Word: octavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with some misgivings from his gaudy throne atop a stack of cotton bales. "Frank Barton's got on tights!" the crowd sniggered. "Bet he's cool all right. Now he helpin' the Queen off the boat." Across an excited margin of sloppy river water stepped Queen Octavia Evans. "Ain't she pretty? Niece of Boss Eddie Crump's right hand man. She's supposed to be the Queen of Egypt. That's Gretta Garbo's own dress she's wearing-the one Gretta wo' when she was the Queen...
...release of scraggly, dim-witted Richard Dana, 62, nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun, and his guardian, Octavia Dockery, 61, daughter of a Confederate brigadier, once members of Natchez, Miss's oldtime gentility, who inhabit a rundown, goat-and-pig infested plantation, "Glenwood." outside Natchez, after their arrest on suspicion of murdering their neighbor, a well-to-do recluse named Jane Surget ("Miss Jennie") Merrill, daughter of President U. S. Grant's Minister to Belgium: indictment of both by the Adams County grand jury acting on secret new evidence. Sympathetic last...
...back to the veranda, through Miss Merrill's bedroom to the dining room. Early clues pointed to two of Miss Merrill's neighbors-scraggly, bearded Richard Dana, 61, who claims to be the nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana (New York Sun) and Miss Octavia Dockery, 60, daughter of a Confederate brigadier. Years ago the Merrills, Danas and Dockerys all moved in the same social circle of Natchez. "Dick" Dana, a gay young blade, suddenly retired to "Glenwood," his family's 90- year-old plantation home, a quarter mile from "Glenburney." Miss Dockery, unable...