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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1930)
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Then site saw violent reversions she sprang to her Ho leaned forward feet. to the three impressions of hrr moth hla lace soften "A hell of a lot you care for other er. and In a blind search lor some ‘ and extended a hand across Ute desk way In which she rould punish her 'Hit down. Daughter, and tell me.” peoples troubles! ’ she flung at him; he urged. "Ada and I have been then »he turned to go. self lor hrr selfish neglect. "W a it!" Beyond the window the shortening fearful that your letter brought bad She was arrested by the Impact of ifrptrniber day dwindled Into tw i ! nears.“ Hhe sank Into the chair, then she the single word and faced him again, light In the street the cooling pave- menta called Ute dark children from placed Ute letter, clippings, and pray- her beautiful expressive body fixed (lie serried houses Tltey swarmed rr book before hUn "Read that letter In an attitude of fear like that of an down, noisy as blackbirds, and flung and those papers, please.' she begged animal at bay. I "Now alt down and keep quiet." he » gay chattering sound up to Llssa s ‘T h e y 're a t ut Ma.'' Hhe watched him take the papers commanded. room. Prom the two adjacent Ele Por a nament longer her defiance well-kept, hairless vated lines sounded roar and answer In lila heavy, ing roar as the trains hurtled with hands, and read them through with lasted, then suddenly she bent her mechanical punctuality over the hla habitual thoroughness Now that head and commenced to cry softly darkening atreeta. T o Llasa they she was close to him hei leeltng to into the croo". o l her arm in the .rented tike Ute ttrk-tork of a ti ward lilm changed, (tut o l his massive manner characteristic of Hagar when tanic clock dlvidUtg the present Into silence strong emanations of sympa faced by overwhelming difficulties. minute segments and hurling It Into thy flowed toward her. 8he felt his Then obediently she resumed her Ute limbo of Ute past. On the Ave ftower now not as opposition, but at seat. When . ray o n broke hla portentous nue the windows of an apartment a sustaining furor. She was glad that . ■ ni voice was compasatOgMftg he had not spent It in easy volubility bouse lost the red of the sunset, but Arm Hr said: ” I ’vr thought It ail He finished Ute last dipping, then out now. C tighter Look at it this stared blank fo: a moment, llten winked to life again, restless In the folded them all carefully and return way": he picked up the clippings and — N O W n o O N W I T N I H » M TOHV — blue dusk Bui these things that ed them When he spoke his voice »elected the one which contained 1-isea had loved as symbols of her new aUlted. Inadequate In con Hagar S confession. Llssa raised Iter , hands, while tier body inhaled a tang life had lust their magic Bhr sal seemed INH IAI-I-M K NT X V II trast with he. unspoken sympathy. tear-stained face, and he pointed to of sweat and phosphate dust wlUl the staring through them Into Ute Caro "Your moUter was a truly great wo the words. "That." he said, "la your Hrr mother was known only u B ax druggy perfume of roadside honey lina lo w Country Once she ruae from man. Llssa. The Just Clod who knows mother’s last will and testament. In ter. » vagrant Negro a>uni«u who had suckle 'Phis memory held a poison her rhalr. got from a bureau drawer everything will forgive her. Rhe has It she haa left you something that the prayer book thsl Hagar had given given her life lor you You sltould be she It a s conceived to be of Inestimable r n o t to U v mine» ten yrars before that site could not at once Identify ller, opened It at llte flylewl with tla proud of your parentage— your race." value. It was all Uiat she had to trad once »aved llluton a life, «nd Then It came the beginning of i inscription. Uten sat again with Ute She did not comment upon this give You cannot repudiate tt. You had Utrr, presumably In a IU ol Je«l- j tribute. Her reply struck out al a tan must give her silence In return." fastidiousness In herself that had volume In her hands ntu r u r . destroyed him. But while a a a “ But It's a He. I can't go on always gent. as though she had «ratted for i turned her away from the great crea- Iter mind assimilated Uirar facta, It was not until alter breakfast him to ftntali speaking Ut say what living a lie What am I to doT" I lure who might soil Iter dress to Ute "You must carry on Make your life She llte .utilising morning that Llasa had long been on Iter mmd coolly lelicitalinc her upon hrr ec- cleanness ol Mamba a arms A gap left her room She wore the clothes leaned forward, swaying slightly in worth the {nice that has been paid ca|* U|Ktn the final complete eraaunr fer It. There's 1.0 turning back now her chair. Her spraktng voice had A time of Uitnga wanted because of a that site had hod on when she came of Hie record of hrr own or lain an with your strange loneliness that needed aa- I rum hrr music leaaon the preceding caught the tragic timbre ol Iter low I without breaking faith Inexplicable tremor nelard u t»n t.er .Urging notes Her short sentences mother There's nowhere for you to waging a fire m hrr blood Uiat had afternoon, and she went directly to were spoken In unconscious rhythm go but ahead: no way to praise her the study of Thomas Orayson. open body, shaking her to that »lie fell driven her In a half-desperate search ed Ute door wtUiout knocking, and "1 can't stay l.ere now I can't let but In your works.” into a chair, nelard the arm« with " I «rant go on." she rebelled. “ I Ut stand like that See what she says lor Ute unattainable to Ute Broadens entered Iter Mtllow. rxpreaalve hands and tlutt he was her lover Site despised hate music I f li hadn't been for that He sat at a large square desk In - the rusdhous' dances the last Ma d be alive to-day. I didn't know ■rtiHied desperately while Uie tremor him it took me to put up with his night with Prince Her last plrture of the middle ol the room looking over kind- I've got to go home and tell unUl that night bow much I araa the notes lor Ute sermon that he possessed hrr like the sustained ten- i slon of a galvanic current Presently Hague the dominant figure of that wculd deliver at the morning service. them the truth—I've got to face the missing her. I w a s always lonely, and like destiny The massive severity ol the desk Broadens and their crowd with It— I didn't know why. Grandma never tlie srlnure abated Then mine weak- insane night looming new aa from a protracted Illness, and over the body of Bluton, taking hrr In made a fitting base for Ute bust and I've got to claim Iter now before ev gave me tune to Uiink. Now she's gone, an' I'm sick of everything. I'nt erybody It's a.' Z can do " a |Mii« of loneliness and longing that Iter arms and giving her for one , bead ol the man who sat there. Orayson sat heavy, solid, his arms the loneliest girl in the world.” Llssa closed the door behind Iter, .veiled, mounted, and overwhelmed •'I know.” said Grayson gentlv. brlrf moment a sense of refuge, of and stood with her back against It as resting on the desk before him. his ner. flinging her head down upon her Without sprak “you think now that It U this great irpis. and bllndlntt her with a gusli sudden arri s a*, some remote and though taking reluge from some pur- rye» on her face ! Illusory goal It was strange now 1 suer tlravson looked up and saw tng hr made Llssa feel his altitude las. Uiat makes vou so. I Isn't. Like u leara. The live brttnw h.td gone as It changed from thr sympathetic Isltmael. you were born lor loneli With everyone lltere is some plc- that she rould not remember a word lier lace ness. But you have this to be Uiank- She a lustreless brown, exrrpt where It : to llte coolly Judicial. uvr etrlied into Ute child mind b * 'that her mother had ever »»Id "You're e-notlonallv upset to-dav. ful for—vou were also born lor suc Imagined hrr as vast. Inarticulate had darkened U> violet under Ute h^ intr ol some early and iieiirtrat- "You're in cess. I had a talk with Salinski yes puaapas- ryes. From swollen lids the eves Llasa " he sale* at Iasi ni( rmotion It stand.'. there always, powrr rneompa.'stng loir, The no condition to arrive at such an im terday He's extravagant in his nratse totaled marking llte beginning of Ing her all the more now because looked with a hard brilliance portant decision. You must wait a of your voice. He has never taken a hint of tragedy that had been latent armory. obscuring leaser subsequent j of Iter silence. Negro before, and It took all of the She saw now with agonising clarity in her expression was suddenly all dav or two.“ mpreastona Up now from under Ute Her form stiffened. She eyed Influence that I could bring to bear .rifted years this picture flaslied Into all Ilia! llagar had given, and now that he saw Uiere. rendering the face ■tssa's consciousness a great bruited 1 that »lie had gone there would never j drawl and haggard Her hair was Oravson with distrust Immediate!«- to interest hint In giving vou a trial, Igure »landin', In a doorway witli a be anyUting tha site could ofTer In dishevelled, her dress looked As she was on the defensive " I thought it's a great chance for vou It's more Kifiremnn Beside It— e strange aalty return She felt at Impulse to wound though II had been slept In There I could count on vou." «he said. "1 than that. It's a great rhanoe for the xste upon Iter child lifts where her herself ut some way. believing vague was a shocking incongruity In the thought vou'd see It a s my Christian Negro race. I f you drop It now go would expiate Iter ualr o l frtvo'ous red pumps on her dutv and help me. or I wouldn't have South and perhaps run the risk of H iker had preeeed a farewell kiss ly that pain told vou But vou can t ;.u>.. me now — being arrested aj an xcce-sorv to the he girl sal walling Her tranred thought less [lr.vs her indifference She tret fits response was characteristic. He ivibodv can—not even Grandma. I murder, certainly, at the least, re aae had fmind the window and had rinsed her hands In a muscular spasm arafird the confines of Uie room Into I that drove the nulls Into Iter tender said In a deliberately m atter-of-fact always did what other neople thought. turning to start over again handi in Infinity of skv Then another palms, and Imagined n slackening of voter "IVm't be afraid. Llssa Come Now I ant going to think for mvself. capped bv a scandal, vou will h«ve thrown tliat chance away. For Ha- and I know I ni right I'm going." rlrt tin began to brighten, assume j Ut > grip upon her heart Now she was | here and tell me your trouble.” Oravson made no reply: then Llasa olotir. form r gigantic black woman lllerrely glad Uiat she was alone For ' Without rising he motioned to a heeling In llte dirt of the ptibllr the Hist time In hrr Hie she was glad rhalr that faced hint across the pol- realised that he had not been listen (C * a t ia a * 4 an F a g * F a u n .¿.id, patting her with great clumsy to lie free o l Mamba and her Indom- talied mahogany with Its piles ol ing to what she had said He had not moaxrmamncxDccKnocu m h * j<wKirxKmxtxDati T h e S t o r m y C a r e e r olF .1 la c k J o h n s o n ,, g y . H « » N H m i H t a .• •< • H « es c ” In New Yark a few «reeka later Jack signed a Utlriy-week theatrical contract, which net ted him a considerable sum and task him ov er a great part ar the United Htatea and Can ada. On this f«or he gave asany exhlhlltana. ‘ >< . Jack remained In excellent physical con dition: hence, between theatrical engage ments he took In several minor ring affair». In one rt these he defeated Victor birlaigh- le% now a fanion» otovte actor >t •( ■(■> l I -J - - ] N o - ] l O ' H: . ; , ' llurlng this time there had been a spirited search for a "white hope," who canid wees« the rhamptonship from Johnson. Jim Jeffries, once champion, had retired, hot ht» friend» prevailed upon him aa a last resort. D r a w n b y F R E D B. W A T S O N T ext by R O L F E D E L L O N