Show Howto Mate a THE LADE AND THE RANGER surface of the blossoms and rested there looking dazedly around She saw the car burning and Bobby pushing and Melvin dancing in his agony of anxiety She struggled She was caught in the broken branches her feet dangling clear of the ground inside the pile “Gimme a hand!” Bobby icacoki tomafo juice fiMapinchof salt and w- - AM a 4easpooioP FREfiCHS lwesfetsHire Sauce - wh m Continued from preceding page yelled at Melvin RUghsswiih jP- She saw Bobby crouched panting Wind and pouring sweat beside the burning car She watched him with a great calm dispassionately She wasn’t under that car but he thought she was It was as though she were already dead and could watch the living with the perfect objectivity of final judgment “It’ll blow!” Melvin cried despairingly dancing around twenty feet away and getting farther “It’s too late" Bobby shouted “Give me a hand or I’ll kill you" ‘Til ring the alarm" Melvin shouted and ran away down the road The fire was all over the bottom of the car eating at the grease roaring in Bobby's face as he stood up and tried it again “Bobby !” Angie cried struggling to get out of the branches Her dress tore twigs raked her as she fought free ‘Tm here I’m safe!" The roar of the fire was too loud he couldn’t hear her He leaned against the side of the car and drove with his legs His feet slipped in the ice plant he drove ahead The car rose up teetered for a moment and turned up on its side The car fell over on its wheels and bounced hidden in flames Bobby staggered back from the heat Then he saw Angela running toward him He ran and rushed her back up the road away from the car The gas tank went with a msnczlm roar like a bomb They looked back The car was a Mack shadow lost in the flames Gasoline was burning all over the ditch and the road Even the trees had caught forty feet away Tears ran down his red scorched face She stood looking calmly at that face without eyebrows without eyelashes at the mercilessly singed head but mostly at the joy in the blue eyes that could hardly see her She said nothing His arms hurt her they were so tight She wasn’t sorry for him she wasn't crying She was perfectly quiet perfectly calm with an absolute knowledge He said holding her ”1 thought you were dead” Far away a siren sounded “I’m not going anywhere Bobby" she said She would never be going away ever again Something had changed inside her something had collapsed and vanished leaving her free and full of peace He hadn’t bought her trapped her persuaded her or conquered her HSiosEmiaa But she belonged to him now and there was nothing she could do about it She was his and she was glad of it She wasn’t a girl any more she was a woman solid simple and full of peace She would cook his unromantic dinners along with the other men’s wives till the end of her days and bear his children and that was that The siren was wailing closer "Before they come" she said “ask me just once more For the last time” He couldn’t smile because his lips would crack wide open "Will you?" “Yes" she said holding his burned head carefully between her hands "That’s me1 A ranger’s wife Forever” The End 1' f Sandwiches fluff '' PEANUT BUTTER Spraad oaa alica of thru with MmhmaUow Fluff — and aaa shea with aaaaut Won in big economy size! hattar Sarra oetnrp closco JA 8 os 41c ReguUr 4 m cm 2Sc OfJsoriOL S) UGMTBft PURL for Yonr Money Laager Lasting Cleaner Burning Pleatingly Seen led Exrlnaive Swlleb-SpoMove ut Ma if nt faff ftetst infers 27 |