The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-05


hereof really finding each other OUT
Dear me! / wonder if you Will like me
! when you find me out? 1 have heard So
| ciety girls complain that the men they
| had liked most during The winter were
worse than noodles in the country. Per-
| haps l won't sustain myself, as shor,
story writers say when they want 10 write
| a novel"
She was a brown-haired girl, with keen
| eyes of the greenish-grey hue so often
| seen in California. Her complexion was
| somewhat worn, her nose TT ed. her mouth
| was ravishing pretty, her chin square.
| Two-thirdg Of the men in the office were
IN love with her, but she gave them sman
heed. Harrison looked at her with some
! thing of tenderness, something of triumph
he knew his advantage.
They We're riding along in silence. Syl-
Was head was thrown back; she was gaz-
( ing up INFO the rigid interaced arms or
/ the redwoods a hundred feet above her
head, through which the sunrays rickled
4 family There was a hideous yell, a rush
( of incredible rapidly, and something
sprang al Sylvias horse, throwing him
/ back on HIS launches. Almost simultane-
ously there was the report of pistol, and
something dropped with a thud 10 the
ground.
"Well done, young man." exclaimed Pete.
who was some little distance behind. He
spurred his horse and reached them almost
| Immediately. MS a wild cat-and a rat
tlsng big one You're a good shot mister
and you've got a cool head for a city gent"
Sylvia was very pale, but she looked at
| Harrison with quite a new regard. She
had hardly considered him in the light
OF a man before, little more than an able
mentality connected with the city staff
But it seemed suddenly to expand and
Sylvia remembered that once, when she
was very young and green, she had had
Eha faIf ia -l..~
and turned to Hickory Pete.
DO you think Bennett is sure 10 be
there?' she asked
'ToPrable sure, num- He takes it fur
granted that they think he's skedaddled
over the border and after he Interviews
you, or you him, begin your pardon
neil git, | reckon. There won't be Moth
IN else fur him to do And / amt sorry
He's been wise to stay fur some things
but It's time fur him to git now"
Where will he go-to Mexico?"
II reckon that's about the size of it,
There amt no place else, 'cept Canady. I
wish he was thar wish he was. But
they're Watching the border. It's pretty
risky
Sylvia wished that another wild cat
would appear that she might feel that
glow about her heart again. But nothing
broke the profound stiffness of the forest
but the wind signing through the tree tops
"A
they built a huge fire in a clearing on the
high bank of the creek and cooked their
supper.
You've been here before, young man. 8"
SAID Pete, admiringly Il never ct better
cooked steak and fiapjacks than these"
SPEND an my vacations in the noun
talns' replied Harrison.
After supper he and Sylvia wandered
along the bluff, then into the forest
sylvia had never known that ANYTHING
could b@ so still. Even the wind slept
Harrison talked to her of everything but
the once, and she was ready 10 forget its
existence She mad never believed tba+
she, Sylvia Hunt the concentrated esS
sence OF modernity, could feel as If she
wanted an evening in a dark quiet rcd
WOOD forest never to end Harrison did
not make love to her. He knew how
sw 'S 'he SLOW awakening is to a woman
ana ne, too was content to wait
lie told her something of the wonders Of
the forest and made her kneeI and listen
20 the low murmur of the night world
Iheh ne talked 20 her Of his favorite am
thors and poets, and Sylvia realized that
tnere were other things that she had miss
ed besides love
I viii read when l go back" she said.
eagerly. Il am terrible little ignoramus
but I'll subscribe to the Mercantile ri,
prary and you viii write out a list for
me, won't you?"
will lend you my books. l have a
good many" ~ g
! am a child of the hour. of the mo-
ment,' said Sylvia more and more die
cohtented with herself. 1T nearly killed
me 10 study history at school. or any
tpihg connected with the past. | remem-
per school friend came back from a Trim
70 England year or SO ago and she told
me with delight that she'd seen the very
window OUT of which Charles I had walk
ca 70 De peheaded. | asked her who
ChafleS l was, and she was shocked
she d been great history scholar. But 7
told her 4 didn't care whether | knew or
not; mat a newspaper WOman's place was
right here in the NOW. But perhaps one
might have tine for two sides"
y on have missesd a good deal" he said
tenderly. But you are a child VET. Come
you must SO back now. We have a Sari
day tomorrow, and you must get a good
nights rest" e00N
When he reached the camp. he saw that
the blankets she was TO sleep on were
comfortably arranged
II you are frightened in the night, YOU
| must call me- he said but Pete and
you" "''i ii"i
"Altogether,' thought Sylvia as she
Stretched herself out on her side of the
hfe, IN be engaged before l get haclr
And II will be those redwoods than will
nave zone II. The huge, motionless things
seem TO keep saying to me: BE serious
sylvia; be serious. And I should ike "a
know what Is more serious than motr;-
mony-even with our divorce laws And
then, TO her unutterable surprise she
burst into tears.
Ihey were two days reaching the IA
nous peak. hickory Pete, who had lived
! ms lifetime in che mountains, killed hmm
merable bears and several men. served
| ms term twice. and was notoriousll, a
friend of Bennets, RECALLED Harrison and
/ sylvia with thrilling yarns of his mani
/ to.d adventures as they slowly climhs5
the trails, or sat around the fire "A meals
/ Ihey did not meet another human beino
/ nor dld they see another beast. sylvia
/ mad read of such experiences. bur nnha-
! ievingly. She felt as if she were in a
/ new world, on another planet. where the
! atmosphere was green under tnterlacinp
! boughs in forest depths where no ono ax,
| isied but themselves; and always some
! where, there was low roar of water She
/ lost the thread of Pete's tales. falliner INTO
reyerle, of what she scarcely knew an
| the second night she and Harrison walked
/ again into the forest and this time she
! talked eagerly of herself, telling him of
! her childhood and early girlhood. thsn
/ made him tell her of his own life Al