Show fear w by MAGNUS OLESON alsoc vu I 1 ste te PaPers I 1 V I 1 e e I rhey were dressing her tor for her JL A wedding emy emily submitted val pa more concerned with th in darkened sky and continuous roll of n distant thunder than with the silks siba mrs lape had been so busy over these past weeks the two elderly women in the room tried to 10 forget or ignore the coming tem though their efforts merely ma made them hysterically lapes babble was hindered by i harelip hare lip but her troubled voice inot anil as if in competition with th 6 steadily lifting reverberations ot of tin the storm stout ma snavely had to ca suc such h handicap emily merely knew that they wert talking pale and tremulous wi with eyes glazed by emotion she looked in her half clad slenderness like fear eai itself by the window Bitt Bit trier nert creek was bank full from the mo mom ing storm she could see the li ligum quid yellow mud swirling under the old bridge mens voices mumbled from the th porch below emily impulsively flung up the window sash and leaned out her father was there stiff and clumsy in his starched linen and black clothes the hired hands were there in their clumsier best emily had little more than a glimpse of the anxious group ezra looked up at the rattle of the win dow sash his dark face flamed it at sight of her and his lips parted her father glanced upward too hes comin pa snavely bellowed seen his car racin down blackock Blac koak hill emiles mother pulled her bad back into the room and slammed the window emily heard little of the airada tirada that followed it was cometh something about showing herself shamelessly like that and what would ezra think though hed be her man maa quick enough if the storm would get by and the reverend would come hes coming emily said pi pa saw his car driven rain lashed down unexpectedly with an impact that smothered under its continuous roar the ana of lightning and crash of thunder in the dusk they lit a kerosene lamp lowered the window shade and went on hurriedly to complete emiles costume but emily could not bf be kept in the center of the room she was staring at the bridge until at last she saw a dark car dart over well she said he got across it wash out ill run right down ma snavely said reverend Perkin sons a brave man never afraid when itt its the lords work IU ill tell him be ready soon as the thunder stops ill go too mrs lape said nervously emiles Em ilys ready now iti comforting to have a man 0 god in the house during such a terrible storm comforting and protecting 7 the lords work emily sat and stared at the shaded window where blue light came fitfully and the rain clamored against the glass glasl it was hailing now A tinkle of stones on the panes th threatened reat ened to break them yellow clouds she thought dully always hailed aai again the lords work it well wed money and fear had more to do with it than god fear of poverty and A love of money ma had known how ho to use arguments like that pat bif way had been more forthright it had been marry ezra or take bea beating hail came again or wu wa it hail emily ran to the window and whipped up the blind A yellow dusk was out of doors dusk and the black rain flooded by 01 the blue glare of hurtled bolts sheets of water washed the window glass but at times she could kt the cars parked in the yard below bebi among them ezras road roadster stere 6 ready decorated with tin cans U rod beside it a small battered runabout the hail rattled again close to te face but it was not hail and till M runabout was jim 0 boharas OH hara aras S of course jim I 1 she flung the w windo hindoll open to the storm he extended his arms his gw irish face was laughing as the W wai atel ran over it his lips moved she sa hear but she knew what was saying if youre not afraid of th the e darlin and 30 a week if YOU yo not afraid she had been afraid horribly ar ways she shrank to a pinpoint pin point ches and she bad ia the lightning came been afraid of life of va 30 a wa we but now she was afraid of ej E ear j abild deathly afraid of his thick lips w flushed face and ariso poisoning prison ing house fear of ezra had other fears shi she had welcomed ed tho storm praying that it would vw out the bridge do som something ethil ag air thing to keep the reverend 1 where he belonged home afraid of it iti it was cpr S oust 11 li ll she climbed to the windows window her white silks were iastan drenched dap i if youre not afraid jurn jump P afraid emily laughed silent V laughed at the impotent thun thunder der occupant dull house and its stogy od ma the lashing drenching raint rain the it 1 she was going to roll in laughed jims ugly car jim jims Is wet face jump darlin it pealed baled out 01 over emiles laugh lerr chal storm eagerly gaily a cli and a triumph as she obeyed |