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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. BRIGHT STAR By M ary Schum ann Way Back When such news. Death shouldn’t be her By JE A N N E alded months in advance. It’s an individual—matter.” She smiled little. So her son and daughters only FRED MACM DRRAI WASHED CARS FOR A LIVING heard that the fainting atfhck was CH APTER V III—Continued brought on by exhaustion and the ^■ECESSITY is the mother of in- Fluvanna gasped as revelation hot weather. There was some talk A ’ vention, they say; and if that came. “Kezzie! . . . Not Jerry?” of a trip and a change of cli- is so I think someone should em “I suppose we couldn’t keep it | mate, but this Fluvanna vetoed and phasize that “Courage is the fa much longer. You’d have heard. the m atter was dropped. ther of opportunity.” So many In fact I’m surprised Lizzie hasn’t times, when things look blackest, it CH APTER IX been over already, ranting to you I” seems that only by drawing on re Fluvanna shook her head, gave a serve strength can we keep going. As the weeks wore by Hugh ex Suddenly hopeless sound in her throat. we find ourselves face to "Don’t you realize what you’ve perienced the disintegrating effects face with opportunity. Everything of split emotions. Try as he would done? It's not Lizzie—it’s Ellen! looked hopeless before. We were The poor child had confided in me he could not reconcile the situa really almost ready to give up. all spring. She was in love for the tion into ease of mind. It was like And, then looking back, we wonder first time in her life! . . . Oh, a broken dish which had been un how things could have seemed as skilfully mended. You saw at once Kezzie—Kezzie!” bad as they were. Kezia drew her mother’s hands the ugly dark line where it had Fred MacMurray was born in been joined together. Grudgingly down from her face, which she Kankakee, 111., in 1908, and spent had covered. Her voice was light he admitted that Dorrie seemed to his boyhood in Beaver Dam, Wis. and winning. “Sweetest darling be making an effort to efface her He lived a normal small town life Mother, you’ll allow him to come conduct; she was conciliatory, con for an American youngster. In 1925, to tire house? . . . You said you sulted his wishes in a new way. when he was seventeen, he was would! And you’ll be nice to him This last was disconcerting for it awarded the- annual American Le continually reminded him of the when he comes? gion medal for the student show Fluvanna thought, "Was she real reason. She had been wont to de ing the most well-rounded develop mand, not to appeal. She did not ly thinking of marrying him?” ment in scholastic subjects and “Yes, he may come to the house. tpr to get another maid when Til- sports. His mother worked in of lie left, studied a cook book, and There must be no more secret had new dishes for dinner. She fices to support them both, and meetings.” recounted where she had Fred attended Carroll college in "You lamb!” She kissed her carefully been each day, as if to reassure mother. "And you’ll not say any him. thing to make him uncomfortable? He had a new wife—but at what He’s very sensitive. He said it price?—he himself. Although almost made him shriek the way his longing told for her did not cease, the Pendletons looked down on became more powerful as he be him!” came more aware of it, it was a It was Fluvanna’s swift thought hideous humiliating him be that receiving Jerry casually and cause he thing, helpless before it. He pleasantly might remove the was often was short and curt with her, piquancy of the situation as far as then to make up for it, was care Kezia was concerned. “I’ll be care fully polite. ful of his—sensitiveness,” she re One day he went into a new plied. restaurant for lunch. The owner Kezia looked at her doubtfully. Then, "I knew I could count on had achieved the synthetic atmos you to understand,” she mur phere of a Moorish inn, stone floors, mured. "I’ll go out and help Anna rude fireplaces, and jugs before a drinking fountain in the wall. The get the lunch on the table.” place was dimly lighted and it was She went out directly lunch was over. About one o’clock it began not until he had ordered that he to rain, a cold drizzle. The rain saw Ellen Pendleton eating lunch was too late to help the baked eon with Ronny Wakes. They oc Waukesha, Wis., earning his way a red leather wall seat just by playing the saxophone. A bro farms and gardens, but was sooth cupied ken hip forced his mother to quit ing to taut nerves, strained with opposite him. Ellen was talking animatedly to work, and Fred left college to try too much heat and sunlight. Flu vanna wandered about the house Ronny, her frequent laughter a lit to blow a living out of his saxo tle feverish in its gaiety. Pre phone. They moved to Hollywood, rather forlornly. occupied with his own affairs, he Calif., for her health and the boy She would take a hot bath, and then a nap. No, she would lie down had seen and heard nothing of El was glad to get a job washing cars in a garage, to pay her hospital first. That odd pain which she len for some time, and when Ron bills. Before he could collect his left the table to telephone, Hugh had so often lately, was coming ny pay, the garage went bankrupt, and back. She went into her room and crossed over. “Hello, stranger. I haven’t seen Fred MacMurray faced a discour closed the window where the rain you all summer.” aging period without a job. He beat in. Someone came in the tried to obtain work in the picture “It has been a long time. front door without ringing th- bell. Hugh fumbled. “ Everything go studios as a saxophone player, but She heard Dorrie's voice down- ing well?” he inquired after a had no luck. Things looked very home?” black, indeed. pause. "Up here, Dorrie.” She sat down "Everything.” Then, he was signed up with a suddenly in a chair, overcome with “I must be getting back to the band called the California Collegi weakness. office. By the way, you’re with ans, which worked its way to New “I brought you a cake I made Ronny. How come?” York city and was hired for the play myself," said Dorrie. “Three’s a Crowd.” Fred had a Ellen’s lashes swept her cheeks, “How delicious that will be I then she raised her eyes unflinch small bit which led to a slightly bet You’re so thoughtful, Dorrie.” Dor ingly. “I suppose because he asked ter part in “Roberta.” A talent rie was a good child. scout for Paramount saw him, me.” “I haven’t had a maid lately. brought him back to Hollywood, and I’m squelched! But I thought— I ’ve been doing everything my I was given to understand—that he was given a contract which led self.” Dorrie seemed to seek ap your interest lay in another direc to his success in pictures. ♦ • a proval. tion. That soulful young chap, Je r "Did Tillie get another place? POET LAUREATE OF ENGLAND ry " “She had to go home because her WAS A PORTER IN A SALOON He saw an odd thing. A quiver mother was sick. I wanted to do it . . . thought I’d feel better.’ of pain, so sentient, so defenseless, 1X 7 HA T romantic occupation Fluvanna bit her lip with the sud crossed her face that he thought ” “ could you possibly predict for den pain, closed her eyes. After she was going to faint. Then she a boy so adventurous that no one a moment she heard Dorrie’s voice, was controlled; she even smiled. could control him, so reckless that sounding as if it were far-off, “ You "Haven’t you heard? His interest the aunt who took care of him after lies in another direction.” look so strange.” his father and mother died inden “I haven’t heard a thing,” he tured him to a merchant ship at the She did not answer. Then seeing replied frowning. “ Mind if I say Dorrie's eyes fixed on her in a kind age of fourteen to curb him? That of fright, Fluvanna answered with he has rotten taste?” was John Masefield’s start in life She laughed on a low note. “Loy and today he holds the highest hon an effort: “ Don’t mind me. I'm al as ever! . . . But—people ors England can give any poet. terribly upset and worried.” “ You know about it?” asked change.” Born in Ledburn, Herefordshire, “ Yes—they do,” said Hugh slow England, in 1874, he sailed the seas Dorrie, a little sharply. Fluvanna nodded. Dorrie must ly. His own predicament made for three years. Leaving the ship have heard about Kezia and Jerry him more alive to the remote suf in port at New York city, he took too. That was the reason for this fering in her eyes. “Call on me any odd job he could get. He worked in a bakery and in a livery visit, the cake was an offering of if there's anything . . . ” Ellen shook her head firmly. stable. He was porter in Luke sympathy. “It’s all so sad—so cru O'Connor's saloon at the Columbian “Thanks—there's nothing.” el.” She sighed. Something leaped in Dorrie's Ronny came back from the tele hotel near Jefferson Market jail. face; something rebellious and un phone with apologies. Hugh spoke Then he moved to Yonkers, at the kind. “Hugh told you! He said he to him and then took his departure. north end of New York city, where hadn’t!” He found himself wishing he did “No, not Hugh. I just heard it not have to go back to the office; today. I suspected something— the work had gone flat to him and things puzzled me. I asked Kezia. he found himself struggling to con It took her a long time, but fi centrate on the simplest problems. When he hung up his hat, Miss nally she told me.” Ruskin passed with a paper in her Dorrie's lip curled. “Kezia!” Why did Dorrie speak in that hand. “ Mr. Sloan wants to see tone? Why did she stare at her you, Mr. Marsh.” with such a hostile gaze? Sudden He went into the office of the ly the pain in Fluvanna’s chest president. Sloan was telephoning gripped her; her heart began to but he nodded him to a chair. beat with quick hammer - like "Marsh,” he began briskly when strokes. Faster and faster until the he hung up the receiver, “how pain seemed to be bursting her would you like to take a vacation?” lungs. The room revolved swiftly Hugh felt a faint perspiration like a whirling black disk with a break out on his forehead. "You circle of light at the center. The mean you're not satisfied with my circle of light became smaller and work?” smaller until the blackness blotted Sloan gave a short laugh. “Look it out altogether. She knew noth in the glass, my boy. You've been ing more. off color for a month. Run away he worked in a carpet factory, ris for a week or so, play golf, keep ing to the magnificent position of Later she became conscious of out in the open air, forget the busi finder” at $8.50 per week. Dr. Carey holding her wrist, his ness. You're heading for some- : “ mistake It was at this time, in his early finger on her pulse. His face was thing—an illness, I would say—if twenties, that Masefield started to grave. you don't snap out of it." write poetry and in 1897 he left for “I must have fainted,” she mur The thought clicked in Hugh's London. His first volume of verses, mured. brain that twice lately he had “Salt Water Ballads,” was pub “ You must have indeed.” heard of men sent on vacations by lished in 1902 opening with “A Con A day or so later he said, “ You’ll thoughtful companies, men who in secration,” in which he announces have to face it, Fluvanna; that a few days received a wire that himself as the champion of “the heart of yours is a leaky old or their services would no longer be dust and scum of the earth.” Books gan. With care it might see you needed. " I’m all right,” he an of verse and novels followed, one through some little time—a year, swered brusquely. “I feel better upon the other, and John Masefield two—three. And then again . . .“ working.” became established as one of Eng She listened to him with no feel His superior played with his land's greatest poets. ing of shock. Had not some in fountain pen. "Something bother- So, remember John Masefield be ner presentiment told her that it ing you?" he inquired. fore you pass judgment on that would not be long? “And then Hugh did not answer. neighbor’s boy who is such a holy again——?” "Financial?” terror or that young scamp who “Three months—six months.” “No.” works in the saloon across the rail- "I won't burden my children with »r>»d tracks. ITO BE CONTINUED} C o p y r ig h t by M acrae S m ith W N U S erv ice Co. » -W N U Service. | AROUND >he HOUSE? e ron: round a dish, and put the kid neys in the center, adding a little gravy. Garnish with two hard- boiled eggs cut into quarters, and four small tomatoes cut into small slices and fried. 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