Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1941 — Page 23

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LOVE POWER

By OREN ARNOLD

YESTERDAY: When Carolyn reaches Blair. Bob has already landed safely, is searching for her Together they store the X-999 deep in the mountain, CareIvh is happy in her work, but kKhows that Leana has not given up. Ske will strike again, But Carolvh has to stay | on the job. To ruh away would leave Bob alone

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CHAPTER TWENTY DURING THE six weeks that fol-| | Carolyn’s sensational arrival] in Arizona, life settled into an ode] lv contrasting and beautiful routine.

as if the frenzied troubles | passed away with that midrainstorm, leaving the skies figuratively and literally blue. | Carolyn had telephoned her and Mrs. Tyler, happily ex- | her own right now, had| their trunks and personal] to follow west, It was & big | change in her life. Tt subtracted | vears from her countenance By William Ferguson This air!” Mrs. Tyler Kept say- Semen ie . . A ing. “Tt makes me want to sing!”| Hing gh a \ WB | Mountain altitude, Mrs. Tyler,” Bob Hale ‘explained Carolyn smiled. “1 love it. Everything's big and free and—far away! I feel like a pioneer!” They decided to take her mother to ‘partial confidence, explaining that the ‘chemical substance” was hidden ih the abandonsd ‘Copper King Mine shaft only because it was valuable and “dangerous to who wouldn't handle it properly.” They ‘did mot tell her THE FWAA ANE

1st how terrifically great as i i how te ifica ly 8 at i was in| (HE | VE SOCIETY IN AN THE FOREIGN AGENTS WHO explosive power, lest she he uneasy. | : {ih | EFFORT Mk SANE DRAPOED OFF THE SPLENDORA It is & mighty big mountain for | ; hd | JHE LINES OF - = «

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Tonto Peak in awe, SIVES A Dr. Hale nodded. “About 8000 | Soy NE EY TO IANY feet. Odd formation, really. Note | re oN, iia the bald, perpendicular spot ‘on top | d that's a granite face. Left halt! the mountain, seen from here, is sImost solid rock. The ‘other half, you note, had wup-ended strata, loose shale and all ‘manner of stuff. | There several beautifal ‘old | trails, Mrs. Tyler. I shall ‘order "a | very gentle horse for vou.” | >» & » | |

appreciated This | onghtfulness. The mor: she saw | of Dr. Robert Hale, the better she liked him. She couldn't blame her impressionable ‘daughter for being | a little Dit “foolish” about such & rio}

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nt We Tuts | Carolyn saw Teana Sormi onl An RAE when chance or circumstance re- pentee a quired 1t, as when in Bob's Prasence 5 ihe two women would speak with at least surface courtesy, but never actually converse

Leana had been installed ‘in a | POPLILIATIEN! SF Tre ather Tuxuriously fitted three-room

PROVINCE. 5.7 abin and had ner private caretaker

q | and cook, a trained Wopi Mndian | bili , im woman ANSWER: Approximately seven feet. ay hi i Bob Hale “kept batch” (it NUD fi S— ey N fii i i Joke ‘With him) with four tech- nical brains in America, Carolyn for Bob. Quick little moments When MiG) workers in the largest house realized. | Bob, terrifically busy now, remema RR new labora-| Moreover, the experimenters act- bered to pay personal courtesies to VORP ON Mate oh and a 16- wally had assembled and developed Leana. Other moments, keenly obs Rr Des 0y took care of one engine that functioned With a served, when Bob ‘took Carolyn feir personal needs minute speck of the X-999 for pow- horseback riding or on a drive in er source, less than two months to Blair or te Boulder City, and |

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yon in shouting distance from Bob's front porch. All of it was exceedingly pice turesque. ‘Contour of the hills here made it so, contour and ‘color and verdure and the blue-white Arizona sky Twelve cabins for workmen and minor assistants were OME up An ‘electric power line from Boulder Dam pated, been tapped to supply the mpromptu village Every

under construction, was fitted in time with ‘every ‘electrical con. venience, even to air-conditioning. Telephone lines were extended from Blair » » »

THE WHOLE new settiement.

even the new rock laboratory build- Boh Hale.

ing, was half granite side of Tonto Peak and partly screened from Tonto by a

lesser hill, which Carolyn named however, was observed day by day sonnel had nret for dinner together

Tonto Jr.

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house, | cluding the seven guest cottages MOst of them to grasp except in The men treated her With defer-

Arizona. The scientists were beside themselves With elation. “It fs unbelievable!” old Dr. | [O'Mara ‘eried. | “But it works!” shot back practical Devereaux, an automobile and airplane manufacturer, “I ‘don’t need to tell vou people that this will | revolutionize all the world's engineering.” *® ®* Ww

THAT WAS TRUE, tos true for

piecemeal. As for Carolyn, she lived in a constant state of suspense and | restrained excitement-—a ‘condition | most pleasant for any vivacious (person. She acquired it through | er employment, Which was a steady | (hence delightful) intimacy with Through her he re-|

a Tile from ‘the corded every move the experiment-

ers made, 1 That very intimacy with Bob,

anger as they left. | B

A shrewd girl could see ‘these things Whereas a ‘casual observer | would hot. ‘Carolyn knew that |

And indeed she was.

Leana Sormi was secretly raging. |

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5 | LEANA LIVED almost in solitude, | save for actual hours in the labor- |

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atory With its odd looking instiu- |

ments and the scientists she must | encounter and work With there,

ence, admittedly due. But they were wrapped wholly in the task at hand, Only Bob seemed ever to see her as a person and, madden ingly, even his attentions were no more than gestures one tosses at a child. Or so Leanna felt. Evenings, alone in her eabin, | Deana made desperate personal | plans. And it was after an evening

when most of fthe new village per-

8000, Junior was scarcely 800 feet, it, Realization of Leanna’s jealousy Carolyn had relaxed so as to laugh

and she could climb it easily after kept alive the only flaw in an other- heartily like the young people they |

dinner to watch the majesty of a sun going down.

wise perfect existence here. When “nothing happened” for the

were and had even danced twice vo radio music, that Deana felt her

Within three weeks after they all first month Carolyn tried to Vell restraint again give way,

arrived, Dr. Merrivale and Dr. Can-

herself that Teana was afraid vo

| That night she sat until well |

hy came by invitation from the take any further action; common past 1 o'clock, erystallizing a brand |

Massachusetts Institute of Tech- sense told her that deduction was new plan,

nology; Dr, O'Mara from the Uni- wrong. Her vagie but wholly de- so perfect she could see no Possi-

versity of Minnesota, Engineers

Harding and Treat, and Capitalist manifestation of common sense and everything she wanted and it could |

industrial Still others

Devereaux from great corporations in Detroit would be arriving.

Would gather here the best

Bob and Leana | tech. of

pendable intuition (itself wnother [unconscious reasoning) warned Carolyn to be alert. |

There were quick little moments affection which Leana showed

bility of failure. It could give her

be effected at once. (To Be Continwed) ]

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