The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-10-29
den. She was gone. Breen's facs bon :

den. She was gone. Breen's facs bon I
drained look
IAN orchid?" he whispered win tn
visitation be repeatedf Do ! wake o
sIeepT
odd Pere Rabeaut married French
woman Constable observed.
Some Daphne Of the islands, she must
have beeu, since Pere Rabeaut does no,
seem designed TO father 4 sunrise Breen
added, his eyes lost in the shadows Of the
court, from whence the bird songs came.
Pere Rabeaut was worthy soldier Of
France. have heard. said Constable Il
have never seen the mother, but every
year | have seen Soronis-for moment
like this. She was but q child when !
came frst-fve years ago-bGt 4 radiant
child even then"
Five years ago. Breep unused. Five
years ago | had not ceaaed to paint !
should have put her on Canvas
There was q moment Of silence, then
Constable said in low voice, II must 90
back. Tell me the shorter way"
Peter, you are a man, and she won
an. Forgive me, but know what has
four hours from the seeds that have been
there five years Tell her-tel her all
about those five years and the one day
what they have meant to you, and your
dream of the future II you tell her
nightly enough. she will follow you to
the Madame. and cast no longing look be-
hind l shall stay here for an hour or
two"
Constable left the shop He was very
miserable, full Of undirected wrath. New
er in his life before had there been a
time when a stiff shoulder, dollars. an ath-
letic mind, or all three, had failed entirely
to move an obstacle in his way. Here he
was ground by impotence absolute. The
suggestion of Breen entailed such deep
and vital thing that he dared not think of
it, here in the glazing day, with the pant
ing crowd about him. 1t was against the
very structure Of his mind to act precipi-
lately in this. of all matters, most deli
cate. 1t is true that he meant now to
win Lara Stansbury, if such stately
citadel lay within range of a man of his
only after a fawless investment were
laid.
Breen did not return for luncheon.
and the name of PeIee was not heard In
his room, afteryard, Constable fell asleep.
with his face 10 the north. He awoke
out of a horrid dream, in which black
fingers were tightening, like a garrote.
upon his throat II was the ash and
sulphur fumes again. Pelee was obscur-
ed by the fresh fog. Instantly. upon
awakening, the old thoughts and breads
resumed their hateful swing in his brain
The sight of the Madame, lying out in the
harbor. her needle-boom pointed like
black. feshless finger across the smoky
sunset, whipped him again to the sense
of action which had no means of expires
sion. Thoughts of the night-the locked
doors, the still halls. the wall Of chill
dren from the native cabins, sleeplessness
without hope, vigilance without meaning.
and this new master-romance shining far
and bright and alone, like a brave star
above wind-hurled clouds-out Of these
we're moulded thoughts of little mercy, as
the shadows grew long upon the whiten-
ing lawn:
PeIee's moo,is-were variable that after
noon. The twilight bfs1ght ease asain
and with the old freshness evening
came a glad hour of reaction. There was
a ripping wave of merriment f-Jin the
darby quarters, and a score of chiIIeen
went blithely forth to battle in the sea
Never before was the volatile .ropic soul
so imperiousIy evidenced-simple hearts
which glow at little things, whose swift
tragedies come and go like plightine
winds, which STAY but leave no wound.
Constable was ashamed for the mo
ment. Throughout the day his eyes had
fixed in stubborn gloom upon cataclysm
Up the stairway. airily as laughter, came
a bright melody from the piano. lie was
thrilled. and held. and his mind was stir
red with tenderness. She was like her
island people, quick to enter the groves
IF serenity when the black cloul bad
blown by. Could Breen be right? he
thought The suggestion appealed to him
low in a new high-light. Were there
lot some words which had never get
,ound the ears of woman from the lips of
nan-some key to instant supremacy in !
he undiscovered country of lovely |
nature?
ITO be continued