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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON T h e r e ’s O n l y O n e By SOPHIE KERR • Sophia K err U nderw ood. W NU S arrica. CHAPTER I —1— “This room might be a man’s of fice, stripped like this,” said Anne Vincent from the flat desk where she was ostentatiously busy with pile of bills and a check-book. “But think how feminine it is with rugs and the curtains and the cre tonne covers and the china dingbats on the mantelshelf,” said Rachel adding, as she stuffed two more packages into the boxed window- seat, “Do you think I’ve used enough mothballs? Remember how the mice made nests in here last winter!” Both women had spoken louder than was necessary and there was the tension of a topic avoided in their voices. The living room of the cottage was bare except for the fur niture, even the bookshelves had been emptied and the pictures taken down. Anne twisted about to look at Rachel’s packing. “You put in the whole two boxes? That’ll surely be enough. It was Mrs. Kreel’s fault— the mice, I mean.” “Poisonous woman!" said Rachel and banged down the lid of the win dow seat. “Every time I see her and that squabby sister of hers walk by I want to rush out and beat them with my tennis racquet!” Her w o r k finished, she rose and stretched her tall young slender- “ It Must Have Been Tragic.” ness, pulled her white sweater down and adjusted her belt. She watched Anne from the corners of her eyes. At last she went over to the desk and sat on the edge of it. "Aren’t you almost done?” “There are ever so many more.” “Are you checking every item?” “ Yes, of course. Why don’t you take a last swim? Where’s Bob? I thought he asked you to go out in his boat?” Rachel swung her feet obstinately. “You’re stalling, mother. You want to get away without telling me a thing. It’s no use. Bob’s gone out alone and I’m not having a swim. You can just come out of that mess of eggs and potatoes and cords of wood and talk.” “Rachel, I've always told you that when you were twenty-one, if you wanted to hear—or before, if there was good reason—” "There's plenty good reason. You’re going abroad and Great-aunt Helene may hang on to you for ages!" “If I stay more than six months you can join me: You know that.” "Don't evade. It’s only another year till I’m twenty-one and I’m just as mature and sensible now as I will be then. The way you act I’m beginning to feel as if there was something perfectly rotten—" Anne Vincent’s protesting hand stopped her. "Darling, no! Don’t say such things. There’s nothing rotten or foul or poisonous or any other of your favorite bad adjec tives about it—really. Give you my word.” “Then why do you want to hold out on me?” “Maybe I'm a little jealous." “ Mother, darling Iamb, don’t be ridick. Jealous of what?” Anne's grasp tightened. “I’m afraid I’m jealous of your interest in your real mother, Rachel. I’d like you not to think of her." “But I don’t think of her as my mother. I don’t. She’s never thought of me as her child, that's evident enough. She was glad to get rid of me Wasn't she?" “I can't answer yes or no; it’s not as simple as that.” Anne con sidered the sea a moment longer, wondering, doubting, uncertain. If she could only understand Rachel's urgency! Then she resolved. "I see I’ll have to explain things, I don't want you to be getting strange no tions. Let’s go down to the beach; it's so dreary here with everything packed.” They linked arms as they stepped off the terrace before the low shin “Very fair skin, very dark hair, gle house which had been their very blue eyes. Everything in her home for ten summers. It was the appearance was accented and dis last but one of the straggling village tinct and yet there was a complete street, there was only the roadway fusion so that her beauty stood clear between it and the dunes. The sin and perfect. She’s only—let’s see— gle house beyond theirs was an ugly she’s only thirty-eight years old, square high-elbowed thing with stiff Rachel, now, nine years younger shell-bordered walks, and a gypsy than I. And she's still beautiful, “Tragic and pitiful. You must re kettle, on a tripod painted a flaming but in a different way.” member this of your mother, Ra red and filled with clashing magenta “How do you know? I thought you chel; she was very young and had geraniums, beside the front door. said you’d only seen her once, years married where she had no chance ol As Anne and Rachel crossed the ago.” being happy, not even ordinarily road this front door opened swiftly “Her pictures come out in the and a little anxious man hailed newspapers now and then, the so contented—” “Mother, you’re apologizing foi them. ciety columns—” “You be out some time, Mis’ Vin “They do! Oh, mother, who is her!” cent?” “I’m not apologizing, but I want she? Have I seen her pictures?" “I don’t know exactly, Mr. “She’s Mrs. Peter Holbrook you to understand her. I’ll go on. Kreel,” said Anne, “but you can go Cayne.” They were married in June, 1915, In and turn on the radio.” and they stuck it out through the “She’s married someone else?” “Thank you, ma’am. There’s a “Rachel, darling, I want to get summer. Then Elinor discovered program offerin’ a nice book of pho through this as quickly as I can and that you were coming and she was tographs and a tube of cold cream afterward I’ll answer your ques so frightened and her mother so I aim to get and if there’s any new tions. You must try to understand angry that your father—you see, he contests I want to try ’em.” He ex about her. Your grandfather—her was young too and not the sort to plained breathlessly and was inside father—died and left your grand face anything hard and difficult, so their house with the last word. mother with very little money and —he ran away.” "Couldn’t we leave the house open this child to take care of and life “Deserted her! But that was and the electricity on so he can was very hard—and meager—for foul!” have the radio after we’re gone? both of them. Uncertain, too, in "I think it was the best thing he It’s so mean of Mrs. Kreel to lock secure. Mrs. Rhodes—” could have done, he wasn’t their theirs up except when she wants to “But who’s Mrs. Rhodes?” kind, there was no way to work it hear something herself, I’d like to “Y o u r grandmother, Elinor’s out and—well, anyway he went. get round her somehow.” mother. Did I forget to say her Like a good many other unsettled I suppose we could. He has such name? I’m mixing this up dread young men he went over to France— fun writing for samples and enter fully.” this was before America went into ing all the contests, .it’s pathetic.” “No, no, I’ve got it straight. My the war, remember—but he found a “Do let’s do it, mother.” mother was Elinor Rhodes and she place as orderly in one of the hos All right, my dear, the electric married Edwin Malloy.” pitals and in January he came down ity won’t cost much. And if the “Yes, that’s right. Mrs. Rhodes weather’s very cold he can build a did fine sewing and embroidery for with pneumonia. Edwin Malloy died fire. I’ll give him written permis her friends to help along, mono in France and you weren’t yet born. So there was poor little scared Eli sion." grams on table linen and that sort They had reached the beach, a of thing, it didn’t amount to much nor and her mother struggling along half-circle of sand scooped in be and she must have been very anx with hardly any money, anxious and tween points of rock which went far ious about Elinor. There seems to not very well, not knowing what in enough out on each side to break have been no one who took any in the world they’d do with a child to the sweep and drag of the waves. terest, or perhaps she was proud— bring up—it was desperate for them The Vincents’ bathing house lay so and shy. She kept her daughter all.” ‘I can see why I wasn’t wel unobtrusively back among th e with her and sent her to school. And dunes that this little scallop shell one day Elinor came in with Edwin come.” of quiet and peace seemed never to Malloy—he was a young clerk in the Anne disregarded this. “And when have known man’s trespass, yet it corner drugstore—and she had mar at last—no, I must put in a little had been a favorite haven of rum ried him. Now remember, Rachel, here about Harry and me. I had runners during the latter half of the I’m simply telling you the story I gone to the hospital a few weeks be great prohibition farce. Now those heard. I never met Mrs. Rhodes. fore Elinor did, of course I knew days were over and the village and Even so, I can understand what a nothing about her then, I’d never summer people found the larger shock this marriage was for her. If even heard of her. My baby died beach below the town more con she’d had the means she probably as soon as it was born, Rachel, and venient for bathing, so this one had would have had it annulled, because one of my nurses inadvertently let come to be Rachel and Anne Vin Elinor had lied about her age. But me know that I could never have cent’s exclusive property, their out she could do nothing, so she took another. So I—I was very ill, door living room and extension of them into their cramped apartment don’t think I’d have tried to get summer days. to live with her. And from the well except for Harry, he was so They sat down facing the sea, first they weren’t happy, nothing wonderful to me, he put aside all their backs against the length of went right. Your father was appar he was feeling and just took care ol pale water - washed Norwegian flr ently just a good-natured, good-look me. When Elinor was brought in 1 which once held the mainsail of a ing boy with almost no education didn’t see her, she was put into a skimming saucy clipper. Anne, un and no family, he made very little ward and I was in a private room, easy, disturbed, made a most un money, he wasn’t ambitious, he but we both had Dr. Ayres; he’d characteristic fuss in settling her wasn’t clever. Mrs. Rhodes detest known Mrs. Rhodes in her prosper self, while Rachel watched her with ed him and kept lamenting the mar ous days and she had gone to him growing impatience. riage all the time, and there was and begged him to take care of Eli It can't be as dreadful as you’re Elinor herself with her beauty and nor and poured out her troubles, so making out,” said Rachel at last, her youth and her pliable unformed then, do you see, with my disap half laughing, but with nervous ex nature—you can see them, can’t pointment and grief for my baby citement beneath. you?” and this lovely healthy child—you Anne pulled her wits together. “Yes. It must have been tragic. who—who—” ‘It’s not dreadful at all, I simply For all of them.” (TO BE CONTINUED) don’t know where to start.” Tell me her name. I don’t even know her name. I’ve always rather Find American Flag With 38 Stars; Old hoped it was Rachel, like mine." Oh, Rachel, darling, have you Banner Is Presented to a History Class been thinking about her so much! Why didn’t you tell me? I—” she An American flag which proudly Union with North Dakota, in 1889. caught back her emotion, took an The property upon which the old easier tone: “ Rachel, your mother’s boasted a Union of 38 states, was name was Elinor, Elinor Malloy. recently discovered by Boy Scouts flag was found was once owned by She was only about eighteen when in an abandoned building on the Captain Schaaf, who died at an ad you were born, she wasn’t through bluffs avove the Merrimack river, vanced age several years ago. He high school when she was married. near Fern Glenn, states a writer was a noted shot and was associated with the police department as a And your father’s name was Edwin in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Malloy. They were just a couple of When the 38-starred flag was our coach in its target practice. The youngsters who ran off and got mar national emblem Colorado had just buildings have long since fallen into ried without knowing one another, been admitted to the Union, and disuse and ruin. The discovery was without thinking about it—” North and South Dakota, Montana, made wh;'e the Scouts were using "A sort of joke, I suppose.” Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, one of them ;,s temporary headquar "Don’t be bitter. They were so Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizo ters for a day of patrol activity. young, they had no idea they didn’t na, were still territories, not yet ad The union of the flag is in per realize—but I’ll have to go back and mitted to the right to statehood. fect condition. The stripes, how begin properly. I never saw your That was in 1876, about 100 years ever, have been tattered and worn father, but your mother was one of after the birth of the Union had at the ends. Troop 332 has offered the loveliest, no, she was absolutely been accomplished through the Dec to place the flag in the custody of the loveliest creature I ever laid my laration of Independence. The flag, the history class of Maplewood high eyes on. She didn’t seem quite real, however, may have been anywhere school, to become the property of she was so lovely.” from 48 to 61 years old, for the the high school unless the rightful “Was she light or dark?” thirty-ninth star came into the owner is found. Thursday, September 16, 1937 Items of Interest AROUND >h. HOUSE to the Housewife Dainty Shoulder Straps.—When making your undies try using nar row velvet ribbon for the shoulder- straps. The velvet side next to the skin acts as a grip, while the satin on top looks dainty. You will find that ribbon-velvet straps will outlast any garment. • • • Save the Curtains.—A finger cut from an old glove and slipped over the end of a curtain rod enables it to be pushed through the cur tain hems of the finest net with out catching and tearing the fab ric. « • • tional), cayenne, one-half tea spoon made mustard. Mix all in gredients to smooth paste. Spread on any unsweetened b i s c u i t (cream crackers). Place under a red-hot grill to brown. Serve im mediately. • • • Raspberry Shrub. — To three quarts of red raspberries and one quart of sugar add one cup of vinegar. Cook slowly for half an hour and strain through cheese cloth. Pour into sterilized bottles and seal. Serve over ice cubes diluted with water to taste. WNU Service. 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