The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
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she could have Monday as a holi-
day and thus be able to spend
Christmas with her parents 500
miles away.
! Saturday. with the last task COM
pleted, Eve said goodby TO the
others in the office, wished them
a Merry Christmas. and left TO meet
Dick On the way to the train they
posted their marriage announce
ments to Ewes friends in Lake City.
Those for the home folks had been
sent a week earlier.
Eve felt mixture of apprehen-
sion and relief after the announce
ments we're mailed. But at least
there was nothing TO worry about
for the present and she boarded the
train with light heart.
Henry Bayless met them at the
station Sunday morning. Eve spied
her father first and gulped as her
eyes filed with tears Then she
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while he struggled for composure.
Paintings and meetings after long
separation always effected Henry
BayleSs His eyes were blurry and
he swallowed hard Then he well
coined Dick with a hearty hand
shake and felt a glow of friendship
in that firm clasp. Hank trusted
few men until they proved them
selves but his instinct told him Dick
RAIDER was all right.
II had showed heavily overnight
and Hank drove carefully. He was
proud of his new car and boosted
to Dick Of the number of years he
had driven the old one.
The bayless home was in an old
section Of the city on a tree-lined
street Nice here in the summer"
said Hank as he drove into the yard.
Dick saw a modest house of the
seven-room variety with side porch
and low attic over the kitchen.
Ewes mother. rosy and smiling,
beamed a welcome from the door
way.
TICK felt the spirit of Christmas
- for which he had long been
home-sick. He accompanied his
father-in-law to the woodshed and
helped him nail together a stand for
the Christmas tree. Later ne helped
Eve trim the tree.
He put extra leaves in the dining
room table TO accommodate the
guests and when Ewes sister Esther
arrived with her husband and child
the baby held out her arms to Dick
and seemed to prefer him to any
one else. Later. to the child's in
tense delight, Dick mace a snow
man.
Ewes grandmother, accompanied
by the son with whom she lived.
came for dinner. Grandmother
Bayless. little spry and yet always
complaining, enjoyed the day enor-
mouSly.
After dinner they all gathered
in the old parlor and Esther played
the piano while the others sang
Christmas carols. Then the gifts
were distributed Dick, who had
been alone at Christmas for the
last ten years. was amazed at the
unselfish generosity displayed.
Grandmother BaylesS, in partic-
ular, amused him. She brought
Eve a handsome quilt of intricate
log cabin" design which she had
made herself and then grumbled
when she saw the exquisitely COL
ored rag rugs which Ewes mother
had given TO Dick.
'H-m!" Grandmother declared
Now l know why Kate was so
everlastingly busy dyeing and sew
ing all those rags that she couldn't
even take time to visit with a per-
son!"
nICK surprised Eve with his gift
~ "a beautifully designed din
uer ring set with diamonds. we
were engaged and married all in
one BREATH Eve explained to her
mother. and I asked to have only
the wedding ring
That evening the whole family
bundled into heavy wraps and rode
out TO Cousin Myrtle's" in Beach
wood. There. in a modern suburb.
Cousin Myrtle and her family lived
in a house of Normandy type.