The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-24
consciously the resolution was made |

consciously the resolution was made
even as it formed in her mind. She
would live up to the standard he
had set for her. She would play
the game. She said
"It's kind of you, Don, to tell me
all the nice things you all think of
me. But, supposing my foot should
slip some day and I tumbled off the
pedestal to which you have boosted
me? What them"
He laughed and then suddenly
grew serious.
II don't think you are going to
tumble off your pedestal" he replied
gravely. Because no matter what
you may do now, or afterwards, it
could not change my opinion of
you'll"
The smile acknowledging his earn
est words seemed to give rise in his
mind to something of immediate i'm
portance. He leaned forward so that
his voice would not carry beyond
her hearing.
"Now, listen, Ted" he said, "this
is really dangerous work we're con-
templating tonight. And I don't
want to expose you to real danger.
Don't you think you'd better go
home and let me handlesit alone?"
mo sir, Don-no sir!"
Her answer came swift, with
sibilant emphasis that was unnis-
taxable even without the determined
light that burned in her brown eyes.
She too, bent forward, her face
barely a foot from his.
And why do you harp on that
danger stuff" she added impatient
ly, deep frown wrinkling her usu-
ally smooth forehead. "You know
very well the real danger lies in
failure to get the goods on Old Wal
den and his son. Nothing ventured,
nothing won. When I go after any,
thing so to get it-not let it get
mel"
IT know it, Ted" he chuckled soft
ly. That's why Bill calls you the
go-getter of the Times outfit"
She took the compliment as be-
comes the doer of deeds, modestly
and without comment.
isn't it nearly time for us to be
getting on the job?" she asked and
glanced at the tiny wrist watch she
was wearing, recent gift from
Dinny, s"it's after twelve"
Don nodded and picked up the
check the waiter had put beside his
plate ten minutes before.
We'll take taxi to the Times
Office" he said in low tone as they
walked toward the door. "I have
the machine and stuff planted in
grip in Mikes place"
Twenty minutes later the two
left the Times Office, the boom
of the presses still reverberating in
their ears. They walked briskly I'D
the quiet street to the building
housing the Walden, Higgins and
Walden firm. Don carried a large
leather bag.
They entered through the front
hall, deliberately avoiding the doing
elevator man. The Office building,
having emptied its active occupants
of the daytime, was like a huge
spectral castle. Every football echoed
hollowly from the deserted stairs
and corridors.
Don and Teddy could hear the
sound of mops and pals striking
against the marble base-boards.
Somewhere the melancholy quavers
of a charwoman's song rose and fell
with the breathlessness of exercise.
A uniformed person passed them.
He appraised them with an indiff-
erent start. Then he continued or
his way, the jankling of his keys still
reaching their ears after he was out
Of sight.
AS they passed the second floor a
charwoman looked up from her
scrubbing, cycling them curiously. 1t
was not altogether uncommon for a
tenant to visit his Office after mid
night. But these two, a man and a
girl? The woman rose with labor