Show I CORNER By Richard Hill Wilkinson THERE WASN'T any particular reason why young Phil Davis and his wife should dislike Yet this was the For one thing neither of them were used to the habits and cus- toms of small Minute town Fiction They were city 1 I and hence misunderstood the kindly Interest of their Prying they termed Bixby was over again this Dot Davis said to her husband one night two months after they had become nicely wanted to know where I had my washing Said she'd been curious ever since she discovered I didn't do it old Phil a blasted shame we have to put up with Tom who runs the local was telling me today that Templer was no different from any small They're all the he God pity the people who have to live in he added sick of Dot of seeing and meeting no one but gossiping old sick of the familiarity these people once they find you're here to we're not here to Phil cried with sudden remember I told you how I'd been working on the head Trying to persuade them to transfer me to I think it's going We'll not have to put up with this dull existence much honey hope Dot cried can't stand It a great deal sick of Dot of seeing and meeting no one but old Two weeks later the long-hoped-for day Phil received notice of his transfer to the Suffolk Joyously the two young people packed up their belongings and said goodbye to They took an apartment in the suburb of Ash-field and set about the task of getting This wasn't particularly who was rather a plain looking person and who occupied an apartment on the same floor with the seemed eager to help the young folks get She came in every day and made suggestions which Dot found Phil came home one evening to announce that he had joined a and would be out one night a just as said Dot Hooper has asked me to join the Neighborhood Bridge so I'll be irom Mrs Hooper and other of the apartment about other people in other apartment houses For the Ricks were considered The Browns weren't all they appeared to be Bit by bit Phil and Dot adapted themselves to their new life They learned with whom to and whom to Gradually they settled Into the usual A month after they had left Templer and its drab dullness behind Phil arrived home one evening a curious expression On his face Dorothy noticed the nothing he replied to her Talbert saying today that Ashfield was like a hundred other suburban towns Same monotonous routine and dull The only break they get li when someone new Dot said Hooper In Sue wanted to know where I had my washing She'd she that I didn't do It Phil and Dot stared at each tor a moment In alarmed silence Then suddenly of one the burst Into he wonder if I the place we live in or if it's Jus us We wanted to he near a and now that we're here found conditions pretty much th same as Dot nodded guess It Isn't the place tha makes one's life drab and the who live In those places it's the way you treat them ant they treat I guess human na ture Is much the same every It's up to the whether or not he or she Is Phil held his wife |