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Show ILUCKY'S I WISHBONE I By Izola Forrester I f , (Ooprlght, mi, t Auocutal Ulmrx ITm.) H J ' Tho wind caught tho restaurant H , ' J door with a bans, and almost swept )i l It out of tho girl's grasp. Harvey sat ( ", at tho noarcst tablo, moody und tired kkkh i U In ovary norvo, but ho nprang forward H 1 4 j and helped her to close It. Bho laugh- H L ,! cd up at him, with a murmured word H ' of thanks, and ho returned to his lono- H T f Bomo dinner wltli a vivid ImprcBslon H f ) of Pink cliooks, gray eyes and brown H jf hair that mingled with tho brown fur B !i , I of her cap. ' Suroly tho plump German wnltreBS H ' was Cupid's sldo partner. Deftly sho H moved back a chair Invitingly, and tho H , girl sank Into It, facing Harvey. H it "Just bring mo a real Thanksgiving H dinner, plcaso," said tho newcomer, H putting back her veil with a llttlo ges- H turo of rollcf, and ecattorlng somo H ' snowflakes thereby. "Anything, as H ( long as It's nil Thanksgiving fixings. H ; Oh, and plcaso, I do want n wishbone." H Harvey was very good, considering. H 'i Ho hardly looked nt her until tho H waitress camo bnck nnd nnnounccd H that It wns very late, dinner wan over, H , nnd tho last wlsbbono had been given H j to tho gentleman. H Guiltily Harvey glnnccd at his plat H I tcr. Thcro It wns, undeniably tho H wlsbbono! And sho wanted It. Ho H lifted tho fork Invitingly, as soon as H tho waitress had gonu. H I "Won't you lot mo glvo It to you?" H i Sho flushed and smiled, B ' "Oh, no, thanks. It was only a bit H I of foolishness on my part, it It's B i my first Thanksgiving nwny from HH homo, and I always havo tho wishbone HH there, nnd so I asked for It habit, I BH i guess." HHJ "Mother always gives It to mo when HBJ j I'm homo, too," said Harvey, bright- HH onlng up. "Howard of merit, perhaps, HB Pleaso tako It. I tell you, ou toko It BBx and nlbblo all tho meat off, and polish BBS ' It UP and wo'll break It nnd wish. BH That's fair; Isn't It?" BB "It really Isn't, but If you Insist, I BH BB Sho accepted it doubtfully, and liar- BB voy fc'1 'nonllnatoly happy. Ho had BB been up all night working on n heavy BB assignment, then had put In tho morn BB Passed Into the Snowstorm. BB I log nt scheduled routlno work, and his BBj boad felt light. Ho tanged for tho BBj ' breath of adventure, nnd lo, It had BB' i blown in on him In n gust. Bl'l "I'll bot my share of tho wishbone," BBj i ho put In prosently, "that you're not BBj a Now Yorkor." BBj "Tho wtshbono remains unbroken BB ' on that," sho laughed back. "I'm from BBj ' Tennessee" BBT "Prom Tonnessco, nnd spending BBJ Thanksgiving nil alono on Park, placo, BBj Now York. What's tho answor? jvj I was on my way to tho olovnted BBj and couldn't resist tho dinner call. BBj Holidays make no dlfforonco with my BBj work. I mil a private Bocrotitry, and BBj bad to clear up tho day's correspond- BBj ence, turkey or no turkoy." BBj "My name's Wilfred Harvey. I'm BBj over on tho Dally Grind as special BBj galloy slavo. That Isn't a joko. I'm BBj bo tired I can hardly talk straight. Do BBj you mind? You'll vanish In a fow BBj minutes, anyway. I may as woll talk BBj while I can." BBj Sho looked down at her pinto, BBV "Indeed, I do not mtnd. Wo havo BBjj tho placo hero all to ourselves. Think BBjf bow lonely It would have been It I BBj' bad been tho only ono hero." BBj' "Don't you like to tell your nnmo?" BBT Swiftly tho lashes raised, nnd sho BBj i laughed at him. Ho was moro boy- BBj is!) then she had thought, assuredly BBj lust a boy from out of town, with n BBj' fresh, clean-cut faco. BBT "Why, of courso, If jou want to BBj. know Nan Fnrnsleo." B "Kino!" ho said. "If I had two BBj wishbones, I'd trado you another just BBj for the clianco to call you Nan for flf- BBT teen minutes, to make bollovo you BBj woro my fourth cousin, don't you BBT j know? A fellow always takcB In his BBj pretty fourth cousin to dinner on BBT Thanksgiving if ho gots tho chnnco." BB "Don't you love to toll whoro you'ro BBt from?" sho asked, half shyly. BK "Oh, by Jove, you had mo, didn't BBTj you? I'm from Wow Hampshire. BBj Here, I'll rut tho salt cellar on the BBT Mason and Dixon line. Dut look outl BBT I'm golnrf to march ovor it," BBT' flBfefc. Bho laughed at the absurdity of a BBjBBBBjH, move, and then sighed. flBBBB "How queer Is to eat Thanksgiv ing dinner this way, whon I novel saw you In my life before" "I protest. I'm not 'queer' at all, ) carry credentials of all kinds. Want to see them? I'm twenty-two, boeo In New York four months, nnd am so doggono homesick that I can fool chilblains on my heartstrings. May-bo May-bo beforo wo get through dinner, wo'll And out that wo know all norts of peo-plo peo-plo togothor." "If wo did, thoy'd all be veterans. I'm from tho old southern stock." "So? It's taken a sudden rise, hasn't it? Oh, I don't mean anything by that, only you seemed so up to data and nllvo. Say, Isn't this tho most loncBomo town you over found whan you really aro from homo folks, and hit tho placo by yourself? I'vo been throwing coins to ragnmufllns nil day, and feeling liko a real ono myself." "Why didn't you run up homo for today?" "Couldn't. Sent n money order Instead. In-stead. They needed It moro than mo." Sho laughed again, softly, with that sudden uplift of long lashes. "So did I." "Did you? Then you understand don't you? That's why wo'ro here, wt jouiiRsters, to mako good and send homo steady money orders. Tho governor's gov-ernor's been dead up homo for flvo years, and I'vo got n kid brother In college." col-lege." "I'vo got two at home, llttlo tads, besides mother." Tho wnltrcss camo with two checks. "Mnko It ono," sold Harvey, but tho girl protested and took her own. I)o-foro I)o-foro sho put on her gloves ho lifted tho wishbone. "Heady?" There was a chnllcugo in his cyos ns tboy met his. "Unady," sho echoed, ond they pulled." pull-ed." It sennppod, loavlng two short parts of equal length In their hands. U think wo both get our wishes," said Nnn seriously. "Tell yours, nnd then It's good-by." Ho leaned toward her. "I wished that I might nover loso track of you, Nan." "I 1 nm going uptown on tho olovnted." olo-vnted." "What did you wish?" ho persisted. "You havo to toll; on tho level, you do; whon you agreed." "I wished that that you wero going go-ing uptown on tho samo elevated." Harvoy bent down and carefully collected tho fragments of tho wlsbbono, wlsb-bono, and slipped them In his vest pocket. "ThU is n magic wishbono," ho Bnld. "I am not superstitious, Nan I-'arnsleo, from Tennessee but I think luck Is parching on my loft shoulder blado nt this mlnuto, and I carry his wtshbono here. Ho hns properly Introduced In-troduced us, nnd I defy you to got rid of mo. Itendy, fair lady?" . Out.thoy passed into tho swirling snowstorm, Thnnksglving waifs. Dut all tho glamour of young lovo was In his eyes as ho looked down at her, and Nnn was happy. |