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' Page Foul THE LA GftANDfi EVENING OBSEftVEB, LA GRANDE, OREGON Holiday, May 7,1945 ,f- r: XI : tJ7E got dinner ready the next Sunday, hoping for a miracle. , No one had come at n ociock, At 1. the people in the White Steamer called up from a farm I house near a sign that announced I tho new restriction, and Benjamin went for them with the buck' ! board. The dinner was good, and ; they ate as heartily as ever, but ; we knew, somehow, that they would not be back again, ' My father called up on Monday. J Benjamin was to meet him that mgnc oi we junction, ne naa a man with him, a man who was coming to stay. "It must be a summer boarder," my mother said, more cheerful than she had heen since the Town ' Meeting. "Be sure you don't tell your father what's gone on," she warned us, It was dark when they came. we heard tne wheels on th gravel, then my father's voice. "Where is everybody?" He sound ed in high spirits. We all ran out to meet him, "Remember, not a word," my .mother said. - My father kissed us all. Then he turned to the man standing beside him. "Mr. Clayton Cut ter, our new clerk," he said, look ing quite proud of himself. We simply stared. A new clerk when only that day my mother had been wondering if we could possibly manage without Ada, Mr. Cutter bowed, and we all filed quietly into the house. "How did you find Cousin Vic torio?" my mother asked in a po me voice on tne way, "As usual," my father answered shortly. He had plainly expected quite a different welcome. . No one spoke as we crossed the piazza. "Show Mr. Cutter his room, Susan," my mother said when we were inside. TVTO. 10 was tho room wo hod j. i prepared. ,It was on the buck .comer of tho second floor, over looking the boy. It was a good room, ordinarily reserved for transients. Mr. Cutter looked more like a transient than a clerk. He was short, but erect, with a bearing that suggested the military. He had thick, lively gray hair, a trim mustache, and a Vandyke beard, the only one we had ever seen outside of a portrait. "This way, sir," Sue said. We could see she was awed. "What's the matter?" my father began as soon as they were out of hearing. He was hurt and baffled and a little annoyed. My mother had to tell him the whole story. He took It hard. "If I had only been here myself," he said, groan ing, "it would never have hap pened." My mother always let him keep his vanities. "The first thing to do is to send this man back," she told him. "We can give him a week s pay." My father hesitated. "All he wants is his board," he finally said. "His board," my mother echoed. "That's all." "Where in the world did you get a man for that?" "That's oil he wants," my fa ther assured her. My mother did not notice the evasion then. "Well, thnt's dif ferent," she suld. "Ho looks pre sentublo. We can try him out, anyway." IVTH- CUTTER was more than prosentublo. Ho was Im pressive. Indeed, if it hadn't been for his hands, ho mleht have seemed forbidding. They were very white, very soft, and very graceful. Ho moved them from the wrist with gestures so eloquent that he hardly needed to speak nt all. A finuer to the Hps when someone was telephon ing. A backward gesture toward an open door. A holf-bockoning, half-welcoming sweep toward the register. A wide flourish In the direction of the ditiing room. One finger for the first floor. .Two for the second. ... At only one time was he really voluble; That was when he yawned. Then he tapped his lips gently with his fingers and emitted a loud "HI HO HUM." i , . At first he made quite a hit In the -office. He gave it a real tone. Even the summer people were Impressed. His clothes were al ways neat, his hair well brushed, and his hands and nails Immacu late. ... ., , He made quite a hit with Ada, too. Here at last was the kind of man she had dreamed of. Dis tinctive, courtly, alone in the world. She gave him a clean napkin every day and always kept a vase of flowers on his ta ble. Sometimes, when he wasn't there to see her, she slipped Into the office with little lunches. A deviled ham sandwich, maybe, or a molasses doughnut, or a glass of buttermilk, which he fancied. This irritated Mrs. Guptill. Food cost money. - Ada wasn't paid three dollars a week to throw it away. ii. . . . If Mr. Cutter had been a work , she might have overlooked the lunches. But he wasn't it turned out a worker at anything. For hours at a time he would sit at the desk gazing at his hands or idly drawing circles on sheets of paper. Oftou ihe dozed in the afternoon, cupping his face in his hands so that his beard hung down like a cornucopia. The tele phono might ring two or three times before ho stirred himself to, answer it: We girls were very husy-i-dust- Ing, wiping dishes, setting tables, Berrying and his idleness anr noyed us, too. . ... "Mr. Cutter ought to do that," we often complained when my mother suggested some' additional chore. "He's got plenty of time." "Now, now," she would say. That meant "Enough from you." But It provoked her a little, too, to come in and find him sleeping. "Of course," she said, if we were paying him any thing. . . ." I (To Be Continued) Our Boarding House With Major Heofh Out Out Wm J, R. William HULLO, 3A60N.' WHERE'SThAT BIS BLOB WITH MORE CHlKiS THAN BRAIN CELLS ?"DOS$T GIMME TMW SAP COMMUNIQUE ABOUT HIM GOINi TO INSPECT WIS BANANA FARM IN vjERMDKiT- I'M HERE OM LESA.U BUSINESS AN' 1 GOT A KINS-SIZE HEADACHE: FUM THAT PCESCRIPTIOM, DOES you MEAW IvUSTAH MIVSOR? -AT PRESENT He BUSW CREATING HIS fJEVAl llsWENTlOM, A 3ET 3 ALOPPV MS PREFER PONlDERIM UPSTAIRS CASE TMASS MHER.e: THE. BED IS 'Z as: lnAn . THATl 'Sinister CHARACTER l BEHIND MAI I J"; Boots and Her Buddies Summer Gloves Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page 2) By MRS. ANNE CABOT They are crocheted in a widely spaced knot stitch and they look like a million dollars! Do them in white, crochet the separate flowers in dusty pink, blue and pale yellow. You will need just three 75-yard balls of tutting cot Ion to moke a puir ot summer Roves which will be absolutely perfect with your summer print and evening date frocks. To obtain complete crocheting instructions with actual size de tail sketch of the knot stitch used in the Summer Gloves (Pattern No. 5882) send 15 cents in COIN, plus 1 cent postage, YOU It Eden was in (he league assembly at the time. . . . Despite their dia metrically opposite backgrounds, Eden is the Britisher who Molotov knows and likes best. In 11141 it was Eden who snt in the Kremlin with tho Germans only .'18 miles away and signed the 20-year pact between England and Kussia. . . . That was one of Eden's three trips to Moscow one in 1!)35 to dis cuss trade relations, tho 1!)41 try lo sign the 20-year alliance, and the trip to sign a pact with Cor dell Hull in 11143. He also went to Yalta with Churchill. Though put in the shade by the spectacular figures of Eden and Molotov, San Francisco is studded with notable world statesmen. One is Belgian Foreign Ministor Henri Spunk, jailed for two years by the Germans in the last war, and imprisoned by Franco and Petain while u refugee in this war. . . . Spaak is one of Bel gium's foremost socialists, his mother having been a strong so cialist and Belgium's only woman senator. . . . The Uelgium dele gation to San Francisco represents all walks of political life, includ ing an active member of the com munist party, Dr. Albert Mar teaux, tlie minister of public health. He is also a physician and was imprisoned ten months in Spain by Franco. . . . Another Bel gian delegate, Victor Delevelye, gave up his law practice to fight tile fascists and is originator of tile "V for Victory" slogan. Play Set NAME. ADDHF.SS anil tho PAT TERN NUMBER to Anne Cabot, La Grande Evening Observer, 1 (Oil Mission St., San rraneiseo, Calif. IP ? Ni "TO VNyt ."virXNMUb SOU ca i r r v BS I I- IUj . i s KbVRr0Nl Freckles and His Friends s- v : 7 ! WHAT OD I DO YOU GOT THE ) YOU lib MAKE THEM BIG HEAD- TBIED -,TOSS HEN FRUIT I AND IT .X TO TELL AT ME? J MADE A ), ME HOW ii rrxfT SWELL. . 1 SHOULD Iflll I V TARGET 7 P.AV MYSAtf- I V L- NOW, I'VE . j. . . j (GOTXsu66STiOAli IF YOU'RE GONMA SING, wan SHOULD s HAVE THIS Bur I Vjumramw mrrnnA CANT PLAY Red Ryder Ch inese Off icial Hitt-r lo t-rrrimi I'mtir HORIZONTAL I Pictured Chi nese Minister of Finance. O. 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