^ NOVEMBER 18. 1943.
CHAPTER I
Saral! Daffodil liked the couplt
as soon as she saw them, though
she had never considered renting
an apartment to young people before.
Her other tenants were middle-aged
or older and dreadec
noise. But there was something sr
oddly settled about this young pair,
a certain quiet serenity, a shining
confidence, that caught at her sympathy
and for her accented their
their youthful chain).
"Wc read your advertisement,'
the girl said and her voice was
lovely, clear as Sarah's cherished
crystal bell, but with a golden
warmth denied to tinkling glass.
The young fellow felt his responsibility.
his dark, steadfast gare betokened
a steady purpose. "It's s
three-room, to sub-Jet? We want
three room3 by March first." Involuntarily
he exchanged il c.narW
ling glance with the giri.
From her desk eh air Sarah could
see the fireplace and the few pieces
of her mother's furniture whicli
transformed the other half into a
comfortable, practical living room
Built-in bookcases replaced the office
cabinets, the elawfoot sofa and
drumhead table balanced t h e
break-front with its treasure load ol
old china and glass. Chintz draperit
r for all the windows and two large
oval braided rugs laid on the Hoot
tied the divergent sections into an
amazing harmonious whole.
Tenants sometimes said that Sarah
Daffodil possessed two personalities
as distinct as this room she loved.
Undoubtedly she puzzled this boy
and girl who had come in response
to her advertisement.
"The rooms are on the top floor,'
Sarah explained pleasantly.
"But there is a fireplace?" The
girl held her tir.y knitted pillbox in
her lap and her gleaming hair
molasses-brown with gold streaks
swirled in a beautiful, long, thick
? bob to her shouldres. She wore it
parted in the center so that two soft
rolls, like wings, framed her small
face.
Her eyebrows and her eye;
matched her hair perfectly, Sarai
Daffodil thought appreciatively
'There is a fireplace in each of my
apartments," she said.
The boy spoke confidently. "We't
likn tn at-. :ir? :r
-v- up uiiu ?vk?r, u wc may
But wo ought to ask the rent first.'
"It's a sublet, you know. Th(
tenants in 3-A were anxious to mov<
to the coast. They were obligatoc
to pay fort.y-five dollars a rnontr
until October, but were willing tc
dispose of their lease for forty ;
month."
"Could we go up now?while
we're here?" The girl's exquisite!)
clear voice remained unhurried.
Sarah Daffodil rose and the)
stood, too, staring a little more intently.
perhaps than they realized
The woman behind the desk hat
not appeared unusually tall, but now
that she was standing they coulc
see that she war. at least six feet ir
height. Although she wore graj
flannel slacks and a tailored graj
and white long-sleeved shirt, shi
did not create a masculine effect
For one thing, she wore her abundant
black and silver hair, whicl
waved lightly, coiled softly at tht
hack of her head,
j "There's no reason why yoi
shouldn't run up and see the apart
| ment now?" her firm, long moutl
parted in a smile. "Mrs. Merdinj
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: o'clock. Tell her I sent you."
i "You'll be here when we come
i down?" They both looked ot her
. as if she were a kindly monument.
"I'll be right here."
I The desk pnone buzzed and Sarah
> lifted the handset. "Mrs. Daffodil?
, This is Mrs. Merding. That couple
! you sent up are on their way down
to your office. They like the rooms
a lot.'
"Well, of course they're terribly
young." Mrs. Merding conceded
> wistfully, "but 1 never saw anyone
> so quiet in all my life. You just
i[can't, imagine them having large,
loud parlies?I'd take a chance, if 1
were you."
"Before you commit yourselves
- to leasing, there are some things
about the setup here you should
know." Sarah drew forward her
evYioll
iJRSBJS vttiu iiiu.
"And some things about us you'll
' want to know." The boy's dark face
1 glowed with swift light when he
1 smiled.
Sarah Daffodil admitted that the
rule worked both ways. "I think X
1 must tell you that my other tenants
: are all well into middle age. Yon
may prefer to be where your immediate
neighbors will be more
likely to have interests similar to
yours."
"No, that doesn't matter. We'll
be so busy?both of us work."
|j Then there was the yard. Sarah
' continued, levelly. "I'll show it to
you before you go. It's large?seventy-five
feet, wide by one hundred
and fifty feet deep."
Experience had taught her, Sarah
said, that beyond a certain point
. community ownership retrogressed,
i Four sets of tenants could nol enjoy
the garden as one big family.
"They used to bicker incessantly
over their washings and there were
times when 1 could cheerfully have
: wrapped their sheets around their
[ necks and pinned them all on a
good high line," After several year's
; of complaints and warfare she had
i developed the present plan.
"Each apartment is entitled to
r the full use of the garden and lawn
for drying and bleaching clothes,
i one day a week. This includes the
. laundry room and equipment in the
basement. Of course if it should
; happen to rain torrents on Thurs
; day, you'd l>e out of luck for that
i week. You have to expect such a
1 performance now and then."
' "Why, that's wonderful!" The
young people manifestly regarded
the originator of this program as a
; genius.
It had worked out fairly well,
Sarah admitted modestly, barring
' an occasional controversy when
"(Someone wished to trade his day
j and could find no one willing to
exchange. "With the first four days
J going to the tenants, I'm left with
' Friday for my own washing. Sat|
urdays I cut the grass and tidy up
r the garden generally and Sundays
are for the community spirit, if it
wants to develop. Mostly it's riding
out in the country, except for a
few hot days in midsummer."
; Yes, she cut the grass herself,
she said in answer to the question
i mirrored in the two pair of dark
- eyes. She cut the grass, washed
i windows, did the small repairs and
; all the carpenter work. "I'm the
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superintendent and the janitor, the
fireman (I have my license) and
the handy matt. I've always liked
to work with iny hands, in fact I
helped my husband build this
house. Mrs. Merding probably told
you that I'm the renting agent anrl
landlord, since Mr. Daffodil's death
ten years ago."
"She said there isn't anything you
can't do.' Enormous respect made
the girl's lovely face grave.
Sarah laughed and picked up her
memorandum paid. "Stuff and nonsense:
Now, if you really wish to
take the apartment?"
Their names, they hold her, were
Andrew Thane and C.'andace Moore.
They planned to be married early
the following week and would like
to move in thai week-end.
Sarah's peci) wrote the word
"Lease," hesitated. "You're taking
over the Merding lease, you know?
it runs until October."
"Wc fhflt/ Irnoitf
"If you carp to stay beyond September
thirtieth, a new lease will
be necessary, of course." Front
force of habit she glanced at her
desk calendar?Tuesday, February
25th, 1941. The something that had
been knocking at the back door of
her mind vague, annoying, because
she resented distractions, suddenly
found its place. She said quickly,
"Aren't you likely to be called"''
Andrew Thane's quiet, dark face
did not quicken. "I'm registered."
"But?" Sarah looked from him
to the girl. "Aren't you two taking
a chance by marrying at this time?
Do you mind telling me how old
you are?"
He was twenty-three, he told her
soberly, his fiancee twenty-one.
"We have talked it over carefully
and v/e think we're doing the right
thing."
"The Mendings were very lucky
to be able to sublet, so late in the
season." The little silver crochet
hook in Mrs. Waters' experi lean
brown fingers flashed brightly in
and out of the intricate meshes that
formed in its wake.
Sarah Daffodil had never seen
anyone whose crochet work equaled
Mrs. Walters' in variety and deeinn
TJor r\\oco >1 cknltrne om{ olncnie
aigu. MV) *.LUiTtO- a:iu iJ
of drawers were stuffed with boxes
in which, she hod stored bedspreads,
table sets, edgings for bed linens
and towels, medallions, even several
sets of curtains, ail exquisitely
made, never used. "X had just a
glimpse' of the new tenants?they're
awfully young/' Emma Waters remarked
hopefully.
King Waters sat at the knee-hole
desk, his hack to his wife and to
Sarah Daffodil. He- was making
out the rent check for March. In
(he hope of garnering a little gossip,
Emma Walters always managed to
arrange so that the cheek must be
called, fev in person.
Over his shoulder Kin Waters
said casually, "That young chap's
probably headed straight for training
camp. "I'm surprised they married
before his number's called.
Kids haven't a grain of sense when
it comes to realities."
"I suppose they'll be having late
parties," his wife sighed. "I know
young people?liquor and everything.
They're right over our heads,
too."
"I don't think you'll be troubled
by noise overhead." Sarah spoke
with authority. 'Both Mr. and Mrs.
Thane go to business, they can't afford
to keep late hours."
From the desk Mr. Waters said,
his tone muffled, his pen scratching,
"I suppose she's keeping her job because
she expects him to be called
for training."
And from the corner Emma Waters
sniffled. "I've always said that
no woman can do justice to two
inKc?.if t"hf?m hak to ka noo.
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lected. Usually it's the housekeeping."
"Is that a new spread, Mrs. Waters?"
It was, of course. Sarah
recognized the significance of a single
crocheted wheel?all the wonderful,
elaborate patterns Mrs. Waters
turned out in such profusion
began with a single crocheted
wheel. What on earth could the
woman do with another bedspread!
J "There!" King Waters swung
around and his chair creaked.
"About that young fellow upstairs,"
he said, as if the topic had recently
been tabled. "A year of training in
the army would be the finest tiling
that could happen to a young fellow
like that. Put him right on his
feet,"
"Far as I know he's on them
now."
The check fluttered feebly in Mr.
Waters' blunt-tipped fingers. He
chewed on his unighted cigar with
vigor. "Do this present generation
good to taste a. little army discipline.
Why. 1 wouldn't take anything
for the lessons 1 learned while
I was in the service."
"I could stand it if you were a
little less active right now in post
work," Mrs Waters observed querulously.
"Now it's another raffle
and would you believe it, Mrs. Daffodil,
they're after me to contribute
one of my spreads. They say they
IY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C.
C.ross f!o!l,w'tor
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Mrs. Harry King of Reading. l*a..
with part of Iter collection of 18.1
crosses of various religious denominations
which range in size from
one-quarter inch to 14 Vi inches tall.
She is holding her favorite, which
has an inlaid mother-of-pearl holy
water font.
can sell a thousand chances on it."
"Well, 1 suppose it's for the disabled
veterans?" Sarah found herself
making wild calculations as to
the actual number of bedspreads
stored in the apartment.
"But it's all handiwork. No one
knows the amount of effort it is to
make a spread, until, they've done
it themselves."
Something less elaborate might
be acceptable, Sarah hinted. "Why
don't you give them one of your
handsome chair sets?"
"There's a good deal of work
on those chair sets. All filet."
The gilt clock atop the radio inkled
eight times. "I must be going?"
Sarah rose gratefully. "Thank
you, Mr. Waters?" as she relinquished
the check "I'll be up in
the morning to put those washers
on the kitchen faucets."
'Nothing very cheerful to read,
eh?" King Waters unhappily scanned
the headlines in the newspaper
of the man whose bus seat he
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO
i BE MADE TO THE COMMISSIONERS
OF WATAUGA
COUNTY TO DIVIDE BOONE
i TOWNSHIP AND TO MAKE
THREE SEPARATE TOWNj
SHIPS.
NOTICE is hereby given, that, we,
the undersigned citizens and freeholders
of Boone township, Watau!ga
County, North Carolina, will, on
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6th, 11142,
apply and petition the commissioners
of Watauga County to divide
Boone Township into three distinct
and separate townships, so as to constitute
three independeni. townships,
the hames and boundary lines of
each to be as follows:
0) One to be known and designated
as BOONE TOWNSHIP, the
boundaries of which snail he ana in..
elude the corporate limits of the
Town of Boone as now established.
(2) One to be known and designated
as NEW RIVER TOWNSHIP,
the boundaries of which shall be as
follows: Beginning at the corner of
Meat Camp and Stony Fork townships
as now located and runs a western
direction with the Meat Camp
Township line as now located to a
point where Junaluska road crosses
the said township line; thence
with the said road to the line of
the corporate limits of the town of
Boone; thence with said corporate
limit line as now established to the
point where the Poplar Grove road
road crosses said Boone Corporate
limit line; thence in a southern direction
with the said Poplar Grove
road to a point where the said road
crosses the Watauga Township line
as now located; thence with the Watauga,
Blowing Rock, Blue Ridge,
Elk and Stony Fork Township lines
as now established to the beginning.
(3) One to be known and designated
as Brushy Fork Township, the
boundaries of which shall be as follows:
Beginning at the corner ot
cove Creek and Meat Camp Townships
and runs an eastern direction
with the said Meat Camp township
lino as now established to the point
where the Junaluska Road crosses
said Township line: thence with said
road to the corporate limit line of
the Town of Boone; thence with said
corporate limit line to a point where
the Poplar Grove Road crosses the
satd corporate limit line as now located;
thence with the said Poplar
Grove Road to the Watauga TownTownship
line as now established;
thence with the Township lines of
Watauga, Laurel Creek and Cove
Creek as now established to the beginning.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
tliat we will ask that said application
be heard by the said County
Commissioners at their regular meeting
in the courthouse on December
6th, 1943, and anyone wishing to be
heard in regard to the same will
please be present.
This the 30th dav of October, 1943.
G. C. GREENE,
W. H. GRAGG
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The young fellow looked up courteously.
"All war news.'
"Yep. Most of it sounds pretty
familiar to me. I was in the last
fracas. Don't suppose you know
anything about that?"
The dark, quiet young man said
composedly, "Only v/hat I've heard."
He dextereously folded his paper to
bring the sporting page uppeimost.
(To Be Continued)
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SALE
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at Tamarack, N. C., 10 o'clock a. m.,
November 20, 1943. The following
will be disposed of for cash to the
highest bidder: 3 cows, 1 stripper. 2
fresh: 8 calves, 2 steer yearlings, 35
sheep. Sheep will be sold in lots of
6.. one sow and 7 pigs.
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