Henderson daily dispatch., July 17, 1935, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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PAGE SIX
COPYRIG Hl JARDh
liE AS THIS Fnr'T :
Blair Rodman is riding in & truck
tilth Janet Lord from the town of
Boisevain in western Canada to the
weird old home of an elderly Miss
Boisevain who lives in a huge house
with only a woman servant and a
fie r ce dog • They have just met. He
is going to retrieve his car that be
came mired in the ditch near the
Boisevain house during a terrific
thunderstorm the night before.
Shortly afterward the queer old
woman refused him shelter and her
dog chased him from the house.
BicClure, the truck driver, tells Blair
there is much mystery about the
Boisevain house. The girl is on her
way to Miss Boise vain ’s to become her
coniyanion after answering an ad in a
Tar.couver yager following her fa
thers death. She shows Blair an at
tractive letter from Miss Boisevain
and then bids him goodby as they
reach the house.
(2iOW GO O-V WI TH 2HE STORYJ
CHAPTER S
PRESENTLY, WHEN Blair had
the ropes tied to the car, McClure
Came back looking rather glum, Clair
thought. Neither of the men said a
wore while they were getting ready !
to haul the car from the ditch.
Finally when everything was ready.
McCiure leaped in has truck, and put
©n the power.
The big roadster did not respond
immediately. It was mired deeply,
but the mud was beginning to dry.
A mighty lurch, and it was out
Blair stopped in ths road, and went
up to McClure.
“Can you let me have some gas.
too? Im low. And thanks a mil
lion times.” He slipped a ten-dollar
bill i.uto McClure’s hand.
While the mechanic was draining
some gas from his tank, he looked
Barrowly at Blair.
"Damned funny thing, that,” he
Announced.
“What?”
*1 don’t understand it at all.”
•What?”
"Well, that girl going up there.
SYetty, wasn’t she ?"
“She seems to think it will be a
lark.”
“Damned funny thing, though. I
took a girl up there about two
months ago . . . pretty girl, too. Why
lUiss Boisevain needs two curapan
‘lons, I don’t know.”
“Maybe the other girl left.”
“No, she didn’t. She must be up
there yet. I haven’t taken her back,
and I’m the only one that goes up
from Boisevain. Damned funny
•tiling . . .”
Blair stood quite still in the road.
He was frowning when he finally
spoke to McClure.
“I’m going to hang around a while.
■I had intended going on, but now, I
think I'll stay . . . for a few days.
Miss Lord is too fine a girl to be left
Sit the mercy of Miss Boisevain.”
• • *
Janet was alone on the big broad
porch, alone with her suitcases. She
suddenly felt very small as she stood
there, hesitating before she pulled
the big knocker on the door.
The house was so large. She had
thought of it as a medium sized, com
fortable farm*house, with a wide
sweep of lawn in front, a lawn bor
dered by rows of bright old-fash
ioned flowers, tall hollyhocks, prim
pansies nestling close to the ground.
A house, perhaps, of one floor, with
a rambling wing and cherry windows
curtained with crisp muslin
She cijdn t know why she expected
Freshmen At University
To Have More Attention
Chapel Hill, July 17.—As part of the
general plan of reorganization of un
dergraduate work effective in Sep
tember, freshmen entering the Uni
versity of North Carolina next fall
will have the benefit of a faculty
group of advisers w r ho will maintain
regular office hours for systematic
consultation with the new men.
This new group 0 f advisers is not
to be witn the faculty and
student advisers who have assisted
,in the past. This latter
group will continue to function, but
the new group will operate on a more
THIS WEEK
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! These Henderson Merchants
Will Give You
V Stevenson Theatre Tickets
p- With purchases. Ask for your Ticket
*i* . :
All tickets are goocf for
• Monday and Tuesday, July 22-23
Rose 5, 10 and 25c Store
Woolard’s Miles Pharmacy
j. Leggett’s Dept. Store.
Parker’s Drug Store
Hill Top No. 2 M. G, Evans
Bon Ton Service Station
Evans Bakery Vance Shoe Store
Teiser’s Dept. Store
Frank’s Autp Store
Busy Bee Case Central Case
Geo. A. Rose and Son
Daniel Hardware Co.
H. B, Newman Green Grill
Ideal Cleaning Co.
South Side Drug Store
Don’t Forget To Ask For Your Ticket.
“I am Miss Boisevain."
this, except from the tone of Miss
Boisevain’s letter, and the fact that
she was alone with one servant. Why
this house was a mansion! It must
have twenty or thirty rooms! How
one servant could take care of it
she did not know. Three stories
high, too, with turrets like paper
caps at each corner.
She heard the truck moving away
down the road. She had offered to
pay the man but he had said Miss
Boisevain would pay the bill iater.
With that he had quickly deposited
her bags on the porch, touched his
cap and was gone.
Disappointed, she looked again at
the brown field beyond the porch.
No green grass, only hay; no flowers,
except at the far edge some vagrant
sunflowers, their faces as big as din
ner plates, nodding to her, grinning
at her discomfiture.
Woods beyond these, pine and fir,
and the music of a hidden creek.
The house was square and homely,
a cold gray stone house, the stones
faintly tinged with green moss. At
the left, reaching nearly the top of
the house, ivy clung tightly to the
walls, reaching inquisitive fingers
around the corner to the front.
The blinds were drawn all over the
lower floor and on the upper win
dow's the shutters, w r eather-beaten
and gray, were tightly closed. A thin
spiral of w hite smoke arose from one
of the chimneys, and drawn by the
breeze, floated away and melted into
the darkening sky, where a lonely
star was shining with a steady yel
low light. «
Janet fingered the knocker. It
was bronze and formed like a lion’s
head. She let it fall and trembled
for a moment at the sound It made.
No ene answered, so she took hold I
concrete, systematic .basis, and will
keep in close touch with the progress
of freshmen throughout the year.
Describing the new plan a spokes
man said;
“The University has nut gone in for
scientific coddling of the freshmen.
Instead, it has adopted a technique
of organizing itself so that individual
differences among the freshmen may
be observed, acknowledged, and
studied in such a manner as to in
spire development of differing traits
rather than deny all but the average
students the principal attention of
HENDERSON. TN. C.J DAILY DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1935.
of It again, but startled whan an
other door farther down the porch
opened. A woman stepped out, a
woman clad in black; tall and un
gainly with gray hair.
“Miss Boisevain?” Janet asked
timidly. She was frightened. Th#
woman’s face was hard and her eyesa
deep set, were iooking straight at the
girl. The woman nodded, and mo
tioned her to enter the door which
was open. Then she stooped and,
picking up the two heavy suitcases
easily, followed Janet into the room.
Janet stood, slightly bewilde.ed,
on the threshold. The room was sc
large and so .ornately furnished.
“Miss Lord?” A deep voice asked,
and Janet instinctively went iorwaid.
The voice came from the fireplace
where a woman was sitting in a big
chair.
"Yes, I’m Miss Lo^d.”
“Corne here, I want to look at
you.” Her tone was sharp and Janet,
tears springing to her eyes, walked
quickly toward the fireplace.
“I am Miss Boisevain,” the big
woman explained, keeping her chair.
She looked Janet over from head to
foot, green eyes, cold and small, a
mop of red hair slightly tinged witk
gray, a thick pendulous nose; full
lips and a strong flrai jaw, Janat
noted as she returned the woman’s
appraising stare.
After a moment. Miss Boisevain
nodded her head and motioned Janet
to be seated. ,
“I think you’ll do,” she said,
wearily, and smiled a little. Therfe
w 7 as no warmth to her smile, no wel
come.
Several candies were lighted la a
sconce on the wall nearby, and shed
a pale, flickering light on the Wons
an's red hair.
(TO BE CONTINUED*
the curriculum, the instructors, and
the advisory staff.
“The new plan combines a carefully
studied and closely supervised unity
of study with proper allowances for
wide differentiatian based upon indi
vidual initiative, seriousness of pur
pose and capacity for education-
As Chairman of the Faculty Ad
visory Committee, Prof. Corydon P.
Spruill, Jr., of the School of Com
merce, will develop the counseling sys
tern. Servincg with Professor Spruill
on the committee are: Profs. M. A.
Hill, Jr., Ernest L. Mackie, H. R. Tot
ten, Harry K. Russell, and W. L
Wiley.
These men will have assigned them
a group of approximately 100 fresh
men each, for which students they
will be completely responsible in an
advisory capacity The new commit
tee is an addition to the already exist
ing agencies that make the Univer
sity a place where faculty-student
contracts ffows easily.
STATE ENGINEERS;
* MEET AUGUST 2-3
George W. roan, ,Tr., WPA Director
of State, Will Re Among Head
line Speakers. ’ .1
Raleigh, July 17— than 150
members of the North- Carolfria So
ciety of Engineers are expected to at
tend the annual convention,-*)! ithe so
ciety at Wrightsville Beach,. August 2
and 3, it was announced heiie
Featured speakers will be fileofge W.
Coan, Jr., State WPA director for
North Carolina, who wifi disqtjss the
plans of the Work Progress' Adminis
tration, Director D. W. Baglay, of the
State Rural Electrification Commis
sion, and others. ■ - " *•".
One of the outstanding features of
the convention is expected to- be the
inspection trip to the Ethyl-jttow Chem
ical plant down- triear Fort' Fisher,
where bromine is* extracted from sea
waters. All of the Saturday after
noon session will be devoted to the
visit to and inspection of this large
chemical plant.
HIGHWAYS GREATLY
DAMAGED BY RAINS
Especially Southeastern Part Os
State Have Roads and Bridges
Been Washed
In the Sir Whiter Hotel.
Dally Dispatch Burra*,
AH J. C. BASKERVILIi.
Raleigh, July 17— Highways and
bridges in the southeast section of
the State, especially in Brunswick
county, have been seriously damaged
as the result of the heavy rains of the
past two weekfc, Chairman Capui M .
Waynick. of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, said to-
day. He has just been notified by
Division Engineer P. T. Betts of
Fayetteville, tht many roads in his
district have been damaged and wash
ed out, although the full extent of this
damage is not yet known.
Route 117, the highway from Wik
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P E N N E Y / S
■dnpbimiiMiiißiii H mi IT—
mington to Myrtle Beach, has been |
washed out in three places, Betts ad
• vised, although he is attempting to
route traffic around these washouts
so that travel can still be maintained t
Several days ago, when the rains and
flood waters reached their maximum,
| Route 303. from Wilmington to South
! port, was unde* as much as eight feet
of water in some places, Betts advis
ed Water is still so high in many
places that the damage to the high
ways and especialyy the bridges can
not yet be determined.
j 1810 -Martin F. Tuppm |.; n ...
poet, popular in hi:- day f.,• ,
verbial Philosophy,” born. l»i,,|
29, 1889.
James Cagney, screen .-star, bom
New York City, 31 years ago.