The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-23
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~,..lthx Philip Canficld, knows
hat the neighborhood Is buzzins
with gossip over the sudden ais
snps.ranee of Frank ksndriek,
whose engagement to Marcia mas
he.n announced. Since his dis.
snpe.r.nee, . shortage in Ken.
driek'. funds has been discovered.
With her friend, Helen Wad.
dell, and others, Marcia 10 in .
restaurant when there 10 q hold
up. Marcia loses a ring that was
her mothers. ---
Learning that Frank is in Chi
| eaxo, Marcia goes there TO try to
persuade him to return and face
his financial obligation. Before
she reaches him, Frank leaves
again.
poets his brother, Carlo, Of being
involved in the holdup and finds
some Of the loot in Carlos home
4. Marcia, learning her trip was in
vain. takes q plane home. Storm
forces the plane down and pas.
sengers seek shelter in = farm.
house. Among them 10 Bruce Me-
Dousalli, a stranger whom Mar
cha has, encountered twice before
News Of Mareia's trip to Chi.
eago causes more gossip in the
town in which she lives, Marei'
arrive, home. -
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
80 CHAPTER Xl
Dorothy Osborn looked at her
parents across the breakfast table
with an habitual bitterness, not
unmixed with contempt. 1t was a
feeling which she was not at par
ticular pains to conceal, but they,
| never expecting it, never had had
the unhappy experience OF real
izing it.
This morning Dorothy brooded
over her most consistent com
I plant, the financial status of the
Osborns. If only they lived in the
city! There one could conceal
ones poverty, one could walk with
chin up, for there one walked SO
much among strangers. But in
the. narrow, intimate limits OF
Bobbs- Neck everyone else knew
or accurately guessed, the state OF
ones pocketbook.
For as long as she could remem.
Der, she had been conscious of the
lack Of money. She had hated
her clothes, from kindergarten to
high school graduation, never no.
tic;ng the attire. Of girls less for
tunate, .keenly aware of the dress
ed of girls more fortunate. Girls
who had everything. Girls IKE
Marcia Garfield and Helen Wad
dell. go, ~ q.
Well. there was one satisfac-
toni Marcia had had all thead-
vantages Of money, but did she
like hel' status as a Tilted woman
Tilted by an embezzler, at that?
There had been great deal of
enjoyment in considering this over
the weeks. It's full flavor was a
secret Joy, and there was also a
secret and bitter ingredient; but
it was joy, nevertheless. That
secret Ingredient would always be
her secret Dorothy promised her.
self.
Rehearsals for "Half-Acre in
Eden" were now taking place ev-
cry second night, until Christmas,
when there would be q weeks re-
cess. There was a rehearsal to-
night, and Dorothy made 1t a point
to be early at the village audito-
rum. She made it q point also to
be exceptionally agreeable to each
arrival as she waited in the audi.
forum, so that, as the hour Of re.
hearsal arrived, she had collected
considerable group of the other
players. It was not difficult to
steer the conversation around to
Marcia Garfield and her journey.
Now someone said: "Well, still
feel sorrier for Marcia than for
anybody else in the whole affair.""
Dorothy had been waiting for
the remark.
"Oh, so do ~ she said. "And |
feel especially sorry for her when
I think how. she actually chased
across the country after the man
who Tilted her.. 80
AS If timed to the instant, Mar
cia and Helen Waddell entered the
auditorium. The subject Of the
groups discussion was painfully
apparent from. the quick silence,
and the greetings extended to
Marcia came from a nest of en-
barrassment. l...t.
The first act got under way.
There was scene between Mar
cha, as Julia, and Dorothy, as En-
ma, Julia's acid sister. Julia, who
had been unlucky in love, tried to
explain to Emma why she intend.
ed to seize .the chance of a job in
another city--l4t home there were
only unpleasant memories and as
sociations. Emma deyided her.
you'll soon learn you can't 60
running away from tfouble," re.
cited Dorothy, giving on excellent
ma.
"And perhaps some day you'll
learn that other peoples troubles
are real to them, ,Yhethcr you
happen to possess any human SYM
PATTY or not" replied Marcia, in
the role Of Julia. :,
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There was no pause here in the