y, the |
|murderer, without letting him get out on bail, and I|
|suppose that in a case like this they have to do a |
|lot of things before they can let me have the body |
|here. If Gene only hadn't died before Father |
|Rafferty got to him, I'd be happier. He didn't need |
|to make his confession, you know, but it would have |
|been better, wouldn't it? He wasn't bad, and he went|
|to mass on Sunday without being told; and even in |
|Lent, when we always say the rosary out loud in the |
|dining-room every night, Gene himself said to me the|
|day after Ash Wednesday, 'If you want to say the |
|rosary at noon, mammy, before I go out, instead of |
|at night when I can't be here, we'll do it.' |
| |
|"God will see that Gene's happy to-night, won't he, |
|after Gene said that?" the mother asked as she |
|walked out into the hallway with her black-robed |
|daughters grouped behind her. "I know he will," she |
|said, "and I'll--" She stopped with an arm resting |
|on the banister to support her. "I--I know I |
|promised you, girls," said Gene's mother, "that I'd |
|try not to cry any more, but I can't help it." And |
|she turned toward the wall and covered her face with|
|her apron.[49] |

[49] Frank Ward O'Malley in the _New York Sun_;
reprinted in _The Outlook_, lxxxvii, 527-529.

=278. Informational Type.=--The second type of feature story, the
informational, is the one we find most frequently in the feature section
of the editorial page and the Sunday edition. It includes such subjects
as, "How to Jiu-jitsu a Holdup Man," "Why Hot Water Dissolves Things,"
"Duties of an International Spy," "Feminism and the Baby Crop," "Why
Dogs Wag their Tails," "The World's Highest Salaried Choir Boy," etc.
Stories of new inventions and discoveries, accounts of the lives of
famous and infamous men, of barbaric and court life, methods for
lowering the high cost of living, explanations of the workings of the
parcel post system, facts telling the effects of the European
war,--these are some of the kinds of news included. Timeliness is not
essential, but is valuable, as in the publication of Halloween,
Christmas, Easter, and vacation stories at their appropriate seasons.

=279. Sources.=--The