The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-23
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OPPORTUNITIES for Mary
~ Frances, for Cissy. Cissy could
marry, conscience clear, and be
happy.
What right did Ann have to re-
fuse ell this, simply because she did
not desire it for herself? Or did
she, perhaps, desire it? She neve:
had before thought of it seriously.
She couldn't do the boy any harm.
He did not love her-but he
thought that he did. He loved him
self so dearly that he could not
bear to deny himself anything.
The trouble was that marrying
this funny boy was just one of those
things that could not be done-not
for money, nor for any reason.
Suppose Grand we're i'll again this
winter? Suppose Cecily might be
married, right now They had not
bought their fuel for the coming
winter. They had paid only half Of
the taxes last March. How soon
could she find another position, with
times as they were right now?
People did do mad things. People
did do things like saying suddenly,
Very we'll. Drive to the city hall
and get a license and we'll be mar
ried right away" There was a
within the hour"
Suppose she were to say that?
Suppose she simply opened her
mouth and allowed the words to
come out? They what would hap
pen? The minister. The ceremony.
Honor and obey"
She looked furtively at Kenneth.
She looked longer, and drew in a
deep breath and released it with a
giggle, clear and antiseptic. She
had been having a melodramatic
dream, bad dream, and she had
come suddenly awake.
What's the joke?" Kenny de-
manded.
Nothing. I just thought of some
thing amusing"
We'll. Headache better?" he
asked, but with no solicitude.
Much better" she said, and
thought, lit would tell like a dream.
Cissy, 1 dreamed last night that I
was going to marry Kenny Smith.
1t seemed as if I had to, to get a
fur coat for Mary Frances, and the
winters wood
But when we stood before the
minister, and 1 was Just ready to
promise to honor and obey, why,
Kenny turned into that puppy
Mary Frances used to have. You
remember-we called him 'Scowls.
He was yellow and pouty and
Grand thought he gave him asthma.
Il said to The minister, I can't
marry him. And the minister said,
'One, two, three. I knew all the
time you couldn't. Out goes She
And Phil, who had been sort of in
the background, all the time"
Ann passed, corrected carefully,
phil and Lefty and forgot about
the dream.
A T2oclock on this same Wednes-
N day afternoon Mary Frances
and Earl De Amount met, accord
ing to previously made arrange
ments, at the corner of Spruce
street and Fenwick avenue.
There they held converse, earnest
but brief and there they parted
Earl made his way alone to the sub
urb's business center, and Mary
Frances, though she longed to &C
home, returned, discretion's victim
to Ermintrude Hills house.
Ermintrude. sitting on the front
porch, gloomily and slowly Smelling
green peas, saw her friend APP
preaching, jumped up, spilled a lap
full of pods, and rushed to meet her
Darling" she exclaimed, Il just
knew you'd come to your senses and
think about me and everything. ]
just knew it. One of my"
tits his brown striped suit" said
Mary-Frances. THE cleaners prom
ised to have it ready by noon, but
it isn't out yet, and we'll have &c