Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1949 — Page 12

The Chain Aa a By Paul I Wellman *

t Algeria Wedge, Todd Westcott and Porter Grimes “Why?” : “Because it ‘must be ‘portant |to him or it wouldn't be there.” Hie

the victors, Fr. Carlisle's record, once made public, ! Dr Talmadge was not molli-

faith in him. Only Gllda Westcott hour of need. The parishioners forgot his kindand gathered together in a half-crazed mob to throw | and stones at him. Fr. Carlislé was seriously wounded by a | oe large plece of , When his cassock was removed a as found about his walst—the ancient symbol of penance. struck down a priest who had been patient and forward them, but who Was unable to forgive imal], ow the story 7 © CHAPTER ' TWENTY-FOUR

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“Give him a trafistusion _ at| |once,” Dr. Clifton said to an in-| {terne. “I'm. going to operate.” “You. disagree-—with the con-| |sensus here?” asked Dr. Tal» | madge stiffly. { “I only know,” said Clifton,

IT WAR: MAY again in Jericho, St. Alban's A wis “that I'm not going to let him ¢ beyond its capacity that Sunday morning’ The service ga Without a fight. beneath fold in nature: a commemoration of the Tif and devotion Murray took his Place | ses] th of a beloved priest, Fr, John Carlisle, who had gone to the beating lights at the table

memorial Where the lean figure lay so very the previous October; and A wiwation of & latill, covered éxcept for the

{over which the anesthetist edned All signs of the great storm jolie arn Duk the wel-| with his cone. were gone. The old tumble-40Wn come now was genuine. | “Clifton leaned over and made The rebuilt church and the new nq first Incision in the scalp.

: . most obvious aspects of a strange THREE Hou ks" tin cahs had disappeared; but wer which had extended since hours in which Murray Clifton their places were filled by street (ne thin body of the priest went fought a brilliant, intense, almost after street of small, clean to its grave, savage fight for the hie o oo houses, each with its bit of lawn The interior of St. Alban's had Carlisle . .-. three hours in w

, stone Murray Clifton lost eight pounds and. plot of garden. been restored, Jewel glass Wok ot his weight. =

In the midst of this stood St [wall 240 rood beam ha we... Dr. Talmadge repidly changed Alban’s, transformed also. Once wo", 00 ‘world celebrated. is mind about Dr. Clifton’s mo-| again its two wings stretched out 1 mous men had come from far tives and gave his assistance now {places to see it, study it, photo- with full loyalty. ing it. | Whether or not he knew it, in \graph it, and write concerning It. oo "ro Murray Clifton had |

The Bishop: in the chancel, tained new stature in the eyes {looked upon the congregation, and | ¢ 01) yo colleagues.

{It was very different from that] | Todd Westcott, he once had faced here. He rec- pr... Westcott in their pew, aiso {ognized old friends: richly dresited | romembered the fatal day. {women and prosperous men. And| He went quickly to the hospital, |new friends: women In plainer and his arrival caused much stir|{garb, and men who labored with ring about. {their hands. On all of them the| Gilda was alone In the sun{man who carved the oak had left room, staring through a window, | his mark. [her fists knotted so tightly that {~ Dr, Murray Clifton, sitting well afterward they pained her for |back in the church, remembered. hours. Westcott approached her | If he lived forever he would never| {with diffidence. | forget that day. {| “I guess things are terribly | | He felt his wife, sitting beside [uehsed up,” Westcott began at!

{ him, slip her hand into the crook | 18 | of his po and knew she was Siowty Gilda turned and faced

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to do with—the Clarion, I didn't {even know about it.” For the first time in his life it] vw |was borne in upon him’ that he

ON THE ’ oCTOBER Sunday| "a not, after all, a very brilliant | | when Carlisle was brought, bleed- ma. ing and unconscious, to the hos-| | pita emergency room, -there- was), LA sudden, flurry. SO Dr. Talmadge, senior aan

taking place during the last! | Christmas season, blessed by the) | Bishop himatiL.

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Toad Westcott was moved as he, {never had been in his life, and he {as was ashamed at the way he had! to blow his nose and wipe his lot the hospital staff, exclaimed/*Y°® It Was no use, he figured,

|being sorry after the mistake had ‘be avtematically re- Teague, ast thé two of them-vers been made. That had always been |

—.newed. Certificates W fied with their own eyes the re-|p "ue, Bat he to! 2 an which) are _jssued in. mul port; ‘about his waist the priest po Pp

, | wore a welded iron chain, In no Vn of $1,000. | time. at all the story was over the je oie Pian ci

{whole hespitat. ~~ orris Plan Savings,

her what\it was, however, the r of the sun parlor opened, and [Gilda rose and went swiftly across

{the room. He turned and beheld | the doctors ‘present that the na-|,i. qqushiter fi the arms of Mur-|

ture of the Priests. JRjury ot at Clifton. ‘hopeless, an any atiem| | “He may recover rationality,” | Surgesy would be a waste of time ng pray sald. “Id hoped for a ana si {while he might—make it. But|

| “We've a rather extraordin situation here, Dr. Clifton,” BAY there ve been complications.

| Dr, Talmadge. “The patient has

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I¥ WESTOOTT had rough surfaces, old Porter Grimes had! areas In his character with the bark still on them. te day he was remembering

Murray took one quick glance at the revealed chain. “You can't remove that)” curtly.

sition” as he had ever. listéned- to. At the time Grimes Thou West-' cott insane,

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the T don't understand you, Todd. lever saw a housing project Just, That storm put you in the driver's!like it. seat, it it did anything.” For all’ his bitter early ob, Westcott continued, “But that’s tions, old Porter grew Iy secBot what 1 came ta tlk about. intsresiad;, 4nd the con~ Those people must have some-| struction pe hardly a day where to live. I've done some fi- passed that he did not stump guring. The ‘strike's cost me about among the unfinished ~o money. It was due to cost more houses, watching, questioning, | —a whole lot more. * “He named [seeing that all was up to standa figure. “That much?” asked banker, almost with awe. | “You and I are establishing a| sinking fund between us, as backlog for the damnedest build- | |had

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to. be Jugtown. -And--this is our particular {little secret-—there’'s not a cent of ote ; 1y, however, | interest in it for either you or the spire for the’ me, "” Porter Grimes had never been, 80 aghast, 80 Porter Grimes,

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near death, was brought to the/uncashed. The second was a}. emergency room by a police am-|note scribbled in pencil. o bulance.. An interne examined | the old man, who lay eon the padded table, . discolorgd, sw “Name's Pawnee Mawson w sald | the motorcycle officer who had | mpanjed the the hospital. “He's got a record) jas long as your arm. Cannedard. {heat drunk, Looks like he over-| Algeria sat in her pew, with done. it this time.” It was too late. In the moment | nobody was concerned, for he about his existence, old Pawnee's’ spent a fortune refiewing| existénce had ceased to be, He had been devoting himselt | husba to this end for days, yet the presho vious morning a "ad gobared and dirty envelope, stained and} be out, of her own pocket bullt| enough to write and mall a ‘as M The next mornigg, Monday, the Reverend John. Carlisle, at St. letter was delivered at the home| Alban’s Church. AND" THAT went: back to an<|of Mrs, Algeria Wedge, to whom still dazed, other event of the day when the|it was addressed. From the enthree found himself dually responsible priest's life ebbed and flowed in velope she took three enclosures. ! (Continued on Page 24, Col. 3)|

Dear Mrs. Wedge: I can't take this check for ratting on him so I'm sending it back to you. Respectively, Pawnee Mawson. P. 8. I'm sending; you another letter about another rat. 1 found it on the Father's | desk the diy he “went out to | try and “stop the. gal fronf knocking herself off, He didn’t know I kept it but I did becoz if ‘wood of done Wistart Wedge good. to be shook down. But I have not the hart-for that now. “Respectively, Pawnee Mawson. The third enclosure was an old|

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