Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-07-14
WAYS OF FATE
BY MILDRED WHITE
Observation-Disclosures.

lage street. passed the row of quaint
old fashioned houses, 70 turn IN at
a bungalow door. To this frail girl,
whose health made country living
present necessity, Janey's home, ana
Janey's bright society, were saliva
ton, and indeed without them Rosa
lind could not have stayed out her
designated time. The new quiet life
was very strange to the clty-pred
young woman, whose natural gayeues,
perhaps, had been her disaster.
"Who lives in the bungalow with
the sun dial in the garden" Rosa
lind had asked her aunt the second
day of her stay.
"Oh you mean Janey Peppers place.
We always call her Janey Pepper
Rosalind met the mistress of the
pretty bungalow soon after. Passing
the garden Of the sun dial when It's
mistress was there picking roses, that
sweet-faced little lady invited her IN.
Rosalind became Immediately inter-
ested in Janey Pepper
Fate is the strangest thing" re-
marked Rosalind one day, here am l,
a lonely stranger in a strange place.
carelessly passing a rose garden, i
find you-and am lonely no more.
Janey Pepper bent over the silk cur
tain she was sewing.
"Theres no understanding the ways
of fate" she said, and laughed.
"Now take me, my dear, and the
way l came to be married; had just
settled down cheerfully to single bless
edness when a bit of misfortune led
me straight to my husband and hap
Diness. That sounds contradictory
know, but let me tell you about 1t.
was living, at the time, in the little
home my folks left to me. Then came
the hard winter when my collie dog
died and Black Beauty had to be sold
and l fell off q tall stool and twisted
nay back was standing on the Stoo
to take down Uncle Silas' old photo
graph that I'd got pretty tired of see
ing there and after l fell there wa
no Black Beauty to carry me over. t
Doctor Hastings. So l put on a loos
cape and walked, all twisted with pair
ell the way to the Doctors office.
The doctor, himself, who had dl'
charged an impertinent chauffeur this
morning and didn't know how he wa
10 be driven around was not yer
sympathetic, being troubled with n
own problem. Then into the waitin
room, where was waiting to see no
/ was to get back to my home, cam
James N. Hodges Of the grand nous
On the hill Every one spoke OF hi
as James N. Hodges, thinking alWa.
Of the mans aloof Importance. l r
called, as he sat there in scoWling il
patience, that his lovely butterfly wi
had died last spring. | don't rememb
that James n. Hodges had ever Il
ticed me before he spoke no
gruffly.
when will the doctor be at libt
tyr"
And, l impatient with my pain,
piled. ~ don't know anything abo
the doctor"
James n Hodges looked in sud-
displeasure at a person so rude. /
fine eyes were reproachfully gu
tioning.
The doctor opened the door and
was as crusty as either Of US. Jan
Pepper" he said, Il can't take
home as | hoped to DO, Don't kn
how I'm going to make the r0ur
myself: but if you had used a lit
common sense you would not be h
with a lame back. Better have
your Uncle Silas picture hanging
the wall"
"I can stand the lame back bet
than l could stand Uncle Silas' /
+ure," retorted, and in a minute
were all three laughing togetl
James N. Hodges jumped to his fl
"My car is at the door he Offe
pleasantly. II will be glad to drive
home. I can send it back for Y
use later, Doctor Hastings
Janpy smoothed tkoughtfully
rose silk.
That's how fate gave me my
band" she said, though Jim says
is the gift. do try to make
happy. That's why we left the glot
old ancestral home on the hill
this lovely sunny place. For | S
learned that my Jim was not self
portant nor aloof, as we supposed,
just a man, plain, lonesome for c
mon happiness and-love." ia
laughed.
'TTl be bound if he expected to
those blessings in old Doctor
tings' office any more than expet
to find them-falling off stool"