The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 13, 1939, Image 6
PAGE SIX THE NEK BERRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1939
THIRD INSTALLMENT
Synopsis
When the wealthy foster parents
of Marjorie Wetherill both die she
finds a letter teling that she has a
twin sister, that she was adopted
when her won parents couldn’t af
ford to support both of them and
that her real name is Dorothy Gay.
Alone in the world, but with a for
tune of her own, she considers look
ing up her own family whom she has
mevefc - seen. A neighbor, Evan
Bower, tries to argue her out of it
and tells her he loves her and asks
her to marry him. She )#omises to
think it over but decides first to see
her family. She goes to their ad
dress, finds that they are destitute,
have no coal, her mother is sick and
her father has no job. Her sister
treats her like an enemy and resents
her offer of help, but finally, after
‘many explanations, agrees to take
money to buy coal and food in order
to save her mother’s life,
“But it isn’t her money now! It is
mine! And I am going to look after
my family. We are going to do it
together. Quick! Tell me where to
go, and I’ll have the fixings here in
short order.”
“It’s two blocks down, and a block
to the right. Brown’s Coal Ward.
But there’s a bill for twenty-three
dollars. They won’t send any coal
till it’s paid. Here! Take back the
money!”
She held out the roll of bills half
reluctantly, looking at it with a sort
of fierce wistfulness.
“No,” said Marjorie. “You keep
that. I’ve more in my purse. You
might have some need for it while
I’m gone. Don’t worry, I’ll find my
way. But say, what shall I call you?
I can’t exactly go around calling my
own sister ‘Mis Gay,’ can I ? And
you know I never knew your name.”
The other girl stared.
“You don’t mean they never told
you your own sister’s name? Well,
that certainly is funny! I’m Eliza
beth. They call me Betty.”
Her voice was a trifle warmer.
“That’s a pretty name. Betty Gay.
I like it. And I’m Dorothy—isn’t
that it? The letter told me that.”
“Yes, but they call you Marjorie!”
Betty’s voice was suddenly hard
again.
“Well, I couldn’t help that either,”
grinned Marjorie. Say, suupose you
stop having grudges awhile.”
Betty suddenly softened again and
almost smiled, and Marjorie saw
that her eyes were really lovely when
she smiled.
“I’m sorry!” said Betty. “I guess
I’ve been pretty poisonous to you.
But maybe if you’d been here and
seen your people you loved suffer,
you’d be poisonous too.”
“I’m sure I should!” said Marjorie
with a sudden quick setting of her
lips. “I’m quite sure I would feel'
just as you feel. And now let’s for
get it till we get this place com
fortable for you all.”
Marjorie turned and put her hand
out to open the door, but before she
quite touched it someone fumbled
at the knob from the outside, the
door was suddenly flung open with
a bang letting in a rush of cold air,
and someone stumbled into the hall
bearing a heavy burden.
Marjorie stepped back startled,
staring at the tall man carrying a
heavy sack of coal upon his back and
another of small pieces of wood in
his arms.
But Betty rushed forward and put
up her arms to take one bag from
him.
“Oh, Father!” she cried, “where
have you been? How did you get it?
And then, giving him a quick search
ing look, “Where is your overcoat,
Father? Oh, you didn’t sell you over
coat, did you? Your nice overcoat?
Oh, Father, and you are sick!”
“It couldn’t be helped, Betty.” said
the mail in a hoarse voice. “I had to
get this house warm somehow for
your mother. I couldn’t let her
freeze to death!” There was some
thing warm and tender in his voice
that brought the tears to Marjorie’s
eyes and a great rush of love for
her unkown father to her heart.
Then the man suddly dropped the
bag from his back to the floor, put
his hands up to his head with a be
wildered look, and staggered over to
the stairs.
“Father! Oh, Father! What is it?”
cried Betty rushing over to him.
“Oh, it’s nothing!” murmured the
man with an effort. “Just a little
dizzy, that’s all. I’ll be all right in a
minute!”
“You had no breakfast! That’s
what makes it!” cried the girl in deep
distress.
That picture of her father sitting
on the stairs, his head bowed in his
'hands, would stay with her always,
she knew.
“I’ll get you a drink of water!”
Betty was saying. “Thank fortune,
they haven’t turned off the water
yet!” and she vanished through the
door into the kitchen.
Marjorie saw there was a door from
the little parlor where she stood and
opening it she followed and found her
sister as she brought back the water.
“I’ll get him something to eat
right away,” she whispered. “Is there
a restaurant or any place nearby
where they have food?”
“Only the drugstore. You can get
a bottle of milk. Yes, bring it back
quick.”
Marjorie ran down the uneven
little sidewalk, breathless with
thought of her father sitting there
in the bare ugly house, cold and
hungry, dizzy with faintness, and
her mother, no telling how sick up
stairs! It was too dreadful!
Arrived breathless at the diminu
tive drugstore she found to her joy
that they had a soda fountain and
served soup or coffee with sand
wiches. There was hot coffee and
there was hot tomato soup, that is,
it wasn’t hot yet but the man said
he could heat them both in a jiffy.
And he had just two thermos bottles
left. He hadn’t had such a large or
der in weeks.
While he was getting them ready
Marjorie hurried across the street
to the grocery and bought two bas
kets big enough to carry her purch
ases, and also a dozen oranges, a
loaf df bread, a pound of butter and
a pound of sliced ham.
Back at the drugstore she added a
quart full of milk to her other pur
chases and started back to the house.
Arrived at the house she found the
front door unlatched, but het father
was no longer sitting on the stairs,
and she heard sounds from the
cellar.
Betty came hurrying up the cellar
stairs as she came out to the kitch
en, a long streak of soot, on one
white cheek and her eyes wide and
worried.
“He would go down and start the
fire,” she said in distressed voice. “I
couldn’t do anything with him.” Her
voice was almost a sob. “He always
thinks a woman has to be waited on,
but he’s had another dizzy spell and
he’s sitting on the cellar stairs now.
Did you get anything?”
“Yes,” said Marjorie eagerly, “I
brought hot soup and coffee, and
here’s some aromatic ammonia. Per
haps that will help too. And here,
I have two hot water bags nice and
hot. Take one down and put it on
his lap. Haven’t you got a flannel
or a bit of old something to wrap it
in? He ought to get warm right
away.”
“Oh, you’re great!” said Betty and
the tears , were rolling down her
cheeks, tears of relief.
She snatched a nicked cup from the
shelf*and poured out coffee and with
a hot-water bag under her arm hur
ried down cellar again.
Marjorie hunted around and found
plates and more cups and a knife, and
cut some slices, of bread, buttering
them and putting ham between them.
When Betty came back upstairs she
had a plateful of nice sandwiches
ready fer her, and a cup of coffee.
“Take a swallow of this,” said
Marjorie holding out a cup of coffee,
“and take this sandwich in your hand.
You’ll be sick next if you don’t look
out.”
Betty looked hugrily at the food.
“But I must take something up to
Mother, first,” she said.
“No, drink this first, quick. It
won’t take you but a minute and you
can work better with something in
side of you. Take this sandwich in
your hand, and carry a cup of some
thing up to Mother. Which should it
be? Coffee first, or soup, or isn’t she
able for those? I’ve got oranges hpre.
I can fix her a glass of orange juice
in no time.”
“Oh, wonderful!” said Betty grate
fully, her eyes filling with relieved
tears again. “I—don’t know—what
we would—have done if you—hadn’t
come!”
“There! Never mind that now. Just
drink a little more and then go up
to Mother. As soon as she knows
about me I can help you care for
her. I know how to take care of
sick people. And now, shall I just
slip out and have the coal sent up?
You haven’t got enough to last long
in those bags, and the house ought
to get thoroughly warm and stay so.
And while I’m out I’m going to order
some groceries. Is that store I went
to the best, or is there a better one
somewhere else ? ”
“That’s the best near here. They’re
all right. Ted will be home by and
by perhaps and bring the things up
for you.”
Betty with her sandwich in her
hand went down cellar, and hurried
up again.
“He’s eaten all the soup and is eat
ing his sandwich now. I think he
feels better.
So Betty flew away up the stairs,)
and back again in a moment.
“She is still asleep,” she whispered.
“Has she had a doctor?” asked
Marjorie.
“No, she wouldn’t let us. She said
we hadn’t the money to pay him. But
Father is almost crazy about it. I
think we ought to have him come
just once, anyway, don’t you?’,
“I certainly do!” said Marjorie.
“Where is he? I’ll get him before I
do anything else.”
Betty gave the name and address.
“He’s supposed to be a good doc
tor. I guess his prices are rather
high,” she said sorrowfully.
“What difference does that make?”
said Marjorie. “We want the best
i there is. I’ll send him as soon as I
j can, and you’d better make him pre
scribe for Father too. I’ll tell him
i about it, and you make him. And,
| where do I talk to the gas people to
i get that gas turned on ? We want
! to be able to cook some real dinner
tonight!”
“Oh!” said Betty quick tears sting-
I ing into her eyes. "You are going to
i be wonderful, aren’t you?”
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“No,” said Marjorie smiling. “I'm
just going to be one of the family,
and try to make up for lost time.
Does the water bill need looking af
ter, too? We can’t have that shut
off. And what about electric light?”
“Oh!” cried Betty softly, sinking
down on the lower step of the stairs,
“you’ll use all your money up!”
“W’ell,” said Marjorie happily,
“that’s what money is for, isn’t it?
To be used up?”
“You’re really real aren’t you?”
said Betty, “ I can scarcely believe
it.”
“What did you think I was, a
spirit? Here, write those addresses
quick. I want to get things started
and get back to help.”
She handed her sister a little note
book and pencil from her handbag.
“You’ll be sorry you ever came
near us,” said Betty sadly, “having
to spev.d all this money and go all
these errands.”
“Pm already glad I came” said
Marjorie, “and if Mother and Father
get well, and you don’t get sick, I’d
say I’m having the time of my life.
It makestme greatly happy to be able
to help and I only wish I’d known
oefore that you had all this suffer
ing. And me with plenty!”
Then although she was almost chok
ing with tears, she gave a bright
smile and hurried away on her er
rands.
She betook herself to the drug
store where was a telephone booth
and did the doctor, the coal, the gas,
and electric light by telephone, and
her crisp young voice, accustomed as
it was to giving orders that were al
ways promptly obeyed, brought
courteous service at once, especially
since full payment of the bill was
promised when the agent would call.
Then the groceries arrived and fill
ed the shelves with stores.
In the midst of it Betty came down
with round eyes of astonishment at
the magic that had been wrought.
The chill was partly gone from the
house by this time, and Marjorie took
off her fty coat and her smart little
felt hat, and hung them in the al
most empty hall closet.
“Now!” she said, “I’m ready for
work! Where do I put these things ?
Are there special places for them, or
do I park them wherever I like?”
“Wherever ypu like!” said Betty
throwing open the little pantry door
and displaying a vista of empty
shelves.
“And there comes the coal!” said
Marjorie. “You’ll have to tell him
where to put that!”
Marjorie enjoyed putting away the
things.
Betty came up from the cellar and
looked at hqr.
“Well,” she said in her sharp young
voice that had a mingling of tears in
its quality, “I suppose you must be
pretty wonderful, and I’m crazy!”
“Nothing woqderful about it! I’m
just an ordinary sister, Betty, that’s
mighty hungry to be taken in and
made one of you!”
“Well I should say you’d taken us
in, if you asked me! I thought we’d
reached the limit and tonight would
see us all well on our way out of
this life, but you’ve somehow brought
us back again where we have to go
on.” Suddenly Betty dropped down on
a box by the kitchen door and put
ting her head down in her hands burst
into tears. Betty was worn out.
Tp Be Continued
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The Temptation of Jesus
Lesson for October 15: Matthew
4:1-11.
Golden Text: Hebrews 4:15.
Immediately after his baptism Je
sus suffered the temptation in the
wilderness. There are ebbs and flows
in Christian experience and the hour
of exaltation may leave one peculiar
ly susceptible to temptation.
Some have asked if God was the
author of Christ’s temptation. Free
dom of choice ii necessary to char
acter development. God tries men
that he may prove how strong they
are; the devil tempts men that he
may find how weak they are.
The several temptations of Jesus
were similar to those that come to
us. Material things tempt men now.
There are men who compromise to
get on in the world. In our moments
of pessimism we may be inclined, like
old Elijah, to think that all men are
untrue, that every man has his price
if you can discover what it is, that
he is like Nebuchadnezzar’s image,
with head of gold and thighs of brass
but feet of clay.
The second temptation was to do
the spectacular and win the people.
There are foolish sects 'today that
propose to demonstrate faith by hand
ling moccasins and rattlesankes.
Many are tempted at times to deal
in showmanship and to speak the
Master’s word as a passport to fa
vor, though they do not have the
Master’s skill. And many are tempt
ed by ambition to attempt great
things by compromise. “The end jus
tifies the means.” This and similar
statements are like Jacob’s cattle;
they are ringstreaked and spotted
and they bear on their own backs the
marks of their guile.
The temptations of Jesus were aim
ed to induce him to employ His divine
power to escape the woes he was des
tined to suffer as a man, and to
achieve more speedily His mission as
the Messiah.
Many cannot understand how Jesus
could have been tempted. It is un
thinkable that he could have yielded.
How then is there any example unto
us? For this reason—so perfect was
the union of Jesus with God that He
could not yield. And as we grow in
to more perfect union with God we
shall be less and ess susceptible to
temptation.
The bird may still fly over our
heads, as the old illustration has it,
but we shall more and more' be able
to prevent their building their nests
in our hair.
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POSTAL RECEIPTS OF ’39
SHOW INCHEASE
Receipts at the local post office for
the first nine months of this year
show an increase over the same per
iod last year of $141.08.
From January 1 to September 30,
1938 the postal receipts totaled $18,-
891.79.
LINIMENT —
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RHEUMATIC PAIN —LUMBAGO
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