Show The Fiction THE THREESOME Richard H. Wilkinson Corner Janice thought as she brought her roadster to a It can't be that he lives He stood Just inside the picket fence six feet of tall Fair Blue Bespeaking the easy arrogance of He wore a blue cotton shirt and blue denim not Janice he And then at her you Why couldn't Aunt Bertha have warned Aunt Bertha your real You only call her auntie because she's a close friend of your That makes us Milt-iB not he Fiction added with frank I Janice rescued her suitcase from the rumble is like one of those things you read he taking it from He studied her with honest I thought my vacation was going to be one of those uninteresting Minutes later Janice faced her Aunt Bertha in the bed chamber over the front why didn't you tell me he was going to be I didn't bring a Not a. except my two cotton dresses and a bathing Aunt Bertha asked Land don't worry about He dropped in unexpectedly yesterday and announced he was here for two He's a dear You'll like hir The next day Janice accompanied Phil up to the north pasture and watched aim prune apple thought this was your she said after he told her like working on my vacations out She wondered about rim tie pointed away over the day I'd like to see all those fields set out to apple Two days ago she wouldn't have believed She was city born and city To her a farm had always symbolized hard work and a poor bugs and snakes hot days In the long lonely Even the thought of a farm had made her She wondered about He claimed to be a law firm member on It occurred to her that for a lawyer he was mighty skillful handling pruning And his knowledge of farming was SECOND DAT of their vacation they knocked off early and went for a The third day they played The fourth Aunt Bertha packed them a lunch and they drove to Mount climbed to its summit and watched a glorious while nibbling delicious On the second Saturday following her arrival she was with Phil They had climbed Mount Carter had sat for silent moments watching the afterglow of a blood-red Unexpectedly Phil it's And our vacation has Tonight winds up the two always an end to nice she told him doesn't have te he went on gave you the wrong impression about I'm not a successful I never should have tried to be a Thank heavens I realized the mistake before it was too mean you're not You're staying He going to try and raise Auntie and I are going to be This fall I'll sell what we have and next spring set out now He picked up her let's make it a I know it's a lot to he added city girl like It'll be But eventually could chip in my Janice cried all I but it ought to bring How many apple trees can you buy with said reading her keep from being |