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Senior Class Play
¿MARIE
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Eleanor H. Porter
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Illustrations by
H. Livingstone
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3-Act Comedy
Copyright by KI mum * H. Port«*
8YNOPSIS
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PREFACE.—‘Mary Marie” explains her
appuient "double personality” and just
why she Is a "cross-current and a contra
diction;” she also tells her reasons for
writing the diary—later to be a novel. The
diary Is commenced at Andersonville.
HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM
CHAPTER I.—Mary begins with Nurse
■araii's account of her (Mary's) birth,
which seemingly Interested her fr.’her,
who Is a famous astronomer, less than a
asw star which was discovered the same
night. Her name Is a compromise, her
mother wanted to call her viola and her
father Insisting on Abigail Jane. The
child quickly learned that her home was
tn some way different from those of her
small friends, ard was puzzled thereat.
Nurze Sarah tells her of her mother's ar
rival at Andersonville as a bride and how
astonished they all were at the sight of
the dainty elghteen-year old girl whom
the sedate professor had chosen for a
wife.
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CHAPTER II.—Continuing her story,
Nurse Sarah makes It plain why the
household seemed a strange one to the
child and howher father and mother
drifted apart through misunderstanding,
each too proud to In any way attempt to
smooth over the situation.
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CHAPTER III.—Mary tells of the time
spent “out west" where the "perfectly
all right and genteel and respectable"
divorce was being arranged for, and her
mother's <to her) unacountable behavior
By the court’s decree the child Is to spend
six months of the year with her mother
and six months with her father. Boston
la Mother's home, and she and Mary
leave Andersonville for that city to spend
the first six months.
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comes "Marie.” She Is delighted with her
new home, su different from thè gloomy
house at Andersonville. The number of
gentlemen who call on her mother leads
her to speculate on the possibility of a
new father
She classes the callers as
"prospective suitors," finally deciding the
choice is to be between “the violinist"
and a Mr. Harlow. A conversation she
overhears between her mother and Mr.
Sarlow convinces her that It will not be
at gentleman, and “to vlollntBt” seems
to be the likely man Mrs. Anderson re
ceives a letter from "Aunt Abigail Ander-
Con, her former husband's slater, whl Is
•eping house for him, rernlndlng her that
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the six months she le to spend with her
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CHAPTER V—At Andersonville Aunt
Jane meets her at the station. Her fa
ther Is away somewhere studying an
eclipse of the moon., Marie—"Mary"
now Instinctively compares Aunt Jane,
prim and severe, with her beautiful, dainty
mother, much to the former's disadvan
tage Aunt Jane disapproves of the dain
ty clothes which the child ts wearing, an.I
replaces them with "serviceable" serges
and thick-coled shoes Her father arrives
home and seems surprised to see her. The
child soon begins tn notice that the girls
at school seem to avoid hor. Her father
appears Interested In the life Mrs. An
derson leads at Boston and asks many
questions In a queer manner which
puzzles Mary
She finds out that her
schoolmates do not associate with her
on account of her parents being divorced,
and she refuses to attend school. Angry
at first. Mr Anderson, when he learns
the reason for her determination, decides
that she need not go. He will hear her
lessons In Aunt Jane's and her father's
absence Mary dresses In the pretty clothes
she brought from Boston and plays the
liveliest tunes she knows, on the little-
used piano Then, overcome by her Ion»-
aomeness, she Indulges In a crying spell
which her father's unexpected appear
ance Interrupts She sobs out the story
• >f her unhappiness, and In a clumsy way
he comforts her
After that he appears
to desire to make her stay more pleasant.
Her mother write« asking that Mary be
allowed to come to Boston for the begin
ning of the school term, and Mr Ander
son consents, though from an expression
he lets fail Mary believes he Is sorry she
Is going
1« not to go to school st all, any more,
she gasped.
“Exactly." Father read on in his
paper without looking up.
Aunt Jane's lips came together hard,
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"Jane!" with a Jerk Father sat up
straight, "I realize some things that
Try It and prove It.
perhaps you do not. But that is
neither here nor there. 1 do not wish
Mary to go to school any more this
spring. That Is all; and 1 think—It
is sutlleleut,"
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"Certainly." Aunt Jane's lips came
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hups you will be good enough to say
w hat she shall do with her time."
"Time? Do? Why—er—what ahe
always does; read, sew, study—"
"Study?" Aunt Jane asked the quea-
tloti with a hateful little smile that
Father would have been blind not to
Three IVi.-ndly
liuve understood. And he was equal
G.nrtemen
to It—but I moat fell over backward
when 1 found how equal tv it lie was.
TURKISH
"Certainly," he says, "study. I— I'll
hear her lessons myself—lu the li
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brary. utter I come home in the aft-
BURLEY
vrmaiu. Now let us bear no mor«
shout It."
With that he pushed back his plate
attd left the table without waiting
for dessert. And Aunt Jane and I
were left alone.
1 didn't say anything.
Victors
shouldn't boast—and 1 was a victor,
of course, about the school.
But
when I thought of what Father had
tuild about my reciting my lessons to
him every day in the library—1
fn 0 new package that fits the pocket—
wasn't so sure whether I'd won out
At a price that fits the pocket-book —
or not. Recite lessons to my father?
Why. I couldn't even Imagine such a
The same unmatched biend of
thing I
T urkish . V irginia a^i B uruy Tobaccos
Aunt Jane didn't say anything either.
1 guess she didn't know what to say.
And It waa kind of a queer situation,
when you came right down to it. Both
i of. ua aitUn< . there and _ knowing. I
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wasn't going back to scKoorany more, IF hasn’t. <5h, foF three'or four days
and I knowing why, and knowing Aunt he asked questions quite like Just a
Jane didn’t know why. (Of course I teacher. Then he got to talking.
had not told Aunt Jane about Mother Sometimes it would be about some
and Mrs. Mayhew.) It would be a thing in the lessons; sometimes it
Ivan Donaldson, Mgr. Tillamook, Ore.
funny world, wouldn’t it, if we all would be about a star, or the moon.
knew what each other was thinking And he'd get so interested that I’d
all the time? Why, we'd get so we think for a minute that maybe the un
wouldn't any of us speak to each oth derstanding twinkle would come into
er, I'm afraid, we’d be so angry at his eyes again. But it never did.
Leaves Tillamook—7:30 a. tn., 12 m., 3 p. m.
Sometimes it w asn’t stnrs and moons,
what the other was thinking.
Well, Aunt Jane and I didn’t speak though, that he talked about. It was
Leaves E^ortland—8:30 a. m., 12:30 p. m., 3:30 p m.
that night at the supper table. We Boston, and Mother. Yes, he did. He
finished in stern silence then; Aunt talked a lot about Mother. As I look
via
Jane went upstairs to ber room and back at It now, I can see that he did.
I went up to mine. (You see what a He asked me all over again what she
perfectly wildly exciting life aiary is did, and about the parties, and the
Hebo, Grand Rounde,
Willamina, Sheridan, McMinnville,
living! And whep I think of how full folks that came to see her. He asked
Dayton,
Newburg,
Multnomah.
of good times .Mother wanted every again about Mr. Harlow, and about
minute to be.
But that was for ttye. concert, and the_young man who
Marie, of course.)
(Continued next week)
The next morning after breakfast
Aunt Jane said:
"You will spend your forenoon study
ing, Mary. See that you learn well
your lessons, so as not to annoy your
father.”
“Yes, Aunt Jane,” said Mary, po
lite and proper, and went upstairs
obediently; but even Mary didn’t
know exactly how to study those les
sons.
Carrie had brought me all my books
from school. I had asked her to
when I knew that I was not going
Shall Oregon continue to hold the
Shall she forge ahead as a leader in
back. There were the lessons that
had been assigned for the next day,
pre-eminence that is now hers?
the Republican party?
of course, and I supposed probably
Father would want me to study those.
AKSWER
"YESP’
But I couldn’t Imagine Father teaching
me all alone. I couldn’t imagine my
self reciting lessons to Father!
But I needn’t have worried. If I
could only have krtown. Little did I
think—But, there, this Is no way to
tell a story. I read In a book, “How
to Write a Novel.” that you mustn't
Ralph W’Uiains is the first com
In the presidential election of 1916
“anticipate.” (I thought folks always
anticipated novels. I do. I thought
when there was dissension and di
mitteeman representative fròni any
you wanted them to.)
western state to be elected to the
vision everywhere, Oregon was the
Well, to go on.
Father got home at four o'clock. I
only state in the west of the Mis
vice-chairmanship.
saw him come up the walk, and I
souri river to go Republican.
Ralph Williams is a vetern of the
waited till I was sure he'd got settled
In the library, then I went down.
national organization. He stands
Harmony!
-.
He wasn’t there.
Progressives and Republicans
at the head with the leaders. A new
A minute later I saw him crossing
man would, of custom and necess
united in giving credit for this re
the lawn to the observatory. Well,
what to do I didn't know. Mary said
markable
achievement
to
Ralph
E.
ity, stand at the foot with the fol
to go after him ; but Marie said nay,
Williams,
national
committeeman
lowers.
nay. And In spite of being Mary Just
now, I let Marie have her way.
Republican leaders, in Congress
since 1908.
Rush after him and tell hltp he'd
In
recognition
of
this
and
other
and
out, are Ralph Williams’
forgotten to hear my lessons? Fa-
friends.
This friendship means
services Ralph Williams was elect
ther? Well. I guess not! Besides, It
I was there all
dasn't my fault.
ed vice-chairman, the second high
much to Oregon and the North
ready, It wasn’t my blame that he
est honor within the power of the
west. Without ostentation Ralph
But he
wasn't there to hear me.
might remember and come back. Well.
Republican National Committee to
Williams enlists the aid of these
If he did, I’d be there. So I went to
bestow.
It
is
a
position
of
influ
leaders for the things the Noirth-
one of those bookeases and pulled out
i •
a touch-me-not book from behind the
ence to be reached only by years of
west needs from the national
glass door. Then I sat down and read
faithful ind intelligent service.
government.
till the supper bell rang.
Father was five minutes late to sup
per. I don’t know whether he looked
at me or not. I didn’t dare to look at
him—until Aunt Jane said. In her
chilliest manner:
“I trust your daughter had good
lessons. Charles.”
1 had to look at him then, 1 Just
So I
couldn’t look anywhere else,
was looking straight at him when he
gave that funny little startled glance
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into my e.ves. Aud into his eyes then
there crept the funnlezt, dearest little
understanding twinkle—and I sudden
ly realized that Father, Father, was
laughing with tne at a little secret be
tween us. But 't was only for a sec
ond. The next moment his eyes were
very grave and looking at Aunt Jane.
“I have no cause to complain—of
my daughter's lessons today," he said
very quietly. Then he glanced over
at me again. But I had to look away
quick, or I would have laughed right
out
When he got up fron^the table he
said to me: “I shall expect to see you
tomoriow In the library at four, Mary.”
And Mary answered: "Yes, Father,"
polite and proper, as she should; but
Marie lnsble was just chuckling with
the Joke of it all.
The next day I watched again at I
four for Father to come up the walk;
and when he had come in I went down
to the library. He was there in his
pet seat before the fireplace. (Father
always sits before the fireplace,
whether there’s a fire there or not.
And sometimes he looks so funny sit
ting there, staring Into those gray
ashes Just ns If It was the liveliest
kind of a fire he was watching.)
As I said, he was there, but I had
to speak twice before he looked up.
Then, for a minute, he stared vaguely.
"Eh? Oh! Ah—er—yes, to be sure,"
he muttered theu. "You have come
with your books. Yea, I remember."
But there wasn't any twlukle In hla
eyes, nor the least little bit of an un
derstanding stull«; and 1 was disap
pointed. 1 had been looking for it. 1
knew then, when 1 felt so sud<1enly
lost and heart-achey, that I had been
expecting and planulng all day on that
twinkly understanding smile.
You
know you feel worse when you've Just
found a father and then lost him!
And I had lost him. 1 knew it the
minute he sighed and frowned and got
up front his seat aud said, “Oh. yea. to
be sure.” He w as Just Doctor Anderson
then—the man w ho knew all about the
stars, and who haft Iwen unmarried to
Mother, and who called tne "Mary" in
an of course-you're-tuy-daughter tone
of voice.
Well, he took my books and heard
■uy lessons, and told me what I was
to study next day. He's done that two
days now.
Oh. I'm so tired of being Mary!
And Fve got more than four whole
months of it left. I didn't get Moth
er's letter today. Maybe that's why
I'm specially lonesome tonight
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