Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-11-01


She set the box away in her own hot
little bedroom off the kitchen, and two
or three times during the afternoon
she went in and looked at it and in
the evening after the work was done
she sat beside the kitchen table and
stared hard at it till her eyes seemed
to turn their understanding inward.
Now Lena came Of an old, old family
of peasants, who had been famed time
in and time out for knowing things in
a mysterious way. Lena had never had
the least bit of confidence in these ira
! ditiOns, and to tease her mother-ah.
would that her dear mother were now
alive to teaSe-she had been used to
talk about her grandiames, the
witches. But now curious thing hap
| pened. In the silence of the Sultry
nigt Lena's tired body seemed to be-
come as nothing, and her lonely little
mind appeared to be travelling up a
sandy beach all in red, red sunset
to farm, where before a cottage a
young man sat staring wisttully off
upon the water. And the loneliness in
his heart seemed like a piece of the
loneliness within hers. Then suddenly
the young man and the cottage and
the red, red sunset were no more.
There was nothing but the hot kitchen
and her tired limbs and aching head.
She wet to bed and dreamed a
dream, and il seemed to her that she
ran and laughed upon a shore where
the waves rolled in, and that a young
man ran and leaped beside her, and
that when the stars came out they
went together to some quiet fields,
planted with goodly things, and to a
cottage which was their home. In the
early dawn she awoke to know it for
a dream, and she wept homesick tears
for the home that was not
That is how it came about that that
evening Lena wrote an impossible lit
tie letter and directed it to Daunt
JewlsOn, of the Becker road, near
South Fork.
HAUNT o,,,.,,,., ,,,,,,. j., .-4.n
- ,oo.+ a,,a,, ,,,oo,- ,,,,,,,,, 4,s,.
the county PAPER. And then, some
oor,r,unioatfonr sno,, aa,,,,,,t,,;o., ,'s
=, south w.t.. .st,o,,+ D,,t -, hn5
never had 4 letter of any other sort
since his mother died till he got LIE
rooa q 81 III, Iof.,,ro
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''''y MY -''' ~" ""n' wv
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"'''' ,0"'u nave 'o"'il'9u' Out 'neu
loarnino hor Erolieh o,a Da,,t bod
alwavs heId tbo malta, IN orc. -, lass
contennt II u,as o., o,,itir, ,iob4
for him He woe enobo,+od Win tho
| lpttpT lIn Nulllgnl a
honse holding tho motto IN his bord
and wondarfng what eor+ of q oirI boI
written If ard what woman would
think of bis homo avid how, - ,,,o,,,d
seem 70 bo married Dor,t wac roucI
in earnest Ho.yos NOT o man who ov
pressed an if,o wish Ho had meant
what he wrote on tho stra,,nerr,, how
But through the Somewhat dim
cbambars If hfs brain thor, 20, tbo
suggestion t,,at ,no,r;ooo ,.,tth IN mn
known nor,or MIGHT no do,uoro,,..
tbi,g yo4 tho ,+t,a n,f.,.,o IA 49,
seem dangerous. II second sweet He
had a sense that Lena was q dear eirI
Folks who live alone sometimes GET q
sort of instinct like the animals Thnv
know things, rot knowing why they
know them.
Well, Iaunt wrote, and lena wrote