Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-09-19
A WHITE PARASOL.

Tho day that Harold Barnes said goodby
TO tho office force and went into the coun-
try f0r two weeks summer vacation his
numerous friends nodded to ench other
and remarked that It was about timo that
popular young man got away from work
Dnd worry, for OF late he had grown thin
and white and was looking fairly
wretchcd. They were sorry to see him 60
for their own Sakcs, but glad on account
Of his, and the farewell greetings were
filled with wishes for restoration to
health and all sorts of good luck and for
tune and rest. And, feeling as if he would
like TO take all of them with him--for
many Of them needed rest us well rs he
Harold thanked Thorn heartily and bundled
himself off into the country, leaving the
city and the Office, with all their manifold
trials and tribulations, far behind.
1t was quiet, old fashioned littlo farm
house where the health seeking young
man finally decided to stop with moth
crly little woman who had "secn better
days" in charge, and with acres Of slopinR
lands and rich fields rolling away from it
in every direction, whilo meadows of way
ing grass wound through by Gurgling
brooks and inhabited only by birds and
little animals Of every description stretched
far away back of the low, never painted
little home An ideal spot tho young man
thought it tho day ho drove up to the gate
to ask for drink Of buttcrmilk, and an
ideal spot he found it when n few hours
later, his telescope trunk and valisos wcrc
put down in the cloan, best room and he
himself ensconced there for the holiday.
Before Harold Barnes had become mere
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achieved some little reputation among
those who knew him rs an Indifferent
poet, and though the last few years Of his
life had been such as to drive all that sort
of thing out of him, when he found him
self settled in this picturesque old spot,
thcro came u sort of aftermath Of his
former harvcsts in the fields Of rhyme and
he went to work again lazily scrawling
verses Whenever tho fancy struck him.
And scrawine verses being conducive to
rotrospcction, the past began to parade
itself before his mind ono day and bring
back a great many things he might wish
to forget.
There arc very few men Of Harold age
who have not cithsr had or are at present
going through with love affair Of some
sort or other, and he, being a rather up to
date young man, had left his far behind
him. y long train Of differences, mlsun-
dcrstandings and hot words caused by too
little thought on her part and too much
on his had caused the breach between him
and Beatrice Harland. He had gone his
way in Il sort of dazcd but determined be-
lief that she was wrong and he right. and
she had done likewise When he found
that she did not ask him to corro back he
only plunged deepcr into work and tried
to forget, and she plunged deeper into So
ciety and did fDrget-for the time being
A few months 1atcr hcr fotber went west
and soon after sent for his family. md
thus the two who might have been bappv
lost sirht of each other
Young Barnes had dreamed of what
might have been for ayYhilo after tho cs
tranccmcnt. but only for u little while.
and TODAY as he wandered SLOWLY down the
little crooked na+h LEADING ont into fine
cool meadow. with hero and there n sunny
snot ugbtin,r mn tho lon, e,r.se into ,nora
vivid hnos tboro was Iittie tborcht of ro.
rret for the mast i'm his contontod mind II
ba had NOT foroo+to,, ontiroIv as mar, a. Va
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srcb an ,1nro,nartic tbing b,d no known
a. foll o,iotIv asIoon as II his boart had
mayor bern brolSen hv nnv ono
Ton minutes later he woke to find tho
SIM heating down on him-hut tbroupb
thn wbita nor,sol which had bocn core-
fu1Iv raised and nl,cod where if wouId
intorcent tho bot RAYS Rod with ANGER at
himself be started to his foot when an
other bit of white sill, caught his eve this
time inst ON tho other sida hf tho FREQ
where be sat For a moment he debated
what 10 do and chen thero STOLE ont from
undcr that wbito hit of fincrv still whittier
bond-a hand which hocouid never forget.
aslcpp or awake II was the same little
fingers, the same little wrist and the same