ITHURSDAY.

THE GUARDIAN. CI-IARLOTTETOWN

FEBRUARY 5. 1953 D 4

A Break 0'Day Iron

Reginald Wright Kaufman (MAPTER Tlmill

'6ne train more: Ten miles. to Amer-icus. Then I motor bu.

ironburg ws.m't a burg; it was a few scattered frame houses, in need or paint. grouped about A general store. Jerry, suitcase in hand, was the first passenger to d&cend. He hurried through the doorway.

A blackened counte.-r, with bar-l rein of sugar, coffee and dried! fruit in front of it; upon it, amok-,' ed hama under wire-net coverrui behind it, shelves of canned. fxxvl, one end a cage vitrroundedj and was labeled: I

"POST OFFICE AND PUBLIC,

Nohodt here. 3

"Ht-iin."

He turned. Carrying I maiiouck. a girl was entering--and such a gtri that he marveled how he could; have panned her on the porchi witi-tntit stopping to look at her. E

Brown hair and PHI. mlilhtyi pretty, bum what -was especially; astonishing in ths rustic and oldl Ia.-thinned frame-Venttreiy modern;

Her ha-.r was nicely dressed, In" the IHMSL style. He skirt was! short. MIMI! not too short. 1-ierl. stockhszs were the correct ahade.i Evidentit, there were radios and movies within reach of lronburit

Jr-rry gasped. Angela siimt? He, hoped noti :

"Can i hoip Mitt with that beg7"l

She laugh:-ri, "None." Not any, vrrbal "Thank ,iou” Easily she titing the sack into the cage. went? nroiind the cntintet and confront-' ed him. Mighty pretty.

"Well?" "M3 name! Gliddcn." She let the introduction pass

w:thmit acknowledgement. Nor did! she tell him who she was. In fact! she said thing.

Those ll tie success hooks didn't, cover such emergencies as the! present. ”I'm here on a sort. of vacation." Jerri explained, "and, I thought this store would be a, gnod place to get a. line on the! best hotel.”

”The best? There! only one, and it's got exactly six bedrooms with- out bath." She pointed out. of the window to a. dejected hostrelry ax-roas the uav. fallen into pet- maneni. mi-ianchoiia. ”You could not have missed it."

All very fine. but not btieineu. He therefore said: "Thank you - Mim Silnh."

She shot. him 1 quick glance a

no mliTP.

"I haven't often heard that rtanie.” he persisted.

"No?" r

"it. doesn't suit you."

"Nothing does. I'm hard to please."

She turned her hack abruptly. She went into the cage, emptied the sack of its scanty contents and began to sort letters.

she seemed to have forgotten; not him especially, but every-

thing except. this occupation. Yet rudeness had no part in her man- ner; her action simply announced that, there being work to do, ity must he done. , ;

Gladden had no recourse save to go; after all, what you couldn't- find out about a village's inhabi- tantfs at that. village hntei must. be scarcely worth the seeking.

50, though he felt somewhat like a defeated candidate on the; day after election, he picked upi ltia siiitcasc and left, As. however, he climbed the hotel steps, thei charm of that store girl pulled! him arptind. l

Another person, on the point of, entering the store, stood looking! at him in turn. ;

The sun. being opposite to where; It had risen, bathed in leve1,t blood-red rats I squat, soiidniarget boned and big muscled woman oli middle age. and long acquaintancer with toil.

Siinhonnet, mother hubbard. bl'0lZallS-- no urban modernity about. her. at all events. The sun- honnet. shaded her broad face, but. among its shadows played twoi restless greenish names; her eyes;

The woman knocked out I; t-nrncnh pipe against A pillar of: the store pnrrh. Could she be that! girl's mother? Old enough, ;

"I'm a fool," Jerry concliided.i "Tho 'phonehnok gave two named! This older one'5 the postmistreos, or course. Itls queer how nobody gets a. name that fits in this world. The peach ia Angela slinn for sure, and here's her boss, Rose Walker."

He tried to slrfill nonchaiantly into the darkened hotel office and as nonchaiant.iy hire a room that! overlooked the pmt, office - he! meant. the turnpike. . l To be continued y

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