Show exhibition last feam opposed a number to of have other been ob quiet little anne finally mathied e locarno municipality ln the weekly short story by RUBY DOUGLAS I 1 down her elk i I 1 deatley of lewis ANNE aella was not exactly a cinder ella in the owen family of bull elk ot a in the girls but she was the most unselfish lional forest the elk of f the quartette and wee was therefore when dressed frequently to be found at home shortly thereafter and while the others were enjoying nty miles all night themselves at this diversion or indies inches of snow before that camp the next morn the old owen homestead lay a few miles out of town and it wa was a good many years since mr owen lad contributed anything to the uliar liar stunt family income he ile considered his aunts at a meeting of work done when be he sold out bis his beekeepers mis a a beest I 1 business to a farseeing far seeing buyer and in which the par had little realized that to bri bring ng up handed Inin ded and with no four daughters would take a stead their faces caught as lly fly increasing income instead of a possible os sible one at a time waning one but with two girls teaching nearby n a wide mo ith bottle and grace in the county clerks nd office in town they managed to live f well aune atine was at home all day s of grain with the mother and much as ohp sh yields for the would have liked to go out to find i and the average price pric employment that would make her ig the first sli sit months more independent it was agreed in to value of an in acre fain family 11 circles circle that she was needed at hone home As it was a consequence 1738 of oats 1 anne who bad had the fewer cl otles 12 GS anne who was invited out least often anne who did this and that er Lo location caton when the others were too busy mak Y you sold me ing their own way or having a good CV ct time p in the bathroom the girls bad had various men friends hat that came come and went but none had bad assumed a serious turn toward matrimony for to give the young women their due they were not in at did bouget you pet on your ft it hurry burry to leave the old home with a man who was just a man I 1 got born of course hen the extensive new road building in the county began there i possesses a heart of happened among the score of over a acaru beers seers workers foremen and en ginders gi 91 to be a young man of un usual personality ills name was UR NERVES fohn john haven he ile took up residence in the town at the old fashioned denver not inot boarding bouse house known as the place tod and it was not long before he be was so 60 very long ion ago deluged with invitations to this hop and that party and all the father gather ings of the young folks in the corn he danced well he was good to look at he played tennis and golf aad made himself gen erakly agreeable at the subscription dances held in the neighborhood house he was a regular patron and he showed no partiality among the girls one night he was dancing with grace owen and he asked her much to tier her surprise if she had a bister sister anne why yea yes admitted grace readily ehe she dancel dance be he asked she go out very much she would rither read grace told him anne next day was called to the telephone I hello fello she called the voice mer the wire had a familiar ling and yet it was three years cince since ehe she had heard I 1 it t and then not on the delphone tel phone it was john haven flaven he was re her that during his col legs lege vacation he ba had d been in charge of a book caravan that had visited the owen homestead frequently and she anne had taken several volumes from him that Is why I 1 came back to this section to take charge of this end of the road building I 1 am an eDg engineer ineer now and do not riot need to peddle books to pay my way through college he was telling her but may I 1 come to see you I 1 have met your sisters but always when I 1 have looked over those who were at the parties and dances you have been missing I 1 have been fearful lest you had married 1 ohno I 1 cried anne 1 I am still till the quiet one of the family who re mains in the chimney comer corner to read yon you do not answer my question as to whether or not I 1 may come to see you now that I 1 have n no 0 attractive books to bring you I 1 anne hesitated sho did not know why perhaps it was a feminine instinct that made her seem not n ot too eager yes she said at la bet won t you do this anything be he assured her in in Ms fis eagerness I 1 come to see me pome night when you have teen my three sisters at a dance always there moth cr er and father will have gone to bed and I 1 shall be waiting for you it will seem more more like the old days when we used to spend en an hour together talking books it was less than a week later that he be went to the usual dance and ana found the three owen sisters dancing as usual he ile danced with one of them and disappeared without a word to anyone anne awaited him by the fire in the bis big stone fireplace and they sat together under the lamp as they had sat side by fide side on the porch three years ago turning pages pares of bucki UV anne was prettier than ever la bis bill eyes and be he wanted to tell her so something in her reserved manner kept him ellent silent and it wa wat not until he had kept several trysts with her that le began to show her his love one of the owen giri Is going to be married said the town gossip the following june ain aich oner was asked oh only anne was the an SO awer a 0 mcclure pews newspaper paper WIM service I 1 |