Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1941 — Page 27

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LOVE POWER

By OREN ARNOLD

YESTERDAY Carolyn and Robert agree that the X-299 must remain a secret and the remaining protion safeguarded against danger. Leana Sormi comes to Robert's office Carolyn over. hears her impassioned plea to Robert to seize the power that is theirs. “Together we can be the man and the woman of the ages.” CHAPTER NINE IT WAS OBVIOUS to Carolyn that Leana Sormi was irrational about the discovery in the Schoenfeld Laboratory, and victimized by her own emotions At the end of Leana’s melodramatic speech to Bob, Carolyn had wanted to interrupt. But a latent, creeping fear of the woman with the foreign name had somehow become intensified in that quarter-hour. It was a senseless fear, she told herself. Leana probably was just wrought up over everything But no; no, she wasn’t either. She spoke too earnestly, too impressively; plainly she had been thinking all this out. Plainest of all now was the fact that Leana loved Dr. Robert Hale “She's crazy about him!” Carolyn half whispered to herself. A flash of practical reasoning told her instantly to quit this strange new secretarial job and go back to her old position in the bank or find a new routine somewhere with good, solid Ken Palmer. Ken, the kindly plodder who loved her sincerely, but who had no more color than the bookkeeper he was

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SHE KNEW in the same instant that she would never do that now. If all the X-999 in Bob's laboratory was about to blow up in her face she'd still stick to this new job, even though she couldn't have

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said why. Here was too much potential; a lad had already happened and every hour gave promise of a great deal more. It was like being in a mystery play. Intuition rather than practicality also prevented her from revealing her presence to Leana Sormi. She heard Leana’s plea; heard Bob take a courteous, kindly, but somewhat superficial reaction to it, giving Leana very little to tie to. Leana worked herself into tears and so fled rather abruptly Bob came immediately to Carolyn’s office. Carolyn felt herself blush guiltily, even though she had no actual guilt. To cover her confusion, she feigned deep interest in her shorthand notes, pencil and pad in hand. “That was Leana Sormi,” he said, unnecessarily. “Did you hear her?” “Oh. Why—yves.” She wouldn't lie about it! “She sounded rather distressed, Bob Naturally so, of course. At least, I though I heard her voice indicate that, uh—" “She will be all right. She is a prilliant woman. Girl. She is only 29. I mean, well, that’s a woman, isn’t it?” He smiled a bit. “Exactly when does_a girl become a woman, come to think of it?” «1 wouldn't take that up today if I were you. We still have a moving job on hand.” “That's very true. And you were saying you had an idea.”

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“MY IDEA was about moving the xX-999. It seems to me that the only safe place to store it is away out on the plains or mountains. You said vou would need electric power to run the experimental laboratory. I mean, while you and your helpers adapt the stuff to—to factory engines, and trains, and automobiles, and whatever. Isn't that so?” “Yes.” «Bob, aren't there electric power lines from dams and things on rivers? I saw in the movies, or read somewhere—" «1 see what you mean!” “Good! There's, well, Boulder Dam. That's in Arizona, isn't it? Mr. OMalley at the bank used to talk about it. - It’s a long way from any city. But the electric line runs over mountains and things, and—Ilook, couldn't we maybe get the X-999 out there even before you had a laboratory built? Maybe store it in a cave to ease your mind? “Goodness, Bob, youll have no peace as long as it stays in this city laboratory here, you know that. Any nearby farmhouse such as you first chose would be dangerous. But away off—" “Thats’ the ticekt!” Bob had hung one leg on a corner of hey desk, half sitting, but he suddenly got up to walk back and forth as he did when intent on anything. “That's exactly the right hunch, Carolyn. Youre a

dream!”

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That startled her a bit. She looked quickly at him. But he was gazing off, planning. It had been simply a careless word of thanks.

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For another hour he did a great deal of thinking out loud. During that time he ordered maps brought in. He surveyed the western half of the United States with minute care, measuring the distance to |cities, calculating mileages, estimatling what his laboratory needs would | be out there and how best to meet | those needs. “Okay, I shall catch a plane to|night,” he suddenly announced, re(laxing. “I don't know why I never | thought of this myself. I was reared out there, you know. I can—" “Were you, Bob? In the West?” Carolyn showed new interest in him. He nodded. “In Colorado. B. S. degree from Colorado U. I'm practically a cowboy.” He laughed at that. “My dad was an insurance supervisor over two states out there. Transferred to Pennsylvania when I was 19. I really can ride, Carolyn. Could, I mean. When I had time. In the last year or two—" He ended a bit wistfully, she (thought. But she studied him anew. That rearing accounted for a lot of his physical appearance and his mannerisms. A boy from the West! “Of course, every conceivable care must be exercised in moving it and, of course, I shall do it myself.” He was back at work again “There must be no mistake this time. First thing, however, is for me—" 2 o 2 | HE TALKED for nearly an hour more, talked and dictated notes, and planned with Carolyn’s help. Eagerly, almost hungrily, he seemed to confide in his secretary here, to

seek her counsel and advice, her co-operation. She was touched by that; no man could have paid her higher tribute; at least, no emplover could have. When it was done and he had returned to his own office desk and she was making her typewriter sing its hearty staccato again, she heard the outer door open for the second time this morning. But it was a man’s voice this time and she recognized it for one of the three elderly watchmen who made constant night-and-day patrol of the Schoenfeld Laboratory buildings, punching clocks and keeping guard. “Letter, Dr. Hale,” the man said. “From Miss Sormi, sir.” “Miss Sormi?” Carolyn heard Bob reply. “Why, she was just in here an hour or so ago. And her office 1s only—" He paused. “Hmmmmm. Well, she sent it. She's the queer one anyhow, if you ask me. Never laughs, nor passes the time of day with us like you always do, sir. Say, when you

Hale? cu-ros'ty up!” The old fellow ended on a genial chuckle, but he passed on when he saw that Bob was already intent on Leana’s letter.

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