Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 24

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In spite of his snow-white hair and |70 years, Ephraim Strong always car- | ried himself as straight as an arrow, {but that elated morning, with head | held high, walking on air rather than the pavement, a new importance had added a cubit to his stature, “Here he is, boys—shoot!" And as he stepped inside there was an outburst of “Hail to the Chief” in voices ranging from Joe Freeman's falsctto—that fiatted every other note | —to Murphy, the blacksmith’s bumble bee bass. - During the singing Ephraim stood | beaming in the midst like ‘a lighted | beacon tower. | “I ain't exactly ~the chief. you he grinned. when the singing Each in turn grabbed the old hand in hearty grip. “Well, you can't deny that you are the chief parent in Centers, all right.” { laughed back Joe. “Say, Ephraim, how does it feel be- | ng father to a Senator, anyhow?" Pe- terson, the proprietor, chimed in over | the counter. “I reckon it fesls like cider for the | erowd,” chuckled the old man. “The | kickiest that you've got, Pete.” So it began. And so it went on. | For when he left the store and went | aboute town attending to his other er- | rands, constantly Ephraim was stopped | for handshakes and congratulations. | It was a morning that he would never forget. And he had good reason | to be excited. To think of his son— | his boy Ed—going to Washington as a United States Senator! He could not get over the surprise and the shining wonder of it “Yet ever since he was a little tike, | knee-high to a grasshopper.” Ephraim | grinned to himself as he rattled back to the farm in the old tin Lizzie, “Ed was as smart as they make ‘em.” Later came another morning of ex- citement. On their way to Washing- | ton, the new Scnator #nd his wife | stopped over a day to see him. { As a whole the visit was a disap- | pointment. Ephraim and his daugh- ter-in-law, a born social climber. never hit it off very well and now Eleanor Strong's head had been so turned by the prospect of living in the National Capital, and at the thought of her | future prestige as the wife of a United States Senator that she was more high and mighty than ever. And while his son Ed was as unaffected and un- spoiled as he had alwavs been, there was a subtle change in him. Even when he appeared attentive to his father's talk, looking him straight in the- eyes, the old man had the feeling | that his thoughts were miles away. And although Edward Strong had left Centers to practice law in one of the large cities of his native State years before, when Ephraim saw him off that night, for the first time he realized that Ed had left home for good. “Well, even if Ed's gone out of my life, I still have Eddie,” the old man comforted himself as he rattled back to the farm in the old tin Lizzie. For there was a very important member of the new Senator's family not included in that stop-over-train visit, Edward Strong, jr., already in the East at a prep school preparing for Harvard. He and his grandfather were great chums. Even after the family removal from Centers every Summer “Eddie” visited the farm. And that night of new lonesomeness the first thing that Ephraim did when he reached home was to take out from an inner pocket a letter received some weeks before and read it for the ninety- ninth time. “Dear Pal” (it begam): “Maybe it seems rather ‘previous’ to be talking of next Summer this early -in the day, but as my plans are all made up I thought I'd write you. “I have to sachez home first, of course, afid present the glad hand to dad and the mater. A fellow's finan- fi:]y standing u;:flen “w?:h :«El‘ not on speal terms am- fly. But on July 1 it's Johnnie-on- the-spot with me and the farm. And this year I'm going to stay until the cows come home—that's French for the last train out to make connections with my'mtnnu exams in the Fall, drat ‘em! “And, say, old boy” (such was the ffectionate impudence of the scamp). T've got the dandiest scheme. Let's | give old Eliza her walking papers for a month's visit to her married daugh- | ter and live together alone by our two selves. ‘The crispy way I can sizzle hot dogs on a chafing dish will make the hair on your bald spot curl, and I know you can flap flap-jacks to beat the band. | “Minerva, the pesky old girl, is beck- | oning with her finger, so I'll have to | beat it to a match class. EDDIE" | “80 long! “P. 8,~How is that acre that we sowed to timothy showing ap . “A born farmer,” chuckled Ephraim, " as he folded the letter, d a darned | sight better help than y hired man that you get these days.” Ephraim Strong was an early riser, but in the weeks that followed he lay abed some 10 minutes after awaken- ing every morning in & luxurious day- dream of all that he and Eddie %ould do together when that young rascal came to the farm in July, and never once did it enter the old man's head that the change in his son's residence— and position—would have anything to | do with Eddle’s plans for the Summer. Eleanor's Jetter then came .as knockout blow between the eyes “The first of June we are Washington for Clear Lake,” she “Those who know say it is the most charming of Bummer resorts where you | meet the nest people. There's bathing i and boating, and tennis and other out- waters of the right sont are preferable 10 many catbartic compounds. 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And old Eliza, who had kept house for Ephraim ever since his wife’s death, worried be- 36 Hollywood direc Smooth, exquisite skin is woman’s most alluring charm cause he was not eating enough to keep a humming bird alive. It was not merely the disappoint- ment of not seeing the boy that Sum- mer. ‘The thing that hurt was Eddie's too apparent indifference. . “If ne'd only written, expressing some regret that he was unable to come,” thought the old man with a pain at the heart lke a knife-thrust; “I wouldn't have minded so much.” But the only word his grandfather had ‘from Eddie was a sline scrawled on a picture postcard mailed the be- ginning of his last week at school. “Finals start tomorrow. Prayers of the congregation requested. Kindly omit flowers.” “I wouldn't have thought it of Ed- die,” gritved the old man. “Why, from the time he was a little chap,| him and me were always pals!” And the knife in his heart turned and twisted as he went over bright memories of other Summers—{rom childhood days when Eddie's delight was to ride old Dobbin while his grand- father walked at the horse’s side. a steadying hand upon the high-perched urchin’s outstriding leg far too short to reach the stirrup. ‘The first of July, so looked forward to, so drcaded, came. For the first time iIn Eliza’s knowledge, Ephraim Strong stopped work in the middle of the morning and sat in thg porch rocker—“with the most pitiful wet hen | In the luxurious bathrooms of droop to him you ever set eyes on walled Eliza. A locomotive whistle sounded. Over | distant trectops curled a plume ol smoke. It was the train on which Eddie would have come. The old man closed his eyes and gave a long quiv- ering sigh. 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