Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-30


awoke with q great commotion without
sounding IN my ear My mother In
The great bed near me. She had come from
the lodge Yeti in the company of Umphray
Spurway and his folk. For the Englishman
judged it unsafe to leave her in that lonely
and defcnstless house at the mercy OF
wild beast run mad, like her husband.
Philip StausfieId. My mother would have
stayed on at the lodge being. though a lit
lie woman. still brave enough in spirit, in
spite Of having been broken down in health
With her troubles. But both the minister
and Mr.. Spurway heeched and prayed upon
her to come away for my sake. urging in
tently that there was no saying of what
iniquity her husband might not be guilty
in his present state Of anger and drunken
fury.
So il was arranged that for a time she
should come to the milIhouse, sitting so
pleasantly by the weir, whose water drives
the great water wheels. Umphray Spur
way slept in a little box-like office in the
mill itself. having given up his own cham
Der to the minister. My mother and l lay,
as / have said, in the guest chamber. And
/ was never better pleased than to ex-
change the solemu-smelling, emptily re-
sounding great house and the lonely dank
little lodge Yeti. hidden among the trees,
for such an abiding place II was cheerful
beyond words. All day long the hum and
click % the shuttIeS never ceased The
CTeaking noise Of many beams, all moving
in unison, was music in my "arS-giad-
some as the sound Of many ldrks singing
above Z spring meadow.
Then at night there was the song of the
river over the Weir and the splash Of the
water Jumhlins from the wooden mill lade
or trough into the black poo! beneath the
great wheel l could never get enough of
these things, and shall always connect the
first perfect happiness Of my life with the
Eumniug weaving rooms and SpiaSEinG
waters about The Min house Of Umphray
SpurHay. th. EugliSbuIau.
But At midnight a noise of stirring about
the hoUsr Woke Ire in the place which,
though already great fellow, / lay very
well cuniel- in the little tTUudlc. with my
mother abVV- me in her ,Wn bed | know
not VcEE well why | aUaket. ii it were not
that my mother Put an arm down to as
sure herself Of my presence For woman
outraged and deSpiSed by the husband Of
her youth may lie and see the morning
come in with unShUt eye. or a high mystic
tlke Mr.. james Wildwood Of TiudergarthJ
nay in like manner wander all night sleep
less upon the banks OF Tai, pUCking an
al Ole Ler" and there But d hoy : thoughts
are not thus absorbed in the hours of re-
pose. lie will sleep through a cannpnade
ar an earthquake That Is Tor ordinary.
But al all events my mother awGke me,
and a moment after l found myself on my
feet locking ont II the window. There WAS
q GstHtll4- OF LSNtS GOWN ~ t!t Nt4leN u
ysnd the E-E water and distant voices
which C.rmc iTrrgulariy up 10 US, being al
most dr'waed by the plash and roar Of the
weir.
EGt nearer, indeed under my very win
d"N. ! Jaw tIat which made me- pull on
my braeche- with haste and diligence
inpHrsy SUBWAY was ordering his little
fore ,f wrlverS once. more into marching
ARRAY. ana the minister. Mr.. Bell, was
ss..,tffr.: ready, a. II We're. L. accompany
tI...
h.sL Mt all NV cI0t hes rightly on WHEN
I f.f. f..a-.l stairs CRYING To- my mother
ffat Z yv..rr,d NOT d.. long and to nv pres
I'll. -,Tr.,,v dis 1i,,.,ins Ter command to
,.1.,. ,,,lI.rf. I,grk tu he'd For indeed |
vs. rry,r used 10 ruiuIfue my mother
T.u,n nor sh- To- insisting upon strict
Obedience. R.l 81 soon as Mr. SpurWay
s. - re 'l,. ordered ne back. and even 50
mus. Irarf..r,,- H.:y,. = ne. for il j. Il differ
eat tui:1 ,., ,ti-uJsry Imphray SpUrwav,
;i...i 'i.,. ;ir, for OK, would not have ven
tj.~-d rrIsu. IsUf frcrlIerting himself, ne
SAM. -,,,a'iu.s rs ii in a kind of NUS, 1T
VII a., him good. His eye may vet long
.-s..r .a. spI.:n arpl.. Let him come and
So. Ines. bitter IT, NAY lie in the belly.
Nd :.-Isr ,l..t- H. took no mere notice Of
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