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PAGE SIX
Crimson Holiday
By Jane Holsinger
COPYRIGHT 1951 BY NEA SERVICE, INC.
THE STORY Lavinia Grenable,
uncompromising and hateful old
harridan, has ridden to her death
in her wheel chair which rolled
into a ravine at her home. Prier
to the tragedy, Lisa Farwell had
been asked by Court, oldest of
Lavinia’s two sons, to become his
bride. Lisa’s father, opposing the
marrefage, had told his daughter
he would give his life to keep her
from becoming Court's wife. Just
after Mrs. Grenable’s violent
death, which Lisa saw in company
with Angus Kent, Lisa spies her
father, Henry Farwell, on a ridge
near the scene. Next, Lisa noticed
a movement in the shrubbery near
where the wheel chair had been.
«isa 1s taken home by Angus and
Mr. Farwell, who met them at the
door, tells them that he had been
fuformed of the tragedy by Eliza-
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Chapter 7
Right now, in the peace and
familiarity of her own home, Lisa
Farwell couldn’t pin her thoughts
solely on Court Grenable, to
whom she was engaged. Half
angrily, Lisa dropped into a chair
near her father, and what she said
was because of that self-anger:
“I guess we won’t need to worry
about Mrg. Grenable any longer,
will we? She can’t hurt me now.”
She saw Angus Kent take in the
closed expression that took pos
session of her father’s normally
placid, round face. Henry Farwell
took off his glasses and polished
them before he answered,
He shook his head. “I would not
like to be too sure, Lisa,” was
what he said, “that Lavinia Gren
able will not make herself heard,
even in death.”
Without knowing why, she felt
suddenly that she had said some
thing very dangerous. She under
stood better the next morning.
But that night before events be
gan to take on a terrible, double
meaning, while the false peace
protected her and she was given
time to straighten her thoughts,
she thought mostly of Angus.
Angus and her father had re
vealed a comfortable acceptance of
each other when they met. They
were alike basically, she decided,
and the decision startled her. In
that flash of realization she knew
! now why it was that she had felt
‘ a strange, compelling acquaintance
with this man when she first met
| him on the road that afternoon.
Though they looked nothing
alike, for her father was shorter
and broader and balding and An
gus was tall, almost angular and
his hair was thick and wheat-col
ored, nevertheléss they were alike.
They were of the same mold of
man. The knowledge shook her
considerably.
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She was in her room preparing
for bed. Angus had not stayed for
dinner because the Ellsworths were
expecting him. And Lisa, after a
late dinner, had pleaded a head
ache and had gone upstairs to her
room.
She undressed, showerefl, and
went through the routine of face
cream and astringent and then in
the middle of long, vicious thrusts
at her yellow hair she laid down
the brush and stared at herself in
the mirror.
“You're a fool,” she said, “You
moon around all through adolesc
ence for a man you hardly know,
one that you idolized from a dis
tance, and when you're rewarded
with his proposal—you promptly
fall in love with the next man you
meet!” |
The brush clattered to the floor
with her abrupt motion of self
condemnation. Courtney Grenable.
Angus Kent. Direct opposites.
Perhaps that was it.
Court the colorful, the romantic,
the exciting; Angus, quiet, calm,
self-possessed, completely wonder
ful, and exciting in his own way.
She knew almost before he spoke
what he wanted to say and it was
like stirring the depths of imagi
nation within herself to match his
mood exactly, to fee! his thoughts
as a blind person would sense
beauty—and she had known him
exactly five hours!
Lisa put her head down on her
folded arms and cried as she had
not cried since she wzs a child.
She felt as she had years ago in
her first long party dress when
she came down the stairs and her
father looked over his newspaper
and exclaimed, while her knees
went all tremory, “Lisa, you've
grown up!” |
She lifted her head and looked
at herself again in the mirror and
suddenly she understood that &\lyi
tonight had she really grown up.
She dug through the medicine
[cabinet in the bathroom until she
found the sleeping pills left over
from an old prescription of Mar
tha's, took on:,, a‘nd‘wcnt to bed.
When Lisa opened her eyes to
the first tinge of daylight the fol
lowing morning she was amazed
because she had slept all night and
hadn’t expected to sleep soudly at
all. This morning there was a
pecuriar peace within her, though
actuglly she had settled nothing
beyond the necessity of honesty
with herself.
The truth changed nothing, of
course. Angus would go back to
the city and she and Court would
be married. She would forget An~
gus in time.
She hurried into her clothes to
escape the darkness of the lie and
went downstairs quietly.
She was on the landing when
she heard the unmistakable sound
of her father’s voice coming from
the den. She glanced sharply at
the grandfather clock beside her.
Henry Farwell was a leisurely
man. He could afford to be, He’d
built up a reputation as an archi
tect around Hilton years ago that
enabled him now to turn over the
routine work to his assistant.
He liked to read late at night
and sleep until 8 in the morning.
For Henry Farwell to be up and
around at 6:30 was as unreason
able as the sun to shine at mid
night.
(To Be Continued)
H B. R l
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By JACK HARR
NEA Staff Correspendent
CHICAGO-—For the first tiuse
in home front defense, the atomic
age has given the small town a
role of major importance.
That is the conclusion of Major
Lenox Lohr, a bushy-browed,
balding man who was general
manager of Chicago’s World’s
Fair and is now director of Illi
nois Civil Defense.
“Illinois is a good sample state,”
said Lohr, “because we have a
wide range of cities — everything
from a major metropolis down to
tiny crossroads villages.”
Illinois also has an elaborate
civil defense set-up, with head
quarters in subterranean offices
beneath the Museum of Science
and Industry in Chicago. More
than a dozen highly-trained peo
ple are on full-time call, including
a retired four-star admiral, two
generals, a communications expert
on loan from the telephone com
pany, and a doctor who is an ex
pert on state hospitals.
Atom Attack
The program is called civil de
fense, rather than civilian defense
as in World War 11, Major Lohr
explained, because the aim is to
keep big city production going
after an atomic attack. He out
lines this five-point role for peo
ple in smaller -cities (5,000 to
50,000):
1. They must keep the high
ways open so that rescue teams
can go into big cities and the in
jured can come out, .
2. Non-target cities must be pre
pared to participate in mutual aid
and mobile support, which means
that trained, organized, highly mo
bile rescue and relief teams must
be ready to speed to disaster areas
at the call of the state director.
3. Small towns must be prepared
to house the homeless, which Lohr
estimated at 150,000 people for
every atomic bomb dropped on a
heavily populated area.
- 4. In smaller cities people should
learn nursing—not first aid—since
their job will be to nurse radia
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