H DECEMBER 14, 1939
? ----CHAPTER
III
SYNOPSIS? Nineteen-year-old
Anno Old way realizes suddenly
that something is wrong between
ivcr father and mother. She hears
servants whispering and senses
tension when her mother asks her
father for money before her
bridge game with "the Dorsays?
and David. Anne adores her
beautiful mother, Elinor, and tier
tathcr, Francis; and she had al ways
liked and trusted their old
friend David. Yet it is David
about whom the servants are
whispering. Vicky, Anne's companion.
is aware of the situation
too. Anne steals away to meet
Uarry Brooks in the moonlight
and they meet a strange man at a
cam pf ire.
Wakened at two by the sound
of her mother's singing, Anne,
from the stair landing, sees David
with his arms around Elinor. She
tells Vicky, her companion. Vicky
pretends to smell smoke and goes
to the drawing room. David leaves
before Francis comes home. Vicky
rernonstrates with Anne.
Vicky, standing in l'ront of the
fire, said, "I don't know. I onlyknow
that she lias burned candles
on your altar and you have blown
them out."
"What do you mean?"
"Tonight she saw David kiss you."
There was dead silence lor a moment,
then Elinor said, "Se'll have
to know sometime. Do you think I
am going on like this?"
Elinor threw herself into a chair,
and the rose and silver of her gown
and the deeper rose of the chair's
back seemed to mock the whiteness
of her faee. "How much is she my
child? You've been with her since
she was five. You've taken my
piace. And Francis did that, not I."
"He did it because you said you
haled being tied down."
But there was more to it than
that. Vichy had not told the whole
story. Of how Francis Ordway had
come home late one nighl from Baltimore
to find Anne with a raging
fever sr.d in the care of an ignorant
? nursemaid, while Elinor was oft so
a hunt bail at the country club.
When he telephoned her, she haa
i-tuau-u iu come until ine dancing
was over. So Francis had sent for
Vicky and stayed.
"I lost a lot tonight and 1 didn't
dare ask. David to help me out. Do
- you think it is true, Vicky, what
Francis said? That David is in debt
to him?"
"He wouldn't have said it if it
weren't true." Vicky stated possitivcly.
Elinor's lossc; of late had been so
great that she had used desperate
means to get money to pay them.
Now she was at her wits' end, and
in spite of her resentment of Vicky's
interference in her affairs, it seemed
as if Vicky after all was the only
stable tiling in her world.
Suddenly they heard the big car
Gutside.
In another moment Francis entered.
He stopped on the threshold
and looked his surprise. "Not in bed
yet?" he asked.
"I have been," Vicky said, "but I
smelled smoke and came down."
Elinor said, "It was the fireplace."
"I'll go upstairs now," said Vicky.
"I'm tired."
Francis stopped her with a motion
of his hand. "No. Sit down,
Vicky. I'm glad I found you here.
I want to talk about Anne."
"Yes?" But Vicky did not sit
down.
"I've been wondering if you and
she might not like a winter in the
south of France?"
Elinor's face darkened. "Why?"
"I want to get her away."
"From me?"
"From both of us?if you will
have it?and the life we lead."
"What's the matter with the life
we lead?"
"You know as well as I. It's good
enough for you and me, perhaps.
We've made our beds and we've got
to lie on them. But it isn't good
i-jiuugii lor Anne. Ana besides,
there's Garry."
"What's the matter with Garry?"
"Nothing?as Garry. But a lot as
Anne's husband."
Vicky spoke. "You can trust
Anne. And may 1 say something
about your plan for sending her
away?"
"Of course."
"I think if Anne goes at all, she
should go with her mother."
'"With me?" Elinor asked, amazed.
They stared at her.
"Do you mean," Francis demanded,
"that you are separating yourself
from Anne? You can't do that!'
"Only for a time."
"Buy why, Vicky?"
"Anne must learn to lean on her
own strength. Not on mine."
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Klinor interposed. "But I don't
want to go away. "I've planned my
winter?and Anne's. And what does
it matter if she marries Garry? He
oas money and pood looks, and wot
ships the ground sne walks on."
"He worships himself, Elinor.
Anne would be just an addition to
bis other possessions."
"Aren't most wives just that?"
Elinor's hands went out in a little
gesture of impatience. "And if it
isn't Garry, it will be somebody
rise. Oh, I'm too tired to argue.
Francis. I'm going to bed." " She
stood tin, slender and shining in her
pink and silver.
Her husband, his eyes on her
shining slimncss, said abruptly, "I
thought you were wearing black
when I left."
"I was, but I hate black." She
threw the words over her shoulder
as she left him. hut when she reached
the threshold she turned. "We
tiad a rotten game. I suppose it's
useless to ask you for any more
money?"
"I Pave von all I '
Sho shrugged her shoulders and
went slowly up the stairs.
Left alone in the library with
Vicky, Francis said, "She put on
that dress for?David?"
Vicky had no reply for that. But
after an interval in which she stared
into the fire she said, "Sometimes
things are not as serious as they
seem. And if you will only send
her away?
"Elinor?"
"Yes."
"But why with Anne?"
"Anne loves her. And it will give
her time to think."
"Elinor?"
"Yes."
"But where will you go, Vicky?"
"To my home on the Eastern
Shore."
"What will Anne say? She won't
let you go, Vicky."
"She will when I tell her."
"What will you tell her?"
"That her mother needs her."
"You think." Francis asked tensely,
"that it isn't too late?"
She spoke with a certain serene
confidence.
"Sometimes life work:, out our
problems for us."
"What a fatalist you are!"
She smiled wistfully. "Perhaps it
isn't fatalism. Perhaps it is faith.
And don't worry about Anne. She's
a strong little thing, with all her
softness."
She saw his face quivering with
deep emotion. "1 worship her," he
said "She's the one lovely thing in
this rotten world."
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one naa no words lor that, and
she left him standing by the fire,
his eyes on the dying flames.
Meanwhile the man in the meadow
had not found sleep under the
stars.
It had been an enchanting adventure
with that child in the moonlight.
A rare moment to tuck away
in one's memory. And that was all.
Yet if things had bsen different he
would have tried to see her again?
to savor once more her cxquisiteness.
He had not thought there was
such a girl in this modern world.
She had recalled to his mind the
painting of Bouguereau that he had
seen in a Baltimore gallery of a
young maiden with a lamb in her
arms. "Innocence" was the name in
the catalogue. Well, she was like
that?virginal, with a curious touch
of vividness.
The chances were that she would
marry the young man. A woman
was like that?propinquity and a
man madly in love with her! She
would mistake her need of love for
loving.
It was no business of his, of
course. That was why he had sent
her away. That he might never see
her again, and that she might never
guess his identity. Why should he
impose his past on her? Why speak
the name that she would see black
in the headlines if she opened the
morning paper?
That was the worst of it?the pa
pers and the things they said. This
very pilgrimage of his was an escape
from it all. If he could only
tell her the truth! She would, he
thought, understand.
In a few hours he would be on
his way and Anne would forget him.
But he didn't, want to be forgotten.
He looked at his watch. Two-thirty.
No more sleep tonight! He put another
stick on the fire and by the
light of the leaping flames wrote a
letter, tearing leaves from his notebook
until he had a sheaf of them
He addressed an envelope, sealed it
and made his way across the meadow,
coming at last to the garden and
the tall hedge.
He found the curtains drawn at
the windows of the big house, so he
could see nothing. Following a flagged
path he reached the driveway
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and a tall iron gate with a mail box
hung on the brick wall beside it
where he posted his letter. Retracing
his steps he stood again on the
little hill where earlier in the evening
Anne had met Garry, and looked
down over the sleeping garden.
From the height where he stood,
Charles could see straight through
the window of a darkened room on
the second floor of the house and
beyond that to the lighted hall. And
as he looked a woman came within
his line of vision. She was ascending
the stairs.
He saw her?first her head then
the whiteness of her neck and anus,
then rosy and shining as the dawn,
her pink and silver gown. She was
very beautiiul, with an almost
startling beauty like the splendid |
ladies in Romncy's paintings or Sir i
Joshua's. But her beauty leit Charles ]
cold. Such goddesses belonged in!
portrait galleries to be hung on
walls! He had a feeling that the
woman was Anne's mother. Yet
There was nothing in common between
the golden-lighted loveliness
of the daughter and the dark brilj
liance of the other.
I She stood now in the open door
of the darkened room. She seemed
to hesitate, then entered ard w ;s
lost in the gloom. A shaft of moonlight
striking through the s tadows
shone on a shimmering h< ap of
whiteness that seemed to ca en and
hold the light in a pool of r: diance.
And it was toward this pool >f radiance
that a hand came prese ltly out
of the darkness?a white hand and
a bare slender arm.
Then all at once the ha id was
withdrawn, and where there had
been that shimmering he ip was
empty space! And in the lang and
lighted hall a Hash of pink and silver
as a tall figure went flying toward
a room at the far end.
Charles wondered a bit as he
made his way down the bill. Therehad
bec-n an air of mystety about
the woman't movements. But one's
imagination plays tricks a! limes.
And there was undoubtedly a perI'ecllv
cnmrnnnnlaeh c.-ihitJnn ? ? ?
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scene.
When he returned to hi: camp
I his fire was dying, .little spirals of
1 wood sntcki scenting acridly the air
i about him. How Iflargot had loved
1 that Acrid scent!
! "I shall never forget this, Carl,"
IShc: had said 011 their honeymoon,
"I shall never forget." And now she
had forgotten. It was he who would
remember those other nights under
the moon when he and she ha 3 built
their little fires?"Altar's In our
gods, Carl"?and had watched the
flames die and the coals glow and
the smoke curling. Wondertul
nights, wonderful days, yet before
the honeymoon was over he had
known that there were altars in his
own soul where Margot would
never worship with him. Still he
had loved her, doggedly refusing to
believe her anything less than he
had thought her until the day had
come when she had flung him and
his love away.
And now?woodsmoke and the
thought of Anne!
Would a man dare love more
than once? And if he did, would
there not come memories of that
first and splendid passion that had
swept over him as a boy?
Charles cast the thought from him
and jumping to his leet began to
gather up his belongings. When he
came to the cup from which Anne
had drunk he stood with it in his
hand for a moment, then dropped it
on a rock where it splintered into a
thousand pieces.
Thus in the old days men had
splintered their glasses when they
had drunk to the queen! He smiled
a little as he went on with his packing.
He recognized in himself th s
incurable romantic. But rom ltic
or not, no one should drink again
from the cup which that charming
enua naa lirted to her lips.
He quenched his fire with water
from the nearhy stream, and a little
later his car slid from under the
shadowy pines and into the open.
(Continued Next Week)
NOTICE
To whom this may concern: On
November 22, 1939, I sold my business
in Boone, known as the CaroJean
Inn to Mr. J. O. Cook. I am
no longer connected with the business
in any way, arid have no further
financial resoonsibility.
12-6-4c MAUDE HOSTETLER.
NOTICE
On December 11. 1939, I will of'
fer for sale at O. W. Greene's garaee
n Stony Fork township, one 1929
Ford roadster to satisfy a repair and
storage account against the said
, car.
This November 21, 1939.
ll-23-3p. O. W. GREENE.
YeVrF^I yQU H-to-M
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LY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C.
The oldest copper roof in the
world is that on the Hildcsheim ;
Cathedral in Germany, it was put on
in 1320.
NOTICE OF SALE
State of North Carolina, Watauga
County.
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a deed of trust
given by L,. Holden. unmarried, to
the undersigned as trustee, for thr
benefit of Charles M. Odom. said
deed of trust being registeic-d in the
office of the register of deeds for!
Y/atauga county, in Book of Mortgages
No. 23. at page 315, said pur- j
iy having failed to comply with the
terms, conditions and agreement1- i
contained in said deed of trust
whereby the power of sale therein j
became operative, I will on the 21st
day of December, 1939, at 12 o'clock
noon, sell to the highest bidder for
cash at the county courthouse doo;
the following described piece or
parcel of land, situate, lying and
being ir, Shawneehaw township.
Watauga county, state of Norm
Carolina, on the waters of Dutch
Creek, bounded and more particu
lariy described as follows:
Beginning on a poplar tree, the I
bank of Dutch Creek, below Dutch
Crock Falls and hounded r.o ttu. 1
wer' by Miss L. Holden's line; on t
the south by Roe Fox and on the .
east by L. F. Townsond; on the '
north by the Mission School and
David Tester, containing 30 acres. \
more or less and including the
Dutch Creek Falls.
Being the same propertv convey- |
ed from C. I). Taylor and Lou H j
Taylor to Miss L. Holden by deed ;
dated February 12, 1931, and regis '
tered ir. the office of the register of ;
deeds for Watauga county. North |
Carolina, in Book No. 41. at page 7'.' '
This 18th day of Novembor. 1939.
DON C. YOUNG,
ll-23-4c Trustee
TRUSTEE S SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
(By Substituted Trustee)
Pursuant to the power and authority
contained in a certain deed
of trust dated October 7, 1932, executed
by M. C. Johnson and wife.
Mira A. Johnson, to John E. Brown,
trustee, which deed of trust is duly
registered in the office of the register
of deeds of Watauga county.
North Carolina, in Book 15. at page
163, securing a certain indebtedness
therein described to Model Laundry.
Inc., of Lenoir. North Carolina, default
having been made in the payment
of said indebtedness, and In
accordance with the provisions set
out in said instrument, and upon demand
of the said Model Laundry,
inc., the undersigned trustee, UaV- j
ing been substituted as trustee for
John E. Brown, the1 substitution be- i
ing duly recorded in the office of 1
the register of deeds ot Watauga I
county, North Carolina, in Book 48, I
at page sob, will otfcr for sale at
public auction, to the highest bidder
Jor cash, at the courthouse door in
Watauga county, North Carolina, at
12 o'clock noon, on the first day of
January, 1940, the following described
real estate:
"Beginning at a stake six feet N. I
E. from the corner of Lots Nos. 36
and 37 of the plat of the Fairview
lands as made by J. M. Houck, August,
1887 ,and runs north 35 degrees
east 210 feet to a stake; then
south 68 degrees east lOo feet to a
stake; then south 35 degrees west
210 feet to a stake six feet from the
northwest corner of Lot No. 38 on
said plat; then north 68 degrees
west 105 feet to the beginning, containing
Vt acre, more or less, with
right-of-way to the spring."
The purchaser at this sale will be
required to make a cash deposit of
five (5%) per cent of the purchase
price to show good faith. This sate
is made subject to all taxes of any
nature and kind constituting a lien
upon the aforesaid property.
This November 30th, 1939.
J. T. PR1TCIIETT,
12-7-4c Substituted Trustee.
Miller's Floral Shoppe
Cut Flowers, Potted Plants, Funera.
designs. Telegraph delivery service
Phone 20 Boone, N. C
When you sec those good
shows, don't forget to stop
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minister who lal
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My entire line of gener;
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The chance of a lifetime to mi
shoes, dry goods, and the full
YOUR OWN PRICE. Bedspre
eluded. There will be no by-b
up will positively be sold.
TERMS OF SALE The
sale will only last for the
on hand early and get youi
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PAGE SEVEN
New York City has had 103 mays.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified a.- the executor
the will of Sarah Storio, deceased,
te ol the county of Watauga, this
to notify all persons having claims
uinst the estate ot the deceased to
osent them to me for payment
thin 12 months of the date hereof
this notice will be plead in bar
their recovery. All those indebt
to the estate are asked to make
ompt payment.
This November 0. 1939.
CHARLIE C. JOHNSON.
Executor, Will of Sarah Stone.
Deceased. 11-9-fip
BOON h OK L O CO.
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cember 16th
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cember 23rd
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idders . . . Everything put
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