Show GALETS CALEBS OLD LOVE by MILDRED WHITE acs luji hestain newspaper union joan sat in tile kitchen and wept u uncontrollable I 1 able tears never had she given way like this but her endurance lid reached breaking point the querulous voice of her mother ln in law coming coining irom from the barren porch outside wal the stretch ot of dust dry garden leaching on to a sunbaked sun baked country loud load all conspired together to add to her desolation and she had been married to caleb but six months caleb it was like his opinionated to have given liim him such a name the pretty dresses she had taken pleasure lu in wearing were barred as unnecessary lux luxuries urles or thin things s riot not absolutely sol vl devoted to need deed she took grim satisfaction in lin impressing pressIng upon ler 1 er daughter in law the fact of her own desirability against a former of caleb that june girl irl she would remark ruined silly just as she was brou brought lit up sill would make a pour poor wife fur for caleb glad I 1 brought him to see tits ills mistake in time taken caleb was u witha fab a pretty face and laugh laughing ln ways waya laughing folks are always light the plain one with the quiet eyes bill will wear you better I 1 told caleb an you are pearln well joan get out as much as I 1 could an me able now to rest for the first time in my life joan mutely rebellious would raise i the he quiet eyes to her husbands troubled face but caleb pressed and harassed as time passed parsed by the growing labor of ills his inherited farm saw neither the appeal or reproach it was a letter that had come that despairing morning which brought jona joan tu to present resentment and tears A gay assured sort of letter from froin tile the former sweetheart hi his mother smother so often offen mentioned directing caleb in fit all confidence to meet her at the station that evening junes mother and me were mere friends as girls joans ln in law explained pla ined she was the well ott off one in ilie big house of the town rn an me the pour one but that never made any difference to her bein kind though slie she was brought up like june to ways waya of foolishness we kept on bein friends so you see junes gut got to come here whenever she wants to for a visit cant see just what her whim Is Is now to study out how happy caleb Is in nirmla marriage ge they two were always alge good friends joan in her brown ging gingham liam saw the two later larer as her husband lius band obediently drove his bis former sweetheart up from I 1 the station he looked well in his good suit and lifted happily in some i i way out of himself sullenly joan moved into imp the prim sitting room to be introduced but as june remained the sullen attitude was hard to retain even the vi visitors contrasting brettl ness failed to awaken her envy rather was joan refreshed as though some flagrant weeze had flitted flirted through the oppressive rooms june installed her hummock with its crimson cushions beneath a distant tree in the barren she placed her camp chair with added downy pillows for joans comfort a bright covered magazine or tn two 0 nearby to pick up explained the guest when iou have a spare minute from froin kitchen duties joun joan glanced fearfully at the disapproving face of her mother in law but june knew no fear im trying to make this gloomy abode less gloomy for calebs bride she remarked frankly arid and cheerfully she w was is hallway hall balf way to her hammock before calebs mother could form an indignant response joan washing the tea dishes as her husband and tits his guest cower sed beneath the tree was torn by conflicting emotions of jealousy and unaccountable hope surely caleb was attentively interested in tits his former pretty sweetheart but surely too tits his gray eyes rested often upon herself with a strangely comforting light when the two left ift her alone one evening to drive to the alie village joan spent the time distractedly iu in the garden when they returned june motioning gayly passed directly in and upwards to joans private sanctum caleb and I 1 she announced breathlessly have brought a lovely ruse rose rug for your bedroom the wash kind too and candles tor for your dress er in im going coln to make rose for lem hern just you walt wait anti and see she joy bously ended silently the young wife trum from the doorway lis as the pretty guest moved about the room it as a s nu u she said sad at last sadly who bo this ahl till all out probably youre bovire amry for me ine probably you know abit caleb care that ou were 10 ills 3 sweetheart june swung maung around sweet lien rt she scoffed that was his lit mothers notion really I 1 was Ca caleb lelli true fr friend lend and confidant when hi he became so terribly in love with you that tie he live without you june laughed 1 I advised him to let tits ills mother go on thinking of me as a sweetheart etheart so that iou would win out by comp comparison arlson wily why my dear added june 1 I urn am here this very minute because your caleb sent tor for me with a plen idea to help you out ot of your dreary way when the old rule Is broken yau you hano hac courage to carry out the new you lire are calebs one thought doc dues S that make the room more rose colored ol ored it makes the world rose colored au vered J joan it n rater repentantly epe mantly her quiet ea eye opre pre upraised to anet tile the houghin hiu pugh ghin big fille ties S of ill blue ue |