Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-01-04
CHAPTER Iv-Continued

"And everybody who buys one, will
tell four more"
"And 1t all started from one One.
single, solitary, little one"
The girls talked on and on. But
Ginger drew herself away from them
lat enwrapped in impenetrable Thought
She remembered the old chain let.
ters. They had come with some fire.
luency a few years ago, prayers for
almost everything, for the sick for
foreign MISSIONS for prohibition. for
fundamentalism, for the second com.
Ing of the Lord. for the release of
anarchistic prisoners condemned to
Reath-
"And everybody sends It on to so
many more, and every one of them
sends 1t to SO many more. and they
send it"
Ginger got up suddenly and went
put of the room. She walked dizzily.
She went upstairs, got the short lad
der from the linen closet, and bal
anced 1t against the wall under the
trapdoor. She noticed that her hands
trembled. But she climbed carefully
the ladder was old-pushed up the
trapdoor, and pulled herself through
the opening. From force of habit, for
,he was not then thinking OF trap
doors, she locked 1t behind her, and
made her way carefully over the
beams to her sanctuary under the
dormer window. There she sat down
heavily, to think. She thought, and
thought, and thought. until aer bright
eyes were so wide, so bright, 80 blue,
that of sudden they seemed to hurt
her, and she shut them hard Her two
small hands were gripped so tightly.
with fingers fnterlaced so closely, that
suddenly she knew they were throb
bling with pain, half paralyzed, so that
she had to work them apart. slowly,
a finger at time. But she did not
stop thinking.
"Chain letter-on and on-all over
the world-thousands and thousands
and nobody dares to stop because no
body would dare to break the chain
for the blind-a home for the blind
ID and on and on"
SUDDENLY Ginger burst into low
nervous laughter, and laughed and
cried and twisted her little hands. and
rocked back and forth on the stool
IN an ecstasy.
"Oh, oh, how heavenly, how perfect
~ heavenly l never could have
thought of such brilliant thing. Oh,
as father says, l see the hand Of the
Lord in this !"
She pulled the stool to the low table
which she used as a desk, and seated
herself with a professional briskness
indicative of the oneness OF purpose
which prompted her. Selecting three
pencils from large number in the
drawer. she sharpened them briskly
Then she drew her pad of paper
toward her. and opened 1t.
Then she studied 1ntently, chewing
her pencil. She wrote hasty line,
and quickly scratched 1t out. Again
she wrote, again she frowningly dis.
carded It. Several times she re.
peated this painful process, hut at
last, as so often happens. persistent
effort brought inspiration, and she
wrote fuently. without q pause for
thought.
"Our parsonage home for the blind
Is sadly In need Of funds to carry on
its noble work. Will You not con.
tribute Ten Gents to this very worthy
cause7 And complete the chain of
good vibrations by sending copies of
this letter TO three OF your friends In
whom you have confidencei In this
way, this valuable institution will en-
large its circle Of friends and will be
enabled to continue its care Of the I'm.
fortunate and needy blind.
1--WE depend Oh you
"Do not break the chain.
~E. Tolhver, treasurer,
"Red Thrush. Iowa"
Ginger was greatly pleased with the
formal tone Of this letter She knew
very well that II she received such an
appeal. she would contribute gladly
Il she had the money. She read II