Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1941 — Page 19

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Love By RUTH AYERS

YESTERDAY: Kent is bitter, refuses to allow April to explain, Che finally declares she tricked him because she felt sorry for him, because Ann was away. -She begs him never to tell Ann, and he agrees that the incident is forgotten. As they drive up to the station | platform, the car strikes something— someone. :

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

"WINKIE APPLEMAN was struggling to his feet in front of April's car. Winkie was old, had the reputa.tion of being lazy, shiftless, and sly. He had never been in any real trouble but once, when April's father had been district attorney, * there'd been some sort of a run-in with the court which had resulted in Winkie’s being sent to the workhouse for 30 days to “straighten him up.” , It was Winkie who had been at the station platform the night when Kent arrived from camp on leave. Winkie, in fact, on whom April had fastened her eyes as someone known and familiar in the first shock of learning Kent was blind. Now Winkie, shivering in tattered clothes, was pushing off Kent’s arm, April started to move, but found her foot . had been pinned under Kent's bag when it had toppled from the seat. She felt a knife of pain strike through her ankle and then the numbness settled again, muffling her, deadening her senses. Winkie clutched the side of the car with a groan. ‘April Burnett. I know you! Lawyer Burnett's daughter, ain't you?” His voice burst from groans to shrillness. “yes, Winkie. Oh, I'm teribly ‘sorry. Are you hurt?” “Hurt? We'll see, April Burnett. You with your reckless driving, knocking an old man down. You * with your high-stepping ways and no regards for the rights of others.” ; “Please, Winkie. I'm sorry!”

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WINKIE DOUBLED and then jerked up again. “Huh, I know you, young lady. Think you're somethin’, don’t yuh. Running all over the countryside these last two days with your sister’s fella. I'll make a town scandal outa this.” Before she could cry out, April saw Kent Carter's arm spin Winkie around. Then, crash! Kent's fist struck Winkie, a blindly aimed but stinging blow that slashed across the man’s face. Winkie made a blubbly, retching sound and toppled beside the car. When April looked up again, she saw the young rookie who'd been detailed to travel- with Kent. The rookie saluted, mumbled sométhing and then picked Winkie up by the coat collar and deposited him on the station platform. Then he saluted again, even though Kent couldn't see it, and said, “I'm Private Estes. The express is just pulling in.” He opened the car door and whisked out Kent's luggage as the locomotive rolled to a stop. Kent turned, nodded once in the vague direction of April and, without a word of goodby, hurried toward the train with the rookie guiding him. April watched him; saw the way he walked erect and unbending to the car steps; saw the white-coated porter grin and bow as he helped him. Then, as it had been on that first night, the whistle blew and the locomotive eased out of the station, a black dragon flaying through a white valley. ? 2 geriizg, April's eyes came back to meet the bloodshot ones of Winkie

ppleman. “Youll pay for this,” Winkie threatened. - The station was deserted, the waiting room empty. Even the handful of “town taxicabs which ustially stood -at the other end of the platform had rattled off with passengers who'd arrived on the express, “Yuh,” Winkie was hollering, “you’ll pay and pay plenty.” Blood spurted on his’ cheek, his hat was a -battered rim of felt in hand.” pril opened the car door. “Hurry, I'll take you to a doctor’s, to a hosital.” p “Think I'd step a- foot in that car?” “But you may be injured. I'm so sorry, Winkie. Please get in.” “If I go to a hospital, it'll be in an

ambulance, Winkie’s face twisted in 8 menacing leer. “This is a polic

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“So you don’t like the color of the car, eh?”

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“A police case!” she repeated it hollowly. Nothing morg could happen in this nightmare and yet, it could and was. “Yeah, there'll be a officer along here in a minute. I'll holler for one.” * “No, no, please, Winkie!”

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WINKIE CAUGHT his side, flopped to the snowbark dramatically. Frightened still more, April wailed, “All right, I'll get help. I'll get the officer right away.” This time the groan on Winkie Appleman’s lips was less pronounced. “That will be a fine thing for you,” he said. “Your father a lawyer, mentioned for the next judge. He'll like thét. won’t he, won't he, having a daughier arrested for knocking down an old man.” “Arrested?” “Sure, you'll be arrested.” With this, Winkie got to his feet and began walking toward the baggage master’s office. &ao far, no one had been in sight. No one exe€ept Private Estes and Kent knew what had happened. It was as if #he snow. had put a muffle on sound and sight, leaving April and the grubby old man by themselves. “Winkie, come back!” April found herself speaking firmly; every nerve and muscle concentrated toward this end. He turned reluctanily, making a show of brushing the blood across his chin. “You're not hurt badly or you couldn't walk,” April said. “If the police come, it won't be good for me, but it won't be any better for

you. You haven't muci of a reputation in this town, Either

take you to a doctor’s office for first aid or give you the money so you can go yourself.”

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HE WHINED, he protested, he was indignant, but in the end he said sulkily, “How much you got?” Some inner sense warned April as she reached for her purse. Yet, if Winkie started talking, all her hopes for sparing Ann would be ruined. Ann would hear the bossip. and be crushed. : “That ain’t enough,” Winkie sneered when she handed him the few one-dollar bills and change in her pocketbook. April had the checkerbook of the bank where she kept her small account. There was never much iff it, just the amounts she earned for helping Dad at the office. “A check for $5?” she asked. “Would you go to a doctor and pioitize you wouldn't do any talkg ” “Make it $10,” said Winkie, “and I won't say nuthing.” (To Be Continued)

(All events, names and characters in this story are fictitious.)

VANNUYS BILL LETS G-MEN STAY AT 62

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Chairman Frederick VanNuys of the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a bill today to permit G-men to hold their jobs after reaching the retirement age of 62. The measure was drawn at the request of Attorney General Robert Jackson after J. Edgar Hoover reported the need for retaining some

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