Argosy: The Short Story Magazine — page 59: what you’re looking at

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‘ ‘ oN pee en te eee @ “DUET The morning after the dance I was at my window, waiting, _ as I always was. I had Principles of Teaching open in front of me. But it was no good. I had to watch for Fran. And then, — as I watched, I saw a man coming down the mountain road from me the next village, the road we had come along the night before, __ | after the dance. A man who walked swiftly, his shoulders _ throwing a wide shadow on the road and his head yellow as a ___ buttercup in the sunlight. A man that any girl would turn her head to look at. The stranger. Be re) I knew, long before he reached the end of the village street, that he was coming to see Fran. He didn’t hesitate. He didn’t look sideways, or glance at the names over the-shops. He walked _ as though he owned the street and knew it like his own face in the mirror, and he went straight to Mrs. Slattery’s shop. Fran _ must have described it to him very carefully for him to walk so ___ straight to it. | And as if she knew that he was coming, as if she had heard his feet on the road, Fran chose that moment to come out and es stretch herself in the sun. Her face lit up when she saw him, 3 : __ and she smiled, slowly and lazily and surely, and let him put his e c mee hand on her shoulder, with half the street watching from _ behind their curtains, or peeping out of their doors, like Sheila __ © Ryan and old Mr. Clooney. | BL: Retin tg ee we 4. Hs 1 Nise ¢ yt: i But I couldn’t watch. Suddenly I couldn’t see very well and _ I had to look down at my book until my eyes cleared. And when ~ I looked up again they were gone. I felt as if the sun had gone in and the winter come, in one sudden moment. I threw my ~ book across the room and went running out of the house in my © 4 shirtsleeves as if I’d gone mad. I was halfway down the street _ _ before I asked myself what I was doing, and what I meant to do if I saw them. I went back to the house then, but only to oe get my coat and a stick, and come out again a bit more soberly, ’ a =i pig a ae : r a in case I was seen. * And for an hour I clan up and down the hillsides round _ __ Ballysaggart, looking for the pair of them, although I still hadn’t an idea in my mind as to why I was doing it. I scrambled ~ through the heather and over grey, naked rocks that burnt my __ hands with the heat of them from the sun, until my bad leg ached and the sweat blinded my eyes so much that I couldn’t have _ - seen them if they were standing within five yards of me. At : last I gave it up and went home again, flinging myself down on ___ the bed and lying there until it was dark and the rage of jealousy _ inside me drove me out into the street again. S I wasn’t out long before I heard all about the stranger that eee : COMICHOOOKS. COM)