THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON,
CHAPTER X—Continued
—11—
the mantel. “I had a profitable
one.”
She cogitated this. “Meaning
-----?”
“What I said.”
“Very well—if you wish to be
enigmatic!”
C r u e l pm-points
danced in her eyes. “Are you go
ing to ask me if I had a profitable
time while you were away?”
“I took it for granted.”
She shrugged. Then said: “The
house is cold; you’d better build a
fire if we’re going to stay here.”
Under his steady gaze her eyes
dropped.
“I must have a talk with you,”
he said slowly.
They went into the sun room
with its wicker furniture. Form
ally Hugh drew up a chair for her,
brought her coat and laid it
around her shoulders. He touched
a match to the asbestos-backed
grate, adjusted the flame. Then
stood in silence. Dorrie looked in
to the fire; her white hands were
clasped around her knee. She lift
ed her creamy eyelids. "Going to
tell me you’re through?” she asked.
“ Yes, Dorrie, I’m through.”
He thought she trembled a little,
and the discernment that she was
in need of pity, even as he, battled
with his resolution. He stood watch
ing her eyelashes flicker over her
cheeks as she looked down.
‘Hugh, you’ll make it easy for
me?”
“Certainly.”
She relaxed in her chair a trifle.
“It’s one of those things which
can’t be helped. At first I was dis
appointed in him-----he didn’t act the
way I expected when you found
out. But when Joan went off the
deep end—nothing seemed to stand
in his way then.”
“Except me.”
Her “y e i” was small, almost in
audible.
Curling bronze hair, white skin,
lovely face, he must look his last
upon them. Even desire was for
bidden. The hate which surged
up in him at her shallowness was
almost as great as his desire.
“Oh, Mother,” he sighed. His eyes
were tearless, but the aching pain
was released. Her arms folded
around him; her cheek lay against
his hair; they were close in that
mystic bond of mother and son.
“It’s hard, Hugh.”
“I'm glad you know.” He groped
to his feet, stood by the mantel.
“Don’t grieve too much. I have
to get myself together—meet it. It
has happened to quite a few others
. . . they’ve lived through it.”
"It isn’t hopeless? Tell me about
it, for while I saw you getting
haggard and silent, it wasn’t until
Dorrie came this week that I
realized-----”
“Did she speak of it?”
She shook her head. “I only knew
something is very wrong. I met
Lizzie Pendleton this week in a
department store. She said, ‘Too
bad about Hugh and Dorrie? I
asked her what she meant, and she
gave me an odd look, and said she
supposed I knew—and swept away.
I pieced it together.”
He began to pace the room. Then
he told her the story, or as little
as he could, minimizing, suppress
ing, scanting details. “I suppose
you have to know—I hoped you
wouldn’t. But situations like this
never stand still. To go back to
where we were”—he shook his
head—"is impossible. Something is
killed—destroyed. ’ ’
His mother’s eyes were filled
with tears; she looked suddenly old
and white, her vitality borne away
by her deep suffering for him.
The telephone rang in the closet
under the stairs and they heard
Kezia scramble to answer it. Her
oment by, “You won’t be home?
. . . Yes, cars have a way of get
ting out of commission at times!
. . . I’ll tell your husband not to
expect you . . . Here? Of course
he's here—got in an hour ago.”
She appeared at the library door
then. “Hugh, the telephone.” She
lingered a moment, caught by the
gravity of their faces. “It’s Dor
rie," she whispered.
Hugh took up the receiver. “Hel
lo, Hugh,” she hegan with hesita
tion. “I didn’t think you’d be home
until tomorrow.
“You didn’t?”
‘Xes, Dorrie, I’m Through
“No, I didn’t,” her voice strength
ened and had a whip of defiance in Something rose in his throat which
it. “Anyhow I’m at the Lawrences made it difficult to speak. He
and they find they have a flat swallowed.
tire, wanted me to stay all night
“No need to prolong this, is
. . . But if you're home I’ll send there?”
for a taxicab.”
She started. "You’re going?”
"Shall I come for you?”
“ You won’t be afraid to stay
“No need of it. It’s way across alone tonight?”
town. I'll be along in half an hour.
She gave a gesture of dissent.
“Very well," said Hugh grimly,
"I’ll be at Mother’s. After you
"but don’t come here. Go to our apply you’d better go away a bit
own house?’
—not far . .
It was on his
He began to gather up his things tongue to say "near enough for him
"I’ll take your car, Mother, if you to see you occasionally—keep him
don’t mind.”
from other entanglements,” but he
Kezia hovered over him in ex checked it. He turned and left
cited solicitude. “I’ll drive you the room.
over, Hughie. Come, Jerry, help
me get the car out.” She paid
Hugh went back to his mother’s
no attention to his protestations house to live, occupied his old room
that he drive himself, but hurried in the south corner. He spent some
away with Jerry following.
evenings at his club, playing cards,
Soon Kezia sounded a summon others reading in the company of
ing horn from the driveway. Hugh his mother, or in long rambles.
put down his burdens in a corner Margery and Will were unobtru
of the hall. “I’m going . . . but sively sympathetic when he met
I’ll be back in a little while. I’m them; Kezia was crassly exultant.
only going to talk to her.”
"What a relief! We can have
lie strode out the door. He waved sage in our chicken dressing now!”
to Kezia in dismissal. “Thanks— Dorrie had disliked sage. But if
but I want to walk?’
Kezia saw Hugh's annoyed look
when the radio moaned out a love
CHAPTER XI
song, she usually shut it off and
dialed a different station. She made
The walks were littered with an effort to be more thoughtful of
leaves that scuffed under Hugh's her mother in his presence, evi
feet. His shadow lengthened as dently wishing his approval. Once
he passed under one arc light, ^or twice she tried to discuss Jerry
shortened as he approached the with him.
light at the next corner. He
Why do you give Jerry a mere
walked slowly, took the long way nod when you come in? You could
round, that he might give Dorrie be civil—say a few sentences now
time to get home; for Cun to get and then. I tell him that it's just
away; time for her to rehearse her your way—one of those big, silent
story for the last time. And he business men with the reconstruc
must be cool, as he was now, tion of the nation on your shoulders
viewing the whole thing with bal
but I wish you'd be decent.”
ance.
"It’s no go, sis. I don’t like
The turmoil which had mounted him."
in him the last hour, and which
"How can you say that? You
had increased when he heard Dor- don't know him.” She was ag
rie’s voice on the wire, ebbed grieved.
away.
He rattled his paper as a signal
Dorrie had taken off her hat and that he wanted her to take herself
coat. They were thrown on the from the arm of his chair so that
davenport. A plaid scarf with rus he might read. "I thinx I do.”
set tinges was still around her
Their eyes met and a thwarted
neck. "Hello, Hugh,” she said look crossed her face. She flounced
briefly.
off his chair with: “You’ll all
"Hello, Dorrie.”
drive me to something one of
She leaned over and tied the lace these days! .
No one takes me
of her shoe. “Have a nice trip?” seriously!”
she inquired as she raised her
A f<yv nights later he was sitting
head.
by the dying fire in the living-room,
In spite of himself the sight of leaning forward, staring at the em
her flushed cheeks, her strange bers, when she" came in a little
shining eyes, sent a tremor through after twelve
his blood. He rested his arm on
(TO 8«’ COMTAT ilW
Matching Lace Trims Silk Sheen
Thursday, August 5, 1937
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By CHERIE NICHOLAS
MATTER how much your
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IN COATS FOR FALI
Coats of many colors have beei
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One French designer has intro
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inch velvet ribbon sewn togethe
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old blue, chamois, pink which hai
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Matching Headdress and
Heeia Offer Gala Toucl
Matching headdresses and heel
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The midseason dress problem headbands and heels.
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Pleated-in sleeves and an intriguing
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Luncheon for Two.
When he takes you out to lunch
eon you should be the very es
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The season, like romance, rolls
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