Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1940 — Page 16

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By HARRY .H KROLL

REDAY—Warned by Coach Hurd

YEST te of what he says about the Totlacs: Rossy moves in oe s new home is unusually comfortable . udy : tful, and open u! aineor: | Rossy awakes one da to heat

a | voice downstairs. t is sweetheart, Hannah Shrider, come from the hills to go to school.

: CHAPTER THREE ROSSY M’AFEE, listening to his sweetheart from the vantage of the dark head of the stairs, wanted to laugh and swear at the same time. He was shocked at sight of Han-

thought of her as uncouth. Dr.

| “Well, of course,” Dr. Tollivar

But—"

“I. know, father!” Judyr cried.

ernoon, that the Kingsley girl who

~. Waited table in the dining hall had

not come yet, and she heard indirectly she was married and wouldn't come back to school.” Judy turned to Hannah. “You

"could wait table, couldn’t you? You .. could then have the other girl's}

room and place. Otherwise I'm afraid we're filled.” “Don’t Rossy stay here?” Hannah demanded. “Y-yes, but—" “Then how come I couldn't sta

_ here too?” ~ |

“But this is riot a boarding house.

Hannah turned to look Dr. Tollivar over.

“That’s right.” “Up in our parts we shoot Tollivers on sight.” Dr. Tollivar laughed heartily. “Well, this happens not to be up where you came from, and I suspect I am not the kind of Tolliver

* you are thinking about.”

“Can’t I see Rossy McAfee?” “Irdon’t think he’s come in yet. I'll tell him you're here and send him over to see you when he

comes.”

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ROSSY, still shocked and ashamed

: because he felt this way, slipped

back along the hall. Instead of go-

. ing into his room, he crept down

the back stairs and out into the yard. Then, as if coming in from the-gym, he entered the front door. Judy, reading under the lamp,

“Who?” “Your own sweetheart, Hannah Shrider, and she’s pretty, too, and I'll bet she’s smart as anything. She's coming to college.” “Land sakes!” Rossy said, feign-

ing surprise the best he could. * “What do you know about that!”

. Dr. Tollivar, returning in a quar-

‘ter of an hour, said Hannah was . | fixed up, and then sat down to sup-

per. As soon| afterward as possible

; Rossy walked | through the dark to

the cottage which housed the maids Hannah was waiting anxiously in the little . parlor,

“Rossy! I [just had to come! I

"and heifers and taken my canning

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'» pity and bigo x to—"

club prize money, and here I am. If

too. All fight—say something nasty, and I'll smack your ears back!” , Hannah!” Rossy , and dropped on the

“You ought| not to of come here, Hannah. I mean, without first looking after a room and board and things—why, they might not even let’ you in college after you got here!” “Who's to keep me out, Rossy McAffee?” wo : “W-well, there’s rules and regulations—" ~“£Yah,” she sneered, “I done heerd

about you! I got it straight. You,

came, on ahead of time. Put up at the big gun’s place. With that Tolliver. Yes, I heerd all about it. They set you up among the high-and-mighties. They said that girl was good-looking, and she is. They said you'd be took in by their mealymouthed ways, and here it’s less than a week and they were right—" Already wa with anger, Rossy demanded, “Who's they? How come all this palaver is already being toted back up to Hell’n-Damnation?” “Steve Hogg| told me you was! up-

“Steve Hogg been here? And

‘didn’t see me?| How come? What's

the idea? It—is that hillbilly trying to spy on me?. Coming down

here and looking things over and].

going right back and stuffing your ear full! The low-down—" 1 ” = ” HANNAH gulped. Her face took on beet color. “Well, of all things! Of all [the bigoted ways! Listen

' here, Rossy McAfee! I'm on to you. * It’s a good thing somebody’s look-

ing after you, even if it's Cousin Steve, and you don’t like him. “Yes, he was down here. He come the next day after you got here. He looked around and seen—saw—

and then he burnt the wind back:

up in HelI’'n-Damnation and told me and your maw what he’d seen!” “And that was plenty—more than plenty!” . “7'll say it was more ‘than plenty!

‘How you was rooming in the big

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| “It’s a lie.

house with this here Dr. Tollivar. Good and well you know he was the man that killed your paw! Good

‘and well you know this ain’t—isn’t

-—nothing but a put-up job on you, Give you a scholarship here—make you sweep up like a girl—put you

: through college to play ball—

| “Cousin Steve Hogg has got sense even if you haven't, and he saw through it in half a minute. This here Dr. Tollivar is the same breed of dogs. He left out right after that ball. game. Nobody never seen—saw —him again. He left the country. Stayed gone. “Now here he is, running this school—come back to the edge of the hills but not in the hills, because he’s a coward and a killer,

-and_he knows it! And you stay

in ‘his house. Eat at his table. Make eyes at his gal—" “Ah-hah, so that’s it— youre

lous—" 3 | A dirty lie, I ain't ous. I'm mad. I come down ere to save you, that’s what.” She spat at him, and suddenly she slapped him sprawling. ’ (To Be Continued)

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“Your name's Tolli-|

, and he was right|

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