Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-12

IuTIuer News VI buc SURVIVORS Ol lue
Arikhama, but she was truly happier
not to know From that moment she
flung herself into the present with an
energy which was intensely pathetic,
and Alan Stacey was more hopelessly
in love with her than ever.
She had arranged with Miss Win
nington to be in readiness to come if
she should send for her, so that they
made acquaintance with the little Cor
nish fishing village without the re-
straint of a third person. They We're
like two happy children. The weather
was lovely, the air soft and sweet, and
they tramped over the golden sands and
prowled among the rocks, as if never a
care existed in the world or ever could
do.
You like this place, sweetheart =
he said to her on the evening of their
first day
Il love it, " she answered. Il should
like to stay here always. Alan, | don I
believe that a place like the Sycamores
is good for you 1t is too fiat, too much
shut in; there is not air enough for Il
brain worker. Let us give up London
and settle ourselves in some such place
as this. where we can live more of the
ideal life and make up the waste as fast
as We create it. | believe it would ne
good for both of us There is that sweet
old place we passed among the trees to-
day. Fancy having that for ones own.
Fancy asking ones London friends to
come down and spend Il week in such a
place as this, What joy ii would give!"
''Yes, -lst should we have any Lon
don friends to ask if we settled our
selves here altogether
''Why not? You have friends all over
the world. You are not dependent upon
London. OF course You would have your
friends Just the same.
And you would really like to leave
Fulhan, to have no resting place in
town
II am afraid | would, Alan. You
see, am not like You You We're born
to It You are well used to the rush and
turmoil of life. l feel sometimes as if |
could not get air, as if We're choking. y
Every body feels it in London, my
dear, and when you We got air and are
not choking you feel bored to death;
you feel You would give anything TO he
back again in the place where things
hum, to be in the thick of the fray. 1t
is vegetation to spend all your life in
quiet place, even paradise like this.
But tell you what We might do. I've
had my doubts about the Sycanores for
some little time. We might move into
a fat-comparatively small. and take
cottage down here solely for work
That would pay better than setting up
our tent in any such place as this alto
gether.
"A cottage one could turn round in,
Alan.
..Oh, yes, | take it house rent is not
very expensive here. AT all events we
will look round at all the cottages ana
see what kind of places are going. And
we must see first whether | can work
in the dead stiffness of country life.
Somebody or other called it dead still
ness, didn't they! L once went down
into the country TO do very special bit
of work that | wanted in Il hurry. |
went down with Google Eyes to farm
in Surrey. came back at the end CT
week dead beat, and indeed | never
passed week in such continual dir
in my life! Did you know before that
horses never go to sleepf''
''Oh, nonsense
at is true said he solemnly.
"Horses never go to sleep. or, if they do.
they walk in their sleep. Ny bedroom
was at right angles with the stables
where the farm horses lived. They kick
ed the walls and the managers and the
floor all night long | used to go in and
look at them fodLered down knee deep