Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1946 — Page 23

. 8, 1948 HURED: re : ; oo by y 104 THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 1948 ~-THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES - PAGE 23 Aap ~ TIMES SERIAL ; eo = is | ter, fj ™= Slee / f ® ] - . . o , : : : : | . . { x . . : . PA evil s Lau ter.....By Alice M. Lavenick the industry. . || : : . 3 ot says sugar i cod : ; d during the : CHAPTER 28 had heard from Ellen from, time to to think of him taking orders, |long 1ast he was working and being quipment and HOWEVER, it was from Father | time that Colin was getting along though I could see how the horses |a credit to the Fitzgeralds, ...........}. estock. Unless. Gene that I had most of my news| well, wherever he was, she con- | would interest him, . i

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in shout. wal ing of Mark Patt c h d place, I'd always heard. The land iin about wi : ather Gene, however, seemed yard at Innisfail on the HarringHe loved Mark Fitzgerald like a : of the Mardi Gras and beautiful d have no ine bivther, he told me, and was tondi'® be taking if for granted that ton black. Like a youngster riding

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DUCE { back there in Mayo,” he sald. |who owned a huge estate in Louis- at Honora had never allowed up between -the sugar maples on : Colin was younger. And HONOra liana. It seemed Colin had charge Dorses at Innisfail, Colin's father [ipa day so long ago. * DELIVERY spolled him outrageously all his life of the stud farm on this estate and had had a bad fall from a horse

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of Colin during this-time_Though

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of Colin, also, though to a lesser | degree,

tinued to be. vague indeed about |

; Fair rapture h 3 Just what he was up to. pire had been ih his eyes

+ [that day he had ridden. into the

1 knew the rather amazing facts. the flying horses for the first time. That Colin was working for a| yw

Li : m | “Mark and I were boyhood friends | «irs AA's, & MAN he'd known | FATHER GENE told me then

—and Ellen did, too. “He was a handsome lad and everyone took a hand at the spoil- | ing, I guess. Ah, but he's been a! thorn in Mark's’ side for years. That's the reason I'm so glad at! the good reports of him now.” {

. . . “HE'S DOING well, then?” ~ hoped I sounded casual.and was | glad that he could not hear the! thumping of my heart. I held my breath, hoping he would tell me more. For, though 1

since his long ago college days, and

was most enthusiastic about the once back in Ireland, just before work, : they «came. over, ” n y “WELL TO be sure he was always “He was never the same again crazy about horses,” Father Gene after that,” the priest said. said. sup Jou Know, Cecelia, I! “And Honora felt it very keenly, can't somehow vision him working \ for. someone else. "He's uch gh 1 Ht broke her all up to see him half dependent kind of lad, Colin." crippled. He was a big strapping And that, I thought to myself, [€lla, you see, very healthy, but is a vast understatement. Colin he fall crippled him badly.” Fitzgerald such an independent “I see,” I said. And I tried to kind of lad. “be glad that Colin was doing the But 1, too, was finding it difficult {sort of thing he liked, and that, at

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and seductive women. Women who were noted, if I remembered correctly, for always getting their men. I pictured Colin again galloping

Black Irishman, black horse, they belonged together surely, the two of them. I was“in the depths that night, perhaps because one of my old men in the ward had taken an unexpecte ed bad turn, and perhaps because my heart was weary of torch-bear-ing, ~ ~ » 80, FROM time to time, they all spoke of Colin after that.’ Father Gene and Mark and Ellen, and continued to be pleased with what they heard from him.

when, in speaking of him, Father Gene said, “Now, if the lad would only get married, I'd be entirely convinced that he was in earnest about settling down and making a good life for himself.” He did not say this to me, It was to Mark, one day at Innisfail and I overheard it from my favorite haunt, the library, where I was. making an attempt to put the books into some sort of order, I remember 1 sat rigid, and it never occurred to me not to listen, “He's got some nqgtion,” the priest went on, “that he's not fit to marry anyone.” » . ®

» “WHAT MAKES you say that?” Mark's voice was sharp, “Something he told me ‘once, Mark. Oh, a long time ago. Just before he -went south, it was. He said, ‘Tm bad luck for women, Father, I know that. I said, ‘Now that's a lot of nonsense and you know it’ but I could not convince him.” “That's my fault:” There was

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stra work bitterness in Mark's voice now. fold “What I said to him thét time— ok s up the time I struck him—" ot in use, “Now, Mark, that's all over and great for done with. And, as I told you at Hwerks the time, we have no right to judge UE o anyone. No one could hold Colin 4, rumpus responsible for what happened. a music “Oh, he was thoughtless, I'll grant Th B . d ’ B k f Pl you, but no more so than lots of others have been, and I think he € ri € S / 0 0 0 an S paid dearly for it in terrible ren 24 in. morse.” : : bs adulf When your life is suddenly complicated by the myriad details of planning or was . * ’ . “ut ] . : ’ t sh with him, is tol «a wedding, it's then that you will welcome this book of bounteeus Father. Fd at ois - y on both - : suggestions! And it's Block's gift to the bride, guaranteed to help you make Wp jo the way everyone else Je ' : ; : . . spoile m."” : : om sliding plan an unforgettable affair and an everlasting life of happiness—without “I know that, lad. I've always : 05 0% lish : ad ' known it. And if you were to write * * skipping a single heart-beat. Just come and get your copy in . . . BIE TOW BW Sos He . Sod. . Al it might help to show him that : dea. ; he has a right to some happiness mel finish as well as the next one.” : or green “I did tel] him that, Father. But dl . he said—while Charlotte is like this > —what chance is there for happi- ' \ ke! ness for him?" . “Well, well,” mused the priest, Bridal Bureau, Second Floor oR 9 “so that's how it is, is 1t?” Plus 20% Tas g Dept. (Te Be Continued) th Floer lock: % The basic handbag . . . the bag yeu can’ y do without for go-everywhere wear. Every : - one is made of hard-to-find leathers, and -

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