Show FARM GIRLS CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson and Candida had met in the New York office of Mortimer and They became fast friends because they found something in That something was a desire to live on a farm in the They talked about it Then Beulah came through with the great work Minute and save 3 Fiction a let s Pool our make a down payment on a small farm and and live we don't know a thing about We've both lived in the city all our We couldn't make it Beulah we wanted to badly There are books on how to do everything these So for a year the two girls worked and They spent evenings on end at the library reading books on small scale When spring came they drove into the country and called on the farmers who had offered their homes for The second place they visited proved exactly what they It was a tree-shaded house with a big a hennery containing a flock of a a a pig and several cultivated It was a swell Best of they made a The enterprise would likely have developed into something had it not been for Barnaby we don't know anything about Candida both lived In the city all our He was a radio suffering from a nervous He had come to Hillside to Beulah met him one day on a deserted section of country He was walking and she gave him a lift back to town in the delivery was During the days that followed she hated going off evenings and leaving Candida home and she couldn't take the other girl everywhere with Beulah was wondering when Barnaby proposed marriage and she accepted she was going tt break the news to Two nights later a half dozen fowl to the village church for its semi-annual and was returning home earlier than she was Lights were on in the front room and through the window she saw Barnaby holding Candida in his kissing Beulah was She stormed Into the Candida tried to calm and explain that she and Barnaby had loved each other all They hadn't had the to tell You you Beulah A week The girls went about their duties without Both knew that sooner or later they would have to come to some agreement about the So in the end Beulah made arrangements with Lawyer Stearns and one evening the girls set out in the delivery tr ick for his law office to write the final chapter in their They were silent on the drive to Even when the car lights went out for no explainable reason neither of them said Silently Beulah got lifted the discovered a fuse was ard having no tried to produce a makeshift from a It began to look as though there was nothing to do but continue on when suddenly the connection was made and the lights flared In the glare of the headlights a man and a evidently having come up in the darkness without knowing of the truck's presence were standing in The man was Barnaby Xerxes Nobody said anything for a then Barnaby turned and began walking swiftly The K girl followed Leulah got into the She lh She at Candida looked at sald Beulah go back and milk the cow and it a day cried |