Show reality better than a dream ily 11 LOUIS SUB HE ai as ok source of great intel trite 11 fit t lothe to lie people in the valley below thit that unk nun gitt glit who had taken possession of the tile old dark clark farm I 1 let et alluan lait on old smoky I 1 ail lopa elope slope FAt aters bar garvestin vestin belr crop crops wa would uld pi pause u ani and dance curl busly et at he the t thin h seirei of matke trat raiding eling skyward above lie tile treetop treetops and wonder why she slip wm was there them especially young john clayes who had recently inherited hie his fathers a brood acres on which lie to and his mother lived oli all lie for jolln colini g brother brothers nd listen sisters had bad long ago married aid land scattered and now had farm forms of their awn your turn will come bis his mother and I 1 dAre flay hilly Weli will salt suit we its well ns os anybody at which tier son goo would ily lly shift the oali object jerL oh he lie suppo rd hed marry kitty ultimately but for be ibe present rift he bad had no wish to set et tie his flite ut too definitely had led his hi mother known that since I 1 the he of day Y be he drove lo 10 town a and nd parked next a a dusty little ville runabout ii hie ll 11 mind had bad been oiled filled with vision ns of a blender sender brown bied girl with ean sun cold gold curl curls clustering under her felt hat hal she herself wi wt old not hare have felt so aure of being mother in to law low to kitty As full fall drew oear near one might in deed dem live live been pardoned for lenn lelia ing on the pasture bara bars and gating at smoky lop whose sides were a 3 colorful MOSS mss of rede reds and greens and brons set get on off by the more somber evergreens ever greens and ae as the he season progressed without rain john would so lean on the barr hut but sometimes be he would frown and think of or nr just a spark and hes be set off city like kilt shingles be muttered one day then one evening out driving with kitty weatherby at his ills elde side he tie suddenly swung off from ti lie ie main higday onto a hard pecked packed dirt road that lint wound in sharp foliage bidden hidden curies up the moun tain taij Is exciting giggled kitty been up there since I 1 was a kd vol besides id like to cach a bigit t of tint thit city girl jim law low rence ence he she paused catching johns look then continued defiantly awell hes alil corking for her although why lie should with rith his big farro farm anji low be say says poor as jobs turkey that her uncle left her the place and its the oily home thes got and aboe a a ot to pinke it pay but jim aa it I 1 grow enough to feed a cat her companions we were re a jumble of speculations su so tile stranger girl a rich lady riding a hobby so kitty wae war still seeing jim his ills old rival what jim sais seema seems to carry considerable weight with you he remarked coldly colony jest just when he paused abruptly that thair he berried caled the car hot shot forward bener beneath benerth th the PreSS presslie Lre of hig his foot while kitty clutched his arm in terror both at the mad mod owene u with which they rounded and at the thought of fire cant clint you turn she managed to john shook fill bead head he ile thought of turning only of going forti forwar ard il to oaid ou out I 1 just where that fire are might be jf f ft it were well above file lie farm form he the wid mig lit carry it by or a well pl plantlet antlej ack fire or trench repel it IL at he bes best be could set get the girl and bring her down to safety ills 1113 heart glowed within him and he was not con belong of II ettje grasp on bis his arm then ns its tha th swung around the benj benl they tay gas the ne fire n e it was the farmhouse itself an on I 1 johns eipert expert eye saw at once that set as the old boulte uuie has as 11 a 1 bs the coter c oter of the clearing there was little hood of the surrounding forest becoming tn volel two hurrying figures were moving to aisle ii fe distance what few pieces of furniture they had e evi bontly been able to taki from within th building john followed by kitty leaped to the ground i no use trying to save the house yelled lawrence let ler er burn bum my wife e here tour your wife I 1 beth kitty and ahn cried the word only thia afternoon shouted jim still busy jugging lugge chairs and tables chimney dust must have caught while we were lone pate sparks spark 8 on he the roof did for the rest hakes no real difference coins going to 0 live a at t m casy p place c e 0 of f course lie ile ahr threw e w ri ten tender d er pr pro 0 teethe glance at the girl who seemed lowlier lowler and even more desirable 00 tass 2 jobo remembered her the be old tinder lox lei might pot f well eo go one time as another and go it did burning cear to the he ground until only the blackened smoldering ember embers were left asi and it U seemed to john as if it hidden lil ilden in the debri were the fishes of his idle dreama idle be bc use he bad had made no to press his suit and bring ibm to fru fro on you seem dreadfully quirt complained kitty as they drove slowly for john resolutely pot put his ills arm pi fut t her plump waist then hen its about time you ard I 1 malj thought of our own wedding he be mothers been expecting it this thin long while after a all 1 reo reality lity was better than a dream perhaps ler haps |