Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1947 — Page 28

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"TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1941

luggage in the middle of the| * MIND, Papa,” she said.

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she could hardly believe it. The| courtroom was almost empty. Dilvorce was such a common oceur-| {rence here. ! “Divorce granted.” = That's all! {there was to it. And then she and IMike went out and, got. into the car he'd rented and drove into the desert to a ranch-house eating plate’

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ROUNDED CORNERS for lunch. : DURABLE HARDWARE “I'm just—plain Cassie Fletcher | =“ CHOICE OF TAPE COLORS lagain now,” she told him, trying, a ito smile.

x wl ® - A SICK FEELING of desolation crept through her. How proud she {had been, when she and Parker were { first married, at the magic his name had evoked. In Mortonville then all she had had to do was give {the name, “Mrs. Parker Hamilton,” land magic had been wrought. Yet {the . name ' had never rightfully been hers, had it? Never com{pletely hers. Just a masquerade,

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"ito her new status. i ” uw » | MIKED KISSED her goodby at] the station, and loaded her down with candy and flowers and books. : | She had a compartment, which was | e very convenient and -private, but {rather lonely, You sat alone and] | tried to read, but the pages of the | magazine kept blurring. | “She here,” she told herself. | | “This has got to stop somewhere. | {This feeling - sorry for . yourself. | {This maudlin self-pity.” Li | The train trip was interminable. The miles seemed to creep by. { Mike had taken a plane, guving | back to New York td finish up his “ yu | business there. She missed - him { terribly. | = { IT WAS just one week before | { Christmas the day she got into In-| |dianapolis, and boarded a bus for | Mortonville. She'd wired Mama jane was coming. . { | Papa met her at the bus station. | {He'd bought a decrepit model T| {truck and he put her in the front and her baggage in the truck bed. i “Gosh, it's good to see you home ° again, Cassie.” { She had always loved coming home to the farm. The old house | sprawled out on the little rise of | ground had always seemed so invit-| jing. But it wasn't home any more, | | was it? i i : = | “I'LL SWAN I don't know what your Mama and me and Sid are] goin’ to do with that big house,” | Papa said. “Mama wanys. to put up| la sign out front that says “tourist! rooms,” but I 'bout got her talked {out of it. Seems like it would be

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. | Lv. 4:35 p.m. Cassie, was only half listening.

TIME: 4 hours, 45 minutes * FARE: $30.70 plus tax [They were going up the graveled| o fight dail |drive now, and Mama was in the ne other flight daily {doorway of the back porch and Sid #

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«SID! OH SID, darling, I'm sof glad to see you.” She caught him | fin her arms and hugged him tight. | | “Cassie we missed you so." { Mama said. She waddled ahead | into the warm kitchen. There was | a good smell of pies baking. ! +1 was lonesome for all of ydu,|

~ Dinner was late that night

Dinner was late that night for little Linda. A swollen Susquehanna River had washed away her home—and everything in it.

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— vo " ly i : kitchen floor, and Mama was begin- “I'm just tired from the trip. Don't ji N . a Times Serial— ~~ ning to set out the dishes forpay any sttention,to me” Morris Plan Nariungs \ } Custom- ro nA LY 2 oo fouppE i AE iii Later, upstairs in the old room . : ~ Lh Ey yams i i b Two Faces “Parker loaned me the ‘money|with the twin beds, she thought, "i ; ; ae is YY "NN ove as : \ to build a big new chicken house.” “Papa's right, I always know what ’) ; ; ’ ; x : | : . He scPatched his head and grinned everybody else ought to do, and 1 N T E R E T hd i an : . By Irene Lonnen Ernhart _|at Cassie, : make as fine a mess of ny own life : ) go Tam oF a —— —— —— nw - las anyone possibly could.” Per Year : fo pl ; 5 | “OH PAPA, how could you let him| She went to the windows and A ¥ 1 CHAPTER ¢ 300," Castle sald. For once, she ng- 1, , you the money, After all, he's|looked out. The snow folds COM P 0 U N D E D : { : IT WAS SO simple, really. ticed, the kitchen was immaculate. =" 7 Coo" the family any : y 408 AY Mike had said it would be. But “Everything looks so nice, Mama. : ¥ Any stretched away, blue in the fast Semi-Annvally

‘her a little extra time to get used.

more now.” : “It's a strictly business proposition.” Papa said, “And don't you forget it." “And Papa's got a thousand baby

falling dusk. Papa had changed in the six| weeks she'd been away. There was an eagerness in him that hadn't been there before. ‘ 3 ; - . 0» WELL, EVERYONE changed one way or another. Change was the {only <thing that was permanent.

You been feeling better?” “I - made new curtains for the kitchen,” Mama said. She flushed slightly, “Makes a difference when you know. a place is really youri.. cc. ordered already from the own, ’'Specially: a nice house like!) atchery » gid added. “And I this. - When: something really be-! r oo wi Mn m takin’ agriculture at school, all

longs to you, you feel a whole lot! , different. about it." about raisin’ chickens and pigs and

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& planting gardens.” Even she would chan ] . shal, u ; ! : ge. After a ‘ | 48 2 8B... Sid, are you sure that's what you while there wouldn't be this Heavy) $ 67 A WE E K (2 WHY THAT'S right, Cassie want to do?” Cassie said, ache in her throat any more. And | [48 roa An (14

thought. “We got a.farm all our own Now, ! pa. ) for 4 years at “Didja know Papa's goin' Into!aint we?” Papa asked. “Why | nanos Same Le ealn inh . y the poultry business?” Sid cried shouldn't Sid study farmin'? The ward to lly. | whole place’ll belong to him some : Cassie sat down weakly, “No. day. And anyway, he likes it. oe] There wag fhe pay a natanee | For goodness sakes.” trouble with yoy, Cassie, is that|i they were born They clustered around her ex-!you always know what everybody : citedly. Papa had dumped her| else’ ought to do!" |

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