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, DREAMS.COMETRUE By George-Elmer Coob. (Copyright by W. G. Chapman.) i "Hear him!" spoke. Mr.'Vahce, of -Brandon & Vance. t "And it's all aiteiusionf is.it?" said Mr. Brandon. ''No, a dream, a beautiful dream, Jas it seems." " it - The partners stood on tipjoe-just .past the threshold of a clouded glass fdoor. The room beyond 'wasrfilled" with half a dozen clerks eating their JHere, Indeed, Was the -Dream" Wife, lunch. In their midst sat a mild- v faced, silver-haired man 'of about thirty', and to what he spoke his em- ployers were nstemng. . t "Yes, .friends," Abel Joyce was say " ing, "the humdrum work gets monot , onous sometimes, but -you, want to look forward to'home as' the evening haven of rest!" . "That's what .you do, eh?" chal ' lenged bright and brisk Phil Adler. . "All day Jongt .yes,j all day-long," Tepeated Abel with a dreamy smile. 'Tve-told. you-of our-delighted -cottage. Completely nestled in-"vines. And the rose bushes I And the new summer house I'm building! I must be setting out the honeysuckles , to cover that. -And the wife ah! always at the door waiting for me, with her long flaxen curls, and jsheeks and ears pretty as pink sea shells." "It's a fine picture," saidPhiL , It was a picture that-Abel had been drawing for them almost daily for the past five years. : Always was it listen ed to with patience and. pleasure by his devoted friends. "And truly de- t voted they were. To the last onepf them AbelvJoyce had been counsellor, friend, brother. The young fellow short of 6ash'al- ways won a smile and a banknote , from Abel. A case of outside distress -reported by any of the crowd sent 'Abel 'cheerily away on a mission 'of willing charity. He was the life and spirit of 'the place in his gentle yet dominating ways and his employers voted him a treasure of an offiqe su perintendent. As thetwo partners retired towards their private office, Mr. Brandon remarked i "And you say there's no -vine em bowered cottage?" V' "None in- the -world." . ' "And no wife?" "That's further away than the other." "ITm! What's thd idea?'- '' "A good man sustaining a severe disappointmentvthrough a fiction!! It's aiqueer story. As it happensyou and I are going to help weave it into a happy eridingv" i " ' "I don't -understand -,you," said Brandon. . "You soon wilL Over ten years ago our Joyce was" engaged to a young lady in a little -village. Her mother became helpless. The young" . lady decided to devote herself to her care while she'lived. She tokTjoyce that the marriage could not be while . her mdtnenvas.. living", but she also told him that when the end came immsmamsummmSmSSm