Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1935, Page 30

DAILY SHORT STORY: HAPPY LANDING When He Was Dying Her Letter Came With a Message That Made All the Difference. BY ETHEL WILLIS HEWITT. E uncanny stillness of the room was bro- ken by the inces- sant mumbling of the man beneath the mosquito net- ting that hung about the bed in the corner. Out- side a night bird called in madden- ing monotony and the mournful sound of native stringed instru- ments came up from the coolie lines. Manna, the house boy, moved * noiselessly from the side of the bed and Vance Darrow took his place. With surprising energy, Bob Hud- son sat up and swung his feet to the floor. Darrow caught him by the shoulders, forcing him back. “Easy old man,” he said in a sooth- ing voice. “But I've got to get out of here. Those young rubber trees must be marked.” Bob's voice registered ex- citement; he gazed up at Darrow with eyes bright with fever. Gently Darrow forced him back on the bed. “Listen to me, Bob. There's & let- ter from Judith.” Instantly Bob quieted down. More than once, during these awful days, the mere mention of Judith's name had done the trick. Bob was just back from a month's leave. He was full of the memory of Judith. Darrow knew that the moment his seaplane landed. He had been back a week when he was stricken down with fever. Every day Manna had taken the launch to Bo- jon—a half day’s journey—to fetch the doctor. Each time the doctor had shook his head. Today he had told Darrow that Bob wouldn't last through the night. At first Darrow didn't believe him, but as the day wore on he knew. He had seen enough of fever in his two years on the plantation to let him know when a man was losing the fight. Manna had brought back from Bo- Jon two letters from Judith, one ad- He read the dressed to him and one to Bob. Dar- | row read his—the polite letter of a good friend; nothing more. They had corresponded regularly for two years, but Darrow had al- ways kept it on that basis. There was nothing else for it. Bob was wealthy in his own right. This learn- ing to be a planter was a hobby with him., Bob could speak to Judith of love; but what right had he, Darrow, with four years to go before he'd be even half owner of the plantation? ‘Moerover, Bob was her preference, must have been since the first night they had met her at prep school. Bob had asked her to marry him. Darrow had learned that through Bob's babbling. He takled of it in- cessantly. No doubt her answer was 1n the envelope lying beside the kero- sene lamp on the rough table in the middle of the room. Bob was mutter- ing something weakly. At times during those days of fever he was ra- tional. Darrow counted on anoth- er clear spell be- fore the end.” It came. Bob sank back, his strength gone. “There’s a letter from Judith,” Dar- row said softly, bending above him. His throat went dry at the sight that flooded Bob's fine eyes. “Read it,” Bob N ‘¥a to the table and tore open the en- velope. He bent nearer the kero- sene lamp. The lines on the paper blurred and he dragged the back of his hand across his eyes. He read the lines again, silently. “It's dear of you and I wish I could, because I care more for you than | any man I know. But I thought you had guessed ages ago that I love Dar- | Tow, and as he doesn't care for me | in that way—and you know that,| too—I'm telling you this because it will make it easier for us both. I'm sorry. We're both out of luck and— well, there's nothing to be done about it, is there?” Darrow stared at the familiar hand- writing, his heart pounding his ribs. He leaned nearer the lamp. “Well, come on. Don't let it em- | barrass you; I've asked her to marry | me,” Bob said unevenly. | At the sound of his voice, Darrow started guility. It sounded as hollow iand far off as the gurgling of the frogs among the mangroves. “Well?” Bob's tone was impatient. “The wick’s dirty,” Darrow come plained, smoothing out the letter he had crumpled in an iron grip at the | sound of Bob's voice. | “If it's so bad get Manna to bring another lamp; but for heaven's sake | be_quick about it.” Darrow clasped the table with rigid fingers. “No, this'll do. She says—she says,” he closed his eyes: ““Of course, I'll marry you, I thought you had guessed long ago that I love you, I—" \ At a queer sound from the bed Darrow sprang forward; the letter fluttered to the floor. *“Bob, hurry!” | “It's all right.” Bob's voice was | unsteady. He held out his hand weakly. “I had a fool idea that it might ‘hnve been you, but now I can grab | the old boat and go back. Wish me a | happy landing, old man, wish me—" the voice died away. Darrow's fingers closed down over Bob's. | | It was some time before Darrow | | realized that Bob, with a faint smile | | touching the corners of his firm | | young mouth, had made his last | landing. | lines again. (Copyright, 1935.) CONSPIRACY TO KILL QUEZON IS CHARGED | 5or % Sonemseese Ben “hemiton | Members of Sakdal Society Are Accused in Complaint Filed Against Seven Persons. By the Associated Press. MANILA, Philippine Islands, April | 10.—A plot to assassinate Manuel Quezon, Philippine political leader and | prospective President of the new com- | monwealth government, was charged | to members of the Sakdal Society, an extremist group, in a formal com- plaint filed in the town of Sariaya, | Tayabas Province, yesterday. ‘r Provincial Prosecutor Ramon Valdes | Nieto filed charges of sedition against | seven persons and included the as- sassination plot charge in his com- plaint against the society. He did not, | however, charge the seven defendants | directly with complicity in the alleged assassination plot. Quezon now is in the United States. e MISS PEERY HONORED | e | Governor's Daughter Queen nf‘; Dogwood Festival at Bristol. By the Associated Press. | BRISTOL, Vi April 19.—Nancy | Letitia Peery, 19-year-old daughter of | Gov. and Mrs. George C. Perry, will be queen of Bristol's first annual dog- wood festival May 9 and 10. H. K. Bowen, executive of Southwestern Vir- ginia, Inc., announced yesterday. Miss Peery is a student at Hollins College, at Roanoke. lAME“ {eled from Romford, and as the craft Boys Open Show From Plane. Diving 3,000 feet in an airplane, 12 in London recently. They had trav- | dropped from 5,000 to 2,000 feet alti- tude a boy's voice, transmitted by | radio_telephone to a loud-speaker in | the Court of Honor, asked in behalf of all the fiyers that the president open the show. - JOHNNY'S COMING FREE LECTURE —ON— CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Charles V. Wian, C. 5. B. of Pasadena, Calif. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. In Constitution Hall, 18th, C and D Sts. N.W. Sunday, April 21 at 3:30 P.M. Under the Auspices of First, Second, Third and Fourth Churches of Christ, Scientist All Welcome No Collection THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 15 BOYS WILL MAKE FIRSTY.M.C.A.TOUR New York Will Be Visited Next ‘Week as Inaugural of Edu- cational Journeys. A group of 15 local boys will make a sightseeing tour of New York City next week as the first -of a series of educational journeys sponsored by boys' department of the Young Men's Christian Association. ‘Thirteen boys already have signed for the trip and the remaining two needed to bring the party to maxi- mum strength are expected to make reservations today or tomorrow. ac- cording to James C. Ingram, Y. M. C. A. boys’ work director. Ingram and Page McK. Etchison, religious work director of the Y. M. C. A., will conduct the tour. Boys from 15 to 18 are eligible. The party will make the trip by automobile. Leaving next Thursday morning, the group plans to arrive in New York City about 2 p.m. and take rooms at the Hotel Taft. Later that afternoon the tower of the Empire State building will be visited and at night the boys will attend the Music Hall Theater in Rockefeller Center. Friday there will be a tour of the city, a visit to the 8. 8. Aquitania and & show at the Roxy Theater. A tour of Radio City will be made Saturday morning. The boys will ar- rive back in Washington Saturday night. Similar tours of historical and educational interest will be arranged later. L e T Savant Bests Blindness. Sir James Frazer, the eminent scholar, anthropologist and writer of Glasgow, Scotland, has won his battle against blindness. In the last two years he has undergone several opera- tions on his eyes, and has recovered to such an extent that on his 80th birth- day recently he was able to continue his production of a new work, “Fear of the Dead in Native and Primitive Religion.” Cricket Costs Too High. Customs duties in New Zealand are causing a high cost of cricket and ad- mirers of the game want them re- duced. They declare that a cricket bat which costs $7.50 in England can- not be had for less than $16.25 in New Zealand, all because of the tax. His Best Friend Told Him It was his wife and she told him the truth, But she didn’t say he had “bad breath.” Jastead, she id “My dear, you need E-Z 'ablets.” A hint to the wise was sufficient. Don’t wait for some- one to tell you. If you feel slug- gish, headachy, dizzy, or bilious, due to constipation, you may be quite sure your breath is tellin; oth Get a package of E-. Tablets today. At all good drug stores, only 25¢. __5qvertisement. 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