The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09

demanded, as she twisted to see if
the skirt of her jersey suit hung
properly.
I'm not giving 1t up at ALL"
Myra answered. They're letting
me have two weeks vacation and
that's all I'll take"
She went on self consciously,
''You see Bert and I will be just
starting out-not at all like you and
Steven. Bert won't be drawing a
grand salary at Barclays for some
years to come.
Its the dream Of our lives to have
our own home. You know that
house we've been looking at Sun
days for centuries? Well, it's still
for sale"
Ellen lost interest in the hang
of her skirt. 1t was on the tip
Of her tongue to suggest that
Steven would help with the house.
She knew he would be glad TO.
Something in Myra's face stopped
the words.
DERHAPs Myra read her
l. thoughts, for she said I'M
comfortably:
ELLEN, honey, there's something I
think you and should settle right
now"
What Is it?"
you'll be living a life quite diff
ferent from Bert's and mine" Myra
went on. You'll have lots of things
we won't have for years and may
never have.
You may be tempted to give us
things we can't afford. And we
won't want to take them"
you just said," protested Ellen
with an uncertain laugh, that you
loved having breakfast in bed
loved being lazy"
so I do, goose. But this is diff
ferent. Mrs. Stanley is here be-
cause OF you-not because of me.
Mother and Mike, of course, are diff
ferent. But Bert and are young
and strong. We don't want things
made easy for usl"
II
1T was then that Ellen felt the
Il wrench of pain. Until then it
had not occurred to her that Myra
would not have the same things she
would have and share the same
pleasures.
Myra certainly was entitled to
her pride. In that instant Ellen
seemed to feel their lives slipping
apart,
But surely" she persisted, her
lips, quivering suspiciously, when
Steven and I come back from
Europe, you won't be too proud to
stay with me sometimes"
"Of course not, silly!"
Even with her sisters arm
around her, Ellen continued to feel
sense of loneliness; a queer pre-
monition that something was about
to tear her away from old familiar
things. She did not want that to
happen.
At the hospital the two girls
found Mike as active GONZALES
cent as his heavy plaster casts
would permit. Ellen left Myra
there and returned alone to the
apartment.
The conversation of the morning
still fingered in her mind. She
blamed herself bitterly. Surely she
was not marrying Steven for money
or the things she thought he would
do for her family.
Surely she was not so unfair as
to love him less because she had
discovered it would be impossible
for her to give her sister the luxu-
ries she herself was to have. Ellen
climbed the stairs feeling discour-
aged.
rCTEVENS was waiting for her in
- the apartment. When she
saw him, everything seemed all
right again. She liked him so
much that in time she was sure
she would come to love him.
When he kissed her, there was
nothing lacking in his kiss, because
she had determined to find moth
ing lacking.
She gave him an amusing ac-
count of the morning and he con-
fesSed that for thirty years Mrs.
Stanley had ordered him around
exactly as she had ordered Ellen.
THAT was all right" Ellen said.