| Show grannys Injun injunction cdon won alice over the weekly short story by LEETE STONE A corner of the tile rugged elee edge IN of that enchanting Ung liAll hiro shire knon as 01 Corn cornwall mall there is I 1 a tiny winding lane just wide file enough for two io to walk through close toge together r alth arm arms across it Is a each other others a temperamental I 1 tile inne lane for it winds minds and annea III along ulong long for no at an parent reason unit it ren reaches abes nn an abrupt ending at S great and mas elve give mobs covered kate gate that dates back some NO or CW year years back to the tin aloo e dundr hundreds eds of adjacent eres viere ere part of a it treat great estate flail nd lilts gate guarded by 9 pic tures quely robba ro lil retainer wn via conle part of the ancient defense policy against pirates and smug alers from the high sels lien two who have 0 rolled that way riach the tile immense wrought iron bara of oil the fie gate they look dl di down from a III birli gh cilla on a pebbly triangle of white title beach ind and beyond an ever eier restless sei sel se i if it should hop hoppin pen to fc e a it night of moonlight that mellow deeply yellow anglish cornwall moon for the he cornwall moon Is like no oth ott er then the sight eight Is so exi in n sudden beauty that it hurts the heart and bend head in the sharp my hat that only unexpected bunts bursts of beauty do you III not find the name tant now clings to that gate in guide books nor will you find it presen ed for posterity on flamboyant postal cards the lads and lasses of the immediate neighborhood call it making himming gate Oate and some somewhere in chow the lie fancy wag was born that if a boy unit 1 girl arched there on a night when the full moo copi i was wn PAIn till adith cf ef golden doubloons across tie tile little cliff bound bay nikl and kissed there in innocent bin on under the lie abtam k am of that moon their future futura lippl ness and security setu rity from front ant ere ai odin I 1 mitry and alice war wick blied near hatsing gate 1 they lind had ben brought up in n close reverence fir nil the beautiful simple things of life As children they lind in frolicked during the tile scant hours that lint country children are tire eur er to frolic together they ind I 1 id found their u way oy to kiss ing vale long years before their Jim minds could comprehend its it significance hut but now no in was as twenty two and alice nineteen in had bad been away for a 8 par working in a factory nt at but the tile inon of alice and VIA hope of winning her had never left him nn of the tile guy flippant girls giris of the inree large town win had made any liu im breslon rr eslon on him now ho however mever bodwin found it difficult to get what hat he felt was as his ills share of alices enni company pany she had crown grown into A little wild mild rose of beauty and her beaus were mere ninny indeed often ft hen he called in the evening she he was out with tilt one or another of thero them and when he lie did find her in though she wes cordial and pleasant to him film the appeared abstracted and diffident in manner ns as though a veil tell of some sort had bad been stretched between the spontaneity of their former companionship thus bodwin often eat ant at home of nights and brooded blooded bro oded for he loved alice i cry ery much and haune in memory many ninny plight ings of a child ish troth between them he had taken talen it for granted that when lien be turned from launceston Launce ston with IV ith his savings she would fall into bis his arms 60 to speak it was bodwin s wrinkled grand mother rocking rock inn in h her er corner puffing putting at a clay ciny pipe who timed the boy boy tro trouble utile anil and anse film word of from an old moti woman lans heart silly boyl flat a glor foul loul i world it bould be if it men unit under er mood a woman hearal ite its ire little rose faced lues ye want ant lent lont it mant ye know that a it ann must be boni on go buy a new suit alt and a tie nna tin make a light for the loss coant alt all here an oil mope title the file olacia are III I tin her the moonlight nn an cacpal cac lal lier her tile lie ismon 0 alosca uli ills grusnys in brought sudden to the next couill him at alice hou houie houe e clad in III new fenery from head to foot she was out its usual but instead of turning tur abilay from the door with a plum louk look a maille and chatted cliatt eil falth fth alices mother and father rather the tile next inight he nas as back aquia 1 and had find no better luck hut but the tilt third night odIn ll clodin found alice la in lie erected greeted her with alth a egiy c ay iy mile smile instead of a reproachful took look and I 1 come along a ith me for a stroll alice mine its the full ol 01 0 the moon and unit I 1 want to show allow you son ethin lovely this its a nea bodwin thought alice the tile one manip mi boyish charm no oie ole else had from her heart having thought it all out carefully beforehand godwin led let alice down that tiny temperamental lane that ands and curies and rambles an its way may to hissing gate ahey I 1 hey walked in silence arms loo loosik sIy caught about each others dera at last kissing gate 1 I 1 ith the full moon painting rg a path of golden across the cliff bound sea llode in I 1 alice 1 life leaped oat out at these two from fro m far across the moonlit waters as they kissed at kissing gate Z by mcclue New newspaper syndicate Str vic L I 1 |
