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OUT OF THE EMBERS
By NORMAN STANLEY BORTNER
it T EX’S talk this thing out,”
•*—' Janice had said. ”For good
and all.” And he had agreed. Not
enthusiastically. He thought he
knew what it would be like. She
was going to be very calm, very
noble, very much the long-suffering,
patient wife who will go no farther.
All right, my dear. If you want one
more talk, I’m game. Just so it
doesn’t end in another row*
He became slightly noble him
self. Now that it was all over with
them he was suddenly courteous.
He spoke to her in a tone he might
have used toward any good-looking
woman not his wife: “Where would
you like to sit while you pronounce
sentence?”
She knew at once. She must have
been thinking about that. “Not
here," she said. “Would you mind
if we went down to the cabin?”
The cabin. How long had it been
since he had seen the inside of that
two-roomed affair
beside the river?
And what could
have made her
want to go there,
of all places? “Not
in the least,” he
said. .“We’ll need
wraps.”
They dressed for
the raw December
day and went out the west door.
Crossing the lawn she took his arm.
That was unexpected. And also a
little uncalled for, he thought, under
the circumstances. Why should she
make a game out of splitting up?
Thinking that, he stiffened and she
felt it. But she did not release his
arm. “Remember the first time we
came down here together?” she
asked.
“Can’t say I do.”
“You mean you don’t want to. It
was after our honeymoon. And you
held MY arm.” Her voice was low
and uneven and somehow queer.
“Oh,” he said. “What’s the mat
ter? Getting a cold?”
"No. Not used to fresh air, I sup
pose. It’ll be all right soon.”
“In the Nevada climate, you
mean?” She did not answer. Maybe
she hadn’t meant that. To speak of
the advantages of Reno while he
remained East would not fit her
present mood. There had been
times—plenty of them—when the
important small niceties of conver
sation between them had been for
gotten. giving way to bitterness and
recrimination. But he admitted she
had never been crude. To cover his
own remark he said: “Has the
cabin been kept clean?”
“Quite. It’s always in good order.
No telling when someone might
want to use it There’s some wood
there, I’m sure. And you remember
how that fireplace heats. Will.”
“That’s right. I do remember."
The worst of it was that he remem
bered too well, all at once. They
had lived there—he and Jan—for
a while after their honeymoon. The
big house was too big. Too many
people around. Too many distrac
tions from each other. So they had
moved to the cabin. . . . They had
changed a great deal since then.
Not in looks. Ten years wasn’t very
long. In themselves, somehow.
But the cabin had not changed. It
was precisely as it had been then.
Seemed a bit smaller, but then time
always does that to distances and
dimensions. He busied himself with
the kindling. There was only one
big chunk of wood. Enough for a
little while. The fire caught nicely.
Jan held her hands to the growing
flames. “Feels good,” she said. And
when the chin had been taken from
the room she sat on the sofa and
asked him, with a restrained, al
most fearful little gesture, to sit be
side her. He did, and waited—again
very nobly—for her to begin this
last talk she wanted.
At last she did. “This is where
we started. Will,” she said. "Here
in this little two-by-four. Do you
ever think about that time?”
“Thought of it just a moment
ago,” he admitted.
“We were happy then, weren’t
we?”
H E SHRUGGED. “Suppose we
were, Jan. But I’m afraid we
haven’t been very happy since.”
“No, not very. . . . And why. Will?
Do you know? How did we lose
what we had then? Not that it
makes any difference, of course.
Here we are, and how we got here
doesn’t really matter, or even who’s
to blame. . . . Right, Will?”
“Right.” He stared into the roar
ing fire and considered that she was
being exceptionally calm. Better
than he had hoped.
“The first day we came here you
carried me through the doorway.
Will. I remember thinking, while
you held me in your arms, that no
girl could have been happier than I
was at that moment. No two people
could have been more in love. We
&ere—don’t laugh, please—we were
like that fire is now. Just one con
suming blaze of love for each
other.”
He couldn’t help smiling at that.
Jan really was in a state, to talk
like that. But it disappeared when
he turned toward her. She was so
close to tears.
“And now. Will, look at us. We’ve
made a wretched mess of things,
haven’t we?”
“Damned if we haven’t.” He was
nearly noble enough to admit, fur
thermore, that it had been almost
entirely his own fault, but he didn’t.
She might have agreed with him,
and then the row would start. He
was quiet for a long while, and then
he said: “But fires do go out even
tually, and I guess ours has.”
“Yes. And what’s the use of blow
ing on cold ashes? . . . But that’s
why I brought you here to the
cabin. Will. I had the wild idea that
somehow we could patch it up. Try
again. But we’ve done that too
often, haven’t we?”
“Too often, Jan.”
The room was hushed, after that,
for many minutes. Hushed, except
for the crackling of the one big
chunk and the rush of air through
the chimney. And even that slowly
decreased. The fire he had built and
not replenished was burning out.
Just like the fire Jan has spoken of.
Burning out It was a simple thing
to throw more wood on a fire. But
was it so simple to rekindle their
own flame? He decided he was get
ting morbid.
There were only deep red embers
between the andirons when she
rose. “I told you last night that
nothing would keep me from Reno,’’
she said. “I meant, it, then, but—
Will, I’ll stay if you want me. I’ll
do my best to make us happy. We
were once. Maybe, in some way, we
could be again.” She waited. He did
not move; did not raise his eyes.
The embers glowed.
“Will, I said I’d stay if you want
me to.”
Glowed.
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Solution in Next Issue.
No. 31
Horizontal
1 Pen for swine
4 Title of
rank
9 Fate
12 Always
13 Girl’s name
14 Dread
15 Case with
open sides
17 Principal
female
character
19 Country in
Asia
20 Less common
21 Deed
23 Dower
24 Latin con
junction
26 Rotating
mechanism
29 Garden tool
31 Slang: to
cheat by not
paying bets
33 Homeless
outcast
35 Cow’s cry
37 Solitary
38 To restore
40 Resident of a
convent
42 Honey-pro
ducing insect
43 Colloquial:
father
44 Ethiopian
title
46 Fabulous
bird
18 Issues
50 Member of
the electorate
54 Deltas
56 To avoid
57 Compass
point
58 Pertaining
to the skin
60 By birth
61 Toward
62 Entire prop
erty of a
person
63 Conjunction
Vertical
1 To pillage
2 Beginner
3 Twelvemonth
4 To make
white
5 Molten lava
6 Affluent of
the Rhine
7 Mountain
nymph
8 Of little
width
9 Den
10 To possess
11 Golfer’s
mound
16 Reception
18 Island in the
Gulf of Riga
22 Male cat
24 Serf
25 Archaic: you
26 To find fault
needlessly
27 Plane
surface
28 Male
30 Vast age
32 High volley
34 Hamilton is
its capital
36 Possessive
pronoun
39 Relinquishes
41 Fictitious
narratives
45 Arouses
47 Depression
between two
mountains
48 Spanish
article
49 Identical
51 Salt-water
food fish
52 Biblical
garden
53 Tall grass
54 Insect
55 Constellation
59 By
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“Must I get down on my knees to
you? Is that what you want?”
Glowed dully.
“Too late, then. ... All right,
dear. I’ll be packed and on my way
in an hour. Would you—do you mind
if I kiss you goodbye? Just for old
times sake. I—won’t bother you any
more.”
He permitted it quite nobly, and
when she had leaned and kissed
him full on the lips he turned away
from her and toward the fire once
more. The door closed behind her.
A N HOUR, she had said. Well, he
would wait that long before
going back to the house. No use
having more farewells.
He did not stir for a long while,
frowning at the fireplace. The one
big chunk had only a tiny bit of red
ness along one edge. The rest was
cold gray ash, smoking fitfully and
not pretty to look at. She had been
right. They had been exactly like
the fire, blazing up for a time and
then cooling to drabness.
“I won’t bother you any more.”
What had she meant by that? Never
see him again? He realized sud
denly that he WANTED to see her
again. It wouldn’t be right not to.
You can’t live with a person ten
years and simply forget it, like that.
Maybe they could even be good
friends, after the divorce, and have
some of the fun they missed before.
Without the ties of marriage, or the
restraints—
He knew he was being very fool
ish, thinking things like that. It was
all over, and she would be strange
and distant whenever—IF ever—
they met. Friends? Hardly. Jan was
out of his life for good—that was
settled.
The cabin was getting cold. He
had no idea how long he had been
sitting alone. Was the hour up? He
rose to stir his aching legs and con
sidered hunting more wood for the
fire. With the tongs he probed at the
ashy big chunk and at his touch tha
wood which had seemed so cold—.
so lifeless—jumped into flames,
warm, surprising, beautiful.
A single touch had done that. HI3
touch.
He gazed open-eyed. And then in
quick, bounding leaps he ran up the
hill and into the house. Up the
stairs. Through a door he had not
opened for so very long. The hour
was not yet gone.
“Jan,” he said. “Jan. You’re as
slim as you ever were. I’ll carry
you over, again.”
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Transform Vegetables
Into Savory Dishe*
For Lunch or Supper
Asparagus takes on a pleasing
look as well as extra flavor when
green tips are tucked in between
layers of cheese biscuit, topped
with sauce and garnished with
slices of hard-cooked eggs.
Remember when we just cooked
vegetables in boiling, salted water
and put them on
the table without
any thought as
to subtle season
ing or attractive
serving? Thank
modern cookery
experts for real
izing the infinite
possibilities of
vegetables and
for transforming
vegetables Into one of the glamor
groups of cookery.
First of all, there are innumer
able sauces you can use with “per
fection cooked” vegetables to bring
out all their hidden flavors. Then, if
you want to forego the sauce, you
can combine vegetables with other
foods to make them palate-pleasing
and tempting.
Whichever way you prefer to
serve your vegetables, always re
member that the overcooked vege
table can never be guaranteed to
make friends or influence eaters to
come back for seconds, as they
should. Cook vegetables so there is
still a bit of their garden crispness
left. If cooked to this point and
served immediately, you will also
lose less of their lovely colors.
Golden Cauliflower
(Serves 6)
1 medium head cauliflower
1 cup raw carrots, diced
Vi cup onions, chopped
Salt
Paprika
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup rich milk
1 cup Wisconsin Natural Ameri
can Cheese, grated
Break cauliflower into flower-
ettes. Arrange cauliflower and car
rots in buttered casserole. Cover
with onion, seasonings, and butter.
Pour milk over contents. Sprinkle
with cheese. Cover. Bake in a mod
erate oven (350 degrees) 1 hour, re
moving cover the last 15 minutes.
•Red Cabbage and Apples
(Serves 8 to 10)
2 quarts red cabbage, shredded
1 cup apples, pared and chopped
1 teaspoon salt
Vi cup butter
2 tablespoons flour
Vi cup vinegar
Vi cup brown sugar
Buttered crumbs
Cook cabbage with apples 10 min
utes in salted water, drain (save
water). Melt but
ter, add flour,
mix. Add Vi cup
drained water,
vinegar, and
brown sugar,
stir until thick
ened. Add apples
and c a b b a g e.
Bake in buttered
casserole in hot oven (400 degrees)
until crumbs are brown.
Sweet Potato Cecelia
^Serves 8 to 10)
3 pounds sweet potatoes
Vi cup butter
Salt
Pepper
Vi teaspoon nutmeg or mace
Vi teaspoon cinnamon
Vi to 1 cup apple cider
Mash cooked sweet potatoes. Add
Vi cup butter, seasonings, and
cider, mix well. Put in buttered
baking dish, dot with remaining
butter. Bake in a moderate oven
(375 degrees) 30 to 40 minutes, until
top is brown.
LYNN SAYS:
Spice, Seasoning Lend
New Tang to Foods
If you want a really delicious
sauce for your fish, melt butter,
add flour, and in place of milk,
blend in sour cream. Add to this a
bit of salt and pepper and chopped
chives.
A blade of mace and a few cloves
heated with the liquid when making
orange or lemon jelly will give it
added spice. Strain the liquid to re
move spices.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU
Baked Spareribs
•Red Cabbage and Apples
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Molded Pear in Lime Gelatin
Cornbread Butter
Lemon Chiffon Pie
•Recipe given.
Stalled Eggplant
Cut a lid from one large eggplant
lengthwise, scoop out pulp and cook
in boiling salted water until tender,
drain and chop fine. Saute one
small minced onion in butter until
soft, not brown, add eggplant, one
half cup of bread crumbs, one half
cup of chopped pecans, and two
well-beaten eggs. Mix well with
seasonings. Lastly add enough wa
ter in which the eggplant was
cooked to make the mixture quite
thin. Fill shell and sprinkle with
bread crumbs and dot with butter
and bake about twenty minutes.
Spinach Balls
Wash one peck of spinach in sev
eral waters, then cover tightly and
steam with just the drippings from
the washing for about fifteen min
utes. Squeeze as dry as possible.
Chop and press through a coarse
sieve. Into this puree mix two
slightly beaten egg yolks, one table
spoon of grated onion, one table
spoon of olive oil, and salt and pep
per to taste. Mix Well and form
into balls, dip in beaten egg, then in
fine bread crumbs, and fry in
hot fat to a golden brown.
Asparagus-Cheese Shortcake
(Serves 6 to 8)
I No. 2 can asparagus tips
3 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon minced onion
4 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
2 cups milk
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced for
garnish >
Melt butter in saucepan; add
minced onion and cook slowly for 3
minutes or until tender. Add flour
and seasonings and blend. Gradu
ally add milk, while stirring; cook
over low heat until smooth and
thickened, stirring constantly.
Cheese Biscuits
2 cups biscuit mix
V4 cup grated cheese
1 cup milk
Add grated cheese to biscuit mix
and blend. Add milk, mix with fork.
Roll out to Vi to
V« inch thickness
on floured board
and cut into
squares or cir
cles. Bake on a
greased pan in a
hot oven (450
degrees) 12 min
utes. Split and
place hot asparagus tips between
biscuits. Pour hot cream sauce over
the top and— garnish with hard-
cooked egg slices.
A vegetable bowl of snowy
white cauliflower surrounded with
green peas is hard to resist.
Tasty butter sauce variations will
add sparkle to humdrum vegetable
dishes. Here are two possibilities:
Lemon-Butter Sauce
V4 cup butter
Juice of Vi lemon
3 tablespoons parsley (if you
prefer)
Melt butter, add lerr/on juice and
blend thoroughly. Add parsley and
serve hot with vegetables. An extra
dish of the lemon-butter sauce may
be served on the side.
Brown-Butter Sauce
Vi cup butter
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Salt
Pepper
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Melt butter in a frying pan and
stir until a golden brown. Add
chopped parsley, lemon juice, and
salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot
on vegetables or fish.
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Don’t forget thht dates added to
muffins make them a party treat.
When you’re using clams, don’t
forget that a pinch of thyme will do
wonders.
CraBmeat and mustard with may
onnaise makes a nice salad for a
light luncheon.
When you want to add a different
touch to frankfurters, they can b*
stuffed with all variety of things—
mashed potatoes—strips of cheese,
bread dressing, sauerkraut of
pickle relish.
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SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 3:5-7; 4:23;
6:16-19: 9:10; 14:34; 15:1: 16:18; 21:3’
22:1; 27:1, 2; 28:1; 29:18; James 4:17.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Proverbs
16:1-9.
Guidance From Proverbs
Dr. Newton
^READY
TRADE-MARK
Lesson for September 21, 1947
O UR study of Sunday’s lessor
centers about the idea of good
ness, which is a rather trite-sound
ing theme, but very vital, I assure
you, and quite in
teresting. The
HI Scripture passages
KM are a y ( oun (i ir
Proverbs, save one
and that from the
very practical
preacher of the
New Testament
James, chapter 4,
verse 17.
Perhaps you wil
find the passages
from Proverbs a»
helpful and inter
esting as I did. I:
will require but two minutes to read
them—Proverbs 3:5-7; 4:23; 6:16
19; 9:10; 14:34; 15:1; 16:18; 21:3;
22:1; 27:1, 2; 28:1; 29:18. And aftei
you have devoted two minutes to th*
reading of these passages, you wiV
have something to think about foi
the rest of the day, the week, all
your life.
• • •
One Man’s Experience
A VERY successful business mar
in Atlanta, a shoe manufactur
er, was telling me his life story on«
day as we fished together at Ho-
mosassa, Fla. Finally, he said:
“Do you know the passage in th«
Bible that has meant most to me ai
a rule and guide for my faith and
practice?”
I wondered what he would say.
And then he quoted from Proverbs
3:5-7.
“Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths. Be not wise in
thine own eyes; fear the Lord, and
depart from evil.”
The Essence of Goodness
YXTHAT is goodness? We talk
VV a bout good men and bad men
good times and bad times, good luck
and bad luck. Just what is good*
ness?
Jesus himself once said to a young
man;
“There is none good but One, that
is. God.” Mark 10:18.
Goodness then, permit me to sug
gest, is what happens when God
lives in us. We can never know
goodness apart from God, try as we
may. The essence of goodness,
therefore, is found in that heart, it
that life, that sincerely prays, “Thy
will be done.”
• • •
The Essence of Badness
G UIDANCE from these great
Proverbs identifies the thing;
that we are to shun as well as the
things we are to do—the essence ol
badness as well as the essence oi
goodness. Here are the sever
things that God hates—the seven
qualities of heart that constitute the
essence of badness:
“Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood, a
heart that deliberately plans wick
edness, feet which are swift in run
ning to mischief, a false witness
who utters lies, and one who sows
discord among brethren.”
Analyze these seven qualities of
heart, and you have the explanation
of the woes of the world. Many
clever modem books toy with these
deadly sins, trying to make them
seem good, but no amount of deco
ration can atone for the heart that
consistently entertains these can
cers of hell.
* • •
The Individual and Society
T LIKE the impact of these Prov-
erbs. They begin with the indi
vidual They fruit in society. In
dividuals who “trust in the Lord
with all thine heart,” will “exalt a
nation.” It is not enough to put
better food in peoples’ stomachs,
better clothes on their bodies, better
roofs over their heads. These are
essential as expressing the better
life; but you have got to give peo
ple something to live for as well as
something to live on.
Good business depends upon
good business men. Good inter
national relations depend upon
good nations. Good race relations
depend upon good races.
We have been greatly enheart-
ened by the establishment of United
Nations as a world idea and ideal.
Will it succeed? The answer is
found not in dollars and bullets, but
in hearts that always “trust in the
Lord.”
’’Except the Lord build the house,
They labor in vain that build it;
Except the Lord keep th^e city,
The watchman waketh but in vain."
—Psalm 127:1
(Copyright by the International Council
oi Religious Education on behali oi 00
Protestant denominations. Released by
WNU Features.)
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