The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-01-13

po,ntel dow agam. She stood npon
4 green mound with a cool hedge 81
0 behind her, ner feet GA lu.lsia
OF solid sunlight, her forehead barred.
Her hair sprinkled round her ~ she
gently threw back her head. Her
face was full or Talton. She WAS
telling him something. Her gestures
were rhythmical and adorably bal
anoed. Because they were continuous
or only regularly broken. it was clear
she was telling him a story.
Talton. gravely. delightedly. nod.
ded response now and then. or raised
his eyebrows in fascinated surprise.
Pierre. watching. was only aware oi
vague inpressions-not any distinct
outline of the tale. At last he guessed
it as a perfect pastoral-birds, hunt
ing. deer. winds, sundials. cattle,
shepherds. reaping. To Talton It
was q new revelation. She was tell
ing him things she had thought She
was recalling her life.
Toward the last she said or ges
tured: You can forget the winter
but not the spring. You Like to 70
member the spring. 1t Is the begin
ming. When the daisy first peeps,
when the tall young deer first stands
upon its feet. when the first egg Is
seen in the orioles nest, when h
sap first sweats from the tree, when
O first look into the eye OF your
friend. these you want to remember.
She paused upon this g~esture-a
light touch upon the forehead. then
the hands stretched out. palms up
ward. with coaxing fingers. She
seemed lost in it. Her eyes rippled.
her lips pressed slightly. q delicate
wine crept through her cheek, and
tenderness wimpled all. She glided
slowly from that almost statuelike
repose into another gesture. Her
eyes drew up from his and looked
away to plumbless distance, all glow.
ing and childlike. and the new
ciphers slowly said:
But the spring dries away. we
can only see a thing born once. And
it may be ours, yet not ours. have
sighted the perfect Sharon flower Tar
upon Guidon. yet it was not mine; 1t
was too distant. l could not reach it.
Ihaye seen the silver bullinch float
ing along the canyon. l called to it
and it came singing. and it was mine;
vet ! could not hear its song, and !
let it go. 1t could not DO happy SO
with me.
Il stand at the gate Of a great city
and see all and feel the great shuttles
of soupd-the roa and clack OF
wheels. the horses hoofs striking the
ground. the hammer OF bells; all
and yet it Is not mine-it u far away
from me. 1t is one world. mine is
another; and sometimes it il lonely.
and the best things are not for Inc
But l have seen them. and it il pleas
ant to remember. and nothing car
take from us the hour when thing
were born. when we saw the sprin:
-nothing-never"
Her manner Of speech as this wen
on became exquisite in ineness. slow
or and more dreamlike. until witt
downward protesting motions Of thu
hand she said that nothing never!
Then a great sigh surged up he
! throat; her lips parted slightly
showing the warm. moist whitenes
Of her teetA; her hands, falling light
| ly. drew together and folded in from
l Of her. She stood still.
: Pierre had watched this scene ir
tently, his chin in his hands, his G
/: bows on his knees. Presently b
/; drew himself up, ran q finger med
= tatively along his lip, and said I
himself: 1T is perfect. She is carve
4 from the 0 r of nature. But tn
= thing has danger for her. Wei
r ahi"
A change in the scene before hi
Q caused this last expression OF 81
9 prise.
Talton. rousing from the enchan
q ing pantolnime, tooL a step towal
d her. but she waved her hand plea
k ingly. restrainingly. and he pause
e With his eyes he asked her minutel
'e whya She did not answer, but. {
at once transformed into q thing
re abundant sprightliness. ran down Z
q. hillside tossing up her arms gayl
O. Yet her face was not all brillians
d Tears hung at her eyes. But Talt
did not see these. He did not ~
as but walked quickly. following b.
and his face had q determined lool
IN Immediately q man rose up frt
ne behind a rock on the same side OF {
n. ravine and shook clinched fists af'
the departing figures. Then he ste
y, g~esticulating angrily to himself III
ad CHANGING to look up hesighted Pier
as and straightway dived into the
or derbrush. Pierre rose to his fe
ire and said slowly: ''Talton. there n
be trouble for you also. 1t is a I
TO gled world"
Toward evening Pierre sauntc'
to the house VI Ida's father. Lii
Of footstep. he came upon the
ne suddenly. They had always b