Show F THE BEST MAN WINS i by SUSAN E CLAGETT it you have aleal ot tile place paved with good Intent intentions ious pauline dear I 1 am afraid many bricks are arc laid to my credit for my intentions aro are always good but foil of accomplishment I 1 mean to write hut but sonje somehow never do tills this time lime you must for I 1 am most unhappy arid and my unhappy ness enin camo a from out a cc clear I 1 mr shy 6 ky since then I 1 have sounded tile the dept depths lis father ts Is obdurate mother sides with in it Is nothing but pig bended obstinacy in father anyone looking at howard would know lie ho la Is 11 gentle ile he certainly Is good to look at al tin and or of course I 1 think fit alio sun rises and tin sets in ili him film lint hut father will not listen its ten when I 1 tell hlin blin we me fire engaged lie ile merely says when NIi you ion enre can for it tuan mail anne you ou can marry fig as soon as lie ho ahks you hut but so long fig as I 1 live a make bellow believe c one shall never neer have you july 1001 1 I thought my illy letter had readied reached you iou but have just found it in ill my lily portfolio when I 1 wrote a mouth month ago I 1 thought myself encompassed by nil misery sery but lily feelings evere ere as nothing to what they lime have been the past few days davs bather Pat lier told me inc I 1 must break orr off my engagement that I 1 should not see ec how aid again I 1 stormed stor ined lip ile filore ly 1 said jane liatis put lint on oil your lint hat and euid taku take a drive dilse with mill your our mother and ule ine that was all 1 I 1 told myself I 1 hut but I 1 lind and never disobeyed father lit in my illy life nit and we c stalled on oil that drive it was n long onu one it took us fig three days dais to roach reach tills place it a little figini fit at the lip end of nowhere non herc thirty nine miles from the nearest rall railroad road there is no pout no telephone no ear earl I 1 july oth dear it lq Is a comfort to dint chat still you iou lvell imn if my illy letter lias ims to wait forever and forever to road reach the office I 1 to do get gel so hungry for home hoine news alother lias has drifter will ten once tint but not a wot woid it front dad till which shows hows phi filly thill I 1 ani till in ill ills grace giace todo ieter told loll tile me lie fie might go to the lie station stitt lon for mail it if it lic lie thought oan dan islaam would talce take my illy letters aho vho owr Is dan dail isham I 1 avent li soca seen it a trian inan except peter ieter since father left me ino hero her I 1 onar wonder on lr if lie be Is as old and wrinkled crinkled as iati r july lie ile came caino benoro I 1 had finished my lily letter just an tit ordinary fit farmer or sort of person pei on hi his nice eyes I 1 saw that alt although bough lie lic turned tinned thero them aay awn y tit at once I 1 vonder onder what aliat liat hu he thought of tile me august will 1 I am seeing a good deal of dan all ighani lie ilo lives on tile the net pance wherever thit that Is no ile n bit like howard Ilou aid hut but lie ho knows knos harp where to find the loveliest loneliest wood flowers no eis tint tills this morning showed tile ine the lie cutest little openmouthed open mouthed baby birds mocking birds lie he said they were we i e august dun dan crime came till tills morning anil and asked me inc to walk ull to to kings creek cicek with alth him film I 1 dont know what got into mo but I 1 felt I 1 must talk of 0 howard I 1 told of our engagement engi gement and how determined father fallier Is that it shall lint be broken on off but I 1 avils determined ter mined to maii him I 1 cattle came of na aye and when will that but be lie fie asked your appearance this chis morning suggests nothing so much as that of a pretty spoiled child of tc tv velve le spoiled ed cliff child I 1 I 1 gasped gaped I 1 could not control tny my voice so I 1 turned my lily back on oil blin As ag I 1 lid sr so I 1 caught sight of something that turned me ine cold with fright fil glit coming coining toward us with lowered lien licad was 11 great blick black bull with n 1 I shuddering soli soft I 1 caught hold of din it tind idd hid my illy face against tits shoulder Wl i cl caillo illo then tile the low to mutter of that awful ninde made htiu him turn sudden suddenly lN will you um believe me pauline din dan shun but he be let iet me ine gr go IR 11 e put bis liand under tinder lei my lily chin and made me ine look nt at him hill what lit lie salv in my eyes I 1 do not know mint aliat I 1 in ilis his inde me inc again tilde hide my lily nee against that old faded blue lilot lil rt even through my lily rent I 1 vils nus glad rather had told low flow aid chandler I 1 should not marry him 1 I dad tint not mind dans laughing there was such comfort om fort in feeling tits his amis about tile 1110 but for sake I 1 tried to slip from froin chent when tie he aid jane that steer is one of peters ox os team and Is as gentle it ns a lamb truly I 1 am than thankful will lie put in tin in appearance pe arance ance jut just now for I 1 have been wondering ever since you u began talking of nf Clui chandler how bow long loft I 1 would have to wait before lafoie ou oil found out boti loved mo file li instead MeAd for you nii do love tit nn there Is no question ah ait my illy feeling for you I 1 surrendered tin the firt time little t saw vau nu when we at last reached the house whom should hould WP we find lint flit iler n lid lie he shook shoo dans hand bund its ir if tip bad kilo known wil flint till all ills his lire it derins ll da dm it had lift studied law in tire he office mid ami lind hart lipari associated late more or lis les mii lilt thid ever since I 1 dont know wh I 1 hart had never met inet him it just happened happe nril so 0 o I 1 suppose of course onn min rest until mull he had told father about ourselves when lien lie he filli finished shed dad looked ct at nit nie with a twinkle in hla him eyes that me file suspicious but lie sald very solemnly zolen you cn can have lier her dan dail you vou surely arv are a nian man after heart 1 11 I wonder pauline I 1 wonder IJO you yop think dad could haip ia this in mind when I 1 lie left me thirty lellea from a n post office i copyright lils ty the N 1 per SIndi vindicate sindicate cate Y |