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J In one back garden little JQy Ran som played at doll house and just oy??" I the fence Harold Alnley struggled flft tracks and engines. in the room above aud overlooking ' both gardens Joy'a father atruggletl to finish his novelette that a check might I find Its way to hla front door. The back room In the opier house held Harold'a lovely mother, who typed other people's playa and wished with all he" heart that she could have an office so that she would earn more J money for the maintenance of her loved boy. "Oh, mumsey, 1 can't make my J switch work? the train won't turul" walled Harold from below toJris moth- I er, who was endeavoring to' end the third act before ahe roust go down to prepare her boy's supper. "Daddy, daddy, I've torn Julia's bestest party dreas and can't fix It." | cried a small voice, thereby distracting ker author father Into hopelessness. The continued interruptions to bis work, the tenderness and pity he felt for hla tiny daughter and hlS most complete disability to help her fa- I tlgued him and ?r.ade him unfit for the I work that must be accomplished If the pretty house was to be kept. He dragged himself from hla type- I writer and went downstairs and out Into the garden where hla flve-year-old I offspring was weeping now. with her I doll held close in her wee arms. And next door Helen Alnley had J abandoned hope of finishing her typing I and had gone out to her siuull son In ft vain effort to help, him with his rail- I way system. I The high garden fence hid the small domestic tragedies^ from each .other, I but If a blrdman had happened to fly J overhead most any day In the week he I would have se^h two large gardens each with, a tiny bit of lonesome hu manity struggling to make a day hap py wjthout anyone to play with. There was not even the smallest of opening* I In the greitt fence, nor yet even n broken board through which childish I curiosity might peer. Had the fen<k been less perfect a most harmonious pair of- lonesome children might have found each other and made the long days slyrt. Also itj would have given two distracted pa- rl rents more opportunity to pursue their j fortunes free fronj an ever-recurring I demand on their time. I t ? But one-day^ because It must always-l be the male who hunt? young Harold decided that he would like to know I what lay on the opposite side of his J 1 confining wall. A$ seven years old a I six-foot fence seems a regular Jack In-the-Beanstalk climb. The vines I were strong, or seemed so to Harold's venturesome mood. Mumsey^ was not looking when he I began 'the ascent ; otherwise ? well,1! 1 happenings would undoubtedly have been different. I Harold gained the top with only ml- J nor struggles. His delight at seBlng Joy in all her young beauty as/ a re- 1 ward for his climb almost succeeded } In sending him headlong Into her gar den. As It was, he perched himself I like a squirrel on a branch and opened | I shameless conversation with the young j I lady with her dolls. 1 Joy made suitable replies and made I no effort to conceal the delight his ar j rival on the fence gave her. She held J I her doll up for his Inspection, only to I be told that his railway track was | I much more fan. Joy only towed her I I sunny curls. Perhaps It was her disdain ?that un balanced him, for -a second later he thumped down Into Joy's garden and j lay In a heap among the pink geraal- I I ums that bordered the wall. I Joy's shriek of dismay -Was so terrt- J I fylng that her daddy flew down the stairs at top speed, scattering the I pages of his novelette and leaving his 1 heroine lb a scandalous, wholly un 1 compromising position. And Harold's mother flung a frantic j glance at the two gardens, suspected the worst and barely escaped falling I runt of ~her window lj> an effort to see j I where her boy lay. But the author had been so swift to I the rescue that before she could with draw from her*window and dash down I the stairs he had Harold In his-arm*. There jeere no bones broken and^a most manly smile crept through the I fright that lingered in the small ad venturer's eye*. I Mrs. Alnley nearly collapsed over I I the window ledge in her relief. J "Bound JIS* bell." Ransom called up I when he caught sight of her. In a flash he wondered why he had never I before known that bis next-door neigh* j bor was a charming mixture of poetic lovellnsks and earthly reality. Her hair WAs sunklased and reddish, her 1 I color delicate aa hawthorne Jblooms and her nose had a smear of typewrit- I er Ink on It. He hoped that ahe, too. was not a poor struggling writer. "Bow shall I get him back?" ahe Rpprctmng. "Now that he has found his way L over, may he net play with mydaogh f ter? I thlnk~tbey both need eompan I lonshlp." Ransom meantime Vhad got rid of young Harold and was^asJng straightway into Harold's mother's I eyes." "Poor little l?oesome*T was what I she a?/ft*y answered, M f they don't die- 1 turh jou I ?un tqff n tat Mm ??*. [ **f W*? mMrndf ippMltm. -I | am awt terribly disqualified as a fa ther," she added; "my boy does ae liMtd iome one to help htiu with en gines ami tracks." Hu mm ?n i found l|ltnft*elf kImMeIdi with sympathy for llaroUl. "And my tiny daughter/' be told pher, "hns one trtycmly after Moths? Iwlth her dolls. Ouly yesterday *he tore whai '?<? ctflls her very beattat dreas. Poor Utile soul. *he certainly need* more mothering tha# I sewn able to give her/' Uri lira, Alnley'a blue eyes were post tlveljr glistening with tears of syin pothy for inotfeerleag little Joy. "Still," ate suggested, "If they can Just piny together perhaps they will manage to be more contented." "I will hart to make a small open ing In the fenca for them," Ransom said; "we dWf want thyiu scrumbllug over the fenca. ' ??Oh! If you only would It would ba a apleiulld way out of the difficulty. l>o you think you cijn ?aw through those thick boards?" "I'm aura I can," lianaom aald, and deddeil hla next herofue should have reddish hair and that peculiarly mag netic smile which wua being wafted to him from tha window. Ha decided also that he niuat aee tha amlla often If he were to deacrlbe It worthily In bis novel. "But If tha boards are too aw fully heavy I may hava to reraova a couple of them, which would make a gate Quite big enough for growuup people to paaa through; that la. If 1 hava your conaentl" It was then that Mrs. Alnley chose to blush. "I suppose It would be much simpler than sawing them,", she said. Ransom thought swiftly. If he could just finish off his story late that night he could work on the tfate during the afternoon. The etory must be complet ed. He sent another glance up at his neighbor and realised that the gat^ too. must be finished? It was essential to his happiness. So long as the fence remained In Us present perfect dlvld > Ing state he -would fret, and If he fret ted he could not write stories. Some thing gentle and lowfble about his neighbor's personality told him that he was going to have to write many stories. He seemed to sense th&t a greater Income was going to be most necessary soon. "It really should be done right away," he told her; "the children won't be happy now that they have found each other until they can play together, and I will try to help the boy ? w,j[th his tracks." "And J will mend the bestest dress," s^ld his heroin^ -Ittansom's nock ,was getting a bit crooked from continued looking up to his neighbor's window, but somehow he knew the outcome was going to be 1 worth getting a stiff neck oyer. He felt that he' must come Ifi for more bodily discomfort after his carpenter ing efforts. Authors are not built for manual labor; : ' 7; - "Tonight's Sun will set on two gar dens made Into one," he Informed her, "and our children will be happy as the 'day Is lon&" , "Some falls are all for the beat," she said laughingly, While her eyes rested with added tenderness on h4r son. "The very, very best," Ransom sup plemented, while h!6 eyes rested on the mother of her son. And If there was tenderness In them It could not be seen from so great a distance as the "window next door. > 'However, the gatevwoyld be finished soon. ' iy/v ? . ? - ; 1-. .P. 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