The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01

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family either.
"Of course that was to be ex-
pected Oh, Bob, to think 1 stood
by and let her marry that good for
nothingl 1t makes me wild when
I think of that. might have known
1t would end this way!"
There was no way for you to
know that" Farrell said thought
fully. "Or for anyone else to know
it, either. Well, if you say so, I'll
stop In tomorrow night. For few
minutes, anyway"
He noticed the waitress coming
toward them and added, What are
you going to have for dessert?"
They gave their attention to the
menu. BY the time their orders
were set before them three other
diners chad taken the nearest ia
BILE. There was no longer oppor-
tunity to talk privately.
A little later they left the res
taurant and boarded a street car
Bob left Chris at the door of the
apartment building.
There was a crack of light Show
ing beneath the door as Chris
climbed the dark stairs. She
slipped her key into the lock, called
out "Yoo-whop and entered.
No one was in the room. Chris
glanced about, hurried to the al
cove where the two studio beds
stood. Norma lay there sound
asleep, one arm out over the COW
ers and the other pillowed beneath
her head
Her hair was tossed back from
her face. A silken strap had
slipped out of place, revealing a
smoothly rounded, ivory shoulder
A faint tinge of color glowed in
her cheeks and the dark lashes
shawoded, seemed longer than they
were.
Chris. stood quietly looking down
at the other girl. Norma's breath
ing was deep and regular. eau
tiously Chris got to her knees. Yes
just as she had expected.
The pillow beneath Norma's cheek
was damp from tear drops. One
more night when the girl had cried
herself to sleep. Softly Chris tip
toed away and arranged the screen
so that the light from the lamp
would not awaken Norma.
n II
THERE was no indication that
n Bob Farrell's call the next eve
ming was anything but the casual
visit he made it out to be. The
two girls were washing dishes when
the bell rang.
Norma went to answer it and ad-
mitted Bob. She apologized, ex-
planned dinner had been late.
Bob called for tea towel and
volunteered to help, but his offer
was refused.
In five minutes the last of the
dishes were out of sight Norma
remembered one of the windows had
taken on an unmanageable stub
bornness and could not be raised.
Would Bob fix it? OF course he
would. He did.
"You know" Farrell said as he
dropped into the arm chair, "a fell
low came into the Office today with
one of the craziest cases I've ever
heard of. It's fellow who lives
in Laurel Park. Do you know what
he's up against?"
81 wouldn't even try to guess"
said Chris. whats his dif1culty?"
well, Laurel Park has it's own
city government, you know. They've
paved a new street and this man
Perkins his name is-owns a house
on the block. But when he bought
his property the owner retained a
strip foot wide between the house
and street.
when they came around with
the paving proposition, Perkins re-
fused to pay for the strip in front
of his house, saying he didn't own
the frontage. Nobody could per-
SADIE him to buy that foot Of land
Well the paving's in now and the
Laurel Park council has ruled that
if Perkins steps over that foot OF
ground, jumps over it, or crosses it
in any way, he will be subject tc
arrest. The man came to us to see
what he could do about tit"
why, how perfectly silly!"
Maybe, but he's had to come
and go by back door and alley drive
for a week now and he's pretty
sick Of it. Everybody else can use
the street and sidewalk.
"You see, he has a legal right to
be on his own property. He has the
same legal right as any one else to