South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-19
Horseshoes For Luck
BY Hilda MOTIFS.

Cissy was waiting 70 cross a busy
street when she found the horse
shoe II lay in the gutter at her very
feet. and almost before she realized
what she was doing, Cissy stopped
and picked IL up. One does not often
find horse shoes in the city. bu;
back home" where Cissy had come
/ from they are frequently 10 be
/ found in the country roads. More
over. one who finds a horse shoe
! should pick il up, thereby bringing
good luck. Otherwise some evil may
| befall.
The stout lady in the sealskin
coat who stood beside Cissy looked
scornfully at the girl who stopped
/ 10 pick up horse shoes. but Cissy
hastily concealed Il among the
bundles she was taking home from
| market and hurried on, a little
I hreathless. Her days were so drab
| that even the finding Of a horse shoe
/ was an event Of interest Since she
/ had been keeping house for Uncle
| Josiah in mis- tiny apartment there
/ lad been none Of the young com
pany that she was used to: people
/ in the city did not make friendly ad-
| Vances and Cissy's days were pune
/ tuated only by marketing, the visit
Of the ice man and an occasional
/ letter from one Of her girl friends.
/ She found one OF these waiting in
/ the mail box when she reached
home.
The letter sent a thrill OF home
/ sickness through Cissy. What good
times they had, back there in Old
I port Parties. picnics, the church
socials. sewing bees! How she wish
4 ed she might go back, They all en-
7 We'd her living i'm the city. Of course.
! Doubtless they supposed that she
/ had gayer times than they. If they
only knew Cissy put the letter down
! and wiped the tears of self pity
from her eyes before finishing It.
/ But the very next sentence made
her forget herself and utter a sharp
/ little exclamation.
You remember Arnold Black.
! Cissy? He's just left town and gone
to New York I thing he's going in
! 10 business there: but he told my
| brother that he was going there 20
/ be married-said his girl lived
/ there. 7 wonder who she can be
He's awfully good-looking and has
plenty Of money I suppose even a
/ city girl would think him catch"
Cissy dropped the letter and
| stared at the blank brown wall.
/ Arnold Black married The memory
OF the DAYS they had spent together
| walking. driving boating. the prec-
icas packet of his letters in her
I desk. the hope that some time, some
where. they would meet again
! these had been the things which
made Cissy's lonely days endurable.
I 1t seemed now that they were taken
I from her. and the future looked
/ suddenly as blank and dun-colOred
I as the walls which hemmed her in.
! She had not heard from him for
some months-he must have been
| writing TO the other girl.
] As Cissy reviewed the days of her
/ friendship with Arnold Black she
/ told herself sternly that, after all,
there had been nothing IN It which
/ gave her a right TO hope. They had
been friends. good friends. And yet
/ perhaps there had been something
I more between them. She had felt it;
/ evidently ne had not. - only she
| could forget. IL there were some
thing else 10 fill her days-some
other man. Yet deep in her heart
[ she knew that there would never
be any other man who could take
Arnold Blacks place She saw her
self living through a dreary length
Of years with "A secret acne i'm her
heart. a pain which she could con
fde to no one.
Cissy was reused from her dreary
reverie by a sudden sharp thud. and
the horse shoe. which she had put
[ hastily down on the couch with her
bundles. lay at her feet. Cissy look
ed at 1T resentfully.
~For Iucls," she murmured with
bitterness.
But the horse shoe lay there as
/ though IL were a fact not to he
/ denied a cheerful fact I'm spite of
the girls gloom the sight OF that
horse shoe seemed 10 suggest hope
and infinite possibilities for a good
fortune Cissy had inherited a SUI
perstition regarding horse shoes. she
felt that she was hound to respect
this one. Tt was the only pleasant
thing that had happened to her that
day, il might he an omen Of some
unknown. approaching good. She
I resolved 90 hang il up.
The tenants OF city apartments do
rot often hang horse shoes above
their doors; hut after all. there is
no reason why they should not
/ Cissv decided that it would not do
70 put IL outside i'm the hall. the
4. ianitor might take IL down So she
7 climbed upon a chair and nailed her
end firmly into place above the door
inside 70 was quite dark in the
| hall and Uncle Josiah who was
rot given 70 looking up. never even