The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-01-23
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CHAPTER v.--Continued.


| shrugged my shoulders and turne
toward Glenarm. My grandfather ha
left me a cheerful legacy of distrus
among my neighbors, the result, prol
ably, of importing foreign labor {
work on his house. The surly Morga
had inhmated as much; but 1t did nc
greatly matter. | had not come t
Glenarm to cultivate the rustics, blu
to fulfill certain obligations laid dow
In my grandfather's will ! was, so t
speak, on duty, and | much preferre
that the villagers should let me alone
Comforting myself with these refet
tons reached the wharf, where / say
Morgan sitting with his feet danglin
over the water, smoking a pipe.
/ nodded in his direction, but h
feigned not to see me. moment late
he jumped into his boat and rowed on
upon the lake.
When | returned to the house Bate
was at work In the kitchen. This wa
a large square room with heavy tim
bers showing In the walls and low
ceiling. There was a great fireplace
In an enormous chimney, fitted witt
crane and hobs, but for practical pur
poses small range was provided
Bates received me placidly
Yes; It's an unusual room, sir. Mr.
Glenarm copied it from an old kitchen
In England. He took quite pride In
1t. It's a pleasant place to sit in the
evening, sir"
He showed me the way below. where
found that the cellar extended under
every part of the house and was di.
vided into large chambers. The door
of one of them was of heavy oak.
bound In iron, with barred opening
at the top A great iron hasp with
heavy paddock and grilled area win.
dows gave further the impression of
a cell, and | fear that at this, as at
many other things In the curious
house, | swore-if | did not laugh
thinking of the money my grandfather
had expended in realizing his whims
The room was used, | noted with
pleasure, as a depository for potatoes
In another of these rooms | found
curious collection of lanterns of every
conceivable description, grouped on
shelves: and next door to this apart.
ment was another store-room filled
with brass candle-stlcks of many odd
designs.
| returned to the main floor and
sought the comforts of the library
where | smoked pipe over very
tedious chapter In an exceedingly dull
book on Norman Revivals and Influ.
ences.' Then | went out, assuring
myself that I should get steadily to
work In day or two.
Bates was soberly chopping wood at
a rough pile of timber at the rear of |
the house. His industry had already |
impressed me- He had the quiet ways |
of an ideal serving man.
Well, Bates, you don't intend to let |
me freeze to death, do you? There
must be enough wood in the pile there
to last all winter"
w. oAi dln just CultlHS IlIllt
more OF the hickory, sir. Mr.. Glenarm
always preferred 1t to beech or maple
turned toward the unfinished tower
In the meadow, from which windmill
water to the house The iron
frame was not wholly covered with
stone. but material for the remainder
OF the work lay scattered at the base
went on through the wood to the
lake and inspected the boat house:
then | followed the pebbly shore to
the stone wall where 1t marked the
line of the school-grounds. The wall
observed, was of the same solid
character here as along the road. /
beside it, rejecting that my
estate, in the heart of
the Republic. would some day give the
lie to foreign complaints that we have
no ruins in America.
The buildings of st. Agathas were
well hidden by the intervening wood,
and ! climbed upon the wall at the
ron gate for an ampler view. The
pillars at either side of the gate were
IF huge dimensions and were higher
han | could reach. The little Gothic
,burch near at hand was built of stone
similar to that used in Glenarm house.
AS | surveyed the scene n number of
Toung women appeared, and, forming
n twos and fours, walked back and
orth before the chapel. A sister clad
n brown habit fingered near or
walked first with one and then an
,ther group of students. 1t was all
Fery pretty and interesting and not
It all the ugly school for paupers |
lad expected to find. The students
we're not the charity children | had
'arelessly pictured; they were not so ,
foung, for one thing, and they seemed \
o be appareled decently enough q
| smiled to find myself adjusting my S
cart and Strengthening my collar as | '
,eheld my neighbors for the first time. q
As sat thus on the wall heard the /
ound of angry voices back of me on t
he Glenarm side, and a crash of un- a
Ierbrush marked flight and pursuit.
crouched down ON the wall and walt. U
"a. In moment a man plunged a
through the wood and stumbled over
low hanging vine and fell not 20 feet h
way from me. To my great surprise p