The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-25

F was lunacY
wrote HIM a long letter as
soon as I cot settled in the car.
. remember I Was Just choosing
F between Darling and Sweetest Boy
in the World and deciding . use
both when the train went through
81 Dauds Damned II there
wasn't the old station wagon
parked where he'd left her IAfe
does things like that 10 YOU Why
couldn't PARK somewhere and
wait tn he came
was going 10 mail my letter
when the train stopped and was
on my way out to give II to the
Porter when all of sudden
realized u was Harrisburg
opened II again and wrote some
more wasn't going 10 have him
Get that letter with Harrisburg
postmsrk. not Harrisburg.
CHAPTER XIV
It's pretty decent Of me 10 keep
riding the Pennsy after what IL
did 10 me that trip. Maybe what
was wrong it vas the first time
ever went long ride and nobody
saw me off No one went with
me the three steps Of deoency. not
even Mac or Myrtle. guess !
vas running away from Me. that
don't get you anywhere.
When I finished that letter TO
Nyn had the NJ P. all right
what We called the Mortal Pang
hadn told him hardly anything
DO men know about what turns
over inside Of you when a letter
goes down the slot and you clank
the slide TO be sure II don't stick
and gets a good start I couldn't
clank the porter but I gave him
two bits and he said he mail 1t
at Altoona.
! sat there and took IL hard. !
was going round a bend as tough
as the Horseshoe. Oh / suppose
was only a kid but everybody IL
as grown up as the feelings they
have at the time they feel them.
I. was crazy TO be on that train.
what was l there for Every
body else had some good sensible
reason for going somewhere but
where am I going and why?
I'm walking out on the Philsdel-
phis Assembly. I bet nobody else
ever did that
I'm running away from home,
the only home ! have. IT won't
last long now. the old man is
cracking up. Mac has a home and
Myrtle has a home and what has
Kitty got I'm running away
from Myrtle and the kitchen stove
with a broken lid and the ice chest
that don't latch tight and the
little entry window
Why haven't got some place
to stick 10 where we've lived for
seven generations.
I'm not running away from any
thing but Darby Mil. Old st.
Dsvds 81 don't know people
lived IN places Ike that. thought
it was just frontage for the
movies.
! could get of the train At Al
toona and still get back TO Girls
com Street and cook Pops break
fast sure I could, ! looked It up
in the timetable.
Kitty you're crazy. Listen Kitty.
all those people gong places look
ING 50 Intentional and doing things
on purpose bet every one of
them has soft spot IN him some
where. poor dubs. Listen sister.
don't bear down too hard IN that
soft spot. you.ll break through
love MIN I'm q woman and
love MIN Nothing cant ever take
that sway
guess I went n sleep through F
Ohio and Indiana What would
you lie awake for when you ge'
outside Pennsylvania When the
porter punched me ther. were the
good old strings Of Swift Re
frigerator carr. had wired
Molly. I picked that train sos we
could have breakfast together be
fore she went 10 the stors. She
met NE. ! could see her waving 81
the top Of the little slope that
goes Up from the tracks she said.
Hhst would We do without trains
10 meet each other al Just the
same I didn't want 10 see that one
again. And by the TIN. ". got
'et 70 eggs and bacon ~ Fred
Hsrvey's We were happy ~ fools
hate 10 admit a.
Aollys grand You can't tad. II
sssy with a man. not ever Wyn.
n way you can with girl !
yusss you don't want n.
People must Fet bored riff
Hhen they've got only sex n IN
crest them In each other. Wyn
md ! would always hsy. some
hing 70 talk about. he's 80 simple
nd sweet ] could spend my yho.s
Re educating him. The beauty Of
{. he Wouldn't Know when ! was
ioins Il. ard would always know
Fhen 7 was learning something
rom him Its bad for q man 10
tnoW how much he needs 70 learn.
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