Show f.- f. VS i 1 ei f w- w J r i f i- i tle L the 1 new F Ford I. I 1 t t k-fi k i A. A fJ r i tE r v 43 r rr 1 i 1 y i if I LI J r j i z r S' S j F For or th the thc Love of I Ellen Mary I 4 i w wwi H HAROLD R STAR UIlo TRw f. rI P t r AJI Clark Chuk RU RURAL Jogged along the country country ir rood road in lo lobis hIs bis white while wagon ngon wagon lee filing feeling ng as fiB he lie ox- ox x- x p It to himself d down In the mouth He had no no letter for tor Mary Now ow John M M. Clark was n sympathetic 3 young joung fellow and th the th thought of or the disappointment In nil EllenMary's Ellen en Marj's Marys lime Mue eyes ejes when she ran down n downto to the letter liar box to wait nit for tor him and andr found that still till no letter had 1 come r was very cry ery upsetting Ellen Mary had grown brown up tip In t the thelast thelast last lust year Although he lie wasn't er very many years her senior he lie could rould recall her heras nl as a little girl with long Ions braids and a n happy laugh And AmI since last summer he lie had observed ob ob- served that her happy happ laugh la had guile gone olle i cr ever since t that fellow from front the city cily 11 with ith hh hi his flannels nannel and antl sophist sophist- airs nils held come to hoard with Ith Ellen flats aunt while doin doing n a Job of for 01 state sm e surveying the thc or er of roal loads s At thc Ills mete mcie of or him John who was ordinarily a n most man nicked the ho patient hoise larse again ng this lime so ir- ir that the lie animal turned 1 his iris head then C 01 lilt Into a n trot tint anti and broil hit hIs Ills driver cr to the tio very ery JY feet of Mai at 3 3 X jU in ing Ellen Mars rm said 1 i TI Jolla Jl as' as as l li JIU rs ns po ible ihle An r I Aon r O co 10 n m full 1 f- f fId 1 For Id moment it ft Jo looked baked k ll J 01 a a. a n as f. f S 'S C 91 tIC foie ra ft t going to to- to reply L'-c L' J. 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