The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19

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she had scalded her hands, and Phil
had gone mad, and telephoned to
a doctor, and declared that he could
not live in a world where Ann could
be hurt.
/ The surliness and the failure to
call her, both together, grew small,
put beside those two weeks when
| she had been i'll in bed and a box
of flowers with package of notes
to be read every half hour all day
had arrived each morning - and
then, Phil's cheek wet against hers
because he was so happy the first
afternoon she was allowed to come
| downstairs.
She looked again at the clock.
Five O'Clock. Suppose he did not
telephone at all? Suppose she went
home, and began to wait there for
his message, and it didn't come?
Suppose she waited all evening -
and all tomorrow, and all tomorrow
evening? Suppose she were to be-
gin now at five o'clock on the fifth
day of April, to wait all her life
long for message from Phil that
never came?
The telephone bell rang. She
snatched the receiver and paused
to moisten her lips before she spoke.
Hello"
Ann, angel Cecily's voice
trilled higher and sweeter than
usual.
THE youth known for the present
l. as Earl De Amount stood, hat
aslant and stick suspended from his
arm, outside the Happy Hour pool
room, resting rather waiting.
Standing so, he made no particu-
lar attractive picture, though he
was young and tall, slender and
we'll formed. A hasty opinion might
have granted him good looks; but
a more discriminating observer
would have remarked that the dark
bright eyes were set too closely to-
gether under the overhanging brow,
and had this same observer been
recently to a ZOO he might have
noted here an anthropoidal simili-
tude.
The lower part OF the face was
better, the jaw gave an impression
Of strength, and the mouth was
merely too pink and pretty.
His teeth, which showed profusely
when he yaWned-and he often
yawned-were jumbled every which
way and revealed some old dentists
prodigality with gold.
Further description of Earl De
Amount is difficult, because no one
knew the first thing about him. He
did not generate an impression of
extreme trustworthiness, nor of rec
t1tude; but, probably, he was not |
olackly villainous-so few persons
are.
He looked at the watch on his
wrist and found the time past 4
o'clock. He raised his eyes and did
little reading: Stark realism
j. 0. Bartz, Chiropractor. A. An
drew Carlson, Dentist.
He finished on lighter and more |
romantic vein, Hung Chin See, Chop
Suey Parlor, and lowered his eyes
again to the street.
A block away, by the window
of Peggy-Louise's Beauty Shoppe.
stood the fat little kid who had been |
in the restaurant last night, and
with her was the pretty girl friend. |
Earl had no interest in the fat |
little kid, though he had gathered
from her manner in the restaurant
that she probably would stand for
a pickup. The girl friend, a peach,
probably would not stand for a
pickup; but she might come along
with her friend if he managed it
right.
No harm in trying. He lighted
another cigaret and strolled across
the street.
Frances glanced Slantwise
from under her long curling lashes.
HE is coming" she breathed. "He
is coming"
TENNYSON did it more elabo-
l. rately but, perchance, with no
more genuine emotion. At least,
Mary Frances's cheeks were hot,
and her hands we're cold; her knees
we're rickety; her throat had
cramped, and her stomach was i'm
poverished and wavering.
You can't" said Ermintrude, in
a sort of sick squeal. you just
positively can't!"
1t is to be feared that the urgent
need of any ally, rather than any
swift surge of affection, caused
Mary-FranceS to Swerve closer to
Ermintrude and put a tightening
arm about her waist.