Show found no cupid in the big city the weekly short story by ty CORONA REMINGTON Is hyoun anllo ELLO madge supper ready i your turn to cook 14 it yoo yon know brought some lettuce aid toina tomatoes toes so 0 o we could have salad ulav vivian longmire dropped her package packages on a nearby chair and 1 nd removing rel her hat nus it on if lie ie 6 bed ed no I 1 was we kept lute hile ot at tha ta of gee just cot tot in and found a let ter from alice bilte and imply simply bad had to rail rad IV IL all this ahli from margaret hollister lol llster ai as she he continued canning scanning the pages in her band hate hats new back homer asked vivian crossing the room and lean ing log over tier her friend a shoulder ouMer ili alice li Is going to be married the matter os as any well asked madge ve 4 left that little hole of a ili lice ce been because use we thought we thought wed have a better chance of marry luc well if it we came to a bis big city anven well were been here three year years and most of the evenings weve I 1 pent lolling around in our komoros reading bools books from the free library felting I 1 and even it we do write thrill las ing letter letters to the girls buck back home about how our li Is wed five give our heads to quit tomor row and yet wed ed find country life even more unbearable now I 1 remember how used to coue cove over sunday hed v pik home fron church with me and then hed bed stay to dinner and afterward wed walk some more if f it wes pretty cr er and sometimes hed slay stay to supper and on until seven or eight then hed get dp up and go home and go to bed and all the time he was there he it t say a single nord ord unless it was something about the crops or the weather well have to admit too that frank hod had a dreadful case on you d bat makes some men sort of awkward and Epee cHess everybody thought it nas as coins to bo be a match 1 I guels it would have been if we coma come out here hem bonder onder what do ns at home now sighed milan 1 ian cleaning op up the upper supper dishes and getting ready to go out for a ride rider I 1 it makes roe me sort of homesick to think about it IL I 1 can jut hear the lazy tinkle of the cow bells as they browse around for a lat latt dewy mouthful before lying down don hush vivian do this Is nn un healthy lets go get supper together 1 I dont want any supper rm homesick and I 1 want to go back vivian pent sted i so do V L so it was arranged I 1 heir fa then diet them at tho the station and took them home la to a wheezy muddy or cir lani lan but it its good to hare have joa log back mrs Longi Longin nire lre laid said ai as mi 1 I tan jumped out of their little touring na car and fell into her mother mothers i arros arms dont doot like I 1 coula eer let you go twin aguin I 1 told prank frank you a u cornice coming tod oily todil il aind hell U t ove over after upper supper III bare tu ij go and see about the upper supper no now come to the kitchen mr tv loons you IOU gel bour our things off mn mrs I Longin lre energetic and more than contented hurried into the kitchen the fresh country food seemed 0 so o good to vivian i crating erasing homesick honi csick pilate and eb she was happy for the birot time in AM afterwards ahe she and her mother cleared up P together in tie middle of job frank fronk appeared they told me out front id led ltd you back here so I 1 just came 0 a in ln he explained hello frank she he smiled iri 1 food good to fee gee you again heres a cloth you ion ton dry those these dishes ualle I 1 ash lea ea once at ork bh his embarrassment left him I 1 ly IT you to marry ne lie this time honey be asked gingerly taking her hand ae As the she made oo 00 effort to withdraw it he be grew a little bolder bold and lipped slipped an ana arm around her boulder shoulder 1 I built ui us a it little house on the cde edic of f your our place caum I 1 knew come hack back to roe me come some day an now now a a rood good time for ai as to tart start dettlo settled let tied cause harvest li Is done at I 1 A hat fiat music to her can ears and not I lai ug ago she had bad so 0 o bated hated the word you sold aid frank cause cauze you wont hare have any little to co go back with you madei madges coln ping to marry cousin r hill lie lies 2 got ot them a little houte house built too oh youre kiddan kId dlo she laughed no honest he ab promised him six sli months aso ago I 1 saw the let ter the little fracol she cover never told me well I 1 dont cae ca e about her what are you going to do about met me I 1 he asked impatiently why im going to say yee yes please ahe she answered demurely and I 1 in going to adil add that you have to cot get away from folka folks and to 0 o set get a it right sometimes and to learn to appreciate then them |