Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-09-25
state chariot. But I shall have my
frolic all the same"

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Another and higher peak tempte'
ner when she had sat for awhile upol
boulder browning the first, revelHn;
IN the view of valley and hill, includ
ing the basin in which nestled the
mouse, and the plain opening eastward
toward the sea and civilization. The
second height was precipitous, in some
places almost perpendicular. From
'reading fearlessly and rapidly from
crag to crag, she came to- pulling her
sen up grayelly banks by catching at
the stout underbrush, and steadying
nerseif among rolling stones by tufts
oi Wlry grass. But she kept on. and
forgot aching feet, seant breath and
mustered hands when she stood finally
upon broad plateau hundreds of feet
ABOVE the house. that had dwindled
INTO toy cottage, and the environing
plantations Of trees like patches in an
herb garden.
This is lifep' she cried out in a sud-
den transport, and she sat her down
upon cushion of gray moss in the
shadow of cedar, to gaze and wonder
and rejoice.
She made discovery presently. A
spring, clear and impetuous. burst
from between two overhanging rocks.
and chose the shortest route to the
valley, babbling with all its little
might. 1t was Joined, before it had
gone many feet, by other rivulets. and
from a point midway in the descent.
where the cliffs were steepest, came up
the shout of waterfall. This. and the
tireless murmur of tie evergreens,
made up the music of this upper sane
tuary, until Constance's voice rose from
the rocky table, sweet, full, exultant:
The wild streams leap with headlong
sweep
In their curbless course Ger the noun
tain steep;
All fresh and strong they foam along.
the rocks with their cataract
song.
Wy eye bears glance like the beam on
a lance
As watch the waters dash and dance.
burn with glee. for love to see
The path of anything that's free.
love-I love-oh, love the freel
loye-I love-I love the freel
The skylark springs with dew on his
wings,
md up in the arch of heaven he +
sings I
Pra-la-tra-lap Oh, sweeter far {
han the notes that come through a '
golden bar r
he thrall and the state of the palace
gate
re what my spirit has learned to
hate P
The strain ceased abruptly, and. in
ace OF the rapt musician, borne above
e power of earthly woes to crush and
tty vexations to sting, woman grow
eu upon the messy cushion, weeping =
t. last tears, and beating against the :
ugh rock with a child's folly of des- -
ration the white hand that wore the &c
dye of her servitude. al
What was she but a Gagged bird bid Ut
to preen its feathers and MARBLE DC
notes its master dictated between N
Iden bars? A slave to whom state wi
1 thrall meant one and the same tv
torrent thing? What had she to do N,
leeforward with dreams of beauty M,
freedom-she, who had signed =,
ay her liberty of spirit and person.
unfairly accepting in their stead =.
most foul captivity a pure and nm WI
II woman can know? She felt her ioI
10 be utterly vile-plague-spo Sc;
soul and flesh in the lonely sublim- ma
OF TINS mountain temple-a leper. for
demned and incurable, constrained
Try out at the approach of every
'er-by, "Uncleanl uncleanw II Z
Id have been better for her IN beg
bread upon the doorsteps of the -
lthy, and, failing that. to die bv the
side with starvation and cold than iiio
We the life of nominal respectable lle'
ina abundance, of real degradation sha
poverty, which were now hers frol
lie tears were dried but she stil SAT- llill
he gray carpet. clutching angrilv No,
and the wild flowers peeping
ign the crevices of the rock, rend
mem as passion had torn her; her
n heaving with the unspent waves Wo'
vehement and mutinous pout
ner lips, when cracking among A
r1shwood thrilled her with an I'M won
ortable sensation of alarm. inab
ore sne could regain her feet or year
III her scheme of defense or saws
INC nearest CEDAR boughs were is 81
~ aside, and a man stepped into the
rea fenced in by the hardy noun local
'vergreens. With subsiding fears, thro1
r uI1ick owe ;nva-4a;. vary