The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-03-20

bers in the sheet music department at
the Five-&-Ten for six months right
next TO Salhe's own counter?
A sharp gust of the March wind
caught SalEe as she crossed the
bridge and made her clutch the rail
in a gEip that split her neatly mend
ed brown glove straight across the
sharp little knuckles. but she hast
ened on Needless of the calamity.
Ma Brennan would keep supper
hot for her, of course, but Ma had
had a hard days wash and she wasn't
so well lately in spite of all that fat
There had been a place for her in
that dream Of the future which al
though it had never been put into
definite words had seemed of late to
fill the girls waking thoughts lit
tie cottage away from the incessant
roar and Crime and coal-dust of the
tracks where Ma could sit in com
Portable idleness and read the lurid
detective stories so dear to her heart
and Mike out C the fullness of his
experience on the Force would kid her
But that dream was over now.
Nora jerks. of the tinware. had been
to the Empire the night before and
the Elite afterward with her intended
and Nora wasn't the catty kind to
tell her what she had seen Just to
make her feel bad Louise Grote
from the ribbon counter had chfmed
in. too; her brother had the beat
down near where Name Dorsey lived
and Mike had brought her home more
than once lately.
Sallie had replied with a bravelv
gay assumption of unconcern but now
she brushed angrily from her ewes
something singing which the sharp
March winds had not brought there
and started to turn in at the ricketv
little gate when a small. misshaped
form emerged hurriedly from the
gloom and caromed against her.
'Hughie" She put out a hand to
steady the slipping crutch. Where
you going so quick?"
oh. Sallie. you didn't see Pa "a
you come long. did you?" The bows
voice was breaking with anxiety
Hes at j. again, dunno where he
got it and he's gone"
Cone" Sallie echoed. winding her
arm about the bumped shoulders
It's most time for the seventeen
amt it? Your Pas probIv right
down there at the junction now
ready to throw the switch same as
usual
4 gotta go SECT The boy took a
fresh grip of his crutches. Hes
pretty bad this time Don't let that
Thorkinsen girl know: she said her
pad report him the next time.
lie hobbled off as a shaft of light
streaked out on the porch of the house
next door. just beyond which he lived
with his father. and Use Thorking-
sens long, inquisitive nose was poked
out
Dat you, SalIie?" she sImpered.
Il fought somebody bane wit you.
Wanter run over after supper? We
got two new records"
Thanks, Use" Sallie Interrupted
shortly. I'm tired tonight"
"Oh, If your faller bane comm to
see you"
He isn't. I'm-I'm just tired,
Some ether time"
Use shut her door as Sallie went
up Ma Brennan's path which paral
leled the Thorkinsens' a scant twenty
feet away. Use was 80, lanky and
sharp-featured and as salIow as the
hides In the tannery where she worked
as a stenographer.
Hello. dearie" Ma Brennan turned
smilingly from the stove, her broad
face red and moist with the heat
Don't you bother goin' upstairs. Wash
your hands at the sink an set right
down. Was it Michael you was talkin
to just now at the gate?"
Salie ignored the question and
shifted accusingly.
Ma Brennan, that's steak! There
was cold ham left
Just a snitch that'n do for vour
breakfast. / was thinkin' good bit
o. red meat would hearten We this
raw night. child"
She waddled over. placing the
heaped-up plate before the girl and
then set a steaming cup of tea be-
side it,
But You went to the butchers for
it, after doing up all that heavy en-
broidered linen of the Eversleys'i
Where's your supper" Salie remon-
strated. "Oh. and I forgot your eve
ming paper, tooP'
I've had mine. an I bought me q
paper comm home from the market"
Ms Brennan sank into a rocker which
was dom at the stores today?"
I'VE got in a new line of beads that
sold fine. only they was strung rot
ten and the DANES all grabbing at
EN- broke half a dozen. I told old