Show THE STAR AGNES G ij t wolters out ut at the lonely crossroads the little school house nw NOW ie dark eky sk ir above it lay by like I 1 on the snow and inside the house placing the last avail t of wood in the box stove till ill t hopefully it 4 waited site she had ie ae home after school with her a pupils for there was to have meeting of the school board ining here in the tt tiny ny assembly Is a presence was de desired Ired so she ought her supper folded in one brown brownings in s neat napkins and it it meditatively seated before achens desk deck mrs browning le ic village mother other rs with whom found board and sirs mrs brown vo growing sons were the girls t and protection protect lon is 13 to jacks thoughtfulness that lint i is indebted for the orderly pile i out in the auto shed jim maela filled the oil lamp be ep arting but as rhea waited the snow which had been fall artly all day changed suddenly fierce blowing blizzard so that tor for the time would be danger rack ach had intended to drive the over for her after board meet it rhea peering through the blurred window wondered ad d if he might be able to make ight descended into darkness lembesis of the school board ss sa discouraged by the weather to arrive last bit at wood in the stove cheerily gratefully dut but it ie last that jack had brought ie e put hec bez cloak around lier ter inde her any ay with difficulty int short distance to the shed then paused in cli di diamay imay for there t one ne log among the many piled that she could po carry fri frailness liness jack had been s so lat int the men would be there to tier her by the time the log lo 10 would ded a little brighte ed rhea her way lack back though the wands ug ng before the rapidly freezing v 1 rhea looked hacic over the ot of her saddened girlhood nother tender unselfish and g always yet a mother liti I 1 needing constantly her own tl il care youth rhea ildea sighed ie word youth had passed her ailing none of its pleasures i i as she looked through the N win hi thea saw the lie star unearthed it gleamed through the clear of iff nione it berned a sign of a in the lull of storm the girl and now it was wag not a win wan but one of warm courage star itar of promise she said went over to the creaky organ arned its rickety stool then their in apty room ildea played it a happy atthe lonely crossroad an ob automobile abruptly gave up biggle with the while the muttering invectives against and weather in general climbed bingly from the cars seat scat rind and the gay notes of bit an organ ile he A t fully realize that it was an ibis first realization being i that shelter was near the had banked itself against the house windows doing its best iceal aceal the feeble light within aul Da derivers rivers found his way to schoolhouse chool house door and bounded oun ded dougli to be heard above Il lieas I 1 n she opened the door with her t shawl still about her shoulders ali eyes widened in delight at prospect ro of companionship and ranee rance while tile the mins mans frown ed at eglit of her yaa any port in it a storm he ha ned briefly arid and when rhea d to the dead embers tind told ler ker predicament the attorney led ed to relieve the situation iad been many years since he plit togs logs tor for firewood and car to lit his country boyhood and lie he felt now a strange new ration in ahli task later as d 1 italien sat before the cheering they looked into mch others ol liers ind smiled in sympathetic un anding 1 I was thinking sie how ow wonderful it Is that you ned awny away out here to come to lil 1 1 was thinking the man re 1 laughingly how I 1 grumbled all ayr over tile the law errand which ime me into tile country why etched ditched out lit his hands enjoyably I 1 uld id not have midred this tills exper or a greit great deal its happy bick back again the rows ot of r re e d desks the lie great white adventure waiting just out e rhea said raid matter of factly jack ek or jim will won soon in a elligh to rescue X dont want to be rescued res cuell alvers insisted 1 I ain going something om ething very oli old but in my ue e I 1 feel fe ns it if I 1 had known mays Ys As if all my life I 1 have ing to find my iny way to just her place before tile the window ve no answer are you the kert ked her looking look ing for the then she turned to him nna ber race face was radiant no d softly III 1 I as looking at a |