Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1939 — Page 17

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a CAST OF CHARACTERS MARIAN HARKNESS—A working wife. DAN HARKNESS—Her husband. DOLLY HARENESS—Dan’s widowed ‘sister-in-law. £5 SLLY BLAKE—An ambitious young stenographer. :

Yesterday—Dolly is happy in her vreparations for her wedding, and Marian finds it difficult to keep explaining Dan’s absence. and her own plan to remain in ~ Chicago. Marian decides to move fo cheaper quarters. Terror fills her heart as Sue wonders if Dan will ever come el

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ARIAN found an apattment on It was small and at the back of an old building. For a view it had back

yards and the distant elevated. The rent for $30 a month. To

simply a place to hide. She sold much of her furniture and quietly packed. Dolly, deep in her own exciting adventure, was easily put off. On the last day of October, Marian went to a small church and stood at the altar while Dolly and Randy were married. Their happiness sickened ‘her with ‘a kind of bitter envy. She left them with horror enveloping her like a shroud. She had only her job now—and the first of May. The first of May became a real thing, embodying torment and futile agony. ; The weeks dragged themselves

_ over jagged stones of discontent

and growing antagonism toward life. Sally Blake took on more, and still more, of the secretarial duties _ while Marian toiled over wearisome charts. Toward the last of November, a raw, biting day, Marian met Amy Ellen Sands. Amy Ellen knew that

* Dan had kone West and cordially

invited Marian to spend Thanksgiving Day in the Sands household. Marian accepted for the simple

reason that her tired mind could}

find no logical excuse for refusing. Afterward she wondered what might have happened had she not gone to the Sands for Thanksgiving Day. Afterward she wondered if the kind gods had known her plight and, in pity, sent Amy Ellen to her. ERE

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HEY were utterly themselves,|

happy together, glad to share

- their happiness with an outsider.

Amy Ellen ‘kissed Marian warmly upon arrival. Bill also kissed her, saying he did it for Dan. The children were natural and unspoiled. Marian’s nerves quieted, she laughed Her

Janie, aged 3, took a decided liking to her, bringing her dolls and books, leaning against Marian’s knee, looking up with trusting eyes. Marian was flattered beyond measure. When, after a hilarious dinner, Janie climbed sleepily to Marian’s lap, she held her with a fierce tenderness. The little girl went to sleep in her arms, her golden head pressed against Marian’s breast. + Janie awoke, rosy and tumbled, and ran away to the playroom.

Marian looked after her longingly. |:

She almost said, “I hope my baby will ge a girl. Dan would like a girl.” “You're, so lovely with the children, Marian,” Amy Ellen said. “You -should have a few of your own.” “Maybe its’ not too late.” She allowed herself that much. Saying it, she was wrapped in pride and warmth and mystery. It was 8 Uclock when all the Sands bundled into the family car and drove Marian home. In parting, Janie presented her with a battered doll. “So’s you'll ‘member us and come again,” she said. Marian sat in her ugly, uncomfortable apartment with the doll in her arms. Light snowflakes glistened or. the window. She drowsed, not sleeping, allowing her mind to wander back across the years. . 2 2 EJ HE and Dan had lived in an apartment much like this one when they were first married; a

square, unimaginative room; a door |

on one side, two windows opposite, a little kitchen beyond. But joy had lived in ‘the funny

' apartment, so much joy that Mar-

~ian’s ‘heart arched, remembering. She had cooked and cleaned and washed and ironed. She had invited the girls in for simple luncheons, the crowd for Sunday suppers. This paradise had lasted how long? Four months? Six? At: the end of six months Marian had been fretting privately. Dan came home with the news that his salary had been cut. Thirty dollars from now on. Oh, well—what did they care? He had kissed her and she had been less responsive than usual. Those awful bills—And she wanted a new coat—her clothes were rags. They had been married almost two years when Dan had been forced to take a second salary cut. In the following spring he was earning $22.50. And glad he was to have a job at all. Men, by the ‘thousands, were walking the streets. By this time collectors were calling at the apartment, hardfaced, hard-voiced individuals who accepted a dollar or two and promised not to tell Mr. Harkness. At last, in desperation, Marian had suggested that she return to her

pretty tight, aren't . they, Dan?” They were both sitting in a big chair and she twisted a but- . ton on his coat. : “You mean my arm?” tightenthem. . “I was referring to our financial crisis, mister.” “It's not so bad.” “1 call it pretty bad.” “we'll get by—it can’t last forever—my work is steady. «But I want things, Danny. My

clothes are disgraceful, and that|

old suit of yours.” : s ” = E had pulled her head down on his shoulder. He didn’t know about the bills and the collectors. “Hold on, Glad,” he had said. #Just ‘hold on and do without things for a little while. It’s fun if you only think so. We're In a battle, the world against Glad and Dark Harkness. Are we going fo

“be licked? Ill say we're not.”

Remembering, Marian pressed a ‘hand ‘over her eyes. she listened? Why had she -been an obstinate fool? 2 When she : her hand, the fingers were wet. They had been so young— .they’d had. such such a wonderfu chance—and muffed it. :

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