The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-11-30

"And why not?" she asked, as she
almost came to a pause.
We'll, according to my idea, it's GO
Ing to rain and snow and blow and
hail, and when the storm does break,
she's going to be a buster"
81 wanted to go to the postoffice to
mail a letter."
IT'S three miles there and back,
and II was you I'd put 1t off Mebbe
somebodyll be passing that you can
send by. Tomorror's Thanksgiving
you know. and we are going to have
the awfulest, biggest, incest dinner
anybody ever sat down to. It's in
your honor. you know. There1l be a
turkey, duck and chicken; there'll
be cranberry sass, pumpkin pies, cur
rant jell, sweet cider and apple dump
Inns; therell be"
81 think I'll just walk little ways,
anyhow" said the girl, as she opened
the gate and passed down the high
way toward the village and the rail-
road depot.
And il you come home as wet as a
hen don't say ! didn't warn We. It's
going to come, and it's going to be
a buster"
Half an hour later a middle.aged
woman with motherly face and
voice came out on the steps and
asked:
PA, do you reckon it's goin' to
storm"
Sure as ducks"
where's Mnnie?"
20, she's gone for santer. | give
her warning. What's she wantin tc
mail a letter for? | hain't mailed 6
letter nor got one in twenty years
and | guess I'm about as well off a:
must folks. | was going to ask hel
but forgot it,"
Don't you ask her a word abou
it," cautioned the wife as she cam,
down to him. II guess Minnie's go
something on her mind, but it hahn
none o. your business"
Something on her mind, Ell? That
: funny. Didn't know that girls eve
had anything on their minds excep
: new clothes, Is that why she COM
| visiting us all of sudden?"
None o. your business! I CUES
/ my own sisters daughter can COM
, and see me any time she takes a nc
ton, and that without writing ahead
. What's on her mind, as nigh as | cal
make out, is about a, young man
: They are engaged, and they've had
r falling out, and she's sorter run ava
Q from him to find out II he really care
for her"
t "And she's got scared about It an
d has written him letter to tell wher
/ she is?" Queried the husband.
T go on! It's probably letter I
her ma, though | didn't see II nor ash
5 1 hope she didn't start for town. It
+ going to storm for sure. and Their
s. hain't but one house on the roa
where she could find shelter. Loo
down the road and see II you can Sc
her"
p Cant see hide nor hair of any girl,
IT reported Uncle Robert after going on
p TO the highway and taking long lool
is An hour later, with both uncle an
'f aunt fidgeting about their girl visito
t. the gray afternoon had become tw
"a light. In 10 minutes there was col
e. rain and lively hail. and Uncle Rol
I'd ert was blown into the kitchen.
ly Miss Minnie had reached town an
p mailed her letter and started bac
y again when the storm broke. Befor
1t came she thought she could max
out human figure on the road ahea
Of her, but wasn't sure.
"a Tho very first gust picked her U
as and turned her around and deposite
10. her under a roadside tree She r
's' NAMED there until the gale began I
ho whip the branches off, and then let G
II. her hold and ran for it.
lis She hadn't gone quarter of a mi
OF when, as she crouched and covere
siI her face, she was struck by a falliu
limb and knew no more.