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Red Hill was hemmed in
open flelds and the far reaches
misty space, as though it were in hid-
ways of ap age of hurry.
lang, level crest it bore but three cen-
ters of life and a symbol—Maple
Rouse, the Firs and Elm house, half
hidden from the road by their distine-
tive trees but as alive as the warm
eyes of a veiled woman: and the
<hureh,
The church was but a sywmbol—a
ere shell. Within, it preseuted the
appearance of a lumber room in dis-
use, a playground for rats and a ha
ven for dust. Boat without all was as
it had ever been, the old
was still beloved. fresh,
for
its white
ing steeple, towering into
denied neglect and robbed
ment of its sting.
In the shadow of its walls lay an
graveyard whose overgrown soi
long been undisturbed. Along
single road which cut the crest of
hill from north to
of houses that once had sheltered t!
scattered congregation. But the
were hard to find, for they, too,
overgrown by juniper, clematis
crowding thicket of mountain a
On these evidences of death
eroachment the old church
turn its back as if by right of its
walls and unbroken
still linked to life. Through its su
paned windows it to gnze
tentadly
wandon-
had
the
the
south
wer
SOE
steonle 1
teepi it
sSeCmedq
across the road at
houses, widel 3 hat
faced it In a diminishing
The three houses
sunrise; the chu
y separa
1
cline,
On a day iu early
was summoned to I?
In the ore
the hi
total eclipse of
bung
izin. On
donning pale green
iouse, foo, were but
verdure, Fart!
sre had bee
n settling
For the
“Couldn't o
et ‘em bol
des
n. and when
1rn door ther
eir buckets,
Nary
Land.
*And his face
nan. “Most tir
ves to gpeak of, but y
me Misa N struck him
cook ?
ance
n--"member,
ead like a fir
truth
Mr.
no
in
summoned In
for all 18 with
step he approached the house,
Maple house
brood. J. Y. Ws
J. Y. was the
Their daughter. Nance
hor hables repre
but Alan Wayue
Clematis McAlpin, were an
fonline as children of the house. Alan
was the only child of J. Y.'s dead
brother. Clematis was also of Wavne
Lisad, but so Intricately removed that
her exact reintion to the rest of the
tribe was wever figured out twice to
the Olid Captain
Wayne, retired from the regular army
degree te
his haste, it was
sheltered a mixed
yne, seconded by Mrs,
head of
Sterling
the family.
and
line,
and
sited the direct
the orphans,
on equal
same conclusion,
vas an uncle in a different
every generation of Warne fle
the only man Red Hill who dared
cali for a whisky and soda when he
wanted It
wns
on
HOME
By
GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN
Copyright by The Century Company
[ESAS E PEEP NNT
When Alan reached the house Mrs. | and there are mighty few people that
J. Y. was In her garden across the | know [t. The Hill's battles have never
| road, surveying winter's ruin, and | entered the field of gossip. Seven
{ Nanoe with her children had borne | years before you were born my fa-
| the captain off to the farm to see that | ther—your grandfather—turned
oft-repeated wonder and always wel- jout. It was from this réom.
i come forerunner of plenty, the quite § I had started the name of Wayne
new calf. the road to shame and that |
{
i!
! fle sald
{| Clematis McAl and long | With it. He gave me
!
i
|
|
!
On
could go
five hundred doj-
limbed, just at the awkward age when | lars. I took it and we ank low
either boy or piet, | With the name, but in the end |
nobody Knew. brought it back, and today
| “in the | high on beth sides of the
swamp or crying over the “ldylls of | BOL & happy man, as you
the King” in the Certainly | th You
not in the bouse. J. ¥. Way ne back In the end, I
Stern and rugged of wr grandfather
he sat in the library alone a:
walted for Alan, He heard a dists
door open nnd slam, Sle
through the lonely boa
ame and stood before him,
was a man, Without being t
«1 tall. His shoulders
till you noticed the slimness o
His neck too th
mw the strog set of his stall
in a had the peri
rtion it loo frall apd |
As he stood before hia uncle
: grew dull. They were slightly
wt in } and with
jullr ti lines of Lin
woman misses being
had disappeared. Where
| She might be bird’s-nesting water, I'm
brought
never
see, though 1
barn loft.
| she was SAW
i had seen to that.
| face,
have fron
whatever
: Red Hill does
nor to
it is the ete
mend
| sereen money vou wer
whatever you do,
pens, remember
Pagal
Alan ig
mg to
n 1 r
» loo}
yoe no
mother of us
1
oan
wen or
Ansings ar
to the iil
of refuge or harb
ne to the H
He laid
n half turned
nped back agn
looked
word; Le
the
the eri
the «
o he re dull once nu
5 folt i 1 .
: > ataad
ned t ak on a perceptibie ; SHR ANU Rew
hall return the
He spoke for
amd
a few
then
f@ Jou
the
the
center Al
i BOW whol
its
“I've Tried to Win You.” was at!
Manle hot
hold a .
white
the hit with
Inft such a |
that we can
the cradde by
wr for your |
You're the fret |
ol hie oollege |
what they ex-
wand to
ad, bad, for
proud
more than 1 ‘layne
ne You t
You bh
ge behind
to . .
shane brazenly
trees. They
crawled closer to th
gon
jooked
ance ive
rn
winter The Firs, with
last yoar's folias
Alan turned from
little hand
Ciemati c AID
tween por }
lansing n
old for her and Nanee's children
too young. There were Elton children
about her age, but for years they
had been abroad. Consequentiy Clem
had grown to fifteen in a sort of lone
loess not uneommon with single chil
dren who can just remember the good
times the ha'f-generation before them
used to have by reason of their num-
bers. This
in certain w
ment while it left her subdued and shy
even when among her familiares. But
she was shy without fear nod her shy
hess itself had na fowerlike swealness
that wade a bold appeal.
“lant It wonderfl, Alan? ghe said,
“Yeaterday it was cold and it
and the Hill was black
{ Firs, Today all the trees are fuzzy
“you | with green and it's warm. Yesterday
| was #0 lonely and today you are here.”
Alan loaked down at the child with
glowing eyes.
“And, do you
you
ife back to
aCe 3
ar
der of
real.
many BUOCOS
Clem’s
irew
y had happen «i De
Alan, Nance, Gerry
fends bad been too
wera
yne that ever m
never naked
for, and 1 don't
x ’
AVE Hen
pelied you
know. It must h
old sechool is
the enlepnt., and
ae
. £
the fedd | OF
-1 wont’ talk of money, for you
on
Money
For the first time Alan spoke. “What
mean, sir? With the words
slight form straightened, his eyes
binzed, there quivering
of the thin and his features
came out clear and stroug.
J. Y. dropped his eves, “l may have
been wrong, Alan” he aaid slowly,
“but I've been vonr banker without
telling yon Your father didin’t leave
much. It saw you through junior year.”
Alan placed his on the desk
between them: and leaned forward.
“How much have 1 spent since thet |
in the last three years?”
J. Y. kept his
know, more or Alan, We
talk about that. | wae tryiog to hold
you ut today 1 give it up. [I've
got one more thing to tell you, though, |
do
his
you
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waa a slight
nostril loneliness had given
AFS 0 procs ious dey alop-
hande
cc A———————— A —
eyes down
leas, won't i
know, this sommer
ye
Pl
ER
!
A Story of |
Today and
of All Days
ee ee ee ee
Gerry Lansing and Mrs, i
sing are coming.
since that day ti married, Do
you think it's ail right for i
ber Mrs. Gerry like ever;
congidersy]
(rerry
I've never en her
were
Alan
“Yea, | think
could call
‘Perhaps
I
men
half-wl
Said, "You Mustn't
sture Her short
madiy
tried to
stride
ho
aware
She
n her
and
fake
Her
mustn't. Do von!
away?
Clem stifled her sobs and 1 ap
wer
ook e
at him with sudden gravity in
hor
“Goodby, Alan
elfish face 8he threw
bn re
He stooped and kissed her.
To the
Wayne
himself
surprise of
friends Alan
and found
pave ap debauch
employment by the
that saw his dismissal
Maple house had ripened into sum.
mer. He was (ull of preparation for
his departure for Africa when a sumn-
mons from old Captain Wayne reactied
him,
With equal horror of putting up at
hotels
upon
or relatives’ houres, the captain
arrl al in town had gone
straight to bis club and forthwith be
the sensation of the club's
Old members felt young
they caught sight of him, as though
bis
come win-
wilien
restored. Passing pamins
big shortcropped hair, star-
ing ey flaring collar, string
tie and and re
marked, “Gee, look at de old spoit In
Oh
black
flowing broadeloth
de winder!”
Alan beard the remark as he entered
bh and smiled
ir nr
the i
ordered a
for
unted iptain usit
arivk for
himself
Lin
He
1DDpEarance i
is easily seen. On
defined having
Long
CER
icks are 08
which is notably
bricks, but this definition
bo aband now that bol
in large nun
eirht
ned
bricks are made bers
Curtain,
Once a was praying for
bread He
contributed in
poor actor
dying of hunger, and
making his
albguent, But
» bo of no avail
end of his
redoubled bis
ald. “1 pray you
WLR
and gestures
ment seemed ¢
At last be neared
durance, but
“OU Lord,” he s
tha
he
i
bread
dove 8
na
the ing
and just then priain
Lorncl)
New Don't.
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