Show A ROMANO by GERTRUDE E A Sf ryK S C cf lwiws 4 4 tile the train puffed off from y s the little station it port 1 well cli dressed gentleman A ali seated heated lit in the wait g ing ilig eab cab took off hla his pan ilan aina hat aril mopped his ala biow atie blow had broken from its ian old timi lui limits nud and icar beached leached lied nearly to the lack back of lila ills head ne ile was edall chanen and tuddy a fine of veil prisoner 5 3 ears ill hinr liar you want i ant to go sur the negro callman stood with his hand on oil tho the door and bowed abse was wa just the hie kind to give a half dallai and ask aak no chat chaice ge to IN b a leys I 1 hotel V halcos good grac loual tho the negro stepped biuk bilik and beckoned to another diler then lio lie turned re to his bis passenger I 1 dry dey aln t no Min W hn leys hotel now suh pun but a I 1 assel 0 rocks an all a olo chimney it lone done burn dovi sub to I 1 was born I 1 reckon hin in ill VIP the sti stranger anger vas evl evi fluently I 1 adl take me to some soine hotel I 1 As aa the engro gathered up tile tho lines ills pass nger put his boad bead out of the window I 1 diller do wo we pass lasa by the chuilli Chui cli liss sub buh go right down main etrest stop when you get abere and liere sob said bald ile iio bad pot not ole lie I 1 don t drive too fast I 1 ii vant ant to seo see the places n an I 1 go fio judge Blash foi 1 I was passing through gli an all that under the he most idoft Is neier without its ita pangs lie ile was mas le visiting for iho ho kimt little the scene of his parly early abood abo oJ I 1 J a ard ju ir ovi Dil tym on asbill deadrea pared to it I 1 I 1 tender firo P I 1 I 1 N rj LP a reia re iw iff ioria orle acie eie forming a picture or of ittle old and bare bara church which aben k the kato gate of hemen to his bla 0 tt 1 laahs dp de ahn canich ell still buh the ear T a e stopped before it i handsome bilili balc k face imil cathedral cathe dial glass and tone stone steps abe churche the judge sat up right and looked yass lass bill auti dis de chah chu cli maybe 3 sou oil wa was think lial bont de le old one dat done pull down long jong time thile ngo ago still judge Dus liford experienced it a feeling t keen iteen disappointment atile on lie sald said briefe briefly uc ile aas was looking out intently I 1 as they doun don tile the street I 1 yen lie he fa ald ld I 1 lietea lie iea AJ tile old catalpa in tho the niley said that a the first fa familiar millar thing I 1 e set sein it 1 I and I 1 here cattle caino into ills hl mind tt a gricol lection of words lloyds luiere llie re nothing on oil mik earth that leepa keeps its it youth lo fco far ar as 18 I 1 linow inow but a tree anil truth stop at the lie next earlier corner boy said lite hie judge tile the next cornei would kulil be the old M per or place it romp before liliu jilin a 4 if he had been it yesterday the lie big biff square house with mith it a brick pave anent lending tip tr it hot et in chism this w alk W vas mas a gene genelous ious heart hied failed with howers W I 1 painters bruth bri ith I 1 ond and I 1 golden but bi tons pink and by tile side of tho the pallor on the east jwj was a tree and a giace arbor vai in fit the ga gatipon gaide tilon ii the carriage stopped I 1 do de wrner corner suh 11 UK it had been transformed into acini B corn 11 mou plAce business block not a nos lea si tige of smoke tree or flow flo erg ere left I 1 drive me to the hotel sald bald the hie passengers ras pass senser engert with a R kindling for cor rip elp nati ati winkle in film bla stait ile he falt bere bereaved aled tile the depression that had fallen upon him deepened as hip he talked with the landlois land landl loid otil after dinner it seemed to him blin that he had bud tetu ined to a place of tombs the I 1 boys wei e gone the girls had bad passed away it some bome minutes before lie ho could bilang himself to the point of asking that for which he lad had come back and colonia family lit he said mid nt at lost last what liaa as become of them the lie landlois land loid shook his bis head bend most t theiu aie gone the old colonel decd led twenty years ago I 1 reckon mid find ilia his wife soon after lohn you lemeni ber john ili the youna youn irest fit boy well lvell he was mas ills glit flies bete with nith miss bliss bottle bettie noll she lie rallied her mighty girl site ebe Is too loo I 1 hey say cay she Is going to lunar young youna I 1 ales aler lan n remember the I 1 liknes don t you I 1 and the soluble switched off OB tol toj a side sidetrack I 1 lie judge ju dat di all I 1 pot not anllo hint hill donely lit tad bad the that talt lie he most ile de ceded sit ed jilis 11 8 nettle bettie Callb orile was NR at tant pi making bit aa bei 13 es 1 I vv wont ont pu rt t up tip many hns et thinking b aing mathei latlief dri aril as 6 h ed cut the g ugar ben et a guile thet e won I 1 be a adv tir loyb lJ b Q yb but ufa and sac me andi and I 1111 a t t v fc pill HA 0 afraid we wont mont have much appetite life looked a little ciny to MRS miss bet tie I 1 little ittle bettle bud bad bun only the before the arrangements for lid bt marriage all of this called back a flood of memories to miss bliss bet tie as she bhe flat bat in her own room late in tbt alig day rocking roc kini gettly in the moon light lettle little betties confidence had made her heart strangely tender did the ever tole oe anybody all ah she rose from tier her chair lighted the lamp nud and opened a bureau drawer life from generation to generation is but a rep of the old in every lonely woman a 8 heart there Is a be secret cret drawer and jn in it la Is a faded picture or a bundle of lt leters or a rose bud meaningless to all but her miss bliss bottles bettles secret dravet was nas only a little pasteboard box bov As she raised the lid the ant of tune loses filled the air but one solitary taken flout among notes and failed faded flowers inter cited miss bliss hettle A tender troubled look come into bpi ebes ns no she un folded the paper ellow cd with age how flow strange it was she roused mused ilow how ury N cry st str rangel augel I 1 will li III never know why he did not comet come ille letter as aa rp replaced laced at last then miss bliss bettle knelt down to say her in a ei s dear miss bliss bettle such huch a fragrant beautiful flower to bale been HO 40 long lite jam was mas going into lite glasses when the donibell doo ibell rang delphy urb pled the lisetor into tho the dim shaded philor pal for and left him to gione for a seat alone afta stumbling ovel an en cm footstool or two judge blashford ashford Bt foi it was lie sat bat thank fully down on oil the sofa and looked around ile he i cached over and turned the lite N benellan blind with an odd feelings fee lingi wincelle sin celle bail e giai a I 1 ebaid if I 1 tori for III fc abat chilt III 10 atz t I 1 f 3 R 1 0 S WWI re I 1 4 0 millar scene A big 1 figured 0 brussels bius bi aela carpet carli ct a inar 1 blo ble 1 L till topped 1 table lalie on oil which alft books I 1 and annuals alItIa ls and little piles of family were primly placed around tile the family bible in the c entre tt fl small square piano with floe floers flon cred rc color coer sin mounted liy by a wax max cross un di dd a glass globe those these were the lent fm features tures that met liia his gize mural liere was a long jong minor air the high mantel mid inui a wreath of if hair flowers fl ile he lose and went lent to where the ll 11 wreath hung ile he ed it well N ell there was as tile tie battle rose that he be and bettle caliborne Call borne lind laughed over 0 er in ill those old daas it I 1 t was nas made of V salue sallie millers rd bah how radiant radl antl beau will hi 11 ittle had biad been in those dabal of murse she would mould be changed that was waa but such color its as hirs could liardo chere was mas a slight noise and hc bt turned an elderly lady sweet wrinkled idu kled face tood tv b rot foie him film her hair was almost white and there was N as a stoop to tile the shoulders rise judge started ile he was sure the lall landlois land loid iad had said bahl that mrs caliborne Call borne was las dead but lie advanced adian ced to meet li hd I 1 mrs airs caliborne Call borne borner h lit said biely tl fly miss alias cn Call ilbok bottle tie ah she in ili a voice tolee that led him alth sith it iti faill jar bettle call borne judge gasped ne lie had bad a strong inclination lation to run at moment happening to raise his bin yes eyes f lie he caught sight of ills his own olin beitl head bend and rotund figure in fit the glass lie ile hail had forgotten that time blands still till for no one may I 1 ask 3 our naro I 1 inid alss bittle bettia 1 I think perhaps pol pei haps I 1 ought to know it 1 1 I niu arn 1 illiam liani ll blash ord lie he paid I 1 IN ill Plash foLd miss bettle stead ltd lid by it 11 chair it vian the name to hei bel letter idler and was nas tile the man that th tb slender blonder curly headed collegian colle gilin had biown gi oi n to bea be labe hail had always thought of him bin as young and slender allia bettle felt no as it if bh lie bad been personally IV IN ben ili ah birst embarrassment was our mir they eltred odi ally luto into con coil uis 1511 atlon tion sit 80 together on oil the morn sofa and of old dinits ani old alend rhey were gli 91 41 to meet they laughed and ine iriST but tech inch licht hild a hand close upon the drimer rach thought that the mthr lad I 1 rd foi gotlin all about it judge blashford Blash foid edyed to ten tell bittle lind stolen flow the room little bettle beltle had come in ili and hurriedly donnld her new nen black and white 0 gandle and planed pinned it queen of tap rose on oil her breast perhaps it t was the hurry that brought bro tight a just to hot faded cheek but art aa she rat nt lie he lonu the collep pot anil and pound out delicious cottee coffee jude blitchford Blitsh ford Sou gouid id at her w ith deepening interest ile he was vas beginning to see a little of tue the fettle of old miss bettie vaa lias a capable boutel boutet 41 t 00 keeper judge wis waa experienced enough to know the signs those hot waffled and broiled chickens went straight to the heart hidden beneath his bl capacious lest est ile he had bad not had bad such a meal since well for some years bliss ml bettie certainly looked much younger than he bad thought at first they went out on the porch after supper spit little kettle bettle came out iab with a crocheted shawl and reminded her aunt that she would be having neuralgia if she were not more care ful and judge blashford remembered ned that he had been a good deal troubled lately himmele bIn aHelf with mith and they fell to talking about symptoms mid and remedies and arc anthes strange to say a sense of came upon then them with this interchange of elderly confidences that had not tie ac compan led the recalling of youthful escapades they had bad grown old alike and it did riot not at em to be a matter for unmixed i egret cegret they ibea began to talk now of the sober slid sad details of life lie ile spoke to her of the wife nife of his youth or of their separation by death of if the who lad had left him one by one until now III his home waa mal n R dreary place and she listened with ith only pity in her eyes then she thought of tittle bettie and confided to him that mie hod bad never let tile the dear child know how bow she dreaded to have tier her go aw fkr a 3 finally tl e judge took it a letter flow chiq inside pocket miss bettie he be said and his bis tone la was as ati auy y sober I 1 do you remember a letter I 1 sent you on the day before I 1 left college did she all ah could she ever forget it was the one she had lead only the night before yes slip bile bald inu ani wrote an all angeii er to it miss nettles bettles lead head dropped assent alter after all these years her checks flamed to think of that answer and how it bad broil been fenoid cleople used to say cinat Ill Blash ashford tord had ft a way of playing wilh ith rills hearts but she had bad novel bel believed belleek leed it ire he held a letter yellowed with mith age in ills his hand 1 I sent bent my letter by mall mail I 1 expect ed the answer in the same way loll ion gave it to henry hillard and asked him to rhe gle it to me miss bliss bottle ills ilia letter hail had sald in dosing closing in the lite romantic fashion of their ofee age it I 1 may hope holic send bend me but one woid come azbe had bad written ritten A abat word mord slip had sent it balila frand for mie jie would not trust it to the uncertain malls but lie he had bad not replied the next day clay lie he had bad gone away and she had bad not seen him toi rot forty years 1 I did dd not rec receive elret jt be ay iy miss bettie looted at him wonder monder angly fily for arlt it ana as her bar letter that be h way was ditl 1 I 1 abot re bo her ZT ri penh pe e fen y en rs T ien 11 1 to M meltha melt w fa ay tt at nl i I 1 a his hig boo goffen all about lie h e ca mea e cros it by bi accident ile he old did not kno ba b a was in it when it came I 1 wast waa arar r ried and ami biad lail chil diAl about roy knees etwas it vaa too late then aar explanation I 1 put it away in my far pata and it has ha been there ever since ile he stopped but miss bottle bettie voiad not ralso hot hei eyes ile he la waited a ino l ment lent and then lion went on oil 11 1 I m would riot not bale thirl ablat tills this blasted Llast cd my life is largely made up of I 1 hail had a bonine loin faithful alfe v ife anil and a good fatally family they made tor for nie me a true home I 1 have lad nil fill tile the joy of domestic life lou IOU I 1 I 1 trust have not been unhappy I 1 have bave had bad much to be thankful for she murmured she would mot say bay just thea but while this la is true he contin conten betl pd it la Is no to disloyalty to the dead to say that the ol of this letter has bits changed lite ent liely for both of us its 11 she could not she was vaa think ing of those sad sad years of w malting ailing before hope 1 illein I of the girl who thought each mo coining ining ile he will come today bodny and each eN ening ile he wilt will surely come coine tomorrow to morrow anil and it haa bail bien to 0 o morrow and to mairow and ami the years yeara had passed awai slie she had bud had a use useful tul lomy buty life she had bien content but still bile that girl she luew no long ago fhe judge ans as speaking again ails bettejo iw he said alile ne have not many more of lire life you yon and I 1 ne e tire breon on the do downward alard slope but bilt lie ile stooped over a and tit took jf r thiu thin aliu blued hand in liis bir strong one awe not i wait alk together the reste tile n fly ay A mist wan man in alls attles cam it hid front from lier her the lite portly judge the lor lon of it her youth was mits bes bushle fitle her ber june roses rose m were ere blooming again the question Iti estion she ehe had maitch for so co long ilia had conie coale at lust hist will you riot not speak peat to me av dear said raid the judge and bliss clettle gale ilm alm me an that had bad been in her heart tor for tory foray years 1101 1 loeida ida agriculturist |