Show 0 dogs d S sar TORY STOR E I 1 am A 1 L sea ell im 1 y A ROMANCE OF A pennsylvania PENNSYLVA NU FARM hy JOHN LUTHER LONG illustrations by bv don copyright im lv tooji vu io SY opals the brownin desire in the life of old 19 11 la to ira obtain posh of 0 a beautiful mea ilow tile property was waa ln lit horsted by sarah barati iversen very swetty and ath 1 otle young girl canie caino to realize rea I 1 izo that ills ids only hove of obtaining iho lie would go bo brough tile the tn u ange ot of it hs a son BOH sep ion liali to tr barah I 1 ressel in a 1110 mock e it at auction I 1 airty is i 11 jr ji is 1 popularly known la in raf ruffled flit d off by 1 ills hla fat ter to harah for 1 tl I harah la IM quite the opposite of hefty ila it bigart tier given belay city some lessons in ih courtship damn artner has paused lilina olf to in lio be fit ap guardian it hally she lio promises holty that site lio will novel MM kiss any inart mt heiti till sain vrho Irl tz a drunken cleric cain on oil hally alad tho kissing saffy goos to anil and begins noring sally leaves leaves tile room copin in a litiff abod ril glit geril lainen hoff salty tells lella his la tather aelier of oc lila jila hurn illation of 0 liow how sam ham had pinned to ills hi white while ho slept it a pasteboard tomba tono heffy arid bill ay meet tit lit tajo polson poison raring brie urges larn him to do something to rodock himself the father setty to take sally pally horna foin this would im n tho rureal eruc lal till test according to the of tit clift linies ll aa 11 l l was the rule in fit stich ft a test abt that thai uio tile one whose arni ami tho girl ar ac rented wu leaving tho church would ho bo gilb aitio favora suitor then sum sani takes sallys arin sho says anya 1 I ant all ind boffy la is lofflin dis gravo san hatt fon ahmen ills his Irin icing and sally bogins boffing to acquire the habit gartner roil noil and him powerful po mow blow with tilt int full in the lio face then tile repentant fa ther gathers gat liero tit lie auth lit lii ills unia abnis ills crie attract sally and sam ani laritz sal bully y rushes up tip to room a and n d finds III bilm n I 1 tn in the nl orning hoffy berty it lins a 9 it it bad anti 01 0 winter tor for old tie ile thin 8 lila ills son Is dead abad Horne where from the hio ef fecto of the orieol artiel blow when om old baull gartner eos gna to sallys anino to stir bin render rori lr to ber lils ills nu nit lier let gi Ruai ti allian dlan ito ands tier lier I 1 aggard anti and woin w with ill sor or tow row site she agrees agree to quit ar it if lio will talce tho papers back and nik cont limp ns na her old find and sally continuo na as friends filo frIon nils ds sam hant men ot of and sally goes to keep house for old id neada n 9 the parin journal site blie la in att ne acted nete by it ft Ina masterly by IS S p V him I 1 till in banner J jr president president ot ol atio tie kansas state t e farni 1 binn ois eague she MI writes lies pleading p AIX with ciklin to return CHAPTER XIV continued she watched tier hop put it into the tha bag bas and then event dreaming home and for or all ot of tile the two weeks of 0 waiting she waa wa very happy dreaming dro aming always poor girl she had mado made lier her life so unhappy that jpy joy seemed divine he lassure was suro sure of soffy sho she adored with a blitsh arid and a start it 11 lie he might inight not como come himself liliu in answer sho she would not have heon been surprised to have him steal up behind hor her that was his way she remembered and call out softly her name so she went about almost on tili tiptoed tiptoes toes so BO that she might hour hoar him film it ho he should it was a little difficult to keep it from the inquisitive old roan man who did not quite quit understand her sudden happiness dut but sho aho did it I 1 I 1 and finally tho the two weeks were up tip slie yas quite suro sure heffy would not waste a moment with ills hla answer and ito ho might use that mysterious instrument tho the telegraph which she ahe understood would not talio tako more than an hour from kansas sho she supposed ills hla message even it ho he used the telegraph would come to tho the post office tho the ceremonial of 0 a letter with simple people Is as much a matter of concern as a treaty between two nations and now as sho she dressed herself in tier her best clothes clothed to go to the post office she felt somehow as aa it she were to be in personal presence and must bo be as immaculate as always she won wondered dorod how ho would address lier her forg forgetting etIng answer must come to the ono whose name she bhe had signed she had heard ot of various most dear licad lines to let tors tore I 1 am afraid site blushed at all this ills for as aa she looked in n the glass sho she saw a face ace so radiant that she looked again to identify it so till all the moro more she dressed herself with tile the samo same cato caio site she would havo have taken were sho she going to him instead of 0 to tile post fulci tor for ills his letter she remembered what lie had sald said about her hair and site sho ventured to pull it arouther about her face much as tt it had been that ahat night in tho the dark parlor but at tho the thought of that tho the tears came slowly into her eyes she had been very acry happy that night it was all the happiness she hall had over known it seemed now she dried lier her eyes arid and then she sat eat at tho the table where softy had often sat and looked again in ills his broken mirror the radiance was quenched 11 her er face was wag pale and thin now she thought of it quite as it if lie he were soon to seo see tt it 1 I wonder it if hell think me hand some now she shook her head doubtfully at the faco face she saw in the glass no I 1 have no red checks no more and my e eyes yes are bigger and my lips thinner aud and my hair Is paler and my hands she how he had kissed them and put her head down and sobbed they did not seem fit to be kissed now nor worth kissing but the postmistress post mistress liked ber belter that way and so fo do 1 I for she had acquired a daintiness that was almost immaculate As ais soon as sally bally came tho the post mis trea I smiled and shook her bead for aishe ho 1 had understood what tho the letter contained quite as aa it if she had seen scon tt it aria and sho she had watched anxiously for tile tho answer not yot yet she aho sald compassionately sallys logs weakened anti and title she clutched at the little shelf before her it took a moment to swallow tho the thing in her throat threat thon then sho she its two weeks yos yes lint hut hod hed have to be pretty prompt to 0 got it hero bere by this tims sally had been sure euro of tills this promptness ness it never occurred to her to doubt sho she would not havo have wasted ft a minute sho she hopelessly away perhaps tomorrow to morrow I 1 said bald tho the kind postmistress post mistress sally bally veered smiling you think so Tor Per hapa ono one can never toll tell pont dont worry dear you yon seo see tile the addrisi ad drosi was very vague and it may inay bo be somo some time before they find hirm him you dont think thin it la Is too late into 1 I hope not dear she had not flat thought of that before sho she had fancied film waiting for some such recall but of course lie ho had formed other bios lit lio would bo be glad to forget tier her ile ho might bo be married marrio dl 1 of courso course lio lie wasl ans Other otherwise lie ho could not bo be a 1 I guess its too lato into she eho sald said again 1 I would not think that tile tho ad dross drosa was yc very ry vague nut flut after you yol were gone I 1 took tho precaution to put a lotura address on tile envelope and if lio lie loco docs not ret get it it will colim back but that will take somo some little time thoro there was wag nothing the not next day nor lie next nor tor for the many days clas after ward waid that she went to tin post fleo sit she was no lie longer dressed dressea rp for tile trip and sho she was glad now she had not told hio hh father for a whilo sho had to lock herself in ili liar her room when tile the desire camo came on ell her to go to tile post onice office arid and then sho remained away three lays days then a wook anti and then the lie post mistress admitted that tho the letter had had time to be she must not give up though strange things happen sometimes with letters tho the letter hall had been returned tho the postmistress post mistress had it then but she pityingly thought it best that sally should wait for it still while site she tried to send bend it back to him otherwise Othor wise it if was waa very mach m ach as sally had planned and hoped save that she was a bit sadder she kept fat fathers tiers house ns as perhaps no houed I 1 aa aby 1 I 1 no not everybody sighed sally was ever kept before she had not baen been famous for tho the keeping of her own house in the days of her coquette ship her grandmother had attended to this and then a mald maid who interpreted her faultlessly dut but now her own hands bands lid did all and did it with love and she did replace heffy and more for slip she plowed and after a brief apprenticeship no one did it bettor better the bay mare was us kind to sally as sho she had bad been to heffy noth ing in ills his life had over ever been so sweet to tire tho old man as aa those rests resta when they met and no food was ever so piquant as that eaten under tho the trees at their sally still went to the post und and the postmistress post mistress still had her letter ter whore where she could have put her hand land hand upon it though she mercifully concealed this dut but there was no hope not a word of confidence hall had passed between sally and the kind post but each linew knew that tile tho other understood quite as it their confidence was complete so that it was as it if they spoke of an old matter when sally sa said id one I 1 dy day yes I 1 guess its too lato late lies hes married m 1 I think so if I 1 were you till I 1 heard front from him said tile the compassionate passionate woman behind the counter 1 I thought so once ile ho went to war I 1 heard that ho he was killed I 1 married another ma oh just becu sol then ho he came back I 1 have always been sorry something filled the speakers eyes and silly sally with mth tho the dumb intuition of tho the primitive nature stood there a long time and said only thank 5 ou on but after that hope rose and lived again that night the postmistress post mistress re calved from washington the address addre ss of tho the kansas state league of farmers N clubs and put it on tho the face of tho the r turned returned letter and sent it forth asnin XV shall heffy enter at this cue CUB winter had come again tho the fifth I 1 one they sat together in the g great reat hearth of the kitchen in their characteristic te attitude when before a fire the hickory logs sputtered savagely but sent out to them nevertheless a grateful warmth their faces facea and bodies bodes glowed in the fervor of it il and there la is nothing like this to put one at peace with nil all ill the corll id sally ild the old mail man this la Is nice very nice agreed sally r but also thoro thero Is nothing vice gilb to send bend one anoa I 1 a backward and this it was doing for both of them Efery boily dont liaf haf no such auch fire tonight to night anti and the khe everybody lie ho thought of no as lie ho sighed was surry no not everybody sighed sally bally propping tier her head upon tipon lit his knee sally who do you mean by efery eatery body just ariev one person admitted sally tile the onto one you mean yas said father very softly and then they were silent allent alobba beonies got no homes artl anil out freezing tonight to night the old man said presently 1 I hope not said sally wo we could take them in hero here it if wo we know where they are wo we pappy hut but that last note was vie uio ono which d dams 1119 up tip tears yas if wo knowel where they aari my aly god if we calist knowel where thoy they airl air sally dont you defor tta turn no ono away from tho the door on A cold winters night you dont know who it might bet bo I 1 ill never turn any ono away from the door said gold sally with emotion right sally somas dead id rather bo be dead than hat no homo and I 1 agreed sall sally nor no friends sally nodded sally how long is it a ince you yon was wa marriett married t moro more thau than four years nealy five ave I 1 pappy my aly but sings is changed s sais a 1 tho the old man eten tato sun dont seem so bright no more yes things are changed chang bd said tho girl alt it must bo be chust idee why tho the hablo says that summer r arid and winter shall not change tell como tc pass ef erysln then his voice broke yit yit yit its ono sing aint como to pass and it scorns like its nefer going to its bettor better senco you come but alt it tile tho house la IH damp and tery ho he shivered hini himself self and empty like it was waa a funeral about all tho the time alt its iti no one dead no ones dead hes not doad dead chust gone you kald so you said it first and somo some day hell como come hack back and well git on our knees and beg his pardon dut but its so BO long oh my god aoa so long oh defty defty little softy 1 I got a pain in my bre breast ast about youl you was wag all I 1 had come coma bade back to me ino como back im a ol 01 man and im sorry sorry and broke broko down unfit come back Sally do you thalah hell hat haf a scar on ills his face something stifled his utterance T tho lie girl put out a soft hand to comfort him somo some day we shall know seel be bravo brave I 1 yas yas yaa easy to say dut but you nefer struck no one ohe right an in tho face when tiley they was lo qUIng tip at bolf you lathat in ln ilia that t pleading icille of atwal a dayi sho she said piteously no then you dont know flossing about oh my god it if had it before you tor for more than four our years like a picture morning aria anil day and night nigh t res I 1 the blood on OD him and the bed and met me TO BE CONTINUED |