Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 34

oo 11 P i o Ao INSTALLMENT XXIV. HE March day grew very hot at the dam; there was no wind, Lily's three little boys, after lunch, crept into the shade near the grown-ups and lsy whining, gumng and (utthlng, tumr faces ushed and wet with heat. Dreamily, as if absently, Gail began to tell them a story. “Well, once there were three little boys, just the ages of you and Miles and Danny, Wolfe. Their names were Hammy, Jammy and Sammy—Ham: Jammy and Sammy Formaldehyde—— Upon the surrounding ring of the guardian hills the lilac was still bloom- ing in pale blue plumes. A bluejay screamed like a bullet through the air and was gone. Then silence and the ripple—ripple—ripple of the water that accentuated the silence once more, and Gall's slow, rich, hesitating voice be- ginning the new chronicles of the For- maldehydes. But no Formaldehyde story had ever affected Gail before quite as this one did. This was new. ‘was creation. The hours marked & change in her, and she felt 1t without realizing just what it meant. She knew vaguely that everything was different on this March Sunday—the sky bluer than she had ever known it before the buttercups more mysteriously golden, every new leaf, every crystal shadow in the dam or flash of diamonds in the creek pen- etrated with new meaning, with un- eart! light. P!:\illy m“ his shabby, oldest clothes: | Lily, already a little clumsy and slow in movement, seemed to thrill and throb with the cosmic pulse of the whole great world, and, more than all—more than sky and trees, creek water and| blossoming Spring—Gail felt herself alive, alive with everything that lived. | Gail Lawrence, nearly 26 vears old, | feeling, remembering, acting, loving and | suffering, was Living at last! | The miracle of it remained with her | as they went home in the later after- noon; stayed with her, illuminating, in- terpreting, changing all the common-/| place of life into glory. Gail felt dazed | with felicity; it must not stop, this enctrating, poignant sweetness. She| new it would not stop. ! She went through a week of float- ing, of dreaming And then, a week after the picnic, came a Sunday of deluge when ‘Phil and Lily went to a movie and Gail took the three little boys for a wet walk. The elder two came back contentedly | enough to blocks and crayons, but little Danny was almost too tired for lunch- eon and quite oo tired to play, and at 3 o'clock Gail sponged his sticky liftle face and put him down on her bed with her old woolly dog for a nap. In the hall she called down to the sitting room, “Wolfe! Everything all| m down here” Sam called back. | “rm building these kids a cattle went back isto her room. On| desk lay a heap of paper, large sheets, and a fountain pen. She sat| down, dreamy eyes fixed on space, the pen's smooth butt pressed against her cheel | “T don't know why I shouldn't write | stories,” she mused, half aloud. “I've read enough! “Ede, wouldn't it be funny if I were | eally to be a writer some day ““To_the dear memory of Edith Partington Lawrence— " The pen touched the paper; began to move. | Danny slept deeply, luxuriously, in the center of the big bed, an old woolly dog tightly clasped to his shabby little | underwaist. Rain streamed _steadily down the high windows and drummed on the tin roof. After a while Gail threw a covered & sheet aside, numbered a second, covered that, She pushed back her hair; her face was pale, her eyes shining. The seratching of the pen recommenced. | The clock struck, struck again. Danny slept on and the rain continued to fall. The loss of Ariel, the deeper blow of Dick’s loss, Phil's marriage had been earthquake, the unbearable last burden after the burdened years. And beyond that had been the consuming flame of Edith's going, the unthinkable thing, the loss of something that was herself, that was her own life. The earthquake and the fire. And now into Gail's heart comfort came creeping back, new inter- | est. new hope. Thus began the new life, in the un- changed setting of the old. Gail did not | know whether what she dreamed and what she wrote was good or was not | gocd, nor did she care. It had to come | and the coming was sort of ecstatic- | bearing—a giving of life. In April she had the letter—a dozen | typewtitten lines: | Dear Miss Lawrence: | The readers report that this story is| not quite in our tome. But the feeling| of the Balantic is that when a tale is as intimately true to life as this is of | yours. the tene is surely one for the | Belantie to adopt | It gives us much pleasure to accept 80 _admirable a story. Very truly yours, ‘The Editor. The dull, old grimy kitchen swooped and soared about her. She had been hulling strawberries, putting every twelfth one into Danny's expectant mouth, open alL her knee. The letter| MAKE YOUR JULY 4™ SNAPSHO with the $100,000 Contest in Mind from the Balantic had strawberry juice on it; no matter. It shopk like a tack= ing sail and she read it again.” “Phil! Look here a minute—" “Good heavens!” said Phil upon read- ing it. ad it, Sam!” “When 'joo write & story!” Sam said, incredulous. “Oh, Phil, you don't suppose—you don't suppose I'm—I'm going to write!” “Well, for goodness’ sakes,” Lily said, patiently, “the way you carried on I thought something terrible had hap- 1] Gail sat at the table, her elbows resting on the worn oilcloth. She felt as if her body had taken wings and was about to lift itself up into the air. “Phil Lawrence,” she whispered pres- ently, taking her hands d regard- ing him seriously, “I've sold a story!” He looked at her kindly from the old rocker. Lily tired easily now and had established her shapeless person wearily on his knee. Phil's eyeglassed eyes looked over Lily's head. “'Bout time something good came to you, Gail” Phil said simply. His sister felt' the words to be an accolade. “Oh, I can't believe it isn't me Gail whispered. “It! t's the Law- rence luck coming back!" So came Clippersville to be proud of another lucky Lawrence. A thousand pleasant little episodes, as the Summer wore along, told Gail that she was fa- mous and that her old friends and neighbors were glad. The Challenge ran her picture with a flattering article. Patrons of the library, coming and going in the hot afternoons, smiled at her over the broad- desk top. “Tickled to death to hear we have an authoress!” the woman whispered, nodding and smiling. Gail would flush brightly, joyfully in return. She saw them ail "differently now—these busy, strained young mothers, with _their bables in rompers and sunbonnets, these shapeless, big, middle-aged women with their corsets showing under their | dingy voiles. They were her marionettes now: they moved to the strings in her fingers. She had letters from persons, far- away unknown persons, praising her story when it was published. The great Barnes Rutherford, il idling im a pal- ace on the Maine coast. Tote her. He, Store Your Furs with experts For twenty-five years furs have been entrusted to us for safekeeping. We provide chests large family use, These cost even less than the moderate charges per garment RUGS Cleaned and Stored FIDELITY STORAGE 1420 U Street N.W. North 3400 mothproof enough for Troubled With Terrible ltching Cuticura Healed —_—e——| “‘My sma!l daughter had a break- ing out of pimples about the face, neck and shoulders that caused her to fret and worry. She was troubled with a terrible itching and used to scratch and cry, causing me to lose sleep. The trouble lasted for at least two years and I could find nothing to relieve her. “Cuticura Soap and Ointment were recommended to me so I sent for a free sample of each. They seemed to relijeve the irritation so I purchased more and in about three months shewas completely healed.” N. Martin, Box 63, Edgewood, Md., July 12, 1930. Make Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment your every-day toilet prepara- tions and have a clear, sweet skin, soft, smooth hands, and a healthy scalp with good hair. A werld- famous and dependable treatment for the skin and hair. Cuticura Tal- cum is fragrant and refreshing. P o U fos. Dept. ¥, Malden, Mase™ TS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931 the dean of the greatest profession of all, could find time to write to a little Clippersville girl and tell her he thought ‘Simply Impossible” was a good story! Even more touching were the liter- ary folk of Clippersville. 50 many. Wistful discarded men and women, living in shabby little gas- lighted cottay smotherad in dusty vines, sudden] c{. appeared on all sides and proudly claimed kinship with the writer. - Gail aceepted their condescen- sions graclously; she knew that she was not of their ilk. Lily sat sewing or idling on the side ch in the afternoons, and the three ittle boys worked in the wide yard. “Lily, what's for dinner?" Gail would ask, out of a dream ““The -cream puffs and corn and the , I thou maybe poached eggs- “It's too hot for meat.” Silence again. “Thinking up another story, Gail?” “W!l!; there’s one kind of teasing m “I can kinder tell by your eyes when you're thinking of Edith.” “No, I was thinking of Ariel then. Doesn'’t it seem funny, Lily, for a per- son to go away-—just as if she had died, and never to write—never to send any word—" ‘She may have a houseful of kids by now,” Lily, whose mind rather dwelt upon this subjeet, might suggest. “Even if she had!” ‘Did you like Richard Stebbins, Gail?” A quick twist at her heart. A quick memory of a man's ugly, fine face and slow smile. But Gail's voice would come quietly enough, “Oh, very much.” “Even if I could account for Ariel, I couldn’t for him,” she said once. In September, when the Autumn haze hung I a hot veil over the valley, Lily’s daughter was born. Gail, as tenderly as if the tiny, serap had been the Hol T the newcomer down to the kitchen. “God grant that I don’t hurt you, baby!" said *he second Gail Lawrence to the third, aloud | ‘The baby whimpered as her waving little saffron arms were introduced into | the microscopic shirt, but when Phil and Lily's mother came down, hot and anxious, half an hour later, the baby | N AT 115 new low price, Canada Dry is ‘Gall was sound asleep in her aunt's arms. “She's real pretty, Phil!” sald the dma!r;sr proudly. b she ‘gfl!. she's just as cute's she can be. I don't know's Lily's ever had a jter-lookin’ baby. She's got the Law- ice look, all right.” ’ (To Be Continued.) . OBSERVE CANADA DAY PARIS, July 2 (#)—Canadian Do- minion —incidentally, the warmest dey this Summer—was observed by celebrations yesterday at the Bois de Boulogne and the Canadian legation. At the Bols restaurant, Col. 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