Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1946 — Page 35
THURSDAY, DEC: 12, 10% TIMES SERIAL—
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' ».' RED HOBBLED painfully down and pick you, up.” 4 ¥ the long hospital corridor and back * a
The Condons were under
By Rene Ryerson Mart|
CHAPTER 20 | be around first thing in the morning |to useless arguments. And there
was no need for arguments, now.
laboratory over her work table. Fri-
day—Friday the 2Tth.
Two weeks tomorrow night since |
Janice had phoned her in the wee Honored by Army
| hours of the morning to tell her
: y . divorce today on grounds that her hokisework. iets | that Russel and Red had been in| Thomas A. Bailey, lieutenant ions on IC > : EERO
PITTSBURGH, ‘Dec. 12 (U, P.).—
an automobile accident.
Two weeks—and she wasn't able), wo qe4 the Legion of Merit cita-
no| { her| |vet to forget the meaning o tion for outstanding service as air | Three men have been jailed on
again. He had tried .and gquickly| “GOOD,” Red grunted. “I'm get-| further obligation to him. He had {own reaction. discarded a pair of crutches on.his|ting tired of this place.” He sniffed | saved Russel's life and now Russel]
first day out of bed. i | the disinfectant-laden air and made | had saved his. The slate was wiped |the phone: |clean. {dea So he sald carefully, “Cut the regret’s, Russel. I guess one quarter sumed that she had meant Russel [from Col. Henry
| Now with ‘the thick wooden cane |a face.
able to walk without assistance. admitted.
exercises and hastened to catch up{remain in the hospital, had lengthwith him. ened into two. Red's injured leg Russ looked unusually cheerful. |hadn't healed quite as fast as had “The doctor's going to release you been expected.
i delay which worried Russel. The |
|late for him to register by the time ing.” (her. Fear made her physically 1ll : brewery. TABLE |they got home. He brought it up| “Exercise is the only thing that From a. great distance she had | daughter living in Hollywood, Cal, Charged with arson was J. R. LAMPS now. (will get all the kinks out of that heard Janice's voice.going on: |and a son, who served for $ix years McLaughlin, also of Pittsburgh, | n » {leg,” the doctor said. “Walking ...| “I wish you'd come over, Elise|in the air corps with the Caribbean |who was accused of setting fire to v from | ED GAVE his aticntion with an and more walking.” —and be here with Dad until we mand and the 3d air|the truck of a New Castle, Pa., beer Si 05 | effort to what Russ was saying. “Walk! Say, Doc” Red said hear more. He's pretty upset. I'm | Jetense Symman distributor near Zellenople, Pa. . Funny, how remote and long ago solemnly, “I'll walk from here to! going to fly out and see if Russel] * last night. . : 2 hve to school seemed. Shanghai, if that'll do it.” |is really all right.” Mr. Bailey entered the army a8| mu.. arrests were the latest dee Suma I tain of sevice ver . In fact, he'd forgotten school al-| “You'll be all right, then the| “All right,” Elise had said like commanding officer of headquarters|velopments in the statewide juris- low Upp hil chrome pla.ad, conve Floor and “ KI? iently combined into one . . . prices include} { together, concentrating as he had doctor said. “Good luck! an echo. “I'll get dressed and call {division of the 38th division and |dictional battle between the A. F . Bridge Lamps— {been this last week upon a far dif-| 4 2 =» a taxi. ‘I'll be right over. wa an 8-cup coffee maker and all accessories,
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took! a step. TAKE A WHOLE YEAR TO PAY “What—eh? Oh yes—school . . .”
he'd say “ain't” or “isn't.”
Bl in mind. Russel mustn't know—not until it was an accomplished fact.
Russel had brought him he was| “It's been a drag, I know,” Russel |
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Russel came down the corridor,| The week the doctor had first set | of school won't make a lot of dif-|. 4 recognized Red taking his walking|as the length of time Red must ference in my life anyway.”
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| {Where he was going as soon as he|
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tomorrow,” be reported, falling into| They were frankly impatient to | examination,
| that Russel had changed since the to that very
And he went on walking doggedly up and down the corridor, un
The doctor was TReking his last He probed carefully
“How's it coming, Doc?” Red
For a Bright Christmes accident was going to cost Red a asked nervously. “All right? Will a _— {quarter in school. It would be too 1 get so I ‘can walk—without limp- | the room whirled dizzily around
RUSS WAS in his room when he
The problem of trying: to walkigot back. He helped Red pack withput limping when the pain and dress. And Janice was wait-|
They were all in high spirits now that the actual moment of starting
NIGHTS UNTIL 9 P. M, vaguely if he had passed the course. | tlon of time and miles and aid: . un | “We ought to be home by Friday NOT THAT it mattered now.|
night.”
Red looked at him with interest. !
Russel didn’t know what he had | night of the accident.
" » ~
ELISE VARNEY looked up at tHe
_Russel’s knowing would only lead grimy calendar on the wall of the
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For she had cried frantically into | Inspector at Max- : ) «Janice—dJanice, is he | Well Field, Ala. of x a and a fourth man was arrested by
Mr. Bailey re- # state police on a charge of arson ~ _* [in the newest developments of the local C. I. O.-A. F. of L. beer war, Clifford Smith, Richard Campbell and Harry Murphy, all of Pittsburgh, were arrested after police found three home-made fire bombs in the car which they were driving. The
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Sruassel sent the telegram himself,” he sald soothingly. “He says he's
I ris all right.”
“But Red—" Elise’s voice had died |\D8 unit, Stout to a whisper in her dry throat. » »
|know how badly.”
Elise sat before the phone while| A resident here at 133 N. Drexel
BUT STILL she had sat there {holding the phone in her hands there) under his knee was like an! ling for them in the convertible at'after Janice had hung up.
ope = knife wound every time he ' the hospital entrance. “If he dies—" she had thought
“If he dies. .
Only then it began to dawn upon |
pH » r I home had arrived. Russel especial- p $ y Ms h hy 9 OPEN MON., FRI. AND SAT, He remembered his funny litle he pec her that she had thought only of : T e PEOPLE nN
English professor—and wondered ly so. He made an eager computa- Red,
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