Show THE BEST MAN WINS by SUSAN E CLAGETT you ton have heard of the place paved with good intentions pauline dear I 1 am afraid many bricks are laid to my C credit tor for ray my intentions are always good but tall fall of accomplishment I 1 mean to write but somehow n never ever do tills this time you yon must forgive me for or I 1 am most unhappy and my unhappy ness came from out a clear sky since then I 1 have sounded the depths father Is obdurate mother sides with him it Is nothing but pigheaded pig headed obstinacy in father anyone looking at howard would know he Is a gentleman ile eie certainly Is good to look at and of course I 1 think the sun rises and sets in him but father will not listen when I 1 tell him we are engaged ile he merely says when you care tor for a man jane you can marry him as soon as he asks you yon but so long as I 1 live ilya a mate make believe one shall never have you july I 1 thought my letter had reached you but have just found it in my portfolio when I 1 wrote a month ago I 1 thought myself encompass encompassed ea by misery but my feelings were as nothing to what they have been the past few days father told me I 1 must break off my engagement that I 1 should not see howard again I 1 stormed he merely said jane put on your hat bat and take a drive with your mother and me that was all 1 1 I I told myself I 1 but I 1 had never disobeyed father in my life and we started on t that hat drive it was a long one it took us three days to reach this place a little farm at t the e end of nowhere thirty miles from t the e nearest railroad station 1 there I 1 Is S no post office no telephone no car july 1 ath Paul pauline lne dear it le Is a comfort to chat with you even it if my letter has to wait forever and forever to reach the office I 1 do get so hungry tor for home news mother has written once but not a word from dad which shows plainly that I 1 an am still in disgrace today peter told me he might go to the station for mall mail if he he be thought dan isham would take my letters whoever Is dan isham I 1 seen a man except peter since father left roc me here I 1 wonder it if he Is as old and wrinkled as peter july he came before I 1 had finished my letter just an ordinary farmer sort of person he has nice eyes I 1 saw that although ho he turned them away at once I 1 wonder what he be thought of me august 1 I am seeing it a good deal of dan isham he lives on the next place wherever that Is he a bit like howard but he knows where to find the loveliest wood flowers and this morning showed me the cutest hide openmouthed open mouthed baby birds mocking birds bird he said they were august dan came this morning and asked me to walk to kings creek with him I 1 dont know what got into me but I 1 felt I 1 must talk of howard I 1 told of our engagement and how determined father Is that it shall be broken off but that I 1 was determined ter mined to marry him when I 1 came of age and when will that be he asked your tour appearance this morning suggests nothing so much as that of a pretty spoiled child of twelve spoiled child I 1 gasped I 1 could not control my voice so I 1 turned my back on him As I 1 did so I 1 caught sight eight of something that turned me cold with fright corning coming toward us its with lowered head bead was ras a great black bull with a shuddering sob I 1 caught hold of dan and hid bid my face against his shoulder why child 1 then the low mutter of that awful animal made him turn suddenly will you believe me pauline dnn dan isham laughed but be let me go he put ids his hand under my chin and made mada me look at him what lie he saw in my eyes I 1 do not know what I 1 saw in his made me again hide my face against that old faded blue oven even through my tear fear I 1 was glad fatha had told howard chandler I 1 should not marry him 1 I did not mind dans laughing there was such comfort in feeling his bis arms arm about me but tor for sake I 1 tried to slip from them when he said 1 l jane that steer Is one of peters petera ox team and is IE as gentle as a lamb truly I 1 am thankful he put pat in an arpe appearance pe arance trance just now for I 1 have been wondering ever since you began talking of chandler how long I 1 would have to wait before you found out you loved me instead for you do love me there Is no question about ray my feeling for you I 1 surrendered the first time I 1 saw yon when we at last reached the house honse whom should we find but father and he be shook dans hand as if he had known him all his life it seems seem 3 dan hod bad studied law in the office and bud been associated more or less with dad ever since I 1 dont know why I 1 had never met him it just happened so I 1 suppose of course dan rest until he lind hart told father about ourselves es when he 11 finished i dad looked at me with a twinkle in his eyes that made in ma suspicious but he be said very solemnly you can call have her dan you tou surety surely are a man mail after my own heart 1 I wonder vonder pauline I 1 wonder do you think dad could have had this in wild mind when lie he left me WAY thirty miles fro froni a past Of office tice by the th neopa pr per i |