Wednesday, February 21, 1940
l tie capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
Seven
Henry
- By Ann Demarest
Chapter One I
19 George Street
We were having luncheon that
day at a resplendent restaurant on
Park avenue.
"A tan would be awfully becom
ing to you," Toby Bold irrelevantly
as he sipped hls coffee. "It Is the
natural complement to blonde
hair."
I ate the last bite of pastry re
luctantly and looked across at
him. "I have no doubt, Mr. Maug
ham, but If you've met up with
a newspaper lately you must have
noticed that the weather, instead
of staying in its proper place on
page 23, has moved up to the page
1 headlines. Tills, my young friend,
is the worst winter in 55 years and
chances of getting a tan are slim.
Toby lighted a cigarette, blowing
out the smoke lazily. "Swell!" he
said. "I've been wanting to meet
someone who remembers the winter
of '88. How was it?"
"For 21 days we were entirely
without meat or drink."
"It did wonders for your figure,"
he said smoothly, "But seriously,
Chris, give up the idea of this new
studio and let's skip for Bermuda."!
"With the sunburn as bait," Jj
murmured.
He straightened his shoulders,!
annoyed. "With me as bait," he
;outcd. "You may not know it,
sut I'm proposing to you for the
sst time." i
I took a long drink of expensive !
Ice water. "The people at the next
table are enchanted," I said. "But
couldn't I refuse you for the last
time in the privacy of a taxi?"
Toby glared at the people, at me,
then called for the check and I
looked about with regret.
"This," I told myself, "is the last
time you're going to lunch in luxury
for many a day, Christine How
arth." And for a moment, completely
replete, I weakened. Life with Toby
would be so simple since there was
the Maugham money to keep the
paths shoveled, but whenever I
thought of marrying him I got a
queer feeling thai; the Maugham
money would completely Inundate
the Howarth ambition and that was
to paint one really good picture.
I had Just come back from Paris
10 days before, full of ambition and
strong resolutions. But I'd been
away from New York too long. The
city seemed strange and I felt a
little foreign and bewildered at the
changes. If it hadn't been for Toby
I'd have taken the first ship back
to Havre.
"I don't understand you," Toby
said a few minutes later as he slam
med the taxi door and sat down
beside me.
I nodded. "I've been having the
same trouble with myself."
The taxi raced down Park avenue,
skidding crazily over the ice, miss
ing a truck by a squeak.
"You still persist in moving down
to that god-awful neighborhood,"
Toby said between his teeth.
I cleared my throat and told him
yes in a small voice, without dar
ing to look at him. The weather
and the Maugham money were get
ting me again.
We rode in silence until the cab
pulled up in front of my hotel,
"I'm sailing on Friday," Toby
said.
"I shall send you carnations," I
satd, growing weaker by the mo
ment. "You'll regret this," Toby pre
dicted darkly.
"Probably," said I,
"The fare is 45, Buddy," said the
driver.
And I jumped out of the taxi.
turning my back on coral beaches
and expensive luncheons.
Exactly one week later Toby's
malevolent prophecy was fulfilled
Huddled in a wicker chair on the
fjdewalk in front of my new home
I was literally frozen with regret,
For weeks New York had been
smothered with snow and chatter
ing its teeth in zero weather, but of
all days I had chosen the coldest
to move. The temperature shivered
around zero until three in the aft
ernoon, then dropped below and
By
When my furniture and I landed
at 19 George street, Mr. Kimball
the owner of the house, had gone
out to dinner, leaving a sign in the
window of his antique shop that
he'd return at 6:30. That left
three-quarters of an hour to wait.
He must have expected me earlier
in the day or forgotten that I was
moving in. Whatever the misun
derstanding I had no keys to the
house or to the apartment, so the
movers and I had to stay out on the
street until he got back. Not that
the men were impatient they were
being paid by the hour and were
loafing snugly in the truck with my
furniture strewn all over the side
walk. A downtown clock struck six. Half
an hour more.
Indescribably Dreary
I plunged my hands Into my poc
kets and resolutely forced Bermuda
out of my mind. It was awfully
distressing. The street light at the
corner seemed unusually dim and
a blur of snow in the air made the
street seem even darker. The few
people who were about padded past
on the snowy sidewalk like ghosts.
It seemed lmnosslble that such a
lonely, deserted place lay so near
Fifth avenue.
I gave up being a brave girl and
In a torment of regret thought of
Toby and Bermuda. Whatever had
possessed me to move to such a
neighborhood? The day we called
to look at the studio had been so
different). George street lay matter-of-fact
and peaceful in the crisp
sunny ah. I'd seen an advertise
ment in the paper and grabbed
Toby and a taxi to have a look at
the apartment and was tremend
ously Impressed. The old brown-
stone house had obviously been a
fine residence and even though it
was weathered and crumbling it
still had an air of distinction. The
studio apartment was very attrac
tive and I liked the white haired
landlord, Mr. Kimball. He had an
amazing collection of antiques In
his shop and I have a high regard
for early American furniture. Toby
said it was exactly the type of place
a girl from Ohio would fall for, an
unkind remark since Id been liv
ing in Paris and hadn't set foot in
Ohio for eight years. But in spite
of that grinning slur I signed the
lease and got my furniture out of
storage.
It was after half past six now and
my feet were half an hour colder
when Mr. Kimball finally appeared
down the street;
"Why, Mlss Howarth," he called
in the most surprised voice when
he was still a few doors away, his
eyes widening at my household
goods and me littering the sidewalk
I'd have shouted except that my
face was stiff enough to crack. A
sweet figure I made, damp and be
draggled, with wisps of hair plas
tered against my cheeks by the
snow.
"This is dreadful," he exclaimed
as he came up to me. "I wasn't
expecting you until tomorrow. Ishi,
the boy who helps in the shop, is
away and my niece is ill. other
wise there would have been some
one to let you in."
"I thought I told you I was com
ing today, but It doesn't matter,"
I said as I crawled out of the chair.
"I've never been so glad to see any
one in my life."
He hurried into the vestibule, still
apologizing as he unlocked the front
door, and the movers, now thor
oughly cold and grumbling, bumped
my furniture up the steps and into
the house with more speed than
care. While Mr. Kimball stood in
the lower hall to superintend the
moving I warmed my hands at the
fireplace in the shop. Coming into
the warm room made my bones
ache.
Finally the men left and I went
upstairs to my studio, in the rear
of the second floor. The place wf
desolate and no warmer than the
sidewalk. Apparently the maid had
decided that the room needed air
ing, for all of the windows were
wide open and the snow was drift
ing in over the sills.
Carl Anderson
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