New Britain herald., 1928-03-29

T hurried--a.s fast--as could ." she gasped. Grandma Carson rip ped up this dress for me this after noon and while you and I were washing dishes Mrs. Carson stiched up the seams. Wasn't that sweet Of her? Do you like it. David IL Vas awful dirty and washed t in gasoline this after noon. nile l Was doing Pearls things
 She backed away from him. took the full skirt of the made-over dress between the thumb and fore finger O. each hand, and made him q curtsey,
 You look like a picture in it." David told her sravely, When SAW Pearl busting out of it I had no idea il was such pretty dress" T couldn't have kept it on to- night II Pearl hadn't already left for the party at WIllis's. Was she terribly mad al you because you wouldn't go?"
 David shrugged his broad shoul ders. but there was q twinkle in his eyes. Lets ,alk about something pleasant. Want peach. SuIly?'
 And Sally ate the p,acn he gave her. though she had peeled so many for canning those last f,W days that she hal thought she never wanted to seen another peach. But this was special peach. for David had chosen t for her, had touched it with bis own hands.
 They walked slowly down the fruit-scen.ed lane together. Sally's shoulder sometimes touching David's coatsleoN", her short legs striving to keep step with his long ones,
 She listened. or appeared 10 lis ten, druege1 with content, her fatigue and the smarting of her gasoline-reddeaed hands spletcly forgotten.
 We got good stand of winter wheat and oats. There's the wheat sae how it ripples in the breeze? Look. You can sec where it's turning yellow. Pretty soon it's jade green dress will he as vel low as gold, and along in August I'll cut it. That's oats yer thar.;" and he poinre,. t3 q dis ant fleld of oot-high grain.
 Its so pretty-all Of it. Sally sighed blsstully. "You wouldn't think. just to look at T farm. that II mak $ people mean and cross and stingy and ugly, would you2 Looks like growing things for people 10 eat ought to make us happy
 Farmers don't sec the pretty side: they're too busy. And too worriel," David told her sravely. I'm different. l live in the city in the winter and I can hardly wait to get 10 the eryn in the sum- nor. But it's not my worry If the summer is wet and the wheat rusts. I'll be happy to own q piece of land some day, though, even if l shall own all the worries, too. I'm go- ing 10 be a scientific farmer. you know"
 "I'd love 10 live on a farm" Sally agreed. with entire innocence. But every evening at twilight I'd go out and look at my growing things and see how pretty q pic ture they made, and try to forget all the k-breaking work I'd put in 10 make it so pretty" They were walking single file now. in the soft, mealy loam Of a field. David leading the way. She loved the way his tall. compact | body m owed as gracefully and surely as q woman's. She had the feeling that they were two children. who had slipped away from their elders. She had never known any she had known him all her life, as if she could say anything to him and he would understand. Oh. it was delicious to have friend! There's the cornfield where I've been blowing" David called back its last blowing this week. It's what farmers call laid by Moth. ing to do now but 10 let nature take her codrca.'
 l. vas SO dark now that tho corn looked like glistening black for 8 phantom combat. And the breeze rustled through them. bringing to the beauty drunk little girl a> cargo of mingled odors of | earth. ripe fruit and greenness thrusting up from the moist en- i the sun.
 1 Lets sit here on the ground and 1 watch the moon come up.' David i suggested. his voice hushed with the wonder of the night and Of the i beauty that lay about them. The earth is soft, and dry from the 1 sun. It won't spoil your pretty dress"
 ! Sally ohcyeI. locking her slender knees with her hands and resting ] her chin upon them
 Hired, Sally? They work you ] too hard" David said softly. as he
 seated himself at q little distance
 from hcr. T suppose you'I le
 glad 10 get back to the--Home in ] the fall"
 Sally's drcam-fillcd eyes. barely i d.scCrninle in the dark, turned
 toward hlm, and her voice. hushed { but determined, spoke the words that had been throbbing in her | brain for four days:
 'I'm not going back 10 the Home ] -cver. I'm goin" to run away
 Good for you" David applauded.
 Then. with sudden seriousness: i But what will you do? A girl alone, like you? And won't they try 10 bring you back? Isn't there l a law that VIII let them hunt you , ike q erimintlo"
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