The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-24

dressed daughter. This angers Pearl and
she treats Sally. with insulting disdain:
| and sneaks: into her room and hides a
Sa,%Ond pin o, theTs When she ACCUSES SssrS
With WHY the e and se Ser he saw ff her
secrcte the pin in Sally's room: Carson
warns Sally that Pearl and Dsyid are
David gets moment with Sally and begs
her to call on him if she ever needs him.
Then he asks her to go for walk with
=" NOW CO on WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER TX
/ CALLY was eager as a child, when
| - she joined David Nash in that
part of the lane that skirted the
orchard Although it was nearly
9 o'clock it was not yet dark; the
sweet. throbbing peace of a June
twilight. disturbed only by faint
breeze that whispered through the
leaves of the fruit trees, brooded
over the farm.
II hurried-as fast as I could"
she gaSped. :Grandma Carson
ripped up this dress for me this
afternoon and while you and ] were
washing dishes Mrs. Carson stitched
up the seams. Wasn't that sweet
of her? Do you like it. David? 1t
was awful dirty and washed it i'll
gasoline this afternoon, while was
doing PEARLS things
She backed away from him. took
the full skirt of the made-over
dress between the thumb and fore
finger of each hand and made him
a curtSey.
You look like a picture in it,
David told her gravely. when
saw Pearl busting out of it / had
no idea it was such a pretty dress"
Il couldn't have kept it on to-
night if Pearl hadn't already left
for the party at Willis's. Was she
terribly mad at you because you
wouldn't go?"
David shrugged his broad Shout
ders, but there was a twinkle in his
eyes. Lets talk about something
pleasant. Want a peach, Sally?"
And Sally ate the peach he gave
her, though she had peeled SO many
for canning those last few days that
she had thought she never wanted
to see another peach. But this was
special peach, for David had
chosen it for her, had touched 1t
with his own hands.
They walked slowly down the
fruit lane together, Sally's
shoulder sometime touching David's
coatsleeve, her short legs striving to
keep step with his long ones.
She listened, or appeared to listen,
drugged with content, her fatigue
and the smarting of her gasoline
reddended hands completely forgot
ten.
1--WE got a good stand of winter
wheat and oats. There's the wheat.
See how it ripples in the breeze?
Look! You can see where it's turn
ing yellow. Pretty soon its jade
green dress will be as yellow as gold,
and along in August I'll cut it.
That's oats, over there; and he
pointed to a distant field of foot
high grain.
ITS so pretty-all Of it, Sally
sighed bliSSfully. You wouldn't
think, just to look at a farm, that
it makes people mean and cross and
stingy and ugly, would you? Looks
like growing things for people TO
eat ought to make us happy"
Farmers don't see the pretty
side; they're too busy. And too
worried" David told her gravely
I'm different. I live in the city in
the winter and I can hardly wait
to get to the farm in the summer.
But it's not my worry if the sum-
mer is wet and the wheat rusts. I'll
be happy to own a piece of land
some day, though, even if 1 shall
own all the worries, too. I'm go
ing to be a scientific farmer, you
know"
I'D love to live on 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 picture they made,
and try to forget all the back
breaking work I'd put in to make
it SO pretty"
They we're walking single file
now, in the soft, mealy loan of a
field, David leading the way. She
loved the way his tall, compact
body moved-as gracefully and
surely as woman's. She had the
feeling that they we're two children,
who had slipped away from their
elders. She had never known any
one like David, but she felt as if
she had known him all her life, as