Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1942 — Page 28

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES"

THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942 Serial Story—

Frantic Week-End

CHAPTER ONE MYRA MACK had spent two days on the lake shore near Montreal. It was not a pleasant thought to be facing the city, hot and humid, the office, stuffy and bristling with Monday problems, after a cool, indolent week-end. She waited on the open wooden platform of the railway station in the freshness of] the morning and examined’ the faces of commuters about |* her. All of them seemed to!

share her mood; none seemed to be!

overly pleased with the thought orvor in the male voice that Myra of the new week ahead of : them. ,..ched for the same intensity in There was not a cloud in the... coldier's eves, and found it calm, distant blueness of the SKY | there. above and the day already prom-| pe was in battle dress but on his| ised heat. Some of the men dressed | nuiders were the pips of a lieufor the conventions of office work tenant were beginning to show signs of | “Look at the eyes” he said in a discomfort—an askew tie, a wilted |, voice : collar, creases in summer suits al-|"«t am looking ” said Myra. “She ready failing. There were several | mascara Too much for a face glances of envy at the one girl ive that oo who looked particularly julep-cool| “Look at those lips.” said the sol-| and comfortable. | dk : » THe a hot Myre Mack. | eT i High he had known Myra Men she did not know were not, "am tooking » said Myra «She's in the habit of looking twice abl..." wre hasn't anv sshse. ‘They

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plicity that men would not notice | Much.’ : either unfavorably or with a flicker | The soldier nodded in agreement. |

of interest. It was bad enough to, But she still looks like Spring, have to look at her own face in the S°ng and the Wedding March to mirror, she would say with a wry Mm of grin, without sending up flares that Myra shook her head. “That’s| attracted the attention of strangers the worst of men. They fall flat to it. And while her modesty and at the first imitation of a magaIrish humor lent exaggeration .to| Zine cover they see.” the statement, it was true her At that moment the train clat-| bright Irish face had no single lien fered into’ the station with clouds on beauty. of gray smoke soiling the summer; That did not aoply to the other morning and a flood of noise girl on the platform. {drowning out voices. She had obviously been born for| It subsided to a stop and there such wilting summer days as this. |Was a general movement channeling just to refresh the jaded eyes ofthe waiting passengers to the doors Monday morning commuters. Nor of carriages. was she unconscious of her mission| Forgetting the girl and the] in life. A neat and impudent fluff strange soldier Myra climbed up of straw hat and veiling sat upon between a middle-aged stock broker: the bronzed waves of her hair as ahd a plump salesman and found a| though it had been created with window seat in the smoker. To her supreme art for that very moment surprise the officer dropped into the of a sunny morning. Her flowered seat by her side. | silk dress, floating like many colored| “You are wrong,” he said. “Have| mists from her slim waist and about a cigaret?” her long legs, conspired with the! “Thanks” said Myra. “But I. breeze to draw the eves of sober.don’t smoke until after breakfast.” train-waiters, reminding them that! If Myra Mack lacked any prethe week of work ahead was a tensions to formal beauty she had; mockery when there was so much ceased to regret it. She had found concentrated loveliness in the world that it had some advantages. The! to feast the eves upon. pleasanter kind of men could speak! 5 Ri 4 to her without formality and with-| MYRA MACK'S critical gaze out any fear of being suspected of | checked each flawless detail of the yiterior motives. There was some- | other girl's appearance with the cool thing about her that inspired con-! calculation of any shrewd woman fidence and nothing that would | appraising another. The pattern, make them speak to her with other the casual! pose, were perfect. than the easy respect they reserved | With no consciousness of ex- for favorite aunts. That was her] pressing her thoughts aloud she misfortune, felt Myra, but one that spoke her admiration. had compensations.

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