New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-15

mo. shouldn't" with great decision.
SalOme laughed gently. She kissed her mothers
",Oh. what Northern woman sou arc she
exclaimed And then after pause, " But shall
never be Northern woman again"
What do you mean p sharply.
81 mean that would not live North:
couldn't" shuddcring. e" Do you think I would
90 back there after having been under such a
Oh. life is worth living here Only I'm afraid
shall love Iii" too well. DO sou thnk l shall
Tell me, do you think I shall ?"
IL Is natural and proper to love lie, Mrs
Gerry replied, somewhat primly She felt that
her child was getting away from her in some way
She wanted TO reach out frantcally alter her,
but she could not
Natural and proper" repeated the girl Il
begin to think that ! am unnatural and improper
But | can't he really wrong, since you are NY
mother" with another car'~s Only, yon S'',
can't even imagine that could live North again
did not iv" there | hated H. ,,,
e ut in rho summer began Mrs. Gerry" think
how it would lie here in the ,nm sun, .c ,;,, .1t
would lie hot-hot 1t would be delightful. And
suppose should never cough again should
always be as well as l am now I Was n %ors
comfortable or not quite so comfortable. lou
and father will have TO move down here Father
or he might learn of Mr.. Maine how to raise
truck
Salomc laughed again at this last thought and
her mother smiled family.
woman Have YOU told hum
"No yet. But shall tell lin lie must mus a xc
rage som" way. ILc been thinElng that we
must all live on the Gulf coast They say !, Is
cold here sometimes, after Christmas ana
will never never endure the cold again IL Is
like death 10 he cold, A.
tree. The two did not speak Tor long tlmc
Mrs Gerry was trying 10 rcst ava NJ inc same
time she was trying TO cast out %i nS t. ' wns
| continually telling herself that she need not
| lc anxious about the lancies OF an imaginative
girl. But the fact which gripped hrr haId ANU ANU
rccntlceey was the fact that she herself had
never been in the least as Salome was now.
She had never had that nature; she conld nor
understand il; she had TO own, with . SICK
feeling which WAS worst Of all, that sh" was
| rrrcllrd hv IT, However sympathetic We may
| be- what have not felt: what we cannot
| feel remains forever beyond the pale OF our
| syinpathv: beyond our judgment. And then 10Y"
becomes torture: II WAS torture Il, InS
momcnf 70 Mrs. Gerry. She conld not under
stand: but her love Tor her child was so keen
! and 50 strong that IT seemed To her that uon
would rs' b" So cruel as not 70 give her IN
| ,cr>,anding ~ her daughters heart; Sh" fet
- if she wor" thrust out not by Saloncs VIII,
| hut by bitter and incX4rahlc something lor
| which no on" was responsible. go
| Thcs.. events. these combinations for which no
ono is responsible, how unhcarahlc they seem
sometimes,
Aftor few moments Mrs. Gerry hogan, TO
| toll how kind Mrs nirrah had boon. and how
| relieved they would all h. that Uncle John could
| ne Id't. +,
Saiomc. with her head against tn" tree, watched
her mothc. with interest She thinking all
| the tim" II the check She hnl signed. and SIN"
| was telling herself that sh" was perfectly posi-
| tive thu, il was wrong for her to have dom"
| that Yes she krcw IL was wrong: but she
wondered why she did not feel that II was an
| OWL thing 10 do She had no feeling whatever
| in that directions But sh" knew. She knew how
| the wind blew over the snowhanks at home IN
midwintcr. but she did not feel IT, and she meant
never again 10 feel il. What was tho us"
An impulsc 10 explain - hor mother came 70
her II was difficult to think that Mrs. Gerry
could feel differently from what she herself
~oi course I shall tell her some time she
thought Rut will wait She will hc gricvrd :;
! and why shonld cricv" her But how lovely
everything has com" on" limo ,,h nag ,a,t wpm 1rcv
! | wonder what Portia would >ay to what ! have
done P,rtia Is not "a particular about her con-
sc",cr nS mo'hr ,s Or p a, no'n'r "S'' 10 ''''
| The day WAS already ended whom IN" two women
left their place by thc tree. The sun had gone
down in red sky the Fat strcirh Of cGnfry lay
| light tn" birds were living IN the long, Mn"
| spaces toward the west. The frogs were croak-
| inq.
| The two walked on hand in hand
| There is only one thing about living here, y
Saomr was saving, ore thing which Is not
so pleasant. ! mean"
| She swung her mothers hand back and forth
rs she spoke She smiling. but her eyes
! we've slightly anxious.
Two things. | should say" responded Mrs.
Gerry. who had now fully resumed her cheer
| fitness and they are Mr. job Maine and Mrs.
| job Maine"
:" But they are one" was the retort. don't you
know? And she married him for love. don't
mean them | mean the crows. mother;
Mrs. Gerry turned and looked full IN the girl S
| face.
| The crows -
Yes: they will sometimes nv over my head,
and between me and the lovely blue sky. wish
| they wouldn't