The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

| OF RELIEF that she was free from the
world OF the prophet and out In the
world OF real things. She exulted In
her freedom. Had abe not surrendered
all her things. all her friends and as
sociates. her successes, with joyous
content in her strength Was she not
stronger than most women. and was
she not approaching love with TIL
umph OF soul2
She was vibrant as she sat there
and remembered how the struggle had
first begun: on board ship. when he
had touched her hand as Il lay on the
rail. when they had looked into the
darkness OF the night over the dark
ness Of the sea. She had swayed to
ward him and kissed him. and then
caught snatehes Of his incoherent love
words. She WIS a singer that had
won. woman whose name was be-
fore the people OF two continents. He
knew that. and had asked nothing OF
her beyond the moment II would not
be right 10 ask her love. he had said.
And the letters he had written from
hts field OF duty asked nothing OF her.
though they were full OF his loneli-
ness. He wrote OF the plains. Of the
silence out there. OF HIS willingness
70 live alone n she would only let him
hear from her now and then In
words be had never asked her TO come
10 him: but she was sure OF his de-
sire.
Mountains and valleys and prairies.
she had seen before: the plains she
had never seen. She waited for them
impatiently. and In the morning. when
she saw them luminous in the dawn.
fun Of mystery. stretching away as
far as a sea stretches. she lay quiet
IN her berth and watched the coiors
spread toward her from the horizon
All day she watched the colors-dhey
made song for her; they were full
OF motion She saw herself riding
horseback through the heiiotrope haze
toward the distant. dim-lined noun
tains. She saw purple smoke rising
from her own tent that lay shining in
the midst OF the color.
At sunset her breath came faster.
she sang TO herself in the rhythm OF
the wheels that rushed on to the des-
tnation- She pictured morning ride
10 the camp. and the surprise Of the
man who had been 50 lonely. She
planned that they should be married
a. sunset
The beauty OF the hotel. built like
an old Spanish mission. surprised her |
The Spanish colors OF the sky hung
beyond the other end OF the plaza like
= banner. Before she had left the
train she had noticed these things
And when she had come down to the |
dining room. and the sky had become
A purple curtain. she FASTENED her
dinner 30 that she might sit out OF
doors and make for herself a new
vision OF the tent on the plains.
Just as the waiter put a salad be-
fore her she heard a voice outside the
window which stopped her heart. II |
was his voice. II was the voice that /
had called her into a new life. the
voice that had Weakened the primeval
woman in her and had seemed more
10 her than the music OF applause or
he sound OF an orchestra. There was
The same power IN Il that she had felt
before
To the surprise OF the waiter. she
started 10 rise from the table. But
he words reached her-words OF a
question: and the answer came IN a
romans low love laugh. laugh with
ruth IN II. OF surprised contentment
md belief She might have doubted
he question: the laugh with the girl
sh note in it-that she could not
ioubt And all the long time when
he was trying TO eat her salad she
lad 70 hear his voice from behind the
.entiy moving curtains.
When the waiter came with her cot
ee. she looked into his eyes. q queer.
Iumb look It was. that belied the rich
less OF her voice when does the
irst train for the east leaveg~ she
.sked And where can send tel
gram ."-Cassell's Saturday Journal