The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 15, 1939, Image 6
PAGS SIX
THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1989
Synopsis
When the wealthy foster parents
of Marjorie Wetherill both die she
finds a letter telling that she has a
twin sister, that she was adopted
■when her own parents couldn’t afford
to support both of them and that her
real name is Dorothy Gay. Alone in
the world, but with a fortune of her
own, she considers looking up her
own family whom she has never seen.
A neighbor, Evan Brower, tries to
argue her out of it and tells her he
loves her and asks her to marry
him. She promises to think it over,
but decides first to see her family.
She goes to their address, finds that
they are destitute and gradually
persuades them to accept things they
need. When the doctor calls to see
her mother she notices that he seems
particularly interested in her sister.
to thi 4 of me. Oh—” as he swung
the di or amartly open, “it’s snowing
again. ioB't it? How lovely! Christ
mas always has twice the thrill
when it snows sometime during the
day! Well, good night, I’ll be ready
at eleven.”
So they started in to sing again,
discovering a lot of sweet old Christ
mas songs they all knew.
A little after eight Gideon rose.
“Friends, I’ve got to tear myself
away,” he said. “I have a service at
nine. I came here originally to get
recruits for it, but I haven’t the
heart to tear you apart on Christmas
night. Though it would be great to
have that last song repeated, and if
the doctor would come too he and
Ted and I could do the trio!”
“He wasn’t going to ask us! No,
he hasn’t the heart to tear us away!
Marjorie goes to church in Brent- And yet he’s fixed it all up for us to
wood, where her family used to live,
and becomes very much interested in
the young minister there, with whom
she later has lunch in the city. While
at Brentwood she sees the home her
family formerly owned, buys it back
for them and gives the deed to it to
her father on Christmas morning.
The whole family is very joyful
While preparing for Christmas din
ner the minister and doctor both drop
in and are urged to stay to dinner.
All are enjoying themselves when
Evan Brower makes a surprise visit.
He is unwelcome by all, but Mar
jorie agrees to have lunch with him
the next day.
“Oh, no!” laughed Marjorie firmly,
“I’m not going back yet. I haven’t
finished my visit. But I’ll be ready
at eleven if you like. Thank you
again for the orchids. So nice of you
be on the program!” laughed the doc
tor. “But friend, you’re going to
have the surprise of your life. We’re
going, of course, aren’t we, Betty ”
“Oh!” said Betty both eagerness
and withdrawal fighting for the mas
tery in her eyes.
Marjorie passed her brother as he
was coming down the stairs, a kind
of triumph in his tread.
“Is Betty going?” she whispered
as she passed.
“I don’t dare ask,” he grinned back.
“Leave it to Doc. Perhaps he can
work the trick!”
But Betty was flying as fast as any
of them to get ready. Here was a
chance to go out with a good-looking
young man and wear her new fur
coat and her new gray hat, and Betty
was not the one to turn down, even
if it was just a religious service in
a little old despised chapel!
By common consent the doctor went
with Betty.
It was a beautiful service. There
was much singing and prayer, won
derful, tender prayer from both
minister and people. There was a
heartsearching talk from Gideon
Reaver pressing home the fact to
each soul present that the Lord Je
sus was bom and suffered and died
just for him.
And then after another tender
brief prayer Gideon called for his
quartette, and Ted calmly arose and
led the way to the front. Marjorie
as she walked behind him marveled
at his coolness, his reverent attitude,
as if he were a young priest going! her head 1
to perform his duty at the altar. She; « Not al ]
found herself a little nervous about j
Betty. |
But Betty came, and her alto was
deep and sweet.
Then they went home with the
memory of the little chapel in its
gala greenery and the sweet songs,
the tender looks on faces, the Christ
ian testimonies with which the meet
ing had closed, all a holy beautiful
ending to a day that had been won
derful from start to finish.
Marjorie lay awake for a long
time and thought it over, step by
step, thrilling anew at the memory.
There was just one part she forgot
to review, and that was the inter
lude in which Evan Brower figured.
Alnd 'none the least among her
memories was that of Gideon Reaver.
Betty lay beside her, eyes staring
wide ahead at the blank wall of the
room in the darkness. Betty was
thinking of the look on the doctor’s
face when he had said, “Something
num.
For an instant she caught her
breath at its beauty, for it was a
charming ring. Then suddenly the
trouble in her eyes grew definite and
she shut the cover down sharply with
a snap.
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sure!”
His face was haughty and frozen.
“And why aren’t you sure?” he
asked “It’s been nearly ten days
since I asked you to marry me. You
have had plenty of time to think it
over.”
“No,” she said firmly, “I haven’t
I’ve had other things to think about
and settle. They had to come first
before anything.”
“Well, haven’t you got them all
settled?”
A gleam of something like joy
flitted across her face, but she shook
Looking em Over
By LONNIE FRANKLIN
Well, they at last got around to
recognizing Clemson and now the
Tigers meet Boston College in the
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yet.”
“How long will it take?” There
was a trace of anger in his voice.
“I’m not sure, but when I come
home I can talk with you about it. I
shall know then what I am going to
to do.”
She laid the box down definitely on
tlfe table between them, and sat back
with finality.
“But I love you, Marjorie!”
She studied him rather hopelessly
for a minute and then she said:
“If you truly love me won’t you
prove it to me by putting that ring
back in your pocket and just sitting
there and talking to me in a pleasant
natural way as yoc always have
done, without any perplexing ques-i
tions or anything? Just let’s talk!"
He looked at her keenly for a min
ute and then he said quietly, with an
inscrutable mask on his face:
“Very well. What shall I talk
about?” She knew by his tone that
he was angry, but she could not help
real about this place!” Wondering! it.
about the doctor, thinking of all the) “Oh, anything! Suppose I ask you
fun he had made for them during the] a question. It’s something I’ve been
afternoon and evening. Contrasting
it with a few experiences in her mea
ger past that she had called “good
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The next morning Marjorie be
came aware of something strained in
the atmosphere that hadn’t been
there the day before.
Finally she said to Betty, “Have I
done something wrong?”
“Oh, mercy, no!” said Betty sharp
ly, “It’s just seeing that high-and-
mighty friend of yours, I suppose.
Have you known him long?”
“You mean Evan Brower? Oh, yes,
I’ve known him practically all my
life.”
“He means to take you home with
him,” said Betty. “Excuse me for
listening. You’ll go, too. I can see
that! And if you do it’ll be good-bye
wondering. Evan, yon were bronght
up a good deal as I was, yon Ye ta,
the same church, and active in It
What do you believe about being
saved?”
He looked at her as if she had sud
denly gone crazy.
“Saved?” he said. “What in the
world do you mean?”
“Why saved from your sins. Fit to
go to heaven, you know, when you
die.”
His face softened and he spoke to
her as if she were a sick person, or a
very young ettlA.
“My dear! I am afraid the long
strain of nursing Mrs. Wetherill, and
then seeing her die, has been too
much for your nerves.”
“Oh, no,” said Marjorie, looking up
brightly, “you don’t understand me.
I’m not in the least morbid. In a way
And aa setup in
th* tea* fnm the Baited Bean eHy
bat I will go an a Hmb and pick our
Fshnetto Tigers for a win,
Clems on lost to Tclane 7 to 6, Tu-
lane stopped Auburn 12 to 0, Boston
stopped Auburn 13 to 7 and Tennes
see stopped Auburn 7 to 0. So it
looks as though it is an even bet so
far. But McFadden, Bryant, Blalock
and Company have a way of going
places, so there you are.
Newberry vs. V. M. J.
Bill Laval, working to put New
berry on the up grade, will play V.
M. I. next year in Virginia as prob
ably the biggest test a Newberry
team has taken on outside the state.
More and more big games will be
played when the Indian mentor can
get them and before long Newberry
may step up in fast company.
“Newberry’s Grand Old Man”
Sunday morning one 0 f the moving
spirits in athletics since they were
begun at Newberry college crossed
that last white line for life’s touch
down and deep down inside me along
with many thousands of others,
there is a feeling that things will
never be the same.
When for ovyr twenty years you
came in contact with a man who
plays his heart out for a Newberry
win as much so as the team on the
field, then you can almost feel that
man’s reactions to games and many
a time it has been my pleasure to
watch Dr. Setzler when Newberry
teams were riding high or sinking in
defeat but never have I seen him give
up until the last man was out.
Even in late years Dr. Setzler
came out to watch football practice
when the chilly weather kept others
away and try and keep him from a
game that Newberry college played.
I remember the old athletic field
down behind the then Carnegie Tech
boBdinc—thera was Dr. Sstxtar.
I was fresent when the first Setz-
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“Mercy no!” said Marjorie. “Where-life before, because I’ve found that
did you get that idea?” |l have a Savior from sin.”
“Out of his masterful manner. Ifi He studied her face with vexed
you aren’t, you probably will be by] unresponsive eyes a moment and
the time lunch is over. You ought then said coldly:
to have told us about hi before you j “So, that’s the line of your new.
let us all get to caring about you. family, is it They are fanatics!”
It wasn’t fair, after all these years] She sprang up as if he had struck
without you.” [her, and her eyes grew suddenly alien.
“Betty!” Marjorie whirled about' “No, Evan, you are mistaken! My
toward her sister. I family are not fanatics. But I heard
“What in the name of peace is this in a sermon, and then I read it
the matter with you, Betty ” Mar- in the Bible. It is there quite plainly
jorie said, half ready to cry, “there if you will hunt for it.”
wasn’t anything to tell. He’s just a I She was speaking almost haughtily,
friend of the family and there’s] as if he were a stranger. Then she
nothing at all between us. I’m not glanced down at her watch. “And
engaged to anybody, an don’t mean now if you will excuse me I will take
to be for sometime, if I ever am. a taxi back home.”
“Oh, yes?” said Betty again in- She flashed a distant little smile at
credulously. “Well, wait till you him and # walked out of the dining
come back—if you come back! room. *
Suddenly Marjorie rushed at herj He followed her, of course, in
sister, half laughing, half crying, andi stantly, his face haughty and indig-
gave her a loving shaking. nant, but he summoned a taxi and
“There!” she said breathlessly.' put her in.
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Stop this! I’m not going away with 1
him. I wouldn’t think of such
thing.”
Then a taxi drew up and she was
gone.
Down in the city Marjorie had
troubles of her own. It was Evan
Brower’s idea of a good time to
make Marjorie suffer plenty for hav
ing gone off without leaving him her
address.
So Marjorie was seated at a
sumptously appointed table in one
of the most exclusive hotels in the
city, with a stem companion who
lectured her as if she were a haugh
ty little girl.
At last she looked up and smiled.
“Now, Evan, don’t you think we’d
better talk about you awhile? she
suggested. And how in the world did
you get away from your family
Christmas party? I’m afraid you
hurt your mother’s feelings terribly.”
That was an unfortunate thought.
She saw it at once. Evan stiffened
immediately.
“I came away. I had to. I felt that
you needed my protection and I had
something to say to you.”
He put his hand in his pocket and
pulled out a tiny velvet case, of the
color of violets. She looked at it and
anxiety entered her soul.
“Open it!” he said, “I want to
“You are very headstrong!?’ he
said as he gave her hand a cold hard
grip. “I didn’t dream you had it in
you to be so hard. Wren are you
planning to return?”
“I’m not hard, Evan really. Only
you’ve said some things that were
rather difficult to bear. But we’ll talk
about that when I get home. I shall
probably come a few days after New
Year’s.”
He watched her gravely as the taxi
took her away into the light falling
snow, his own face stern, reproach
ful.
ler Field was opened with one of
Newberry’s few football wins over
Citadel and then I sat in the press
box when Setzler Field was enlarged
and Newberry won over Emory and
Henry—again there was Dr, Setzler.
When you think of athletics at New
berry, the first neme in your mind
was Dr. Setzler and no man who was
not up in his studies ever played a
game for Newberry. Dr. Setzler
didn’t pass men on their athletic
ability and while Newberry has had
all-state men in all branches of
sports played on the hill, Dr. Setz
ler made a scholar out of them be
fore he made a place for them in the
locker room of the gym.
From the days of riding a bicycle
up College Street then filled with
many mud puddles to the days of
fast cars, Dr. Setzler handled ath-
tecic duties and has clocked many an
athletic contest.
Newberry college, the city and stale
and people over our nation will miss
the familiar lean figure in an over
coat that meant so much to sports
fans and Newberry teams from now
on will know that the spirit of Dr.
E. B. Setzler is guiding them on to
victory every time they trod the ath
letic lanes on Setzler field.
Life will move on just the same
With all its joys, aches and pain.
But a seat will be vacant in tins stand,
For Newberry’s Grand OM Athletic
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Mrs. O. O. Copeland and children
have moved back into their borne at
2004 Main Stret, and Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Feagle and son have moved into
the house vacated by Mrs. Copeland.
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others whom you have known far
longer than you have known us, who
perhaps have a prior claim upon you.”
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thing in the atmosphere when Mar
jorie got back to her father’s house
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them once mom.
“Didn’t we have • gead Mm
terday?” Marjorie said ts
thinking aloud.
“We all did, but I cant ato
the good time came in for yea,” Mid
Betty sourly.
“Oh, my dear!” said Marjorie
twinkling. “I had the best time of
my life seeing you all open your
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the little parlor again, with the soft
lights of the Christmas tree glowing,
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There seemed nothing to do but' and talked,
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