The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-03-15
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CONQUEST Of CANAAN
BY BOOTH HARRINGTON.
Author of Cherry
COPYRIGHT 1905. BY HARPER BROTHERS
By BOOTH HARRINGTON,



The Tocsin made what it could of
this, and so dexterously that the wrath
of Canaan was one farther jot increas-
ed against the shyster. Aye, the town
was hot, inside and out.
Let us consider the forum. Was
there ever before such a summer for
the National House corner? How
voices first Numbered there. then
cracked and piped, is not to be rem
dered in all the tales of the fathers
One who would make vivid the great
doings must indeed dip his brush in
earthquake and eclipse" Even then
he could but picture the credible and
must despair of this-the silence of
Eskew Arp. Not that Eskew held his
tongue, not that he was ehary of
speech-no! 0 Temporal, o mores! No!
But that he refused the subject in
hand, that he eschewed expression up
on it and resolutely drove the argu-
ment in other directions, that be
achieved such superbly un-Arplike in
consistency, and with such rich mate
rial for his sardonic humors. not at
arms length, not even so far as his
finger tips, but beneath his very palms.
he rejected it. This was the impossible
fact.
Eskew-there is no option but to de-
clare-was no longer Eskew 1t is the
truth. Since the morning when Ariel
Tabor came down from Joe's Office,
leaving her offering of white roses in
that dingy. dusty. shady place, Eskew
had not been himself. His comrades
observed it somewhat in physical diff
ference, one of those alterations which
may come upon men Of his years sud
denly, like 'sea change" His face
was whittier, his walk slower, his voice
he rose or sat. Old always from his
boyhood, he had in the turn of hand
become aged. But such things come
and such things go. After eighty there
are ups and downs. People fading
away one week bloom out pleasantly
the next, and resiliency is not at all
patent belonging to youth alone The
| material change in Mr.. Arp might have
| been thought little worth remarking.
! What caused Peter Bradbury, Squire
BucEalew and the colonel to shake
their heads secretly to one another and
wonder if their good old friends mind
had not "begun to go" was something
to it, he not only abstained from all
argument upon the Cory murder" and
the case of Happy Fear. refusing to
discuss either in any terms or under
any circumstances, but he also declined
| to speak of Ariel Tabor or of Joseph
Louden or of their affairs. singular or
plural masculine, feminine or neuter.
or In any declension. Not q word com
initial or noncommittal. None!
And his face when he was silent fell
into sorrowful and troubled lines
The voices of the fathers fell to the
pitch of ordinary discourse; the drowsy
town was quiet again; the whine of the
planning mill boring its way through the
sizzling air to every Weakening ear. Far
away on quiet street it sounded faint
", like the hum of q bee across a creek,
and was drowned in the noise of men
at work on the old Tabor house II
seemed the only busy place in Canaan
that day, the shade of the big beech
trees which surrounded it affording
some shelter from the destroying sun
to the dripping laborers who were saw
ing, hammering, painting, plumbing
papering and ripping open old and new
packing boxes. There were many
changes in the old house-pleasantly in
keeping with its simple character-airy
engagements now almost completed Sc
that some of the rooms were already
finished and stood, furnished and i'm
macuIate, ready for tenancy.
In that which had been Roger Ia
boris studio sat Ariel, alone. She ha(
caused some chests and cases stored
, there to be opened and had taken gu
of them few Of Rogers canvasses ant
set them along the wall. Tears flle(