Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-11-04
Ills Hearts Desire
By SIR WALTER BEsANT
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By SIR WALTER BEsANT

with us, and sat in the old-fashioned gar
den of Sdcote, under a gnared and an
cient apple tree.
"Our David" | said, was always in
clined to be loutish. He has been devel-
oping and cultivating that gift for six
years-with a pleasing result"
There is something on his mind"
said George. Perhaps he will tell us
what it is; perhaps not. David was
never particularly open about himself
Strange that he should begin by looking
for his unce's grave. why did he think
that he was dead2"
"He believed what he hoped. no
doubt"
"In the evening Harry Rabjahns tells
me, he had a kind of fla hysterical
fit of laughing and crying--in the inn"
That was perhaps because he had
learned that his uncle was still alive"
This was indeed the case, though not in
the sense | intended.
And this morning, the first day Of his
return, he begins with a row with his
uncle. Well, there is going to be mis-
chief Mt Gratnor."
Why what mischief can there be?"
Il don't know. David went away
cursing his uncle. After six years he
comes back cursing him again. When a
man broods over a wrong for six years,
mischief does generally follow First of
all, the old man will do nothing for him.
Do you understand that2 There was
solid obstinacy in his eyes while he list.
cned to David. Nothing is to be got out
of him. What will David do2"
He will go away again, l suppose,
unless he takes farm work"
David is as obstinate as his uncle.
And he is not altogether a fool There
will be mischief"
George, old man, ! return to my old
thought. If you and Mary marry with
out old Dams consent. her fortune goes
to David. Does David know
II should think not"
ITO which of the two would the old
man prefer to hand over that money"
"To Mary, certainly"
$50 | think. Then don't you see that
some good may come out Of the business
after ALP
1T may come, but too late to save
Sidcote. He means TO have Sidcote. My
days here are numbered Well, it IL a
pity after five hundred years"--he look
ed around at the Inheritance about to
pass away from him-only farm Of
three hundred acres, but his fathers and
his reat-grandfather's sand he was 81
lent for a moment LAS for work, what
would | grudge if | could keep the old
! place! But | know that over at Gratnor
there sits, watching and waiting his
chance, the man who means to have my
| La, Ill
the year"
Patience, George. Anything may
| happen"
| He is crafty and a dangerous man,
| VIII. We can say here what we cannot
say in Mary's presence. He is more
crafty and more dangerous now that he
| is paralyzed and cannot get about among
his fields than he was in the old DAYS.
He cannot get at me by the same arts
as he employed for David. He cannot
persuade me to drink, and to sign agree
ments and borrow money. But the bad
times have done for me what drink did
| for David"
| So we talked away the afternoon in
rather gloomy spirit. Life is no more
| free from sharks in the country than in
| the town; there are in Arcadia, as we'll
! as in London. vultures, beasts. and birds
! of prey, who sit and watch their chance
to rend the helpless
And So he said, summing up, al
shall have to part with the old family
place, and begin in the world again: 20
out as David went out and return. per-
! haps, as he returned"
mo, George, some things are possible
but not probable. That you should come
back as David has come back is not pos
| sible"
At that moment the man Of whom we
spoke came slowly out of the house, rub
! bling his eyes.
| When you are among the blacks"
he said, you never get enough to eat"
What are you going to do now you
are come home, David?"
Il will tell you, George. in a day or
| two. The old man says he will do moth
ing for NEWELL see to that presently.
He's turned the old farm house at Berry
| into two cottages. AMI the buildings are
falling to pieces. Says | can take up
my quarters in one Of the cottages, if |
like that is liberal isn't it? And am
to earn my living how l can; that's gen
erous, isn't III"
Try Cancellation, David"
mo, VIII: | think | know a better
plan than Cancellation"