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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1919
Page
8
Mrs Budd urges Henry to lock the shed to deter theft amid new neighbors the Xs. A missing axe and rubber-tracked footprints reveal the culprit, and Mrs Budd suspects the X family. Henry proves the tracks are his, bought last winter, and Mrs Budd forms a friendship with the Xs after the incident.
Hart Winslow travels by train on Christmas Day and contemplates settling with a home maker. He discovers Violet Fells is married to his old friend Ralph Pratt with two children, ending romantic dreams and returning to city life with quiet regret.
Hart Winslow greets Miss Conway as she visits Hart’s grandmother for a family Christmas. Clara reveals her love for country life and cooking, and Hart, overcome, offers a ring as a Christmas gift. Clara opens the box and smiles, noting men’s blundering flaws.
Laura Nelson, pressed by financial limits, finds a vintage white voile dress in Aunt Bess's trunk. She launders it and wears it to a dance honoring Roy Benton, her former escort and town physician's son, hoping for a second glance from him. The dress carries memory of Aunt Bess's 1861 sweetheart Robert Kingston and Gettysburg.
Laura appears and awes the crowd as Roy Benton asks her to marry him before he leaves in five days. They share a first dance and stroll home under a pale moon. Laura reflects on Aunt Bess and her trunk as she recalls the past and accepts the gift with gratitude.
A fragment of affectionate notes and poems collected from wartime correspondences. Messages express enduring love, loneliness, and devotion as veterans go to battle while sweethearts yearn and promise fidelity. Includes declarations of missing partners and hopeful reunions.
A weary, broken-hearted woman writes of a hypocritical life in acting and love. She recalls a town friend who has moved on, and she laments forgetting a past relationship. The missive references a lyric about lost love and emotional struggle, ending with a note of silent pity for the speaker.
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