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PAGE TWO Dickens’ Christmas Carol , JOWW3E BEDCUB- * ((£bncS B NEXT ,>*£'he TAINS IN HIS ARMS. “THEY ARE AT THE WIN J?O W SCROOGE AND TIM NOT TORN DOWN. THEY ARE DRANK IN THE CLEAR, WINTRY gOB RFCAMEA SECOMD FATHER THE BEDPOST WAS NO PHANTOM. HERE. RINGS AND ALL.” HE PAT- AIR. “WHAT DAY IS THIS? HE HE BECAME A SECOKTO FATHER. SCROOGE REALLY WAS BACK IN TED HIS CLOTHES AND TURNED ASKED OF A B OY.«"WHYCHRIST- IT WAS ALWAYS OF HIM HIS OWN BED. HE WAS BESIDE THEM IN AND OUT. "THE SHAD- MAS DAY.” THE BOY SAID “I AND SO AS HIMSELF WITH JOY. "HEAVEN O WS OF THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVEN’T MISSED IT THE SPIRITS FSS AND CHRIS.TMAS TIME BE HAVE BEEN SHALL BE DIS- DID IT ALL IN ONE NIGHT. CRIED ng ’ PRAISED FOR THIS.” HE CRIED. PELLED,” HE CRIED. SCROOGE. US, EVERYONE. THE END ■IACOCK FEATHERS ? — Temp/e B<ai/ey /©) ? COPYRIGHT; RELEASED BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION Vwy CHAPTER 38 t MIMI AND A were to leave Denver the next morning for the ranch. 1 made arrangements for a hired car and went up to our rooms to find Minu dressing for dinner. 1 told her about the cherry orchards —of the bloom of them, of the trees dripping red. “Could anything be more beau tiful?” I demanded. "I like it much better than cows,” she said. “I hate to think that things have to be killed.” We lingered, talking about it. Then she said, "You aren’t dressed, Jerry, and I’m simply ravenous. Is it romantic to be hungry, dear est?” "Fairy princesses can be any thing,” I assured her, “and get away with it.” She was to me, indeed, a fairy princess surrounded as she was at the moment by belongings which seemed to my crude, country-boy experience almost too exquisite for use. There wfere brushes of silver and bottles of crystal, a traveling case of fine leather, delicate laces, clinging silks and satins, little shoes which matched her gowns. On everything, where it could be engraved or stamped or em broidered, was a peacock’s feather, j I had asked her how it happened [that she had chosen it. “One of imy great-grandmothers had pea cock feathers on her linen and on I her silver. She owned an estate in France* and there were peacocks on the terrace, and she was so proud that she refused to marry a member of the royal family be cause he had plebeian blood in his veins. “I am glad,” I said to her, “that you are not like that.” “Why?” “You wouldn’t have married me.” • “Perhaps she. wasn’t in love with him—” her blush was charming. “You have an air, Jerry, as if you owned the world,” she told ime later, “and you are so awfully good-looking. Everybody stares at you in the dining room.” But it was Mimi who drew their glances. There was one man who recognized her and came to our table. “I left St. Louis yesterday,” he said. “Your elopement is creating a great sensation.” We had seen the papers. And I told him so. Mimi's manner of carrying it off was charming. “It was my fault. I have always wanted to do something different. Jerry doesn’t like clandestine things. But it was easier than the other—bridesmaids and a trous seau—and all the rest of it." He laughed. “Andy isiin mourn ing. I saw him just before I left. He was like a thundercloud.” When the man went on a few minutes later, neither he nor Mimi had mentioned Mrs. Le Brun. But the paper had said that Mimi’s mother had treated the matter as the whim of a spoiled child. It was, we thought, rather sporting of her to put it as she did. The effect was of there being no reason why Mimi should have run away. She might have been married at home. There would have been no opposition. I was my uncle s heir, and in every wav eligible. J We had told her of my inheri tan»e J in a letter which we had mailed to her on the moment of (departure. It had been a hard letter to write. We had left her “ it were, stranded on the shores of her ambitions. Yet the small income which she had from her #When von buy Christmas ?•*• • Wines either for your own use or as gifts, make sure of taste-satisfying quality by ordering Widmer’s. A com- f* ,elc * ine °f New York State Wines, famous for their ■ goodness since 1888. ■iifcSiiMjiHl WDMER's I 1; hillside I new york state HHpf IDidroer* mßgKfff E (Alcohol 20-21% by Volume) Widmwr’. WUo CelUn, lac., Noplea, N.Y., Her fingers curled themselves about mine. husband’s estate would be suffi cient for her own needs when she had no daughter to launch on the social seas. While I could not feel sorry for her, I promised myself that as soon as I knew something of my own finances I would make her an allowance. Mimi’s mind was not at rest. “I feel positively brutal, Jerry. Mother loves luxury, and I was her last hope.” I had no sympathy to spare. “Perhaps, she’ll have time to think of some of the finer things,” I said with a touch of smugness. “What are the finer things?” “Well, the love of money dead ens people’s souls.” “But one can’t be civilized with out it.” “It depends on what you mean by civilization, Mimi.” “Oh, having servants to keep things in order, and dressing for dinner, and plenty of bathtubs.” We laughed at that. “Some day,” I promised her, “I’ll take you into the mountains, miles away from bathtubs ar l dinner gowns, and I’ll teach i u the charms of the wild.” She shook her head. “I should love it,” she said, “for a little while. But we couldn’t live like that always, could we, Jerry?” It was towards noon of the next day that we came to the great hills which rose higher and higher as we proceeded on our way Neither Mimi nor I had ever been among those western moun tains, so that our first view of the towering battlements of pink sand stone which guard the valleys gave us the feelings of entering en chanted ground. The man who drove our car told us the names of the various formations, but we knew them only as magic gate ways to those higher peaks, silver topped and touching the sky. The roads as we left the high HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY. iASPATCH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1937 No. 24 way were rough and narrow—lit tle traveled. We passed through small settlements which were hud dles of unlovely houses. Here and there we came upon crude hotels, where we stopped for meals, find ing the food, as a rule, well-cooked and hearty, but served with a lack of formality which shocked Mimi’s fastidiousness. ! Yet she took it all rather easily. “It is like something in a book, Jerry. But lam glad our house will be different.” Looking back upon it, I wonder why doubts did not then assail me. But they did not. The splendor of the hills and of those shining peaks had woven a spell about me; I felt that I could ride on forever, with Mimi by my side. Flowers were everywhere; pale columbines; faint mauve and white; harebells, trembling in the breeze; the exquisite and mystical Mariposa lily on its single stalk. Mimi exclaimed and I stopped the car and loaded her arms with them, and felt that not even the lilies were lovelier than my young wife in her bridal happiness. * And now the shadows began to fall on the mountains, the valleys were dim—but the light stuck in a golden shaft across the great peak which towered ahead of us. “About half way up that moun tain is your house,” the driver told us, “there ain’t a better view any where.” • j My hand went over Mimi’s. Her fingers curled themselves about mine in a quick understanding clasp. .We leaned a little forward,! trying to pierce the gloom. The golden light faded, the mountain peak grew dark against a sea of silver sky on which floated a galleon of rosy cloud. Then the cloud sailed on, and the sky was faint amethyst with one breath less star. (To Be Continued) SALLIE B. WRIGHT DIES DURING NIGHT Sallie B. Wright, wife of Rev. Roosevelt Witfgfht, colored mfru&ter died last night at 7 o’clock, it was learned today. She had been a teacher in Vance county schools for the past ten years or more. . She is survived by her husband ana two children. Funeral services will be conduct ed Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Brookston Bapjtist church, near Grey stone, with Rev. James Burchette, m charge. I You Can Save I FILLER'S I HUGHES, JENKINS HOW FROM CITADEL Henderson Youths Making Fine Record at South Carolina School The two Henderson young men who are members of the corps of cadets at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, are now at their homes for the annual Christmas fur lough. The two local youths at South Car olina’s nationally famous military col lege are John M. Hughes, Jr., and James W. (Jack) Jenkins Jr. Hughes, a senior is a member of the infantry unit of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and is an outstanding ethlete, having excelled in boxing and taken part in football and other sports. Jenkins, a junior, is one of the out standing members of his class. He is a member of th e coast artillery R. O. T. C. unit and holds the rank of cadet first sergeant, the highest for which a member of his class is eligible. He is secretary of the Round Table, honorary literary society, and is one of the leading members of his class scholastically as well as in other fields. At the end of each semester since he has been at Th e Citadel, Jen kins has been awarded “gold stars” for superior academic attainment. The Christmas furlough at The Citadel began at nppn last Saturday and will continue until 8:00 a. m., Jan uary 3. Members of the freshman and k Henderson, N. C. . Christmas, 1937 Dear Friend: The records for the old year will soon be closed. As we make the final entries we cannot help but pause to thank our friends with whom we have been associated so closely during 1937. For there is a wealth of pleasure and satisfaction in serving customers who have been with us for years, in assisting new friends in the many little ways a bank can be so helpful. i And so from the depth of pur heart we greet you at this, the happiest time of the entire year. May we wish you a Merry Christmas with the sincere hope that success and prosperity be yours during the coming New Year. Wm*. Yours very sincerely, <*4ppHj Executive Vice President. ]L jg| SgajH fer 4 Ji 111 ®(r varsity football squads, however, were granted leave a week earlier, in re cognition of their gridiron activities. JORDAN WILL GIVE CHRISTMAS BASKETS Jordan Funeral Home is giving about twenty baskets containing food and fruits and the like to some of the most needy cases among the colored race at Christmas time. All names are being furnished through the chur ches. Any church, which has not pass ed in th e names, has been asked to communicate with the establishment not later than 4 o’clock Friday after noon. COUNCIL MEETING ON MONDAY NIGHT Following the double Christmas holi day, the Henderson City Council will held its monthly meeting next Mon day night. Indications today were that little would be done other than the most urgent routine. Holiday so cial activities will still be under way at the time, and members will likely not have business on their minds any more than is necessary. “Sweeten it with Domino i ined ir U.S A Just Arrived for Christmas Live Lobsters and All Kinds of Sea Food Steaks —Turkey And everything good to eat for the holidays. CAPITOL CAFE (Formerly Busy Bee) I ' ■ 11 I I A Joyous Yuletide I si & 0 n * gg A wish to show appreciation for your : S % patronage during the past year by wish- % tk ' * % || mg* for you a joyous Yuletide and a New Year of Satisfaction and Contentment. 1 & m g? a 1 Peoples Drug Store f $f g
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