The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1931, Page 6

Tt ME NEW NEIGHBOR, BUT THANK HEAVEN I AIN'T TOO PROLID SYNOPSIS: Nichclas Thayer, Nora Lake's husband of a few | hours, jumps to death from the | vicamer carrying thom to hi heme in Amecrica. She realizes then that hes has married her to provide the homz denied | Ber while trailing her father, Julian, in his quest for paint- | ing ccenes. Forced by her | father's marriage, she had im- pulsively effected the loveless |30 but looked younger. unicn. When Nicholas’ broth- er, Jcnathon, meets her at the station in Albany, he does not | remember her frem a previous | mecting, and withers her by | unspoken condemnation. Coldly | he arranges to take her to | his step-sister, Damon, the | next day. After telling him they live in a big house with sorvants, Nora is dismayed to find Aunt Emily and her cou- cins, Hallet and Frances, in a dingy, middle-class place. | Chapter 14 LOST HAPPINESS Frances left the room with Jon- athon and as Nora heard his steps retreating down the stairs she sat down on the bed, completely| wretched. She would leave tomorrow and never return. Nora knew all the signs of poverty that brought back to her the memory of her own ‘wandering and homeless life. These people were like her father, peor, gay, hopeful, living in a mean ttle brick house, from which they might move next week. Nora _stripped . off her wrinkled dress and pulled the coolie packet out of her bag. When she went into the bathroom she found | Frances picking up stringy wet" towels, and small underclothes that were scattered about. The water spouted spasmodically into the tub. A limp curtain hung at the window and the walls were of wood painted white. When she returned to the attic room Frances was spreading thin blankets on the bed. Aunt Emily locked at Nora's wretched small face. Nora attempted to smile, “Don’t try to be too brave, depr,” she said. Nora looked back at her aunt with her magnificent beak of a ‘shock of Nicholas' leyes deepened and darkened with | emotion. | was rather plain but now she was side of her mouth. The eyes held an unquenchable zest for life. She could see how sorry for her her aunt was as she said good- night. She did not deserve it. The death had un- nerved her; but she did not wish him back. Nora looked at Frances Lindsay over the brim of a cup of hot broth she had brought her. Frances was Her face with its warm coloring and dark eyes, the smooth dark hair brushed raight back from her forehead, was arresting. She had a low throaty laugh that was heart- ‘warming. “Shall I stay with you or would fflifE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1931 By CLIFF STER Frances was looking at her with scmething strange and puzzling in her eyes. “You don't understand! have to live it to undersiand. Al- ways to hide from pecple because you owe them money. I would have married anyone at all, who would have saved me from that!” “But there i3 one thing that is killing me. If I had loved him I could have saved him, couldn't I? I would have kncwn what he was going to do? Suddenly Nora regretted bitterly that she had told this dark qulet girl about herself. And then Frances said impulsively: “You think I don’t understand. But perhaps I do,” Francess wen! on steadily. *“I thought my hus- band loved me. But he ran off with another woman.” “Do you still love him?” Nora saw a tremor pass over the You you rather be alone?” she asked. Still body. “Stay with me!” “Not now. WNobt any longer. Frances looked at Nora. Nora’s|That's all gone. I have the chil- cheeks blazed fiery rose, the blue Frances had thought she startled vy her loveliness. “We are all so terribly sorry—" she sald softly. “Don't! I can't bear pity!” All at once Nora longed to pour herself out to this dark sweet woman. “Do you remember my father?” Nora asked. “I remember he was an exciting perscn, with a voice you never for- got,” she said, smiling, as Nora's heart rushed out to her. A small pajamaed figure ap- peared at the door. Frances’ daughiter, Alice, stood looking at Nora. “Are you the bride?” she asked. “Alice, go right back to bed!” Frances said, rising. She scuttled off but the question still hung in the air. Nora began to talk with a breathless rush. She poured out the whole story, from the night when she had first seen Nicholas coming up the path in the moon- light until that last bitter night when she lay down alone. - Bhe spared herself nothing. “T hated it all, all the worry and the borrowing and the running away. 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If T had it to do all over again— but I haven't.” Her dark eyes brooded and then she looked up at Nora. “I never told this to any- one before. But the thing is, the days go by and something happens to you and you begin to be happy again. And you have something that you want dreadfully jus ahead, as you used to want money and all the other things,” Frances ended on a breath. Nora lay very stfll. What was that thing that Frances had found? The kind cf happiness that swept over her sometimes under the open sky? Would she ever be happy that way again? “You will be, you will be,” Fran- ces whispered, bending over her as though she understood. Frances turned out the light and stood before the window pulling up the shade so that she could see thé stars. How small and insignificant they were, their minute problems etched against the night sky. All the hot turmoil, the unrest, was quieted. When she turned back and bent over Nora she saw in the pale light that Nora was asleep. The sunlight was sliding in through white blinds when Nora woke next morning. She felt as though she were waking out of a dark dream into this unfamiliar room. Someone had come tiptoeing in to open the blinds. cousin Hallie. “Did you sleep well?” she asked. “1 feel—different—as though for the first time I was real.” Hallie had stopped before the painting that Nicholas had given Nora. “Did your father do that?” Hal- lie asked. “Nicholas did it,” a low voice. The sunlight seemed to pour from the picture, to touch the small glistening panes, the brushed earth floor, the blues of the old peasant’s dress. Hallie stood look- ing deeply at the picture, her thin bony hands clasped before her. “How happy he must have been to do that!” “He was the most unhappy per- son I ever knew,” Nora said. She got out of bed and turned away. “Take it away, please. I can't bear to see it.” Hallie stood looking at her with pity and understanding. Hallet Durant was a woman of strong feeling shut into a twisted shell of pain. She was not afraid of pain; she had met it too often and too stoically. But each day it must be conquered afresh. Now as she stocd looking at Nora she was frankly envious of that young strong body, the slim white round- ed legs, the delicate wrists and splendid throat. To have a body ltke that so free and beautiful! Nora said, “I have to go out to ... his people this afternocon. Do you think theyll like me?” “Why do you care?” “I care more than anything else in the world!” Hallie reflected that she would not like to be young agein. It was the unhappiest time of your life. It was her Nora said in HILARIOUS COMEDY . BILLED FOR SUNDAY Harold Lloyd in “Feet First,” a Church roaring comedy, comes to the Doug- .las Coliscum for Sunday and Mon- g day. An evening of real laughter servl(_‘es is promised for those who attend. | Mary Brian is starred in the fea- o ———— ture showinz tonight. Notice¢ ror this cnurch column S TR e T must be received by The Empire| NEW YORK—Newspaper ad- not later than 10 o'clock Saturday | YItising was used to introduce morning to guarantee change m‘qo»ham a big potato from n;g sermon topics, ete. . Wwhich is appearing in cartons, Jrp:unds to the sealed package Donglas Cathollc Church _ | | DOUGLAS ISLAND SHUT-OFF NOTICE 1:00 p.m.—Sunday School. : 4 Electricity will be shut-off on d — Douglas Island on Sunday from | St. Luke's Lpiscopal Church fam. to 2 pm. Bt ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT Evening Prayer and Sermon by](adv) #5D; PO 00 i D 1931 Newasaper Prature Sorvie,foc . Grest Biais b resoend. the Rt. Rev. Thomas Jenkins, 3 e s & Bishop of Nevada. { b |1 liked him, 1 really liked him.” |You suffered too much, expecmdimnnce of discovery and accomplish- ioacn‘sion. took the picnickers out 7 Douglas Native Presbyterian 1 ? to much, without either the phil-|ment in life” What man has al-|leaving here at 7 in the morning| | Church I 1 (osophy or wisdom to guard you. = |ready acccmplished, and what re-|and returning home about 11 p. m.|gp— o _ s (Copyright, 1930, Jesse Douglas Fox) | mains for us to do, was set forth | Thire was plenty of excitement af- HARRY WILLARD, Lay Worker P | as the gist of her timely and ap- |forded, and everyone had a great| Meets Thursday evenings and 3 Reckles: Jon’s driving—yes. |propriate remarks. time. Sunday afternoons. 4 And perhaps also Nora's hopes The Salutatorian, Isabell Cashen, — .- —_— 4 A H for the bcauty and peace she |had for her theme, “Poets of To-| pyEACHERS ARE LEAVING s -ty | A (BN ) < & finds Monday at the end of |day.” Several of the best known, FOR SUMMER VACATION °°“"°““g:" E"m“’" | 2 b £ 2, their ride. th quotations from the works :': A e ,'= 5 i |of each, were mentioned, and oW | with the close of school, Doug- REV. PHILLIF E. BAUER. Automob[le ER | AR they have kgpt up with the times, |55 teachers are busy making prep-| Sunday echool at 10:30 a. m. was interestingly told. | arations to leave soon for the north| Preaching services 11:30 a. m,, P -4 > § D 4q Rev. Philip Bauer, opened the |and south and some have already|following Sundey school. amnting ¥ ¥ T | program with a prayer, and sev- gone i o 5 !eral musical numbers were ren-| amiss Margaret Pimperton and|j . . 3 NEWS dered, as follows: Song by the|ner mother, Mrs. Catherine Pim-| nifiI-})llilI(l:o Ogrpflls!gi Jionb’ V&;ll‘o Ly Glee Club, Piano Duet ‘by the |perton and Miss Lee Thoma left GLAS ltt gl’l P! }gl" i Misses Elizabeth and Mamie Feusi,‘on the Princess Alice this morn- matter how you wish your —————iJ |vocal solo, “The World is Wall-|ing the former two going to Belt, car refmlshed.we can guar- |ing for the Sunrise” by A. E.|montana, their home, and Miss antee you a first cbass ']Ob g . U I-As |Goetz, and Cclass song, by the Be-|Thoma going to Bridesville, B. C., | and at a price so ridicu- | niors. where she will visit an uncle. | lously low, you cannot af- * | Supt. V. H. DeBolt presented the | niss Edla Holbrook and her Un- | TONIGHT ford to ride in a shoddy |class to Mrs. Charles Fox, presi-| e Pelix Gray, also embarked on | " car. No charge for estimat- idcm of the School Board, Who|the Alice en route to Annapolis,| Mar Br eR gave the graduates their diplomas.|Maryland, to attend the gradua- y an ing. cHEDENTIAL iaflfm;\)pmse‘:mg f“‘ e dlplox:w.; tion of Douglas Gray from the nav- . |Mrs. Fox made a few appropriate| g) gecademy next month. Mr. Gray n A k |remarks commending the c1ass|expects to return in six weeks. | uneau uto ol 4 ‘[m;::m:rs rorbe:,helr rzu:é:}(l)mpllishment. Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Stragier The Marria e | A : | The members of the class are|y leave on the Admiral Evans g | P Sh Dlplomas Presented Co'n'%vmno Wahto, Isabell Cashen, Ber-|gunday for Cordova, to go by rail alnt Op ] mencement ; Keller nice Edwards, Effie Fleek, Ruth|ang stage to Fairbanks, via Chitina. ! Plary roun(l Makes Add Lundell, Alma Savillo. Never be-| gupt DeBolt and Mr. Rindin| 3 Foot of Main Street * aKes ress fore did such an impressive group expect to leave within the next | e of girls compose the Senior class|gaw days. | O o ;. “The worthwhile things of lite|Cf the Douglas High School. With- W i A i Comedy, Acts, News e worthwhile things of cut exception they wefé all born| Old papers at the Embire office | Old papers at the Empire office. are only secured where work and in Douglas and have spent prac- e - b sight S Ik o sopmen | oy et Rulkd. NG G ' ; 2 D | While some of the girls are as yet hours of rest” said W. K. Keller, ' nqecided on definite plans for DOUGLA | Commissioner of Education, in a the future, it is the intention of short but sententious address at the |, of theril to pursue some course | C graduaiion ceotolees of he DOV : COLISEUM las High School, class 1931, Thurs. | 24V2nocd 5”", dy, O,r bk g . day evening. “While ‘Commence Sunday and l\londay ! ment’ marks the end of high schoo! | SCHOOL PICNIC HELD i | days for the graduates, it is really AT YOUNGS BAY the beginning for them. It is the | | HAROLI.) LLOYD time when they must take their| The anual picnic of the Dou::]as; m | places in our lives and businesses,” | high school, whith marks the close @ " Mr. Keller said. of the term’s activities, was held FEET FIRST 7 Vieno Wahto, valedictorian, gave |yosterday at Youngs Bay. The gas’ 1 a well-delivered essay on the "Ru-}boat Valkyre, chartered for the Blg ComEdy Show — — —— — e —— 4 i i f A I H SOLVE THE SUMMER i ; | i i y ; i i i ropiem | g Headgquarters for || i i . 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