The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-30
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and we had all kinds of fun, dane
ing, eating, drinking. specially
drinking. But all the time 1 couldn
so quite as far as the others went.
When they stayed all night at the
road house / made Forester take
me home, because my Irish mother
had told me pretty plain what hap
pened to girls who didn't &C
straight.
Forester was hard drinker
He drank twice as much as any
body else. And he was queer, too
When he's had lot he'd get very
quiet and brood and once when he
was terribly drunk he asked me il
I'd go way out west to a ranch with
him where he could get over this
terrible drink habit and we could
both live clean.
"One night after we left the others
and Forrester'd drunk an awful lot
we got lost. Then the car stalled
and Forester went to sleep, sitting
right there in the car behind the
wheel. couldn't bulge him and
couldn't wake him. And there we
sat until the sun came up and woke
him.
"Well, l was pretty near killed.
knew that no one would believe the
truth about it and that they'd kid
me forever, because I'd always told
them what 1 thought about this
business of going too far.
$50 / cried and carried on fit to
kill and made Forester feel pretty
rotten.
Finally he says, "See here, Glad
if you feel that way about it. let's
go get married, right now
81 honestly didn't love him and
1 didn't have no right to take him
up, but l did and we went and got
married that morning. After the
ceremony he looked at me sort of
funny and said, We'll, where shall
we set up housekeeping
"Then l got scared, for you see
even with all this experience ! was
an awful greenhorn and l was just
plain scared and then l didn't really
love him. I guess lot of this must
have showed in my face for he said,
Wen go get some breakfast and
then we'll talk about it some more.
If you don't want to live with me
now, you can go back to your old
room, just as though we weren't
married.
You can see how white he was.
Here Gladys paused to show Joyce
picture in silver frame. 1t
showed a rather heavy set young
man with a high forehead, weak
mouth, and sort of steady charm
about him.
HE looks--kind Joyce said,
hesitatingly.
That's it," said Gladys eagerly.
He always was kind. You can see
that when I tell you that after
breakfast when he asked me again
where l wanted to go and / said,
wanted to go back to my own room,
he didn't say word, but took me
there and gave me a kiss just like
he always did.
I'VE saw each other a lot of
course, but we didn't tell the others
that we were married. And then
one night he went off on a party
without me and drank some poison
hooch.
IT heard about it the next day,
from one of the girls who knew a
friend of his, how terrible sick he
was. And suddenly it just seemed
like something went cold inside of
me. 1 went right over to his rooms.
They weren't going to let me in, but
I finally persuaded them that we
was married and then the doctor let
me by.
"Poor Forester He was half
blind and clear out of his head, eX
cept that he remembered marrying
me. He kept asking for me, but
when / come he didn't know me
He was like that for days. They
were afraid to move him to hospi
tai and so l just stayed there. He