The courier-index., 1920-11-05
Fair Destiny
., oTILLIA F. PFEIFFER
01-...rn Nswspaper Union.l )

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 i wheel of the old wagon gone for Dnu and we won't get the train in
 0oo' whats best to do now?"
 ns' had started from Winston,
 Inv home town, two hours previ- Fue" ,ntent on reaching the first rail- Pus noint twenty miles away. At a [Osu lnot in the road they had run Pau r1t and one of the rear wheels % .ho light wagon Lawrence Newton
 ,s driving had come off and lay in \. road heap of wreckage.
 v was an inauspicious ending to a
 :" full of hope at the start. Law
 so. had been brought up by a broth
 .,u.,aw poor as himself. and at
 -.ntv.two was no further ahead than
 hod been at sixteen. Edna had .. ber parents in childhood, and had
 .aa ber home with a relative who
 .o-.ted a store in Winston. She had
 ron him faithful service for the
 -etched salary he had paid her as a ,erk bookkeeper and helping his wife her housekeeping duties when not Irsv st the store. For over year Fdna had been studying stenography, .ho had bought herself typewriter Ind had attained certain eXpertness r ifs use. and despite an offer of in- rrease in salary on the part of her nsrsimonious relatives, had saved up some money and was bent on winning her way in the city.
 If was a good deal of blow to the happiness and well-being of Lawrence Exhen Edna imparted her plans to him. 1hey had never spoken of love, but both were inspired with it. Their com psuionship for two years had been sweet peaceful idyl, and the jarring slement of a parting wrecked the Aearts of both.
 Some day I'll join you, Edna," kpoke Lawrence, patiently, hopefully. ET shall feel woif4ed and uneasy, Enough.
 He had been allowed to use the Aorse and wagon belonging to his brOther-in-law so grudgingly that now that disaster had overtaken 1t he re- slized that his captious relative would Insist upon all kinds of hard ex- ta work to make up for the expense d repairing it.
 \ q will walk with you to the town, and you will have to wait at the depot rntil the next train comes along" ad- riSed Lawrence, land I will have to f1 up the old wagon" And he, car lying her satchel and her boxed type writer, they started away after hav- /ing tethered the horse.
 It was at the end of five miles that II the hot sun and the tramp over the Ertty road brought weariness that Enforced rest. What seemed to be a #closed-up summer home enticed them 10 It's shaded porch. They ascended It and luxuriated in some swinging chairs. Edna insisted on refreshing lhemselves with the light lunch she had brought.
 It Is quite picnic" declared Law renee and somehow they dallied, and somehow, too, their beautiful environ hent influenced him to speak out what Ehad been on his mind for two years. ne went all over the circumstances of lneir long friendship, told of the love lnat was surging at his heart. Like innocent little children they discussed nS great climax of their lives, en- ssslng themselves trustingly one to ~e other, and there was one calm, sWeet kiss in token of the mutual pledge of fidelity until the future had paced them in a position to join their lives together.
 Ill a room just off the porch all the tune that they had conversed, although uey never dreamed of 1t, sat an old Ian and woman-Albert Trude and as wlfe, owners of the pleasant sum- @er nome. A closed blind shut them rom view beyond an open window. % me life history of the two artless %'ers was borne to their ears they uusefed, drinking in memories of their VI" 'a early lives and, too. thinking of s @ two children who died, leaving % ,u'@ lonely with a lifetime sorrow. se woman arose finally. her eyes 1nnmlng with tears. and led her hus- sa s.ua out of possible hearing of the asspassers.
 Albert" she spoke tremulously, edo ',u not feel that this is a heaven-sent sNatlon, sent to influence us to r. renstnen and bless our own solitary %us ,s ana to bring happiness to two S.a or the heart, who may wan- Tar apart and never reach the ss s~e' true iongings of their innocent D.a suls' Oh, let us make sure of these ,ns s'ious lives for the future and nur- Sa e those who will be as son and ',S"ter in the years to come." ha III maze, within an hour those rrOs U nStened to a proposition from MT. ma, ue ana his gentle-souled wife to re- nra u at Idlewild as their own home, N.IVaNy N5,s as adopted children. Mir. ea 1ae was scientific writer and need Ina Menographer a part of the time.