Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-02-24

JOY and the new consciousness OF power OF
identity that the inspiration of a true passion
gives to some strong, deep natures remained,
and after while she prepared to make her
way home across the mountain top, feeling
as though she were another woman. But
still she did not go, but lay there with closed
eyes and drank OF this new intoxicating wine.
So absorbed was she that she did not notice
that the birds had ceased to call, and that the
eagle bad fled away for shelter. She was not
taken the place of the merry voice of beast
and bird, and preceded the breaking of the
gathered storm
At last as she rose to go she opened her dark
eyes, which had been for the most part shut
while this great change was passing over her,
and with natural impulse turned to look
once more on the place where her happiness
had found her, and then sank down again
with little exclamation Where was the
light and the glory and all the happiness of
tho life that moved and grew around her!
Gone, and in its place darkness and the ris-
ing mist and deep and ominous shadows. As
she lay and thought, the sun had sunk behind
the hill and left the great gulf nearly dark,
and, as is common in South Africa, the
heavy storm cloud had crept across the blue
sky and sealed up the light from above. A
drear wind came moaning up the gorge from
the plains beyond; the heavy rain drops be-
gan to fall one by one; the lightning flickered
ftfully in the belly of the advancing cloud.
The storm that John had feared was upon
her.
Then came dreadful hush jess had re-
covered herself by now, and, knowing what
to expect, snatched up her sketching block
and hurried into tho shelter of little cave
followed by water in the side Of the cliff
And then with rush of ice cold air the ten-
pest burst Down camo the rain in sheet;
and then flash upon flash cleaning fiercely
through the vapor laden air, and roar upon
roar echoing in the rocky cavities in volumes
of fearful sound Then another pause and
space of utter silence, followed by blaze of
light that dazed and blinded her, and sud-
denly one Of the piled up columns to her left
swayed to and fro like poplar in breeze,
and fell headlong with a crash that almost
matcred the cracking Of the thunder over
head and the shrieking Of the balloons scared
from their crannies in the cliff. Through it
jess, scared and wet to tie skin, managed to
climb up the natural steps, now made almost
impossible by the prevailing gloom and the
rush of the water from the table top of the
mountain, and so on across the sodden plain,
down the rocky path on the farther side, past
the little walled in cemetery, with its four
red gums planted ut its corners, in which a
stranger who had died OF Mooifontein lay
hurled, and so, just as tho darkness Of the
wet night came down like q cloud, home at
last. At the buck door stood her old uncle
with lantern.
as that you, Jcssln hc called out in his
stentorian tones Lord! what a sightI' as
she emerged, her sodden dress clinging to her
slight form, her hands bleeding with Chamber
ing over tho rocks, her curling hair, which
had broken loose, hanging down her back and
half covering her face.
~Lord, what a sight," hc calculated again.
"Why, Jess, where have you bccna Capt.
Mel has gone out to look for you with the
Kaffirs."
II have been sl,etching in Leuw Kloof, and
got caught in the storm. There, uncle, let
me pass, want TO get these wet things of.
1t is bitter night" and of she ran to her
room, leaving q long trail Of water behind
her cs she passed. Tho old man entered the
house, shut the door and blew out the Ian
tern.
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1 snnnose ,lrcaminc. Shes mn odd woman
less very Perbans ta ,lid not cn;te know
how occ,r,to h;s c,,o,. wes orl how tr,o
tLa concl,,s;o,, bo irnv fro,, n Cer+.;nlv
ehe had he-n drc,miro ana she ,vas an ola
voman
Meanwhile less was rapidlv changing her
clothes md removino tI,e traces Of her strnc.
slo With the element INT If that other
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-. ~ ielnose ING 4aceA Aney ana tne low
snas niosc IRON IL would endure as long u
sne endured 1t was her former self that bad
oeen cast ON IN II and that now Lay behind
ner, an empty and meaningless thing like thu
snapeiess pile OF garmenfA 1t was all very
strange 30 he bad gone to look for her, and
had not found her. 6hc was glad that b.
had gone. 1t made her happy to think o.
Nun searching and calling IN the wet and TIN
night she was only . woman, and 1t wa
nasura! tnas she should feel thuA BY and By
= woeld come back and dnd her clothed and
N n@ r,ehs mind and ready to greet him
cne was glad that he bad not ssen bar, Wet
olsnsveleo' and shapele9 4 woman look
% enpAsesans IKE that II might have turne1
nun aeaanse her. Men IKE women to lool
nlce ana cieen ana pretty. They gave her ~
80 ene turned TO her GA. and, holding
- nens ABOVE ner need, seud,ed her own FAC
~. svey ~ 70 cne VS. : woman with =
.stss vsaasy ~ oeF compoonon .: I" n ponnl'
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my PC nos peen OF great importance 20 ~
"a tne WakkessHoom district OF the Trans
vaab But now al OF . sudden they becaml
veey important; and 20 she stood and looksf
q nj own wonderful eye, ae the masses o.
cxn1T brown hair stu damn Ard shtpsns
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A A. :Uakn. .. neF s's9eE gave ner an
otnef 80 what u ~ were to prefer Bes
mol NOW NJ thought OF It, he had been very
attentive TO Beside. A feeling Of dreadful
doubt and jealousy passed through hsr, fol
women Ike JeB know what Jealousy n In ii
pain. 6uppo.ing that il was al In vain, sup
poane tnas wnas mo had to-day given-gfveu