THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Thursday September 23, 1937
Vying for Your Favor
T l i e r e ’s O n l y O n e
By SOPHIE KERR
C Sophie Kerr Underwood.
WNU Service.
SYNOl’SIS
looked like a child! But what we
said was so trivial—”
"Can’t you recall any of it?”
Anne hesitated, because she must
tell Rachel a lie. “I believe she
said you were healthy and I—well—
I said something about wanting you
very much and that I’d take care
of you. I told her that I wanted to
leave the hospital within the week
and hoped that everything could be
arranged before I went, and she
said her mother would know about
that. All the time I was there I
was thinking of her beauty, it was
so arresting and so—complete. We
shook hands when I left and her
hand was soft and delicate, yet very
alive.”
Rachel was gazing down at
her own hands, long and strong and
brown. “I don’t want to know any
thing more right now," she said.
“Mother darling, you were sweet to
be so patient. I didn’t realize it
would be so hard for you.”
“She knows more of what’s going
on in me than I do about her,”
thought Anne. Then, aloud: “It
wasn’t so very hard, Rachel. You
had to hear it some day, I suppose.”
She rose and brushed the sand from
her skirt. “I’m going back and fin
ish up the bills and tell Mr. Kreel
he can use the radio this winter.
Coming along?”
“Not right yet. If Bob comes back
we might go out and fish a little be
fore dinnertime.”
Anne walked back alone over the
dunes remembering what Rachel’s
mother had said that she would not
tell Rachel. The little creature had
been self-possessed and callous.
It’s odd,” she had said, “that your
baby died and mine didn’t. It ought
to have been the other way round.”
Even now Anne could not recall that
cool smiling speech without a stab
of angry loathing.
on a young and telltale softness
“She’s gorgeous like that,” he
thought, “one long curving line as
clear and clean as marble.” Aloud
he asked, “What’s on your alleged
mind?”
“Nothing,” said Rachel, twitching
at a hook.
“Go on, I know better. What’s it and wisecracks and a lot of cheap
all about?”
foolishness.”
“Mother and I were talking.”
heavens, you’re full of pur
“Your mother’s swell, she’s ity “My
and virtue all of a jump. Don’t
grand, plus ultra. If she was bawl be one
of those tiresome people who
ing you out I’m with her, a hun find something
odd to do and then
CHAPTER I—Continued
dred per cent.”
try to convert everybody else to
“Bob,
listen.
I
wouldn’t
tell
any
“Who wasn’t wanted,’’ put in Ra
doing it. It only shows they know
body else in the world about this, it’s no good and want to bolster
chel.
but I know you won’t spill it around. themselves up.”
“—who couldn’t be cared for, he,
Mother was telling me about my
I mean Dr. Ayres, talked to Harry—
“That’s not fair.”
real mother. She’s always said she
and then one day they brought you
Rachel smiled. They had almost
would
when
I
was
twenty-one,
but
In and put you in my arms and you
reached the pier, first of a row of
a little while ago I got thinking half a dozen that made the mooring
—you went Into my heart, too, my
about her going over to France and place of Rockboro’s fleet. “It’s as
darling, you were my own. You’ve
if anything happened to her I might fair as saying my friends are gin
been my own ever since. Harry
never know. So I’ve been trying to and jazz babies. They’re not and
loved you, too, in the same way
get her to tell me and finally she you know it. Anyway, I’m going to
We asked about adopting you,
gave in. I can’t tell you how it get a job. And mother thinks it’s
there wasn’t any great difficulty,
makes me feel, I’m not quite sure all right.” The boat slid alongside
and so we did it, legally of course,
myself. I seem to be someone else. the pier and Rachel climbed out.
and in the other way too—I mean
Maybe it’ll wear off, but right now “Going to tie up?”
we adopted you into our thoughts
—you see I keep on puzzling about
and—and hopes and plans and, most
“Yes, catch.” He threw the rope
them, my real father and mother in and turned to put a tarpaulin over
of all, into our love.
relation to myself. What did they the engiqe, then set the basket of
“Now one more thing, Rachel.
give me that was in their natures, cleaned fish on the pier and leaped
I’ve never brought you to the at
what did they have to give? How out beside Rachel. “Six o’clock,”
tention of your mother in any way,
much am I theirs and how much he said. “Heaps of time.”
I’ve never even seen her except for
am I—”
They sauntered the length of the
our one talk when I left the hospital.
“Why do you think about it at all? pier and up from the water front
I know that she married Peter
You’ve known all the time you were through a short street of small
Cayne, I saw that in the papers, and
adopted, everyone’s known it. You houses and stores to Rockboro’s
I know her mother, Mrs. Rhodes,
used to brag about it disgustingly main thoroughfare.
died a little later. Dr. Ayres told me
the first summers you came here
At length they came to a shabby
when we were arranging the adop
and make all of us kids feel as mansard house. “Here’s Duffy’s.
tion that Mrs. Rhodes was incur
jealous as the devil because we’d Take out the fish you want to give
ably sick and couldn’t live long. So
merely been born. What’s all the her and I’ll go on with the rest.”
there was one reason why she was
sudden uproar about? She hasn’t
“Come into the shed a minute and
so insistent that Elinor give up the
written to you or anything, has she, look at my drawing for a mantel
child."
your
real
mother?”
swag. I’ve got some new wood,
"But, mother, didn’t Elinor her
“No. She’s never shown the slight too, best pine I’ve had this year.
self mind? Didn’t she want to keep
est interest in me, apparently I’ll go through the kitchen and meet
me?”
doesn’t
care whether I’m dead or you round there.” He picked out five
"Rachel, you seem to have a sen
CHAPTER II
alive.”
fish and disappeared down the side
timental streak I never noticed be
“That’s what’s burning you up, path.
fore. Darling, physical motherhood
Rachel sat still after Anne had you
always did hate being ignored.”
Just beyond Mrs. Duffy’s and set
is a normal process of nature but it left her, she was stirred and excit
Rachel tilted her head cockily. “I well back in her yard was a build
doesn’t inevitably carry affection ed, she hoped that Anne did not never am ignored,” she said.
ing which had once I een a wood
and solicitude with it. Elinor mar know how much nor how strangely.
“You rose to that one like a blue- shed and was now Bob Eddis’ liv
A faraway hail brought her back
ried when she was nothing but a
child, her mother drilled and ham to the day and the hour. A little fish. Go on, get those lines over ing quarters and workshop. He had
mered into her all the disadvan one-lunged boat was put-putting into and stop beefing. How do you get put in windows and painted the out- !
this way? Look out, that one’s twist side white with a red roof and red I
tages of her marriage and had
ed.”
trim, but its original purpose was
made you seem a frightful care and
Rachel applied herself to paying still obvious. Rachel always felt a
handicap. Don’t you see? Under
out the lines with perfect calm. tingle of curiosity when she entered
other circumstances she might have
“What’s burning you up is that the place, it made her see a man
clung to you through everything.”
we’re talking about me and not who was not in the least like the
“How soon did she marry again?
about you,” she said amiably. It one who ragged and joked with her,
“That same year, in September.
had eased her tension to tell Bob, fished with her, danced with her I
“Has she any children by that
some of the strange bitterness she’d and took her to the movies. This
marriage?”
felt was gone. Proportion was com was an austere and ascetic man
“I believe there’s a son.”
ing back to her life.
with his ideas and philosophy organ
“She's never asked to see me or
ized to his satisfaction. The living
They
stayed
silent,
absorbed
in
tried to—to get in touch with you—
their catch. At the tenth fish Bob room was aj bare as a room could
to know about me. mother? Never
dropped the lines. “That's enough; be, with white walls and a black
once?”
two for you and one for me and floor, two splint chairs, a black oak
There was a shake of fear in
two for the Kreels and five for Mrs. tab’e and chest and small bed, this
Anne's voice though she tried to
Duffy’s boarding - house. Look, last covered with an exquisite white
keep it calm and even. “No, Ra
Rache, you steer around the light quilt, the plumed design and fine
chel. I think she must have accept
house into the lower bay and I’ll stitching a marvel of ancient taste
ed the adoption as Anal, just as
get out my trough and clean these and skill. One entire wall .was a
Harry and I did. She may have
fish right now. How’s about it, cupboard in part of which he hung
seen you secretly, I don’t know.
his clothes; in the other the cook
wench?”
But once you were mine, you were
“All right. You can come along ing stove and sink, his few pans and
mine, and I no more would have
up and eat with mother and me; dishes were kept compact and hid
brought you to her attention than
there won’t be much, for Ada’s den. As Rachel looked round it she
I would if you had been born to me.
brother is sick and she hadn't been had an instant’s vision of herself
Our ways don’t cross. Mr. Cayne
working
for us for three days, just living there with Bob, serene, con
has a great deal of money and they
when we needed her most, of tented, a life without stress, leisure
figure more or less in the kind of
course, with all the packing. But ly, thoughtful, tender. “No,” she
society that newspapers feature, I
thought, “it’s too—adult for me.
there’ll be enough, with the fish.”
mean she’s always a patroness for
isn't any place for youth.”
some of the big balls and they go to
“I’ll have to stop in my house This
Bob
bursting in from the
the Riviera or Egypt or Palm Beach
and wash and put on clean clothes. outside came
door. “Now look!” he said
in winter, and have a country place
Your mother would throw me out if and pulled
down a long elaborately
in Connecticut, they’re not the top,
I showed up in these stinking rags.” drawn design
of a swag in fruit and
‘She’s Never Shown the Slightest
as you young ones call it, but I’d
“Bob,
I
do
think
it’s
dumb
of
you
leaves. “How’s that?”
Interest in Me.”
call them fairly prominent. Mr.
to stay on here running a town li
“It's grand. But it’ll be awfully
Cayne’s in some sort of machinery the bay and Bob Eddis’s red brary and doing carpentry and hard
to carve.”
business."
sweater identified it. "Hey,” he woodwork on the side,” said Rachel
“That was the idea. Anybody can
called,
"hey,
Rache,
over
here—"
after
a
pause.
Anne suppressed a tremulous
do easy bits ” He smiled at her.
sigh, it had been so different, so waving his arm toward the side of
That’s your theme song, isn't it? “You think I’m just a nut, don’t
the
beach
where
landing
was
easi
Nevertheless I’m going to stay. you, Rache? You don’t see how I
much harder than she had ever
Imagined. The way Rachel had est. Rachel leaped up and ran to There’s only one bad spot in the can get such a kick out of a piece
listened, the questions she had meet him, her white scarf flying be program, Rachel, you won’t be of wood and a bunch of tools?”
asked and their implications—all hind her like a banner, then, as he here. I wish you’d stay with me.”
“If you want to hear it again I’m
these stirred Anne with apprehen steered in close, she snatched off
Oh, Bob, are you going to begin pleased to oblige: I think you’re
her
s
h
o
e
s
,
waded
barelegged
sion. What was behind all this?
on that again?”
practically everything. Now I’m go
What was going on in Rachel's through t h e shoal water and
I certainly am and I shall keep ing home and you skin into clean
mind? How far away and strange climbed expertly over the side.
right on till you give in. You think
and come right along.”
‘You looked comic running it’s dumb for me to stay here in clothes
the girl seemed. It wasn’t much
She saw Anne sitting on the ter
along,”
said
Bob,
swinging
the
boat
more than a week ago that Rachel
this perfectly grand place and keep race and waved her hand and called
had suddenly begun to inquire about around. “Your legs are as brown on with my work and be independ to her from the road: "Bob’s com
her parents, the people of her own as the sand so your white shoes ent and not worry about money, but ing up for dinner and I’ve brought
blood, and had insisted on know seemed to be going all by them you’re the dumb one, going back to some fish. I’m going to take
ing the truth about them, not much selves.”
New York and racketing round with
to the Kreels.”
“ And so what? You need a shave that crazy crowd, gin and hot jazz couple over
more than a week, and at the very
(TO BE CONTINUED)
and
your
sweater's
foul
and
your
time when their usual easy summer
round had been broken into by prep pants are a disgrace to the whole
arations for leaving the cottage and pant world. Are we going fishing?” Forest Fire Danger Now More Easily
“If you want. I’ve got bait and
for Anne's journey to France and
the separation it entailed from her tackle."
Prevented Through Aid of Instruments
"How’s the engine doing?”
daughter.
“Terrible, but I guess she’ll last
“It seems to me I’ve told you all
Methods employed in determining measure the daily precipitation, the
trip.”
I know, Rachel,” she said, dully. the “ Don’t
when high forest fire hazards exist, wind gauge to determine the rate
let’s
go
out
too
far.
Moth
’T ve tried not to impute motives
and I have to finish packing this the detection of fires when they at which the wind is blowing, the
or make guesses appear as facta." er
start and their control after break duff hygrometer to determine the in
evening.”
“I wish you’d tell me again how
Bob frowned at this. "Wish you ing out have shown great changes flammability of the surface fuel, the
she looked when you saw her. And weren’t going.”
for the better in recent years.
hazard indicator stick to determine
I’d like to know what she said, and
No longer is it necessary to rely the same thing on the heavy slash
“Wish you’d show some sense and
what you said—exactly.”
give up your idea of wintering here, on the fire warden's judgment as to ings. dead trees and large branches;
“ I don’t know if I can remember like a woodchuck. You could get high or low hazards, for science has the hazard indicator scale will tell
exactly what we said, but I’ll try. a job in New York.”
created instruments that do this de the per cent of moisture content in
They put me in a wheeled chair be
“I’ve got a Job here. New York’s tecting with a far greater degree the slashings by weight, the wind
cause I was still weak, and the jammed to the gunnels with bright of accuracy.
vane the direction of the wind and
nurse wheeled me into the ward. young men hunting for jobs. I did
According to the national forest the psychrometer determines the
She was sitting up in bed. she had three months of that last winter service, the equipment to be used in relative humidity “The relative hu
on the high-necked common hospital and never again, so help me. Set determining the degree of fire dan midity.” says the foresters, "is one
gown and a blue dressing gown over the lines out, we can troll right off ger will consist of a rain gauge, of the most important factors in the
it. cheap woolly stuff but a lovely the lighthouse and if the engine wind velocity gauge, duff hygrome control of forest fires."
color, like her eyes. Her hair was goes dead they’ll see us.”
This new technique will be em
ter, hazard indicator sticks, hazard
loose, very dark against the pillow
With Rachel intent on the lines indicator scale, wind vane and psy- ployed in all national forests
She—she looked at me with a good and bait Bob could watch her openly chrometer.
throughout the Lake states begin
bit of curiosity and she smiled. She and his too-thin, tooold face took
The rain gauge will be used to ning this year.
Preparing to close her summer home and
spend the winter In France with a great-
aunt. Anne Vincent, a middle-aged widow,
accedes to the pleas of her adopted daughter
Rachel, twenty and pretty, that she tell
about her real mother. Anne, an unselfish
understanding soul, finds the task difficult
since she feels Rachel la putting a barrier
between them. Rachel learns that her real
mother was beautiful elghteen-year-old E ll
nor M alloy, deserted by her young husband,
before Rachel's birth. He was killed In the
World war.
she: "I feel that Fall is really the
season to step out and hob-nob
with Fashion and the Joneses.
This frock, which is my weakness
in plum-colored wool, was as easy
to make as it is to wear.
“Later on I’m going to have a
velvet version with short sleeves—
these slim lines and elegant shoul
ders were just made for this
queen of all fabrics—and evi
dently I go for things royal.”
The Patterns.
Pattern 1348 is designed in sizes
12 to 20 (30 to 38 bust). Size 14 re
quires 4ys yards of 39-inch materi
al, plus 1% yards for contrast.
Pattern 1304 is designed for
sizes 34 to 46. Size 36 requires
3% yards of 35-inch material, plus
14 yard contrasting.
Pattern 1374 is designed for
sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 38 bust). Size
14 requires 2% yards of 54-inch
material. With short sleeves, size
16 requires 4 yards of 39-inch ma
terial, plus 14 yard for collar in
contrast. To trim the collar re
quires 414 yards of braid.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New
Montgomery Ave., San Francisco,
Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins)
each.
rANE, two, three smart frocks
on the line ready to go—shop
ping, kitchenwards, to the office
downtown. And as every woman
knows, a well stocked wardrobe
needs all three.
From Now On.
Says the jaunty model to the
left, “I can tell I’m gonna feel
well dressed in this little peplum
frock: ready for sports, a matinee
or dinner in town, and the confi
dent high spirits my new lines
give make me sure that I will be
wanted at all three.
“I made my version of sheer
wool with a subdued herringbone
weave. It will be my number
one attire for a long spell ahead.
One Who Knows.
Miss Keep-the-Home-Beautiful,
in the center, expresses herself:
“Even when I do housework I
like to look and feel fit.
“When I dash out to the store or
go across lots to the neighbor’s to
borrow an egg, I don’t bother to
change my dress because I have
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
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I am. I wouldn’t think of a new
season coming on without running
up a generous supply of crisp,
fresh dresses for myself. They
seem to set one right, you know,
-wiih a
§
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into any day’s work like a cham C o l e m a n ^
pion.”
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