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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1948
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By JESSIE WEST
A MY looked out at the bright day
[ and was about to decide it was
i the loveliest New Year’s Eve she'd
seen in years when she saw Clara
| belle Carter crossing the street;
I and then she thought the day wasn't
. lovely at all
She could hear Clarabelle talking
; to Mille as she had that day in the
store when she’d been standing be-
I hind shelves lined with groceries
’ deliberately eavesdropping.
“I do declare, it does look like
I Amy Wells could get someone.”
: Clarabelle had said. "I suppose
she’ll die an old maid.”
Clarabelle hadn't said anything
degrading of course. But from that
moment forward. Amy had won
dered if people, generally didn’l as
sume that old maids just couldn’t
find any takers.
She took her eyes from the win
dow and Clarabelle going down the
street to look at her reflection in
the dresser mirror. At almost forty
five. she didn’t think she was being
egotistical in appraising herself as
actually looking thirty-five. She had
very little gray in her dark hair,
and the faint lines on her face were
unnoticeable against the startling
blue of her eyes and general pret
tiness of her features.
There’d been a time when she
reigned as the most popular girl
at Obane; she'd been pictured in
the college year-book as "the girl
all men want but only one can
have.”
Os course Clarabelle and the
populace of Donovan, a little town
of three thousand, didn't know these
things.
Amy looked out the window again,
and not seeing Clarabelle on the
street now, the day resumed some
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She was startled when someone
•tend at her shoulder suddenly.
i of the brightness that ClarabeUe’s
i presence had blighted, and she got
to thinking about a trip that 20
years ago had been scheduled for
tomorrow. Memory of the tryst had
come to her with the approach of
another New Year, but she had not
planned to enact s promise that
years of separation had cast into
youth’s frivolous dreaming, disap
pointments and temperamental
pride. Yet, seeing Clarabelle and
remembering what she'd said about
her somehow filled her with unex
pected sentiment.
She had nowhere to go on New
Year’s day, and thought es the trip
suddenly became entrancing. It
would be emotionally uplifting to
go back to the old haunts, and no
one would know of her foolish liv
ing just for a day among memories ,
of a past that through her own >
foolhardy pride, had led her into |
her present state of lonely maiden- I
hood.
“If anything ever separates us,”
Lance had said that night long ago,
“it’d be fun just to meet again, sort
of a tryst affair, 20 years hence.
Maybe in Park Rendezvous where
we first met. . . .”
They’d talked like that often, then
laughed—because they knew they’d
never separate. Someday they’d
marry. But they didn’t marry. Too
soon a trivial misunderstanding had
risen between them, and she'd had
too much pride to admit that she’d
been a little wrong, too.
It was almost noon when Amy
reached the Park Rendezvous at
Obane on New Year’s day. She’d
have lunch, she decided, then visit
about town. But already she was
sensing regret for having made the
trip. You couldn’t live in the past
even for a day without returning to
the present with greater pain. How
well she knew it now!
She was startled when someone ■
stood at her shoulder suddenly.
“Hello,” he said.
Amy’s heart fluttered in recog- I
nizing his voice. She looked up.
“Why. Lance —!” It was all she j
could manage.
He sat by her at the table and
j covered her hand with his.
"Looks lik*--we both remem
bered,” he-Said, chuckling happily.
“But. you married, Lance, I
heard.” She couldn’t help saying
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"That was false news, dear,” he
said. "Do you think—but you sure
ly know now! I tried to find you,
Amy, but I lost all trace of you.”
Amy laughed and her cheeks col
ored. “I wouldn’t have come to
day,” she said wistfully, “but for
a person named Clarabelle. . .
"Clarabelle?”
Amy nodded. “It’s a queer little
story, Lance,” she said, and then
she wondered with a little gloating,
what Clarabelle, and all of Dono
van for that matter, would think
when they beard!
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