The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-10
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in love with Michael Hratheros. osner OF
4 riding school. Katherine father Is
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unhappy love AFFAIR and = saved from
suseias ~ younE Dr. Johs kaye.
OrrrhrzrinE two detectives AK Tor
uishs,Ts sdarsss. katherine rushss to
warn him. although she has not seen Dim
since his snEsEement 80 sSnS Moon 'oe~'
Michael refuses 10 20 away unless Main.
arins comes With him They are msrrlea
in an obscure little tom. hen Ms si..
RE learns he j. heir 10 fortune and t,tIe
in Ireland Michael laws az snss 40. ,es
New Herk 10 see the lsSyer hanoIinf tne
case. Hs j. injured IN traffic accident.
now GO on WITH The STORY
CHAPTER XVIII
II ATHARINE threw wide the
n easement window. looking down
a. the garden below. The long
shadows OF morning lay everywhere;
the borders we're starred with dewy
drops. Yesterday. yesterday. she
said n herself, had been her we'd
ding day. 49,.
Today she and Michael would
a acknowledge their marriage before
al the world. She had decided that
i'm the still watches Of the night.
There was to be no more waiting.
no more pretense or secrecy. BY
this time Sally Moon would have
heard the news. no doubt. from
hichael's own lips. Sally would be
angry-furiously angTy-but that
would pass. Pride would come to
her rescue. She could make it APP
-. 49,. - t,,I Ifacor rod Michael
A. the thought Of him. Kath-
arines eyes darkened suddenly. She
drew a long breath. She was
Michael's wife. The miracle had
happened yesterday. go.
At any moment now he would
telephone her. The bell would ring
and before one Of the maids could
answer it Katharine herself would
co so.
His voice would sound in her ears.
That deep. drawing. wholly delight
ful voice of Michael's.
Katharine bathed and dressed,
still wrapped in the dream. Her
green linen frock and the brown and
white shoes with the buckSkin
fringes and a string of dull white
beads that looked creamy against
Ter Sunburn. ...
But Michael didn't call. Break
fast passed. Berthe said something
about missing the rolls for lunch the
day before. and Katharine came out
OF her trance to stare at her step
mother as at perfect stranger.
What did you say, Bertine?"
L said that cook was furious when
the rolls didn't arrive yesterday. We
waited and waited. Victor" said
Berthe. with that infuriating smile
OF hers. and this girl never showed
I'D. Nora Willis was here and there
wasn't a thing but whole wheat
bread in the house. You know Nora
hates it"
This went on for some time.
Katharine. breaking bits of toast
and arranging them in a geometrical
pattern on the pink Spode plate.
paid little heed. Berthe was trying
to irritate her, trying TO goad her
into some sort of explanation. But
this particular morning her step
mothers jibeS simply could not reach
Katharine.
TIER father grunted over his
Il i newspaper which he had fold
ed back TO the financial page. The
telephone rang in the study. Hath-
arine could hear the jangling of the
bell and every nerve in her taut
body responded to the summons.
ANY moment now Ellen would call
her
But it was only Leonard Willis.
making a golf engagement with her
father.
Her heart raced and slowed again.
/ Not for her.
The morning droned past. Michael
must be angry with her-She must
+ have been too repreSSive in her man
ner when he called her last night.
/ oh. he'd have to learn to understand
+ her better-he'd have TO see it
meant nothing when she was cool
and stand-OffiSh.
She had crawled into her shell
for so many years that it was hard,