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Thursday, September 30, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON 48234823534853232323 O'here’s Only One Bq Sophie Kerr • Sophie Kerr Underwood. WNU Service. n SYNOPSIS CHAPTER III 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 ot 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 Is putting a barrier between them Rachel learns that her real mother was beautiful elghteen-year-old E li nor Malloy, deserted by her young husband, before Rachel's birth. He was killed In the World war. In desperate financial straits Elinor had agreed to Rachel's adoption at birth by Anne, whose own baby had died Elinor subsequently had m arried Peter Cayne, a wealthy New York business man and had a son. To soften the story for Rachel, Anne omits telling her that her mother had been callous and selfish. Rachel goes fishing with Bob Eddls, a local boy who runs a lib rary and does wood carving. She refuses his plea to stay In Rockboro and m arry him Instead of going to New York In the night Anne had reasoned sharply with herself to get away from self-pity, to accept, as she had always accepted, the hard limiting things that happened to her, and go on calmly. Both she and Rachel were up too early and were restless with this extra time and nothing to do. Bob was to come for their baggage and take it to the station and they would talk. The bare house got on Anne’s nerves. “Let’s take our coffee out on the terrace and watch the sea,” she said, “it’s a divine day.” Mr. Kreel appeared as soon as they did, anxious and eager. “You haven’t changed your intention about the radio, have you?” he asked. Rachel gave him the house key for answer. “Mis’ Vincent, I hate to keep on applying for favors, but could I look through your trash and see if there’s any empty cereal or cracker boxes? I could mail the tops in with my letters, in the contests. She—’’ he nodded toward his own house—"she gets upset if I buy anything special for that puppus.” “ You can look through everything and welcome,” Anne assured him. “Listen, Mr. Kreel,” added Ra chel, “here’s an idea. You speak to Bob Eddis, he’s going to be here all winter and if there’s any spe cial cereal or cracker you want I’m certain he’d buy it and eat it and give you the box.” “That is an idea, Miss Rachell No waste, no cost, no argument in the house. Is there so’thing I could do for you to help out this morning? CHAPTER II—Continued Anne had been waiting for her anxiously, but now she relaxed. Ra chel couldn’t have been greatly agitated if she had gone Ashing with Bob and asked him to dinner. What on earth they’d give him to eat— she hurried to the kitchen and was investigating supplies when Rachel returned, laughing. ‘‘There’s a frightful row going on over there, Mrs. Kreel and Sister Susie are raving about our letting Mr. Kreel use the radio. He ought never to have let them know it, My heavens—” she looked at Anne’s rummagings—‘‘nothing but bread and potatoes and that crumb of cheese!’* “I’ll bake the potatoes and toast the bread," said Anne. “There’s can of asparagus, that’ll do for sal ad, and a can of apricots for des sert. There’s enough coffee for to night and some in the morning befpre we start.” Through this homely patter Anne had been listening to Rachel, watch ing her to discover if there had been any change, any ferment of feeling since their talk on the beach. She could detect nothing. The barrier which had been high between them before she had told Rachel what the girl demanded to know seemed to have gone. Bob arrived before the meal was ready, bringing cocktails in a paper container and a package of salted nuts. "They’re probably stale,” he said. “They were bought for the summer folks and as you’re the last to leave it’s right you should have them.” Rachel had put on the yellow crepe dress she’d saved to wear the next day, she had tied a velvet rib bon about her head and pinned a knot of floppy velvet roses at the point of the plain collar. “ Decora tions for the party,” she explained. Bob poured the cocktails with cer emony and the cheese canapes looked smart and professional. “Re newed assurances, girl friends!” he said, lifting his glass. “And am I Both Were Glad When They going to miss you!” Left Him. “ You could come to New York,” said Rachel. No? Well, I wish you both a safe “So you mentioned. You know, trip and an early return next year, Mrs. Vincent, I’ve been doing my and I’ll look after everything here best to persuade Rachel to marry for you. I’ll miss you sore.” They shook hands with the gentle me and stay here this winter in stead of leading the wild life in the little man and he scurried away. By the time Bob’s car rattled up great and wicked city. She won’t listen to me. I wish you’d use your they were both ready, the bags on the terrace, the house locked and influence with her.” “ Mother wouldn't want you for a the extra key for Ada hung behind son-in-law,” declared Rachel. “Look the nearest shutter. Bob’s thin face was drawn tight at her struggle between her truthful and his eyes were tired, unhappy, feelings and her kind heart." “That’s a shameful lie. Your but Rachel said nothing about it, mother has known me a long time nor did Anne, either to him or later and thinks I’m marvelous. Don’t as they walked down to the station. The stores were just opening, the you, Mrs. Vincent?" “ In some ways you’re certainly housewives had not yet begun to sweep their walks. The streets were marvelous,” Anne agreed. “ But seriously — about Rachel empty, cool, waiting yet content, the early sunshine was white gold marrying me—” “ Rachel will decide that for her through which the long shadows of self. Rachel,” said Anne deliber morning made a frail and shifting ately, “will decide everything im pattern. "It’s like walking on a portant in her life for herself with stage set," said Rachel. “How peo out advice from anyone. And I be ple do spoil this town!" “ But you don’t want to stay here lieve that she’ll strike a pretty fair when most of the people are gone?" average of deciding right." 'Not as Mrs. Bob Eddis. Not a “There, you see. Bob! Mother chance." thinks I ought to decline your flat “I hope you’ll have a good time tering offer." with Pink this winter and I do hope “She didn't say that,” said Bob. you’ll And a job you really like, not “She implied it,” returned Ra a mere something to do in the day chel. “What’s more, mother isn’t tim e.” bothered about my living in New 'T il And something,” said Rachel. York with Pink and finding a job The train was waiting and Bob for myself. Are you. mother?” She had piled their baggage just inside did not wait for an answer. "And the door of the one passenger car. what would I do here all winter. 'I've decided to go as far as the Bob? You’ve got the library and Junction with you,” he said, and all your wood carving, but I'd have the way there he talked about noth nothing to do except cook your ing with defiant cheerfulness annoy meals and wait for you to come ing to Rachel, pathetic to Anne, but and eat them.” both were glad when they left him “I could lend you improving books and settled into the express train's from the library and teach you a swift impersonal comfort. “If little wood carving, angel. We could there’s anything I hate it's being walk on the beach and back in the seen off," said Rachel crossly. hills and go Ashing and sing some 'Come on, let’s dash into the diner times and talk and on very stormy and get some food.” days sit by the Are and spin.” “ And let's go into the silence “The excitement would be too while we're eating," added Anne. much for me," said Rachel. Then, Not talking at breakfast was a cus as if taking some secret resolution tom Anne and Harry Vincent had from her spirit and declaring it adopted early in their married life openly to define and clinch it for her and found that it gave the day a own satisfaction, she added with good start toward civilization. It emphasis: ‘T’ve got something I was of Harry Vincent that Anne must do this winter, something of thought as she sat across from Ra- my very own.” hel. noticing how handsome the tall brown girl looked in her yellow remembering that Rachel must now frock and how the other passengers make her own decisions, however watched her with interest and spec small. She added gratefully, "It’ll ulation. What would Harry have be a big help to have you with m e.” thought of her? Anne wondered, as “That’s a joke, you know Grable she had wondered so many times does everything. All you need is a before. The clack of the wheels couple of frocks and a visa on your made a monotonous rhythm of re passport. Poor old Grable, what’ll lease to Anne’s memory. She could he do with his Philharmonic tickets never get done missing Harry, she this year?” was his widow now as much as on “You might go with him.” Rachel laughed. “And have him the day he had died so suddenly, so quickly she couldn’t believe it. “A tell me all about Brahms? That bad heart and he knew it,” Dr. would be a thrill! All the same I Ayres had said. That was why all mean to cultivate Grable a little, his affairs were in such good order. he might find me a job just for your There was no muss or muddle over sake.” With hesitation, because she had his will and his property, though he hadn’t so very much to leave. But so determinedly kept her hands off he had guarded Anne and Rachel this most important matter, Anne with a trust fund and since his death asked, “Rachel, are you any nearer it had increased and given a good knowing what kind of a job you’ll income; even during the lean years look for?” “No, not a bit. Pink will prob since ’29 it had not diminished, for the trustee was a canny and fore ably think up something and force seeing man with a passion for fi me into it. And I’ll hate it.” “I thought—from what you said to nance and his ability was reinforced by a considerable but unanswered Bob last night—that you had some tenderness for Anne herself. Anne thing definite in mind.” Rachel replied with ostentatious knew perfectly that two amiable smiles would have had Hobart Gra- carelessness: “Oh, that—that was— ble proposing to her, so her deal on the side.” Anne decided to make a joke of ings with him were curt and on busi ness alone, except for an occasional it. "You and your secrets!” she concert with him. He was not only said, smiling. “All right—keep out a good financier, but someone with of jail, that’s all I ask.” And she would not notice that Rachel’s smile whom music could be enjoyed. The first year after Harry Vin was a little forced and anxious. cent’s death was a blank in Anne’s “Would you like to ask Pink to din recollection, she knew that she must ner tonight if she hasn’t a date?” have gone through the ordinary mo she went on. Yes, Rachel would like that. And tions of living, but all she could re member of it was bleak desolation for the rest of the trip if they talked and a strange anger against all at all it was of nothing with spe who could live on when he could cial meaning. Pink, it appeared, could come to not. But that had passed, she had forced herself into normal ways, dinner and at seven; before they the care of Rachel had helped. were ready, she came bounding into Presently the child was the reason, Rachel’s room at the hotel without the validity of her will to live. There a sign of her day’s work about her. Pink vas small and thin as a was enough money for a small apartment and a maid for the win toothpick, her nose turned up, her ters, the house in Rockboro in the skin was pleasantly freckled, her summers. Rachel had gone to a hair shoe-polish black. She hailed private school and to special classes from Baltimore and was unlike the at Columbia, but obviously she was Southern belle of song and story in no scholar and to force her through every possible way. She did not the college mill seemed a point even have a Southern accent and less task to Anne. she was 100 per cent unromantic. With Rachel at twenty Anne had Her brain was keen and violent, come to an impasse. The girl lived she spoke her opinions instantly and with her too contentedly, saw too actqd on them as soon as made, and few young people, passed on her she was quick to be kind and tol decisions and her plans to Anne to erant and also to be sharp and hard, make and only now and then took a but she couldn’t cherish a grudge stand of her own. Anne didn’t no matter how she tried. want to depend on Rachel any more Anne heard her speaking to Ra than she wanted Rachel to depend chel and in another moment Pink on her, and she was afraid that tapped at her door, popped inside, her love for her daughter might be hugged and kissed her and said tray her. Not only her love, but how grand it was to see her, all in the constant joy of Rachel’s pres one motion. ence, the pleasure ot having her by “You're coming to dinner with her side and in looking out for her, us,” Rachel called in, “ and we’re these might, she felt, so easily warp going somewhere swank. I’ll get and limit Rachel, make her less of enough cheap Italian dumps this a woman, less of a person than she winter and don’t I know it.” had a right to be. “I’m not dressed for a swell Then that querulous difficult dow place and we haven’t any man. Or ager, her Great-aunt Helende Bes- have we?” nard (born Helen Williams of Al “No, we haven’t,” said Anne, bany) had summoned Anne to her “but I don’t think it matters, it’s side, not because of affection or early and you have me for chap need, but because her sole aim ot eron.” living now was to make people do The talk went on after they had what they didn't want to do. She reached the roof garden which Ra had tried before to get Anne to chel selected as their dining place. stay with her and refusal had sharp Anne listened, amused, as the two ened her demand. This new sum girls chattered. mons had provided Anne with a “I tell you,” said Pink, “this is logical excuse to leave Rachel on the women's day and the men’s de her own, make her rub up against pression. It’s the women who’ve the world, give her companions of scrabbled around and found some her own age. sort of jobs when the men couldn’t Anne came out of the silence. find any. My part-time maid tells “Will you stay at the hotel with me me that practically every woman until I sail, or go right down to she knows is supporting a husband Pink?" she asked, hoping with all or a brother or a father. And com her heart for these last few days ing into the white-collar class it’s with Rachel. the women who’ve kept the heme “I’d better stay with you and fires burning, they've made new watch your shopping, you’ll buy jobs when they couldn’t find o'd nothing but old lady clothes unless ones. Two big women’s clubs have I watch you. I want you simply to built and furnished clubhouses, put Madame Helene's eye out when though building is practically dead, you get there. I’ll phone to Pink and they’ve financed them soundiy, too. Ladies, someone said the other that I'm on my way.” Anne opened her lips to say, day, have found out they can work. "Best take your bags to Pink’s so So here’s the town, Rachel, you can they don’t have to be moved twice,” take your pick.” (TO BE CONTINUED) but she changed it to “Very well,” Copy of St. P eter’s Dome A llow ed by M istake; University Claims Duplicate The story of how the only copy in the world of Michelangelo's famous model of the dome which he de signed for St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome was permitted to be con structed has been revealed for the first time by authorities of the Uni versity of Cincinnati, says a Cin cinnati United Press correspondent. The university has had possession of the little-known copy for ten years. 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