Evening star. [volume], January 15, 1936, Page B-6, Image 26

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---DAILY SHORT STORY
• AUNT ISABEL
By Louise O'Rourke.
T NEVER had any
real hope my
self that Allan and
I would ever be
able to get married.
The first time I met
him, in Henry’s
cocktail bar, I fell
In love with him.
I should have
known better, of
course; I could tell
at a glance that
he was the sort
with whom Aunt
Isabel would have
no truck. In fact,
that’s probably
why I fell in love
with him.
He fell in love
with me, too. Oh,
he didn’t rush onto
it; I think we were
on our third Tom
Collins when he
informed me that
n lnirn/1 mo T CSV
Henry outdid himself.
pleasure to Diigni
ing a young girl’s
hopes. And I was
practic ally re
signed to having
my young hopes
blighted.
The aunt and I
> arrived at the bar
at 10 to 5 on the
appointed after
noon. Allan was
to meet us at 5.
We passed the first
10 minutes in aus
tere silence, except
[ for the interval in
j which Henry tried
to sell us a drink
and was scared
into a decline by
the way Aunt Isa
bel barked, "No!”
At 5 after 5 Al
lan 1-ad not yet
shown up. Aunt
Isabel started to
law nhniif. neonle
plained to him that he musn t, on
account of Aunt Isabel, but he paid
no attention.
“Once to every man, sweetheart,”
he told me, “fate grants a boon.
You’re mine, and if I passed you
up, fate would say coldly, ‘This Allan
—he doesn’t know a good thing when
he sees it. He must be taught.’ And
then I’d spend the rest of my life
being hectored by ghosts of the
past like a fellow in a novel I read
once. So consider it a closed deal,
angel.”
That’s the way Allan talks. You
can't get a word in edgewise and
you don’t want to especially. Any
way, I didn't bother to tell him then
that his dream of romance was just
a pipe-dream. He refused to believe
that Aunt Isabel was important in
his or my love affairs. . But then,
he'd never met Aunt Isabel.
* * * *
YOU see. I'd been so accustomed all
my life to Aunt Isabel's tyranny
that anytnmg m me uauuc w a *<=
bellion never occurred to me. She’d
managed father and me since mother
died when I was a little girl. Father
is temperamentally on the meek side;
he wants only to be let alone. For
years he’d devoted his whole energy
to staying out of Aunt Isabel's way,
and the only way to stay out of her
way was to let her have it. If
you follow me.
I tried to explain these things to
Allan, but do you think I could?
We met a lot after that first time
and I kept trying to break it to him
gently.
"It's her eyes, I think, Allen,” I
Said. “There's a look in them. Not
just an ordinary look, but the sort
which big-game hunters use to cow
tigers. I'm morally certain that the
toughest of tigers, meeting Aunt Isa
bel’s eye, would walk away back
ward. tripping over his feet and
mumbling apologies.”
“Bring on this amazon.” he said.
With that very swell grin of his
alwavR madp mp believe he
could handle all the Aunt Isabels a
morbid imagination could conjure up,
“and we shall handle her.”
We arranged to meet Aunt Isabel
In Henry’s cocktail bar. That sounds
like flying in the lace of providence
and so I considered it, but Allan
Insisted.
* * * *
T COULD see Aunt Isabel stiffen
when I told her about the meeting
place. You have to look close to
see Aunt Isabel stiffen, for she's
normally about as pliable as Gibraltar.
“Who is this bar-fly?” she wanted
to know. “Why have I not met him
•before?”
She was too curious, though, to
refuse to meet him, even in a public
bar. And you could tell from her
attitude she was spoiling for trouble,
and was looking forward with grim
who couldn't keep appointments on
time; she jawed without interrup
tion till 5:30. Allan was still among
those missing.
Henry came around again with an
other suggestion—that we should drink
ginger ale. Aunt Isabel, rather to
my amazement, agreed. She was
burned up about Allan’s tardiness,
but all the more determined to wait
it out; in order to tell him a thing
or two, I suppose.
* * * *
UENRY outdid himself in atten
11 tiveness; we'd hardly have the
last drop of one glass of ginger ale
down our gullets when he’d be Johnny
on-the-spot with another. Aunt Isa
bel, preoccupied with thinking hard
thoughts about Allan, kept slinging
them into her with abandon.
I was fairly preoccupied myself, but
11 noticed after a while that a very
funny look was coming over Aunt
Isabel’s face. She always has a
i funny look, of course. But this one
j was a different kind of funniness.
I was on the point of asking her
if she was ill when she broke into
song—literally; a thing, to my knowl
edge, she had never done before.
My chin dropped to my clavicle as
Aunt Isabel crooned in a surprisingly
good, husky, torch-singing voice,
••You're the one, you little son-of-a
gun.” Her phrasing was good, though
the diction was something blurred.
At this point Allan appeared, being
only a little over an hour late. I
was still too astonished at Aunt Isa
bel’s strange behavior to be perturbed.
Allan looked down coldly, first at
Aunt Isabel, then at me.
“Is this,” he said with a contemp
tuous gesture, "is this old stew bum
the amount whose approval I’m sup
posed to win?”
* * * *
T LOOKED at Aunt Isabel again,
•*- and suddenly the scales dropped
from my eyes. I ceased to give my
celebrated Imitation of a frightened
fawn, and drew myself up to my
full height. Aunt Isabel was busily
catching flies which weren’t there,
and chortling idiotically. Was this
the old pestilence whose shadow I
had feared?
I stood up and put my arms around
Allan’s neck. “Let's get married,
Allan,” I said. “Take me from thii
sordid atmosphere I live in.” Allan
kissed me protectively.
“Henry,” he called to where Henry
| stood grinning, “deal kindly with this
poor woman-” He pointed at Aunt
Isabel, still busy with the non-existent
flies. Allan went on, “We are leav
ing now, Henry, for scenes where de
bauchery7 is less flamboyant."
Henry grinned again. “Oh, and
Henry,” said Allan. “Here is that
$10 I owe you.”
(Copyright. 1936.>
U. S. MAY OUST WOMAN
SAN DIEGO, Calif., January 15 <A>)
—-Carla Jenssen, regal young brunette
trho claims to be a descendant oJ
Hungarian royalty, will face charges
of illegal entry into the United States
in Federal District Court here Friday.
Immigration officials charge she en
tered the United States first in Jan
uary, 1932, through New York City
and overstayed her visitor’s permit.
The new complaint charged that on
December 22,1934, she made an illegal
entry from Mexico at an unguarded
border point.
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With a vial of potent poison concealed in his bony
hand, Intamo haunted the place where the evening
meal was to be prepared for the white boys and
their two fellow prisoners. “It was I who sent
Tarzan to his doom,” he chuckled, “and now his
kin shall diet"
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.. . But Tartan was not dead I Baadu, the Bagalla
messenger, had been too hasty In his conclusions.
When mad Oudah, the giant elephant, brought
down his foot to crush his victim into the dust,
the agile Tar ran twirled his body just in time to
avoid the fatal blow.
Once more the ape man rose to his feet and ran
desperately for the lone tree, his only hope of
refuge In all this dismal, sun-baked Vale of Death.
Oudah’s surprise enabled Tarzan to gain a slight
lead, but soon the mad beast was bearing down
upon him In frantic pursuit.
Despite his lameness, the Jungle Lord ran swiftly,
summoning from his muscles the very peak of their
electric energy. But the terrible Gudah was no
less determined to claim the victim which had
eluded him. This was a race of Titans, with the
result in gravest doubt!
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First of 10 Addresses Will Be
Given February 5 at Wash
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Eugen Weisz, vice principal of the
Corcoran School of Art, will open a
series of 10 lectures on the devleop
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the Washington Club Auditorium, 1010
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In the past farmers have placed
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and Inanimate scarecrow to keep
crows and other feathered ravishers
from their fields and farmyards. But
now we have a life-size figure, whose
arms go up and down by means of a
water wheel and pulleys. The power
is furnished by a nearby stream.
BOUNDARY HEARING
DATE TO BE FIXED LATER
Judiciary Committee of House
Paila to Act Due to Press
of Legislation.
Because of pressure of national leg
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ginning hearings on the findings of
the Diatrict-Virginia Boundary Com
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The commission recommended that
the century-old boundary dispute be
settled by fixing the District line at
the low-water mark on the Virginia
side of the Potomac River.
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the hearings at its next meeting.
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Bernard Shaw during his visit In the
city, has just learned that he always
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