Show 8 Neill CUT Years ear s sance ance y 6 r Katherine Edelman E-delman 1 4 I I i I r T WAS nearing the midnight rr hour and all over the little littletown r town town there was an nn all air of ot eagerness and expectancy A New Y Year ar was about tobe to tobe be born I t Lights gleamed tc from trout almost every window r i and from many homes came the sounds of ot cheer and mirth telling that n a t New Years Year's party was In pro progress Inside one home however and It H f. f was the largest and handsomest that the town boasted there was no sign of ot the Jay Jov and cheer that other homes held Daniel his wItH Mair- Mair tha sat at b by th the Ort fin In Iu lh U lr room and neither of 01 them m had bad spoken for a along long ong time 5 5 J Presently Trent spoke poke hut hul her voice yolee wa was little more than a n whis whisper per pr Daniel dear wont won't you tel lei by by- bygones Bones gones ODes be h. bygones wont won't you forgive and forget foret It Is New Years tears Ton ron know row tomorrow tomorrow-Is Is Is his bh birthday too Daniel he Daniel he Is our anI only child Daniel Trent answered his wife with witha a 11 sharpness that thai almost st startled her r even though h she hl had exported It a a rebuff re re- huff buff Dont mention his hits n name nime again i. i tiC lie almost t shouted f he made mude his b bed d S. S now DOW let him He lie on It It If It my ray son sonI I 1 t Martha Trent Argued and Pleaded for Her Boy s to marry a nobody to Ignore II sill nil l tile the plans and hopes bopes I 1 had for him c M him tul take taice e the consequences A Again silence filled the house f for r Many minutes This time tone It was ken ken by hy the loud lond ringing of ot thet the t telephone Trent and nud his wife start- start started toll ed to their foot oot abruptly Daniel had ball up the phone phene Soon he was JI to a womans woman's excited exciter voice Raym Claude Is quite IH IL In fact tact r r tie he doctor tor thinks there Is la real dan dan- f lr tonight find end he ht Is 18 begging for you Ou Oui i to come Wout Wot you please relent ft- ft jl Ct t that much Mr Treat Then x- x Daniel heard voice mice dl did away awaya a la a u sob as h he abru tIling hung UJ Salt up th tbs tha receiver re f j Then for tor a few afew w minutes tho the greathouse great hl house ItS was startled Never Lc b before foro had hadit t. t H tt h heard beard Martha's Marthas voice as ns It was HS now unto rain with a strength born bom orD of or orf f- f mother love jollier e she site argued n and pleaded ded i fur tur her boy hoy with a 11 voice trembling t with emotion she told Daniel of ot hs his real duty uty and of the m misery be he was uJ t. t causing Busing to them an all In teas less than an hour they v were re on tin their way to Greenfield And when r they hey reached CI Clauden bedside D Dan n leis lei's B he heart rt was as ns tender and nud an as fa full of ot forgiveness ss aa as S Marthas AS el all I the world orId knows ti love Is a S' S tonic u a potent health Ig l' l R agency a that that has no rl rival ul and bore borre bo- bo tore re m many y days had hH passed Claude e had bad ad rev responded t. t to Us its power But Bit sOli t i l and Martha lingered In the littie lit lit- tie e. e rh They were loth to leave f- f fth the th place where so eo much happiness had COnle to them all nil and when they f did l finally n o 0 o Claude and Elsie rite n n com r 11 ln cd them And now the hIs big hou house e In I Trenton I Ix Is 1 no longer filled with silence nn and oo Love and tut Lp fill tl It H with b heir tong ong rind and ud cheer t f Ii le 1326 Wt I U ua |