HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-12-17, Page 2THURSDAY, DECEMBER. 17, 1033 THE EXETER TIMESrADVQCATE
The last thing Keith wanted -was might have come in during the ev-
to go ’back to Now York; but, flaun- ening. There was a wire from Don-
I
dering around, he could think of no don,
valid argument. After all, Laird
wasn't well. He had no valid ex-
cuse, unless he told her about Iris.
He was helpless. When Keith was
met 'With an impossible situation
he could accept defeat gracefully.
”0. K..” Keith saw a perfect way
to get on that projected round-the-
world trip. “We’ll go! If you’ll
promise to go with me to the Ori
ent. I‘ve always, wanted to go
there—”
Linda jumped up, came over and
kissed Keith. "Thank you!” There
were tears in her eyes.
“You’re really worried about your
father, Linda?” Keith demanded.
“A little. His letters do not
sound like him, Keith. I can’t ex
plain it. But I am worried—”
So that settled it, Linda thought.
But the days drifted on and Keith
put off making a decision on their
sailing date. Linda knew Keith
hesitated about going back to New
York, and her heart sang. She was
sure the reason was Iris. This
should be proof of how he felt!
Not until early in December did
Keith finally decide they must leave
“We’ll sail from Genoa! No use
getting into Winter until we have
to!” he remarked. “But I should
get up to London for some clothes.”
They were at luncheon when Keith
made his announcement.
“But London’s so awful at this
time of the year,” Mimi protested.
“I know, but there are some,
things I should have fitted!” Keith
looked at the Count. It was a signal.
“Why don’t you fly up and leave
Linda here? You can make it in a j
couple of days, if you want to. In
fact, maybe I’ll go along with you.”
“But I’ve the Morengintons com
ing this week!” Mimi protested.
“Well, you invited them; I didn’t
Why don’t you and Linda look after
them for tihe week-end. We'll be
Lack in three or
Count proposed.
“If Linda will
all right.”
Linda promised,
Keith and the Count started North.
New Friends
The two girls hurried back to the
villa, for the Morgenintons were ar-
riving before noon. Mimi sent her
car to Nice to meet.toem, and when M they drove up to the villa Linda ex-
\ pected to .see two elderly people.
Al^ they were, but with them was
a handsome young chap, their old
est son. “Ray met us in Paris and
we brought him along.” Mrs. Mor
geninton .said with pride as she pre
sented her boy. “He’s in the Unit
ed States Army now, a flier, you
know. He’s vacationing for six
weeks.”
. Ray was in addition to the house
hold, and he, Mimi and Linda went
out to explore Monte Carlo that
night for >the Morgenintons wanted
to rest after their trip.
At the Casino they ran into one
of Ray’s buddies from West Point.
And the .sun was coming up out of
the Mediterranean wlhen they got
home. However, Linda and Ray got
along'famously. Don. Clark, Ray’s
friend, was an amusing fellow and
when Mimi was busy the two young
men and Linda dashed about the
countryside in Mimi’s sport iroad-
ster. It was more like old times,
more like the days at Laird Hall,
and Linda realized how homesick
she was for her own country.
Don had arrived at Nice in- Tom
Irvin’s airplane. “I borrowed it in
London. He’s a swell
know him, Ray?”
•They were sitting at
the Casino, looking out
ocean. A band played in the dis
tance as the warm night breeze lift
ed Linda’s honey-colored hair from
her forehead.
“Well, I’m off for Paris tomorrow
morning. Gome along you two. I’ll
bring you back. But I’ve got to get
a friend of Tom’s into Paris tomor
row. He wired me about it last
night. Since I’ve got his ship, it’s
the least I can do!”
“What do yoyi .say, Linda? There
is room. Come on along!”
Linda laughed at the idea.
There was a lot more casual talk
but Linda did not take it seriously.
It was daylight again when they got
in and Linda was very tired, but in
the gray down .she looked about for
any message from Keith which
‘Held up by my tailor. Back in
a few days. Love.”
Linda sighed. She did miss Keith
terribly. That night she could not
sleep and finally gave it up as a bad
job, got up and slipped into iher
bathing suit and went for a lonely
pwim on the early moving beach,
i She had a queer feeling of forebod-
j ing.
Later they all had breakfast at
11 when Don drove up to the villa.
“Are you ready?" he called as he
came clattering
race where they
“Ready? For
Raj- demanded.
“Aren’t you going to Paris with
me today?” he demanded. “It
all settled last night.”
There was a lot of argument.
Morengineton protested, but in
sistence won out.
“Get into your clothes. No,
won’t be back until tomorrow,
c rernight
He lives only a little way up this
street.”
Later they walked into a dingy
courtyard and up 'winding stairs to
M. Roget’s studio. M. Roget him
self admitted them when Karl
knocked.
"I bling a young lady to play for
you”
Linda stood there petrified.
Looking tip into the face of the
bristling-haired cld giant who glow
ered at her, her voice died in her
throat.
“So? You can play?”
“Oh, no!”
Karl and Roget exchanged glances
“You Americans,” remarked Roget
in amusement. “Now, take off your
coat and your hat. There is the
piano.”
Linda Plays
In a daze Linda found
seated before an excellent
ment. Roget had sank down in a deep
chair by the tiny fireplace. Karl sat
upright, leaning forward, eagqrly, i
near the piano,
stick by me: it’s
and the next day
guy. You
din n er at
over the
out on to the ter-
were eating.
wliat, a drink?”
was
Mrs
the
we
I’m
Paris
Don’s red
its way to
afraid. Just pack an
bag, Linda.”
Linda Goes Back to
So shortly after noon
monoplane was winging
Paris.
It was late afternoon before they
got into Le Bourget. Linda had been
out a plan. She did not
with Ray’s and
And she welcom-
a little quiet en-
the Paris she
i
be-
she
ad-
ad
thinking
want to interfere
Don’s good times,
ed the chance of
joyment in Paris,
liked. Rounds went directly to the
Gare St. Lazaie for his boat train.
The three of them dropped him off
with just enough time to make con
nections.
“Now what?” Ray asked.
•‘I've got a lot of friends in town
I didn’t see when I -was here before, ’
Linda lied neatly. “I think I’ll stop
at some quiet hotel. Besides, there
is some shopping I want to do
fore we sail for home.”
Linda sent a wire to Mimi so
would not worry and gave her
dress. To Linda it was a great
venture.
It was getting dusk now and a cold
misty rain was falling. Linda was
glad she had brought her topcoat.
Out into the Tuileries she went. In
spite of the misty air, there were
many people/walking about, sitting
on the benches. Linda liked to
watch the lights go dim over the
Seine, see the spires of the city, the
great facade of the old palace, soft
ened in the evening rain.
She walked about, .her heart
buoyant. She marched up and down
the gravel path, her hands thrust
deep into tlhe pockets of her tweed
topcoat,
stopped
up nvith
Linda
Finally he was
“Madam, I beg your pardon”
hat was in his hand. There in
■fading light Linda saw it
young violinist from the
■was Karl!
A man walked toward her
and turned, tried to catch
her.
sighed. How like Paris!
at her elbow:
his
tlhe
the
It
CHAPTER X
was
boat.
delight“Karl!” Linda in- her
held out both of her hands.
“Miss Linda. I was not sure it
was you, not until ,1 see the way you
pace up and down. Then I know!”
Karl turned, walked 'with her for
a while. Then they sat down to
gether on the bench and watched the
light come out along the boulevard,
over in the Place de la ■Concord. It
began to rain harder.
But come, we cannot stay here.
Let us get some coffee!”
So shortly Linda found herself
sitting out in front of a dingy lipt-le
sidewalk cafe over across the Seine.
“Now- tell me everything, what
you’ve been doing, Ih-ow your work
is going”
“Nothing, playing a little, nothing
worth while, I’m lazy,
Linda Meets M.
Later they walked
boulevard. Together they dined in
a queer little restaurant with other
peopla in shabby, careless clotJhes.
“I thought I’d never see you
again, kgrl. Fancy meeting you,
out of all Paris on a night like this!”
Karl smiled. “I always walk in
the gardens before dinner. It is good
for my head. It clears out the cob
webs. But I know that I see again.’
It was 9 o’clock. “Come, we
must go. You must meet M. Roget.
Karl!”
Roget
on up the
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nawing before meals;
fl^leney between meals;
g of food, all those
Th
the
the belching
the rising and o ______________
and more fall to the lot of those suffering
from stomach trouble.
Burdock Blood Bitters tones up the
membrane lining of the stomach, and re
stores the natural process of digestion.
Take B.B.B. and get rid of your stomach
trouble.
■ others she had bought at an exclu
sive shop. That was the first thing*
' She started to write a long letter to
! Keith and gave it up. It was no
, use trying to make him understand.
She would have to act first, with
out explanation. And then battle
for her freedom. And she expected
no trouble from Keith.
She found it impossible to stay
here in her room, writing, although
( it >was cloudy and cold. She had
■ got into her street clothes.
Ray knocked at the door as she
was ready to leave.
“I’m just getting in,” he told her.
“Isn’t this wonderful weather? Don
says we are here for another two
days. Hooray!” Then he went clat
tering on up the hall to sleep the
clock around.
Iris Shows Up
Linda walked up the Avenue de
La Paix to the gown shop with her
' heart singing. She had no appoint-
J ment but Mme. Gerard knew Linda
■ jand welcomed .her, Her face was not A moment of sii-1SQ bright after the cancelaltion of
some of the frocks Linda had order
ed.
herself
instru-
I
ence. j
“Play!” ordered Roget. There -was'
no equivocation in that voice. Lin
da’s head bent over the keyboard
far a few seconds.
At last she began to play, a less
known concerto of Beethoven’s. Why
she chose it she did not know. The
one table light cast giant shadows
in t'h’e barn-like room. The flicker
ing fire played -over Linda’s face.
Kail, watching, saw no longer a
pretty young girl, but a stern., pur
poseful >woman. She played-—.not
for >M. Roget or Karl, but for her
self. When the concerto was final
ly finished, Roget poured himself
another drink and motioned silent
ly.
Linda played on. For an hour she
played as she had never played be-
force. The river of sound welled up
in the room to the dark rafters. And
Louis Roget listened. At the end of
an hour Linda sopped suddenly ex
hausted.
“Do ‘Bolero”—d want him to hear
it on a piano—it is amazing what
she can do with it-—” Karl inter
posed.
Linda obeyed mechanically, seem
ed hardly to recognize Karl as a per
son. The stamping, haunting music
filled tihe studio with whirling crim
sons and golds and blacks.
When the last notes died out,
Linda rose abruptly and came over
to the fire, stretched out her hands
Karl gave her a glass of wine and
she accepted it gratefully.
“So, you play, do you?”
.Linda laughed a'little at Roget’s
tone. She nodded her head. She
liked this man. He reminded her
in some vague way of .her father.
They wbre both' old tyrants, of
course! Roget heaved himself up
into an upright position. “What do
you want to do with your life?”
Her Decision
His eyes burned into hers, his
bushy gray hair stood out and ihe
ran his fingers through it impa
tiently.
“To play,” Linda answered al
most mechanically.
“You mean that?”
| “We must fit the black,” Mme
Gerard said. Linda hardly noticed
the gown as the little Frenchwoman
on her knees pinned and cut.
When Linda was dressing again
she heard a voice in the next booth
It was a pretty voice and oddly fa
miliar: “ILucette, see it Mr. Win
throp’s car is downstairs.”
Linda, standing before the mirror
saw the reflection of her white,
strained face, as though it was a
straner’s. Iris. That voice yas Iris?
A fury swept Linda. Then sihe sat
down suddenly there in the little
fitting room. .So that was why Keith
had wanted to get away from the
Riviera. Iris was here in Paris with
him! He hadn’t gone to London, of
course. Linda managed to get in
to .her frock and tidy her hair. She
must wait .until Iris was gone. Not
for worlds would Linda have them
know she was here. She sat there
for a long time, waiting.
(To be continued)
Origin of
Christmas Carols
By Lily Mullett
The holly and the ivy
Now both are full well grown
Of all the trees that spring in the
wood
The holly wears the crown.
Joseph was an old man,
An old man was he,
He married sWdet -Mary
The Queen of Galilee.
Christmas carols—Yuletide music
Properly speaking, these terms are
not quite synonymous, though they
have become widely so regarded.
Christmas, the Christian festival.
Yuletide, the pagan feast—ione has
been merged into the other until the
associations of the older occasion
have well nigh been forgotten.
But in tlhe old-time carols which
“Yes.”
“You are willing to give up any
thing for it?”
‘Yes.” Linda did not hesitate. She
had so little to give up. Here in this
shabby sihudio her life seemed so in
consequential and stupid. Even
Keith!
“What are you after—fame?”
“I don’t think so—” Linda was
trying desperately to be honest. You
had to be honest with Roget.
“Then what?”
“Life, I think'—”
He nodded.
Karl’s dark eyes were alive now.
He knew Roget was interested in
this girl. There was some quality
about (her which one felt instinc
tively.
“You will study with me?” There
was a suppressed excitement in the
man’s voice.
'“Yes.” Linda made the solemn
promise.
“You will work—” Roget stretch
ed his massive arms wide'—(‘work as
you never worked before?”
‘Yes.”
“Good!” He gave a high sigh.
“But I want no misunderstanding.
“What is your name? Linda. Well,
Linda, we have work ahead of us.”
Roget talked on music and Linda
listened with iher heart in her eyes.
Suddenly she 'knew this was what
she wanted out of life.
‘‘And I’m going to take it!” was
her decision then. She knew with
certainty that she would not go
home now. She would stay here
with iM. Roget.
Later Karl and JLinda walked
back to her hotel just across the
Rue de Rivoli.
In her hotel room Linda lay
awake a long time. Her excitement
was so acute her teeth chattered and
she felt ill and faint. For she knew
she was at the parting of the ways.
Linda felt sure her father would
understand. She banked on him. If
she could only make him proud of
her some day.
When morning came the sky «was
stil overcast and the fog hung low
over Paris. But tO' Linda it was a
bright new day. She jumped out of
bed, counting off her fingers the
things she must do. There was a
gown which must be fitted, And she
would countermand the orders for
have been handed down, by tradition
for the most part, the difference can,
be clearly discerned.
The pagan celebration was in
truth a time of feasting, of merry
making. Then were the holly and
ivy exUlled and the mistletoe—still
more sacred, whose cutting by the
Druids was the time of especial
feasting, of dancing, of singing and
general merrymaking.
The Yule of Northern and West
ern Europe was the time of “noise
and glamour” (the word’s actual
signification)—the months of Jan
uary and February, when the turn
ing of the year was celebrated,
Carol Ref ore Cludstianity
The carol existed before the in
fluence of Christianity was felt. Its
original meaning was that of a ring
dance which belonged to all seasons
of rejoicing. These dances were.
usually accompanied by singing,
which was therefore of the simple
ballad form. Eventually the time
came to be applied to the song, and
later was limited to the Christmas
song, although there are Welsh
summer and Easter carols still ex-
istant.
Later at the coming of Christian
ity, the carols came to be applied to
the circumstances of the Nativity,
first of all in the Mystery and Pas
sion plays, and later were accepted
as special religious songs of Christ
mas time.
But the pagan influence remained
because of tradition, and just as we
still decorate our houses with iholly,
and ivy, when we can get it, and
kiss under the mistletoe, real or
artificial, so we still incorporate in
our Christmas carols the spirit of
wassail of old time. Habit as hand
ed down by tradition dies hard, par
ticularly when it is popular, and
Christmas will be a time of feasting
above all for the many, although
t'here is no precedent in the early
Christian time.
Inseparable From Christmas
However this may be, the carol
has come to be regarded as insepar
able from Christmas. The oldest
written form is to be found in the
British Museum, a carol dating
from the early 13th century, but tra
ditional ones date from still further
back.
The custom of singing these out
side the homes of the most promin
ent .persons of the villages and towns
of the old country dates fiom early
middle ages.
In the reign of Henry VII and
Henry VIII, it was part of the duty
of the choir of the chapel royal to
sing carols before the king at tlhe
Christmas time, and as a result of
this, Byrd, the famous English com
poser, wrote much Christmas music
which was called “carols.” but
which was of intricate contrapuntal
form, and not of the simple folk
music which characterizes carols for
the most part.
Bach also wrote a Christmas ora
torio consisting of six cantatas, one
foi* each of the holy days of iChrist-
mastide, but there are not really
carols in the generally understood
sense, and have not been used in
that way, because they cannot be
sung by the people.
The children of Western England
at Christmas time still sing from
door to door.
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