Thursday, September 30, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
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Sophie Kerr
• Sophie Kerr Underwood.
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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. It was made, it was dis
closed, by a student named Victor
L. S. Hafner while he was studying
under a fellowship at the American
Academy in Rome in 1921. His idea
was to make a comparative study
of Michelangelo's model, then on
the balcony of St. Peter's, and the
actual dome itself as a thesis prob
lem.
He first sought permission to
make the copy from the cardinal
in charge of Vatican properties but
learned he was out of the city. The
cardinal’s
substitute,
however,
granted the request so Hafner start
ed his work. His copy was well un
der way when the cardinal returned
and learned of the action of his sub
stitute, who was unaware of the
centuries-old rule of the Vatican
that the model could never be re
produced.
The cardinal decided to permit
the work to continue only on con
dition that no reproduction of the
copy could be made. The univer
sity obtained the copy several years
later and agreed to these terms.
History records that Michelangelo
was appointed architect in chief of
the Cathedral of St. Peter about
1547. During the next ten years h<
constructed a large wooden model
of the dome so that in event of his
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