Show 1 0 0 FREEDOM CRANMAR mary hanson turned her bar taca face toward the wall and shielded hor her with bent arm that she might take taka her extra sunday morning nap and in the jumbled dream which followed she bhe seemed to pe be tolling alone up a long hill bill at the iop top of 0 which she rested under a shady tree trea and am was joined by tho the tall man who lived next door then suddenly into her dream camo came the tha magnetic voice of the man with whom abe had hold held dally daily business busl telephone conversations tor for two years but had never seen I 1 that afternoon when mary went to her room after tho the midday dinner she again felt the loneliness of her lot through the open window there carao came to her the wondrously clear SOUK song of a bird it brought mary to the win dow to soo see what tho the singer looked like perched on tho the topmost branch of ta the big biff tree in the yard next door was a tiny yellow canary intoxicated with tho the joy of being released temporarily from its cago cage which a maid was placing conspicuously on the fence back of the large apartment directly across tho the alley from marys boarding house the man next door sat oat as usual under the tree with a bookard boo book kand and as aa she saw caw him mary remembered her dream the song of the bird seemed P to penetrate pene his thoughtful mood and he halt half closed his book and looked aloft abolt until he located the songster although mary still hold held a book in her handshe hand aho read little tor for the song of the bird kept coming to her and with it the memory of the sympathetic smile of her neighbor her occasional surreptitious peeps showed the man apparently absorbed in his book although it she could have fated him directly she would have found that his eyes were dream dreamily lly gazing at nothing at all the maid and the child reappeared and began to whistle to the canary to lure it back to its lt cage but the singing speck of yellow flitted flirted from limb to limb without condescending to notice their poor imitation of its song suddenly it came so near to marys window that she looked out and saw it perched on tho the tall lilac bushes at the corner comer of the back porch perch Th tho maid saw her and asked permission to bring the cage into the yard mary bade her come and without thinking of the proximity of the man next door went below to try to help rapture capture tho the fugitive when the maid approached the lilac bushes with tho the cage the tiny bird tucked its black eyed head to one side eyed her saucily until she was almost near enough to reach it ind and with pert little chirps to emphasize each move he went from branch to brah until it reached the top of the shrub bery from which ho he flow flew across the fence to tho the upper branches of the big tree next door the man next door put down hla his book and rose lie spoke to the maid mald lust just as aa mary WM VMS consoling the weeping child who thought her pot pet had got permanently beyond roach reach when she raised tw head the man was whistling to the bird in notes wonderfully like its own tho the little yellow song stor etor peeped down from its lofty perch and gave a timid response to the mans call slowly by almost distracting tr methods of coming downward a distance of six inches and remounting tour four or aye the bird was coaxed to 0 lodor branches ot 0 the trva tho the maid Pok passed asod the cage to tha mav but the bird rediscovered th 11 ui lac jac bushes bulea and took refuge again to in their branches without a word vord the man handed the cago cage to mary and their eyes met la in a 0 smile ot of friendly conspiracy the tha man then crouched by tho the fence and as the bird again began restlessly to me measure asuro the distance but back to tho the big tree he rose with such a sudden bound that it cowered o ra motionless tor for an ln stant and he quickly closed his bis largo large hands bands over it with grest great tenderness ha bo hold held the quivering mite until mary ma ra got tho the cage near enough for him to transfer the prisoner it the little fellow knew that his freedora freedom would deprive him of his bis alte blvd thank us tor for capturing him her hat As aa he be spoke mary col ored orea with surprised pleasure tor for she recognized the voice of tho the man gitil whom she held those thosa dally daily telephone conversations yes tes he have his freedom long enough to albam how many other things ago it deprived him of theman the mans a surprise at this enigmatical remark would havo have been greater had bad it not hen besu eclipsed by his surprise at ree rec tho the voice in which it was boken 1 why sorely ive learned to know twigs jas hansons Han agola sons voice by tole telephone too well wt not to recognize it at closey range he bo said simply dont you talk to wells at the macon lacoa darbee printing company eye every day YM yea and I 1 recognized your TOO too mr foiw wall at U give me ine toe the Dle pleasure asure ot at knowing you asdall as well ad your voice miss hanson ill thank that little bird tor for MIng BO 80 long to enjoy his 1148 breedom f 0 m marys answer win was soft bott and brief but imell eva it led lea to a 86 willing surrender surf r e r 0 of f her to so called ballod freedom in exchange for the tb protecting ship of john wells instead of a cage to ad provided provided a charming cha bunt bungalow mow where contentment so BO encircled hoth both ot them thit that no craving tor for a failer freedom over ever game camo to either copyright 1919 by the tha mcclur aird Ni rD per |