Show After Fifteen Years 4 I By CHARLES TILTON 14 C Copyright j D ill ID you order the tile window U shades Sally asked Mi Mis Ruth nuth Diller when she returned fr from froma m ma a visit to Chicago The very day you ou left dear White holland for all aU the lower rooms You said the tile others could be turned and used another year I am nm expecting them any day now I hope they will send a n man to hang them remarked Miss Ruth Hull as ns she walked complacently around the tile fine old house where they lived ll to to- gether gather There was a strange look 1001 on 00 the elder Miss l Diller's face Occasionally Occa she brushed her snowy lair hair back with a n thin nervous hand band Huth I 1 suddenly cried Sally pulling pull pun ing lug at nt her sisters sister's I left ft hand Iland What Is the matter demanded with a conscious smile Where Where did did I you ou get this ring Sally Sully in a muffled tone Judge Brunson placed it there my dear said Kuth proudly And you ou are going to tu marry him him Certainly in in in the Of course you will ull live with us Sally dear dear dear- I said Sally seriously but she kissed her sister and wished her I happiness with a n fervor prompted II by bythe tile the deep love lo they bore for each oth oth- er cr As Ruth went upstairs to pu put away her tier things Sally ally sat In the tue par par- lur br window and looked out at flower gardens where e they had worked to to- gether Judge ou Drons-ou ou lad had been an nn anold anold old uld sweetheart of Ruth's Ruths but a lovers lover's quarrel rei hud hind separated them and he lie hall had married another girl and lost her Lately he had bad renewed his courtship of the elder eider Miss l Diller The ilie next morning Judge Jude came caine with his ui big automobile and carried car cur lied led Ruth away awny for the tile day Sally smilingly smiling I refused to go with them I Iam Iam am expecting the tilt man from Latham's she explained S S S S Sally was n ts cl crying crying n a lonely little ligure fig fig- ure ui-c in ill a n gray gruy house frock with a mist of brown hair lightly dusted with white Then the doorbell rang sharply Sall Sally opened the tue door to find that the man mau from flom Latham's had at ot last fast arrived tie Lie was bringing a u roll roil of window shades Sall Sally went Into the big U room where the sun was shining plants were blooming and goldfish and aud canaries ca ca- ca- ca navies lived hived happily in the tue pleasant environment liere I am am said suld the pleasant voice of the lie tuna man from Latham's all ready rendY to begin work You might start in the front room said Sally coming out Into the big bighail bighall hull hall where he lie waited Have Hare you ou a stepladder Ever Everything read ready said the man briskly with a u sharp side glance at Sally that made her uneasy She stood In n the doorway and watched him narrowly and then with grown growing interest lie He looked different from frolD other workmen work Ills His clothes were handsome and nud well cut like hiL-e Judge s. s lIe He removed his coat anti and hung It over n ii chair revealing re a spotless spotless spot spot- less white negligee ee shirt with a 0 handsome hand hand- some silk scarf scurf and as ns he lie lifted his hand t to adjust the ladder r the she lIe glimpsed a platinum watch on his wrist hat What manner of workman was as this He lie worked work faster and more than an anyone one she had lInd ever seen and soon all the tile lower shades were hung and found to tit lit perfectly and to torun run un up and down with remarkable smoothness Dont you ou ever do an anything except hang hung window shades she inquired as US they returned to the parlor so that he could get iii hl his coat and hat lint hatI I 1 wish I had nothing else to do I he laughed and his laugh made her sit up with a u strained stu look 1001 on her tier tear stained face Have you ou ever been here before before- for Latham's she asked No not No not for Latham's for for myself selL Yourself Who are you yuu There Therea was a sharp shull note nute In her tIer voice olce almost of If fear fear fear- yet fear yet et there was a 3 silvery thread ot of hope in ItI It I I I I u u I ULU Lit J I OUt lie place several years year ago I 1 am the tile big lIlg chief there but Were but lately weve we've had hind hada hinda a u strike among our workmen nail ami j among some sonic of our drivers So Si I 1 called culled for tor volunteers to break eak tile tie i strike und amid Ive I've led them Its It's coming cum com I lug ing out all ull right the right the men are coming cum com In lug ing back to tu work next week When I your came callie in lust last week I made malc I up UI hii my mind that no one bin bill the highest highest high high- I est salaried officer of the company should do du the tue work Here Uele I am Sally I Diller Oh I I she site said again when she re regained regaIned re- re I gained consciousness und and re-I re the wet vet towel with which hu tie wu was var dabbing her face fuce lie bent befIt over u I I Ij j I her tier with u a worried look until Sully II i ij j ut at Ill up straight on the sofa und and stared j I ut at him j I I I It be Oe she he whispered I a I strange t smile mile 1 her lips 1115 I II I It I Is ts Ue tie u assured tier her You will believe t UI me umie I sU iu I 1 um am Dick ick Wul ul I lace luce I if I 1 remind you yuu that I 1 sat on OD this I Ier very ery sofa und asked e you to tu marry me rue 11 ft It was tvis In lu the he Cf very same I place we quarreled und and 1 olle obeyed ed you jOU I and Hud t 1 away uway I was a fool 01 to do clu that I Il I l 1 didn't HUllt mean IL It IL whispered Sull Sully M 1 1 didn't know you at nt st you u I tiu ti so- so but so-but but now no I know II M MIs Is you JU because I lOin am nun so in glad to tu Itu save e I you yuu near neur Fifteen yea eal us is u a long lung I Too lung to In full mix I II I the lie mUll man from fu Lat When wit will I I you nm marry me Sully III |