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Show jjjj Girls By Richard Hill Wilkinson BEULAH and Candida had met in the New York office of Mortimer Mor-timer and Brown, attorneys. They became fast friends because they found something in common. That something was a desire to live on a farm in the country. They talked about it incessantly. Then Beulah came through with the great idea, r 1 "Let's work 3 Minute hard and save ri.tinn for a 'ear- Then Ficti0" I let's pool our re- sources, make a down payment on a small farm and and live there!" "But we don't know a thing about farming. We've both lived in the city all our lives. We couldn't make It pay." "We could," Beulah said, "if we wanted to badly enough. There are oooks on how to do everything these days." So for a year the two girls worked and saved. They spent evenings on end at the library reading books on imall scale farming. When spring came they drove op Into the country and called on the farmers who had offered their homes for sale. The second sec-ond place they visited proved exactly what they wanted. It was a small, white, tree-shaded house with a big barn, a hennery hen-nery containing a flock of 100 birds, a cow, a horse, a pig and several cultivated acres. It was a swell idea. Best of all, they made a profit. The enterprise would likely have developed into lomething lasting, had it not been for Barnaby Xerxes. He was a radio singer, suffering !rom a nervous breakdown. He had :ome to Hillside to recuperate. Beu-ah Beu-ah met him one day on a deserted lection of country road. He was walking and she gave him a lift back a town in the delivery truck. BEULAH was thrilled. During the days that followed she hated gong go-ng off evenings and leaving Can-iida Can-iida home alone, but, obviously, 9arnably and she couldn't take the )ther girl everywhere with them. Beulah was wondering how, when 3arnaby proposed marriage and she iccepted him, she was going to jreak the news to Candida. Two nights later Beulah delivered i half dozen fowl to the village :hurch for its semi-annual suDDer. ind was returning home earlier than ihe was expected. Lights were on n the front room and through the window she saw Barnaby holding Candida in his arms, kissing her. Beulah was furious. She stormed Into the house. Candida Can-dida tried to be calm and explain ex-plain that she and Barnaby had loved each other all along. They hadn't had the courage to tell Beulah. You you vixen!" Beulah ihrieked. A week passed. The girls went about their duties without speaking. "But we don't know anything about farming," Candida said. "We've both lived in the city all our lives." Both knew that sooner or later they would have to come to some agreement agree-ment about the farm. So in the end Beulah made arrangements ar-rangements with Lawyer Stearns and one evening the girls set out in the delivery truck for his law office of-fice to write the final chapter in their adventure. They were silent on the drive to town. Even when the car lights went out for no explainable reason neither nei-ther of them said anything. Silently Beulah got out. lifted the hood, discovered dis-covered a fuse was blown, and'hav-ing and'hav-ing no spare, tried to produce a makeshift from a hairpin. It began to look as though there was nothing to do but continue on foot, when suddenly the connection was made and the lights flared up In the glare of the headlights a man and a woman, evidently having hav-ing come up in the darkness without with-out knowing of the truck's presence, were standing in close embrace. The man was Barnaby Xerxes Nobody said anything for a mo ment; then Barnaby turned and began be-gan walking swiftly away. The girl followed him. Beulah got into the truck. She started the motor She looked at Candida. Candida looked at her. "Oh. shucks!" said Beulah presently, pres-ently, -let's go back and milk the cow and call it a day." "Oh, let's!" cried Candida. |