Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-06-28

cuAPTER xIrI.-fcontinued.)

Of sea and sky in silent awe for some
time, and thsn she murmured Lalf to her
self, TOO large. too great" But she
was delighted wit ththe stars, and when
rounding Deadman's Point we came in
sight OF the young moeon hanging over
the water with the Swallowed disc in its
embrace, a low cry of rapture came from
her lips. We got on the downs by the
gap beyond Deadman's Point, and struck
across for the old London road, and now
that we had no cliff beside us Psyches
wonder at the unbroken expanse around
as was inexpressible. mo walls" she
said. And the soft grass under her feet
in place of the sand she had always
known was another marvel. She tried
to scoop it up in her hand, ard when l
plucked some and put it into her hand
she laughed at this new Oddly in this
new world.
We had not yet met a single living
| creature, but as we neared the road |
heard the sound of footsteps and voices,
and Psyche told me that she say tive per-
sons coming, ono little and one big. A
Few seconds aftcrwari, 1 saw a stout
woman and boy laden with bundles.
| Psyche slipped around and clung to my
| other arm to be safe, while she strained
her eyes in wonder to see a girl SO large
and a man so small.
Mrs. Benham," l said, recognizing my
old landlady as we drew near.
Surely that's not Mr.. Bernard come
back :" she exclaimed.
1T is, indeed, and I'm on my way
to take possession of my old rooms II you
nave not let them to anyone else"
Bless your heart, no, sir. They ARE
just as you left them. / shouldn't have
had the heart to let them to anyone else
If I'd had the chance. Little did I think
you would ever come back to them; and
it's a real comfort in the midst of my
trouble to see you again. There, take
the keys, sir. You haven't heard the sad
news, I'll warrant how should you, when
I've only just got the message by tele-
graph myself. The lad there brought it
and scared me out of my wits nearly half
an TOUR ago. My poor son has been land
cd from his ship at Southampton with
a fever, and there he lies 0 in n stran-
gers house with no one to care for him.
And now ! am on my way TO Ronport to
catch the last train. / will write to you
Tomorrow and tell you more, and you will
let me know all about your wi affairs
that I have no time to ask about now,
though i am dying with curiosity to know
how you Jared and everything"
Everything included Psyche, whose un-
covered head and bare arms drew her
eyes from me in perpiexity, even while
her mind was so divided between thoughts
Of her son and myself. AS for the tele-
graph messenger, who was carrying a part
Of the old lady's hastily packed luggage,
he could scarcely close his mouth or take
his eyes of Psyche.
"Who is that n that you spoke TOT"
whispered Psyche, as we went our way.
"a dear old friend. We are going to
live at her house"
"House-that is a cave"
Yes, a kind of cave. / lived with
her before I came to you"
Not very long?"
Eyes; years-much longer than I have
lived with you"
"Then everyone does not go a different
way-some stay together"
"Oh, yes. a son sometimes stays with
his mother even when he Is no longer a
child. A brother may live with his sis
ter till they grow quite old"
Twill You be my brother"
Eyes, Psyche, that is lust what I
should Ike to be-"
She Rugged my arn close and was
SlieHl lOTHd Wulic.t 4 QOlutcI 10 CuR trees
OF the Chase Park as we reared them.
She looked at them indifercntly, remind
Ing me that I had told her about them.
Then presently, while l wondered what
she was pondering, she said:
"Yoh like that old woman?"
~Yes she has been like a mother to
me-"
But you don't talk to her as you talk
10 me-" she said, smiling and shaking
her head.
what makes You think thar?"
"Oh, I am sure of it, nhe answered,
with delighted satisfaction, and that
shows that you like your sister more than
you like your mother"
/ laughed, and then having come to the
cottage, / told her that it was where we
were to live. She looked OF It incredu-
lousy, for to her it seemed uu more than
a strangely fashioned mass of Srock. and.
could hardly believe her senses when I
cpened the door and showed her it was
habitable.
I lit a candle and took Ter through
the rooms below, and then up the stairs
to the rooms above, and she-was speech.
less with wonder at the stranseness OF
Il n all the surprising contrivances It
contained. When / got her to speak
found that she did not admire the rooms.
After the caves they were as much too
small AZ the world was too isrxe. The
low, fiAt ceilings and squared walls were
ugly to her eyes. Blu the quantity and
variety of color everywhere delighted her.
Two things astonished her beyond the
rest-a looking glass, and a rose growing
In q pot. The glass she thought must
Be water; the scent Of ths ross took her
breath away She was chac3ied with the
canary that hung in the sitting room
It was such a wee little -eaw," and 80
prettily colored; I put It IN her bed
room, telling her that it would sing to
her in the morning.
SHOW me how 1 may take him out Of
his house." She said.
NO, you must not do that" said I.
.Hc would dy away if yon did"
She looked into my&faces in mournful
silence, n then she said:
Does everything that we love in this
world AZ away and leave us?"
CHAPTER XIV.
When Psyche had called her last
good night 10 me from her room, as
hi the cave was her custom to do before
composing herself TO sleep. I stole ont of
the house to breathe again the fresh air
and enjoy the full sense of freedom.
After standing awhile gazing all round
at the heavens with an iHefable joy in
my heart, / passed through the garden,
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