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
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