The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-08-16
AMONG THE HILLS.

man 3 novel ana LOOKED at the tarawuN
hills.
Rosa loved the hills ns she loved God
and thought of them us she did of heaven.
She had heard that God was great and
strong and sheltcring. $50, she know, were
the hills. And hCavouy That was far,
very far away, and it was hard to reach.
But, Oh, it was so beautiful And the
moro she dreamed of it the more she came
to believe that heaven was somewhere
among those hills.
Rosa was the ash mans daughter She
lived with the ash man and his wife and
their many weazoned, brown children in
the basement of gray house of San Fran.
cisco. The poor little room in the base
ment had nothing right in it, 1t, too,
was dull and gray, like the house and the
street, and when the cold fog rolled into
the crowded room, rs It always did in the
evening, II settled about the faces and
forms Of the children and made them look
pale and wrathlikc.
"Evermore! Evermorel" Rosa had
heard the word at Sunday school and 1t
haunted her. She asked the good sister
what II meant, and she had smiled kindly
and said it meant always eternally. {"
Rosa looked at the sister thoughtfully,
with her big, solemn eyes. "We have ever.
more babies at our house." she said.
And so it was. When Rosa, the little
elder sister, had taught the last thin,
brown baby Ii little patois and encouraged
it to take "a few steps, another wailing
stranger would demand those offices. Rosa
loved the brood of little ones, but she tired
| sometimes of their weak cries, and her
thin arms and narrow shoulders ached
from the burden of carrying them to soothe
their cries, and her head ached woefully.
Rosa was IA dwariiiko girl with wen
| developed head pale olive skin and big
brown eyes that would not permit You to
forget her There was a haunting earnest
ness, Il wistful questioning in them, that
you recalled sometimes in gay crowds
where the hungry orbs were out Of place.
| They followed and troubled yousas docs
the gaze of a dog that has lost its owner.
| There was an animals pain in them and
q human unrest. They reminded you of
the eyes of woman which you can never
| forget, one who had looked upon the woes
and mockcries of life until she prayed to
die. 1t was with such prayer in her eyes
| that Rosa Giovanni looked at the PARKWAY
| hills. The two smallest brown babies were
asleep The others We're playing in an
other room with children who were old
enough to care for them. So the small,
| brown hands were idle for once. They lay
crossed in the lap Of the dreamer.
The great, green hills How fresh ard
| beautiful they look Had not Nina, the
neighbor, told her it was there the flowers
| grew, the dewy, delicate flowers which
she had seen a countryman of hers selling
at the place where many streets crossed:
| She had caught the breath Of some of those
| flowers once, and it was sweet--as sweet
| as heaven and the hills. All, to have
| some of them in her lap at this moment
| To press her hot forehead against their
cool softness and so forget that it ached SC
terribly. The half closed eyes opened
wide. They stared in wild way at the
| hills. A resolve was being born-a re-
solve that sprang from her ignorance and
pain. She would 20 to the hills. They
were not very far. Some one had said they
were far away, bnt they had come closer
to her. They seemed to be opening theil
soft, green rims to her. She would go
She would come hack again to the brown
babies, but she must seek that GOODNESS
and rest and the flowers.
She ran up the narrow street and among
tho cars and wagons at the crowded cross
| ing. Nobody noticed the ragged little fig
ure, for the haunting eyes did not seek
| their faces and challenge their curiosity.
| Those strange eyes looked past the hurry
inc noonle re tho etri,, of ynIvetv e,roon he
vond the roofs she sned aIong the streot
stonn,rg not for nuestions S6o could no,
he lost. hid she NOT know where She xyo.
noino and was il not to the Hills Which
her ewes never left for n momont2 She
shivcred but not from fear Tbc foo had
wranned her about in its stcoItLv ON, fr,ce
| but she thouoht. "The hills viii tnlc corf
nf ,,p Tbny ,ro yy,,r, md lind ;,
Eor brc,tb c,me shortar Gbo ,a,
fired but NOT os when She left tho cola,
| # 4ha nrnv house fo,. ,cas che no1 con,ina
roore, to ;hot ,yor, li,,,, NJ 1,rcon ut o,.n,.,
s+ons ono shn IN L1+ ebo drc,,, Lo,,soi,
nm o,oir ana walled nn ,,'nrn slowly Hi,
| t,ma Dnt ,ho fc1,orisb r.bt in hon ave-.
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