Show THE BEST MAN WINS by SUSAN E CLAGETT I 1 I 1 you yma have heard of tire place piece paved w with t b good intentions pauline paeans dear 1 decany am afraid many bricks am ar laid aid t to iny credit for my intentions are always alway tod but fall of at O I 1 mean can to write but Borne how never do I 1 ibis his time you must forgive me for I 1 am m most meat unhappy and my jus ness nine a fr from out a clear sky sin since then I 1 have bounded the depths depth ft father faher is obdurate mother aide aldea with him it 1 Is illg nothing tl lg but pig headed b jury icy in father an abone looking nt mt H howard 11 d would k know now hla his he a gentleman in an lie he aerts certainly 1 alv Is good to took at mad and of course couns I 1 think the sun on rises and sets nets in him but father will III not 11 listen ten chen I 1 tell him we us ore engaged hn he merely mely say bays IN ft hen vou van car care for a nian june you cm can marry him al aa soon a as he fro cihil anska you yer but BO long mi aa I 1 live ive i shaana ha B k abe 1 one oam never or have ve you yen july befth 1 thought m my y letter te ib in reached ou U but have in anit t found it in my portfolio when I 1 wrote a month age I 1 thought myself encompass encompassed 1 ty by ml sery but my feelings were re aa nothing as to what t thy they have been t the t a vas past few drive davs father told me I 1 nort break tiff off mv v engagement that I 1 should not see H d gall again I 1 stormed clr d lie anre I 1 ly datil b june jane imil put on I 1 lour ant and aze t ate a drive n ith your mother and me I 1 ahat her was vini all 11 i i 1 I t told I 1 but I 1 dc he bad d ri acer e e disobeyed father in my life and d we a start started d on that drive it wa was a long one it took us a three thre din davs leach this place a little farm at the to end d of nowhere bare state tah thirty y miles from the nearest r railroad I 1 amod station an I 1 there Is no pot office no telephone no car earl july pou Pool line lne dear it ts Is a comfort to chat with you eien if my letter has to wait 1 t f forever cover and fore forever forer r to roach tire the office I 1 do grit gat so hung hungry for home news mail bolher be tins written itten once but not a word from dad which above plaint that I 1 am still in ID the dla grace peter told me lie he maht go to the station tor for mall mail if he dour I 1 1 he thought do dan isham would world take my letters letter whoever la is ran dan I 1 haven have t seen are a man a except opt peter since father left me here I 1 amul wonder if he la Is at an old and wrinkled na as peter july he came caine before I 1 had finished my let letter tar just a an ordinal mriln y farmer sort of person ile he has a nice eves I 1 saw that although he turned them away y at once I 1 v wonder der what hot he be than thought of r me august loth I 1 me am seeing a good gaud deal of 1 dap isham he lives live on the next pla place ce wherever here se that to ia be ln l n t a bit t uke like howard hard but he ore knows v where 11 t to 0 find ad the loveliest wood ad flowers and this morning showed shoved me the cutest little open mouthed baby alda birds mocking birds he said aid they were er august DAD came this morn ing end and asked tre nie to walk to ling kings antill creek with him 1 1 don t know what got into an me but I 1 felt it I 1 mut t talk lots of howard honard I 1 told r of our or eg engagement lom crit oud and how determined father Is tient it shall be broken off but that I 1 was vas tie de ter terminer mined to marry him when I 1 camerl age go and when will that be he naked ked your appearance this morning sug gt g t nothing a so much as that of a pretty spoiled child of at t twelve dve spoiled child r 1 I 1 g gasped ped I 1 could not ant control my voice so I 1 turned mv hack back on mr hm bloo A As I 1 did so I 1 caught sight of something that turned me cold with fright corning coming toward us nath lowered head bead was vas a great block black bull falth a shuddering sob I 1 caught hold id of af do dan and it hid my face against hla 1 a shoulder he older child r I 1 tire then it the low law mut at ter of that a awful fal uh animal I made ads him tar turn Mulde suddenly 1 tt ill you yen believe me praline pauline dan Ib leflon laughed but he be did dlan t let me a go he put hla his hand un on der mr mv chin and made me a look at him A but he a saw in my eyes eye I 1 do not net know IN hot hat eisaw I 1 1 in hla his made ad me strain again hide my mv face against that old aid faded blue shirt even through mv fr tear I 1 was glad father had told how flo aid chandler I 1 should not at marry him I 1 did not at mind led do dan laughing hing there va ans such each comfort in feeling his bima arms about roe but tor for val makeI bake I 1 tried to blip P from rom t them hem when hen he be bald ad jane jan that steer 1 Is one of peter a 0 ox team and 1 Is us as gentle as a a lamb amid truly I 1 am thankful he put in an up ap DO pe bearance arance a just now for I 1 h he have e been wondering ever since you began talking of chandler how long I 1 would have to wait it beor before jou IOU found out you loved me in instead for I 1 sou on do love me there ts no question u e at beat about my feeling tor for you I 1 r the first it time I 1 saw aw you ft y hen we at t last but t r reached rhe t the house a whom he sun d w we a find but father t cr and he shook book do dans be band d so as i ft be 1 had k known 0 hl him all I 1 h hla is 11 alfe f 0 it e dan an lead had studied law law 1 in the office afi and ad had been base associated more or 1 Is lees with dad ever since I 1 don t know why I 1 bad never met him it just happened eo 00 I 1 suppose p bourge 0 of f c course dnn dan dida t ret rest until he be baa 1 I told father beat about ourselves when ha be finished dad looked at rem me with a twin twinkle k 1 1 in his ee eves that made ad me tar pitones but he be old bald very solemnly you Y con can ciuc hu a her dan you yon suly aure 1 am re a man after mv own n heart 1 I wonder pennine I 1 wonder do you think d dad r could 1 hae had this in led when he left re ma thirty miles from a post past in Curl hl I 1 by the mcclur Mi Clur |