Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1942 — Page 35

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FER / : | CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO THAT afternoon a small boy raced along past the little Singer house and around to the back porch of the house next door. “Ma! 1 seen Mis’ Singer!” © “Well, what of it? Where ” -i“She’s just a-standin’ in them

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. “What's she doing down there, the poor woman? : “She's just a-standin’ there and

when I come by she seen me and’

she kinder mooed at me and tore off a lot of them leaves and throwed ’em on the ground and stomped on em. I got scared, and I run home.” - The woman turned from her washtub and dried her hands on “her apron. «')l go down there and see if I can get her home. I guess she’s near crazy.” :

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R. NOLAN leaned back in the - ereaking swivel chair and knocked the ashes from his pipe. “I'm firing you for six months, Dr. Mitchell. - Don’t argue. You're too useful around here to take chances with. Need a rest.” “You mean I was.” “Are. You take things too hard. You've let this Benny Singer thing flatten you out.” ““1 think I'll go to Europe, sir. Zurich—" “More work? Well, if that's what you want. Right away?” ‘‘Yes.” “Free as that?” Dr. Nolan : smiled, but he looked gravely after Parris as the door closed. ‘Parris decided he'd look up Anna in Dusseldorf. Maybe Herr Berdorff in Bavaria,” He could do exactly as hé pleased because it didn’t make any difference. to anyone. For the first time he felt a little depressed about it. Tonight the asylum sounds, sud__den screams and shouts that thrust through the murmurous buildings, flicked his rerves like a lash. He walked slowly down to see Drake and Randy. Drake had a lapboard across the bed and the wide table beside it was covered with papers. “Business this time of night?” Drake nodded. “We're getting rich.” i “Good.” “We're starting a building and loan association, Parris.” - Randy was excited. ‘We're putting you in as silent partner. You don’t have

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fixed up properly--legally. “Still talking about ot . Tower money?” “Please, Parris—" Randy's expression was intent. Her eyes were telling’ him ‘that he must consent, that this was final compensation, to Drike, for the money Parris had given them, “All’ right.” Pix it any way you wait’ to. I don’t know the first thing ‘about business of any kind.” He told ‘them that Dr. Nolan had insisted on a. vacation. “Are you going to be n Drake’s voice came i Jon: “Dr. Nolan says six months.” “Gee, I'm glad for you.” Parris looked ‘curiously at Drake, and then at Randy. ° He wanted very much to know if it mattered to them whether he went or stayed. ‘Back at the hospital gate, he ¢ircled the grounds and came out on Carrier st. In the second story Ro of a house at the,end of there was a bright Vera Lichinsky sat at ibe

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the state’s appropriation for extensive new buildings. A huge tract of land had been bought for a farm and vegetable garden. Dr. Nolan was full of plans. Randy had lost ner father while he was away and was quiet and sober in the one visit Parris had with her and Drake in the first few days after his return. They had “something exciting to tell him” but said it must wait. He was dressing one evening when his Negro houseboy came in and laid a copy of The Evening Chronicle on the table. Parris glanced at it and saw a heavy, black headline — Asylum Doctor Makes Fortune Out of Asylum Deal. The second headline, scarcely smaller than the first, said, It Pays to Be on the Inside. “Dr. Parris Mitchell, staff physician at the State Hospital for the Insane, and the silent partner: of Drake McHugh, real estate dealer, realized a cool one hundred thousand dollars on the purchase of the old St. George tract recently acquired by the state for the improvement of hospital facilities. It appears that this plan for expansion of the hospital has been afoot for some time. In .the early summer Dr. Mitchell went abroad for a rest, it was said, and during his absence the real estate firm acquired this land. When the hospital was ready to buy it paid the| price of the real estate dealers’ foresight. : “Mr Pulmer Green, elected this past November to the legislature, has promised that an investigation will be made.”

There was a good deal more, all in the same outspoken vein. Parris laid the paper before Dr. Nolan. “Have you seen this, sir?” “Yes, I have.” : ‘“There’s no truth in this, Dr. Nolan. I mean—if Drake McHugh put this through it was entirely without my knowledge.” Parris related in. detail the story of his friendship with Drake, the tgift or loan.of the Tower money, the slow rehabilitation of Drake

* | Randy just before Parris left for

Europe. “og signed some sort of papers, power of attorney among them. I had never heard of the proposed purchase of this land before I left, and I know that they—I suppose I have to say ‘we’—that we didn’t own it when I left.” . .. Dr. Nolan sat very still in his r until Parris had finished. all of that, Dr. Mitchell.” # » » U KNEW TT? N 3 the SWOLY, Dr. Mitchell. on. that ‘we. attempt

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or twice to the St. George brothers long ago about this purchase, but they wanted too much money. After the estate was being settled I thought of it ‘again, but I never mentioned it to anyone. Senator Depass acted on his own initiative. Your friend Drake McHugh bought the place up even. before Senator: Depass came to see me.” “What about the price?”

found reasonable. There's something behind this, of course. Has anybody on that paper got a grudge against you for anything at all?” “Not that I know of. I haven't many friends, that’s a fact, but I thought I had no enemies at all.” “You're evidently mistaken. Well, we'll see after a while what's hidden in the woodpile.” “Shouldn't I make a denial right away?” “No. Let's find out who's after you, and why.” The undertone of irony and bitterness was strange and surprising coming from Dr. Nolan. “You know this—this, what's his name ?—Fulmer Green?” “Since childhood.” “What's he like?” “Braggart, bully, coward, and liar. "He made a circus out of the Singer trial and hanged the boy to enhance his position as prosecuting attorney.” “Green got ‘you?” “Not that I know of. Couldn't imagine anything from that quarter.” - v “Queer, isn’t it?” : “Dr. Nolan, you gave me my post here—pretty much on faith. You've made it ah interesting one for me —I hate to make any kind of trouble for you.” “Stuff. Gave you your post because we had a first-rate report on you from Seiss in Vienna. a good man at your job. Trouble! Fiddlesticks.” “What -shall we do?” “Nothing.” “Nothing?” “Go ‘on as before. T've got some

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legislature.” “I don’t like publicity.” “Well, you’re not the kind that'll go through this world without it. You might as well get used to the

in a quiet way!” Dr. Nolan laughed, and Parris smiled slightly. “Well, well, if you don’t’ mind, I'll just use you for bait for a while. I want to know what's behind this. There’s something. I think Wardlaw, who runs this paper, is a skunk. You'll see that Miles Jackson’ will write a very different piece about it. Might just be that your old chum Mr. Gréen doesn’t overlook anything that’ll make him appear to the voters as a watchful . Fublie seryan »

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