Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
FROM A CLEAR SKY
BY N c. BRooAN.

Rosalia walked beside the tangled
hedges Of roses In her garden and
ed wistfully up and down the road.
Reckon" she said, 1--WE may as we'll
give up looking for some n to come
or something to happen Susan, we've
been looking a good many years."
The black cat who vas the lone little
woman's pnly companion, answered
by a sy~mpathizing purr.
Seems" Rosalia went on, "that we
ought to get v expecting. II anything
new or pleasant had been coming u
way, 1t would have come when the old
house wal fresh, when father tended
the rose vines and kept them neat,
when carriages drove past u door
with happy folks coming to town for
holiday, or stopping in to visit"
Rosalia sank down upon q grassy
mound and drew the cat into her lap,
silent with her memories.
Carriages come NJ more down our
quiet lane,' she told the cat, "t's
autos now, great whirring autos fly
ing along the great white road"
Rosalia rose to her feet smiling whim-
sically upward. anything that will
come our way these days. puss, must
drop from out a clear sky" And az the
woman stood gazing absently upward.
a whirring sound coming not from the
main road, rent the air. Then she saw
1.-THE wonder thing with the out
spread wings of a monster bird sweep
ing the sky. And before Rosalia could
catch her astonished breath, the won
der thing circled, dropped. and still cir
cling, came crashing toward her own
neglected garden.
Like a throbbing monster 1t lay In
the wide space beyond the rose hedge;
and Rosalia, trembling, rushed to .
man who frantically beckoned from its
side. He was a young man and dead
ly white.
You'd better get someone" he gasp
ed, ito help carry me inside. Nothing
but q broken bone, I guess-awful jar,
but made landing-in time" Then the
man Of the airplane tainted.
When she returned with the assur-
ance that help would soon come. the
young man turned upon the cushions
she propped about him.
"It's probably nothing to worry
about" he said slowly, "but you new
er can tell. Might be internal injury.
So / wondered-if you'd be kind
enough-to write a sort of-message to
a girl. You could mail 1t to her from
me In. CASE he smiled family. "Well
in either case" he said.
So Rosalia brought her best note
paper. and seated herself close to the
great broken bird, which had scared
toward the sky.
Eyes," she prompted.
begin It." the man said steadily.
Dearest that includes everything"
Dearest" Rosalia wrote, and wait
ed. 'Today only. do I dare to tell you
that which has long been in my heart,
II love you. Always, I think I have
loved you" She still waited as he
lay with closed eyes apparently think
ing.
Rosalie was thinking also. She had
wished for something to happen.
Something miraculous had happened
the something had darted into her
solitude from out a clear sky. Ro-
nance itself. was close to her. and she.
as usual, but an onlooker. She thought
Of this dearest girl far away, won
dering If abe had listened YEARLY for
a step that never came back. But the
Dearest girl did not live, she wal
sure, in an old house set far back
from the road. where briers and earea
grew thick, to screen and choke youna
LIE, The dearest girls lover had moi