Show hetty hopes love affair WHEN starry hunt and holty horo lift lie been engaged three months the time met can tor for him to lem a 8 I 1 i ila had bad been only a on rummer miller boarder tit grandfather trope holof farm honno and be h hid bad lit allain in to boo a with ith his piece anil and had bad won iron her heart bicart she wore hin bin ring aud and in ic it year they wore to bo be name d buts but nine that oar ear vaas to bo be spout apart low irarra rj was waa going to china la in tho the interest of the trat crai of vi blab lie ho tit present WM wan only nn an employee OR on hiu his return ho he would ho he made a junior partner and nil would be ablo able to marry comfortably jo in her secret heart hetty that poor A or M bo be was waa tarry harry would oak nek her to rr bi him ra then and there and go on the voyage with him rut but a girl mut muni keep her thoughts to herself and now she it had ad driven with lita to tho the depot copot to act 1 kim I off ell rand and the train bad como come bud aud be h tood beside the holding holdi lic hii land hand and whispering whimpering these worda 61 its so ao bard that I 1 cannot kwi kind you at ad tho the last good ly by darting darling I 1 good by I 1 netty was trying not to cry thoro there at the depot before nil all those strangers she at in anost at she bud bad not driven down to see aco 0 harry off though if difabo she hod bad not come 6 phe lie would never hero baro forgiven herself 11 good by aho aba family faintly then harry jumped upon tho the train not nn instant too soon and ad L in a grism more are hetty only saw RAW a handkerchief flattering froni from the window AS tho the englana puffed its t uby ay out of tho the depot and flow around the curve of the road davo be homo peter she noe eaid aid to tile tho boy ho he held tho the rebon ICUM aud and ba happily pay she fhe hall had power to keep tho the tears irom from bet jambes until the people who had alarca M ber tit nt tho the depot could stare etaro no more on tho the platform abade hats end aim bon sets wom gathered eith ored in a group discussing elio fact ord hetty ifopo had been down to bee hoi her beau bean u and that there was no longer any doubt that that they wore nore engaged but hetty city did not know or caro for that sho she was as or criag ing softly in the back of the little light wagon sibile peter itter arola droo on r tho the star at ir spangled banner all out oat tn ats lono goes no cuili one aua tn stepping to break oil off a branch full of W wild id cherries it no 0 o bard that harry should bo be colo boins foins away for or ft a year a whole long your year 1 I woj was almost As 04 dreadful an theoph ho be were dead tor for bali aught hi hilttu ittu in a 4 year no ono one could ca ciar er toll tau and the tears tar fell again the only comfort hetty coull think of grain M her bar test fint loiter and it vincil I lo be 10 three it 1 kro ro that could f T I 1 jo 0 ever it ft came esain Cro jaA bua bu 6 it at to la his bis coclet and gave it to bar with ah it slow alow nod and a plover laub and aunt itria volt ii li ter eo cum wip a L lit r chiat thiat I 1 wim from her blaur bee u f 11 awl cousin wy tilly ly by l y ran 1 by li in privacy in their on can fromont it if olie mould let her so it an and alvans va fT tudd that hut she he did ln rt k 1 7 base relatives or of berm ben hini not giot alays do to ivor hetty but her father amna RE A busy man who travelled the world over balking bulking taking n fortune for tile daughter lio lie saw eow ic cc arcely a year tind and her moth e g died 1 iu in bor bar b babyhood b flood and retty halty bad h id no do other I 1 am omo 0 tha than an they wore nore ory C good 0 0 I 1 to her that old mail nid his willo 1 1 1 daughter atilt alaria and tilly san soft oft and pretty mail silly pilly I 1 u 9 a little whito white latten jb it lw bt have 1 imson area very much worse jet s ct who can cletty for looking forward to tho the time when sla eho should havo have a homo home of herou her jonii I 1 a homo that lulled her aci plenty of elf mony monty now sho she could do what she he pleased with it and she bo bought caps for aunt maria atilt and gay ribbons for edly and slippers tor for grandpa but tt it homo home woi was not under her control prim parlor was not to bo touched by let handl I 1 ho blue thalea Bh alea and roil and grecu carpet tho the wax a fra fruit t under a glus glass and the abe of washinton aton over the man tel piece remained as she hd bd fint aret seen them when as a child alic regarded that parlor natt oa a nort of sacred place not to bo played in she filled her own tiny sleep ing room kith ith bat aunt alaria denoma bonomi bated ji but tho thia family disep aror proved d of vines about tho the hounie tod there ibero was not a tree within tile the small mall print prim den aca ratings and good OA an they all wire tho the people who lived in tho the house bouso noro liko like it they had bad no DO sense of the Iti cauti 1 it and no y yearning taming tor for I 1 il L so fletty dwelt inwardly alone and built act air castles and forcad on ono one letter until elio is had another and add tle timo time of her lovera stivers wore on wearily until MIX ge oacar wore godo raid then CAIRO caino 16 i louir flitch latch majle maile I 1 letty holty hold her breath v chilo title a alic a read it and burat into tears as own as abe hall bad its it 1 dear hetty it abbl tin nn unforeseen thing ban ba happened hap ened my bly employers destra ico a to reat raim iu in china for some omo years jt if I 1 do me they aill make mo me a par partain tair wad bull I 1 shall bo be allo able to live vi well ell and comfort icily and to grow TOW rich to la tama but will yaju to 1 0 willing wilhur to live hero with inc inoa will jon joa ome come out to mo me under mato protection and nil spend yearn of your couig life in this bi 0 land bad think it cai 01 or darling the lease CAM A thus ulan jf ou gre tuso I 1 will ji earn I 1 but I 1 shull then have no ln do acan hato vcr A iaan who take liko any position that offers will be ocic a lo band in that clase the choice is ia ui your lands or perhaps it dould le lc Gono honorable rable in me to you alree the thought bought almost breaks my lahirt rear ilea r alletty hat beall I 1 may bay I 1 think I 1 ninke make you happy aou here if you are arc willing to come write to me r it 3 on tic dc gird lra that I 1 khod should raburn atura led and seek my tor ford luno in our native land write that tut but it if yon feel fed tint 11 neither LIther altern alternator atoe md and demiro your freedom do DOI rite arilo at al till all let bil clace Ls be in mv v anava or I 1 coufa tacit i nave have nopo that even under my day jou will still lr be true tree more followed loycen talk with able wo we have nothing to do mid and betty cried over the letter nod and was waa borry tat but abo ab at ab once and tho elio last words ot of half atter acro these thea II 11 1 I vill coma to china 44 ad for me 1 I ati mail bag ba was nearly ready tit fit cli jl indich WM wall albo alais the grocery store grandfather ifopo chopo a to 1 bcd lix ilia is aag aa on nt at tin the door at that thai Loo loument ment 11 hullo I 1 cried lie ho hor her atit pacific letter for yo ay iy has to he beau bean in nud and youve cot at to bond that I 1 the laughed still took the missive stamped it ib property properly and took tonk the silver coin from hocog titles out balla AJ if there w wan As a oj of spoleto payment ont he bo said t I 1 got a five dollar gold piece this mortill ug anil and than tho the tw ell 0 old men foil fell to talking tulUi iff 1 politics till bluer won carried t eta root o annc site by the clerk only citify tow aind it for title v hai 64 slot notch at dean willia williaa anil al a baor lour four of coffee sugar crashed JA ia a clat hurry T the lie letter lotter was put do u on the cotan and the ruti schod phad the clerk imam brij via far 1 cl I till MIM candor red tho the loiter letter with ib thalia ilia etuin a wido wilo cruel crack between that th 10 top p and the side lido or of tho ho counter couo tor and lulo into I 1 hat tho the letter slipped other filing land slipped flipped do down 11 tho the mania crevice before fore of ilk arid fleece of tape but bat no ono one know is 11 at ail for this loiter letter the llo clerk noor ramoni tiered it aynn again tho the ioler iol mr it to io bo be la in tho the lan bay and I 1 ilar opt t went home bonio odd and told alletty that lu lie land nee her boyuls lotte safe oil kofl to 90 1 A T ith gill do ill ilca e I 1 I 1 ihal he H aa not telling her th b llaner visited vf itil tit nt the antipodes for tift bill letter itter iu in vain and hetty waited to be sent for or any amy other two friends artl 1 I ilia strangers strang cm would havo have written abill bat gave rat at aro a aln almaa a 0 ready to 0 bo t doubt to fear they ore aca dew bommel and for foi gotton red mid with math the world then theme two iwo pined flood for each other crit glew anar devoe target find never amlia lot bay ady main ore she has broken our inot catal it be fa 16 ito iio to break our accio icat aad d abe bc an anil I 1 soon foon the village bagna to 0 o knoor tho that ikley ratio lojo VIM as not coniff coing to marry rn ry I 1 litt blunt hetty married marrical nobody mic khe teti sea ell her offers and 11 llred fai rio oo balth ith her grand annd father aunt braxia d died jed tillie married hetty kept bodec for the ell ca raan man still lill site woo was no nut young ony any foagh ajr airle colled called ht her ln ar old maid sho she lod left off cot caring lacil adula about her arc drew be wian wm DAW IN a lie u cut f foi ht father abe was imbt a to had left fart her in an luchesi i ben he died in a tie fir ot of lind land the iho at n nil and inck tind exe alic ill hat ono DO or two click chloi pou friC frieD Dd dai but her lifo life was wa woefully ily quiet nil nd over her heart phe aiwas wu art it locket nab finery hana late lit in it and under tile locket lay a regret too derp for utterance crince otte ono saw it sometimes lu in ler lee la hp 1 r av ivy ey boyc A of 0 guessed it from the tozo ell h 1 lc re tha m R na AS A all 11 |