The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-07

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Hitherto our girls, judged by general
appearance, might have been guests, or
pleasure intent, like their fellow travel
ers, But the line OF social inequality.
was drawn sharply, when, instead Of
entering the front way with the others,
to be met by obsequious walters, Kate
drew Olive q long a plank walk to an
open side door in the rear of the house.
"Tllis is the carving room" Kate said.
sit down. while l find Mrs. H"
Olive looked about her. Tile carving
stand, thanked by servers, was In the
middle of the room. A long table ran
parallel to it, another at right angles.
Both were covered with dishes. Sinks
for washing them were set aeainst tho
wall. -
Supper was il progress. White
aproned walters OF 10th sexes, darted
hither and thither, shouted orders at
the carving stand, passed into the cook
room, returned with loaded trays, and
disappeared through the door of the
supper room. 1t was a scene of confu-
sion to Olives uninitiatehseyes.
A pretty black-eyed girl in a pale
pink dtetss, sat idly near the door, wait
ing for ner party to arrive.
Half %repenting the step she had taken,
Olives ayes wandered to the stitch OF
wooded mountain before her, growing
dim in the failing twilight.
Kate returned and conducted her to
supper, then their sleeping room, where
all pe-plexities were DOR forgotten in
healthful slumber.
The first week was a trying one to o.
i've. More than once she wished her
self back in her little white school house
with her forty mischievous urchins.
She was at home in q drill or on long
division, but out at sea, when it came 10
remember half 2 dozen orders, each
with as many different items. She
stumbled owe Mullagatawny soup. NUT
with each other; and got trutfles, apple
fritters, deviled potatoes and succotash,
hopelessly mixed.
But the New England girl has a fexi-
BILE power of adaptation. From the
n~onchalant faces OF experienced wait
ers. Olive took courage.
The party assigned her by Kimball,
the head waiter, neal the center of the
spacious dining hall we're tolerant of
her mistakes, They liked her pleasant,
thoughtful face, and evident desire to
please. They were ladies and gentle
man in the fullest sense, from the moth
erly matron to the well behaved boy of
ten.
By degrees she conquered the difficult
ties, grew familiar With the different
the tired and impatient cooks.
A youth named Eal1owell, who spent
his spare moments porting over Greek,
shared the duties of her table with her.
His chum, HARDWOOD, and Kate, presided
jointly over q table near the door.
One day Olives party we're absent
from dinner on q trip up Mt. Washington.
When she had finished hertask of clean
ing glassware, she had two hours more
leisure than usual.
She exchanged her neat cambria, and
low hesled slippers, for 8 navy blue fan
mel walking dress and stout shoes, and
with sketch book and pencil started for
a ramble. Such golden opportunities
were rare.
She walked up the road past the house
and struck a path that led into the
woods. The leafy stiffness WIS in-
carving room with it's clamorous wait
ers.
The, path led to the base of the noun
tain, and continued up its side She be-
gan the ascent. Half WHY; up she stopped
TO take breath, and sat down upon a fiat
rock, around whichthe ground was trod-
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distant mountains met the sky. Tue spa
cipus dimensions of the hotel below her
we're mitch reddceds The ~promenaders
on the green looked like Lilliputians.
The, calm ~Sserpentine river flashed here
and There like molten fire beneath the
afternoon sun.
Olive drew long, deep draughts Of the
rare collaborating oxygen. Her spirits
rose correspondingly.
She prepared to sketch the views be-
fore her, hutit uninterrupted by voices
below: "a party Of guests from the
hotel" she thought. With a disinclina-
ton to be seer she r~etreated behind q
ctlmp D kushes. The voices intermin-
gled with the barking of a dog.
sounded nearer. tsHe will scent meand
make a scene," she Thought, and went
pell nell down the side of the noun
tain, through bushes, roots and messy
rocks.
She heard tones Of laughter floating
down strom the nights. then tried to re-
gain the path she had left.ss Instead,
she struck one down the woody slope
OF the mountain and ended at the foot
or the borders of q. brook overshadowed
by trees. RE- .
Sne SAT down on the NOISY log TO col
lee. her senses, and then walked in the
direction which seemed right, from the
SUMS position. It led her into deeper
uncertainty.
She cane upon tue brook again mur
muring contentedly. She knelt upon
the margin, curved her hand in the wa,
ter and drank, She retraced her steps
to an open messy space, With tall trees
here and there, and rocks flung round
loosely as by giants at play.
Mindful OF agile feats Of, childhood,
she climbed 4 fir tree. and sreconnoi.
tered. The view vas limited and unfa-
miliar. The sun was drifting, amid opa-
line islands in sea of rosy light, toward
the distant mountain top.
She descended andsfound q seat upon
some rocks heaped like a monument OF
the ancient Druids. She thought of the
happy, hungry Mt. Washington tourists,
gathered q tiher table, and the impoten,
wrath Of the pompous white vested head
waiter at her no~n-appearance.
She glanced around fearfully as dark.
ness fell. She imagined some awful
presence from the depth Of the woods,
croueiiing behind the rocks, ready to
spring upon her. The isolation oppressed
her, like a fearful incubus. The sorrow
full mountain legends of Nancy's rock,
and the fate Of Lizzie Bourne, flashed
uponsher. She pictured TO hefself AZ
adding to the list with Druidical heap
Tor her monument.
81 would not freeze in August, but
| might starve to DEATH she thought
81 did not mention where l Was going:
They would not know where to search"
But this fearful mood passed. The
mind adjusts itself to VARYING circum.
stances. The trees swayed softly and
bent toward her in sympathy. The night
breeze caressed he. cheeks. The brook
murmured, Il am awake all night to
share your loneliness"
The sweet influence of the sanity