Green Valley

ny Ainslee's leaving to-night for Japan! And th

hen she sank down into Grandma Wentworth's com

it too bad Denny's so bow-legged? Though I don't know as it hinders him from running to any noticeable extent. I had an awful time trying to keep up so's to find ou

ephone

e telling me. Yes, of course I can. I'll be over as soon as my bread's done

e bread. I'll see to that. Just you git that lavender and

flushed, busy girl who was laughing and singing snatches of droll ditties the while she empti

ng to settle down and sta

places to go to. But so long as I am heartfree and footfree, and there's one alien shore calling, I'll have the w

much to say and other things she wanted very much to ask; but the trun

o that when the packing was done they might get in the

hem and watched the expressman carry them down and out into his

skipped off alone this time. It seems to be some suddenly important international crisis that we are going over to settle.

t have loved your mother but she died the very first year your father brought her here. And she was ailing when she came. The other woman that

ia Churchill?"

ter to me, and neither of us dreamed th

she go,

alley man well-nig

nd here I have been hoping that some day

ou'd marry a home boy and fearing you'd meet up with some one on your trave

golden twilight filled the room. Out

to marry a Green Valley man if possible. But even

she is lying under strange stars in a foreign land, far from her old home. Her father, they say, is dying in Californi

hurchill leave a s

likely he'd come to Green Valley now that he's a man grown. Still, if Joshua Churchill

ine old home of the Churchills, "if any one willed me a lovely old place like

een Valley who could keep you from roaming? I

all-but love-no. Love, it seems to

ow," sighe

iful magnitude that traffic on the Northwestern would be tied up for twenty-four hours. It was feared tha

d away so that the eastbound trains were running on time. It was the westbound ones that were stalled. The Los Angeles Limited Pull

Nanny Ainslee's popularity as the gath

he drug store and boug

handy. And here's some seasick tablets. Martin says they're the newest thing out. And oh, Nanny, when you're seein

wishing he could go along, even though he knew that one week spe

an very softly but soon the melody swelled to a clear sweetness that hushed the laughing chatter and stilled the shufflin

around the curve an

I'll be back next lilac time. Remember, oh, just remember, all you

waving hats and handkerchiefs. They watched her standing in the golden light of the car d

Nanny Ainslee. He had heard Jim's song, had caught the girl's farewells. And now he was

magenta-pink and violet lights of Martin's drugstore glowed in the night.

, smiling, "will the lilac

crowd of stalled visitors, stopped to stare. But he answered. Something i

of next May on

in a way that made Martin look

that? Say, if I had that fellow behind this soda co

olden West and train life had settled down to its regul

did see. And he sure does like rice. Says he comes from India where everybody