Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-05-08
CELESTE
BY AGNES O. eRooAM.

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I'm real glad you've come" said
Mrs. Lawson. 'it'l be SO nice to have
a good visit nee MORE. Folks don't
get to our corner Of the world too
often, an you'll want to know what's
happened to your old friends. l reckon
we an our houses look about the same
as they used to before you went away.
Amt much progress In Landsend. You
asked about Celeste an those are the
same words ! says to her last time
/ got up as far as her place. You
know it's awful ~inconvenient TO get
there, but Sam snId he'd take me when
he drove over with supplies, so I went.
Celeste's gran'ma had died then, an
Celeste was alone in the little house
her gran'ma left her under conditions
that Celeste would go on Twin In II,
an keep the place like It was used
to. ] reckon 1t wasn't so much be-
cause she cared about losin' her leg
acy that Celeste kept on Twin there
alone, but the girl has that kind Of a
conscience. A dyin' wish to her Is an
oath-it has to be kept.
Course there was another condl-
tion to the Win, which was that Celeste
should go on livln' there only until she
married and had a home Of her own
there wasn't nothing binding against
that. But land the old lady felt pet
ty sure about having her place kept
up. IL ever sweetness vas wasted on
desert air 1t was Celeste's. There she
sat In her gran'ma's faded parlor,
CLOWN like q rose. cheeks all pink,
her eyes bright nm her hair soft and
curly. Celeste Robins" I says, show
do you manage to keep cheerful In oil
this lonesome waste3"
I'm not exactly lonesome" she
says Il read an sew an play, an
drive my Cd horse Mollie. But ] VIII
admit. 1 often do wish for compan-
ionship."
swell" says I. "Mr. Right viii come
along some day." As / said 1t l knew
there was as much chance OF anyone
who would be Mr.. Right to Celeste
indln' her 10 that buried corner-as
there would OF the president to drop
In for afternoon tea.
"Oh, 1 didn't mean that particular
kind OF companionship," Celeste says,
laughin'. 81 just meant that it would
be nice to have some pleasant person
about TO enjoy things with. There's
so many things to enjoy" says Ce-
leste; "the flowers In summer and
right now, even with all the snow
about, there's the birds, who come to
be fed and sit in rows on the red berry
tree, and there are cookies to be
baked for the schoolchlldren," she
says. How they love to find me in
my cutter at the bend Of the road
when they come home from school.
Sometimes 1 drive the smallest ones
home"
81 hope" I said, as a parting joke,
"that Mr.. Right will drop in soon an
surprise you"
"Airyplanes don't fly this weather."
Celeste had laughed back. An / looked
up to see a blizzard gathering around
me. All night that blizzard ragged,
while the thermometer went down be-
low zero. No mall came in TO Lands
end that night, or went out, either;
for the trains had been blocked in big
drifts miles out, where even snowplows
couldn't reach en-
But as the train didn't draw IN, no
whistle sounded. So, quicker than us
careless wits, Celeste was at the tele-
phone asking the station agent why (;
an when she learned of the plight Of
those stranded people the girl pulls on
her fur coat, ties her red hood and
goes out In the darkness to harness
Mollle TO her cutter. An when Mollle
was ready for her fight against the
night and the roads Celeste uns back
TO the house TO fill up a hamper with
| everything eatable she could find. She
found considerable. Celeste always
did keep cooked up. l can believe
that she looked like an angel to those
hungry folks in the car when she
went smilln' down the aisle, her red
hood over her pretty hair, an her
basket on her arm. Shed fell into
several snow mounds as she came. but
she didn't mention that.
An when n little frightened girl
learned that Celeste had driven there
she held on to her and begged to be