Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1941 — Page 14

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Today's Short Story—

THE VOW

By Betty Buck

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A IF ANYONE had told me, six ~ -.gyears ago, that Marylou Kensington would make a solemn vow not to marry until her Uncle Hart considered her old and wise enough for marriage, I would have been skeptical. Going to school all your life with a girl like Marylou, all the way through Belden Academy for Girls, made you know her pretty thoroughly. We used to be pals. . “Uncle Hart is pretty ill,” she told - me that fall day when she was just 19 and pretiy, in a painful sort of way. “He doesn’t expect to pull through his next stroke himself, he says. What will I do when he’s gone? - I'll be all alone!” 5 “You'll probably marry, Marylou, ‘like every other girl in Belden,” I told her. Marylou was attractive, “even if she was out of the Miss * America class. “How about Tom : Crane, the rich dude your Uncle Hart seems to have picked for you?” “But I don't like Tom,” she said with a shy smile. “I hope youre not entertaining the hope of marrying Peter Dun«kirk, then,” I said half jokingly. Peter was the town inventor, young and very true to the classic form, without two cents to rub together In his pocket most of the time, but ~ full of wonderful ideas for mechanical things. “Pefer is a fine, courageous young man. I believe that some day he will be famous, but that’s looking i... = @& long way ahead, isn’t it?” Her — smile was wistful. “It certainly is, Marylou!” I}: agteed readily. Peter was predestined to wind up like all other nut inventors, I had a certain feeling, - dragging in the dust behind the + wheels of progress. But you never .. can tell forehandedly about any-

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD

By William Ferguson

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> 2 ” ” & MARYLOU’S UNCLE HART was ~~ preity good at guessing, even if it - was a sad sort of prediction he had 5 made. Not long after Peter had lit + out for the city to go to an adver- ~~ tised school of mechanics, taking = -. along his-other shirt and his tooth- - «brush as equipment to whip the ‘ world, Uncle Hart quietly expired. : When his will was finally pro- : bated, to the surprise of Belden’s "several thousand residents, Mary- ~ lou was not immediately converted .. into a rather well-to-do young heiress. SN “Uncle was thinking of my best interests,” she explained the modest income she was to receive from| fi. 5 : - ~& trust fund until her 25th birth- S = Lo : NE - . on

—By Blosser "day. “He asked me to promise not | ~~ 4 . = ~ to marry until I was 25, althoug® --AND 1 GUESS AND I THINK_L MUST WELL HAVE TO TLL SIMPLY ver! 1 was TeAcHING * he hinted that he would like to see IT WAS HIS UNIFORM HAVE LIKED THE IDEA OF | | THINK UP A WAY Tell June 1 HER TO STAY AWAY . me marry Tom Crane right away.” x THAT DAZZLED ME !{ BEING SEEN WITH A - To TELL. THE WANT TO BE FROM FELLOWS WHO / Her logic seemed a bit involved. : : NE © MOVIE STAR / . _KISSED GIRLS LIKE THAT “Well, Tom Crane isn’t: exactly a : \ 8 : RAE ND Va ty OF ; ~~, | _— bogey man, Marylou,” I felt it my Es : 2 | A" YR SDS Pz !

plain duty to advise her. “You'll probably exist on your little dole - but with Tom’s money and prestige you'd at least be able to live! And ~~. Peter Dunkirk is sort of out of the ~ running, isn’t he?” “He wrote to me,” she confessed. “Of course he’s having a hard time ' Just now, working his way through : school and all, but he’s bound to|stratosphere-type carburetor for eed, isn’ Army planes that he’s invented. I couldn't be cruel. “Sure, Just|revs toust his success!” i like .Horatio Alger pointed out,” I|™. . made a half-joke out of it. “All he Marylou smiled confidently at ~ needs now is to be at the right place| Peter, but her glance took in his

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with the right idea when he meets somebody with a lot of money to promote the idea—and there he'll “That's what I wrote to him,” the poor little heiress said quietly,

the same general idea! I think that virtue is always triumphant don't you?” » That stopped me for a minute, but I considered that this was Marylou, Boe any ordinary person. Naive, but

“Sure,” I agreed. If it had been anyone else but her I would have suspected her of being facetious. £ # ® 8 3 . THAT JUST GOES toi show you that sometimes you don’t know what even. one of your closest friends has under her bonnet and percolating like sixty. But to come up to her twenty-fifth birthday. , Marylou hadn't had any easy sledding, bus she was still cheerful

shiny, neatly-pressed old suit. Peter kept looking at Marylou very calmly, sort of wonderingly. She wormed out of him all the details of what he’d been doing during dinner. “And you never married!” Peter said at last. Marylou looked at him across the table as though they

marry Tom, like your Uncle Hart wanted.” : “Why, that was a ridiculous thought, Peter,” she said without a blush. “I believed you when you said that you really loved me, but wouldn't marry me until you were ® But Marylou Peter a? poor begged. “I made a vow that I wouldn't marry until I was 25. That was today, and the principal of my trust fund comes to me today, most all of Uncle Hari’s money. I'm asking you to marry me now, Peter! We'll put the money in your invention!” As I said before, if anyone had told me, I would have been skeptical. Buf you never can tell about people, can you?

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LONDON, Sept. (U.P). -— Adolf Hitler completed his plans to invade Belgium five months after he guaranteed its integrity, the Belgian Ministry charged today in a documented book, “Belgium—Official Account of What Happehed in 1940.” A . The book contains a photograph of a charred document, said to have been seized ‘Jan. 10, 1940, from {wo German officers who made a forced landing in Belgium. They threw the documents into a stove, but a Belgian officer Snatched

them out, three-quarters destroyed. The papers were said to have detailed German plans for the invasion, including special instructions for ne Sixth German Army to dese ‘Belgian Army. tier promised not to attack Belglum in August, 1939.

PAJAMAS NOW LUXURIES

. BERLIN, Sept. 13 (U. P.).—Pro prietors of five German shops said

today they were unable to obtain|

material for pajamas and nightgowns and it was presumed that when existing stocks were exhausted, Germans would sleep in. raw. :

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