The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-06

me your mornings as far as possible
and keep your afternoons for study.
II at any time you have to give me
q whole day, take the next day for
yourself. But this work you're doing
VIII all help you later. Lawyers these
days have got to be business men;
you understand that; and you want
to get to the top"
Dan visited his parents and broth
ers as often as possible on the infer
tile Harrison County acres. to which
the mortgage still chung tenaciously.
After one Of these visits Bassett drew
from him the fact that the mortgage
was about to mature and that another
OF a long series of renewals of the
loan was necessary. Bassett was at
once interested and sympathetic The
amount Of the debt was $4,000. and
he proposed that Dan discharge it,
i've never said so, but at the con-
clusion Of the receivership I've intend
ed paying you for your additional
work. II everything goes well my
own allowance ought to be S10,0 900,
and you're entitled to a share Of it.
III say now that II viii be not less
than $4,000. III advance you that
amount at once and carry your per-
sonal note for the other thousand in
the Fraserville bank. It's too bad
you have to use your first money that
way, but it's natural for you TO want
10 do It. see that you feel a duty
there, and the folks at home have had
that mortgage on their backs SO long
that it's taken all the spirit out of
them You pay the mortgage when
fits due and go down and make a 1T
tie celebration OF It, to cheer them up.
III carry that thousand as long as
you ike
Miss Rose Farrell, nigh TO perish.
ing OF ennui in the Office of the alb
sentee steel construction agents, had
been installed as stenographer IN
Room GO a year earlier. Miss Farrell
had. It appeared. served Bassett sew
eral terms as stenographer to one of
the legislative committees OF which
he was chairman.
You needn't be afraid Of my tell
ing anything" she said in reply TO
Dams cautioning. Those winters ]
worked at the StatehoUse I learned
enough TO I'll three penitentiaries with
great and good men, but you couldn't
dig Il out Of me with a steam shovel
They were going to have me up before
an investigating committee once, but
had burned my shorthand notes and
couldn't remember a thing. Your little
Irish Rose knows a few things. Mr..
Harwood. I was on TO your office be-
fore the Advertiser sprung that story
and gave IT away that Mr.. Bassett had
a room here. spotted the Senator
from Fraser coming up our pedestrian
elevator, and I know all those rubes
that have been dropping up TO see him
struck EN- all in the Legislature. He
won't tear your collar If you put me
on the job. And If I do say It myself
I'm about as speedy on the machine
as you find EN-. All your little Rose
asks IS the right 10 an occasional
Wednesday matinee when business
droops Ike a sick oleander. You
needn't worry about me having call
ers. I'm a business woman, am.
and I guess I know what's proper in
q business Office. II I don't under
stand men, Mr.. Harwood, no poor
working girl does"
Bassett was pleased with Dams
choice Of a stenographer. He turned
over to Rose the reading OF the rural
newspapers and sundry other routine
matters. There was no doubt Of Miss
Farrelrs broad knowledge Of the
world, or Of her fidelity to duty. Har.
rx-oo1 footr aa-f- o-,v,~,--,,-4.-- - - H. -,
somewhat the pungency OF the ess
ences with which she perfumed her
self. and she gave up gum-chewfug
meekly at his behest. She assumed al
once toward him that maternal at.
titude which Is peculiar TO office girls
endowed with psychological insight
He sought to improve the character
Of fiction she kept at hand for leisure
moments, and was surprised by the
aptness of her comments on the
books she borrowed on his advice from
the public library. She was "a, tall
and trim, with friendly blue-gray eyes
and a wit that had been sharpened by
adversely.
It cannot be denied that Mrs. Bas.
sett and Marian found Harwood q con-
venient reed upon which to lean. Nor
was Blackford above dragging his
fathers secretary las the family called
him) forth into the bazaars Of Wash.
ington St to assist in the purchase
OF baseball suit or in satisfying other
cravings OF his youthful heart. Mrs.
Bassett, scorning the doctors of
Fraserville. had now found a nerve
specialist at the capital who under.
stood her troubles perfectly.
Marian. at Miss Warnings school
was supposed to be preparing for col
lege, though Miss Waring had no Il.
lusions on the subject. Marian made
Mrs. Owen her excuse for many alb.
sences from school; what Yves the use
OF having a wealthy great-aunt ivine
all alone in a comfortable house in
Delaware st. II one didn't avail ones
self Of the rights and privileges con
ferred by such relationship? When a
note from Miss Waring to Mrs. Bas
sett ct Fraserville conveyed the dis.
quieting news OF her daughters un.
satisfactory progress. Mrs. BaSsett
went to town and dealt severely with
Marian. Mrs Owen was grimly silent
when appealed to: Il had never been
her idea that Marian should be pre-
pared for college; but now that the
girls mother had pledged herself to
the undertaking Mrs. Owen remained
q passive spectator OF the struggle
Mrs. Owen was not so dull but that
she surmised what had inspired this
zeal for a collegiate training for Ma
\rian- To Miss Waring. q particular