The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-07
CHAPTER FORTY TWO

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TT was night now, Outside on the
j street lamps were lighted, silver
pears blooming suddenly high in the
early dusk. Inside the quiet hospital
room nothing vas changed. Quiet
feet slipped to and fro.
Someone helped Monnie to a low
chair She did not take her eyes
from tbe face of the boy in the
high. narrow bed His eyes were
closed now. There was an express
sion of deep contentment in his face
"Anrhow he isn't in pain, She
kept telling herself over and over,
Crueging herself with the thought.
Anyhow it's being made easy for
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Monnie was conscious once during
the long hours OF Charles Eustace at
her side.
You must come away and get
some rest" he urged softly. This
r. doing no good. He doesn't know
you're here
She shook her head gently stub
born AS if she would leave now!
Just before midnight he opened
his eyes 1t seemed to Monnie that
he smiled at her His mother,
swaving on her feet, called his
name
Dan closed those dark blue eyes
Of his again, and a little shudder
took him That was all. 1t was as
ii he had smiled at them to say
good by. The nurse led Mrs. Car
digan away and Monnie, dazed
found herself in the corridor
Charles arms was about her It
wasn't true. she thought Dan
wasn't gone Oh, there must be
something some one could do 1t
was monstrous, unbelievable
A girl and boy, arms linked, went
by in the street, laughing The
world was wrong. Monnie felt some
thing clutch at her throat. She
wanted to say, Charles. I'm afraid
I'm going to be i'll But she never
managed the words
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NXTHEN she aWoke she was in
w her own bed. Her mother,
anxious eyed, lowered over her with
a cup of steam liquid in one hand.
DR. Waterman says you're to
drink this and you're not to talk. y
She told Monnie The girl was obed-
lent. She felt strangely exhausted,
strangely limp. Through some soft
Of fog. She was grateful to them all
for taking care of her. They were
Everyone was
In the days that followed, Mon
mic somehow picked up the threads
of her life again. She was broken,
she told herseS
Nothing could really make her
whole. but she would do the best
she could with what was left. She
was so quiet, SO submissive that she
frightened them all Did she want to
90 for a drive? CThis from Bill who
had lately acquired a small second
hand sedan. Yes, that would be
nice
When Mr.. Vernon asked her to
come back to her old work. Monnie
said she thought she'd better not
1t would be dreadful, having all her
old friends come in and pity her,
sympathizing with her wordlesSly,
watching to see how she was taking
it.
When she worked she forgot the
past year. its fretting and dis
appointments and heartache, with
her great loss at the top of the high
hill
Sandra she did not see again. A
week after Dams funeral Sandra
had gone away, heavily yelled, with
her father.
She's marred for life" Kay told
Mrs. ODare. not without a certain
grim satisfaction. She's gone to
see a plastic surgeon in Vienna,
Linda says, hoping he can fix her
up They say there's a bad scar
across her forehead and one near
the mouth
Mrs. ODare shuddered. Don't
tell me about it"
II AY said, Did you know they'd
N all been drinking the night she
and Dan ran off? Sandra wasn't