Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1941 — Page 31

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YESTERDAY: April tries to avoid questioning Ann about Kent, but realizes that her sister is nursing some suspicions. The surgeons have operated, but will not know for some time whether Kent will see again. As April remains at home, her numerous boy friends gradually desert her. Only Hal Parks is faithful. When he comes at last to see ‘her, April is grateful for the haven of

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ° HAL PROPOSED that night. After he'd told April the news in the town and answered her questions in regard to work at the plant, he eyed her quizzically. “You've been through a war

yourself, April,” he said. “H’'m—not far wrong, Hal.” “I've missed you. Been leading a hermit’s life.” “You shouldn't have Hal.” ~ “Ah, but I wanted to. You've spoiled me for other girls. I'm going to brood and sulk until you can do the towh with me again.” Perhaps, when all memory of Kent was gone and she was sure he had his eyes back and was happy with Ann, she could think of Hal. Not yet. : Hal picked up her left hand, appraised ‘the ring finger. “A dia-~ mond would be beautiful there,” he said. Then the bantering mood fell from him and he was all ardor, all lover. “April, darling, I mean it. I love you. Say you'll marry me.” : She drew her hand away. “I'd like to say yes—" she began, then stopped abruptly. .» “You mean, April, you're not in love with me?” ye She nodded leer head miserably and blinked back tears. “I like you an awful lot, Hal, but it’s not— it’s not love.” . “Is there someone else?” Hal spoke quietly. Someone else? Someone with a Crisp, russet wave in his hair, whose eyes had been shadowed behind dark glasses? But Kent Carter wasn’ hers. He belonged to Ann. “No, there isn’t anyone else,” she choked. “It’s just that I can't be sure yet.” Hal stood up, outwardly suave _ again but with that endearing way of understanding her. “I'd rather wait for you and lose you than have any other girl,” he said. SO HE LEFT IT like that. When Hal had gone, April thought, “Perhaps I could learn to love him. I'll try, I really will. But not until I know for sure that Kent Carter is out.of the darkness.” Any day now, Kent's letter would be coming to tell the results of the operation. : “I'll know the day just by seeing Ann’s face,” April told herself: Nip took up the vigil by her bed. Ann came and went on visits to her room: If she’d been hurt, she had apparently tried to forget it. And each day, she seemed to bloom more. ’ “You look positively radiant,”

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had sung since her arrival home from New York. ] April sat motionless in her chair by the window, her head bowed, her lips moving as if in prayer. “Thank God,” she kept murmuring, “Thank you, dear God.”

Afterward, the Burnett house that had been filled with a nameless unrest under its quietness soared into an aria of its own. “The operation was a success,” Ann told April. “Kent's coming home in a few days for an indefinite leave. He insists hell go back to camp—but I think he'll be home for good.” ' “You mean—his eyes are all right again. He can see?” “Yes, the bandages are off. He's fine. He wrote this letter himself.” “I'm so glad for him--and for you, Ann,” April said, but Ann scarcely heard her. Mother began to work more furiously that very afternoon ¢n the frilly white things she | was making. - “I have an idea there’ll hie a bride in the house soon,” she said with a knowing nod. It was this that brought April to her senses. She would have to face Kent, She would have to look at him and she could look back at her, this time with his eyes. “I'll carry it through somehow,’ April thought, but deep in her, she knew she couldn't. She began marching up and down

April complimented her. “Thanks,” quiet way. “Coming from you, April, that means a lot.” “Nonsense,” April said. “You've always had good looks all your

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about it. Take me and my vanity table. Ever see so many boxes and bottles, lipsticks and lotions? I've worked hard at the glamour stuff and you've done better just by being yourself.” ‘April was knitting and gave a jab to the needles. This was a pair of mittens for the Red Cross and she'd missed a stitch or maybe added one, so the smooth effect was spoiled, “It seems funny,” Ann said, taking the needles in her capable hands, “to see you fussing over anything like this.” “It's my better nature coming to the front,* April grinned. ‘Then, because she could do it with a certain nonchalance when her eyes were down, busy with the stitches, she said, ‘By the way, Ann, when's the good word coming frem Kent?” She ‘might have imagined it, but it seemed as if Ann’s mouth tightened and her eyes weren't unlike

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the needles, bright, jabbing. “I'll know soon,” Ann said. And it was that very afternoon.

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APRIL DIDN'T HAVE to see her sister's face to ledrn the news. There was & surer way of knowing than that, a giveaway that was infallible. | Ann, in the downstairs hall, burst into song. It was the first time she

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her room, testing the injured ankle, measuring her strength.

” f J » ON THE DAY of Kent's return, ghe even tried the stairs and wandered disconsolately in the downstairs rooms. Dad grinned at her,

over his work of “helping Mother hang some new pictures. Mother smiled and said, “You're doing fine to make the trip down here all by vourself. Here, Dad, move the irame a little to the right. We want everything just right for Kent's home-coming.” Nip nosed at April's heels. He'd been a great comfort, attaching | lnimself to her ever since the day he had gone on the ill-fated drive with Kent. That had been her day and this was Ann's. As Ann made ready to meet the train which would bring Kent liome, Mother poked her head into April's room.” “You'll be ready to say hello to Kent?” she called out. April had on her terry robe, the white one that hugged her thin figure and made her look like some wraith of herself. “No, I'm sort of tired,” she said. “I think I'll be excused tonight.” Then she shut the door quietly, on her heart and on her happiness. (To Be Continued)

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