The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-11-21
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Thanksgiving
By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD

Janet Thorn sat in the couch ham
mock on the shaded lanai and looked
out across a purple blue sea to some
far invisible shore. Somewhere be
yond that misty horizon lay home. Not
that home meant very much to Janet
since the death of her only relative, an
aunt. But. somehow, around Thanks
giving time a stranger in a strange
land is likely to be homesick.
And this beautiful Hawaii. with al,
its glories, still had no adequate sub
stitute TO offer for the colo wintry
skies and bleak harvested landscape,
for the cranberry sauce and aroma of
roasting turkey with which the nation
al holiday is associated
Therefore Janet sighed and found
herself wishing that Jim Deming, the
good-looking young principal of the
school where she taught, were not en-
gagged to the daughter Of the Islands
wealthiest sugar planter
If he hadn't been-oh. If only he
hadn't been Then the friendliness he
had shown her since her arrival could
have meant so much more to her-the
forerunner, perhaps, of something so
much more satisfying even than friend
shipl
Janet rose and with an almost I'M
conscious gesture, stretched out her
arms toward the purple sea. "What
does life hold for one?" she murmured
wistfully.
"A trip to Hilo and the craterl"
Janet thought for an instant that
someone had spoken. then realized that
1t was merely her own thought That
little imp within which represented a
great longing as yet, unfulfilled had |
taken this moment when lonesomeness !
surged within her and time hung /
heavy on her hands to prompt her |
Why not use the emergency fund and
take the trip to Hilo? Not that ii
would take the whole of 1t. at that.
only. once the meager hoard were
broken into. II would not again easily
temptation
For Janet had decided TO lay by
Zach week out of her small salary a
little contribution toward an amount
'ver arise. To draw on what little
he had already accumulated would
e to put the goal still farther away.
Yet the psychological combination of
he moment proved Janet's undolng.
I'm going 10 Hilo I'm going to Hiloi"
he sang the words. pirouetted madly
n one foot. and turned indoors TO get
eady
II that same little wicked demon
ithin her whispered that she knew
ne was going to Hilo because Jim
emlng had told her she ought to. y
ne pretended not TO hear. What in c
lence ought he. engaged as he was
the naughty Gloria Tremans TO j
ave on her life? Janet fe;' sorry for a
nee the day when Gloria had called S
r him mt the school. had found him
ling her about the wonders OF XII K
lea. and had peremptorily summoned N
m to her side with the most frigid RI
glances at Janet. Jim engaged TO
at iceberg
Two days later. seated iuxur:ously
the party dulpnHOplit WHICH runs
the crater Of Kilauea for the bene-
of tourists. Janet wondered why she
IS not happier Here she was. tenn
rarily seated in the lap OF luxury.
ed though II was. about TO gaze on
? OF the worlds greatest sights, the
billing, restless lake Of molten lava is
Itch is the crater of Kilauea. II Gu
st be because she was. in spite OF If,
, score or so OF effervescent. gush- in
tourists. in reality alone She had su
one with whom 10 share the wonder. lib
Then. as she stood on the very brink
the vast lava sea, she saw him---the ac
n who had been so persistently In tn,
thoughts. He was alone. and had gu
hdrawn apparently from a second sci
up of tourists whose automobile an
], no doubt, preceded hers. He ne
cd with arms folded, gazing down KIN
the colorful depths below, ma