Show iss S fidelia s raws cs garden by jerome S aricue ight igil ia by ZAte literary farY pres iss ss fidelia had made up her d that none of her nieces should i the privileges illges of girlhood arthen hen I 1 m was as yo young ung she said to most intimate friend mrs per chan I 1 was oung phoebe know knon how things were with me her cr and mother believe sentiment was necessary and fit made us wear near practical plain rs and entertain our company v tf n the whole liale family was uns present the result was that mary and rgaret pret ran away to get roamed married I 1 1 I not having their courage have tamed single and now mary and rgaret are doing just as its father mother did driving dri ving their five tty daughters to clandestine cn cri do emenas 8 and making nil all sorts of cole ulle if they look at a young man ce d 11 ell mrs perkins said you w how I 1 used to pity you fidelia ine vas uns only ahen ft hen you caroe came over to bise use that nou ou ever eier saw andrew port ikes kes and at last our conscience ned vou ou about that and you eu ed away and lie thought you tle nt like him hini any more and went ent I 1 lil west laze chert ni as a pretty blush on miss 11 ilias dias cheeks oh andrew 2 iaci she mused he be was a nice e phoebe and if I 1 had it to do I 1 fa r again id act differently her calm manner deceive phoe tit ashes forgotten that she ah ought her heart was broken I 1 rember she cried for a whole night my arms when he lie went away get ut t bhe blie did not voice her thought Q e merely asked placidly what e aou ou going to do about our acts s dd im going goin n to provide eveD ever thing til at I 1 will hilp them along the roid 34 mitri matrimony mony said miss fidelia fidelin xa amly ily fe been happy enough 1 hoebe ebe but ive missed a lot and ho m not going to have hae them follow it g in m footsteps and since un e jude died and left me the old lice c I 1 have lime planned tofia it so that hen n those girls come to see me there ill be everything ready to entertain heir r oung men pm im going to have idocks and coay corners and a where they can pop corn I 1 nd make candy and pro im going to I 1 ie alic he floor in the dinant dining 0 room shed so that they can dance and f hev dont have a good time it ont it 6 because I 1 dont know how 0 lan ian it for them sisters argued that be little ladys ideas were 1 her garden for example she caled pd the garden of love loe and there 0 o wai a fountain in it with a cuin cum pil marble hol holding dino the matero spout it will think aou a are a FOnt mental old maid was mas the un statement of sister mary lian n she came over one night to fill her own three pretty daughters in margarets Itar garets acting ns as hostesses to a i crowd croad of laughing young folk I 1 am said misa miss fidelia Fid plia serene ly 1 I allowed to have any and romance in my own UL b h and pm im going to see that war r people get it I 1 let my girls go there confided afterward to margaret hut undo uncle judo jude left fidelia all his money and it wont pay to make ber mad ile was always furious over that andrew stokes affair he lie thought juht father and mother should haw P let fidelia marry him that reminds me margaret ad andrew stokes 0 i in town rufus saw him at tho the post postoffice office nce lary alary stared well of all thi things J ab said then she leaned forward wed better keep him im away from fidelia she said fidelia aidt fifty and you dont know what notions she might t han have e about him if they had only guessed the memory Andrew of stokes burned in miss fidelia heart she had never forgotten him never ceased to mourn her lack of courage in refusing to marry him it was phew perkins who told her he be ii was as in town andrew stokes came to sec see us last night fidelia ehe she said he ite asked after you ou it seemed to miss fidelia as if the secret which she had kept so long must mu st be read now in her face her heart beat to suffocation but ehe she managed to say calmly Is he be married phoebe no and he lost his looks fidelia his hair is gray but hes liep 0 as straight and handsome liand some AS ever jand and he be sterna prosperous they say he has hag made a lot of money mat what did he lie say about me 99 miss aliss fidelia held her breath for the annii cr or and phoebe hesitated to give it he lie asked if that pretty little girl who ho jilted him had ever married and he said it very bitterly but I 1 jilt him miss fidelia cried why 1 I 1 I just give gie him any answer at all I 1 well when we told him you single ho he waited a while and then asked Is she aa as pretty as evera ever oh phoebe I 1 94 and I 1 said yeav yes mrs perkins asserted stoutly of course you arent as oung joung ID but except that your curls are silver siler instead of gold I 1 cant see much difference that night miss fidelia fidelin sat down beside the fountain 1 I guess I 1 am too old she whispered 1 I put on this white dresa dress toni tonight lit and tied a blue ribbon around my r n y hair but I 1 dont look the same and anyhow I 1 cant expect andrew to come to rny my garden of love loe he ile understand that irn brave enough 11 now id alv with him to the ends of the forth would fidelia said some one behind her and she turned and capped gapped andrew let me look at ou he ile drew her up tip from tho the bench youre still a little little timid thing he lie said as she shrank from him phoebe perkins has as been telling me some things fidelia ri delia I 1 wonder if she gue gueci bcd the truth 1 I dont know miss fidalia faltered she told me that you hid laid out this garden of love because you had missed romance in our u in THI life and she told me aou QU cried the night that I 1 left fidelia fidelin ho ile bent over her and suddenly miss fidelia timid miss fidelia V L he understand that im brave enough no who bad been taught to hide her feelings e broke away suddenly from all bonds etere been a minute in all these years that r thought of aw w it 7 T 11 you andrew she cried and when nhen A my garaca it via aya jou and myself that I 1 saw in it as wo we might have been it was for you I 1 made my garden of loe andrew and after a little while when rapturously lj he lie had renewed the vows of hia bi buth she leaned oter and looked at the cupid m n the fountain look andrewt andrew she said joyously lit lie sneering at mo me now lies laughing because u at last were reunited |