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Link's story is simple enough. He was an orphan from The Narrows, the Negro slum of Monmouth, down by the river. He had been brought up by Aunt Abbie Crunch, a former schoolteacher and a lady of almost painful rectitude. But Bill Hod had been an even greater influence than Abbie. Hod was the Negro owner of the Last Chance, a coldblooded, iron-fisted racketeer who paid Link's way. through college and wised him up to life. The trouble began when Camilo, Mrs. Treadway's daughter, met Link down at the docks one foggy night...
Offhand, this novel has what seems a pretty used-up plot, the story of a tarnished Cinderella. Senorita Amparo Emperador was very beautiful, very poor, and an orphan, without beaux or hope of dowry. In Madrid, in 1867, that was about as bad a fix as a girl could find herself in. So Amparo had become a slavey for her distant, stingy relatives, Rosalia and Francisco Bringas, who kept her jumping from dawn to dusk and repaid her with spoiled food and a few rare pesetas...
Then Remo, their 14-year-old orphan nephew, came to live with them. Remo had beautiful eyes "framed in long and vigorous lashes." He would bend over them while they were working, and when they felt "his fresh, youthful, fruit-scented breath on their necks and faces, a novel, unexpected feeling of well-being would run through them, bringing with it a swift intoxication, a slight giddiness." Neither of the old maids had the least idea what was creating such havoc in their dried-up bosoms...
...artillery of the 24th Infantry Division has instituted an "Adopt-an-Orphan" plan in which pictures of individual orphans are posted in G.I. chapels and clubs for soldiers to "adopt" for $5. All the orphans in one orphanage have been adopt-"fathers" send them presents take them to an occasional movie...
Cause & Effect. In Oklahoma City, William McCord, 32, pleading guilty to stealing candy from six orphan children, confided: "My trouble is whisky...