The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-11

morning, disci1arging her duties
crisply and efficiently, and depart
ing on the stroke of into some dim
limbo he neither knew nor cared to
know about.
MISS O'CONNELL. whose place
Nl Susan was taking, always had
seemed to him the veriest robot. 1t
never had occurred to Heath to
wonder what her life outside the
Office might be.
But then Miss O'Connell was
nearing 40. She wore rimless eye
glasses and, as Ray Flannery
had devastatingly announced, had
worn hair net.
Susan was different. Heath. Sc
date and proper as he was, had not
realized what an inspiration there
had been for him in this girls
eager, upward glance.
The flash of dark gray eyes I'M
der long lashes, the rich apricot
color that occasionally stained her
Enthusiastically now he missed
them and, manlike, was annoyed
without knowing why.
Listlessly Susan finished her task.
Her employer, with pricking
sense Of uneasiness, signed the CON-
pleted letters, snatched his impec-
cable Panama from the rack and
departed in the direction Of Hub
bard Woods.
Susan closed and locked her desk
and dawdled over the business of
washing her hands. Somehow, she
was not at all eager to go home.
The dull pain at her heart which
had been clamoring for notice all
afternoon seemed intensified.
With that sharpness of perception
which seems to come to all of us
after we have done an irretrievably
foolish thing, Susan saw how stu
pidly wrong she had been to leave
Bob Dunbar as she had.
You're a little fool.' she told
herself angrily. You left the field
completely to Denise!" She sighed
and the sigh was like a groan.
What on earth's the matter?"
n r.
CUSAN glanced up to see the
~ round eyes of Ray Flannery
staring at her. Nobody" said Ray
sagely, lever moaned like that un-
less she was in love-"
Susan summoned the ghost of a
smile, shaking her head in denial.
Rays unwinking stare met hers in
credulouSly.
Il know the symptoms" Ray went
on, looking wise, and take it from
me, kid, it isn't worth it,"
Warming to her subject, she
perched on the nearest desk and
continued, Loves a lot of hooey.
It's all right in the movies, but
what I say is leave it there"
Susan laughed. She couldn't
help it. Ray, with red dandelion
head, her pretty face made up in
what Aunt Jessie would have
thought shameless fashion, Ray
being philosophical was really too
funny!
I'm telling you," Ray pursued the
subject with relish, Mamma says
to me, she says, Don't you be going
off and getting married like all
these crazy kids in Edgewater, with
out a penny to their Names
Mamma says have a good time
while you're young. You're only
young once" Again Susan's wan
smile answered her.
mo fooling," Ray assured her.
Its the bunk. They all step out,
maybe to Crown Point or st. Joe
or somewheres, and first thing you
know they're having a baby and
you see them pushing the buggy up
and down Sheridan road on Sunday
afternoon and looking like they'd
cut each others Threats for a
nickel"
Her description was so painfully
apt that Susan giggled. Ray had
taken out her makeup kit and had
begun meticulously to rub more
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ready flaming.
Susan watched her, fascinated.
For one wild moment her impulse
was to conf1de in Ray. Surely this
knowing little creature could tell
her how to handle Denise Ackroyd.
But some reserve held Susan silent.
BOSS gomez" Ray asked, glancing
around casually Susan said he was.
That's SWELL" Ray approved.
Hes a pill, if you ask me. The
kind that goes around with his nose
in the air.
Susan frowned family. Hes been
very kind to me-" she said.
Ray shifted. What I always say
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