Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1940 — Page 13

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bn. they ‘learn’ the ‘bar Dan’ hurries ‘to Varah a to | "711% SMe refuses. . Varnet fires her. i HARTER EIGHTEEN . People stared ‘at Marie as she Walked through the streets. She|. hag left Varnet’s in tears, not so uch because: she had lost her job but because she had hurt Dan.. She ‘Wag caught in ‘a web she saw no § of breaking. .-- a RT BRE — 80 1 6 Ele would not have minded | |3 °¢ ¢' } [fe ; 5 ERVRY much, she told herself, hag she| |Z J ; Ny : NER : ba: the only one to be hurt, But| |Szrbmime Radsbiinii th t droop of Dan’s shoulders, as he HYA stood a framers ; told her he was] wash WON suffe y 5 s was almost mor CH 1 shi hah oe eg bear. : Shes 3 she walked ‘down the 2 West Side subway steps and boarded! - : ! & southbound train. Force of habit prompted her to go home. She tne, vainly, to keep back her s. “A sympathetic woman, agining that only a death could cause Marie's grief, moved aside to let the | girk into a corner seat. 1 the kw, Ive dost Gear ones, t0o,”. - woman said. “The first : is the hardest.” Shock

. - Marie wiped her eyes. ‘Ks well be dead. She — Tent See. him again. She recalled her last glimpse of him, standing alone and bewildered in ‘the salon. After Varnet had screamed at her that of et aris Bad gut on RED RYDER Before she left, she Lah RR Pitesti look at the salon, It was then that A : s ; WITH THE she had: seen: Dan, trying to under- E 8 | J PAR stand why she, refused to see him. ; Nava Si gE ® = = y MEMORIES OF yesterday, on| the barge at Poughkeepsie, were still with her. The kindness of her father and mother. It was as if she had been a child again. She| could not, cauge them, especially her father, more trouble. Bat did not like Dan and Marie doubted if she could ever win her father’s approval. Marie took off her hat and rested her head against the car window. The anxiety of the last few days had left its mark. Trouble had washed the ‘color from her cheeks, deepened the shadows under her eyes. But she remained, in spite of all : this, an extraordinarily lovely

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People in the car stared, sympathetically, at her slender, blueclad figure, her heart-shaped face and dark curls. Marie did not notice them. - She was trying to figure|what had prompted her attempt to| B flood the Molly. And yet, she decided, as she left the subway, if she had it to do all over again she would probably do the same thing. An east wind whipped her skirt around her legs as she walked|" "along, still thinking of yesterday. Frankly miserable the moment she opened ‘the valve, she had watched her. father try vainly to stop the flow of water into the barage. Why did the valve have to break at that moment? It had worked easily when she opened it. She could see Bat, cursing, as he struggled to Close it. Then he had rushed below, grabbing packing as he went. But the. damage had been done. The| Molly was half filled, wallowing| | along. The valve was jammed open : and the barge would have to be pumped: out before the valve could be repaired. : Bat had hailed the captain of the tug: and slowly the little fleet had turned, headed back o New York. This is what Marie had “hoped would happen and yet, when it actually became a fact, her conscience rebelled. : A flush of shame colored her cheeks now. She had not been . brought up on a barge for nothing. She knew what it meant for her father to give up—to-fail to deliver his cargo. But stronger than her regret had been her mad desire to see Dan, to forget everything, and to try to make him forget Lynda Martin. : _.. Now, none of that mattered. She had burned her bridges.

¥ ® » $ “HELLO, MARIE. Where's Tommy?” A barge kid hailed her as ghe erossed the pier. She smiled wanly. “I don't know, Bobby.” E Fate seemed to be closing in on her. Even the children asseciated : : her with. Tommy. She saw ‘her £0. : . \°

father growing less antagonistic -toward the trucker. With Tommy. his anger was on the surface. With Dan, it was far deeper. What had caused this? “A fellow in a rented Tux was| { ! Wig. SF 3o% Seas Bondy { ~ ) | (600 Marie looked questioningly at him. : : ; Hendin #What do you mean?” : : TN

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