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SYNOPSIS
Preparing to close her summer home
and spend the winter to France with
a great-aunt, Anne .Vincent, a middle
.:: aged widow, accede to the pleas of her
adopted daughter RacheH twenty and
pretty, that she ten her about her real
mother: Anne, an unselfish, understand'
tog soul, finds the task difficult, since
she feels Rachel is putting a barrier
; between them. Rachel learns'' that her
; ' real mother was beautiful eighteen-year-
' oh Elinor Malloy. deserted by her young
'i v; husband, before Rachel's birth. He was
killed in the World war. In desperate
. financial straits, Elinor had agreed to
Rachel's adoption at birth by Anne,
whose own baby had died, Elinor sub
sequently had married Peter Cayne, a
wealthy New York business man, and
had a son. To soften the story for
, . Rachel, Anne omits telling her that
her mother had been callous and selfish
and had said: "It's odd your baby died
and mine didn't" Rachel goes fishing
with Bob Eddis, a local boy who runs
a library and does wood carving. She
refuses his plea to stay in Rockboro
and marry him instead of going to New
York for the winter. At dinner Rachel
announces she is going to do something
of her very own in New York.
CHAPTER n Continued
"Mother wouldn't want you for a
son-in-law," declared Rachel. "Look
at her struggle between her truthful
feelings and her kind heart"
"That's a shameful lie. Your
mother has known me a long time
and thinks I'm marvelous. Don't
you, Mrs. Vincent?"
"In some ways you're certainly
marvelous," Anne agreed.
"But seriously about Rachel
marrying me "
"Rachel will decide that for her
self. Rachel," said Anne deliber
ately, "will decide everything im
portant in her life for herself with
out advice from anyone. And I be
lieve that she'll strike a pretty fair
average of deciding right"
"There, you see. Bob! Mother
thinks I ought to decline your flat
tering offer."
"She didn't say that," said Bob.
"She implied it," returned Ra
chel. "What's more, mother isn't
bothered about my living in New
York with Pink and finding a job
for myself. Are you, mother?" She
did not wait for an answer. "And
what would I do here all winter,
Bob? You've got the' library and
your wood carving, but I'd have
nothing to do except cook your
meals and wait for you to come
and eat them."
"I could lend you improving books
from the library and teach you a
little wood carving, angel. We could
walk on the beach and back in the
hills and go fishing and sing some
times and talk and on very stormy
days sit by the fire and spin."
"The excitement would be too
much for me," said RachcL Then,
as if taking some secret resolution
from her spirit and declaring it
openly to define and clinch it for her
own satisfaction, she added with
emphasis: "I've et something I
must do this winter, something of
my very own."
CHAPTER in
In the night Anne had reasoned
sharply with herself to get away
from self-pi!y, to accept, as she had
always accepted, the hard limiting
things that happened to her, and go
on calmly. Both she and Rachel
were up too early and were restless
with this extra lime and nothing
to do. . Bob was to cor.-3 far their
bagcr.aa ar.d taksjt.to the station
and ihcy would telle. The baro house
got on Anne's nerves. "Let's take
our coffje cut on the terrace and
watch the sea," she said, "it's a
divine day."
Mr. Kreol appeared as soon as
they did, -anxious and eager. "You
haven't changed jour intention
ab:ut tho radio, have you?", he
nsked.
Rachel gave him the house key
for answer.
"Mis' Vincent, I iiate to keep on
applying for favors, but could I look
through your trash and see if there's
any empty cereal or cracker boxes?
I could mall the tops in with my
letters, in the contests. She" he
nodded toward his own house "she
gets upset if I buy anything special
for that puppus." "
"You can look through everything
and welcome," Anne assured him.
"Listen, Mr. KreeL" added Ra
chel, "here's an idea. You speak
to Bob Eddis, he's going to be here
all winter and if there's any spe
cial cereal or cracker you want I'm
certain he'd buy it and eat it and
give you the box."
"That is an idea, Miss Rachel!
Ho waste, no cost, no argument in
the house. Is there so'thing I could
do for you to help out this morning?
No? Well, I wish you both a safe
trip and an early return next year,
and I'll look after everything here
for you. I'll miss you sore."
They shook hands with the gentle
little man and he scurried away.
By the time Bob's car rattled up
they were both ready, the bags on
the terrace, the house locked and
the extra key for Ada hung behind
the nearest shutter.
Bob's thin face was drawn tight
and his eyes were tired, unhappy,
but Rachel said nothing about it,
nor did Anne, either to him or later
as they walked down to the station.
The stores were just opening, the
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Both Were Glad When They
Left Him.
housewives had not yet begun to
sweep their walks. The streets were
empty, cool, waiting yet content,
the early .sunshine was white gold
through which the long shadows of
morning made a frail and shifting
pattern. "It's like walking on a
stage set," said Rachel. "How peo
ple do spoil this, town!"
"But you don't want to stay here
when most of the people are gone?"
"Not a3 Mrs. Bob Eddis. Not a
chance."
"I hope you'll have a good time
with Pink this winter and I do hope
you'll find' a job you really like; not
a mere something to do in the day
time." 'Til find something," said Rachel.
The train was waiting and Bob
had piled their baggage just inside
tha door of tho one passenger car.
"I've decided to go as far as the
Junction with you," he said, and all
the way there he talked about noth
ing with defiant cheerfulness annoy
ing to P.achcl, pathetic to Anne, but
both were glad when they left him
and settled into the express train's
swift impersonal comfort. "If
there's anything I hate it's being
seen off," said Rachil crossly.
"Come on, let's dash into the diner
and get fome food."
"And let's go into the silence
while we're eating," added Anne."
Not talking at breakfast was a cus
torn Anne and Harry Vincent had -'
adopted early in their married life;
and found that it gave the day a!
good, start toward civilization. It
was at: Harry Vincent that Anne -thoughfas
she sat across from Ra-,
chel, noticing how iandsome the tall
brown girl looked in 1 her yellow ,
frock and how the other passengers
watched her with Interest and spec-.
ulation.; What would Harry have
thought of her? Anne wondered, as
she had wondered so many times
before. The clack of the wheels
made a monotonous rhythm of re
lease to Anne's memory. She could
never get done missing Harry, she
was his widow now as much as on
the day he had died. so suddenly, so
quickly she couldn't believe it "A
bad heart and he knew it," Dr.
Ayres had said. That was why all
his affairs were in such good order.
There was no muss or muddle over
his will and his property, hough he
hadn't so very much to leave. But
he had guarded Anne and Rachel
with a trust fund and since his death
it had increased and given a good
income; even during the lean years
since '29 it had not diminished, for
the trustee was a canny and fore
seeing man with a passion for fi
nance and his ability was reinforced
by a considerable but unanswered
tenderness for Anne herself. Anne
knew perfectly that two' amiable
smiles would have had Hobart Gra
ble proposing to her, so her deal
ings with him were curt and on busi
ness alone, except for an occasional
concert with him. He was not only
a good financier, but someone with
whom music could be, enjoyed.
The first year after Harry Vin
cent's death was a blank in Anne's
recollection, she knew that she must
have gone through the ordinary mo
tions of living, but all she could re
member of it was bleak desolation
and a strange anger against all
who could live on when he could
not But that had passed, she had
forced herself into normal ways.
the care of Rachel had helped,
Presently the child was the reason,
the validity of her will to live. There
was enough money for a small
apartment and a maid for the win
ters, the house in Rockboro in the
summers. Rachel had gone to a
private school and to special classes
at Columbia, but obviously she was
no scholar and to force her through
the college mill seemed a point
less task to Anne.
With Rachel at twenty Anne had
come to an impasse. The girl lived
with her too contentedly, saw too
few young people, passed on her
decisions and her plans to Anne to
make and only now and then took a
stand of her own. Anne didn't
want to depend on Rachel any more
than she wanted Rachel to depend
on her, and she was afraid that
her love for her daughter might be
tray her. Not only her love, buf
1he constant joy of Rachel's pres
snce, the pleasure of having her by
her side and in looking out for her,
these might, she felt, so easily warp
and limit Rachel, make her less of
a woman, less of a person than she
had a right to be.
Then that querulous difficult dow
ager, her Great-aunt Helena e Bes-
nard (born Helen Williams of Al
bany) had summoned Anne to her
side, not because of affection or
need, but because her sole aim of
living now was to make people do
what they didn't want to do. She
hed tried before to get Anne to
stay with her and refusal had sharp- '
eoed her demand. This new sum
mons had provided Anne with a
logical excuse to leave Ra.ihel on
her own, make her rub up against
the world, give her companions of
her 'own age.
Anne came out of the silence.
"Will you stay at the hotel with me
until I sail, or go right down to
Pink?" she asked, hoping with all
her heart for these last few days
with Rachel.
"I'd better stay with you and
watch your shopping, you'll buy
nothing but old lady clothes unless
I watch you. I want you simply to
put Madame Helene'3 eye out when
you get there. I'll phone to Pink
that I'm on my way."
(TO RE CONTINUED)
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1 938 : Soil Program
Timely Questions On
Farm Answered
Question: How can peanuts be
stacked to prevent spoilage?
Answer: The stack should be built
so that the nuts are not exposed to
the weather and finished in such a
way that water will not run down the
center. Canvas hay caps are recom
mended, for use on top of the stack.
Nail two cross Arms on the center
pole 12 inches from the top to keep
. the vines off the ground. Loose soil
in the stack will also cause' damage
to the podB and nuts and for this
v reason the ground should be fairly
- dry when the peanuts are dug. 1
Xuestion: May skim milk or but
terailk be substituted for the dried
.5 mQk recommended in the poultry
laying mash 7
' Answer: Tea. Where milk is pro-
ducted on the farm this mbstititlon
eta be made with a bis; saving in feed
cost for the average farm flock.
' when only tha dried milk is remov-
. ed from tha mash, ' one 1 gallon of
skim milk or buttermilk should be fed
daily to 100 hena. When skim milk
or buttermilk is, fed at the rate of
' three rations a , day for the , 100
birds, it may be substituted for all
' of the dried' milk products, one-half
of the fish meal, and one-half of the
meat meal recommended. - . '
V , Question: How can I control cattle
lice on my calves?
Answer: 'the following remedies
have proven effective in controlling
this insect. A four per cent solu
tion of crealin applied with a spray
pump or brush; Cotton seed oil and
kerosene, equal parts,- and ground
sabadilla seed and flowers of sul-,
phur, equal parts,' applied in powder
form. A dip or liquid remedy should
be applied in an even layer over the
entire body of the animal. - Oils,
however, should not be used on very
warm or very cold days. ; When pow
der is used the hair should be clipped
from the affected parts of the body
and the powder." applied only on the
clipped places. A second treatment
should be given within fifteen days
to kill lice which hatch after the
first treatment. -
Pick Cotton Early
And Keep It Clean
- The best ginning equipment In the
country cannot produce high quality
lint front dirty, trashy, damp eottqn,
said J. C Ferguson,' extension gin
specialist at State College.
', - To get best prices for theif'cotton,
he urged growers te pick the seed
cotton as soon as. the bolls are well
opened, and to keep the crop: as free
from trash as possible. -.
When a boll opens the fluffy cot
ton has a bright, creamy white color
the market likes. But when exposed
to sun and rain, the cotton becomes
dull fand ay,:-.which-' niakes for a
Farmprfl Rpnnirpn f n Tn- for his farm will- then be set as con-
is AOrr c i t ! J ! ditions for the full payment of that
crease xyo i ouu r mill
ing Practices fin Order
Benefit Under AAA
amount. ', .;-.);v 'X'M
In determining the soil-depleting
goal for a farm, the committeemen
will consider the acreage of crops us-
ilnll nAitiM siiWAarrA ' "'v ' ffA" AH1
The 1938 agricultural conservation I ZJZVZTZ
program is aimed directly at soili .,
conservation, with as much cash-crop
control as is possible under provi
sions of the AAA as it now stands.
Farmers complying with the pro
gram will need to carry ' out half
again as many soil-building practices
as in 1937, said E. Y. Fioyd, of State
College, in announcing the program
for next year.
But these practices will be those
any farmer interested in conserving
his soil will be glad to follow, he add
ed. ': :
A greater effort will be made to
regulate the acreage of soil-depleting
crops by providing ior heavier ae-
soil management, tillable acreage on
the farm, type of soil, topography,
production facilities, and crop rota
tions, i.." ... . ... "
The soil-building goals will be set
up according to the needs of the farm
for good - soil management through
terracing, use of fertilizer, legume
crops, and other conservation prac
tices. The committeemen and farmers
would discuss and agree upon the
practices needed. A farmer would
not be required to carry out practices
not needed on his farm.
Small farms of the subsistence type
ductions from the payments of grow-, would have goals for soil-depleting
ers who exceed their "soil-depleting
goals," Floyd stated.
If growers desire a greater degree
of production control, he continued,
it will have to be secured through
legislation in addition to the present
agricultural conservation act.
in the 1938 program, he went on,
goals will be set up for the optimum
acreages of soil-depleting crops and
soil-building crops and practices for
each farm.
Goals for depleting crops will be
the acreages which would usually be
required to supply the demand at a
price fair to both the producer and
the consumer. The national and
state goals will be subdivided into
county and individual farm goals.
Soil-building goals will include the
crops and practices needed to restore
and maintain the soil resources of the
land.
Separate goals will be prescribed
for cotto"- tobaco, peanuts, and po
tatoes if a majority of the potato
growers vote to have this crop in
cluded. There will also be goals for
general depleting crops.
Provisions for commercial vegetab
les, commercial orchards, and non
crop pasture land will be about the
same as in 1937.
The program will be administered
through state, county and communi
ty committees composed of farmers,
with supervision of an advisory na
ture given by AAA and extension
service workers.
At the beginning of the crop year,
the maximum amount of payment a
grower will be ble to earn will be"
calculated. Attainment or the soil
depleting and the soil-building goals
crops established at the farm's us
ual acreage of such crops which are
primarily needed for food and feed
on the farm.
Payments for performanace will be
divided amon.g the producers on a
farm on the same general basis that
proceeds of the crops are divided.
While this is the set-up for the
1938 program, Floyd pointed out, it
is still dependent upon appropriations
from Congress and possible future legislation.
f ENTERTAIN AT DANCE ;
': , ' 1 t.iu t, ;
Miss Lila Budd Stephens and Zack .
White entertained at a delightful
dance at the home of Mr," White's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T..S, White, on
Friday night. , , . -
The guests included Mioses Mae-
wood Pierce, Margaret Broughton,
Marjory Buck, Mary Thad Chappell,
Julia Bjoughton, Polly Tucker, Ellie .
Mae..: White, Blanche Moore.. Berry,1
Mary. Morris, Mary Field, Marie An-. .
drson, Florence Darden, Anne Tul
lis Felton, Margurite Ward,' Nancy .'
Darden, Ruth Winslow, Ruth Hollo- "
well, Katherine Leigh, Njta Newbold, .
Katherine Jessup, Mary Wood Ko
once, Prue Newby, Jean White,' Ruth ?
Nachman, Virginia White, Edla Walk-
er, of Elizabeth- City, Elizabeth
Clark, of Wilson, 'and Alice Rober
son, and Fred , Campen, , Charles ,
White, David Broughton, Walter .
Bond, Frank Brown, Charles Harrell,
Ray Jordan, Paul Tucker, Watt Win
slow, Zack Harris, Billy - Clark, of
Wilson, Bill Cox, Billy Arnold, Dur-v
wood Reed, Harrell Johnson, Clarke
Stokes, Henby Chappell, Georg
Fields and Willis Wright, of Eliza
beth City. - ' -' '
Visited Miss Raper ,
Miss Doris Crumpler, of Norfolk,
Va., was a recent guest of Miss Ma
rion Raper.
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Newly opened bolls have a brilliant
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posure to weather, Ferguson added.
' While the gin can remove some, ojf
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move it all, and when trashy cotton
goes through the gin, the lint fa
usually damaged enough to lower the
grade materially. : . v
Early picked cotton is not only
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chance of getting dirty. - ' r J,'
Cotton that is picked early in the
season should be kept separate from j
that picked later, Ferguson said,' as
it is usually of better quality.
: And if the cotton Is .damp when
picked, be ' Sure to give it time to
dry out before it is taken to the gin.
- Seed cotton should be stored loosely
in a dry place, and stirred frequent
ly to facilitate drying. -
Attended Celebratioa . . , .
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to Old Point, Vjl; on Thursday, 1
attend the, twenty-first annhrerrsry
celebration of R. T. Trent Co., O-
tributors of Fr?iiaire and ot'er
electrical nrplianoea 1 The af. . It
was held at the Chamberlln HoteL.
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We wish to thank every one who
helped us durirj t-1 sickness and at
the time of the t h of our dear
father, A. V. Jor' '
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