Show t tt CARD CARO MINE t 0 dy by MILDRED WHITE a U a J ioza western newspaper union carolyn brought the stranger down the lotife hall of her ancestors do not la ia modem modern days hold the honored place of a bylue time loth the great old house and the an had been thrust upon her while one way not refuse such a genelous gene ious legacy the le modeling would she waa was sure entail much thought and caie cute hence she called upon tl ti is tall fall day tl it e town s best architect to advise her and it m was as be he wl nl om she led down the I 1 all she had sent in lie her r loneliness tor for aunt felice to coine come and make resi rest dence with her aunt I 1 elice she knew felt that the estate should right fully have belon belo beloney ned ed to her estate and fortune it happened napp ened went cut together so carolyn took up ies in the isan wandering derIng stone house a its great gal gaidzis del a james liyan appeared much interested in the old portraits on the pan filed led wall nall lie ile paused beffie a beau ticul pi pointing inting of a lovely girl of a by one day then more deeply inter bated I 1 e bent closer aly wl the architect exclaimed tills this pointing Is exceptionally good A A relative of yours of couise miss rail Cali feld t eld caio cato mine she repeated it soft y les es the portrait Is thai that of my teat aunt cardyn for whom I 1 am lamed I 1 am told that it AN as my child sh le ie semblance of my morhet mothel s aunt velch was responsible ble for the nam in ing it is 1 true he said slowly the es emblanc Is bernarl able alle he ile stood back musingly regard as ng if you stole a trailing daik dail gon fairfield instead of your mod ern short skirt we se might place you in I 1 ie e fiame and deceive the artist him elf poor artist carolyn sighed he ile vas ton long rg ago go killed hilled in the star vv ar many times have I 1 heird he ird the story of his ills ro ra wintle love for giedt aunt carolyn it Is as its fane ful as it Is sad 11 e oung architect lingered he had bad tried to devise some plan of prolong ji his ills visit with nith this th ch aiming young vonian no man and glaspel the will you ou tell me the story he lie begged I 1 am most interested intel ested caroli n diew foith a chair first he lie said n we e will ila have ve ta in quite quit e I 1 e old fashion fas lilon heie in the lull liall loj loa have base a hilly chilly dailve beffie you I 1 IN ow on she smiled tor for the story kooi 1001 little gloat aunt catola in the tile biggest house of bvron byron was its in days past as great a personage age as a plin pi in cess to byron inhabitants gland mother has told ine me n with ith teai teals a in I 1 ler er voice lov carolyn caroln disgraced conven tion and her foolishly proud family as it ell by makin acquaintance with a commoner lad and not only did my dominated young aunt anale mal e acquaint ance but tell fell in love lose with a humble lad ad ills name I 1 have fol boigot ot ten it through her girlish school days clays tho the irish lover adored the fine young lady dom afar caitlyn met him it seemed when one summer day she walked through her vithers grounds and saw thele a good looking young 0 o lad paint ing a picture stopping to admire this picture of woodland scenery she came to know I 1 er jimmy their secret love ione baking lad grown into the seri berl ot of an engagement when nhen her irate father discovered it and under threat of th disowning sonning 0 ills ventures Nen venturesome tures 0 tile daugh daughter tei forbade jimmy to see or speak or ei even en write one n word ord of at af faction to carolyn what cou it d tie tl e unhappy lad do but obey could he cost the tile one I 1 e loved above all lotheia her home and fortune and family in deep lemoise for his he lie begged her foigl veness and went nent amily carolyn ginev 1 ne v not where ills amb lion sl e I 1 new h ind hid id been to become an artist I 1 ut he lie I 1 ad no money to stu ly IY A shiftless dauber her had contempt contemptuously asly called the irish lad I 1 can fancy poor careen wander ng dia consolate consola to through tl ti ese very halls for her lover never came I 1 lack al at nt that time claimed people s tl bugl t an ani one day carolyn leid le id among the dead of the b ittlefield his ills name it v as I 1 is kind und I 1 birte I 1 m tl it er n who lie sent this piloting over which jimmy had so lovin lov in as v and sl anbo labored red from ter 1 er sl abby house tie tl e sta tion to the big I 1 0 oise ise on tl ti e hill and beneath hl ahli faithful memory portrait of ills lov loi e the irish lov jos er I 1 ad vv ritten his assurance of loyalty caro mine he inset it e I 1 it caio calo n was as hia ills lovel love a 3 name for her ahe listener came come to stand at the story tellers side I 1 I 1 e said abrupt ly jy am also an it ish jimmy bryan it was nas mv ins untaught uncle years ago who isho painted with the of love lose this portrait and as you ou t ched I 1 iise 1 iv e ben wondering miss if standards lave changed much after all ail avi ere money Is in the quest on and the woman noman posses possesses seq the man his but his ills love to offer silence it seems to me would still be the toll of tie presumptuous lover even as in my uncle dry arvans an s day so it came to happen as months passed that this secord carol n grieved that the min she had leniner to love n would not in his ills I 1 1 umble e pr 1 de I e confess I 1 is love to her until one day she came upon a little snapshot of herself 11 which aich sl ale e had bad given him byln where here it had dropped from his pod ez et and beneath the snapshot snap snaps slut ht was nas writ ten in james drans etain script caro mine just that but age again ill the tile message brought its happy ass assur knee t NW i A t L |