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XCHAPTER XXX1V—Continued,
wwe] Bane
A bard light came | Alix’
Gerry fel himself suddenly alone
went doggediy He told
chase and the capture, of how
the girl had
into the clutch
out into the river and
of
rank
He wisl
battle of his spirit,
He «
nto
He
the
and
out
of
he
drift
on
seen the canoe
the eddy
i
He
and
paused, his brow
ied he could tell in words
the utter ruin
ould not and in
aw ay.
her how they laughed
sh
Gerry D
ered.
the
of his downfall
stead he sighed.
There was something in that si
where words might
failed. It called to Alix with the
strong call of helpless things. It drew
back her mind to With him
and the girl she threaded the path to
Fazenda Flores
her through his eyes. With hl:
discovered the trac of ap age
ditch, with him and the old darky she
dug along that through long, hot
months. She
the tale went
him because of
seemed to need
else's love
with Kemp
to keep her
garita and
rita's boy, she
succeeded
Gerry
Its ruin sprang upon
shi
es
Hine
grew to know
on and finally to love
Lieber
somebody
’
Sell
ove
mused her
tried
rom Mar
Marga
most. She a
and his dr
thoughts
awl. She
away f
at the coming of
fini} h
anise the
As he
of the Man 3 i
thought came to him with tre
force that Alix too ha zone thr
that for him to get
and throw hin her and
is knees to th
from his
He hurried o:
of the comin
lation he ha
choked @
set himself to
pictured the fi
Blue
waters
garita and the
and with hands br:
leaned towards Alix
this that perhaps yon ms
stand what [ am going t
If the flood had not
and the Man
have come
Alix sat
Gerry's face
he had set
suddenly very tired
as though from their own
then raised them
scrutable face
“Well? he asked afte
“Well? replied Alix
Gerry's stalwart figure drooped. “It
18 quite said ifter all that,
that you should not want I have
spent the [ast making myself
ready for that waited for
I didn't wait fo If you do not
want me, 1 will away.”
Alix rose her feet
looked nd tall in her
rere short
e oue
up
seat
r §
- i
1
vol in
and the he
Mar
arose
on table
have told you
under
) tell you now
if Margarita
had lived —1 would not
back.”
very stil
He had il
himself to do
his
Ma
before
he
d
I
80
ry
come
and studied
ished the task
ind he was
His eyes dropped
welght and
he r
igain to he
n
r a long pause
just,” he
oe,
weeks
You
r you
me,
KO
slowly t She
1
0
very slim
cling
=
“Please, Alix,” He Begged, “Please
Don't Cry.”
ing gown. To Gerry she looked very
cold. “Before you go” she sald,
“there is just one thing. 1 wish you
would kiss me-—once,”
Gerry's body straightened and stif.
fened He stared at her grave
with wondering eyes
strifigne tingling
blood
he had swept her from her feet,
crushed her to him, brushed the cmown
of hair back from her brow and kissed
her eyes, her mouth, her throdt.
was rough with her. He was bruising
fier body, her lips, but Alix clung to
kim and laughed. Then suddenly all
her slim body relaxed and slipped
through his arms to a little white heap
on the floor. She began to sob, Gerry
Then he felt a
ripple through his
picked her
on the great
knelt beshide 1
sad,
t hers 8
don't ery
sobbed Alix, “I'm
| stooped down,
and laid her
couch He
farm he pillowed
other hand
Alix,” he begged
leathern
ier On one
her hs
he sough iense,
please
ed
quiet
Alix
She
1
and walted, Soon
Her
quivering
pened her
the old
became closed
drew
then she «
eyes
long, and
igain and
ar smile,
e of an opening flower. “I am
“but 1 belie
than I am tired
id it first,” replied
thought to
hunger
funny
» brute,’
‘holng our
Hours
breath
eyes i
her lps broke into de
the smi!
| tired
I'm
“I'm glad
Gerry, giving
fact
| himse!
Johnny
{ men
| stomachs
ifter lunch time
“Really? sald Alix, nestling
and let
tired,” she sald ve
almost hungrier
you S84
serious the
he was
f “Ever since
‘Feed th
q
i
i
that faint with
some
wrote, we
have been shy about
It's four
o clock
down
i closer to his arm her smi!
i ing eves wander
this sait fits you.
aout it— It isn't,
nodded
when 1 came
Og
over lim. "How well
There's something
is it¥"’
Gerry “Same old suit iy
way, in John said you
him to t th lub and
What made
elephone to ee
vou wished to see me
nk I would g first?
didn’t I
telephone.”
1 her
John
x1 puz
:
John
zled
to
puzzling
“Why poor
old,
he
face
he's
Gerry
slowly from
lon't
both
8h
They
far
than th t
bare
more ey
em
Arms ar h kK, drew
1d kissed him “You do
th at ¢
ner
n down ar
know yet all hey have given
A think you have ime back
ne, a frittering bu
NR 1
But you
foned co
pa
bundle
hubby le
1nd tterfly
a great em
41
ve found
I'm not
f into
pink fat,
4 sud le
pty house
aban
I've
only my YO TY
ked mys
arest little of
iris and
Red HI
dded but he
t in a day
her forget
»
Was grave an
nor a
the Mau
a Could
mont
WON
bad always been qi but
luris the long drive from the station
to The Firs, his silence amounted to a
ing sti Alix feit it but
it did vot depress her; she knew her.
If to be in the presence of a com-
munion. Gerry was devoting the hour
of his return to the scenes of his boy-
hood to a silegg consecration. These
valleys and hollows; the Low
its purling accompaniment
waters; the embowered still
int
penetrat iness
se
cool
road,
of hidden
nave of Long lane, ANCOR
tral halls of the Lansings. It was right
that he should do homage to the mem-
ories they evoked
To his mother Gerry made no expla-
nations, He knew that her it was
enough that her boy had come hack.
When Mrs. Lansing released him
{ caught his hand and led him up to the
nursery. Together they down
upon their sleeping child
Gerry, Jr.
with
were as the
to
looked
was fat to
split His curly head was
and on his brow a slight per
yn testified to the labor of sound
His arms outstretched
His Jegs had kinks at the knees, they
were chubby. His petulant lttle
mouth was half open, disclosing tiny
teeth.
“Isn't he a beauty?”
the verge
a
tousied
spirati
sleep
tow
were
RO
asked Alix a lit
wishing he would awaken.
nodded, With his eves still
his arm around
Alix and drew her to him, What Mar-
garita had done for him, Alix had done,
As he feit her frall body quivering in
his embrace, he looked back and
measured the sacrifice by what the
awful night of the coming of the Man
had taught him, he was overwhelmed |
by a new humility. He turned AliX's
| face up to his. His lips moved In an
effort to thank ber but words falled
him. Alix understood, She lifted her
arms aronnd his neck and drew his
| head down. He held her hody very
close na he kissed her, softly, ador-
tingly. Alix hid her face against hig
shoulder for a moment and then threw
back her head and shook the tears |
from her eyelashes. She smiled through |
i wet ayes
| perfect ~ifslde,
Gerry
as
Such a temper, Gerry.
I'm afmid he'll grow up Into a man
about town and awfully wild,” She
turned grave eyes on Gerry, Jr, and
her brows puckered, “What you
think ¥’
| Gerry smiled,
| him 1 predict
do
“From
he gets his
sahiman year-—center on the football
thought-
Fatty al
said Alix
“Everybody calls him
"
perhaps,”
ready
irned
osing up
It was from Alan that Gerry le
in town cl
the
begeing
fow
had
that Kemp was still
with
m,
Firs for
¥
Hig Connection Ore
Gerry wired hi
to ‘1
before he
of
ue
a
went West Kemp's
After
home
ing
mself
ness that
ut
in
day, long
awake,
over
Wis
res bh th
had
Pirant
the same
before the
he was off for
At first f(t
and eyes
@ game restless
i the
attacked during days
He tr ed for
Day af
Hill
nile
hd ry
din
14% a solution
ter
way
rest of the wns
a ten walk
was with head dropped
'
tha
on the ground
dew
t he plowed
sonked world
¥
ae
is way through a
ne when walked
} lungs and
level eyes
Then Kemp arrived
get him to Join him in |
Kemp shook his head sadly
“Ef yo'
Lansing
(ie
tried to
but
Gerry
18 walks
can't me h ave a hoss, Mr
» said I'll ride the cow”
laughed. They saddled
ted
ad
11
win
He
dowu on
Kemp fo
ay
ings you
»
“Kemp,”
thank you
ife
that wh
Ans
other day
ymounts to
Flores
he does
it
Mim anywhere
hungry ther
piace i«
ye
me
-
ing
don't
to start
know
but
You CRN
any tf
ftatoes
with one
a
Qiatter
mple
which
as you start
and
much
things. It doesn't
Gli you
right
yourse £
u
E 0
ut
pl
down spread
things
down
ia
UE
Hey are
parasites
“Easy
“Borry,
"interjected K
bids emp.
Orchids Hien
pting your favorites they're
not beautiful. Look at a Cypri-
pedinm Vexillarium
“Hybrid.” grunted Kemp
“Am n his D. 1 mildn’t beat
it for gorgeous horror,” finished Gerry.
“But that's neither here nor there
What I'm driving at is this. If I had
never been tossed over the home fence
I would have lived and died an orna
mental citizen with the girth of a beer
barrel But now
and [I can
Ife
O11 Or
Kemp are arns
tal but excoe oy
even
an '" «
my eyes are hit
that the
the big
fa
Hee
are
of
things
of a man
come home
and of Lis people I've
in more senses than one
|
|
i
i
!
here.”
Kemp had
(Gerry had
been whittling When
finished he pocketed his
knife and guzed thoughtfully down
the valley. “It seems to me, Mr. Lan
sing, that you 'nd me have been trav-
elin’ diffrent tralls but come together
at the same gap. You remember “The
Pu'ple City"?
Gerry nodded.
“Wal, seems to me thet ‘ceptin’ in a |
man's own mind the’ ain't no pu'ple
cities. What a man's got to find ain't
pu'ple cities but the power to see one
when he's got it. You had yourn right
here in this valley an’ yon side on Red
Hill. Yon growed up In it but you
never seen it-not till you learned
how. What you been sayin’ about the |
simple things of ife--the things thet |
ia at the bottom--has he'ped my seein’ |
I knowed before |
I come to Red Hill that I was goin’ |
out West to stay but I didn’t rightly |
know why. Now ef you ask me what
I know I can tell you I know cen
sid’able,
“Out in Noo Mexico they's a ranch |
in the fork of Big and Little creek |
that's the greenest patch in the shadow |
of White mountain, It's mine and it's |
got a three-room shack on it that could |
grow if need was. 1 know a girl that's
been holdin’ a four-flush against an
glck of the game, but she's drawed and
filled on the last hand though she hain't
had a chanst to look at her cards yet.
“For some while the's been a pu'ple |
Hight hangin’ over Big and Little creek !
an’ I reckon I'!l be able to see it plain.
er an’ plainer the nigher 1 get to it an’
if the gir! will he'p me T reckon that!
{In a small way we'll soon be growin’
pu'ple city that will feed from
hand. © Ef ever yon feel the need
some bran’ new air, Mr. Lansing
come to Big and Little. There
won't much besides air but it'll be
fresh made White mountain an’ you
can omin' down through the
pines an playin’ with the leaves
on the cottonwoods an’ plowin’ through
the tops of the sorghum.”
They sat for time In
then Gerry said been cal
‘Kemp' since |
a
yo
of
you
out
he
on
sinell it
see it
some silence
“T've
first
Hug you
but yon
when you
Kemp.”
ML you
‘mister’
Cut it out,
flushed slightly
ain't,’
talk to me
Kemp
Is fittin’
“Some things
he said, "an’
I Rome
a
Some
1
folks “
werned by but
Its goin’ to
'to th
fri
'' no f{
£
go ons
pride
‘Mister La
lend
‘Kemp
the
most by be
and e end of
endship
>
Ts
it was late aft
JOrgeous m
ed Hi it had com
Wisps f mar ail cloud hur
acr he clean-wash AY
en
The Sun Took a Long, Last Look at
Red Hill.
zh
as thou
caught in 11
biue sky Down pped
clin
drowsy
hed the
filtered
wrk edd
wate
¢ of heaven
nins
horizon and
of the dom
trill of son
The H
from far
road came
little later,
laughter; t
chattering vol
spring wagons and a pony cart burst
from Long lane and wheeled right
left They were full grown-n
turned young for a day and youths
that thought they would be young for-
ever
The wagonette, swinging down
toward Maple sudden'y
and plowed through the tail
grass. Alan and C
were almost thrown out, Alan
the road and stared
donkey had claimed the right
snd held it Several lengths of
stock ont from her bulging sides
hind ber hurried a panting
Alan turned to Clem. “Do donkeys
never die?”
“Oh I hope not”
“You
<
vax very still b
the
ut presently
West Lake
a horse; a
a peal
ind of whee s and
two
AWAY on
whinny of
|
the
i @ Nearer af
hen the sot
el A wagonetite,
and
of He
the
house,
swerved
lets ou the end seats
looked
A fat
of way
legs
He
nurse
said Clem grave.
change them. We changed
le you were away.”
“So she has
ly.
been changed,” said
“Well, that's something.”
“Sily,"” said Clem, “you've heen see
ing that donkey every day for weeks.”
“No,” sald Alan, “this Is the first
time I've really seen her.”
The sun took a last long look at Red
Hill and dropped out of sight. Then,
as though he would come back and
look again, he sent up a broad after
glow that climbed and climbed til] the
tip of the very clouds that peeped over
East mountain were tinged with the
rosy light.
From an open upstairs window came |
Clem's soft voice. “Yes, dears, pink
night-caps. Those big sleepy clouds are
| putting them on because they are just |
| lad to go to bed.”
“1 wanta pink nightcap.”
“Shy, darling, night-caps are only
for white-headed people and white |
| headed clouds, Just wait until you're |
white-headed, Now climb into bed and |
I'n tel}
Beyond the mountain.ash thicket a |
lovesick Bob White kept
“Goodnight,” {0 his mate.
swered sleeplly.
From Maple house, The Firs, and far
down the road, from Elm house warm
lighta flaghed out and settled down
into a steady glow, A burst of young
volces swept into the night and died |
She an- |
away, followed Into the silence by soft
langhter. From The Firs came the
angry wall of the fat young god,
off in midflight by the
sleep
choked soft
hand of
many feet
and ail, the
a boy signaling good-night
ing good-by to a happy day
Hours before
popped sky, hurrying
first she knew
{forty again, One
lights (ther lig
ndows then
ted HI
along the dus
last of trailing whistle of
sound say
passed the
into the just
as though she
minutes late by
}
nts
glean med
they, in
bad gone to
went out
from uy per Ww
turn it out
bed.
From
wel
Ma
{Oo smoke n
and
long grass la
ple house A slipped out
hesitated a
through
Bed
tn
He
ist cigar
’ .
then strod
moment the
fen with
it
id
Above
gave out a
Alan drew
“My boy
away" J
«wr ered
But it
KILLED SEEKING TO ESCAPE
rgan, Famous Confed
Ended His Lon
Forays.
How General Mo
erate Ralger,
Series of
~
Ww
Longstreet, who
turned inte
jefeatl
1564,
irgis
berry Ains
at and
Straw
lack
East ier
the month, wil
Nessee
h
the
went over
gh eastern
He cap
hed in
sla
hur
neral
and came
up with Morgan's men near Cynthiana,
and in the fight h Mor
gan lost 200 in kilied and wounded, 400
prisoners, and horses captured.
Morgan now retreated into East Ten-
uessee, In September he had his force
at® and Morgan himself
and his staff were at the house of a
Mrs. Williams, Geperal Gililem, with
troops, surrounded the house, and
ured several
flexing!
on and o
ied «
Burbridge
and
rt
hier pro}
ier mm
Frankfort Hut
in p
in 10
was ursuit
whic followed,
1.040
Greenville,
cape. His body was sent through the
lines by a flag of truce, and was bur
fed with imposing ceremonies at Ab
ingdon, Va.
Knew Extremes of Fortune,
Few careers have covered wider ex.
tremes of fortune than did that of
John of Cappadocia, He was a Roman
officer of very high rank under Em-
peror Justinian, in the sixth cen.
tury,
under his direction the finances of the
government flourished wonderfully.
Incidentally he amassed a great for
tune for himseif. But he was very
corrupt, and the revenues were raised
the desolation of provinces”
most extravagantly, and
all sorts of wicked practices.
life of ostontatious profligacy was sud
al al TOMNG ve.
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erty.
seems to have been innocent, and was
condemned to be scourged like the
Nothing of his
vast fortune was left him but one old
| ragged cloak, and it is said that for
| oven years he begged bread in the
streets of cities that once had trem
! bled at his name.
Infringing.
One morning little Mary hung abomt
busy cook to death,
tience finally.
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here, yo sassy little
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