The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-18
Don's jumbled words struck her

Don JUMPED WORDS STRUCK neI
ear distinctly.
"She has-Charley-need you help
L"
He sighed and stirred, moaning.
don, this is Teddy-look, Don
Teddy's here with you"
Sobs welled up in her throat al
most choking her. as she watched
him with bated breath. A slow smile
crept across his face.
"Must've fallen-alseep, I guess
Dammit painv'
"Please-oh, please, Don, let me
give you some of tn drug" she
pleaded, sobbing now. II can't bear
to see you suffer so"'
The fingers of his left hand CROPPED
for hers, found her wrist and closed
around it.
"All right, Ted"
The girl trembled at the touch of
his fingers. Then with a little quick
in.drawing of her breath she freed
her wrist and reached for the hypo-
dermic. She could hardly adjust the
needle. Her fingers felt like pieces
of wood.
"a half grain-quarter full" the
Italian had said. She drew up the
solution and administered the shot
as she had watched Don do to Co.'S
tello.
A minute or two passed. He ap-
peared more at ease, she thought.
But his breathing was still heavy.
After awhile she rose, stepped
across the room and twisted the
spigot in the wall, hoping against
hope of finding water. The hope
was vain.
With a corner of her handker-
chief she soaked up some of the fer
menting wine and touched it to Don's
fevered lips to moisten them. While
she was busy at this operation her
eyes wandered to where the Latin
lay dead.
She couldn't shut out for many
minutes afterwards the vision of
those staring eyes and the rigid body.
With averted gaze she reached over
and covered the gangster's face with
the handkerchief.
When she sat down beside Don
again he had relapsed into his few
cred rawlings. She took his head in
her lap, her slim body racked with
sobs.
Now she was sorry he was in
animate, it made her alone-oh, SO
alone! Again and again she called
to him, imploring, begging him to
come back to reason and to her.
Don, darling-oh, God, you
mustn't diep'
She bent her head in an abandon
of grief and covered his face with
kisses. The memory of his slow,
woman-like smile nearly maddened
her.
eff you were to die here, Ii
don't want to live. I love you. Don
you mustn't die! Oh, my own-my
Don, my DOM
Donald Keene's lids fluttered open,
but the frantic girl did not notice it.
Her cheek was pressed against his.
She did not know that during the
last part of her passionate outburst
the light of consciousness had for
several moments fingered in the eyes
of the man she loved. Then he leaped
again into the chaotic visions of
fever.
Teddy dared not look in the di.
rection where the dead italian lay.
1t seemed to her that her own brain
was ready to snap. She wondered
if, after all, she had not been dream
ing-if this awful experience was but
just an hallucination. Then her gaze
fell on the vial of morphia solution
and she knew it was all terrible
reality.
She stopped and picked up the
bottle.
'Half a grain--quarter full"
The words rang in her ears con.
fusedly. Suddenly a startled look
flashed across her face. A CLEAN of
something like insane cunning crept
into her eyes.
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all alone if you die, DEAR" she
nuttered aloud and little smile,
swiftly f1eeting, fingered for an in
slant on her lips. "Tll go with
you"
Slowly with deliberation born
of a deadly purpose, she filled the
gun-two whole grains.
"And if this doesn't do it I'll take
it all next time" she whispered husk
lily, pressing Don's face against her
breast in sudden passion of heart
hunger. II don't want to live with
out you"
She rocked gently back and forth
waiting listening
All at once she realized that hel
gaze had become fixed upon some
thing in the opposite corner. Il
was a spade Standing close by wa!
a pickax. Suddenly she stiffened
The tired eyes grew bright with th'
light of salient hope. An inspira
ton had been born -. My God
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