| Show A DELAYED LETTER Lydia Spencer bed never seen It so hot or dreary ut Ciinnan Cut ners heforo The blistering July clay Iraq drawing ton eloBO bhe was postmistress and state clerk at tho Corners Day after day fur years ibo had sorted nTcrtbeistago malls the county papers and the letters lh day had t > < in a busy one In the store and to add to tho confusion Lvellv had recently bought it new Kt at boles to take file plun of the dingy little jwrthqlcs which for BJ years had dODO continuous surs 100 under dillor poitmiistori A rarienlcj had worked that afternoon touring away the old nno nnd genernlly otcrliaullnn pcitoffloo end of the store Lydia was Ulireen JO and M Nigh on to 40 helD two year oldrrn my boy Jerry old Mr ItaTldso sAIJ to her I t L gl d jL friend when JrdU age was discussed Unlit1a T ho dunt look U I un slid Hun tact t-act It ahelu tow Jieaulecl girls never look va old cz they H ally be The carpenter utopiMil tmmnierlno nnd counif to wilt o the Jiostliiliitr < avvni Ian nlng hIt flown shunlhig awkwardly awkward-ly half a dOzen IttUrs yellow with OKO an1 omowbat at eaten Hee hen yclcly nro those nny pood 1t nuked hcholdliiBOuttlio letter found cm down bcMml tho walnicotlni I 1 roso theyre u t tranh what pot brunhed iihlo all 110 account whatever The poatiolstross of Cnnimn Comers took tho letter with but lltllo how of In tercet Icopl woro olVoy running to ler with Irllli nT sWng herunnSje wry quotloru Twenty five yearst Yew It Mil brcn Just that long since she bad mn Thn Huttor worthiDe la garo Ir a lor look null lIon eerily tiMurlni lit tli it llicy ould soon 11I1 again hnd gone to New York Yorkutlr lottcralml been enrnett nnd full of feeling nOl finally lit vvrnte niklnti her If Mio would limrry him tcllligt her that ho hud not boon tuceefsflll In buxIncKS ill yet Ut Unit If she mid IcV ho wool come tnck to Canaan Corners nnd they A ould M to Chicago llrnvcly hnd she penned n fuvornbla on ewer nnd lion I the wolfed Ah tho dying 1 of n grent linput lion tenaciously dines to Ufa How anxiously site nwcilted tidings from John llutterworlhl I Hut nonocniuo Tho sum liters cattle find went 1IYnlyfivo years ago and sho hnd been thinking of John IJutttrworth hut day I Looks ez It rats had thawed cm mm dont lu 1 ntked file tnriientcr tin Lydln 1IIIod closer to the window to Inctcct tho Must letters life wry IIrt one of the lot giive her pcnnfi n flmok Jolm Bather worth IJull t Head Hotel liovviry N Y City Tho red sun turned black Tho Cnnnnn Corners postofllco begun spinning nround and bobbing up nnd don hurricane Mxnml to cnlch hor und flesh her head ngiilnst n distant clHT There thelo Miss Iflrdely mid tin big cnrpnter funning her with his struw hot IlThu hoiitii bun too much fur 10 I gucso Trembling llro n child she once more looked nt file 1II < rbtr own letter of acceptance ac-ceptance plighting her truth for better or fur worse through evil und I good report It niimil tn her its If I lur heart would burnt In nguny slio knew now why John 11ingul Hutterworth tied inner eomc buck She find npietmd him us unwilling to share las furturies Lydia Spencer was n firm woman Injustice In-justice 10 hersolf site dcitcnulncd to funks an effort to reach John lluturvvorth with Ito lie luted letter I It had no jieiEtnmrk Inking the marker mark-er > ho remoTcd the Ugures til and sub ktltlltnl 16011 Then writing a note to the proprietor Df file slleucl haul New York city she told him to torn nnl file hotter to Lhl euoo XuJy ho ht It lull 1010 the gaping mouth of file nmllbnR Tho stage took It on Its wuy that right I IMo wock liler n gay nlred man olio of Chlcigos lending cnplulistj vrtin one norllln opening his moll llovf uiotun yellowed enveloiw which had boon forwarded for-warded from NeW York It bow wveirul rubber retail inurkii and i Chicago pent alike clerk had written on It Try M1 Dearborn fiend Jack Inashl John Dllttcrworth to bin Lead clerk Jatk my bov old tho father In 11 Ion volco and irvfllnlj l read till old letter which has Ixxu 2 5 yeiira lu I roichlug Inc Jack contlnnod tho older nIter his request loud been eoniplhil with You will bale to poatpono jour vacation Im going go-ing to tike fine ut Canaan Corners N Y I liever uiected to luarry again after your time uuthers elcithj my boy hut If the writer of thut later li I allvo und willing fouli limo n nov mother Inside 01 two Nteha lh Canaan Corners stogu one evening a lov df later carried a gray haired straLger YU find Lyddylit thepostoflIce Paid the driver helotmllru all olurS ODe knows Lyddy 1 I Everything IM still In the potnmc when John lIullomorth enterd Look Ing through Ibo ghihs 1 case ho saw a golden gold-en haired woman file food close to the to blctop Site 1110 rolling her nverted fluid on her forearm find sobbing like it child 1Lydlaloald John Hutterworth us lie took tier In his arum and mined her LydIa iwoctlienrt I dlclu get tholettcrtlll three d iys ago In Chicago Im so old and f f1 caw I suppose you re sorry I got It at all ebt ebthlio looked up I quickly smiling through her tears Her blushing radiant face didnt look an If ihowiinsorry I Llclungo |
