Cañon City record., 1903-01-01

tempered even in her weariness and all .
through those clouded years.
But nobody came. not Il soul. On the \
contrary. the children's voices in the
yard grew fainter. She no longer heard
even the whining one, who was the
fourth. The low brown wooden kitch- /
en- raised its ceiling, widened its walls. .
then disappeared altogether. Mary
Murphy was outdoors in space.
4 procession that seemed TO be as
long as the universe was passing LiyI
ing creatures started out of darkness I
and grayness millions. of billions of !
miles awNx ley were all going
somewheT4 4 never getting there.
When they Emerged from the clouded
beginning place, TO which it would
have taken Mary Murphy millions Of
years TO travel these creatures great
and small. male and female, were
hairy. apclike beings. They We're a
strange, animal people folk. The males
were ferocious monsters that snatched
a young one from its mother and
dashed it 20 death If it annoyed them
their march toward the place to which
they were hurrying. but never reached.
At the starting point of grayness and
darkness these animals We're dark, too.
but us they went on their road she
saw them becoming fairer- she saw
more light about them. then colors be
ginning to play around them. only
deep dark red and dull brown at first.
then as the tremendous stream of ami
NAL folk flowed on there came more
and more Eight and more varied tints
till many hues appeared and there
were blue sky and white cloud. with
the colors mingling, blending, parting
and changing like dancing rainbows.
A strange thing. AS it grew lighter
Mary Murphy taought-yes. she knew
that the same animal folk. men and
women, reappeared In the procession.
repeated themselves in different places
Back where the colors were just begin
ming to show around them she saw a
hairy ape man seize a weak, crippled
little female that Sould not keep up
with the rest and fling it out to perish
by the trail side. Ii howled at this
treatment like forsaken monkey. I'm
mediately a gigantic man animal who
had lighter color about him than the
rest, grinning grotesquely. but not IN
kindly, picked up the abandoned fe-
male child animal end carried it upon
his shoulder. so that il was not left to
die. Mary Murphy's heart gave great
leap, then almost stopped when she
saw in the face OF the big man animal
the look of John Murphy and in the
crippled little woman animal her own
self
On they went. the colors growing
brighter and more luminous. the light
stronger. the animal people handsomer.
cleaner. more erect. geatler in theii
ways and la is. Yet they did not 20
steadily on Many time one dropped
out. weak and discoura ged, and let the
procession go past him: but. then. lie
never stayed where he fen The trail
was a little up hill all the way. and
the one who gave Up and stopped al
ways rolled down slightly and Joined
the Procession where the ape folk were
darker and more animai-likc than the
ones he had left
One slim. white. tired woman animal
could hardly drag herself along She
was finer. pretter. than those around
her. but so III, weary and disappointed
looking. so heartbroken seemingly, that
Mary Murphy's heart ached Tor her.
She was even on the point OF going
down and sliding back amou-. the dark
er. dulier. more swinish creatures be-
hind.
Then Mary Murphy saw Il strange
thing which at first she had not oh.
served. Joined to the wan. white wo-
man animal by tiny silken cords were
a whole family of ape folk. all Of them
n little behind her. 1t was about the
middle OF the great procession. where
the animal folk Joined together by silk.
en- threads stood. One of the group
behind the white woman was very
large. kind looking but rather dull
faced man animal. moving along slow.
ly and lumberingly, head downward. rs
though pondering in his stupid way