Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1941 — Page 13

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By BETTY WALLACE

YESTERDAY: Martha cannot forget the neighbors’ gossip, finally decides to .| see Paul less frequently. On her first night gt home alone, she finds time dragging. Suzanne calls, wants to come | | over. When Martha questions her about the cause of the quarrel with , Paul, Suzanne admits: ‘We quarreled over you.”

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CHAPTER SIX “ABOUT ME?” Martha echoed in bewilderment. “But, Suzanne, what in the world—how could you and Paul quarrel about me? I don't understand.” Martha stirred uneasily. really.” The other girl - touched her hand. Her fingers were icy. “Listen, Martha. Every time Paul asked me for a date, it was toj | come up here. Wait! I'm not talk-|-ing about now, since Bill's gone. “That is, not entirely. I'm talking about before, when we four always

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RI en Als sionately, “There's no use deny- TET WE | “euiLey ing it. I'm in love with Paul! I RN always have been! Even before he met you—years ago. I was SO happy when you married Bill, I wanted to get down on my Kknees| | and pray!” A host of half-forgotten mem- | | ories came back to Martha. The] | time she and Paul met Suzanne and | | some man at a country club dance, and Suzanne had looked her over] with a veiled hostility. Then, after they were engaged, Suzanne went | | on that trip to Honolulu. Was gone| | for months and when she returned, | | the society pages were busy with the | dinners, dances, and the sensational | | New Year's Eve party she gave. | Because Paul had drifted away|| from the country club set—be- || cause Martha had never been one|| of the Sugar Hill Colony, she|| hadn’t noticed: how seldom they] came in contact with his old friends. And yet, they ran across Suzanne every now and then. In a restaurant where they were dining. In the lobby of a theater. Once Suzanne came to the plant with some friends from out o town, asked Paul to show th around . . . 2 8 = SO MANY THINGS, now that she| knew Suzanne had always been in love with Paul. Even before Martha wore his ring. es A “Martha,” Suzanna was saying | IG huskily, “when you were engaged to him, I played it square. I tried to keep out of his way. I didn’t do a lot of things I could have done. Oh, it wasn’t easy. Sometimes I couldn’t|" help wanting to see him, just for a little while. But I didn’t run after him, I didn’t play any tricks, I told | myself it was over and I tried to get along without him.” “Yes,” said Martha faintly. “Yes.” “It was all right to begin again when you married Bill. I was wildly happy when Paul began to call me again, ask to see me. But, Martha, it didn’t take .long before I realized that he—we—well, we were| always a foursome.” a L “I don’t understand.” | = y—r ; Ne “yes, you do. You must! Surely : - ‘ " 5 you aren't that blind. We'd sit right here in this apartment, and Paul’s eyes never left you. He'd look af * you so hungrily—and all the while he never head a word I said . “You're crazy, Sue,” Martha whispered. “Crazy.” Her brain was spinning dizzily. “You imagined it.” “Did I imagine it when they took ‘ you to the hospital, that time wher you almost had pneuraonia, and Paul almost lost his mind—stayed there all night—" ‘“He was with Bill! They sat up together, smoking, until I came ou} ofit...” “Bill! His best friend. Do you think that was easy to take? Don’f you se he had to pretend to—to be, friends with- him? And then, in stead of dropping you both, letting it wear out, Paul kept on seeing you. As if he couldn’t live without see: ing you.” “No, Suzanne. ~ You're wrong. Ib . wasn’t like that at all.” Martha got up, began to pace up and down the living room. Thoughts flashed in

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD | By William Ferguson

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had ben together. “But never once did he do anything—say any thing—" “He wouldn't have told you. He" Suzanne choked. “He prides himself on being honorable. Honorable! And wha’ about me?” ‘She leaped to her feet. She came and grabbed Martha’s shoulders and looked straight into her eyes. “Listen, that’s why I stopped coming here so much beforé Bill left. That's exactly why. Oh, I couldn't stay away altogether. I—I'm the same way about Paul, he is about you. |I

“Suzanne, you must stop! You mustn't say things like that!” . | “Why must I stop? It's the truth! You know it’s the truth. And now, now that your husband’s in the Army and you're alone again, Paul's making hay while the sun shines, isn’t he? That's why we quarrelec! That's why he didn’t tell you what it was all about, you fool! Because I told him straight out I was sick and tired of being camouflage—being used as a blind so he could sce you without people talking!” | Suzanne!” |

SUZANNE'S hands dropped, weal'ily, and a shudder ran through her slender frame. “Oh, what's the use? I thought if I told you—if you understood—" She whirled, sufdenly. “I've been a fool! You probably knew all about it. A woman always knows when a man loves her. You did know! You must have known, and you encouraged him!” “Suzanne!” Martha's knuckles were white as she gripped the edge of the end table. “You've got to stop talking like this. I won't have it. Not a word of it is true! You're just—just making trouble , . .” Al at once, she was sobbing. Helpless tears stung her eyes, and her mouth quivered. “Why should you come here and s-spoil a f-f- friendship that was clean and—" . “Because it was never merly friendship. For Paul.” “That isn't trya! You know

‘The average Indiandpolis public school classroom teacher | earns around $40 a week on an gnnual basis, has taught school at least 10 years and holds a bachelor’s degree. ‘That, is the composite picture of the 1849 teachers in the city schools pieced together from a statistical outline prepared for thie Bosrd of School Commissioners by H. L. Harshman, school statistical director. Although Indianapolis teachers are on a “single standard schedule,” elementary school teachers’ salaries average $1931 per year whila the high school average is $2149. The basis for income for City teachers is tenure and training. Taus a teacher with a Ph. 1D. degree should make slightly more than a teacher with only a bachelor’s degree if both have the same amount of service. Only four. Indianapalis classroom teachers have Ph. D’s., 324 have master’s degree, 963 hdve bachelor’s degrees and 458 have no degrees.

‘Composite Teacher’ Earns $40 a Week on Annual Basis

years or lest, 11.4 per cent for Ave to 10 years, 16,5 per cent for 10{to 15 years, 19.4 per cent for 15 to 20 years and 33.8 per cent more than 20 years. It is possible for an Indiar lupolis classroom ‘eacher to make from $1000 to $2725 a year. Only two, in their first year of teaching, are making as low as $1100 a year, bit 962, or more thin 50 per cent, mae between that figure and $2000. | A total oi 758 have annual salaries ranging from- $2000 to $2500, The remaining 229 earn between | $2500 and $2725 yer year, with 178 of their number receiving the top figure. Women dominate the teaching profession in Indianapolis. There are

as men sclioolteachers. | And thér are nearly twice as many grade teachers as high school teachers, 1175 as compared to 674.

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MANHATTAN, Kas., Jan. 11 (U. P.).—~The | Kansas State {College humor niagazine, Kickapoy, has

Seventeen per cent of the 1849 classroom teachers have been em-

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encouraged him? I didn’t. I never even guessed. I married Bill and 1" She was faltering stupidly, the tears getting the best of her. Tears, and a futile rage; a sick, unwelcome conviction that all those misgivings shed had hac been| founded on things her own. mind knew; while her healt refused to Jook them in the face. After a while, Suzanne lit another cigaret. | “It’s no use crying,” she said in a hard little voice. “I suppose I

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stood up. “I'm going. I've | satd enouh. But remember, there's only so much one human being can bear. * And it wouldn’t be very nice, would it, if someone should till your ‘husband ‘exactly how often Paul comes he'e, exactly how much he takes you out and—exactly pow he feels abo it you" »

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