Show THE SPITE FENCE by GLADYS E SALTER robert lane t loot ill to hl tie new n it burton to price within a ali after to the I 1 latter latte had be moved I 1 from to another so port ot or the I 1 a town to next to I 1 the lane home price Is waa a quiet unna an 1 umang 1 I 1 roan 11 with a large e family I 1 his ll 11 r children 1 1 I 1 1 happened 0 to b arca one of air I 1 laos lanea id 1 in playing 1 ball 1 their it doz doe rooted up acine of the gold gardi n stuff came mr lane 1 lind had planted and that was a the start elect of mr lane fanes ill III feeling it la 1 arne te a the that I 1 mr prim price topped stepped we ofer to hla his neighbor bore house instated insisted 1 n paying tor far the ilie window and having ni the line sar damage repaired sired that mollified mn lane some somewhat whaL but bat the next ext evening mr me lure stepped over 0 o the price harras and returned mt hla his brow tike BI it a thunder t f et oder ployd what 11 lg the I 1 e trouble robert Robe ftc 1 in united his wife that th t price 1 1 1 im through wit with bani ain setta tta to his eighteen cearold dough ter 1 I hear that yon yen let that price cub walk with you I 1 to us the he t seminary sty get aller it t out antl As to the smaller ain children I 1 children look 1001 to yon yen martha madha to see a that bov dont with that tood bawl next door why robert echoed mrs laos lane whatever has ba crossed your price rim has and ad pit ill see are that be re le grets grace it I 1 stepped steppe d over I 1 in a kind of at neighborly way Y to ait ask him to vote for waller for sheriff price idiol informed I Dirl me a calmly that waller clr we was not tie the k iland nd I 1 of man so he con could tit recommend well r could ld he chilling d ill mrs lan ane significantly A YOU sou know wal ter ler late voth th the worst class II 11 in town tow never ney e mind pat im going to tr try Y tor demaar nr mayor t this his fall aint av 1 dema demanded led lane by entering catering a bit to walter waller it in the spring county election hell he 11 rem return the houpt compliment went an help Is IP me a win out 1 the fall wont vont he h so within a week there was 1 a set condition of feud between the it two families to fence those v vandals bals dals in he vo and hired a carpenter to borated bald a fence twelve feet high mr at price P die continued en aed to how bow courte bously la 17 to lane although the letter latter re buffed him with a scowl owl it nettled t to the letter latter to the point of distri distraction t who when he discovered that the spite fen fence I 1 a made an excellent excelle surface for far the price children to play handball handball he nearly collapsed one evening S Us when lo 10 en he came upon pan U betta receiving through a knothole in the suits spite fence fc a 1 rose roll poked through by her ardent sell 1 lover 1 ce young dudley price we wont won t have to stand that f anc final brood broad much 1 longer gerl 1 he be remarked to his bla wife soon as 8 1 I w m elected to the mayoralty I 1 in going to move to a better part of the I 1 town a wo on one evening rg lare lane arose ar to face a decidedly unpleasant incident during the night some nine nimble burgl burglar r had scaled the tha spite fence climbed into the upper room mon and roada made oft off with a lot in of jewelry j siy and ad money if it had not been for far the tence fenew began beg mrs mra lane L suit and then the thought it mour to barb further disturb be her dis it 1 I 1 tied husband A week after that lane came home to low weed and rein min tit bad bc leen a furious url vid windstorm tc about b noon ff nd ad fully y 50 feet of the fence had been be blown down if it hada hadn t been for the form fence b began mrs lane again but again sub sid sided for r lane was boiling over with edmor ill III humor as ha be began to really 1 e that hint hla his neighborly tactics were b caring bearing bitter fruit the tall fall election I 1 kenred I 1 and ad the town to we was split up between t so the ib two ung main DOW political parties and an annd dip epen dent group comprising commis an g the workers in ill the plant at the w other g or end of town where mr me atice was emp employed loved go one do day the manager 1 in chic chairge go 0 of the LOS campaign mat came to him with a rather amilon face I 1 ell you lane I 1 one he raid old its it a going goa 1 to a be a doall close shave AN why by how bow in can that be who when we rep resent arnt the usual maj majority alty party well 1 to be plot plain with ith you therea there a defection A good many ore am shying away from you 11 im what I 1 let for far that spite spire fence business food as im chasn t made a very good IP impression in ith the claas it its s true irne bour op lose Is a good many or votes at b be dirae he his antigoni A tile the mill peo OP ale hut b at their independent votes count up in the hundreds As A tho dagg ile went I 1 on L lane been began to ta realize that his manager we waa a pretty nager shrewd re analyst lane ano became ploomy gloomy or over r the p prospect pool TM the night before election he came home restless sol and pessimistic it was aa foregone f ec no sion sl that hat ne he had 10 lost weight in a Ms hs own about eight 0 clock someone called led him up on the ill phone 51 mr lou lane yes I 1 I 1 am built about to ad diesa dies the OD ludee independents aritte at the ile milt mill a v voice at spoke 1 I ant to ask you yoa a q question it AH A right replied lou lane s woD wadig wd dering Ig sho aho his interlocutor guterl tor rolert be are you in favor of putting through the new road mod for the convenience and ad property babit at the sor workers lers I 1 decidedly D who Is this 1 11 I m your neighbor price on your pledge mr lane wallsee wellsee well Bee see that you are ara elected do ted and he as and robert bobert lane learn ed ad his lesson hosam if he be winced when ill lit compared noted the kindly of him might sith alth his 01 own toured serum nature he felt he a on I 1 III his way 0 o mf reform l US aa bernow he removed the last vestige of the a suit fence to ev and ad was not boeree ij 13 dudley dudle price call at the house week reek |