The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-21
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Marcia Garfield. daughter OF
wealthy Philip Garfield, knows
that the neiEhborhood is buxzins
with gossip over the sudden dis
appearance Of Frank kendriek,
whose engagement to Marcia has
been announced. Since his disap-
pearanee, a shortage in kendrick's
funds has been discovered.
Refusing to let others know
how deeply she has been hurt,
Marcia goes to the dramatic club
try.outs and is given the leading
Part in n new play. Afterward.
with others, she stops at a res
tsurant. There is a holduP and
Marcia loses a ring that was her
mothers
From her friend, Helen Wad-
dell, Marcia learns that Frank Is
in Chicago, decides to go there to
persuade him to return and face
his financial obligations. She
takes the first plane.
In Chicago, Marcia telephones
Helen. cousin, John Waddell, and
arransss to. meet him next morn
ing. In the hotel restaurant n
strange roffers a slight service.
Later she hears him addressed as
Bruce MeDougall." He gives
Marcia a pencil sketch OF herself.
Frank kendriek. aware of the
seareh for him, again disappears.
Marcia learns her trip has been IN
vain.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER y
When the storm refugees awaS-
sned in the farmhouse on the sec
ond morning following the UNI
scheduled landing of their plane,
they found that government and
public utility had combined TO
bring them back in contact with
their world. Snow plows had at
last opened the highway passing
the farm; telephone trouble shoot
ers had repaired the wires. 1t was
possible 70 send word to anxious
relatives, possible TO go by car to
the nearest town and so continue
10 New York BY train.
Marcia dispatched two tele-
grams by way of the telephone,
one TO her fathers office in New
York. to be relayed TO him IN
Florida: and one TO Helen Wad-
dell, with a request that the news
of her safety be given to the Can
field servants and to her friends.
and with the additional informa-
ton of Helen alone that she had
not succeeded in her efforts to find
Frank Kendrick.
Automobiles then were ordered
from the town and the recent ref
ugees departed, leaving the air
plane crew with their damaged
craft to await orders.
Marcia found herself riding with
three women, who matched the
mood Of the gray and threatening
morning with a chatter of dull,
complaining conservation. II would
have been more amusing, Marcia
reflected, TO have the cheerful
McDugall as a companion. She
glanced back. The car in which
ne was riding was not in sight.
The women's car reached the
town and proceeded directly TO
the railroad station. There would
be a train in 20 minutes.
Marcia did not know that the,
passengers in the McDougall car
were still half an hour away, inn
patiently watching their driver
change a tire by the side Of the
Snow-banked road.
The news that Marcia was safe
spread quickly through Bobbs
Neck, and the hours of neighborly
anxiety came 10 an end. There
followed. so paradoxical are hu-
man sympathies, period Of
mounting hostility. The gossips
were busy, and it became gener-
ally accepted, on the basis of no
more than Dorothy 0sborn's sus-
picionS, that Marcia's sudden and
upannounced (and therefore gull
tyD journey had had to do, in
some rs yet unexplained way, with
the missing Frank Kendrick.
This condition of the commun-
ity mind was promoted as a result
Of the visit of several young ma