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SATURDAY, SEPT. 14, 1940

By Williams

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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CAST OF CHARACTERS SUE MARY JEFFERSON—stenographer in a law firm, alone in city, seeking mew friends. JOE STEFANSKI—ambitious, college educated worker, in love with Sue Mary. NICK ALEXANDER—Ileader of the Youth Progress group. VERA OLIVER—active worker, combines social and political duties.

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YESTERDAY: Sue Mary goes to Youth Progress headquarters, helps Vera with typing. The place is a surprise te her, with young people intent upon affairs ghe has considered entirely out of her scope. Nick comes in, is glad to see her there, asks her to go to a concert with

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CHAPTER SIX IT WAS a benefit concert to help | war refugees and it was held in a small hall crowded with intensefaced young people and a scattering of older men and women whose foreign faces were serious until the music began. Some of it was familiar to Sue Mary: most of it was strange “That's by the modern Russian,” Nick told her during intermission “You get the feeling of power, and | freedom. and mass happiness.” | “I liked the Tchaikowsky,” She, gaic softly. “I know that one.” “Lavender and old lace,” Nick seid. “Like you; old fashioned and | very young—and sort of sweet. Different.’ | He wasn’t making love to her. | It was as though he was talking to himself. There wasn't that something in his voice that

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came | to Joe's when he said goodby after Kissing her good night Somehow it was hard to think | of Nick ever being sentimental; | not with his usual cynicism, his| worldliness, his drive and force. | Yet sometimes that evening when | ghe looked into his eves and heard | the music surging around her inj waves of beauty, she experienced an | entirely new sensation—almost a | heady feeling of danger. { The office seemed bleak and dull the next day The five day week | made it necessary to double up on| work. Kitty was gone and Miss] Grant kept Sue Mary busy. It] was late afternoon when Miss | Grant asked her to go to the Clark | home. “Mr. Ross isn't feeling well and he wants to give some dictation,” | she - explained. “Just notes,” she added quickly. “You can do it] easily.” It was the first time Sue Mary | had been in such a home. The] butler who admitted her took her | to a small library with book-lined| walls and dark polished furniture. |

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LIKE A MOVIE set. she thought. wishing she could relax and enjoy, if only for these few moments, the luxury about her Someone entered the room and Sue Mary came back tn reality with | a start. It was Mitzi Clark, last | year’s orchid debutante and the old- | est daughter. She looked like her | Jrs—-"""—5: brother: blond hair, exquisitely groomed, poised and unself-con- | SC10US. With her was Joan Brant. Sue | Mary recognized her, too, from the | roto pictures. This year she was| society's No. 1 glamour girl (1 |B Tz hy {i It was Mitzi who spoke. “You're | Bi OT s office?” ai rng. LLL Sue Mary's voice seemed strange | ] —-— Po to her own ears. She tried to be | o calm and assume the young busi- | ness woman role, but she felt ter- | riblv gauche, awkward, wrongly | dressed. | “He'll be down eventually,” Mitzi | said. taking some books from the | desk. ' “He ‘won't exercise, you] know,” she explained, turning to] the other girl, “and now he's work- | EE ing harder because of all this war | 25mm] TE stuff.” | fa" il viel hdd Tm sick of hearing war all the Bapou=Zrnbss time,” Joan Brant said. “It’s cut a terrible crimp in the social season. | BI would get a lousy break the year 1 came out.” Mitzi laughed.

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“Could be worse. Well, we have to get along,” she sai dto Sue Mary. “Miss Brant's | being a deb, I'm being a former | co deb. This is my afternoon at the] ) “>> - day nursery. Funny, but I get a| sort of kick out of it. Working with | a LE SOR 2 those dirty, smelly little Kids, I] mean. They have so little and are so grateful. “TI think I'll help Alice Simpson campaign for a new social center. She's up to her neck in ‘welfare work and social reform. Oh, well,

it's something to do besides play : bridge and go to cocktail parties.” ; NH n They were gone with a swish of x

perfumed frocks and a gelam of silken hose, the clicking of their heels tapping a tune on the polished floors. Sue Mary decided she liked Mitzi; liked her more than | she liked her blond, polo-playing brother. She didn't seem to pretend, and she looked healthy and clean and as though she might have become a little tired of being called an orchid deb. 4

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SUE MARY wondered what Vera and Natalie and Nick would say about the girls. In the few times she had been with them she had come to sense the bitter undercurrent of their talk about the *‘upper classes.” At first she had thought it just the natural desire to have the luxuries, the ease, the fun that went with that life: desires that she had and took for granted. But] she wondered now a little if it] wasn't something that went deeper. They were so bitter about the “idle rich.” She didn’t feel that way. She didn’t hate Mitzi Clark because she had looks and wealth and all the good times that went with money. And she didn't hate old M. Ross Clark because he was a rich man. After all, he was responsible for her pay check each week. Her thoughts were interrupted by his appearance at that very moment and from then on she was too busy to thigk of anything but keeping w. wih his dictation. While hor fingers flew and she covered sheet after sheet in her notebook, she thought of the work for | which he was responsible. He was worried about the war. As attorney for the plane and auto factories, the war boom tripled his work at the office. New designs, new contracts, new patents; and a more noticeable veil of secrecy descending over it all. A rigid guarding of files; a closer guard on carbon copies; even a stricter check

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ALTHOUGH | CANNOT SEE YOU, My SENSE OF iF A MOVE 1S MADE ~| SHALL HEARING TELLS WHERE EACH ONE OF YoU I5~| ERR" NOT HESITATE TO TO THE FRACTION OF AN INCH. YOU WILL BE i "m SAFE-- AS LONG AS YOU MAKE NO x Z ATTEMPT

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ANSWER—Wrong. Their eyes are hidden by the fur and are so tiny that they probably serve only to distinguish light and darkness.

switching off the war broadcasts She was glad the coming election and merely skimming the stories (was holding their interest. Their the situation could remain remote. | energies now were thrown in that But it wasn't so easy now with the | direction, and she had found herfeeling of tenseness existing in the | self gradually being caught up in

on shorthand notes. It brought a sense of world upheaval closer somehow. Sue Mary had discovered that hy simply

office. And, of course, on Tuesdays and the evening with Nick and Vera and Natalie one was bound to listen.

the thrill of the coming battle. (To Be Continued)

(All events, names and characters in this etory sre fctitioumd