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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1931)
Hs& "- r-"i '""I'm -iftrfiWi .If Hm THE EUGENE RECtlSTRR.flTTARD LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE I low Can She Know? By HAROLD GRAY, be in' Gaylord CHAPTER XLI mFN'E had consumed two muffins 1 hlfnre she decided he mieht as JtJn immediately with her plan '"' iine rid of ierry aieaae, ' . nreas toy ren ilk she asked hr mother. ',o wear it on the train, the train?" Vm learlni thii afternoon . I've some business Sere to attend to." Irene added in "Her mother waa worried. "There's Ihinr wrone. u... -paired aw.ously. ,0tW I want to aee n.r mother's face cleared and Irene messed that ahe hoped there was to C . reconciliation. Irene had intended w to hope this' thereby nulkmlt her departure . vmvtt AA not aneenon her Airther 'Please don't say anything i-Berrl and Dad mrai in Kone. ked. "I don't care to talk .hnnt my plans. Her mother agreed with her that .Hence was best. Irene left without urine toodby to Tommy, and since Si mother would naturally lead him suppose she had (tone to remain Irene hoped he would realize bis loss. All the wav to Oakdale she occu nied herself with thoughts of her re to Tommy, making plans for tk.ir future together and even plan .i,.:.. wedding. She'd wear a tmn of delicnte pink with just the f;f,f tint of yellow in it. A satin ,rith deeper rose slippers, hat to Mtch and an armful of pink and yel- i low roses. ; d..iv if wasn't so far to Oakdale ' not half the distance it had seemed J when she left the town. '. She must watch out for that little : ...Hon they called Old Town, where i Ojkdalo bad been before it moved up the hill. She would get off the train there ana leieini""?. uuc..t wi. ! would he a telephone in the station. J it would be too great a risk to go on ! to Oakdale station where she would i be sure to encounter aome acquaint- inces. Irene had written home about the ' beautiful Oakdale station once, to i boast that Mr. Prentiss, her father " in-law. hnd given the park adjoining ' it to the town and placed a handsome : drinking fountain in the middle of the - nark in honor of the memory o bis ' defeased wife. Gnylord's mother. ' She thought of this now,, as the i train bearing her back to the scene of ' her brief married life, slowed for the stop at Old Town. It was an express ' but all trains stopped at Old Town. i Tou could get off the fast trains there, but von could not get on them. ' Irene had little fear of meeting any i one she knew in Old Town. She thought of the prominence of 1 the Prentiss family. Tommy Wilson i w a nice boy. She really loved i Tommv. But the Prentiss mansion i ws the finest house in town. Darn I Iierry Meade anyhow! Why didn't he i suiv where he belonged and not go 1 chasing after young married women. Irene was worKing up a nine 01 ricbtcous indignation against Derry. He was to blame for all this. Gay lord's father had been going to give her a car of her own choice next sum mer. He'd even hinterl about a gen erous settlement on both mother and child when the first Prentiss grand child should arrive. Irene wondered if she hadn't been hasty in making him understand she considered it far too early in her life for her to think of having children. "That's all old people ever think of when their children get married." she remembered complaining to Gny lord. "It's perfectly disgusting! Don't they suppose a girl wants to have a little pleasure in life before she settles down?'1 She had not quite understood the war Gaylord had looked at her on that occasion. The porter helped her off the train and Irene gave him a quarter. He pocketed it with no warmth of gratitude in hia mumbled, "Thank jou miss." Irene had been a difficult passen ser. She hnd fruit and she wanted it knt on ice. She had flowers and jtacks and stacks of magazines. She'd -tinuht them all herself and taken a drawing room besides. But she did not deny her fellow passengers the pleasure of looking at her flowers. She kept her drawing room door open and the flowers on display during the day. The fruit was brought to her after meals in the dining car. Tea was served to her in her room and she sent back several times for dain ties she thought she would like. It made her feel like a princess to travel thus and she half-hoped the other passengers would think her a motion picture actress going to Hol lywood. She kept her motion pic ture magazines prominently in eight. In company on the trip there were several fascinating young men who Picked np magazines and opened doors for Irene, who gave her a seat when ever she appeared in the crowded club car, though the only proper place for her on the train was the observation platform. Those who remained on the train by the time it reached Oakdale were sorry to see her go but the porter was not- "Two bits an a couple measly dimes," be grumbled to a fel low porter. The other porter showed a dollar from a lower berth passenger and grinned. "I'se laughin' las'," he pro claimed heartily. Irene had to carry her suitcase herself when she finished saying goodby to her new acquaintances just outside the train. She hadn't wanted to have it taken into the station un til she saw who wns about. The suit case was light. She'd told her moth er she wouldn't bother about her wardrobe until her "business" in Oakdale was settled. Mrs. Everett understood this to mean until Irene had made up with Gaylord. Seeing no one she knew Irene en tered the small and dingy station and looked around for a telephone. There was none in the waiting room and the station agent was away. Across the street there was a small general store. Irene went over to see if she could telephone there. She was annoyed to find the instrument in the open but the store was deserted ex cept for the presence of a young man who told her she could use the tele phone "with pleasure." and she needn't say much to Derry. The young man had been staring at her. at first openly and then, appar ently remembering his manners, more guardedly, ever since she entered the place. Irene was flnttered. She ac cepted this interest as a compliment. Her fur coat was eastern mink and if the youth didn't know that he couldn't help knowing it wasn't cheap. Her snug little hat which barely covered the crown of her head and allowed her wealth of sunny hair to show was the cutest thing she'd ever owned. Irene smiled over her shoulder as she asked for a number, and she pouted prettily when she failed to get Derry on the line. She tried again and again, and at last was told that Derry was skating on the lake at the country club. She asked to have a message sent to him and gave the number of the store from which she was telephoning so that Derry might call her. After that she was free to amuse herself for a while. Suddenly it oc curred to her that the young store cleric might have some interesting gossip aliout some of the people she knew. It might even be possible that she could learn something to indicate Gaylord would like to have her re turn. She'd play her part in a rec onciliation if Gaylord and his father would come half-way. Traveling in luxury had impressed her again with a measure of what she'd lost. She did not know that it is much easier for a poor man to imagine himself rich than for a rich man to imagine himself poor. Ease and luxury coming to Irene suddenly had given her the idea that, she commanded such thincs becnuse she waR herself beautiful. Since she'd left Gaylord she had realized that rich young men do not fall into every beautiful girl's life. As a Prentiss she'd had the opportunity to meet men of wealth. She had not at tracted one of them. As an ex-Pren-tisft she was again just Irene Everett. daughter of a small town grocer. She hadn't enough of the Prentiss money to rise far above this station, apd she had no career to remove her from it. She might grow old before she met another wealthy man who want ed marry her. Irene tried to open conversation but the young clerk seemed shy. She was Btill trying to make him talk when the telephone rang. (To be continued) HORIZONTAL I Secretary of commerce, ' I 0 To sell. "MAoto body, 2 To regret. M Domesticated. Ill Greedy. IT Requirements. lTo rub. 20 Mesh of lace. 21 Granted a claim to. 28 Two Ave. 24 Southeast. 25 Witticism. SOVVaa victor. 28 Behold. '29 Cabin, " Affirmative. 2To scold con stantly. 4 Beaten down. 80 Signal " systems. 88 Fairy. 0To emulate. II Relied on. 8To sunburn. MPald pub licity. 5 Dried gran. Point. 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