Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-14
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BY BERTA RUcK.

the white sands and left footmarks
and shadows, and this boy didn't want
them. But somehow he always knew
neon was going to be there with
out walking about. Someone rather
like fairy p%rincesses and mermaids,
only not SO far away. A girl.
And one day in his dream she
came and just was. He didn't see her
face. She didn't ever talk but some
how she just was a little more. 1t
seemed to him so extraordinary won
derful that I simply can't explain it.
He actually cried a bit when he woke
UP Che was q rummy little chap be-
cause he knew that without this girl
Of his coming true (even If the island
was only q dreamy he would have to
be lonely all his nfe. :
'"Then he had to 10 to- school and
think about plenty of other things,
not dreams. But he remembered the
dreams, sometimes in the middle Of
Prep, n that sort Of thing. Any
night he might see her again.
H actually put 1t in his prayers;
ne prayed SO hard. such breathless
whispers. that she would be again. In
the morning she hadn't been. r
H never used to forget her, and
didn't want to do rotten things when
some OF the other boys did. because
she was SO wonderful. BY this time
he had just one great. Great pal of
his own. but he couldn't have let ven
that pal on to the island. .'-s''f :
Then he grew up to be q big chap;
a chap like everybody else: there are
thousands like him all over the coun-
try, though perhaps not quite SO lone
~. Even when he was eighteen and
nineteen he never forgot or stopped
hoping about the dream girl that
might be. He hadn't seen her face,
but he had a name for her, a silly lit
tie pet-name; JILL because his name
was jack And because of the dawn
island where he'd dreamt her first, he
used to 4ove the sunrise which meant
her, ~ 90 H.
Sometimes in those muddy ghostly
dawns in France where pale unshaven
faces starred at others, hardly sure
if they were dead or dreamt or still
alive and real this boy would try to
get away a bit and watch the sky and
hope that perhaps he wouldn't get
girl Of his.
We'll, he was left alive and he did
her at last He passed her in the
street in London and for the first time
he saw her face. Then he raw It ev-
cry day. Quite soon he knew it must
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