Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-10-14
CHAPTER XIV.
At The Quay.

| On the day of Barbara departure
Eve attended diligently to the duties
of the house, and found that every
thing was in such order that she was
content to believe that all would go
on of its own accord in the old way,
without her supervision, which de-
clined next day, and was pretermltted
on the third
| Jasper did not appear for midday
dinner: he was busy on the old quay
He saw that it must be put to rights
The woods could be thinned, the cop
pice shredded for bark, and bark put
On a barge at the bottom OF the almost
preciptous slope, and so sent TO the
tanvards at Davenport. There was
waste of labor in carrying the bark up
the hills and then carting it to Beer
Ferris. some ten miles.
No wonder that, as Mr.. Jordan COM
plained, the bark was unremuneratlve.
The profit was eaten up by the waste
| full transport. 1t was the same with
the timber. There was demand for
oak and pine at the dockyards. ana
any amount was grown in the woods
of Morwell
So Jasper asked leave to have the
quay put to rights, and Mr. JORDAN
consented. He must supervise pro
ceedings himself, SO he remained the
greater part of the day by the river
edge. The ascent to Morwell House
otf dirQntlV
the steep fall, long if he went by the
zigzag through the wood. 1t would
take him a stiff three quarters OF an
hour to reach the house and half-an-
hour to return. Accordingly he asked
that his dinner might be sent him.
On the third day, to Ewes dismay,
she found that she had forgotten to
let him have his food, both that day
and the preceding. He had made no
remark when he came back the day
before Ewes conscience smote her
convalescent left for nine Or ten
h, urs without food.
When she recalled her promise to
send it him she found that there was
reproach, she packed a little basket,
and resolved to carry it to him. The
day was lovely. She put her broad
brimmed straw hat, trimmed with for
get-me-not bows, on her head, and
started on her walk
The bank of the lamar falls from
| high moorland many hundreds of feet
| to the waters edge. In some places
the rocks rise in sheer precipices with
gullies of coppice and heather between
them. Elsewhere the fall is less
abrupt, and allows trees to grow, and
the ricfhess of the soil and the friable
nature of the rock allows them to
grow to considerable dimensions.
From Morwell House a long detour
| through beautiful forest affording
| peeps of mountains and water, gave
the easiest descent to the quay, but
Eve reserved this road for the ascent,
and slid merrily down the narrow
corkscrew path in the brushwood be-
tween the crags, which afforded the
quickest way down to the waters
I
edge.
oh, Mr. Jasper!' she exclaimed.
L have sinned, through my forgetful-
ness: but see, to make amends, | have
brought you little bottle of papa
Burgundy and wee pot OF red cur.
rant jelly for the cold mutton
And you have come yourself to
Ioverwhelm me with a sense of graft
tude
Oh. Mr.. Jasper. I am so ashamed OF
my naughtiness. I assure you nearly
cried Bate-I mean Barbara-would
never have forgotten. She remem-
bers everything. Her head is a per-
feet store-closet, where all filings are
in place and measured and weighed
and On their proper shelves. You
had no dinner yesterday