The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-28
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CHAPTER SEVEN (ContInuedl

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CHAPTER SEVEN Continued
Haven't seen you in ages" he
told her lightly
Monnie said. mo, Dan"
I've been out of town" Dan went
on with Importance Dad had some
business in Chicago 1 had to tend
to-"
He low cred his voice and it took
on the caressing note MOnnie
knew. Missed you, sugar, he said
It wasn't much, but from Dan this
meant a lot She tried not to be
elated, but she was. Dan had
missed her-he was telling her so.
Why it made everything different,
made the shop, the street, the whole
town, come suddenly alive
She Strengthened a case Of pow
der boxes with capable fingers and
smiled at him. Nice Of you to say
that, Danny. I've been frightfully
busy"
Just so he wouldn't think she'd
been sitting at home waiting for
him, that was Well, it was true.
too. She had been busy.
He ordered some cigarets and paid
for them Somehow during the
transaction he managed to get pos
session Of one slim hand.
"Monnie, honestly, didn't you even
know I'd been away?"
She glanced around neryously,
glad there was no one in the store
except Mr.. Vernon himself, busy at
the soda fountain.
Eve been rushed, Dan. Didn't
you'-her voice grew serious
"dint you hear about that diff
Gully of Bill's?"
THERE. it was out. She had
l. brazenly dragged it into the
open, giving Dan no opportunity to
ignore it. He froWned and NUT
tered uneasily, L did hear some
CAB about it round town last night"
Bill is back at work Monnie
said cooly. Mr. Harnett was glad
to have him. 1t all blew over"
well, that's fine, Dan said heart
lily. I'm nightly glad
H was still prisoning her fingers
determinedly in his Monnie, l
just wanted to tell you" His voice
was low and confidential, and in
spite of all her pride and resent
ment her traitOrous heart responded
TO it.
But she was not to know, that
day at any rate, what Dan wanted
to say to her, because at that mo-
ment an imperious young person in
the coolest and freshest of summer
white. bore down upon them.
Dan, don't you know Mothers
waiting? You said you'd be only
a moment" 1t was his sister,
Geraldine.
Geraldine's bright eyes flicked
Monnie's face for a moment She
was cool, distant, self-possessed.
"Oh. how dye do"
Monnie acknowledged the salute
with a slight bow. You never would
have suspected that before the days
of the ODares changed fortunes
these two had linked arms together
at juvenile dancing classes.
Geraldine chose to ignore Monica
ODare nowadays, because Monnie
clerked in a drug store and had only
one new dress a year.
"Sandra will be waiting,"- Dams
sister continued. She said to be
there at l, and you're not even
dressed"
Dan relapsed into his old de-
fensively sullen air and followed
her out of the store. Not before he
had said, very low, I'll be seeing
you soon, Monnie."
She ragged in her heart. So that
was the way of it! He hadn't the
courage to face his family with the
fact that he loved her.
He expected her to be content
with scraps of comfort, with whiS-
pered words now and then. Well, he
was miStakenl
There was pain in her chest
just the same, a stricken sense of
having been cheated. Sandra would
see him at lunch. They would laugh
and chat about nothing at all. And
Sandra didn't care in the least about
him-Or did she?
This was a thought Monnie had
been pushing into the back of her
mind for weeks now. Oh, it was
folly-it was utter madness!
SqnHra lrt,Nx,. y,,c,, -,
ter of the globe. Why should she
fix her attentions on Dan Cardigan?
Just because she, Monnie, thought
him the handSomeSt. most devaS-
tating male in the United States
was no reason every other woman
should regard him in the same way.
Several customers came in after
that, and she had to hurry. smile
and be agreeable. 1t helped, she
thought, to be what people knew as
"a poor working girl"
You couldn't sit around with YOUR
mind on your troubles. And she
was, really, the mainstay of the
family She got SIS a week. That.
with the tiny income left by her
father ana with what Bill contrib
uted, kept them going.
II cnly-sne thought for the thou
sa-61n time-if only Mark were
older. 1t would be five years. at
least, until he could fend for him
self. And Kay. so pretty, so allur-
tng-Monnie would have to see that
things went right for Kay.
COMETTMES she felt like an ami
~ NAL in a neutrality-suspicious.
perate. She could not get outl She
would have to stay Just where she
was, to be tormented and snubbed.
She would not be free until Mark
and KaY were able To look after