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FUTURE FARMERS IN PALESTINE
snatched from her bosom the pic-
ture of Israel which she had car-
Law of God and the custom or his tied about all day. Without look-
people, Samuel added, stroking his ing at it, her breath coming fast,
long black beard with a swift, she tore it, angrily, into many
angry gesture.) pieces and flung them on the floor.
"I am an American now," had And then, with a voice full of bit-
been Irving 's words, "and what do terness:
"Well, I will be an American,
I want with a time worn law and
custom. It is as silly as the idea too. Aunt, uncle, help me—help
of walking under a ladder. Why me to be an American," And here
in the name of heaven should I the child in her broke forth and,
marry my brother's widow's?
I kneeling down at the feet of Leah,
her eyes wet with tears which
can't help it if he died, can I?"
Ten years, sighed Samuel, had would not be held back, and her
completely estranged Israel from voice breaking, she looked up at
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his family. (God knows why he her aunt piteously and said in a
had sent them money, letters, and small, childlike voice:
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"Please, dear Aunt Leah, I want
even his picture from time to
to learn English .. ,"
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The long year that followed did
Rachel controlled a wild impulse
to run—to run off in some corner several things for Rachel. She
and there to cry out her miserable neither cut her hair nor adopted
Giving • group of children from one of the Keren Hayesod school
heart. Wide-eyed, she turned to the ways—cute or cheap--of the
her uncle. flappers she saw about her at night practical training in agriculture, an the garden attached to the school
"But, but—he—didn't he ask school. She did learn English,
to see me?" she said, biting her which she spoke haltingly, it is
lips to keep back her sobs. true, but very correctly (with the
"Listen, kid," said Ilannah one breasts and rounded hips. Her
"Rachel-le, darling, I suggested linguistic instinct so common to Thursday night as, with an all ab- shiny black hair she wound as
it to him. Ile had better not, he Russians) and steadily. Even with sorbing air, she whitened her usual in a coronet braid about her
said, and offered money ... I spat Leah and Samuel she had dropped already too white nose before head and she looked for all the
in his face." And Samuel's ex. the sweet Russian "thou" and was their joint locker mirror, "you've, world like the artist's imaginary
pression was an admixture of con- slowly but surely getting them into gotta snap out of it, Lord erl on a popular magazine cover.
tempt and disgust, the habit of English speaking, a knows, I don't wanta be nosy, Re- Ra n null was frankly amazed.
Rachel pulled herself away from habit which they had hitherto en- chel, but, gee, I wish you'd tell me "Say-ay, kid! You're a knock-
the tender arms of Leah. Eyes tirely neglected at home, although why you won't conic. t your par- out... Miss Levinson, Rachel, this
"HIGHLAND PARK'S BETTER PRINTERS"
blazing, arms flung out, she cried they had need of it in business.
ties. Art's got a boy friend, a is my friend, Arthur Corn. And
Then, the fire in her had some- smell business man. Says he's now, Art, d'ya think your friend'll
out as thought the very heart of
what cooled during that year. The pretty hot, though I've never seen be sorry?"
her was bursting.
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"God in heaven," she said in brave, smiling, gay immigrant of him." Here she paused to deco-
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Arthur, a short, stocky young
husky tones, "so that is what it is a year ago was the rather serious, rate her lips with a slender red man of American birth, but of dis-
to be an American." Here she reserved, quiet young woman with tube and to turn them into what tinct Jewish cast, copied his style
_ ' the striking features and black Nature had never intended. Final- of speech from hisfiancee.
hair, worn parted in the middle ly, she nodded to herself as if
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and braided coronet fashion about satisfied, and, having pursed her
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li amber eyes," "they" again called "Cupid's bow," she turned to Ra- Rachel was embarrassed. Never
her, but the amber eyes were a chel, her expressive black eyes before had she been talked to thus
by a young man. At home, before
trifle sad now, if not disillusioned. full of sincere solicitation.
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But, most important of all, Rachel Lookit here, kid," she continued, her sudden marriage, she had
had made a friend—a girl of her slipping an arm through Rachel's, known only the neighborhood boys,
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own class, but entirely her oppo- "you with your looks. Those eyes who were not particularly gener-
site in temperament and appear- —and that hair. Say, no one at ous in their speech.
ance. Where Rachel's skin was our parties ever saw yellow eyes,
The ride to the Center was
dead milk white, her friend's was you bet they haven't. You could short, too short for Rachel, who
a dusky olive. Where Rachel's get any man, take it from me. wanted time to collect herself, to
features were the wide ones of a And what do I get from you? No. steel herself for the first real party
peasant, more Russian than Jew- no, no, all the time. Say, take it she had ever attended. Her excite-
ess, her friend's were entirely from me, I oughts be afraid to ment plainly showed on her face
Semitic with closely-set, flashing have Art meet you." Here she and the skin about her high cheek
bones was flushed, while her eyes,
1h1 black eyes and wavy, bobbed hair. giggled.
Hannah was foreign-born, too, but
"But—my language," said Ra- singularly dark, glowed as if they
had the advantage of 10 years of chel, slowly as usual, but with a were burning.
New York public and night schools. delightfully soft foreign accent.
The Center ballroom was the
Hannah, too, had a regular job, She generally gave that excuse, so gymnasium, a high ceilinged place
not like Rachel's, "working for the Hannah was prepared.
decorated for the occasion with
folks." True, the "jobs" had lit-
"Say, girl friend, that excuse hundreds of vari-colored toy bal-
tie difference between them as don't go over so big with me, that loons. When they arrived, the
Hannah's was saleslady of curtain excuse don't. You've been here orchestra was in the middle of
materials in a large ghetto depart- a year and you got me beat when some wailing blues and Rachel
meat store while Rachel sold for it comes to grammar. You don't felt her heart pounding inside of
her uncle in his small dry goods need to take a back seat to no her at the thrill the sensuous notes
store below the apartment. one. That accent'll wear away, sent up her spine. The primitive
Ilannah and Rachel had met at take it from me." And if one did melody vibrated through the whole
night school where the latter was "take it from her," Rachel reflect- room. Its too rhythmic quality
attending an English class for the ed, perhaps she was right, for there undulated like a serpent and crept
foreign-born and the former one was certainly no trace of the na- into the very corners. The dis-
in domestic science, for she was tive Polish Jewish tongue in her onance on which the music was
noon to be married. They had speech. Ilannah could see that based shivered the air like a dirge
been placed together as locker Rachel was fast weakening, had and yet it was the gay clang clang
mates and a casual acquaintance- been, in fact, for the past two of the latest in jazz. Rachel's eyes
ship had fast become (treel friend- weeks, so she pressed her point followed the dancers and for a
ship. Ilannah had the 'advantage like a general about to take a minute she was entirely oblivious
of worldly knowledge and un. weakened fortress.
of her surroundings until a friend-
scrimpingly gave to Rachel the
"Say, I've got it all fixed. The ly nudge from Hannah made her
benefit of all that she knew of Y. W. H. A. party is Saturday turnaround. '
men and affairs—men, mostly. night. You're to come with Art
"Rachel," her friend was say-
"Just you listen to me, Rachel,." and me, and Art'll have his new
she would say, "just you listeusto s,lrydriend up there to meet you. ing, "this is Art's boy friend, Irv-
ing Cabot. Miss Levinson, Mr.
me, kid, and you'll get your man. 0 . K. , "
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Perhaps it was the psychological Cabot."
Look at me with Arthur."
For the first time in her life
But Rachel would only nod each
time the conversation arose, for
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itself. Rachel's heart stood still. She
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felt herself gasping for breath.'
she had never told Hannah of her
widowhood, nor her humiliation, optimism, fire, and co nfidence were She wanted to turn and run; she
for she blushed now every time renewing acquaintanceship with wanted to scream; she wanted to
she thought of her innocense in her heart. Perhaps... Who knows do something, anything. But
for ithethefirilitnti:je sstaintceen something told her to look up and
expecting what she knew now Why,habdutt,en
her eyes encountered the kindest
in
would never happen in America. s he
brown ones she had ever seen—the
To Hannah she was simply Rachel Rachel agreed to meet a man.
"Oh, very well," was all she same brown eyes whose pictured
Levinson.
Hannah urged her continually said, but het amber eyes glowed likeness she had so implicitly trust-
ed on the stark days of her voyage
to meet friends of her fiance, but dark with decision.
"Don't forget, dear, Saturday Over.
Rachel would have none of men.
"Pleased to meet you, Miss Lev-
night. And wear your brown
dress," was Hannah's parting shot, inson," she heard in low, deep
tones. "May I have this dance?"
almost like a victorious cry.
"But—I do not dance," she
"Saturday night — Saturday
night—Saturday night," sang Ra- heard herself mumble in her halt-
chel's heart to her during the fol. ing English.
Awoonamwomwoonclamwoomaisoommonmwommwmcwoomvswoonocvois
"Suppose I teach you then," said
- lowing two days. It was as if she
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were about to cast aside an old the pleasant deep voice and Rachel,
cloak for a very lovely, mysterious still in a half daze, allowed her-
one. It was as if she were about self to be led on to the floor. But
to embark from a desert isle, on a a cold fear seized her as her feet
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silver ship, for wonderful new touched the slippery surface and
she refused to move.
lands.
"I—I cannot," she said weakly,
Aunt Leah marveled at the slid-
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den change in Rachel. Her reserve her eyes looking up at him pite-
seemed cast aside; the sadness in , ousts ,.
"Please try," said Irving Cabot.
her amber eyes was replaced by a
"Fool," said Rachel to herself.
- bright eagerness.
For the first
time in a year Leah heard the "He does not know you. Forget
crooning refrain of the Russian it is he. Enjoy yourself." And,
nodding to him, she placed her
love song.
"Thank God," said Leah to Sam- arms on his and they glided away.
For a first attempt, Rachel got
uel, "our darling is happy once
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again. Thinkst that she has for- on amazingly well. She steadily
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gotten the—the—" Her husband improved with each dance until
only nodded, comprehending. "A by the end of the evening she felt
m tomofs
confident. The
and rhtyothm
young girl's heart should be hap-
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py," was all he said.
The hours flew by for Rachel in seemed to have entered her blood
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her happy, expectant frame of and she swayed and stamped to
To
mind, and on Saturday night Leah the measured beat as well as the
and Samuel knew that she had best. Naturally full of rhythm,
never looked so lovely. Her eyes this type of dancing became a very
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were a golden brown as they re- simple affair for her.
Irving was loathe to let her go,
fleeted the lights of her soft brown
silk dress which accentuated her once she had smiled into his eyes
can well abupeilatsafingu
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sfiegl: with those amber eyes of hers,
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