Show SW F DAISY I 1 by JANE OSBORN daisy dodge was standing in a frame ranio of sunshine in the doorway of tile tho little eight sided school at dab 0 ney villo vigorously ringing tho the largo hand boll bell that called tile tho children lit tie and big back to the afternoon see sea slon I leres aether totter letter for you miss dodge piped ono of tho the older girls girla it ans bussio lovo love daughter ot of tho the general storekeeper who also acted as ag postmaster after school D daisy alay began to road read hor her letter I 1 dear cifes it began in largo large distinct boyish writing im not much of a letter writer and I 1 over ever started writing to a young lady before but it Is so BO lono somo out hero in tho the lumber camp that I 1 thought I 1 would begin just to keep from getting so dreadfully blue bauo perhaps you have never soon a lumber camp I 1 am bonding a snapshot that shows allows juat jart what I 1 look like alko when you answer this lottor tor ns as I 1 hope you will soon please send bend nio me a picture of bt yourself I 1 ala always ways did like brown eyed girls girl tho best with lest best wishes thomas william jones V P S I 1 forgot to say that I 1 am boss boas of a hundred men in tho the lumber work and I 1 own ton ten thousand acres of unworked od lumber land that I 1 am going to begin cutting when I 1 havo have saved enough to begin perhaps next winter for just a moment dabsys eyes lingered with interest on an tho snapshot photograph that showed allowed tile tho writer ot of tho the letter in his characteristic cos coo tume or of tho the lumberman nt his hia work slid sho tucked tho the picture back in tho the on whon when sho she that sho she was allowing herself to admire tho broad ill shoulders I 1 ders straight figure and well pro portioned features of tho the stranger then than she eho took tho the key from tho of her plain school dress opened it a desk drawer and carefully took out ton letters that she had to ro colvor within the last two weeks why those letters why these theeo pro r for or halt an hour daisy pat and pondered pon dorod then site eho wrote a letter that site sho hoped might clear up the mystery and restore her of 0 mind it was to this thomas william jones and lit in it site sho told him frankly what had I 1 happened and she oho asked him to help her solve tile tho problem the letter sho she received vod in reply was brief end to tile tho point 1 I 1 oia nm nil hamel of myself for finding written tile sort of lottor letter I 1 did but I 1 was very lonely thou thon ho he explained vint that ho he had read a description of daisy in a shoot sheet published in a matrimonial bureau daisy answered title this letter promptly and then waited impatiently for the tha next letter from her unseen champion on a warm spring evening about two weeks later daisy was sitting on tho the upper porch of her throe room upstairs abode when she eho saw through tho the semidarkness the tall figure of a stronger stranger swinging up the road and then turning in at tho the schoolhouse patch iler her heart was beating with ax excitement ci when she bho reached the tha downstairs door and stood faco face to face with a strange young man sho she had halt half guessed surely sho she had hoped evon even that it was thomas william jones jonea and thomas thomaa william jones it turned out to bo ive been traveling a day and ri a night to got hero here he told her stand ing in her open door hat in hand the reason I 1 camo partly at least Is in to toll you that I 1 have put a stop to those annoying letters lot tora I 1 went to tho the place where they publish tho the shoot sheet and I 1 hold them up tor for tile the lottor letter some borne ono one had sent it in signed with your namo name i daisy and tho the stranger etra ngor forgot all about the offender and began to talk of other mattare oven even about abod themselves they lied both been very lono lone ly they had both lived tor for years without any real friends I 1 it was wall quite dark when thomas william jones started to return to tho the little littie local tavern where he had find left lite his bag on hlo his arrival in the village ile he had been noon in dabsys company rather loss lose than an hour slid already she regarded him as her firm friend you will lust just have my word tor for it that I 1 am wb abst t I 1 say I 1 am he declared but I 1 want to tell you before I 1 leave tonight that only ono one of the reasons I 1 came hero here was to give you tho the letter from the agent the other reason was to find out tor for myself it if you arent tho the girl I 1 have been dreaming of all my life are you going to send me back to the woods without a chanco chance to mako make good daisy put out her hand to bid him good night you must go away now she said but I 1 dont want you to go back to that lonely camp until until for a moment ho he hold held her land hand se ee aurely in lite his giant paw and then he turned and went without another word daley daisy went to her little bedroom and before tile the small oil lamp opened the folded pages of the letter the stranger had brought from the matrimonial bureau she read what purported to be a letter dom herself signed by her own ramo namo it wan vas in the crudo crude copybook writing of gussia love alve ifa a state prison offense off enao sho she sald salda i halt aloud but ill forgive you gussio I 1 cun afford to you did it to bring me happiness happ luesa and you havo have succeeded copyright 1915 by mcclura newspaper |