Show fiction THE LONG WAY HOME I CORNER By Beatrice Cargill T ONG AFTER the had moved out of sight around Black two figures stood motionless on the tiny Above creaking on its Minute the sign read Wind swirled and eddied around them Jeb station stayed discreetly inside the ticket He had watched folks for twenty years as they experienced that first The train had paused for only a with Rob Cameron waving and smiling on the rear it had made its noisy be nearly down the valley to by John Sara the shiny black leather purse It was Rob's last like snow in the John's gray head bent to Thanksgiving's almost here Sara looked deep into his he'll be gone for a long Jeb Reynolds came out on the platform and watched them climb into the old blue The old car woke up and cleared its some I John pulled out the a little coffee might Sara but it was only her lips that They drove seven miles past be down the valley to by John browned and crisped John slowed down near a low There was a small sign on the side of an elm tree Whitely's Famous Sara nodded in reply to his unasked She straightened her hat in the rear view mirror and put on her taking a long time with each Rob's train must be nearly to THERE WERE silent minutes between soup and chicken and After they went out behind the barn to see the kept in orderly Whitely's boy fished in the pond for sunfish to feed Sara bent over to see the tiny creatures and her hair played in the The gray streaks were like a light touch of She counted the Two large one small screened off by A Their family had been three they are she wish I could look at them without thinking of the coats they are going to She seems to kill I Whitely I used to feel sorry for but after the first check came I never thought about it The train must be at Gorge City Another hour and he'd be She closed her John's arm was around feel as if I'd been she I leaned over too long looking at the They settled themselves in the old car They could see the farm on a distant still love I still like coming around that curve and seeing knowing it'll be The car whined in self-pity as it climbed the John drove up to the front He fumbled for the key and then Just held it in his Something seemed to hold him He didn't want to go into the He leaned down to pat the old collie who stood waiting there and saw the Pinned to the dog's collar was a scrap of Together John and Sara read Drawn In the quick scrawl of a boy in a hurry were Mom and Dad woeful faces above single-line Mom was clutching the black Dad his Beneath the picture Rob had written In large black CHEER UP-YOU SURE LOOK you sure look Sara repeated and John began tO Sara he crazy He opened the door and they went into their Adhesive tape the residue can be removed from windowpanes with ordinary cleaning White is the traditional color mourning in Since it is worn for three years for Korean families are in mourning white much of the The average excluding the half million believes in a mixture of spirit worship or and Average house lighting circuits function satisfactorily on while circuits working appliances may require 20 |