Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1946 — Page 36

THE STORY SO FAR MONA SHANE, at her mother’s ine A A slonen, acothls au lavitation to RUS. z SEL " nner party the gripe board .).. she meets JAY CAMERON. "The arm y Shanes are at their Car ch cot~ sil the 's caste tage—~where Mona's father, PATRICK, system really enjoys himself, He has invited MIKE O'BRIEN te breakfast the next

§ morning. : : Russel gets a phone call demanding board's opening day session, said| his presence elsewhere and asks Jay to ; take Mona home. Old Wong, the Chi‘Rome and Tokyo editions of Bee Sook, jouka on diaappr ovingly. : uch and accepts and Stripes, soldier news-| , GLY gu riding with him the next

papers, have been muzzled. hoon,

CHAPTER FIVE

and were allowed to blow off steam. | REAKFAST at the beach there was less tension,” Mr. Mauldin | cottage of the Shanes A {proved more pleasant than

The 24-year-old Mauldin sald|Mong had anticipated. that as a G. 1 cartoonist under : Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in Europe, Her mother might hot care enjoyed freedom of expression, (for Pat's choice of guests, she out hab Sher later dournalists | might resent the extra work He testified before the board but she was too much of a behind closed doors. The board is|lady to show it. Her manner Ee A er was cheerfully hospitable as retary of War Robert Patterson. |She poured the coffee, and if

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she did not” join in the conversation there was nothing unusual about that. Josephine Shane had never been talkative. The two men discussed local politics, and while ordinarily Mona enjoyed these unveiled dissertations on prominent names, this morning she “was listening with less attention than usual. Her eyes shifted frequently to the old wooden clock on the wall

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ted, “trying to lead yours. I had, the sand to the narrow passageway the devil's own time getting here.” | leading around the steep rocks to Without a greeting he had begun |the protected strip where the boundwhere they left off the night be- [less ocean lay unmarred by a single fore as if they had never been sep-|ship. Fun to rest cn the sun-soaked arated. sand, letting it sift through her fin. “Won't you come in and have a |gers; to watch as he idly traced the cup of coffee,” Mona asked, know- | letters of her name. “Mona,” he ing her parents would have to meet | Wrote, and beneath it “Jay” then him. with a swift significant glance he “Sounds like an excellent idea,” |drew a circle. z Jay replied. . un = “WHAT a fool 1 am,” he said, and

» » ow" MONA was proud of him. Riding |with an impatient hand smeared

She hoped they would have finished - breakfast before Jay arrived, | but if they hadn't: she was going | anyway. Long before anyone else heard it her ears picked up the] thudding of horses’ hooves on the! road at the back of the house. i » » . | MURMURING an excuse, Mona |

slipped from the table. She was at |

the door before Jay could knock. He had tied both horses to the fence. . “It was a dumb idea,” he admit-

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clothes became film and the day- sand across what he had drawn, light brought out the healthy obliterafing it. brownness of his skin, the little] “Why do you say that?” Mona laughter wrinkles at the corners of asked Stillassly, “ii oki . “Because something tells me 5 his dark eves. jean lead to nothing but trouble, he He did not seem to realize that |sajd moodily, and suddenly the blue he was being scrutinized unduly. and gold seemed to change to gray. Josephine’s expression betrayed no | Ocean and sky were overcast as if opinion, : but her father’s was|the gods had frowned upon them. frankly appraising. And as for| “I don’t undersand,” Mona said O'Brien it was obviously no busi-|ggain. “I thought you were happy.” ness of his. He was so openly un-| «At first, yes. But meeting your concerned that Mona wanted to parents has made me realize a lot laugh. lof things.” Jay greeted each of them with| «such as what?” easy, good-natured charm. He a» drank his cup of coffee and yielded | «sUCH as the fact that you are to the temptation of a muffin. But in spite of these things her father almost ten years younger than I did not like him, Mona could see 8m. That you are not just a girl that. {who drove a navy bus, but the shel

‘ . 2. u tered little darling of a suspicious WELL, it was just too bad, but fo ther.”

daddy would have to learn that in| ; 3 | ow h thin matters of romance a girl had to If you think daddy has any $

.ibut 215 of the packages remained

[to § y friends, you're misdecide for herself. Almost half an Wo say shou NY Be =n hour was wasted before thve were A : free to leave the cottage and mount 1 Pleased. . . i : “You dont know what I'm talk-

their horses , . 3 i Pi id gently. “I've “You want to ride on the beach, | me i ae IY matei- | don't You? Jay asked, monial market, and compared to | Mona nodded, leading the way | ve women 1 know, you're a babe | around the house. The day was | in arms. It's better to pat a stop | perfect. No mental cobwebs Sola} v0 this whole affair before we've! withstand the clean sweep of the | =. ctv or» wind. Blue and gold were the| 8°" 8% ; colors blocking in the landscape about. them as the horses, seem-

# ” » i | IT HURT to have him call their | beautiful romance an affair but she |

ingly imbued with their own mood, | Sy hr. galloped along the wet sand. | suspected he had used the word in- ; tentionally.

| 5.» 0 | “No one is begging for your com-

exploring?” he suggested. passageway he followed, catching Mona knew that cove well. She | her roughly by the arm.

had often picnicked there as a cng. “Wait,” he cried. “You don’t un-

4 au |' derstand. Oh,” Mona, can’t you see “WE'LL have to leave the horses | it’s- only for your own protection?” here.” | “Who wants to be protected?” she “We can tie them to a tree up on| flared but his lips pressed hard | the road if you don't mind walking | against hers stopping her. And as] back.” | his arms tightened about her, the She wouldn't have minded any-| sun flamed out again turning the thing, she thought, as they dis-| world to gold. : mounted. It was good to stretch|

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~ MINNEAPOLIS, March 29 (U,P.) | —Donald E. Bloomgren, 28, admit-| ted to police today that he stole $15,000 worth of ‘nylon hosiery ship~ ments of the Strutwear Knitting Co. while he was employed to take the goods to the post office. r

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be charged with grand larceny. He was arrested yesterday by detectives who stopped his truck as he was leaving the post office. He had been sent to: the post office to mail 358 parcels, officers said,

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HOLLYWOOD, March 20 (U.P). | ~Walter R. (Benny) Benson was arraigned yesterday and ordered to appear for preliminary hearing April 4 on charges’ of seducing a ‘teen-age girl ‘who twice tried tc commit suicide because she sald‘he failed to return her love. The 32-year-old swing trombonist and his wife both declined to comment on the charges or “upon his relations with Pdtricia Dove Littleton, whom he once claimed he hardly knew. Benson remained free in $100¢ | bail pending trial. He was repre- | sented at his arraignment by Attorney Robert Need, associate. of movie-colony lawyer Jerry Giesler The girl's adoration for Benson ,was - first revealed in a lengthy i suicide note she wrote as she sat

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