The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 7, 1941 Page: 3 of 4
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1941
THE DELTA COUKIEP
iwsggy^si
KLONDIKE NEWS
MRS. FRONIA MrBRIDE
CHAPTER I
Below, shimmering1 in n blue
September1 morning haw, was the
Hudson River. An automobile
pushed its way along the narrow
winding road, rising steadily. Its
two passengers looked out and
up.
The ear stopped at a quaint
bridge. From a thatched hut
stepped a ruddy little old man. He
pointed wordlessly at a swinging
wooden sign above the door which
said, in old English characters:
“No trespassing—The Hamlet.”
The other man, large and square
leaned out and yelled: “We want
to see Drury Lane! He expects
us!”
The bridgemaster scuttled for-
ward to the bridge, manipulated
a creaking iron gate, stood back.
A short drive and the car
emerged into a spacious clearing.
A castle sprawled before them,
staked to the Hudson hills by
puny granite walls.
The immense oak-and-iron door
beyond the drawbridge, twenty
feet high, opened and, as aston-
ishingly rubicund little man in
livery stood there, bowing.
“District Attorney Bruno? In-
spector Thumm? This way,
please.” The pot-bellied servitor
trudged cheerfully before them.
Out of a door in the farthest
wall stepped a hunchbacked figure
—bald, bewhiskered, wrinkled,
wearing a tattered leather apron
like a blacksmith.
The newcomer advanced spryiy.
“Good day, gentlemen. Welcome
to The Hamlet.” He turned to the
old man in livery and said:
“Whisht, Falstaff,” and District
Attorney Bruno opened his wide
eyes wider.
“Falstaff—” he groaned. “That
can’t be his name!”
The hunchback ruffled his
whiskers. “No, sir. He used to
be .Take Pinna, the actor. But
that’s what Mr. Drury calls him—
This way, please.”
Everything was redolent of
Elizabethan England. Leather
and oak, oak and stone. In a fire-
place, twelve feet wide, a small
fire was burning. The ancient
stood very still near the wall,
grasping his beard; then he stir-
red and said quite clearly: “Mr.
Drury Lane.”
A tall man stood regarding
them from the threshold.
Mr. Drury Lane strode into the
room and extended a pale muscu-
lar hand. “Gentlemen. I’m de-
lighted.’
Bruno looked into gray-green
eyes of utter quietude; he began
to speak and was startled to ob-
serve the eyes drop quickly to bis
lips. “Good of you to receive In-
spector Thumm and myself, Mr.
Lane,” he murmured. “We—well,
we don’t know quite what to say.
You have an amazing estate, sir.”
“Amazing at first glance, Mr.
Bruno, but only because it pre-
sents to the twentieth-century
eye, surfeited with severe angles,
an anachronistic quaintness.” The
actor’s voice was serene, like bis
eyes, but richer it seemed to Bru-
no, than any voice he had ever
heard. “Quacey!”
The gnome stepped to the ac-
tor’s side. “Gentlemen, this is
my inseparable familiar and, I
assure you, a genius. He has
been my make-up man for forty
years.”
In some mysterious manner the
two visitors sensed a tremendous
link between these completely an-
titypical individuals and began to
speak at once. Lane’s eyes flick-
ered from the lips of one to the
lips of the other, and his face
curved into the merest smile.
“Separately, please. I am quite
deaf, you see. I can read only
one pair of lips at a time—a latter
day accomplishment of which I
am very vain.”
Bruno cleared his throat. "In-
spector Thumm and I both feel,
Mr. Lane, that we’re presuming
a bit in coming to you this way.
I should nevei1 have sent my tele-
gram, of course, if you hadn’t
solved the Cramer case for Ug in
that really astounding letter of
yours.”
“Scarcely astounding, Mr. Bru-
no. You wished to consult me,
according to your wire, on the
Longstreet murder?”
“Are you sure, Mr. Lane, that
the Inspector and I—Well, we
kno\* {ro.w busy you are
that I began to realize how thea-
trical life itself can be. The crea-1inpr cordiality. John O.
tures of a play are, in Mercutio’s shrank the big man
evaluation! of dreams, ‘children of by him to receive the other mem- j dabbed heavily at
an idle brain begot of nothing
but vain fantasy.’ ” The visitors
stirred at the magic that had
leaped into Lane’s voice. “Crea-
tures of life, however, in their
moments of passion present the
larger aspects of drama. They tan
never be ‘as thin of substance as
the air and, more inconstant than
the wind.’ All my life in com-
pany I have been interpreting
synthetic emotional climaxes. I
have been, among otherg perhaps
less noble, Macbeth, and I have
been Hamlet. And, like a child
viewing a simple wonder for the
first time, I have realized the
the fingers were bleeding in a
number of places. “Must’ve i
scratched myself. What in the1
world could’ve—? he began thick-'
ly. The car lurched and stopped ;| j„hnnie Haddock, who is in the
people fell forward. Instinctive- North American Air Training Sta-j
ly Longstreet groped for a strap tioll ;ll j>;illas, was at home with!
____ with his left hand, and Cherry },jg wjfc. and parents, Mr. and Mrs.
| Field on to hi8 right arm for sup- Tol„ will Uobnett, and son over !
DeWitt port. The car jerked forward the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Had-1
brushed | again a few feet. Longstreet dock will nlove t<> Dallas in the !
his bleeding (fiear future.
Miss Vera Walters, medical
patient at Janes Clinic and Hos-
pital, is improving.
PAOgnpp
Mrs. Dallas Black of Race
Track, medfcal patient at Tabes
ClinicjHJn| ilj>s£ital, i| ii#p|oving.
bers of the party. hand with a handkerchief, return-
‘Fern! This is a nice surprise.” | ed the cloth to his trousers, ex-'
This to a faded stoutish woman of
Spanish type, with the barest
traces of a vanished beauty on
her lacquered face; DeWitt’s
wife. Jeanne DeWitt, a petite
brownish girl, nodded coldly; she
pressed closer to her escort, Chris-
topher Lord, a tall blond young
man. Longstreet ignored him and
pumped the hands of Franklin
Rollen Winters of Boles Orphan
Home wns a week end guest of
tracted his glasses from the case, j Bmie Willianl8.
dropped the case into his pocket, j R c T)irasher and Mrs. A. A.
and made „s if to open the folded Mox, wiah to httvc thcir reneW-
newspaper he held tucked under'
his right arm.
Tho car stopped at Ninth Aven-
ue. A crowd pounded on the
doors, but the conductor shook
his head.
Longstreet suddenly released
Ahearn, DeWitt’s closest friend, the strap, dropping the unread
and Louis Imperiale, another > newspaper, and felt his forehead.
friend—a middle-aged Swiss me-1 He was panting like u man in ; T3ri<lc* Friday night,
ticulously dressed. [great pain. Cherry hugged his Billie Williams and
“Mike!” Longstreet dapped the right arm in alarm, turned as if
jto call for help—
I The car was between Ninth and
; Tenth Avenues' now, shopping,
| starting, stopping, in the maze of
traffic.
Longstreet gasped, stiffened1 family,
convulsively, widened his eyes, \ We are glad to r(iport that Mrs
nL to the Cooper Review and
Delta Courier added this week.
We always appreciate your sub-
scriptions to our home papers and
are happy to have your subscrip-]
tions and renewals.
Miss Bertha Smith of Cooper!
was a guest of Mrs. Fronia Mc-
4
' bruit' rnuuy rngii-.
Weldon
Moore visited Mr. and Mrs. A. D.
Fultz in Greenville Friday after-
noon. |
Mr. and Mrs., Garrett and little
I d|nlighter visited Sunday with
| their father, W A. Hooten, and
jand collapsed.
His left hand: the palm and underskin of the fingers were breeding
in a number of places.
world is full of Macbeths and
Hamlets. Trite, but true. I now
have the impulse to greater au-
thorship than created drama.
Everything fits so nicely; even
my unfortunate affliction”—a
lean finger touched his ear—“has
contrived to sharpen my powers
of concentration. I have only to
close my eyes and I am in a world
without sound and therefore
without physical disturbance—”
Inspector Thumm looked be-
back of a broad man who had
just slouched through the door.
Michael Collins was a brawny
Irishman with porcine eyes
an apparently fixed expression of
hostility. Longstreet grasped his
arm. “Now don’t crab this party,
Mike,” he whispered. “I told you
Cherry screamed. Necks cran-
ed and the Longstreet party
pushed their way toward the
spot. Michael Collins caught the
actress as she reeled.
To Be Continued.
-V-
Review and Courier $1.50 a Year.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
TO: Mary Cooke Hoffhines,
Andrew Cooke and John Edward
Cooke, and each and all other |
Edd Hooten is able to attend ser-
vices at the Church of Christ Sun-
day after an absence of several
weeks due to an infected foot.
Mr. and Mrs. Prenticie James
and family left the last of the
week for Hall county where they
will spend several weeks.
Mrs. Ernest Allard and son of
Commerce visited Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Foy Hurt and moth-
er, Mrs. Virgie Hurt.
Mrs. Iona Robnett left Friday
proper persons, including all rec- J for Tulsa, Okla., to spend a few
ord lien holders, all unknown i days there with her son, Mr. and
owners, and the heirs, administra- j Mrs. Hoyle Robnett, and little
tors, and legal representatives of i son.
all such unknown owners, owning
and and claiming any interest in the
property hereinafter described;
Greeting:
NOTICE is hereby given to all
parties having or claiming any in-
I’d get DeWitt to fix things up. |terest of any kind in any of the
Go over there and take a bracer.” j following described lands that on
Ice chimed the 6th <iay of September, 1941,
suit was filed in hte District Court
Waiters appeared,
in glasses. The DeWitt party
was for the most part silent,
wildered. Bruno coughed. “I’m strained. Longstreet swooped
afraid, Mr. Lane, that our little
problem is quite beneath the—
well, the dignity of your detec-
Cherry Browne demure and sud-
denly shy, into the curve of one
great arm. “Friends! You all
tive ambitions. It’s really just a know why you’re here. Gala oc-
plain case of murder—”
“Please,” said Lane, “give me
a scrupulous detailed account, In-
spector.”
On the previous Friday after-
noon (ran the story related by In-
spector Thumm and with occasion- j
al interpolations by the District
Attorney), two people sat closely
embraced in the sitting room of a
suite of the Hotel Grant. This
was on Forty-second Street and
Eighth Avenue.
They were Harley Longstreet
who was middle aged and a Wall
Street broker, of powerful body
ravaged by years of dissipation.
He was dressed in rough tweeds:
Cherry Browne, musical comedy
star, a brunette with bold Latin
features, black flashing eyes, pas-
sionate arched lips.
Longstreet kissed her and she
cuddled in his arms. “I hope they
never come.”
The man disengaged himself.
“They’ll be here. When I tell
Johnny DeWitt to jump, he
jumps.”
"But why drag him here with
that frosty bunch of his if they
don’t want to come?”
“Because I like to see the old
buzzard squirm. He hates my
guts, and I love it”. He crossed
the room and poured himself a
drink.
“Sometimes,” the woman said,
“I can’t figure you out. What
you get out of tormenting him is
beyond me.” She shrugged. “Is
Mrs. DeWitt coming, too?”
“Why not? Now don’t go
harping on her again, Cherry. I’ve
told you a hundred times there’s
nothing between us.”
“Not that I care.” She laugh-
ed. “But it would be just like
you to steal his wife, too.” She
jumped up at the sound of a
buzzer and hurried to the door.
“Pollux, old timer! Come in!”
A flashily dressed, oldish man
with a dark facie and carefully
pomaded thinning hair put his
arms around the woman.
“Remember my old pal, Pol-
lux?” Her voice was gay. “Mas-
ter Mind-Reader of the Age on
the two-a day. Shake hands, you
two.”
easion for the whole firm of De-
Witt & Longstreet an’ all their
friends and well-wishers!” His
voice was a little thick now.
“Have the honor to present to
youT—future Mrs. Longstreet!”
. I
At 5:45 Longstreet excitedly
shouted: “Arranged a little din-
ner party at my place in West
Englewood. F’got to tell you about
[it. Surprise! All invited.” He
consulted his watch owlishly.
! “C’n make reg’lar train if we
start now. C’mon everybody!”
Mrs. Mary D. Rhodes of Cooper
visited Friday night with Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Smith and son.
Miss Sarah Mae Sharp visited
last week in Dallas with her aunt.
The Klondike canning unit un-
der the supervision of Miss
Y-Vonne Swint of Lamar county,
and Mrs. Hida Cate Griffith, of
Hunt county, closed Saturday af-
of Delta county, Texas, at Cooper, iternoon. 23,847 cans of different
Texas, wherein Lamar-Delta Coun- ' kinds of vegetables and fruits
ty Levee Improvement District were canned to be distributed to
dabble In the most elemental form
of drama, Mr. Bruno.” The voice
was colored pow with the faintest
animation. “It was only after my
forced retirement from the stage
The buzzer sounded again and
“I shall never be too busy to Cherry opened the door to admit
a small" party of people,
A little slender ihiddle-aged
man with gray hair and a brush-
gray mustache ‘came in first
No. 2, a municipal corporation, is
plaintiff, and Mary Cooke Hoff-
hines, Andrew Cooke and John
Edward Cooke, are defendants.
The file No. of said suit being No.
3643, to enforce the collection of
certain levee district taxes on the
name of each supposed owner has
been set opposite their land, to-
gether with the amount due from
each tract, to-wit:
Mary Cooke Hoffhines, Andrew
Cooke and John Edward Cooke,
owners of the following described
tract of land in Delta county,
Texas:
All that cretain lot, tract or
parcel of land lying and being sit-
DeWitt protested that bo bad ] uafe(1 in Delta county, Texas, and
made other arrangements for the ! heing part of the land patented to
evening, that his own guests— Sarah Turner by Patent No. 618,
Longstreet glared. “I said every- Aok Abst. No. 353, and describ-
j ed by metes and bounds as fol-
lows:
body!” Imperiale shrugged; a
faint puzzled light glowed in
Lord’s eyes as he turned to look | BEGINNING at the S. E. Cor-
at DeWitt_ ner the 46% acre tract de-
Tbe entire party crowded into
an elevator. In the lobby Long-
street bought a late newspaper
and ordered taxicabs. On the
sidewalk the doorman whistled
desperately as
scribed in Deed from John Collier
to Maggie McBrayer recorded in
Vo. 2, page 581, Deed Records of
said county; THENCE WEST
224.28 varas a stake southeast
weeks of hot'corner the Eldon Thompson
weather gave wav suddenly to a! l3ac^> THENCE NORTH 6*66 var-
as a stake; THENCE EAST 224.28
varas to stake; THENCE SOUTH
666 varas to the place of begin-
ning, containing 26.4 acres of
vicious downpour.
Pollux whooped: “Here comes
a Crosstown!”
Longstreet snatched off his
glasses, returned them to the case, j lan(i I 19-3 acres being assessed
and the case to his left pocket. He Jin the name of Mary Cook Hoff-
waved bis right hand. “Devil with . hines amount due thereon $51.14,
cabs!” he shouted. “Let’s take | together with penalty, interest
the car!” |and attorney’s fees.
The street-car squealed to at A11 persons having or claiming
stop as the Longstreet party dash-'any interest whatsoever in said
ed to it, Cherry clinging to Long- j lands are hereby notified to ap-
street’s left arm, Longstreet’s left'cents. However, I had two eggs
hand still in his pocket. j o’clock A. M. of the first Monday
The car was freighted to capacv- j after the expiration of 42 days
ity. from the date of issuance of this
Longstreet swayed with the citation, the same being Monday
rocking motion of the car, a dol- the 3rd day of November, A. D.
lar bill clutched in his right fist j 1941, at or before 10 o'clock A.
above the heads of his fellow- j M., before the Honorable District
passengers. The humidity, with Court of Della county at the
all the windows closed, induced a 1 court house in Cooper, Texas, a
feeling of suffocation. | petition filed in said court in the
The conductor wriggled about above numbered and entitled cause
and took Longstreet’s bill. Long-| or final judgment will ly entered
street received his change and be-
gan to shoulder his way after his
party. He found Cherry, who
grasped his right arm. The car
edged on toward Ninth Avenue.
Longstreet thrust his hand into
directing the sale of said lands for
the purpose of collecting said
taxes, together with payment of
interest, penalties, attorney’s fees
and other costs allowed by law.
Issued this the 17th day of
Longstreet strode -forward, exud-
his pocket and felt about for his September, 1941.
case. A moment of this, and ! Given under my hand and seal
with a sudden curse he snatched of said court, at office in Coop-
his hand from the pocket, bringing er, Texas, this the 17th day of
out the silver case. Cherry said: September A. D. 1941.
“What’s the matter?” Longstreet EDWINA MILLER,
uncertainly examined his left District Clerk
hand: the palm and underskin of c41 IVA GOOD, Deputy
the twenty schools participating
in this unit. Each worker has
been assigned a different school
and will resume her duties im-
mediately. Many new workers
will be added before the term is
out.
Mr. and Mrs. Hill Martin of
Commerce visited over the week
end with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jake Martin, and family.
-V-
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gelino trans-
acted business in McKinney Mom
day.
Congratulations
O
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paper Week —we join all Ameri-
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a ^earless champion of freedom for
man and enterprise.
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