Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-01-14
Forever Hold Your Peace 2
The story Of Modern Enoch Arden.


with bronze. The sky was like copper
/ In all the wide plain not u breath Of air
stirred The weather was OF that quality
( that works madness in mems blood .
slight provocations brought db0Gt quar-
RES 10 the death.
( Gentleman Joe turned slowly round
from his contemplation of tie campfire
( We were bound To keep going because OF
/ the beasts that roamed the plain II nlght.
! We made il as small as We dared.
Tell Won a story, mates: Aly best
are al told"
/ Gentleman Joe passed his hand
! through his Scanty gray locks and
m0pFcd she perspiration from mis- face.
: He too ,ei round the group with keen,
+ kindly eyes and smiled
I Dig something more ont 0f yodr meTIl-
/ cgF. cd man." Big Dan SAIL eagerly.
/ Give Us a yarn 10 make us forget this
( blooming plain.
/ as | have put it; | tone it down for
YES, 20 on old chap. Who's got a
/ chance of sleeping on II night like this?
/ Give Us something to thiAk about besides
4 the heat"
lie was silent moment before he be
| gan that yarn. His eyes looked far away
! over the grayness of the plain undc' the
! red moon. Then he said:
Il haven't got any Of the usual tales
/ in my head tonight. guess that moon
and-and ether things, make me think &c
old England, aud of something that hap
! pened To me Twas a queer sort of bust
ness. and | don't say that | was right in
what | did. ! don't say | was wrong
/ either I've often thought about i. since,
and wondered. | did what came into ny
mind to do at tie minute. God knows I
acted for the best-but sometimes | won
/ der whether | did riSht-or wrong.
I'm getting on in years now. 1t all
/ happened many and many n year ago.
| hut it comes back 10 me tonight as if it
| was yesterday. | was a young char
/ when ! last saw harvest moon rise
over a cornfeld at home"
/ lie stopped for a minute, and ! could
/ have sworn somebody choked and gulpsd
/ Men get bit FOOLISH when the heat takes
/ hold of their brains, and they begin to
/ think Of green lanes, and trees. and of
grass that isn't as brown as the sand on
/ the Scashore.
Il was counting in harvest time" he
/ said; we would walk together across the
! held of wheat in the Sunset-Shc and l.
ana the wind would sweep down from
| the heath quarter OF a mile away, and
! bend the ears Of corn, and make the red
/ peoples bow their beads. Beyond the
/ wheat field was field of barley-gol1
| anu silver she used to call them, when
| they shone III the sunset light as the sun
dropped behind the elms in the lane
She was only slip Of q girl. and
/ was little more than boy. but we were
TO be married in October Her home and
mine lay close together: Ind kno,n h,r
! always, and well | was ,n,d abo,,+
her. l can see her now-walking oyer
the cornhcld and looking back 10 laugh
nj me and call me sentimental. Al, I
was an ardent Wooer. and an impatient
one; Her eyes were blue as the Snepd
we'll in the hedges. her face v-as H.
briar rose-I was mad ahout her no -.
peated slowly. II tbought-shc .,rad c,,n
me the same as lid for per p@rhon. -
she did-then. Pertains If is,.t go T.,
to compare a mans love with d. .,;rl' '"t'
Il only know | walked IN L,,,, -, -
days. Sometimes we went ova,, tbl t.i1s
in the evening, after tho r,rn 80 ,.ra
and it stood in sbeay.s ,,,,.,,,.r AZ, .,
BILE, ana q great red mon, -, ~
the clns. The ,yn..lE 70 f":., ~ - -
, me-then '''''' -
well. we were married. f., o..,l..
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I'M ',i'' H. P"' Ii, tv|T,nef' man ana wife
ana Inc yellow leaves of the chestnut
. n'2d' carpet Tor uS to walk on To
90. = g" ~Hle'
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