Show i A N I i 0 RACE regarded with ro jo r probation the hug big Ig bearded man who 1 had bad swung himself I from from the tho ho train be before fore foin rot It had fully j stopper and n ud camo came camoa a hurrying Jt toward l I t her You promised 4 IP tp bo ho hero horo phd old home week she ahe said auld ro re roI I But it looked for foi a time lime as though II II I should take more interest in an old folks home he nc with a il laugh Those steamers sh think of or gotting in il fl a of oC days das they the are ae scheduled or S or Qt 10 days behind Tn In n my ti case caso they tile took tho the 10 IP days dars behind timp The crazy old engines broke down clown as I wired you yO y iu from tom New Orleans If should have started earlier she sho scolded but Im not going to toI tart start I right in to lecture I know that it was Aas as all you OU Oti could do to get hero here anyhow an ho and It was Avas dear of you to want Avant to come caine back and see the tho old homo hoino when whon all al your interests are so far away now Ilm Im sorry though that you camo came today to da its like JIe the morning after acter tho iio party Everybody is tired anti and cross and it will Avill be two or three days before arc right again Wo We PEYTON dont mind of or course but It is in not nice for you jOIl to come in tho first LImo In throe three years to find tho the place In confusion I Everywhere there were Avero signs tho the celebration that was Avas past Along Alon the hc street men mon were perched on Oil the poles taking dowil the strings of u Incandescent cent bulbs that had festooned the theline theline theline line of o march and antI here hore and there a arch Wits Avns already In ill pro process cess CS cea destruction and was W as S beginning lo to show tho frame of or o and scant scantling ling that had hr d hy lu h bunt Ipp Rig and staff during tho lip All 4 II your ou I people wore here herc c cx Griep Gr Ct liB its 8 tile they turned turne in the pf cf thin pI They could only anI the tho first two wo daj 1111 they tile the Unit that t though they the were yoro ere sorry tile ther Pm l not pot bo lie boe to H vol ve 01 inn nl Ym jo to be he looking after thiat ond Phi I cut H tp to my Ill d r I r Yours Iii i the first hiat fapp J 1 havo hao been teen In ip CI l from YUle YIp Sf down tp p Except yourself corrected Grace I You have havo ha Vj boon ben VOlT very Vel successful Peyton At the tho opening meeting they ther tile spoke of oC you as iS one of the tho men meu who were a pride to lo the town ton Im glad of that declared Pey Peyton PO Pc ton Bradley with Avith a rumbling rum lIng laugh laughl I l remember that in my younger days daB it was Avas tho tue general belief that that Peyton Peton Bradley was Avas bound to La got get himself hung hunS I 1 believe a lot lol of old Indies Idl s arc aro ai c still disappointed that I And Anti lots hots of young ones oneR who AVIO iio arc that you amended Grace as thiC passed a bevy leyY o of high school schoolgirls girls who tho wh cast C st glances at a alho atthe the stranger with tho the splendid phy physique hii and anti tho the strong mobile face Peyton Bradley was a it good looking young oung giant and Grace Graco was Avas proud of him They Pile had been heen In n the tue theold theold old school days und and when the death detthof of Bradleys father hind bad broken up tip the tue family and his bla hi heritage had been beena a silver watch and un some sonic good advice ho had fared forth to mend his for fortune fortune fortune tune with such good goon result that after three years ean absence ah ence ho lie had bad felt able a le leo to o return to lo visit his native town AH A Ii they the reached the he hotel he heror unlIned panned for a moment to lo say sar Ba goodby lo to tho tito ho girl gi 11 Ill Ili be bo over as soon oon as I 1 can wash I up antI and change chang e my things he said It will Avill iii not take more moro than half an hour and anti then AVO wo can walk valk over to the point and get away atay aa from all al this dirt and Grace Avas IlS waiting for him and lI when he had hud greeted Mrs Chilvers they suited started for fOl little lillo p that Wun tho the favored walk wal pf p tn tj liP sp who walked T for Cor pleasure Im 11 glad to get out ont of the tho town ho he when they hurl hud passed I from Crom tho the paved street to the country I road toa roa l i I met about 60 50 people on the way war to Lo your om house and un they thoy t he nil till stop stopped stopped ped me to tell teli how sorry I should be hc that hint I missed week I J don dont t care ea You dont dont rr fried Grace Graco rp f n gl Why Wh Peyton ro ton Bia lie Ive Ivo got It In ill jour own pg that ll wanted to Lo como come on au for fOl I that he lie Ie conceded but buti It ItI t tI i w aln Sit old i s wrote that J wanted to conic loi lumps and Ill Im hOt top tO l lute for foi thit P I be getting c eLti a W Ironi to diU hH II I 1 ran have t LI p l lp that r came caine for forM rorI forI M I I soo part of u n Hp bration you ou con have ho fj hi h iy Scud pf cried GIf 1 ont dont t It all nil b h lri I oll But PlY lion Is Ie not hot un flit old uld homo home hut but a II new Ive conic come to tell lell you rou about my III new fl home and to flak ask jou OU to share sharo It Its a u pretty etty place dear clear and not noti jig j i lint hut as Hi pi UD Hn h rp m lo to think It Is th that lucky turn lurn turnover turnover 1 over in the 6 J was al p lp tp p pur pm purchase chase chus a n illion l Hl Pvc Pe v II a home nomo tp p at hint hp L I about home honic o letters have havo al always I ways w r h n sort told GRACE nothing of or your OUr heart It was WIS better belter betterto so to because I 1 did dd PR nR want Avant to bo he a n do mans manger r HIli tic you clown to a l mari man who Wilo might not win success in v vI tS I came on oil for fOt homo week to ask ark you OU to Lo share my IlY home If Jf someone else had won you oU I could explain to y our friends that I had run nm on for forthe forthe the tile celebration ce and they the would not connect your With Avith mine la Is lathere there thero th JIe else Grace Ther had paused at a bridge that spanned a n creek and antI the girl with Homing was AVIS looking In Into into to lo the tho water Now she turned tinned a smiling face to his i I thought that there was Avas Someone someone else to confessed but hut I thought that that someone was isas my lii rival When thien you Aou did not of anything in but home week I J told myself that you OU Avero WelO Interested I In Iii someone down there and that you Oil wanted to Lo have hae a at nt the old place before you jou ou and settled down There Thero has been anyone OnO but you ou pey Toy 1 ton toll I And there never neve was AVIS such a sillen did as our home week I be Bit EIt tho the real celebration dear j will Avill be whoa whon we truly come to tp our J t home horpe There will vill bo ho no bunting arches trumpery decorations built hullt only to lo bo he torn down anti and it will Avill be bethe bethe bethe the that only we two tAVo share sharo it the l le sort sOll of f homo home week I Iwas Iwas was Avas thinking of Tho The sort that Is heat best Grace iraco j |