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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1942)
Serial story r I 7 vrffiSMBB-JBflJW. '" ' Man School""" THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON "i LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE By Her Side By HAROLD GRAY! Bene beat Wfi ""1. imhi "'""..tUul C... iSfi?. " rom Gordo.. "' i.oolbor J sit . !c'.:,.. ... 1 "JL Benir cball - !.,. iirrti' Freock rno- (,, USANCE FRIENDSHIP I.TJT1TB VIII " luMIS told hli grandmother r (nH (mant. So !5fcdtonel Skefflngton, whom jjt oaths bank steps next L they going to do anything .bouttb Singer boy. Colonel?" i.,.t eAmohnHv will wot now, --- !.,mvt that boy until he does Eng desperate. ,Twon 1 be tt?T8i...t T.v'll hlame him. G he'll be in erlous tauble-r-Don't you think it would be a find idea to get ome sort of em Cjent tor him-ut of the way fcnewhere?" tIt W0U1Q, Hioaiii, ... ..-c ... T Jnn'l imnnRA vnu tojjlOie one. t "v.. . . pd tike him on your place, V.Tn f th.ttrlnrt W I can use, but ir you can i ited twining eiss, . tir". i.. jnn't helons in the ijlimi,aPK,Pleiire saying- Colonel Skafflngton nareo. aoove ftli ihining red beard. "There you fin nowl Did you ever notice, ;M in thin town everv- iw$ iiwsy readv 40 send 'onebody to the asylum? It's a ttin a lunatic asylum In this 'town, no chucmcu uu .iww stum ill th lunatics out and put , it.. .u ii 4n thprik. T Hniibt if f US i L u A. II i fTAranna " i you couia ku " iic4cwvt ?T0M CARR moved into the over- i1 iter's cottage the following !eefc Parris went aown to waicn men unload the household litaf Mr. Carr was the most Btnordinary-looking apparition Furil had ever teen. Mr. Carr was so lively and said H many funny things that Parris laughed. He realized he hadn't Uuihed mucti in a long time. "Oh, you've got a piano!" Parris Mclataed. "Do you play?" "No, my wife plays. It was her piano when she was a girl. I brought it out from the East with us. Years ago." He added the lait two words a bit sadly. TU see you later, Sonny: jrou must come down often and play for Lucy." Parris grinned. Decidedly Mr. Carr was a very different sort of person from Sven Gyllinson. The thought of Sven made him "so goose flesh" all over. TT was nearly dark when Tom Carr'a horse and cart came in sight again, creaking and creep ing along the sandy road. In it was the fattest woman Parris had ever seen. Lucy Carr wore a dress trimmed with many colors. Innumerable strings of beads lay about her neck, and many cheap rings shone on her tiny hands deformed- looking, helpless little hands so tiny that they seemed like doll hands attached to her enormous arms. The cart rolled Into the back yard. Tom Carr hopped out gaily, detached a little ladder, and set it close to the wheel. "Now, then, sweetheart, here we are. Give me your hands. Upsadaisy!" Lucy wheezed noisily. She said "Ha!" once or twice, and then "Ho! Ho! Ho!" "Lucy, my love, this is Mrs. von Eln's grandson. Name's Sonny." She leaned so heavily on Tom Carr that he almost carried her. At the door she turned her pon derous weight slowly. She gasped out soma words. "Glad, Sonny, glad." Tom Carr had proved to be a valuable man. Madame was de lighted. Parris went to see the Carrs two or three times a week. Lucy always made him play for her. Sometimes she struggled to the piano and played for him. The sounds were as mad as Lucy Carr herself. Mr. Carr talked once or twice of Lucy to Madame von Eln. "She was a pretty girl, Mrs. von Eln, and a happy girl. A proud girl, too. When we ran out of money it seemed she just couldn't stand the snubs she got here in Kings How. She just went out of her head. Then he was happy. I made up my mind she should stay happy. Lucy likes your boy, Mrs. von Eln. I've never seen her take to anyone so before." A STRANGE friendship sprang "up between Lucy Carr and Parris. It had begun a fewl days after the Carrs arrived. Old Tom saw Parris and hailed him. "Are you busy right now?" "No. sir." "Well, Lucy's been asking about you. Wants to see you." "Me?" 'Yen. Tnntr fanM, 4m right off. Tell you what you do. Go down and aee her. Let her talk tA Vnil fAT llH irhll. Ck. gets pretty lonesome." The mind of T.nv fan- like something flying in dizzy circles. It darted in and out of the darknuca that her, that pressed always closer as though waiting to engulf her. Parris felt sometimes that if he couia only seize her flickering at tention and factpn it Hnum n would suddenly become herself. I used to take Lucy to the circus," Tom Carr told Madame one day in late spring. "If you don't mind. I'll talr fnmnraw a ma'm. I thought maybe she'd en joy it again." When Parris and his grand mother returned that afternoon, they saw Tom's cart before the cottage. He asked to have Uncle Henry fetch the doctor. "Excitement," said Dr. Gordon, giving Lucy a sleeping powder. Later Parris went down to the little house and tintoed into h front room. Lucy Carr lay on the Dea ana Tom was rocking her gently, crooning in his deep bass voice. Lucy saw him. "Look, honey. it's Sonny. Glad, Sonny." Parris sat down on the edge of a chair and waited. She closed her eyes and slept for a while. Her breathing was louder than he had ever heard it, though she al waya struggled to get air. It sounded like the turn of a rusty wheel. Lucy opened her eyes after a while. They seemed to roll loose ly in her head. "Sonny, play," she gasped. Parris sat down and began to play. The weird sounds jingled and crackled under his fingers. He played on and on. He heard her breath come more and more slowly, but he thought the awful cranking sound was more fre quent. The afternoon light faded, and the still spring twilight came on gradually. Still Parris played on and on. He thought Lucy must bs falling asleep. He could scarcely hear her. The insane witches' music that came from the piano was beginning to make his head ache. The creak of the rockers on the floor slowed and stopped. Tom Carr laid a hand on his shoulder. "That will do now. Thank you, Sonny." "Is she asleep, Mr. Carr?" Tom Carr shook his head. "She's dead. Will you tell your grand mother, please? And thank you again, Sonny." (To Be Continued) f THEY THEvV THNK NOTVUNcfl LOOKED ISX MS M OF IT, MV CHILD- 1 AS lt--OS A F I WERE A Sty ) A leper yuy (f 1 fMr""r"1-jr 1 i WO YOU EVR CONSIDER TtW THE HIPPOPOTAMUS HAS THE LARGEST 6MH AND ONE OF THE THICKEST SKINS?. I SEE WHAT "WO MEAN, PADRE -BUT I DONT WANT TO BE A HIPPO- Ss A DOKT WANT TO Bg HATED I HATE NO ONE AND THERE WAS HATE IN THE EVES OF THOSE WOMEN- NoT HATE THEY REALLY ARE NOT THAT BAD -THEY NEITHER HATE NOR V3VE. STRONGLY. KAT1E- THEY ARE NOT THE SORT WHO POSSESS AMY STRONG EMOTION -GOSSIP IS THEIR STAFF OF LIFE WOULD YOU DEPRIVE THEM OF THEIR GREATEST CM C AC tOC 3 HA HA? 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W-t R. oFrrr so thev will only keep wo i i sutm do you care what becomes m w, it is 1Mb KTT. rf'ftrv 1SfcllLr'& A fOlfeOMER Or WAR .1 p I T "'""1 1 OMLV BECAUSEIC. A 9UK , - ALLEY OOP But Does He Want Him? " " By V. T. HAMLIN ifeJLT fif ALLi7H'- XTH6R6, VSE6 1 TOLD VOU 1 f THA'S RlOHT. SQUAWKI 1 f " f PSST' OVER HERE I f eMvM f VIPPEE.' CH "IoT.S5 )yOUR PLAN ... AN' NOW AN' WHAT 00 1 I I PTBHODACTYL 10 k "V V 1 AND RIGHT ' lllcRHA rfZL TrfT WV &ST CRITICSM.Z IVfXCW fTHt) fc S I BACK OF W S OUR BOARDING HOUSE - with MAJOR HOOPLE I OUT OUR WAY By WILLIAMS When men are fighting and dying, you must do your part n mre tou enlist TOUT DOL LARS for DEFENSE. Back our armed forces and protect your own life with every single dol lar and dime you can. America must have a steady now of money pouring In every day to help beat bade our ene mies. Put Dimes into Defense Stamps. And put Dollars Into Bonds. Buy now. Buy every pay' day. Buy as often as you can. Dont take this lying down. DEBT Finland borrowed $8,281,829.17 from the United States for relief and rehabilitation purposes after the World war. Although she has paid back $5,891,291.77, interest charges mount so rapidly that she E6A.D, MARTHA, THAT SPOOM VJE A WfOROfW MIGHT Be OOAN OF- ARC. TANOINS THERE? oO RESOLOTELV P0IS'ED-'HAr-KA1 A SYMBOL OP AMERICAN VtCTORV-. BV THE WAV, AS A PATRIOTIC SESTUREjDO VOL) MIND PLAVINS HOSTESS TONIGHT TO A MR. CLANCY, STAR OP M.V BOXINS BHONAJ TO AID i THE MARINES? ' LISTEN .VOL) BIS VJlNOBAGJ ylHE KITCHEN POLICE &6T The idea vjithOot BEING SlMEN THE i SETTWSBURG ADDRESS' aiVT TIT ICT VOIIO FRIEND KNOVJ HE'S a MfeAiU, NOT ee&eMi ' SuST a MOT A , ggijLr: FgULga ookJt kmcwi mhut you k3 TOO IN THIS DEFEUSB 1 SHOULD J rv-ssrr szirs economy y i cum thet I ) woow I llL Xfe. I STEB8UPTHESEHIU.9 V VJHUT V S- HE'LL LOSE TEN POUNDS TO DO 1 "K ;,7 'V?i!T-fr A 1F I SO AEOUMD WIM T. YOU t5e--vX :v, lose a couple pounds 1 got a, 'H' JbCC AVii;4x J'WV. 0'TEES....AM' IF I. DONT DEIVER'S 'y(J9Xy' j3eK DO ErTHER. WE'LL ALL PCEMSE, lSi-v5feV,iir ' S. LOSE A HALF HAIN'T ftP''' JuJO-n TSJ;OAV,9 VJORKfy YOU? i 2-21 Still OWU $9,126,622.80.
