The Hermiston herald., February 11, 1937, Image 6

Thursday, February 11, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Striking Wild Rose
Design in Cutwork
DEPUTY OF THE DEVIL I
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Copyright, Ben Ames Williams.
By BEN AMES WILLIAMS
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WNU Service.
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He sat dovzn beside her. After a
“Why?” she asked curiously. “I
He set up anothei target, filled
“You should have asked my ad­
moment she looked up at him, and will, of course, if you think so, Dan. vice,” he said irritably, “before the magazine. He fired somewhat
this. What do your holdings aver­ more rapidly than she had; and
It was hours after his wife’s death her eyes drew him down. He said, But why?”
“No man likes to find himself in age?” he asked; and when the oth­ when he finished, went to fetch the
before Doctor Greeding at last re­ huskily: “Your lips are trembling.”
“I’m not—trembling, or afraid, or the position of making love to—an er told him, he sat in silence for a target. They examined it together,
alized that he was free. Terror
had ridden him hard, till he put on doubtful any more, Dan,” she whis­ engaged girl,” he explained. “It while. Then he smiled, as though and she had to concede defeat. Of
Pattern 1337
makes him ridiculous; and Jerrell’s ir decision, and relaxed in his chair. her shots, three were scattered out­
grief like a seemly garment. But pered. “I know what I want.”
too
much
of
a
man
for
that.
”
His eyes were troubled. She cov­
Simplicity of design—simplicity
“Well,” he said, “as a matter of side a six-inch circle; but his were
at the end he came to sudden com­
“If he doesn’t want to be ridicu- fact, I expect Cottons will touch all closely grouped.
of needlework combine to make
prehension that he was loosed from ered her eyes with her arm again,
lous,
he
shouldn
’
t
make
love
to
a
They stayed there, thus engaged, these wild roses effective in cut­
that figure this week, Ned. When it
the fetters that had bound him. His and spoke slowly and carefully,
bonds were broken! He was un­
"I won’t argue with you, Dan, my girl half his age,” she protested does, you’d better unload.” He hes­ until the luncheon-bell rang; and he work. Do the flowers in applique,
itated, then thrust the telephone to­ beat her consistently, so that his too — it’s very easy to combine
tre mmeled, free!
dear," she said. “I’ve made up— mischievously.
Dan insisted: “I like him, and ward Doctor Greeding. “Put in an good humor grew. At lunch he was with cutwqrk. Use these designs
In a high exultation the man our minds.” Her lips smiled faint­
order to sell at your price, G. T. C.,” as amiable as possible; and she pre­ on sheets and pillow cases — on
came back to the house at last. ly. "No need of going over the respect him. Nancy, you do it."
She said demurely: “Who am I he directed.
tended chagrin at her defeat, and scarfs and towels — on a chair
He came straight across the island same ground again and again and
through the shadowed woods. Yet again. Of course, we will wait— to oppose you, Dan, my dear? I’ll
Doctor Greeding took the phone; challenged him to tennis in the aft­ back. Dress up your own home or
if he had looked up, he might even a little while, for Mother's sake. do exactly as you say.” She urged but he looked his doubts. “You’re ernoon. Her father accepted.
make them as gifts. Pattern 1337
then have seen, through the foliage But waiting will be hatd, and it then, happily: “But let’s not tell sure it won’t go higher?” he asked.
They did not begin immediately contains a transfer pattern of a
above him. the unwinking stars.
mustn’t be long, because the world anyone else, till we’re ready to be
The pen tapped more sharply. after lunch; but they were on the motif 612 by 20 inches, two motifs
is settled, for us. No matter what married the very next day!”
‘Ned, man get out with a whole court when in midafternoon the 5 by 14% inches and pattern
Mrs. Greeding was buried in you think, you’re going to marry
He nodded. “All eight. But I’d skin and consider yourself lucky,” phone rang. The telephone itself pieces for the applique patches;
Cambridge, on Tuesday, in the aft­ me.”
like to shout it.”
Jerrell bade; and there was some­ was in a closet behind the dining- illustrations of all stitches used;
ernoon. It was a hot, sunny July
“I’d like to sing it, darling,” she thing like scorn in his tones.
"We’ll be deadly poor,” he con­
room, but there was a clanging bell material requirements; color sug­
day, with no breeze to stir the heavy fessed. “I’ve nothing but my sal­ whispered. “Kiss me now.” He
So Doctor Greeding called Paul on the side veranda which could gestions.
foliage of the trees that shaded the ary—never will have.”
aid. “And good night. Tomorrow Master and gave the order. then be heard for half the length of the
Send 15 cents in stamps or coins
scene. Nancy would always re­
“Dan, my dear, you’re so com­ night, Dan?”
turned to Jerrell.
island; and Nancy cried:
(coins
preferred) for this pattern
member, at some distance, the hiss mercial," she reproached him
“All the tomorrows,” he prom­
“I’ll have to go answer. There’s to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
“You have put me heavily in
and murmur of cars passing along whimsically. "A body’d think you ised.
your debt, Ira,” he said slowly. “If probably no one in the house.” She Dept., 82 Eighth Ave, New York,
the nearest street; the far whis­ were bent on marrying money.”
I can ever repay you—if there’s went running down the path.
N. Y.
per of the heedless world.
He said laughing with a deep de­
CHAPTER VII
anything you want of mine—” And
Write plainly pattern number,
But when she came back up the
Dan and Mary Ann and Profes­ light: “You’re as obstinate as—”
he suggested, not looking at the oth­ path, it was slowly, disappointment your name and address.
sor Carlisle and others were there.
“I’m not,” she protested. “I’m
Doctor Greeding decided that he
“Why don’t you come up shadowing her eyes; she said:
Among them, Ira Jerrell. Nancy not obstinate. It’s only obstinate would go to the Lake for his vaca­ er man:
the Lake sometime in August?
did not at first discover him; not when you insist on doing the wrong tion, just as he had planned. He to
A Severe Test
and I will be there. I have
till they all turned away, and her thing; so you’re the obstinate one!” said to Nancy, “I think your moth­ Nancy
medical
work
to
do
with
Miss
Car
­
According
to Marco Polo, when
eyes cleared, and she could look Her arm reached up and drew him er would want us to,” and he ex­ lisle.”
an aspirant to priesthood in India
around. Then she saw him near nearer. “Don’t be so strong and plained: “I shall do some work. I've
Jerrell smiled, shook his head.
arrived at the monastery, the fair­
her father, saw him clasp Doctor
papers to prepare. Miss Carlisle “You don’t owe me anything, Ned,”
est young girls belonging to it
Greeding’s hand. When presently stubborn, Dan.”
He whispered, stammering and can get the data together and bring he said patiently. “And—neither
came forth to meet him, and gath­
she and her father were in the car
breathless: “Nancy, you’ll have me the material up to me.”
does Nancy. But I may come.”
ering round, would overwhelm
again. Doctor Greeding said:
Nancy nodded, and he added:
him with embraces and kisses.
That evening Doctor Greeding left
“I asked Mr. Jerrell to drop in —drunk with your sweetness, in a “She
’s a very capable girl, Nancy.” the house after dinner. Mary Ann
minute. Let me keep my head.”
The old priests, meanwhile, would
for a while, Nancy.”
“
Oh
yes,” she agreed. “Yes, was at the office when he got there;
stand by, keenly watching. If he
“
I
wan:
you
drunk
and
quite
She nodded indifferently. They
Mary
Ann
’
s
fine.
”
and for two or three hours they
betrayed any pleasure at the ca­
came home together, and she went mad, and wholly irresponsible,” she
“I’ve never worked so well as
resses of the girls, he was at once
for a moment to her room. Doctor insisted. “I don’t want you to keep since I took her on,” he said. worked together. Afterward he in­
sisted on taking her home; and on
rejected ; but if he submitted him­
your head.” Her arms were tight
Greeding stayed downstairs.
“She—” He spoke of details, till it
self to them coldly, and with un­
When she heard Jerrell arrive, around him. “Dan, Dan, I want you occurred to Nancy, incredibly, that the way, he said:
moved face, he was admitted to
*T’m going to drop everything and
heard their voices in the library, with me, to fight with me, to stand he protested overmuch. She said
head for the Lake as soon as possi­
the priesthood.
she descended and appeared in the with me, to hold me.”
at last, faintly disquieted by his re­ ble. I’ll want you to finish analyz­
“I am holding you, Nancy.”
open door, hatted and ready to de-
iterations
:
these cases, and bring the fig­
“Never let me go,” she whispered.
part. Doctor Greeding looked up
“You don't need to praise Mary ing
ures up to me. After I’ve had a
Never let me go.”
in surprise.
A Three Days’ Cough
Ann to me, Father.”
And she said: “I want it settled,
“Going out, Nancy? Best stay
He flushed, but then he laughed. few days’ rest. Say next Friday?”
finally, and absolutely, and always
He saw hesitation in her, and he
with us.”
Is Your Danger Signal
“Fine,” he said. “I’m glad you
She met Jerrell's eyes straight­ and forever, between us, Dan. Do won’t mind her being up there with added swiftly: “I’ll want you there
No matter how many medicines
for a few days; and perhaps Nancy
forwardly and frankly. “I won’t be you hear?” And she cried, a half us.”
you have tried for your cough, chest
gone long,” she said “You’ve Mr. sob in her tones: “Oh, it’s only so
“I’ll ask Dan too,” she said. “So can persuade you to stay on for a
cold
or bronchial irritation, you can
that nothing can happen, so that I that I’ll have some one to play while, even after our job is done.”
Jerrell for company.”
get relief now with Creomulsion.
can
stand
up
to
Father,
and
so
that
She
wished
to
demur;
Serious
trouble may be brewing and
but
be-
She took the little roadster and
with while you and she are work-
you cannot afford to take a chance
fore she could do so, he said hur-
drove rapidly, as though anxious I can cling fast to you, Dan. No ing.”
with anything less than Creomul­
to make her escape before some­ matter what he says, or does.” Her
He hesitated. “I don’t know riedly: “I’ll need to work, this year,
sion, which goes right to the seat
eyes questioned him
"Dan, you whether that’s—wise, Nancy. So to keep from—thinking!”
thing happened to detain her.
of the trouble to aid nature to
She said, in quick compre-
soothe and heal the inflamed mem­
She was strongly drawn toward mustn’t argue, and And reasons, soon after your mother’s death.”
branes as the germ-laden phlegm
Dan—she felt this deep attraction and think of obstacles, ever any
She did not urge the point, as- tension: "Of course. I under­
is loosened and expelled.
more keenly than ever before; but more. Promise?”
suming that when the time came, stand.”
Even if other remedies have
He agreed helplessly:
He thought, after he left her, that
also she was thrust toward him by
Doctor Greeding would be more
failed, don’t be discouraged, your
she
had
seemed
almost
ill
at
ease
“
Anything,
Nancy.
Yes.
If
you
’
re
druggist is authorized to guarantee
He Chuckled, Returning Toward
some force behind tier, by some­
complaisant.
Creomulsion and to refund your
thing intangible which her instinct sure.”
Her. “You Never Saw the
She was, during these days, and in his presence. Yet not unfriend­
money if you are not satisfied with
“I want to count on you always.” despite the steady undercurrent of ly—rather, deeply sympathetic for
Day. Nancy,” He Retorted.
had discovered in her father’s mind.
results from the very first bottle.
“You can.”
In his grief and loss she should
her aching grief, quietly happy and the grief she thought he must be
“That was Dan. He and Mary Ann Get Creomulsion right now. (Adv.)
She said soberly: "This is as content, with a sense of security and suffering.
Lave been drawn toward him to
But Doctor Greeting felt in fact can’t come till tomorrow. He’s got
comfort him; but she recognized, binding as anything any minister peace in the certainty that she and
honestly, that there was in her no can ever say over us, Dan.”
Dan would never be parted. Her no grief. That first wave of sorrow to work tonight. They’ll be here
genuine solicitude for him. Rather,
The sun was low, sinking swiftly interview with Jerrell had been had come like a healing flood and on the noon train.”
She was engrossed in her own
her instinct bade her avoid him, now; and a light breeze began to easier than she feared. He heard passed, leaving him healed—and
Nature can more quickly expel infection when
disappointment, but not too much
avoid the neighborhood of his in­ blow, as though approaching dusk what she had to say without sur­ free!
aided by internal medication of recognized merit
so to see his sudden frown. “Dan?”
fluence and control.
shepherded the hot afternoon air prise.
Their
first days at the Lake he echoed. “Is he coming?”
“I guessed that long ago,” he
She found Mary Ann and Dan away before it. They stayed awhile,
passed quietly. It had been de­
“Yes,” she said.
HAVE RECOGNIZED MERIT
together, and Dan kissed her, and watching the purple flood that said smilingly. “Young lovers are cided
between Dan and Nancy that
“I didn’t know that!” he pro­
Mary Ann too. But Mary Ann with flowed across the marsh; anc it —transparent. I knew it, perhaps, he would
come
on
Friday
afternoon,
gravely:
‘
He
said
before
you
did.
’
tested.
a wise understanding, said smiling, grew cooler, and Nancy said at
“I think you know how much I with Mary Ann. Nancy had not
last, in a tone of surprise:
This, she recognized, was true;
ly:
told her father this arrangement. but she pretended a defensive sur­
wish happiness for you.”
“Dan, my dear, I’m hungry!"
“Take him away somewhere,
Without
admitting
it
even
to
her
­
I think
“Yes,” she assented.
prise. “Why, we’ve talked about
Nancy. You don’t want me around,
"It’s dinner-time,” he assented,
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A/RS. Isabella Coon.
self, she feared some objection on their both coming, right along,” she
Aate?
IL cilman of
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you two; and I’ve nowhere to go, laughing at her. "Why shouldn't I do.”
Doctor
Greeding
’
s
part,
and
avoid
­
ß ' T
a. Broadway,
Everett,
“
If
Dan
were
not
be-
He
smiled,
urged.
and people may come in. Go along
Da.
.
Wash.,
said
:
"I
was
si., -
*s nervous and would have
fore me,” he confessed, “I might ed the possibility by 1 er silence.
with you.”
He said slowly: "I told you, when
gel “$
such awful cramps and
Doctor
Greeding
expected
Mary
some
absurd
dreams
have
dreamed
Nancy nodded. “Yes. I do want
you spoke of it, that I thought it
qK ... ajf pains and headaches due
Ann’s arrival by the evening train best—furthermore, I’m sorry he is
$— ,4 to functional
distur-
myself, despite my age.”
to be with Dan,” she said.
le
bances. I became tired
on
Friday;
and
he
spoke
of
it
to
coming,
just
now.
It
’
s
most
incon
­
“
I
’
ve
never
thought
of
you
as
,
very easily and had
Once they were alone, she was
a S
Nancy at dinner Thursday night in venient.”
very little energy. After using Dr. Pierce's
old,” she told him gently.
for the moment content; and with­
Favorite Prescription for a time I could
such tones that she looked at him
eat more and felt just fine.”
out speaking, she drove out through
The
intervening
days
till
their
de
­
“Why?” she demanded.
key
doubtfully,
discovering
something
Buy today of your neighborhood druggist.
parture for the Lake passed like
Watertown and Waltham toward
"Mr. Jerrell is coming tomor­
New size, tabs. 50 cu. Liquid $1 & $1.35.
and startling in his eyes.
Lincoln.
leaves on the wind. Nancy noticed incredible
row,
”
he
explained.
“
He
called
up
tried to put the thought aside.
Once or twice that her father read It She
He said, later: “I suppose you
could not be. And yet this un­ this morning to ask if he might,
with a frowning attention the finan­ believable
and your father will go back to the
suggested by and I told him yes, by all means.
cial pages of the newspapers. She her father’s possibility
Lake soon.”
tone
when
spoke of I counted on you to entertain him.
herself had no interest in such mat­ Mary Ann remained in he her
“Not right away. ' she told him.
Mary Ann and I will be busy.
ters, but she spoke of it to him. “I disturbingly, and her sleep mind
"1 won't go till he can I wouldn’t
You’d better tell Dan not to come,
that
thought you seemed worried,” she night was uneasy, shaken by shad­ so that you’ll be free for Mr. Jer-
want to be there alone. Not with
but
he
answered
irrita-
remarked
;
Mother—down here.” Her tones
ows of formless dreams. She was rell.”
bly :
were husky, she said: "Father
She sought to make him smile.
awake to welcome dawn; and went
starts his vacation next week-end.
“I’m not. Please allow me to at- early for a swim.
"But I’d much rather be with Dan,
He may want me to go away some­
tend to my own affairs.”
When she was dressed and down- she pointed out, with a grimace.
SLEEP SOUNDLY
where with him; oi he may want
Yet as a matter of fact. Doctor stairs again, her father still had
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Lack of exercise and injudicious eating
just to go to the Lake He loves it
Greeding, though he denied it to not appeared, so she breakfasted
there I’ll do whatever he wants.”
Nancy, was worried, and with alone.
make stomachs acid. You must neu­
“Government of. By and
Dan nodded. “It’s n grand place,” |
cause. His reckless venturing had
she asked him
tralize stomach acids if you would sleep
Seeing
Thomas.
ne assented.
for the People” Traced
involved him more deeply than he where her father was. Thomas said:
soundly
all night and wake up feeling
“If we go up there. Dan,” she
could bear to contemplate; and in
According to Rev. H. Barker’s
"He had his breakfast and took
decidea, suddenly near panic at the
the end, in a sort of desperation, his pistol up to the tennis-court, “English Bible Versions,” the first | refreshed and really fit.
thought of being alone with her fa­
he went to Jerrell, telephoning for ma'am."
appearance of this pnrase “govern­
ther, “you must come up. I can’t
an appointment. “I want to discuss
ment of the people, *by the people
She
went
to
join
her
father
there
be alone with him. I’ll miss Moth-
some investments with you,” he ex­ and found him in a smiling hu­ | and for the people,” found in
ei so.”
plained.
mor. “Hullo, Nancy!” he called, Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech was in
He said doubtfully: "I've had
When he came to the other’s of­ as she approached. He was at the the preface of the old Wickliffe
about all the vacation 1 ought to
fice. Jerreil greeted him with a farther end of the court, affixing a Bible, translated before 1384, in
take.”
smile. “Surprised me to have you paper target to the frame in that which it is declared that “this Bible |
"I’ll need you dreadfully, Dan,”
phone,” he confessed. "I didn't shuttered window in the batter­ is for the government of the peo- !
she said, and he cried:
know you were interested in board. "Sleep well?” And before pie, by the people and for the peo- I
He
Said
Huskily:
"Your
Lips
TAKE MILNESIAS
"God knows I’ll need you, Nan­
stocks.”
she could reply, he said: “I slept pie.” The Home Book of Quotations |
Are Trembling."
cy! Always!"
Doctor Greeding hesitated. “Well, like a log. Feel better than I’ve states that a careful examination Milnesia, the original milk of magnesia
She turned off the highroad into you be?" Their voices were rich I’m not, seriously,” he declared. felt for months. This is a great has failed to disclose this passage in wafer form, neutralizes stomach acid.
a byway; the road degenerated till and husky.
Each wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk
in the Wickliffe Bibles available.
“But I did take a flyer in Cottons, as
to rest, up here.”
there were only wheel-ruts in the | It seemed to them the essence a result of some of our conversa­ place
Theodore Parker used the phrase of magnesia. Thin, crunchy, mint-flavor,
She
caught
his
mood.
"Then
if
sand. They passed through an oak ! of perfection to eat hamburger tions. I notice they’re not doing you feel so well. I'll shoot you a in three different addresses, deliv­
tasty. 20c, 35c & 60c at drug stores.
wood which closed like a screen sandwiches at a lunch-cart on the well, and I m wondering whether
and if I beat you, you’ll ered in 1850, 1354 and 1858, to il-
behind them and she stopped the way home, where two truck-drivers to take my losses, or hang on.” match;
| lustrate what he called the Ameri­
no alibis!”
car at last on a turfed slope, fra- | ate beside them and discussed the He tried to laugh. “Mattei of fact, have
He chuckled, returned toward her. can idea of democracy. Daniel Web- I
grant in the slanting sun. Below I day’s bail-game with the cook. Yet I went in pretty deep."
“You never saw the day, Nancy,” ster used almost the same words in |
lay the marshes and the meander­ afterward they were reluctant to go
Jerrell said gravely: “The whole he retorted. His pistol, a long-bar­ i e speech in 1830 John Adams in an
ing rivet, and far away the wooded on, and it was late when Nancy market has been weak, and it’s nev­ reled automatic of an European de- address in 1798 employed the
hills rose gently.
brought Dan at last to his own door. er wise to fight the market; so sign, lay on the iron roller in a cor­ phrase “a government made by
Nancy stopped the engine, and
She would not come in. "1 don’t we've let Cottons sag. waiting for ner of the court. She picked it up, themselves (the people), for them­
looked at Dan; and he leaned to­ even want to see Mary Ann to- the turn." He tapped his desk with sow
that it was loaded, and began selves and conducted by them­
ward her, held her for a moment night.” she said.
the end of his pen. "What is the to shoot.
selves.” Thomas Cooper in 1795
close and tenderly.
PERSONAL
He spoke soberly. "Nancy, there’s extent of your commitments, Ned?”
Her shots, when she finished, published a pamphlet in London en­
They descended from the car On one thing: Jerrell's a good man,
Greeding hesitated; but in the were well grouped ; and Doctor titled “Some Information respecting
the flrm turf, she lay at length, her and a fine man. And he’s been end, with a sort of shame, he named Greeding applauded her. “Good America” in which he stated “The f brother of Michael 1. Hipp, deceased.
arms across her eyes, in the full mighty nice to you. You must tell the actual figure. Jerrell's aston- enough,” he said. "But watch me government is a government of the • Importantt estate to settle. Write o». 0:
beat of the sun.
him, Nancy.”
ishment showed in his eyes.
people and for the people.”
now.”
CHAPTER VI—Continued
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