this prayer would be answered. | ! “By the way,” her father added, 8 they went indoors, “I asked vons to send young Reynolds out fomerrow night with some papers 1 or me. I thought when the lad te came you might want to be here.” WERE UNKNOWN DURING THE EARTH'S There was a twinkle in her fa-| : ; ther’s fond look at this. A twinkle that deepened as he saw the lovely color flooding Sally’s face, the telltale delight | that brightened her dark eyes. | “Sometimes,” Sally said, “I think you're the best Dad that ever lived.” She stood on tiptoe to give him a fierce squeeze, a warm caress. “I shouldn’t tell you that, though,” she added, dimpling. “You know I've been spoiling you dreadfyly lately.” . , She fluffed up the pillow in his big . chair, pulled up a stool, sat down to _ unlace his heavy shoes, to hand him his slippers, | : “Turn about is fair enough,” her father declared. How he enjoyed being spoiled! And he used to think

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this ghter of his was wrapped up ‘only in

ery close these last few months, from the time Sally had insisted she Was not going back to school, that ‘she wanted to remain at home with him. From the time of her skiing accident, as a matter of record. Had at made the change in Sally? ana. gis new boy, Dan ReyS i | | > is » |» \OMORRDW night Dan was coming | out again. Already lly’s pretty. head began to spin ideas. She would ask Dan to for dinner. She would insist

her! own young + frivolous| ‘ thoughts and plans. They had got! '

ANSWER—No. one invented it.

This time there would be no Corey to interrupt. Spring vacation was over. Corey, and most of the rest of their friends, had gone back to college. She would not see Corey again until ,graduation. Before he left -he had insisted Sally promise that she would come up to Dartmouth for that. This time, tomorrow evening, Sally would have Dan all ‘to herself

again. - He ula not feel out of : ¢ hy

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dinner with her father and herself. He would see that with them—people who understood him ancl ‘admired and liked him just for what he was —that he did belong. Oh, the world was a wonderful place! It was wonderful fo be alive, to care for someone as she did for Dan. Even when Dan did not know it, or if he dig, would no! accept. it.

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