Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-02
Copyright, by Le.hrep Publishing Company.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
 HOME PHENOMENA PECULIAR TO
By HARRY LEON WILSON

BOMB PHENOMENA PECULIAR TO
 SPRING.
 He awoke early next morning, re- freshed and intensely alive. With the work done he became conscious of a feeling of disassociation from the sur roundings in which he had so long been at home. He was glad the busi- ness was of his mind. He would now go the pleasant journey and think on the way.
 His trunks were ready for the car; lnd before he went downstairs his handbag was packed, and the prepara- Hons for the start completed.
 When, after his breakfast, he read the telegram announcing that the car had been delayed "A hours in Chicago, he was bored by the thought that he must pass another day in New York. He was eager nov to be oil, and the time would hang Heavily.
 He tried to recall some forgotten de- tail of the business that might serve to occupy him. But the. finishing had been thorough.
 He ran over in his mind the friends with whom he could spend the time agreeably. He could recall no one he cared to see. He had no longer an in- s terest in the town or it's people. He went aimlessly out on to Broad ! way in the full flood of spring morn sslng, breathing the fresh air hung.ily. { It turned his thought to places out of the grime and clamor of the city; to woods and fields where he might rest and feel the stimulus of his flew pans. He felt aloof and sufficient unto him. Ielf.
 : He swung on to an open car bound X north, and watched without interest Ethe early quick-moving workers , sthronging south on the street, and rrowding the cars that passed him. At Forty-second street, he changed to a Boulevard car that took him to the Fort Lee ferry at One Hundred and rwenty-fifth street.
 Out on the shining blue river he ex- banded his lungs to the clean, sweet air. Excursion boats, luttering gay streamers, worked sturdily up the stream. Little yachts, in fresh-laun- dered suits of canvas, darted across their bows or slanted in their wakes, looking like white butterflies. The vivid blue of the sky was flecked with bits of broken fleece, scurrying like the yachts below. Across the river was a high-towering bank of green inviting him over its summit to the languorous freshness beyond.
 He walked of the boat on the far ther side and climbed series of s'eep wooden stairways, past tiny cataract that loaned its way down to the river. When he reached the sop hs waksd through a stretch of woods and tufntd Dff to the right, down a cool sh ded road that wound away to the north through the fresh greens of oak and chestnut.
 When he came to a village with an electric car changing through t, he skirted its borders. and struck eff through a woodland toward the river. Even the viilage was too human, too , modern. for his early-pagan moo1.
 In the woods he felt that cu-i us thrill of stealth. that impulse to cau- sious concealment, which survives in man from the remote days when ene- mics beset his forest ways. O. a Bouthern hillside he found dogwood tree with its blossomed. Armament If white stars. In low, moist places the violets had sprung through the thatch of leaves and were singing their pur- pie beauties all unhearu. Birds were nesting and squirrels chattered and colded.
 Under these more obvious signs and bounds went the steady undertone of life in root and branch and unfurling leaf-provoking, melting, making law less whomsoeyer 1t thrilled.
 He came out of the wood on to an- other road that ran not far from the river, and set on again to the north along the beaten track. When he came to "wheelman's rest" he ate many sandwiches and frank much milk. The face of the maid that served him had been no heaven for the souls of dead flowers. Still she was a rirl: and no girl could be wnolly without Importance on such a day. So he thought the things he would have said to her if matters had been different.
 When he had eaten, he loafei ef again down the road. Throug1 the long afternoon he walked and lazei. turning into strange lanes and by- roads. resting on grassy banks. and looking far up.
 When the shadows stretched in the Husky languor Of the spring evening. he began to take his bearings for the return. He heard the hum and e'a-g ,f an electric car or through a chest nut grove.
 The sound disturbed him. bringing 2remonitions of the city's unrest He determined 10 stay out for the night lt vas restful-his car would 0. ar live until late the next aftsrroon- there vas no reason why he saouli not He found a little vaysid hotel ghose usathsr-bsatsn sig vas aneisn; enough to promise -eatsrtsinnznt for man and beast
 Just what want he d-clared. | I'm both of thsm-nau and beast"
 Together they ate tireIszsIy If young :hicksns broiled and a green salad and a wonderful pie with a bottle fl ,laret that had stood hack Of the diugy