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of Andy's household, but she was
new Mercy-a subdued, thoughtful
! gentler Mercy-not at all the head
strong, self-centered girl who had
.arted on the ride than ended in
/ Mentions death and Andy'S injury.
The long night of waiting at the
! hospital alone with her thoughts
had wrought the change. She had
been told that Mention was dead,
but with her whole mind centered
upon Andy, her employers death
for the time affected her little.
Andy's inquiries about Mention
had been evaded at the hospital
and he was not told of the lawyers
death until after he was safely at
home. The tragic news was broken
by DR.. Rice who accompanied him
and Mercy to the apartment.
Andy made no Sound-no outcry-
but his eyes were eloquent of the
torture of his thoughts. He lay
silent, while the physician gave
Mercy final instructions for his care.
INTERESTINGLY, he gulped a Seda-
tive and did not respond to the
doctors parting words of cheer.
Slowly the sleep-inducing drug took
effect; he lapsed into blessed I'M
consciousness.
Who knows what goes on behind
the wall of sleep, what mysterious
realms are visited and explored by
| the SubconSciouS mind, what
alchemy of brain cells Sits and
sorts and rearranges the stored
thoughts and impressions of life
/ time, leaving only the result to be
impressed upon and to influence
the waking mind?
Psychological research miracles
wrought in sleep-an engineer,
after weeks of concentration Of an
abstruse problem; he sleeps and
awakens with the answer in his
mind. A writer, brought to an
impasse in his story'S plot, sinks
into troubled sleep and, 10. with the
dawn the plot logically unfolds.
Did something like this, induced
by his physical injuries and the
mental shock of Mentions death,
happen to Andy? Who knows? 1t
is enough that with his awakening
the whole current of his life was
changed.
) A NDY. his head swathed in
1 IN bandages and his left arm in
a plaster cast strapped across his
breast, was prcpCed high on the
pillows of the bed, listening to a
newspaper account of the accident,
read to him by Mercy.
Under the caption, Lawyer Dies
In Motor Crash" The Times said:
Marion county's mounting toll
of traffic deaths for the year
reached sixty-four Monday night in
the death of Homer Mention, 80,
attorney. with offices in the First
National Bank building.
Mentions neck was broken when
he was thrown from an auto which
crashed into a loading platform.
Andrew Masters. 25. driver of
the car, suffered broken arm and
cuts about the hands and face.
Miss Mercedes Riverton. %, Men
tons secretary. also a passenger in
the car, escaped with slight cuts.
According to police reports. wit
! neSSeS of the accident said Masters
was not at fault. His car, proceeding
south on Pennsylvania street, was
crowded into the loading platform
! Nv o,,nfla,. auto u,fioI, cvxroryod c,yJ :
denly to the left. Masters hit the
platform in trying to avert COL
liSion. The other car did not stop.
Masters is a nephew of w. o.
WILDER, president of the WILDER Elec-
trio Company. He refused to remain
at CITY hospital after his injuries
were dressed, and was taken to his
apartment.
Mentions body was removed
from the hospital to the county
morgue.
Mention came to indianapolis
about ten years ago from San
Francisco, shortly after his gradu-
alton from a law school there. He
was admitted to the Indiana bar
and eSt2bllShed a practlce mere. he
! specialized in criminal law. He was
unmarried. A brother in San Fran
cisco has been notified of his death"
Poor old Homer" Andy said as
Mercy concluded, but, Mercy, you
know I couldn't have helped it; it
wasn't as if I had been drinking
1 was cold sober"
Mercy knelt by the bed and gently
Stroked his head.
"Of course, you were not to
blame" she said. You mustn't
worry about it. Why, everybody
the police and everybody-say you
couldn't have done anything else
with that other car almost running
us down"