The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-02-24

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"Its treat to 90 rdlking aUit'l you.
k1h0D 1lnn Lore it,"
mits and plateaus. This is the second
summer I've been here, you know"
DESERVING the beaten path, they as
cended through forests of. trees of ev-
cry description, but as they proceeded
along the path, in places ankle deep in
wet moss, and pushed through under
brush that kept Smith busy breaking a
way for his dainty but hardy and
seemingly tireless companion they
came into the fir region, amid hoary
giants that shot sheer to such a height
that they seemed to form pillars for
the canopy of the heavens. Emma re-
garded the great trees with awe, but
Smith laughed. He told her they
were as saplings compared with the
mighty trees of the west. He tried
to describe these and became filed
with the fever of immensely. The
long unfelt influence of the borderless
prairies, the mammoth mountain
chains far flung through the prodigious
spaces of the sunset lands that dimin-
ished their proportions. was upon him.
His soul strained to burst it's tethers
and soar upward into the infinite,
where 1t could expand unrestrained
Burning words, never used, unimag-
ined before in his unlettered mind, ade-
Quate to depict this liberated spiritual
ity, surged unanimously to his lips
to die there.
For the source Of their inspiration, of
this tremendous flight into the divine
azure from his regulated role Of the
commonplace and coldly practical, was
the woman at his side, the one being
in the world who was dear to him AID
ever had been, whom lie held in little
less reverence than he did his Maker.
He broke off his description of the
forest giants and vast freedoms OF
binary street surface language.
'But there-its no use me trying to
do any lecture platform stunts.
wasn't born with the gift Of the CAB.
Emma, them things have got to be
seen to be appreciated. There's no
other way. You understand"
Yes. Emma understood.
She had listened to his brief, unsus-
pected eloQuence and had read his
soul In the light Of the celestial flicker
that had emanated from it; had seen
the glory Of it In his face-a glory
transient as n beacon fash, that was
gone from it, leaving only his habituai
noncommittal smile, as he turned to
her and said, You understand"
They continued the climb in silence,
Emma's bosom rising and falling rap
Idly upon the rush and swirl Of the
torrent that ragged beneath it. almost
sweeping her self control before It
Jinlsy' indeed loved herr Why had
this chance revelation of what her in
tuition had OWNED long before torn
open the foodgates of her own emo
lions? Because it had set vibrating
every chord Of her being, and every
chord Of that being, as she had come
to understand ALSO was attuned to
his. Together they had beheld the mir
age Of heaven.
At the upper edge of the forest laby-
rinth they emerged on to rocky
plateau studded with dwarfed frs and
balsam pines. but covered thickly with
aromatic ferns and BURBERRY bushes.
Jimsy barred his head to the cool
breeze that swept the clearing and
watched Emma, who, with little cry
of delight, had stopped among the
BURBERRY bushes and was gathering a
handful of their ripe fruit. She was
glad of the preteXt to hide the up
heaval in her heart that she felt must
show in her eyes.
This upheaval sudden and almost
overpoweringly violent though it was.
was not of the mornings forming.
She had known the calm, sympathetic
westerner-as he had reminded Cap
tain Williams-ever since she was a
girl In short frocks. She had soon
come to look upon him as big broth
er, with whom she shared her girlish
troubles and in whom she confided
freely, naturally, as a matter of course.
When she had become woman and
he had sought her for his bride she.
had not been able. with all her liking
for him, to bring herself to consider,
him in the light of lover.
After the scales formed there by the
Establishments and personal pulchri
tude of Brooks had fallen from her
eyes and she saw that she had bowed
down to an empty, painted fetch of
plaster instead Of to God in the flesh
she had resigned herself to the lot