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Zurich Herald, 1940-02-29, Page 7e Yineat You Can 'Buy REEN TEA 'J"PJ3.3d 1'J WOOR i t �S�esic u l acl{„ 0 I936 NEP aernce. inc. SYNOPSIS RUTH WOODSON, 19 years old, an orphan, leaves Brooklyn by bus ;for the mid -west to look for a job. Unable to pay her fare she is put off the bus in the little town of Worthy/Ile, just as a storm is breaking, Ruth seeks shelter in an old stone house with a blue door and faints from hunger just as PENNY, the old housekeeper, .opens the door. Ruth is carried upstairs by the old woman, assisted by JOHN Mc- NEILL, from next door. The old woman mistakes Ruth for ELAINE CHALMERS, whose grandfather built the house. Ruth lots her con- tinue to think this. She is asham- ed of her deception and resolves to slip away, but decides to stay longer when Penny tells her the next day is her 75th birthday and pleads with Ruth to make A'a long visit." Elaine Chalmers, meanwhile, at Graycastle College, vows in a so- rority meeting to win the love of her first sweetheart, John Mc- Neill. She writes him a letter, tell- ing him she plans a visit to Worth- ville, but fails to mail the letter. When Penny turns over to Ruth a box of lovely clothes, sent by the Chalmers family for a rum- mage sale, the girl resolves to wear them, `letting charity fall where it will." She has promised John to go for a ride with him that even- ing. your mother and Uncle Duncan--- scmethin' awful, but he never spoiled himself. He let 'em .go east to school and do as they pleased. - But he always said the state -of Ohio was good enough for him. Folks around here still talk about Si Hunter. If they knew you was in town, .his only grandchild, they'd likely write a piece about you in the paper." "Penny," exclaimed Ruta in real panic, "if anything like that happens I'll. leave town!I—I hate publicity!" She made Penny take a solemn oath that she would tell no one of her presence. "1 woudn't anyway," Penny ex- plained. "I keep to myself. People pry. There's lots' of things' I'd die before I'd tell 'em!" She peered around her defiantly, as if holding the whole town. at bay. "Yes, Penny," said-IFutli sooth- ingly, and patted her arni. "Would you mind if I'd go for a ride with John McNeill before supper? He asked me this morning. CHAPTER XII Ruth spent the day entertaining Penny. That is to say, she listen- ed to Penny and she talked to Pen- ny. She was well rewarded. There was the knowledge that she had made the lonely, half -blind old woman happy, and there was the useful information she gleaned in regard to Elaine's family; Elaine's father, she learned from Penny's rambling tales, was an admirable young gran who was -killed in the World War. (Ruth thought, "At least Elaine Chal- mers and I have that in common --our brave fathers whom we can't remember.") Elaine's moth- er, "Miss Gwen," eventually mar- ried a second time. The man was. :an old suitor, Higate Deal, 6f Wall Street fame. -In speaking of Deal, Penny hinted dark things. "He's ruinin' your grandpa's railroad. Now tint he's got hold of it they don't pay the stockholders around here like they used to. I hear reports—" She stopped, as if afraid she had said too much. Ruth, in turn, invented inter- esting accounts of Elaine's life in the east. "I was at a wonderful house party last summer, Pen- ny—" and she told glamorous de- tails without a twinge of con- science. She knew that she was feeding Penny's starved imagina- tion and making her temporarily happy. What else was there to of- fer for birthday diversion? "I won a swimming event at Newport, Penny!" "At Saranac ono time I was skiing and took an awful tumble. The young man who picked me, up afterward pro- posed to me, but mother and Mn. Deal didn't approve, so notliing came of it." "Maybe he didn't have enough money," remarked Penny with a faint snort. Any mention of Hi - gate Deal seemed to throw her into a suppressed rage. %r "I Hate Publicity" Ruth led her to talk of "Grand- father Hunter," the old railroad king. "There was a man for you!" Penny declared. "Six -foot -two. White hair piled on his head like a corn shock. A nose like ail eag- le's beak. He spoiled his children -- "t' oa look lovely today. Mind my telling you?" "Mind? I like it, But we'll have to give credit to zny clothes, I've Always, liked this suit. It's more ' flattering than the little rag I ar- rived in," "When I first saw you," John remarked, "you were the limpeab little piece of wreckage 1 ever laid eyes on. It was a first-class faint, if I ever saw one." "What a way to enter your life after an eight-year absence i" Muth mourned. "At my very worst." "At your very Most impres- sive," he disagreed. "I've met sev- eral hundred perfectly turned out girls in my day, and promptly for- got 'em. I never before picked UP one that looked like a wet dish- rag fallen off the line, and, five minutes later, saw her turn into a .thing of beauty right'under my nose." - "Did you realize who I was?" Ruth asked curiously. He said, "Until Penny 'started calling you `Miss Elaine' it never entered my head that you were anything but a little nobody try- ing to find a dry spot." "Oh—" said Ruth. "These ehns are gorgeous. Like—like New Eng- land, aren't they?" tl the Western Reserve?" John asked. .: "Your ancestors and aline who • helped settle it came from those states. Got their land grants for A Drive With John Penny relaxed. "Do go, Miss. Elaine. It'll do you gcod. Only be sure to put on that wariner suit. It's turned, chilly with the rain." Ruth and John McNeill were both 10 minutes early for their appointment. Ruth answered the door when he rang and said, "I Meant to keep you waiting. This childish eagerness of mine is ging to ruin you." "I'm easily spoiled," John re- plied as he helped her into the low -swung roadster which was parked before the porch. "For instance, that kiss prece- dent. Couldn't we do it= -once, say, every time we meet?". 'Why should we?" Ruth asked in a cool, aloof voice. , "Why?" repeated Jolrn McNeill slowly, starting his car and pon- dering the question. "I was hop- ing you'd just want to, 1llaine. The way -I do. My.nnsitake—" He swung the car out of the circling driveway onto the street, and immediately assureed a more impersonal attitude. "You said the country, I believe. Well, we're on the edge of town now. You're about to see something very choice in rustic scenery." Ruth said, "I suppose you'll tell me this is the garden spot of the world—finest soil, finest crops, finest climate, finest everything." (Her heart was saying, "Little fcol, you chilled hien by your prig- gishness! Why shouldn't you kiss when you meet? Aren't you sup- posed to be lifelong friends?") •- "I could tell you plenty about this town," replied John. "Only I'm afraid it alight sound pre- sumptuous to an easterner." "We New Yorkers do feel su- perior," Ruth agreed. (She was thinking, "Dear Lord in heaven, what have I to feel superior about? I, a tramp. A nobody. A piece of driftwood!") "Have you forgottens Hips Slim in New Paris Fashions xr s: a: "Your Most Impressive" He slowed the car to point out a rambling brick house with an avenue of trees leading to it. He said, "You recall that place, of course. The, Phillipses still live there. Lucy's at Vassar now. I guess you see her sometimes in New York?" "It's funny," Ruth answered, "1 .never do. Has she changed much?" "Not as much- as you have," John McNeill said. Ho offered her a cigaret which she took, hoping she was not too awkward at catching the light he offered her. Elaine, she felt, would smoke under the circum- stances. 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"I'd forgotten," Ruth replied. 5 5 * She Dodges People The car sped through the rain like a smooth, purring animal that delighted to transport them. Dark- ness had fallen and the headlights outlined a road that was level and faintly curving. Ruth thought, "Heaven must be like this, I'd like to crystalize this hour and keee it always, shining like the head- lights and the rain on the wet leaves. Only I can't. I think 1. want us to hit a tree and crack up and end it all before I stop being Elaine to him. Before he finds me out for. a cheat and a liar—" Fut they didn't crack up. Jchn wac all .excellent driver, and pres- ently he turned the car around and drove home. As they turned into the' driveway lie said, "I guess old Bertha's going to ask a few dozen questions about this ride." "Who??" asked Ruth blankly. "Bertha Gibbs," he said. "Pen- ny." "Ohl" laughed Ruth. "Imagine me not recognizing her name!" "She's a funny old creature," John remarked, not noticing, "Sometimes I think she's gone a lithe potty. In the last few years she's taken to dodging everybody. Even my mother." "People often seen queer as they get old," Ruth offered. "It's usually just because their facul- ties aren't keen and they don't keep up with the times. What- ever makes people thunk Penft?`s- crazy?" She Paints the Door "Well," answered .john, "she's got the dam'dest habit of painting the front door a- bright blue! She does i'• at night --every few weeka. tinier and. summer. She lets the ISSUE NO. 9 --'40 1) Trained Youths Find Positions 99 Per Cent, of ?,395 Boys And .Girls Enrolled In Ont- ario Youth Training Courses April 1 to December 1, 1939, Are Now in Jobs Ikon, .Norman- Hipel, Ontario Labor Minister, has announced that 99 per cent of 2,395 of the boys and girls enrolled in Ontario in the Dominion -Provincial Youth Training Sehezne from April 1 to Dec. 31, 1939, have been either placed in employment or hate polis tions to take when their course; are finisiwd. SOME AVIATION MECHANICS Included in those .placed are, some 200 boys who have enrolled in the Galt Air School where the province is contributing 50 per cent of the cost of training stu- dents as avaition mechanics. The students will graduate into the Royal Canadian Air Force on Ap- ril 1. The Minister said his•Depart- ment is beginning now to select a new class for aviation training and is studying possibility of in- creasing the enrollment of the Gait school. Selection of students is made by a committee represent. ing the 'Departments of Education and Labor. Applicants for machir.e shop and welding courses must file with their ' applications an assurance that they have been promised e job on graduation, he said. rest of the place go hang, but she never passes up that door. I ask you, honey, is that crazy or not?" "It's crazy," Ruth agreed: "But I'm not afraid of her, John. Other ways she's normal. She's 75 years did today, by the way." "Too old to be a menace, I guess," John said. "Still I worry about you being shut up in that old barn with her. You might as well be alone." They had reached the house and he was helping her across shimmering little pools of water to the steps of the dark porch. Ruth said softly, "Please keep en worrying about ane. I don't need it but I like it!" After she had gone inside, John McNeill stood for a time before the' dark, still house, wondering why he felt as if the heart and breath of him was locked up in- • side it, (To Be Continued) WINTER Itow large that thrush looks en the bare thorn -tree! A swarrn of such three little months ago, I3as hidden in the leaves and let none know Save by the outburst of their min- strelsy, A white flake here and there ---a snow -lily Of last night's frost --our naked flower -beds hold; And :for a rose -flower on the dark- ening mould The hungry redbreast gleams. No bloom, no bee, ht current shudders to its ice - . Bound edge; Nipped in their bath, the stark reeds one by otic Flash each its clinging diaznoud in the snrn ; - 'N"oath winds which for this Win- ter's sovereign pledge Shall curb great king -masts to the Ocean's edge And leave memorial forest -kings o'erthrown. -•-1), $4. Rossetti. 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