The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-29

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EYk4GYIo cort her home. The
zlEM9 night was chill and
EAedINIl 5 starry; all the way
kHHNEE Il q eastward the trees
l4<Gp OF the different gar
xYba6 ~. III dens n rustled and
i CSC ii y looked black Up the
stone gully Of Lefth Walk, when they
came to cross it, the breeze made q
rush and set the flames Of the street
lamps quivering and when at last they
had mounted to the Royal Terrace,
where Captain Mackenzie lived, a great
salt freshness came in their faces from
the sea. These phases of the walk
4 remained written on Johns memory,
each emphasized by the touch Of that
Hight hand on his arm and behind all
these aspects Of the nocturnal city he
saw, in his minds eye, a picture Of
:. fhe lighted drawing room at home
( where he, had sat talking with Flora:
and his father, from the other end,
had looked on with a kind and ironi-
cal smile. John had read the signifi-
canoe Of that smile, which might have
escaped a stranger. Mr.. Nicholsone had
Temarked his sons entangl clement with
satisfaction, tinged with humor; and
his smile, if it was a thought con
-temptuous, had implied consent.
: !, At the captains door the girl held
out her hand, with certain emphasis;
5 and John took it and kept it a little
1onger, and said, Goodnight, Flora;
dear" and was instantly thrown into
{ much: fear by his presumption. But
she only laughed, ran up the steps and
. tang the bell; and while she was wait
ing for the door to open kept close in
sthe porch, and talked to him from that
point as out Of fertilization. She had
% knitted shawl over her head; her blue
Highland eyes took the light. from the
'heighboring street lamp and sparkled;
and when the door opened and closed
Apon her John felt cruelty alone. 49, :
n He proceeded slowly back along the
terrace in tender glow; and when
he came to- Greenside Church he halt
ed in doubtful mind. Over the crown
of the Gallon Hill, to his left, lay the
way to Collette's, where Alan would soon
be looking for his arrival, and where
he would now have no more consented
to go than he would have willfully wal
lowed in bog; the touch of the girls
hand on his sleeve, and the kindly
light in his fathers, eyes, both loudly.
forbidding. But right before him was
I the way home, which pointed. only to
bed, a place Of little ease for one whose
fancy was strung to the lyrical pitch,
and whose not very ardent heart was
Just then unanimously moved. The hill
top, the cool air Of the night, the com :
pany of the great monuments, the sight
of the city under his feet, with its hills
and valleys and crossing files of lamps,
drew him by all he had of the poetic,
and he turned that way; and~by that
quite innocent DETECTION ripened the
crop of his venial errors for the sickle
e bf destiny. :: 1f.,
+ On seat on the hill above Green
side he sat for perhaps half an hour,
looking down uponsthe lamps of Edin-
L burg and up at the lamps of heaven.
Wonderful were the resolves j. he
formed! beautiful and kindly were the
sNistas of future life that sped before
him. He uttered to himself the name
of Flora in 50, many touching and dra-
matte keys that he became at length
fairly melted with tenderness, and
could have sung aloud. AT that juno
'ture certain creasing in his. great
7 coat caught his ear. He put his hand
4 into his pocket, pulled forth the en-
velope that held the money, and sat
ptupefed. The Cation Hill, about this
i period, had an ill-name of nights; and
TO be sitting there with four hundred
pounds that did not belong to him was
hardly wise. He looked up. There
was a man in a very bad hat little
on one side of him, apparently looking
at the scenery; from a little on the
other a second night-walker was draw
2ng very quietly near. Up jumped
Iohn. The envelope fell from his
hands; he stopped to get it, and at the
Aame moment both men ran in and
closed with him. 5. 4 5a: j5szE.s55${ 4 NJ
y "A little after he got to his feet very
6ore and shaken, the poorer by purse
which contained exactly one penny
postage stamp, by a cambria handker-
chief. and by the all-important envel-
bpe. Il S@:@ J. Il az /. /. 5.@S
Here was young man on whom, at
the highest point Of 1overly exalta-
ton, there had fallen a blow too sharp
10 be supported alone; and not many hun
dred yards away his greatest friend was
.sitting at supper az, and even expect
ing him. Was it not in the nature Of
man that he should run there? He
went in quest of symp athy in quest Of
that droll article that we all suppose
ourselves want when IN IA strait,
and have. agreed to call advice; and he
went, besides, with vague but rather
splendid expectations Of relief. Alan
was rich, or would he M SO when
4 he came OF age. q stroke
ef the pen he NIGH remedy this
+ rnisfortune, and avert that dreaded in
n feryiew with Mr.. Nicholson from
which John now shrunk in agination
ps the hand draws back from fire.