The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-20

Il got a heart. amt I? I'm
human, amt II I been talking
business today-see? Practically
see? Why? Because I didn't want
to work on your feelings nor any
thing. I wanted you to come into
it with your eyes open and all
see?
And knew in the end you'd
thank me to your dying day,
Everything. for your own good
see? Well, what's It get me. Moth
ingl What's a mans prospects and
hopes and future and even his heart
and everything in your life? Moth
ing"
But Earl, it is. They are. l.
You didn't let me finish. You Just
turned ON me and accused, bitterly.
I was only going to say that it had
been a childhood dream Of mine to
be married on Wednesday.
Il was going to say that-well,
that I'd just as lief go tomorrow
Wednesday"
Earl softened. Earl melted. Earl
said, "Sweetiel Honest, I'll have
to ask you to excuse me-the way
I talked just now. should OF
known better. Oh, you little sweeties
you! You mean you'll go, straight
goods and no fooling, tomorrow"
NEARY-FRANCES, her chin in
Nl her palm, sighed long sigh
and nodded "As you say, there
isn't so much for me to stay here
for"
Little sweet babyl That's what
you are. Little sweet babyl But,
say, listen, hon-er-there's just one
little thing maybe we'd better kind
Of get straight-see?
Il wouldn't want you to go into
this with your eyes shut nor any
thing. About Wednesday-being
married and all. 1 though 1 kinda
explained to you, baby, how wasn't
fixed to get married right off-not
for few months"
IT know" said Mary Frances.
"But, after all, beloved, we're elop-
ing. Eloping and marrying really
amount to just the same thing, ]
think. I'd much rather elope on
Wednesday,"
Earl pulled his cigaret, inhaled
deeply, tipped back his head, poked
out his lower lip, blew the smoke
upward, and watched it float and
waver and vanish into nothing.
Wednesday" Mary Frances re-
minded him, lis the best day of all. !"
He rubbed his cigaret into the
ash tray. Frankie" he said, "if
the day ever comes when I don't
treat you right - square, see -
straight, hope I get mine. mean
it,.
Il won't be the man I think
am, and hope to get mine. Now,
listen, baby. I'm crazy about you
see? And you're crazy about me.
You won't back out the last minute,
will you? Do you give me your
promise that you'll meet me tomor-
row and you and I will light out in
the old bus?"
Il PROMISE" said Mary Fran
ces.
you won't back out, baby2 Hon
est, you won't back out?"
Il never have broken a promise
in all my life" said Mary Frances,
"and I hardly think that I'd start
in breaking them now"
CECILY awoke Wednesday morn
~ ing and shuddered a little and
felt hurriedly for her formula.
"You are a coward" she said
and she actually spoke the words
aloud, land fool. But for some
reason you've chosen to live. No one
is to blame for your continuing tc
live but yourself.
you've chosen life. Well, then
Cecily Fenwick, you have to carr
your living. Get up and do it."
It was all she had, and it was
a poor thing, but it was her own anc
it had stood her through Monday
and Tuesday, and if the Christmas
goose will last for a week Sliced
cold, croquetteS and finally soup M
one expects it to last for a lifetime
She reached under her bed anC
found the green satin mules. She
had put them away-not for hel
trousseau, of course; merely to keer
but she had taken them out agar
and was wearing them, resolutely
to rags.
In the bathroom she washed hel
face without looking at it, anc
brushed her teeth viciously as i
she hated them. Taking one thing
with another, of what earthly USE
were such objects as a face anc
teeth to her any longer?
Back in her room she looked Out
of the window. On her way through
the upper hall again she struggled
into the second sleeve of her bath