Show FICTION THE ION STRANGE SPECTACLES CORNER By Richard H. H Wilkinson N THE MORNING of 01 Aug Ug Q ON Sandra Hunter glanced through her bedroom window and saw a strange spectacle Between the great white house and the street was a wide expanse of lawn and this lawn was at present occupied by a young man pushing a lawn lawn- mower Sandra didn't know what tomake to tomake 3 I ri ci make of it She Sher Fiction is r rem remembered e m be red that her mother mothes and father w were were re away for the weekend week end and that the servants were inthe in inthe inthe the rear of the house By the tune time she had bad dressed and ventured outdoors the young man I had finished his mowing and was res resting ling in the shade of the veranda Will you kindly explain expiate what this is all about said Sandra S I Just lust mowed your lawn as it Ii S should be mowed Should be mowed Sandra puckered up op her brow What do yon yen mean s a should h o 0 U I d be mowed Who are you yon And where Is Rufus Rufas our gardener Im Jerry Leonard I bribed your gardener this morning to let me mow your lawn You see I 1 have to drive by your house every morning on my way to work and every mornIng morning morn morn- Ing Ive I've noticed that Rufus cuts the lawn unevenly Well Weli of ot all Besides Ive I've been wanting to meet you since last June Meet me Yes My mother and I moved Into the old Saunders place last June and the day after aner I 1 saw you and decided I 1 had to meet you 4 Ive been hoping you'd ij IP ii t to ma me 8 for lor ever so Ion long loar Sn San said b but t you gave the im Imp toi Eion sion of being rather high bi h I 1 noticed your lawn and thin Ito the idea of bribing Ruin Rufus It like killing hilling two birds with wit stone He grinned I 1 1 ton knew father and mother were loin going away Why the very Ideal I I-I believe youre you're serious Jerry Leonard scratched iiiI to iii toI I was never more erlow life lile Shucks I Im I'm sorry If 11 1 JO the way you look The way I look Sandra to wonder how she did look loot A dozen retorts came to w they all seemed flat fiat and toil toad almost silly She hesitated I instant longer and then abruptly and strode back I hC house se Jerry Leonard Leonara D u v vand and into his face there came cameil I of disappointment 1 THROUGHOUT THROUGHOUT the da day Je it ita Jen a conscious of a forlorn All his ls carefully formed p pi ii proved fruitless At 5 I o odo OCIO drove home via a route that thai j take him past the Hunter CLeaving e C Leaving his coupe outside ft drive he entered the I b brear rear door and found a note Dot j kitchen table left there thes W Il mother which advised Wo I J had gone to a church that if It he be didn't want to te car hed he'd find some Waind warmed over u uIn I In the oven oyen j Jerry moodily ate the th ra 1 hover over things and arid afterward it t outside to smoke moke a I was about to ease bIm himself doorstep ably onto the toward the th thelIe chanced to glance He lIe blinked rubbed his eYl b bAs W h. WAs lowed What the devil devil lb th As he be approached u who had been w washl r I mobiles mobile's wheels wheel and stood oft off to work 1 II It was Sandra 14 dickens What t the are to tot you ou UP S Oh she he said HenO lured toward the coupe O on cal wheels Been Bee for tor weeks week Ia Jerri Vve Ive Tv noticed you ou bl bedroom day from m my but Iou 1 look looks tine flOe of the car ear p V the th seem eem to forget 11 b bIS h Jerry puckered up W peered a the t girl gill at H. H U face wa wu grave aU alit allT No o said ald Sandra Peak tOso to P hoping you'd W so long but you thI of being wet wen ther promote seemed like a promote friendly grinned You Y ou i I moths mother w wu was away 7 |