Tuesday, April 17, 1945,',
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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
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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
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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.
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ivislagc, your name, address, the
pattern number to Anne Cabot,
ha Grande Evening Observer, 70D
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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.
FDR Belonged to World f I
Shortly 'before the end of his
second term, Roosevelt, still silent
as to his third term ohms,, was
under heavy pressure to run
again. Jimmy Roosevelt was then
a member of the White House
staff.
Roosevelt Called ,in a 'group of .
advisers, including Harry Hop
kins and his son Jimmy, and ask
ed them to submit their reasons
why they thought ho should run.,,
One of those present made a par-'
ticularly eloquent plea. , When
the conference was over and the
group filed out, Jimmy rushed up
and said: ; ' .j
"Wbat are you trying to do? j
You're trying to kill my father!
No man can live through thr,ce,
terms in that job, You can't do, i
'this o him. We "won't let you '
do this to him'!"
"jimmy," said the Whito House
aide, "he's your father, but he
belongs to the country as well..
He belongs to the world." 'j,
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