Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1940 — Page 21

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Christmas Rush

~ By TOM HORNER

. YESTERDAY: Jerry is quitting school to marry Val Parks. His decision means wrecking all the plans Dr. Connelly and Martha have made for him, means he will have to find a job. Martha warns Val may not want to live on a truck driver’s salary. Jerry is happy when they agree to talk the matter over, will bring Val to see them. Late that night Dr. Connelly finds Mary sobbing.

' CHAPTER FIVE DR. CONNELLY paused in the doorway, watching the sobbing girl. His heart was full of pity for the lonely child, without a relative near to share the happiness of Christ mas. “Mary.’ He spoke softly, so not to startle her. “What’s the matter, child?” “Oh!” The dark head jerked up from the pillow, red-rimmed eyes spilling tears down her cheeks. “Oh, Doctor Connelly!” He was beside her then, his arms enfolding her, shutting out! the hurt, his voice quieting her] jangled nerves, just as he had so

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of his own daughters. “There . . . there . . . Go ahead and cry it out. Best medicine in the world for you.” Gradually the girl's hysteria passed. Finally she looked up at him, dabbing at her eyes with a soaked linen square, and managed to smile when he handed her his own huge handkerchief, . “Now, what's this all about?” Too much Christmas?” he prompted. - “I guess that was it. Seeing all your family so happy together. I Just couldn’t stand it any longer. ‘& had to get away. . . .” “We were thoughtlessly cruel—-" » 5 2 “OH, NO!” Mary refused to let him blame himself. “I loved it, all of it. You all have been so good to me, including me in your Christmas. I even imagined I actually ‘belonged’—that I wasn’t really an outsider, Then, when I realized—" “What made you—?” The doctor began, stopped abruptly, switched to ‘an ‘entirely different subject. “I've just come back from the hospital and I'm half starved. How about joining me in a raid on the icebox? ‘There's cold turkey, I'm sure.” - “But I look so terrible.” > He ignored the protest. “There should be a mince pie around some-

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where. Ideal for nightmares. . . . Come on, now. I hate eating alone. If you won't join me, I'll have to wake Martha.” 2 2» ‘THE DOCTOR had been right about the cold turkey. There was plenty of it, and cranbérry sauce,

“That was almost as good as the Christmas dinner,” he said as the last of the pie disappeared. “Should keep me awake—coffee and two pieces of pie. . . . Never found anything yet that could keep me awake when I had a chance to sleep.” He filled a pipe, lighted it and puffed contentedly as Mary cleared the table. “Let the dishes go until

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entirely too contented to dry dishes.” Somehow, ‘ managed to evade her protests, found a dish towel. “You're a senior this year, aren't you?” he asked, making conversation. “What do you intend doing after graduation?” “I had planned to work with a

medical group in China. I'm ma-|

fJoring in bacteriology, you know,” Mary explained. “There’s so much to be done there. ... Dad was stationed in Shanghai for three years.| He started me on the idea. Jerry says I should go on in medicine, though. ...” “Too bad he can’t prescribe some of that for himself.” 4 Mary busied herself with the dishes, said nothing. : 2 8 2 WHAT'S WRONG with this boy of mine?” the doctor asked. “You know him pretty well, don’t you? And this girl he wants to marry. If you were in love with him, Mary, would you want him to quit medicine, with only a little more to go?” A- plate slipped from her hands, clattered into the sink. Mary

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caught it, laughing at her clumsineess. She kept her eyes on the dishpan. “No . . . If I were in love with Jerry”’—she spoke slowly—“I’'d never marry him until he finished school and his internship.” “you are in love with him, aren't you?” Hugh Connelly’s query was as ‘casual as a comment on the weather. He waited for Mary’s answer. “yes.” She did not look at him. «I've loved Jérry ever since I met him at the spring party last year. He doesn’t know it. How did you guess?” “The Connellys need your help— Martha and I, especially. What about this girl—this Valerie? She’s a sorority sister, isn’t she?”

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MARY NODDED. It was easy to talk to this grand, old doctor. Somehow she had the feeling she was talking to her own father. He'would not betray her confidences. She could trust him. Perhaps she could hein... - «yalerie is really a very nice girl. I don’t know a great deal about her. She transferred from the South at the beginning of the term. She seems to be sincerely in love with Jerry—and he must love her, to give up his career.” She wiped the back of her hand across her eyes. “This soap chip dust makes your eyes smart, doesn’t it?” The doctor smiled. “Nasty stuff.” He went on: “Sheila and Kathleen don’t think so much of their future sister-in-law.” - «I think that’s due to a difference of ideas on how a sorority pledge ghould be treated. Valerie was a little tough on the girls at first—before she found out they had a brother. But every chapter treats its pledges differently,” Mary hastened to exain. “Maybe we're a bit easy.” “It's better that way,” the Sotios agreed. “By the way, weren't you responsible for getting the twins into that sorority?” : 2 8 8

«7 COULDN'T LET them pledge else. Jerry had asked me to arrange rush dates, last spring. After the girls met Sheila and Kathleen, it was no trick to get

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“I love Jerry,” she said. “I had|tend to marry him and make him hoped he loved me, until Valerie happy—TIll do everything I can to came along. I believe Jerry actually | Wreck that romance.” (To Be Continued)

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is in love with Valerie now. If I didn’t, I never would have let him go, without a battle.

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