Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1941 — Page 33

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YESTERDAY: Beatrice is furoius at | the stranger who would choloroform her. | But he has opened her eves to the empti- / ness of her life. Her travel, 2. Lind J o XS o parties bring her no real pleasure. She / tT ~ promises to see the stranger make him eat his words. Clarence is little help. Marriage is the only solution he can offer. He promises they shall be married within a week.

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BEATRICE Huntington Daven-| port sat up very straight in her car, and looked fixedly at the back of Jenkins head as he drove through the slow-moving, heavy, late afternoon traffic had | HOLD ON. DUCHESS’ WE DONT WANT : promised Clarence that she would| (111 CHARGE. RR MANSLAUGHTER / Lg \ / HST ETE marry him next week. Promised | 7 - TTR : - y y \ > HM ALIVE ANY because, for a moment in his arms, | i ! g FEED HIM TO : with his lips on hers, she had bend TH BUZZARDS.! f |

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lieved that he was right ! “We shall be so happy! No other pair in history have ever been as| happy as we shall be, darling,” hej had whispered. “No more discon- | tent, my love. I promise you, our life will hold more than parties| and social foolishness and wild run-| ning around. I love you, and you love me. We shall have a mar-| riage the world will wonder at.” Beatrice realized that Clarence] was utterly serious, and with the] realization came a rush of pride that she had not, after all, been fooled by a fortune hunter. But after he was gone—while she sat here in the car and the city streets darkened around her —=yncertainty gripped her. Being engaged to Clarence was fun. Taking him away from Mimi Frothingham had been least,

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fun At until this afternoon, it had all been enjoyable enough But she had never the date of her wedding. She had never thought what marriage meant. Jts permanence—the lemnity which Clarence was bring ihg to it—its nearness! Next week! Only a few days away She was frightened. “I marry Clarence next week!” The sense of awareness feeling of a door having her, this afternoon when she that man’s voice—and let her on things that were the and yet somehow different, back to her. “Marrying Clarence isn’t] the answer. I was frightened, and I showed him I was frightened. He] thought, because he does love me, | that getting married right away| would help. But it won't. This is] , something else.” | | i

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Unacéountably, she was trembling again. “I girl like| that should be quietly and competently -ehloroformed,” that unknown voice had said. Her lips] twisted He could be whimsical about it! “More in sadness than in| anger.”

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as the car turned into Fifth Ave.! .d | . People - thronged the [down to Sixth Avenue, Jenkins.” | nation, )} wronged |

sidewalks. | i | Men and women, living lives far| ihe sidewalks of Sixth Avenue different from -her own. Men and | yore thronged, too. Watching with women who shouldn't be chloro- her newly sharp eyes, with the claformed. They were useful. {moring questions in her mind she She saw a man with a tired, gray, ad never asked before, Beatrice face. Engrossed, with a concentra-| Saw that there was a difference betion she seldom gave fo anvthing, | tween these people and those on she tried to read in that lined. Fifth. These were even more tired. anonymous face the riddle of his| At Forty-second street, a policetiredness. What were his troubles man held up traffic though the light and what struggles did this man was green. Beatrice saw a broad endure? The ear moved past him. {wave of people—10 or 12 abreast— Now she saw a woman with hen- in surging ranks that went far up naed. hair and too red lips, in a|tha hlock— pushing their way irom purple suit. The woman was hag-|one side of the street to the other. gard. Then a girl, smiling to her-ishe remembered, then, the subway self. Then a heavy middle-aged | station at Times Square. That's woman carrying a Peke. Now a where they were going. To the subman who walked swiftly, hatless,| wav. his lips moving. ' Talking to him-| self, In another moment, her car would be going past Huntington's. The: store she knew so little of; and yet Wik “You take the car to the ga ence’ between horse an {hess 188%. And L Wont need you tonignt, Ee they had, sometimes "they hy wit ri ” . SQ / people. She leaned forward. Famfieins fo turned, surpris ip | triumph. =; Eee D y ' se . wai Right Out of Your his usually expressionless eyes. “But » ll gb nue ist IIo] yas vege Favarle it's so crowded, Miss Davenport. ; while, I'm going to see what it's artoon Strip—

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as she moved out of the , — vl ! stream into a little island of people ; Ra 1 ! ; : waiting against a drug store window. Of course, she'd been on the subway. She could close her eyes and | B see the station at Fifth Avenue and 0 the Park—long and echoing and! empty. She could see the way white | QO columns flashed past as you sat in| a car, and hear the noise of air] rushing and the rumble of wheels.

Yes, she had ridden on the subway. Years ago. With girls from school and with her governess before that. But she had never ridden | the subway as an adult—never when she could see, hear and understand and somehow feel the difference between these people's lives and herself. All at once, Beatrice opened the | She remembered her grandfather, | lear door. “I'll get out and walk, |saying, “There's no fun if you never | Jenkins. This is too Slow.” A cur- | have any battles to fight.” These]

baffled restlessness possessed people battled life, every day. They lhad worries and struggles and be-|

THE SHIP IS LITERALLY SHOT TO PIECES... WHEW! I'M LUCKY DEAD MOTOR, IM TO HAVE COME [ STILL Nl TROUBLE, ™ UNLESS I'VE ENOUGH ALTITUDE TO CLEAR

AN EGG SQUARELY ON THE MAIN) GATE 2] OF ALEXANDRIA... BUT HIS STOLEN MIDGET PLANE TOOK AN AWFUL LICKING IN THE PROCESS.

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And it's a long walk east to Park | jike!” and then over ..." | Beatrice Huntington Davenport, I'm not going directly home, j, the mink coat that was so dark Jenkins. and shining—stepped out into the om. 9 stream and let it carry her down the SHE WAS out of the car. The |littered steps to the huge, busy subdoor closed behind her, and she was | Way station below the sidewalk. stepping up on the sidewalk. Almost | The first thing she noticed was a incredibly, a sea of humanity en- |bank of parcel lockers. Quickly, she| | gulfed her. |slipped out of her coat, wadded it | CPR Re | She could not remember ever UP and opening one of the lockers, | BOCAS | having walked down Forty-second | pushed the expensive, tell-tale by Al Capp" | Street at this hour before, Her bundle inside. She slammed the Plus %d Hit wristwatch showed tha: it was a|d00r, took the key and walked quarter to six. This crowd, then, rapidly away.

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