Southern Oregon News Review. Thursday, September 11, 1947
FICTION CORNER
OUT OF THE EMBERS
By NORMAN STANLEY KORTNER
“ I ET'S
| Will. I remember thinking, while
you held me in your arms, that no
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g irl could have been happier than I . g 9 9
was at that moment. No two people
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could have been more in love. We
were—don't laugh, please—we were
like that tire is now. Just one con ; 7
suming blaze of love for each
The Low Down
other." ,
A Welsh regim ental choir was
He couldn't help smiling at that.
Jan really was in a state, to talk singing outside the officers’ m ess
like that. But it disappeared when after dinner.
The colonel called the unm usi
he turned toward her. She was so
cal sergeant m ajor.
j close to tears.
Look h ere,” he said, "go and
"And now. Will, look at us. We've
| made a wretched mess of things, tell the choir to sing ‘Sweet and
Low.’ "
haven't we?"
The sergeant m ajor went out
"Damned if we haven't." He was and bawled to the lender: "If
nearly noble enough to admit, fu r you blokes c a n ’t m ake less noise
thermore. that it had been almost the colonel says you’ve got to
entirely his own fault, but he didn't. clear off.”
She might have agreed with him,
and then the row would start. He
Correction
was quiet for a long while, and then
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he office boy had beeu missing for
he said: "But fires do go out even the he si part of I be morning.
tually, and I guess ours has."
' 11 here the dickens have you been,
"Yes. And what's the use of blow boy?" bis em ployer dem anded furious
ing on cold ashes? . . . But that's ly, u b en a! long Iasi the lad sauntered
why I brought you here to the in.
" i o th e post office, sir,“ replied the
cabin, Will. I had the wild idea that
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talk this thing out," a while after their honeymoon. The
Janice had said. "F o r good big house was too big Too many
and a ll." And he had agreed. Not people around. Too many distrac
enthusiastically. He thought he tions from each other. So they had
knew what it would be like. She moved to the cabin. . . . The’v had
was going to be very calm, very changed a great deal since then
noble, very much the long-suffering, Not in looks. Ten years wasn't very
patient wife who w ill go no farther. long. In themselves, somehow.
A ll right, my dear. If you want one
But the cabin had not changed It
more talk, I ’m game. Just so it
was precisely as it had been then
doesn't end in another row.
Seemed a bit smaller, but then time
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He became slightly noble him always does that ,o distances and
self. Now that it was all over with dimensions. He busied himself with
them he was suddenly courteous. the kindling. There was only one
He spoke to her in a tone he might big chunk of wood. Enough for a
have used toward any good-looking little while. The fire caught nicely.
woman not his wife: "Where would
Jan held her hands to the growing
you like to sit while you pronounce flames. "Feels good." she said. And
-c h i’
sentence?"
when the chill had been taken from
She knew at once. She must have the room she sat on the sofa and
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been thinking about that. "Not
boy. u itb a tirluou s air.
here," she said. "Would you mind
T b e em ployer gasped. "And does il
if we went down to the cabin?"
lake you lu o hours Io post a teller?''
be inquired, sarcastically.
The cabin. How long had it been
"! beg your pardon, sir," said the
since he had seen the inside of that
lad u itb some beat. "Three lellers!"
two-roomed affair
beside the river?
Despicable
And
what
could
Two girls, walking home togeth
have
made
her
er, were discussing their current
want to go there,
heart interests. Said one: "Now I
of all places? "Not
ask you, Isabel, how could I like
in the least," he
him? H e's so deceitful, pretend
said. “We’ll need
ing to believe me when he knows
wraps."
I'm lying to h im !"
They dressed for
the raw December
When Johnny was little he loved
day and went out the west door.
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soldiers
and M ary loved painted
Crossing the lawn she took his arm.
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dolls. Now they are grown up,
That was unexpected. And also a
Mary loves soldiers and Johnnv
little uncalled for, he thought, under
F or Dress-Ep
loves painted dolls.
the circumstances. Why should she
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little
angel is certain to
make a game out of splitting up?
Envy
approve this dainty two piecer
Thinking that, he stiffened and she
Proud Poet—Hey, my m an, for dress-up occasions. Scallops
felt it. But she did not release his
give me the price for. a crust of edge the front cldsing, the wee
arm. "Remember the first time we
bread.
peplum swings out just right. For
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came down here together?" she
Rich
Croesus—B
eat
it.
comfort
and ease, the full skirt is
asked.
Proud Poet—If I had your dough attached to an under bodice.
"Can't say I do."
I wouldn't mind a crust.
•The first time we canie here you carried me through the doorway.
"You mean you don’t want to. It
Rich Croesus—And if I had your
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W ill.’
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was after our honeymoon. And you
crust I'd m ake dough with it.
Inch; u n der bodice.
y a rd
held MY arm .” Her voice was low asked him, with a restrained, al
somehow we could patch it up. Try
and uneven and somehow queer.
most fearful little gesture, to sit be again. But we've done that too
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r
"Oh,” he said. "What's the mat side her. He did, and waited—again often, haven't we?”
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very nobly—for her to begin this
ter? Getting a cold?"
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"Too often, Jan.”
?
A quiz with answers offering ?
“ No. Not used to fresh air, I sup last talk she wanted.
The room was hushed, after that, ?
?
At last she did. "This is where for many minutes. Hushed, except ?
pose. I t ’ll be all right soon.”
?
information
on
various
subjects
?
we
started.
W
ill."
she
said.
"Here
for the crackling of the one big
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mean?” She did not answer. Maybe in this little two-by-four. Do you chunk and the rush of air through ( x -< v . ( n .< v .< v .< k . <v. <%. rv.rv.fv. rv. rv. r\.. <v- <\- rv. rv.
the chimney. And even that slowly
she hadn’t meant that. To speak of ever think about that tim e?"
The Question»
7. Sirius.
"Thought of it just a moment decreased. The fire he had built and
the advantages of Reno while he
8.
am orphopallus, which
ago,"
he
admitted.
not replenished was burning out.
remained East would not fit her
1. How m any legs has a Bom grows The
in the w arm , dam p forests
present mood. There had been
"We were happy then, weren't Just like the fire Jan has spoken of. bay duck?
of the E ast Indies. It produces a
Burning out. It was a simple thing
times—plenty of them—when the we?”
2. What is the 49th parallel? (lower 8 feet in diam eter and 15
to throw more wood on a fire. But
important small niceties of conver
3. Which of the Seven Wonders feet high.
SHRUGGED. "Suppose we was it so simple to rekindle their
sation between them had been for
of the ancient world can still be
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w
ere,
Jan.
But
I
’m
afraid
we
9. A sylvan deity or demigod,
own flame? He decided he was get seen?
gotten, giving way to bitterness and i
represented as half m an and half
ting morbid.
recrimination. But he admitted she | I haven’t been very happy since.”
4. Who was the "knight of the goat.
There were only deep red embers woeful countenance” ?
had never been crude. To cover his ! "No, not very. . . . And why. Will?
10. The C rim ean war.
own remark he said: "Has the Do you know? How did we lose between the andirons when she
5. Do Eskim os have beards?
what we had then? Not that it rose. " I told you last night that
cabin been kept clean?”
6.
Which
was
the
first
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m
er
makes any difference, of course, nothing would keep me from Reno,”
“ Quite. It's always in good order.
t Broadcast ( h er Air
' Here we are, and how we got here she said. " I meant, it, then, but— ican city to have a single railroad Fir
No telling when someone might
j doesn't really matter, or even who's W ill, I 'll stay if you want me. I ’ll station for all lines?
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want to use it. There's some wood
7. W hat is the true nam e of
to blame. . . . Right. W ill?”
do my best to make us happy. We the dog star?
there, I ’m sure. And you remember
"R ig h t.” He stared into the roar were once. Maybe, in some way. we
how that fireplace heats. W ill.”
8. W hat is the largest flower
ing fire and considered that she was could be again." She waited. He did
Nathan B. Stubblefield, as a
in the world?
"That's right. I do remember.” being exceptionally calm. Better
dem onstration to a num ber of
not
move:
did
not
raise
his
eyes.
9. What is a satyr?
The worst of it was that he remem than he had hoped.
scientists in 1892, broadcast a
The embers glowed.
10. The poem “ Charge of the m essage through the air that was
bered too well, all at once. They
, "The first day we came here you
"W
ill.
I
said
I'd
stay
if
you
want
Light B rigade" was inspired by received without the aid of wires.
had lived there—he and Jan—for carried me through the doorway. me to.”
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a tragic incident in w hat w ar?
"M ust I get down on my knees to
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you? Is that what you want?”
1. It has no legs. It is a fish.
Glowed dully.
2. The Canada-U. S. frontier.
"Too late, then. . . . All right,
3. The pyram ids.
dear, I 11 be packed and on my way
4. Don Quixote.
in an hour. Would you—do you mind
5. Yes, but not luxuriant ones.
if I kiss you goodbye? Just for
6. St. Louis. The Union station
times sake. I —won’ t bother you any
more.”
was built in 1893.
He permitted it quite nobly, and
when she had leaned and kissed
him full on the lips he turned away Ruling Princes of India
from her and toward the fire once
Assume ‘Modest’ Titles
more. The door closed behind her.
A N HOUR, she had said. Well, he
2 * would wait that long before
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of
going back to the house. No use India, or those who ra te salutes of
having more farewells.
11 or m ore guns, use a total of
He did not stir for a long while 968 descriptive titles, one of the
frowning at the fireplace. The one favorites adopted by m any of
big chunk had only a tiny bit of red them being King of Kings.
ness along one edge. The rest was
O ther m odest titles are Son of
cold gray ash, smoking fitfully and God, E m p ero r of the E arth, No-
not pretty to look at. She had been blest of All Nobles, Wisest Man of
right. They had been exactly like the World, and G reatest Con
the fire, blazing up for a time and queror of All Times.
then cooling to drabness.
I won t bother you any more.”
What had she meant by that? Never
see him again? He realized sud
denly that he WANTED to see her
again. It wouldn’t be right not to.
You can’t live with a person ten
years and simply forget it, like that.
Maybe they could even be good
friends, after the divorce, and have
some of the fun they missed before.
Without the ties of marriage, or the
restraints—
He knew he was being very fool
ish. thinking things like that. It was
all over, and she would be strange
and distant whenever—IF ever—
they met. Friends? Hardly. Jan wag
out of his life for good—that was
settled.
The cabin was getting cold. He
had no idea how long he had been
sitting alone. Was the hour up? He
rose to stir his aching legs and con
sidered hunting more wood for the
fire. With the tongs he probed at the
ashy big chunk and at his touch the
wood which had seemed so cold—
so lifeless—jumped into flames,
warm, surprising, beautiful.
A single touch had done that. HIS
touch.
He gazed open-eyed. And then in
quick, bounding leaps he ran up the
hill and into the bouse. Up the
stairs. Through a door he had not
opened for so very long. The hour
G. F. Bogue, Landscape
was not yet gone.
architect: " I learned
"Jan,” he said. "Jan. You’re as
from experience—
slim as you ever were. I ’ll carry
there’s no other ciga
rette like a Camel!”
you over, again.”
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the
Try gentle Visitors —feel the wonderful
difference’
Stubblefield's first public broad
cast was on Jan u ary 1, 1902.
And on May 30, 1902, in F a ir
m ont P ark, Philadelphia, his
voice was heard a mile away from
the tran sm itter.
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