Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1940 — Page 19

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settle a feud o . “JUDY TOLIXYAR—Daughter of Lincoln College's president. HANNAH SHRIDER—Hillbilly girl who followed Rossy to college. on ¥ » | YESTERDAY—Rossy McAfee comes to Lincoln College, determined to play ball, find the murderer of his father and get ‘an education, A girl on skates runs "into him. Later. talking to Coach Hard he discovers she is Judy Tollivar, daugh--fer of President Tollivar, Rossy remembers that it was a Tollivar who killed bis father. But the president spells his Ppame with an “a” not an ‘“e.”’ Rossy is to room at the Tollivars’.

: + CHAPTER TWO ! (“BOY OH BOY!” Coach Hurd repeated. “Is Judy Tollivar some she-child!: Now, son,” he nodded to Rossy McAfee, “I'll show you around a little, and after that we'll go to your home. . + “You'll like it at Doc Tollivar’s. Fine man, Prexy is. Mighty interested in our athletic teams. Baseball especially, ‘ That's his. favorite game.” : “Er, did he. ever play baseball,

reckon?” the lank mountain youth|.

inquired, as they made a round of

the gym. ‘Coach. Hurd gave him a look. “Maybe. Maybe not. How should

I know? He never said anything about. it if he did. Why?” he demanded. : : “I—I just wondered,” Rossy .said confusedly. “But, about that baseball game

in Hell’n-Damnation when your fa-|

ther got hit with a bean ball and killed. Was that true?” “I never meant nothing by that.” Coach Hurd kept boring « him, “Well, if that’s the way you mean to mean nothing, then you'd better be careful when you do mean something, for you might let something drool out of your a that would getyou into troubfe:” . “I'll be careful,” McAfee bled. : . “Youd bettér be, for you sounded &s if you meant the thing was done cn- purpose; in other “words, your cad was murdered in. a baseball game; and by a Tolliver, That sort of talk is all right in the back hollers if you're of a mind to back it up with ambushes; but down here we aim to be civilized, and it von't go. I say that to ygu now ir all frankness and friendliness, because now you're in college | you want to go about getting educated —and in more things than books—" “Shore, shore!” Rossy agreed glibly. : “Huh!” Coach Hurd muttered, and nodded for the young mountaineer to come along. He carried. his grip and bag across the campus and crossed the street from the administration building and girl's dorm to the square large brick house where Dr. Tollivar lived: Lo Once in the small but clean and warm room, the coach said, “You " just make yourself at home.”

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HE LOOKED AROUND at the clean papered walls. Although the air was sharp with the flavor of winter, here it was deliciously warm, - but Rossy sdw no fireplace, no stove. He sat down on an iron contraption and leaped up, rubbing the seat of his pants." It was his first experience with steam-heating. 4 _ “Durn!” he swore, rubbing himself. | -. He put Hannali Shrider’s picture on the bureau, placed a few shapshots of him in action on |the mound close by, and slid his tele‘scope out of sight under the bed, not quite prepared yet to take possession of the clothes closet. Then he sat down to cofitemplate himselfj a member of the fire-eating tribe of McAfee, falling under the _ennerving influence of book learning and civilization. | How would his mother feel about it? What would the ghost of his father, that seemed to lurk in the quiet room in the big house, think about a tall son going to coilege to play ball without a shooting iron in his jeans, as used to be the way of it far up in Hell'n-Danination ‘Holler? “I'm a-getting soft,” Rossy murmured, almost sadly.

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find how comfortable he was, Rossy was -slegping in his chair, and snoring with a healthy sawmill sound. | Within a few days Rossy McAfee was settled (in his new home. It was not easy for: him to acquire comfort in [his new surroundings. He was accustomed to a hard, bare mountain house. “He watched Dr. Tollivar warily. , Always he searched for clews to ‘the- man’s former life, the possibility the college president could have been the same person who pitched the bean-ball that killed Rossy’s father. But all he saw was a portly, kindly man who could not .possibly have been the hated Tolliver. Judy was just as sweet and fine as she could be. . She was a dream. A dream of athletic poetry. Rossy had seen tall young ‘ popars in mountain /storms wave with the same grace that was hers. He had known rose blooms that had the manner of this girl. With [no consent of his own, some‘thing| was changing in him. nce they| were alone in his room. Judy stdod and examined the picture of “Hannah, a smile hovering ‘at her dimples. - “‘To Rossy, my sweetheart,’ she, read on the back of the photograph. “So that's the way of it!” she said, shaking a finger playfully at him. “Ah, that| don’t mean nothing— specially,” Rossy denied, his face hot as a flatiron. “I see it doesn’t!” she teased him. 8 a8

JUDY PED HIM to register, when| the day came for matricula~ tion. | Coach Hurd started the young ball player off on his job as janitor. " Registration was over that late afternoon. bo Everywhere he went students . stared at him. He caught some of them only half hiding their grins, He wanted kick somebody. That evening he| ate little supper and hurried to room to nurse his ager and humiliation in private. . “He was led half out of his determined female

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