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MUTT AND JEFF

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KAY

KAY was not without knight on

a

•

This is the first another There never will be for all

She

He looked at her pleadingly.

AY was not without her dreams. Believe me I don't!

time. There's never been white charger coming to take her away like you.

of course. She had time." Figuratively, dreamed thus for years. Since the last

grade school. It was then knew he was sincere, that he meant year of that she began to wonder what lay be- what he said, that he did 'love yond the hill, about the world outside, but she withdrew her hand from his

She had, of course, a sweetheart. No grasp. girl as beautiful as Kay, living in such

acres.

"I understand, Don.

her,

And I bé.

a tiny hamlet so far away from things lieve you too. Only-I'm not used to For a minute you could be without one. His name was people like you,

I'm used to-to & his carried, me away. Lee Franklin. He worked for

He different sort of life, to having some- father in their apple orchard.

It's born in me, I was a good boy. He had graduated thing to cling to. from the state university. Some day and I can never get away from it,

vast guess. We're so far apart, so dif- he would inherit his father's

We could ferent. Don't you see? She was the envy of every girl in never be happy together."

But Don didn't see, and there was no town.. The older folks said she was lucky.

Yet they admitted it was as use trying to explain, though it should be. Kay and Lee were tried, for she owed him much.

had given her more than she suited.

Kay knew she was envied and knew ever repay, the value of which she was lucky. 'She hated herself for could never realise. ··

It hurt her because he went away not being satisfied, for not being com-

She wonder- to without understanding.. pletely happy, for not yielding Lee's plea for an immediate marriage. ed if all men were like that. She marveled at his patience. She selfish, when you came right down to

By Meredith Scholl

So time went on.

Kay continued to dream her dream, to wonder and she hope and yearn for something couldn't explain, something that was beyond her reach. Folks at length be gan to wonder and whisper among themselves, and Kay realised with sort of desperation that the time was Boon coming when she would have to make her decision.'

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she

He

could he

It was

decided he must realise she was not it, because men never tried to under- wholly contented.. He knew that stand. Men only thought of them- something was wrong, yet was unable selves and of getting what they want- to identify it.

ed. They didn't have much feeling, or the ability to see a thing from some- one else's point of view.

the next feeling thus She was evening when Lee Franklin drove into the yard. He came up the steps to the porch where she sat alone, and she remembered that she hadn't seen She wondered how him for a week. he felt, and curiously the answer the this question was important.

He sat "Hello, Kay," he said. And then suddenly one day K.,

down beside her, and looked off across knight appeared. He did not,

the lawn toward his father's orchard: ride in on a white charger, on the hill. "He's gone.

Of course nor did wear a suit of mail. Yet Kay

He left town late knew was he the minute she heard about the young artist who was "Yes," said Kay, "I know." boarding at Ma Plumber'g

He turned to her, and suddenly sh She saw him the next day in the saw what she had done, saw the wat post office Bryant Beachwood, the ching people and heard their waggin

His postal clerk, introduced them.

tongues and understood the hurt it name was Don Craddock, and he was Lee Franklin's heart. The pictur tall and handsome and fair. Looking filled her with horror.

That' at him, Kay's, heart skipped a beatwall, look," Lee said. She heard him asking about the coun-

You sent him away tryside, and heard him suggest that There's only one answer to that. You he call for her that afternoon go she sent him because of me. Well, could show. it to him.":

course,

of

you know.

night.".

over now.

las

still love you.

Kay. I know how i She nodded dumbly.

you She was in a was how it is for a girl like daze. He was her knight. He came

cooped up in a small town like this from beyond the hills. Nothing else

But now you know--we do have som mattered now. He was here. She things here will you marry me now? didn't care what people thought or Kay turned up her Tace to him. said 'ordid:

was radiant, yet there were tears i It lasted a week Then Don Crad- her eyes. "Oh, dear, Lee, you do un lock went away. He went away be- derstand. I thought no man did, bu cause he had fallen in love with Kays now I know differently. How could Bronson and he couldn't have her and,

help being happy with you?" it was easier being away,

Newspapers.)

It was the night before he left that . (Copyright, 1988, By The Associate it happened, e During the intervening time ↑ Kay. had learned many things

About Don and about the world where

she came from.

"I've known a lot of women,

you

said. “Anrawful lot--but you different.I love you Kay." Did you love the others?” *He gestured almicably. knows? 2 Perhaps. At least I did for the moment. But an artisti

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