La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, April 17, 1945, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTuesday, April 17, 1945,', Page F(;iu , THE LA GftAJNNB EVfi&ftS tfatUlflfcft, LA WSB&, OREGON I 'I 1 1 V n ijj A LETTER FROM THE DEAD XXIV 'THERE was the ache of tragedy A in the house in Louisburg Square. . ; All the servants had gone but ISimms and he hung on with jdogged loyalty. There was little txur nun iu uu. x "turn nu uuluu fto leave the curious fustiness of the old house. Pat Was in bod of nervous collapse, and I heard tho discreet rustling Of the nurse's uniform as she glided to and from the kitchen with her nourishment irays. -' ! Charley arrived, and osdf by 'mute consent, wo gravitated to wards Phineas Hudson's study, On a desk that looked like a .spinet was a quill pen and beside lit in the bronze inkwell an ordl InaryTed pen-holder such as one could purchase In the Ave and ten cent store. Beside the pens lay a thick volume 'With a leather cover and on the cover the simple gold letters: JOURNAL, Feeling like a ghoul I opened the volume. I turned to the last notation: Execrable - weather - and me off to The Lodges. The cumii latlve contcauenccs of, one ill considered 'act are ' ktdggcring Not of 'exposing my Vulnerable body, ana spirit 10 ' me 'rigors 01 sandy Point In November: . I Something or . nothing? There wmb iiu tuujug.'wnuv ni-cunBiaureu' ioct7- Whose? Then there was the notation on April 30: Today con cluded satisfactory arrangements with W. Typical Hudson embrold Icrv, but a little less clear. I This cryptic entry was anything but clear. W. might be Woolf, but What the embroidery was I could not fathom. 'But Uhe next notation' topped me. It concerned the death of his wife and aftet it wob a lapse of a month. It simply said: Bcdtrloe'Bone. What shall I do? Cod oiue me strength. De-Luxe -Nightie! By MRS. ANNE CABOT Good ones cost a fortune in the shops but you really can dupli cate them nl home if you'll Ret just two lengths of good-quality rayon silk or satin, narrow vel vet or taffeta ribbon. Neckline, puffed sleeves and waistline have casings through which to run the colorful ribbons. Easy to mako, easy to launder you'll want thice or four in different mater ials! To obtain complete pattern and finishing instructions for the round-necked nightie (pattern No. S818) sires 14, 18, 18 included, U. S. Naval Leader HORIZONTAL 1,7 Pictured commander ol Pacific Fleet Air Force, Vice-Adm. 13 Entertained 14 Drug 15 Placed " 16 Exit 19 Florida (nb.) 20 Moist mass 22 Long fishes 2.1 Equable 24 Consume 26 Every 27 Set 29 Bards 32 Abraham's' home 33 Id est (ab.) ostrich 3 Vent 4 Right tide ob.) 5 Driving command Rim 7 Cryptogamou plant 8 States ot prosperity (slang) 9 Rhode Island (nb.) 10 intensive bombardment 11 Gudrun'i bus- band (myth.) 12 12 months 17 Music note 18 Cloth measure 21 He operates '34 Area measure 35 Hawaiian) i Islands (ab.) . 36 nod 38 Beverage 40 Be seated 41 Compass point 42 Metal olole !44 Pain 48 Former Rus sian ruler 31 American t humorist 152 Each 54 Lyric poem 55 Coloniie M Inn Ml Chopped (0 Vegetables ! VERTICAL I Pant 2 South African ,, I closed tho journal, "I'm no detective," I said to Charley, "and I've no stomach for this." . ,.' TJTTE went into the library and " sat through the gray hours of the morning, smoking and waiting for someone to put an end to our usclessness. It was the post-man who started it all rolling again. Merely by dropping the mall through the slot . and ringing the bell. The letter caught my eye at once. A long white envelope and written across the face in clear, bold script was Fhlneas Hudson's name with the appendage Esquire added as a kind of ironic fillip. And in the lower left hand corner were two words that the writer had written large and underlined forempha sis: Personal Urgent. I felt a tingling at the roots of my hair. I carried the letter into the study, its thickness teasing my palm, and passed it to Charley. '"You're the legal half of this firm," I said. "What about it?" Charley looked at me silently, then stared up at me. Excitement leaked into his eyes, betraying the dead calm of his voice. "That's Phineas Hudson's sig nature." And his finger was resting on the address on the envclopo, "But it can't bo," I said. "He's dead.", Charloy silt open the long en velope. An insurance policy and a note. Nothing more. Charley glanced at the note, read a line or two, 'then slopped. "This seems to be personal," ho said. ''It's tot Pat." "Pat's fisleep," I said. "You'd better road it all." ' - rVKE letter was signed by J- PhtrlMKi TTitHanr, n olMnialv moving message to his daughter Which he had addressed to him Washington Merry-Go-Round . Continued From Page 2 aotod illegally. But he acted. And England was saved. No man was ever more right in foreseeing this war and trying to head it off than Franklin Roose velt. His attempts to block the Japanese as curly as 11137 are too long to be told here and will have lo wait for a Inter column. That,! however, was where Roosevelt, and Henry L. Stlmson, now sec-, rotary of wilr, first were drawn together. Stimson had coins down to sec FDR In 1033, just after his Inauguration, to urge a strong stand against Japan. Roosevelt! promised and stuck to that prom ise. ' However, I ulways felt that the president was not as farsighted ih regard to Spain as in regard to Japan. I talked to him at some length about this at Hyde Park during the Spanish civil war. He realized that Hitler and Musso lini wore subsidizing Franco and' that this might be a curtain-raiser to a general European war, but ho hesitated to buck 'religious groups in 'this country by inter vening. The president loved to tell stories and sometimes exasperat ed callers who had conic loaded to put across ideas to him rather than hear his stories. However, he was a marvelous raconteur. One morning I was sitting with him in the Lincoln study when he told me the story of his first po litical battle In the Albany senate. send IS cents In coin, phis 1 cent ivislagc, your name, address, the pattern number to Anne Cabot, ha Grande Evening Observer, 70D Mission St., San Francisco, Calif. ' namrr n Prrvloa tuil In the 43 Notion 23 Flower dealer 44 Mimicked 2.1 Larceny 45 Channel 26 His forces Islands (ab.) proceed 46 Him 27 Vehicle 47 Reverberate ' 28 Skill 49 Arabian gulf 30 Article 50 Units of resistance 52 Malt drink 53 Eternity 56 Thorium (symbol) 58 Yes (Sp ) SI Courtesy title 37 Properly 39 Discoverer of Mississippi v river 42 Rush I I SH i k I II IS H 0 u III 13 ii : :5 !-jfr ii ii f- , jl io in IT i) tI i; -it- 55" OVi V 51 5T' ?f"H 55 -51 si a !3 L U self for reasons that came clear In the'note. "Dear Pat, So many times I've heard of people who have forgotten to say goodbye, and I've seen the heart ache that this neglect has caused. The occasion seems to have ar rived for me to take my leave of you. If I am wrong, I can Intercept this letter myself and avoid feel ing Incredibly foolish and senti mental. If I am right God bteis you, child, and from the bottom of my heart I wish you all-the happi ness that the world can hold -fdr its own. Don't worry about me. If I greatly cared to ' live; I should not be attempting what I have in mind. The Insurance policy Is one I had forgotten. It's small enough to help only a little, but not bio enough to hurt, .; Remember, Pat, no false gods. And no stickiness about your 'poor father,' who goes to a better world and. thanks to a Utile tardy vision, knows it. wim an my love, Father:- "And he could have told us so much,". said Charley as he folded tho note. ' 'It was against his policy," T said. "What you're ignorant of, you needn't lie about. Let me see that note a moment." One sentence interested me: "It I greatly cared to . live, I should hot be attempting what I have in mind." 7 I read it aloud. , . .. "What'do you suppose he meant by that, Charley?" ;. . .' 7 ':, . Charley shook his head. .. 7. ;, "If I didn't know he was mur dered, I should say .suicide.", j- "I wonder If he really had the diamonds?" , v ",. , , ..-,. 4.. "If ho did." Charley answered darkly, "I hope he took them with him." . But he hadn't. And what we had lived dangerously In', the fringes of was now dumped squarely into our laps. I have, tried since, desperately but urri- successfully, to erase the memory of those next 48 hours. They Scarcely come under the head of pleasant reminiscences. . , (To Be Continued) - - ' It took him nearly fifteen min utes, during which Marvin Mclh- tyre was telephoning at five-mln- , ute intei'viils 'from the executive offices demanding that he come over to his desk.. Tfowever, the president would not be deterred. 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