Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1941 — Page 23

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By BETTY WALLACE

YESTERDAY: Martha evad:s Paul, makes pseparatiors to visit Bill, | Paul suddenly warns up at the apartmeni, apparently intending to go along. When ' Martha finally tells him she doesn’t want him to go, he asks, what is wrong. She has heen avoiding him. He had promfsed Bill to look after her. She finally tells him that before Bill left there were three of them— :

* CHAPTER TEN PAUL ELLIOTT stared down at Martha, speechlessly, as the echo of her words hung in the stillness. “The three of us,” she had Cried. And the implications of those words were suddenly filling the room— suddenly so plain, so clear, so hurting—that she wanted to run; away from him. She could not bear the look in his eyes, the way & rauscle in his lean cheek was twitching. He fumbled in his jacket pocket for his pipe, at last. He tamped tobacco down into the bowl with a blunt forefinger, ,taking an awfully long time about it. And still the * silence shrieked between them. * “He fumbled in the pocket again for matches. Very deliberately— as if he wanted time to pass, as / 0 3” if he nedeed time to recover from Z rei (aie this blow—Paul scratched a match, / gi» ' and sucked on the pipestem,| light- : ing the tobacco. i The flame lit up his face in a fleeting orange glow. The grave ; g dark eyes, the straight nose, fhe 3 g iJ /\ \ 5) firm controlled mouth were etched : A 9 Y ar HNN) 7. clearly, like a picture on a screen, og RG) PH 7" yy flashing and then dimming. | ; TW med 77 “Oh, I didn’t want to hurt him,” : Martha thought in dismay. “He's so fine, so worthwhile. Maybe I'm destroying something I’ll never find again. I. hurt him once, when .I married Bill, He forgave that.” She thought of the clean. unselfish friendship—the strong arm, always ready to help her—and she jexperienced a sinking sense of loss. “I didn’t mean to say tnat, Paul,” she cried quickly. “I—I didn’t mean it—the way it sounds.” } “Sit down, Martha,” Paul said gently. “Sit down here and let's talk this over.” “But—but there's nothing to talk over.” Again the panic and the uncertainty—as if her feat were set on a bit of earth that kept sliding out from under her. “The whole thing’s silly, really. II didn’t mean to put it that way—-” Her fingers smoothed the maroon housecoat, played with the ornaments on the zipper pull.

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PAUL PUSHED her z2ently down on the sofa. He sat beside her. “Martha, we must be honest with each other. Since this thing has come up—since we've already started discussing it—let’s drag it out into the light and examine it. “You have en avoiding me. Definitely. I couldn’t understand why. What you just told me makes it very clear. It's becaus¢ Bill is not here.” ? ” Almost, his voice was like the “ voice of the Paul who sat in the private office at Air Transport, discussing with the chief engineer the stresses, strains, and examining the evidence to explain the crumpling

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