The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1931, Page 6

e PR TN SN PR AT § § ! § ¥ 1 { | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; TUESDAY, DEC. 15, 1931. L Slly-six, ! SIXTY-SEVEN, % SIXTY-EIGHT Synopeis: After an evening of dancing in Paris, Venice Muir returns to the hotel, where cshe and her mother are staying, to find her mother dead. She is told by Doctor Hawks that Mrs. Muir's cold abruptly turned to pneumonia, which strained a weak heart muscle. In a daze of shock Venice attends the funeral and tries to become readjusted to living. She has come to Paris to gain the polish 2nd experi- ence needed to make her a sccial success in New York. Her shyness and lack of vi- vacity have always made her mnpopular, although she is both lovely and rich. Now she has no incentive to go on alone. Her mother has told her to have a good time, and not to mourn! for her when she dies. But Venice finds Bothing to interest her and iries to decide what she is going to do. Chapter 17 VENICE IN SEARCH OF MYSTERY The Louise-Le-Grande was a small hotel in the Rue Rouget de L'Isle, an abortive street between the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue Mont- ‘Thabor. Venice's room faced the great square of the Hotel Continental and she would stand in the long window and watch the comings and goings of gay mortals in their rooms across the narrow way. If she wentouton the small balcony outside her win- dow, no more really than a wide | sill, she could see the hurray and busyness of the Rue de Rivoli. WOT AILS THAT PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT ? AN'T HE GOT NO LADY witha DAST BY HARRIET HENRY lLauri\. They were all laden with [sympathy and advice to sail for home immediately. Letters came | from Lola and Nolly, written while the Muirs were still on the ocean. The former’'s communications never bore a date. “Dearest Venice, “Jerry and I are engaged. We're going to be married next month, back to be a bridesmaid? It's all very exciting and every one is giv- ing parties for us. The Schuylers had a knock-out last night. Rudy Vallee to play and what have you. I'm mad about Jerry and he is about me and I can't imagine how some people shake their heads and talk about the drabness of life. “Did you catch yourself any promising males on the Acquita- na? “Much love, “LOLA.” The other letter, Nolly's, Venice a curious sense of detachment. Lola and her buoyant spirits seemed very far away and unimportant, like confetti thrown on New Year’s eve. The other letter, Nolly’s Venice opened more eagerly. Nolly with the peculiar sensitiveness of souls more or less closeted would offer her sympathy, never try to dis- tract, as Lola probably would, with her own vital interests. “May 8th. “Darling Venice, “I miss you terrifically. No one to tell me all the gay doings of the people we know and so T have no bits of gossip to give you. “Did you read The Water Gyp- s Cables arrived from Uncle Liv- ingston, - Mrs. Spalding and Aunt ies this winter? If not don't miss mxmxmblc somebody said, June nineteenth. Can't you come | 1Tl let you know IT'S NOT A QUESTsON OF SPUNK, PA.IT'S A QUESTION OF MIND Dickens after he .had ‘met du Maurier. “Mother has made me a printed silk. Apricot color with little con- ventional black flowers. I really look quite Venice-ish in it and now that skirts are getting longer Pongo doesnt’ show so much. You're prob- ably surprised at my sudden in- terest in clothes. It's Ernest Price, of course. Oh, Venice, I don't know whether its pity or medical interest or what, but he comes to see me about twice a week. We have lovely talks and I can show him the insides of me. I hope some day hell forget Pongo and regard me as a girl. You know what I mean, a girl like any other girl. “He's trying to persuade mother and father to let some famous man he knows operate on me. He says if it does me no good it'll do me no harm and it's worth the trial. Mother and father are rather in favor of it, but I'm not. I'm afraid. I don't mind Pongo really, and suppose I should die? if they decide to do it. “Do tell me where you go and what you see. And don't forget to report the scalps you capture! Write me soon, “From your loving, “NOLLY.” Venice felt warmed, and happier than she had since the night of her mother's death. Dear Nolly. Her letter took Venice out of the dull rut in which her mind was going back and forth and lifted her to the human contacts from which she had recently seemed quite apart. Ernest Price. He sounded like a grave young man. Could he overlook Nolly's infir- mity? If he only. would. And there was Nolly loving him and suffering a hurt and uncertainty that most girls could never experience. An operation! It would be wonderful if it were a success. But death. Venice from out or her depressed —eRf o i Bring the Children to THE CASH BAZAAR Santa | ¥ (Claus | HERE IN PERSON EVERY DAY From 3:30 to 5 P. M. / -BUT DERNED IF I EVER DREAMED THEY WAS RieR PAINLESS PEOPLE// state was caugm with a tremen-[ dous fear for Nolly. She was careful not to communi- cate this dread in the long letter which she immediately sat down to write. It was an enthusiastic epis- tle of encouragement and assur- ances as to an operation. Then she | went on to all her own details of the las tweek. Her tears fell as she wrote. There was nothing bit- | ter and harsh about her now. Just the bentle easing of grief in retrospect. Afterwards dropping the letter in a box across the street she felt a new lifting of her unhappiness. It was like a| wound that had been opened and | drained of its poison. Still sore but quite free of its inflammation DEMOCRATS NAME HOUSE COMMITTEES eving(Chairmen and Most of Committee Members Chosen at Caucus (Continued from Page One) Louisiana, John W. McCormack of d thr Massachusetts, Allard H. Gasque pod e . lof South Carolina, R. Q. Lee of She took a lengthy walk along|Texas. the Seine and her senses, for the| first time since her mother’s death, absorbed impressions; the caress- ing, kind spring air; the sharp squawk of a French horn; small| boats plying through the grey Seine; women waghing :lose to the water’s edge, red flan- nel, blue flannel, blue denim, muddy white cotton; the patient tfishers on the left bank. She loved Paris and hated the hought of going home. Crossing ‘he place de la Concorde she felt 1 genuine thrill at its great sweep That was it. -Paris be- to whomever walked her aer own. longed streets. Tomorrow che must go to the Cunard office and engage her pas- sage home. Mrs. Muir's letter written to cousin Alicia Poe at An- tibes had been morning with no such address scribbled across its envelope in French Venice had no friends or jes i Eagle 11, ies of any kind here now. ’I’herc,kcn 16, Juneau 1, Ketchikan trace,| lactive elements was shipped from Kodiak trace, Nome 30, Tanana 24, Colorado to Columbia, Mo., for ex- Ice on the Snake River at Nome Periments in was 20 inches in thickness and on Missouri. Chena Slough at Fairbanks 27.5 inches. was no reason for lingering on. Doctor Hawks had dropped from her ken as do many people who are kindnes itself in the face of rouble but become invisible when ‘he trouble passes. Sitting in her bedroom that eve- ning Venice’s mind went towards Jhe future with the first clarity it |la: had registered in the past week. Back to New York again with that aver-present struggle to make her- self attractive in the social whirl- pool. It was what her mother would have wanted. Going to par- ties again, awkward and shy. Ro- land Wainwright, that dazzling young man, ignoring her with casual indifference, like the shrug of a shoulder. And Drake Far- relly who was a real person, kind because he sympathized with her. It was a dreadful, draining pros- pect. Life loomed before her an endless effort of striving to please. She eyed the extravagant roses on the wall-paper with dreary pes- simism. Suddenly a Dpicture of Ann Duryea blurred the overgrown flowers with their unnatural pur- plish hue. She sat with her slim legs crossed high, dark, apathetic, not really clever or amusing. Men crowding about her were insistent in their efforts to gain attention. They liked her because they were not quite sure what had gone Off in her past. I'm better looking thought Venice with miserable re- sentment. If only everyone didn't know I'd always lived discreetly with my mother. And any one who likes my appearance at all grows discouraged when he talks to me, I'm so flat with my dull repartee and self-consciousness and conven- tional background. Suddenly she clasped her hands with eager intensity. Her face went alight. Why shouldn't I stay over here six months and return with & manufactured past? I could hint at this and that. My reserved con- versation would only appear & sign-post to hidden depths. I might actually try to do-things here that I'd never done before. I will. I will. I'll show Roland Wainwright, I make him long to discover what he overlooked. Tl make Drake Far- relly think me the most desi girl he’s ever met, not just a bun- dle of black velvet sitting neglected on some stairs. Tl show every- body, the girls that thought I was a dud, the men that never notled me one way or ahother, the men that tried.to pe polite and thought they deserved a medal for their, pains, She went to bed lromendoulw excited. Dear God, she prayed, help me 40 go home a mysterious and interest- ing woman. Please, dear God. | She lay awake half the mnight planning how to work out this tremendous preblem. Dawn brought no solution but she dropped happy and anticipatory with ;be resolution that there would return to New York a new and alluring Venice Muir, 4 ————— Daily Empire Want Ads Payesef WICKERHAM GETS GOOD APPOINTME NTS WASHINGTON; D. C, Dec. 15— for the The Republicans today designated clothes | their selections various House Committees which were ap- proved by the whole House, which also approved the selections of returned that|in ground at various Alaskan stations Monday Barrow 8, Bethel 6, Cordova 6, the Democratic caucus. Delegate James Wickersham of | Alaska was designated by the Re- publicans for membership on the following Committees: ‘hough it was really something of | Marine and Fisheries, Public Indian Mines and Mining. 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