Show the fiction GARDEN SEQUENCE CE by richard H wilkinson corner YANT DREAMED a dream BR BRYANT ile he was in a garden A beautiful 4 girl sat on a white marble marabl e bench and smiled at him across a pond filled with goldfish and pond lilies bright sunshine filtered down through shade trees and reflected the go gold id in the girls hair ch Q minute bryant k knew n e w ea fiction that according tok to w bilu all good dreams he was supposed to do something possibly to walk around the pool and bow gallantly before the girl lie he began to wonder if he look lok somewhat oe what like an idiot standing there it was then that he heard toot steps on the flagstone path that connected the garden with the wide screened in porch of the house he looked up to find laura his hiss sister lster coming into the garden ile he was glad that laura had come for laura knew oil all about dreams and could tell him what to do bryantt Bry antl laura exclaimed stopping on an the pools edge and looking from frol him to the girl whatever in the world are you standing here bere for why youre positively rude doris boris must think my brother is dl idt oh yes that was it it was all working out tine now laura had asked her college roommate doris ll 11 plante down for the weekend week end of course that was ws she ilow how stupid of him so bryant walked around the pool and was introduced lie he looked deep into the twin black pools that mere doris eyes and apologized ills his voice sounded odd but that of course was because he was thinking that here was the girl he had been waiting for then he almost groaned aloud doris had looked up and said it w was as quite all right and she really should have introduced herself but ho he added so much to the scene ON ilk r V Y gg w X 1 ax bryant slowly put his arm about her eum allin shoulders standing over there so straight and silent it was the sound of her voice that made bryant groan for he remembered that it was all a dream and that doris would boon soon be gone J i then suddenly it wainright wa was inight night and they were orce once more in the garden there was a full moon anda and a gentle breeze and music drifting down on the still air from somewhere baik back of the marble bench A week two weeks had gone by lbryant bryant sure which since the first meeting in the garden ile he had a 0 dim recollection that they were glorious weeks of riding and golfing and swimming and ingall all with doris IT TT WAS ONLY occasionally ja now that bryant remembered it was nil all a dream the dread of waking up affect him quite so poignantly that Is to say it affect him until this night when they were alone in the garden then he was seized with a sudden panicky sensation and so quite abruptly bryant turned and said without pr pre ellmin aries ries doris darling I 1 love you I 1 know this is all a dream therefore im telling you now before I 1 wake up tip ive waited all my life IN for such a girl as you jt it deemi seems cruel that corne come to me only in a dream I 1 and doris dori s turned up her face to tc his with the moon making shadows of her eyes and said 1 I love you too bryant and im glad you waited tor for me I 1 hardly know what I 1 would have done had I 1 discovered you belonged to some one else Bryant thought thi this over and decided that the dream had turned out just the way he would hava ordered held hed better wake himself up he thought before he be did something to spoil it but before h be e could pinch himself which was the conventional way of ft waking oneself from a dream doris laid her head on his abou shoulder der bryant looked down at the gold i doris he brokenly this inlall adream dr earn and fin in amin ute be gone gon and nd I 1 ill find myself alone youre not real but bu doris sloughed ed softly and snuggled closer bryant slaw slowly ly put his I 1 arm arm 1 about her slim shoulders she wa was there close against elmr her lips were upturned and as bryant bent to kiss them he knew that when again he opened his eyes shed still be there and would always be there |