Show the fi fiction y dion A IRN SMILES by richard H wilkins corner CALEB WARE was wag a young man who quarreled with his father and was turned away fro from m his boyhood home caleb always said later that ho he went away of his 0 own wn accord fortune smiled on caleb five years later he found aromi nent in the at fairs of the small 4 minute city in which he S 0 fiction ca h had a d chosen to live I 1 v e moreover he was rich it was then that caleb decided to go home As AB the train began to climb into the fresh clean air of the mountain mo country the he tired look about his eyes vani vanished sheil color appeared in his cheeks it if thrilled him now to know that ile ho was inba in a position to provide his father with all the comforts of old age he from the train at the tiny depot everything was wai the same the cracker box station the general store the post postoffice office and the few small dwelling houses A man with side aide whiskers and spectacles peered at him from the doorway of the depot hello banty wheres your rig tho the roan man stepped through the door caleb warel ware know yuh uh any cherel how bo be yuh caleb fine banty and you To lable caleb just toll to able lable figure on goin out to the farm drive you ou out if you say sq so figured ed you would ile he climbed into baktys ancient rig glad of this opportunity to ride with tho the station masterana mast master erand and learn the ne news WS looks like you done quite well in the me city banty suggested nug cautiously tiou sly not bad caleb agreed and he knew that feeling of triumph and victory at ai his bis success ile ho thought caleb warel Varel know yuh rub any F cheret low flow bo be yuh yah caleb of his fp fathers surprise and it would be a bitter pill for old man ware to swallow how are things at the farm banty hows dad your dads allin said banty ile he aint been right since you left live five years ago me left him why hy he turned me couill out dont make no difference you a done it ile he needed you nt at the farm tho the place Is plumb run down and your dad aint well caleb felt suddenly that hanty was condemning him that everyone in tho the village had condemned him film dad really bad is he too sick to work he asked he Is now A month ago he was took bad aint worked since banty spat and glanced at him sideways he wont be glad to see you son not like that hes got too much pride baler CALEB understood he knew w that his father would never take succor from a son bon who had deserted him would never admit he needed the help of a traitor hed rather die starving than that chati 1 banty might have said more lot but caleb suddenly leaped from the slow moving buggy you just keep on going banty and forget you ever saw me dad need never know but what I 1 come home because ahad to caleb plunged into the woods beside the road and discarded his coat and undid his necktie ko he walked for some distance through the heavy growth basi beside de the highway branches tore at his tine fine linen and ripped great gashes briars clutched at his trousers and tore holes in them thus caleb came home sight of the farm gave him a pang the house arld and grounds were run down and in need of repair A cot had been placed on the rear porch and on this cot caleb saw the thin gaunt figure of his father lie ile came and stood over the figure and looked down at it and smiled hello father he said its caleb ive come home to ask your forgiveness and to be taken in his voice was humble old nun man ware opened his eyes and looked up at his son and there was a quick happiness in his ex pres slon his dimming vision saw the tousled ragged farm boy who had stalked so proudly away five years before 1 I knew come back caleb I 1 knew come to your old father for help sooner or later and and im gl glad a V |