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BY HENRY BELLAMANN1
HOMECOMING
CHAPTER XXVI
TJ ANDY spread mit the sheets
of Parris' letter on the kitchen
table. The letter had come two
daya ago, and (he had read it a
dozen times, but she returned to
it again and again for the warmth
and comfort, the sense of security
and safety that she derived
from it.
"I am sure that you have al
ready made Drake feel that he
la needed and wanted in the
world. I am writing him in this
same post that he is certainly
needed and important in my life.
We can't give him legs, but we
can keep his mind and personality,
and soul, if you wish to call it
that, whole and well.
"I recalled last night that a
long time ago Drake talked of
real estate projects of some kind,
I don't remember Just what the
ideas were. The main point is to
get his mind going on something
definitely constructive.
"Drake has been more than a
brother to me, and from this mo
ment on you are more than my
sister. In you two I feel that I
have more than a professional
reason for coming back to Kings
Row. You know, of course, that
I have always hoped for an an
pointment at the State Hospital
for the Insane. I have kept Dr.
Nolan informed of my progress.
He has promised to recommend
my appointment when I have fin
ished my work here in Vienna."
Randy folded the thin sheets of
paper carefully. It was strange,
she thought, how well she knew
Parris Mitchell.
GRADUALLY, as the weeks
went by, Randy pressed the
suggestions Parris had made in his
flrat letter. She was amazed to
see how Drake fell more and more
easily into the pattern she so care
fully planned.
One day, following her carefully
disguised leads, Drake recalled the
eld project for reclaiming the.
creek-bottom lands nearby. He:
alighted upon it with joy. He had
begun from that day to move
toward a normal life. Sometimes,
as Randy studied the sharp-cut
profile, it seemed as though this
catastrophe had burned Drake
clear of every trait that had been
a little careless and coarse.
"I'm going to move you down
stairs next week, Drake."
He frowned. "Where?"
"The front room. That's going
to be our living room, and the
little room off to the side that
never has been anything but a:
storeroom will be our bedroom."
He thought a moment. . "It
sounds pleasant."
"There is just one front win
dow. It looks into the front yard.
There's a big cedar tree outside,
and across the road you can see
around Harper's Hill on out into
the country. It's quieter, too. You
dont hear the switch engines as
you do back here."
Drake's face "' contracted sud
denly. "Ill be glad to get where
I dont hear them so plain. Some
times I dream I guess I'll always
have dreams like that"
"I dont think so, Drake." Randy
poke very calmly, but her chest
(was tight "You'll have a lot of
other things to think about"
"Randyl"
"Remember this always. You've
had a terrible accident and all
that but you're just Drake Mc-
Hugh. You're no different You
can arrange your life anyway you
want to. I'm here to see that it's
done the way you want it, bin
you are Drake, and I love you. Do
II have to tell you that every day?"
."THE late-afternoon train clanked
I t.1 J 14- 1 '
wm lawcu iia Biuuay, grimy
way from Camperville towards
Kings Row.
; The passengers sat in the antl-
qua ted coach, avoiding, as much
las possible, the touch of the gritty,,
red-plush seats. They wore a look
lof patient misery all but one. He
iwas a young man who had stepped
from the Chicago express just in'
time to catch the Kings Row local.'
At the station he looked with
aome surprise at the new brick
building.
"Hack sir?"
"Why the Central Hotel. There
jis still a Central HoteL I gup
Ipose?" "Yes, sirree. Only one, in fact
'Dls- way, suh."
The rather decrepit hack swung
around the corner and clattered
along lower Union street
At the hotel desk, a thin mousy
jlooking clerk bowed with an imi
tation of briskness.
, "I'd like a suite, please."
"Suite?"
I "Yes. Sitting room, bedroom,
ibalh."
"Well we haven't exactly got
that kind of an arrangement I
could throw two rooms together
. for you."
He watched as the newcomer
wrote: "Dr. Parris Mitchell, Vi
enna." The clerk turned the register
around, wrote a number opposite
the name. "Here, boy, take Dr.
Mitchell's baggage to 217. Going:
to go into practice here, Doc?"
"At the State Hospital."
"Sure enough! Doctor at the!
asylum, eh?. Well, well."
: "Send the baggage up. I'm go-:
Ing out first to to look around."'
Out on the sidewalk Parris
stopped and slowly drew on his
gloves. Two men sitting in split
Ibotlom rocking chairs Just outside
ithe hotel door stared and glanced
at each other. When Parris walked
i away, one of them spoke slowly.
("Say, did you see that fellow, put
'ting on gloves?"
"Cloves in August!"
"Dl. MftnViall 7T.J ,1 t.
. , . vscu w iivb
iParrls Mitchell." .
j "What's he wearing gloves for?"
I 'Ife' been living over In Europe
In Vienna, for five years. Maybe
ituats the style over there. Going
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to be a doctor over at the asylum."
"Well, now! Government Job to
start off on?"
"Yep."
.
T)ARRIS walked across the
A square. At the corner he
paused and thought a moment
Yes, Cedar street that was the
shortest way to Randy's house.
He had thought so often of com
ing home. Now he was here. This
was Kings Row. He looked east
and west on the cross street This
shabby, dingy-looking street this
village. A strange heaviness
settled on his heart and with it
came a quick, keen wave of home
sickness for Vienna. Vienna had
meant friends, a comfortable
something that was almost home
Vienna wns he shook himself
free of the thoughts.
"Parris!"
"Randy my dear!"
"Oh, Parris, I'm so glad to see
you!"
Randy had Just started out
when she met Parris. She swung
the white-painted gate open again.
"Come on in. Drake will be crazy,
he'll be so glad to see you."
"How is he?" Parris caught her
a?m and held back as they came
to the door. "How is he really?"
Randy looked away, then back
again. Her eyes dimmed a little.
"I dont really know, Parris. I
don't really know. He seems
more like himself lately. But I
cant teU."
Randy opened the door.
Parris held tight to Drake's
hand and looked down Into the
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CIVILIAN DEFENSE GROUP
HORIZONTAL
1,6 Depicted is
insignia of the
U. s. Civilian
Defense
Answer to
JHENWI
12 That thing.
13 Metal
14Fruit stone.
IS Made of
(suffix).
16 Residence
(abbr.).
18 Sheltered side
20 They function
with the
of the police
force.
help during
blackouts.
40 Age.
41 Bushel (abbr.)
42 Strokes lightly
45 Pope's triple
crown.
49 Subside.
53 Fuss.
64 Males.
55 Beverage.
57 American
poet.
58 Symbol for
tantalum.
59 Mountain pass
60 Finale.
21 On the affirm
ative side.
22 Beach.
24 Looks askance
.25 Black bird.
26 Greek letter.
28 Symbol for
sodium. -
29 African tree.
32 Ruggcdmoun-
tain crest.
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ground parrot,
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weight.
for grating.
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deeply shadowed eye.
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Drake moved his lips, but no
word came. His face was like a
mask of thin stone. He shifted
a little like an embarrassed ehlld
and turned his face away,
rvi 1 tat rinwn on the edce
the bed and laid his cheek hard
atfnlntt TVnlrut's.
Randy backed out of the door
nnrf rloied t behind her. one
went to the kitchen and sat down
In a low chair behind the stove.
(To Be Continued)
These rampant totalitarian
military forces seek to and can
dethrone Christ and then shout
as the pagans of the past, "there
is no other god but Cacsnr."
Msgr. Michael Ready, general
secretary of National Catholic
Welfare council, observing third
anniversary of coronation of
Pone Pius.
and harvested in summer.
flies the alrianes.
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21 Symbol ior
praseodymium
23 Deliberations;
25 They keep
watch for
air raids.
27 Diminish.
28 Very rich man
29 Banking
(abbr.).
30 Swiss river.
31 Turkish
weight.
33 Sprite.
34 Bind.
35 Ever (poet.).
42 Pasty.
43 First man.
44 Toward.
46 Within. '
47 Symbol for
radium.
48 Toward the
sheltered side.
50 Upward.
51 Permission to
use.
52 Not as much.
54 To low, as
a cow.
56 Entomology
(abbr.).
59 Symbol for
chlorine.
61 Danish .
(abbr.).
VERTICAL
1 Artificial
manners.
2 Genus of
shrubs.
3 Right (abbr.).
4 Trouble.
5 Crudely.
7 Genus of bees.
8 Free.
8 Doctor of
Theology
(abbr.).
10 Roman
emperor.
11 Earth's wintry
blanket.
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19 Eye (Scot.). .
20 Aramaic
(abbr.).
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