Derring’s Road to Fame and Tragic Loves
Richard Derring leaves a winter wood visit for his mother’s farm and learns of Emily’s engagement to another. After college and a Chicago journalism career, he and artist Helen Gordon form a fragile companionship. Helen dies in a railroad accident. Derring seeks solace in work, ten years pass, and he finds quiet purpose helping others.
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Richard Derring
Jerusha
Emily Hutton
Derring
Seth Kinney
Kinney
Emily
Chicago
Helen Gordon
King
Helen
Elen
Richard
Seth
Richsa
Love and duty in a tempest of passion and fate
A wary philanthropist guides eager artisans while a poet contemplates love with a trainer for girls. Derring explains that love sustains life, then saves the poet from a speeding car as a storm breaks, ending with a tranquil yet tragic image.
Night breeze and unseen presences haunt Derring room
Derring returns to his room after dinner and senses the presence of unseen forms that fade as his own presence fills the space. He contemplates the poet and the troubles of a strange woman he observed at the previous night’s play, feeling tired yet on the verge of release.
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Derring
Conway
Uncle Billy Questions Indian Horse Cures at Lecture
Aunt Ann invites her husband to a church lecture by a returned missionary on India. He reluctantly agrees, sits through an engaging talk, then asks what is used in India to cure horses with heaves, prompting surprised reactions from the audience.
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Ann
Billy
India
Uncle Billy
Aunt Ann
I Put the First Shirt on Horace Greeley
Anecdote from the Sunday Herald notes Greeley birthplace Amherst New Hampshire and that the birth room is now a sitting room A nearby resident recalls meeting him years ago and says I put the first shirt on him referencing the Boston Herald account
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Horace Greeley
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