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THE GALAX NEWS SEPTEMBER li I960 PAGE 19 TWIST OF FATE CON»T ana life wishing he could join lUane; the forced return last night to the hill they had loved to climb "together* He began blindly walking through the trees along the cliff as he thought of the days before the accident* Diane seemed to be still running a few steps ahead^ her la\ighing face turning to urge him on as she found a thousand new things to delight in* She was always enchanted by the deli cate flowers along the cliff growing out of the crevices of rock; the vegetation under the roof of the dark pinosj the soft for the first time, and had decided on the course of action he must take, but fate had sent him to join the spirit of his beloved Diane* The squirrel, returning to his special tree over the cliff after a long day gathering accjrrns T^ich were scatter ed profusely over the ground in prepara tion for the long winter, heard the last echoes of the fall* As the last resoimd- ing waves struck the pine tree, its twist ed limbs seemed to tremble* Fall*.•chill night air, harbinger of cold winter* * *beautiful change from sim- —- vox * • * - mats of needles spread in the forest aisles*mer green to bril3J.ant hues# .death of She had filled her home with huge sprays of goldenrod and the first turning leaves of autumn he remembered. His first visit to the Lane home had been just a year ago as the leaves were beginning to drift from the trees making huge heaps on the lawn to bum* The pungent odor assailed his nostrils as it had then bringing tears to his eyes* They had walked up this hill* Di’s hair floated softly around her face as the gentle breeze caught it and the sun struck amber sparks from its dusky depths^ and reflected from her sparkling blue eyes full of laughter* ^e was so alive, so thrilled by everything around her, so taken up with the small treasures of life that she still lived in the haunts she had loved. Living over the past, as he had been \mable to do before, seemed to relieve the pent-up grief and as he walked he at last accepted the fact of Diane *s death. He realized that he could not continue ignor ing life, that he must pick vip the threads of his life, untangle them, and live as Di would have wished. Lost in his reverie, the man did not watch the steps his feet were making, he did not realize that he was approaching the east edge of the precipice that drop ped abruptly straight down and which was hidden by high-flung brush clinging tena ciously to the very edge of the cliff* As his feet struck the loose projec tions of rock at the edge he came awake to the reality of what was happening ••* too late* In the last moments of thought his mind violently rejected the tragic irony of his fate. Last night he had wanted to fall, he had stepped to the edge and tried to force the flight but could not* Today he had wanted to live again summer, .death of a year on the rocks below. and death Miss Eunice Freeman has returned to her home in Goldsboro, N, C* after spending the summer at Hotel Edwards, Mr, and Mrs, T, G. Bird have as their guests this week, Mr* Bird*s brother and family, Dr, and Mrs, J, G, Bird, John, Perry, and Dianne of Albany, N*Y* nflniflHflLfl CREflmERY Dairy Products of aiper Qaality Sold in All Gapo®ery Stores In And Around Highlands, IGHLRHDS UflRPlY Crushed Stone For Driveways - Roads Screened Rock (Ghat) Fill Dirt Phone 5951 Nights HiGHLflnOS CLEflnERS flno LflunoRY DIAL 2330 GOOD GLEANING GIVES A SMART APPEARANCE 'S flno BUFFET SUPPER Thursday Night 6:30 - 6:50 Sunday Night 6:50 - 8:00
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