The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-15
CHAPTER vi.
Mr.. Grlswold Forsakes the Academic
Life.


Life.
MISS Osborne had asked Griswold
to await the outcome of the dav. and
finding himself thus possessed of n
vacation, he INDUCED his antiouarian
instincts by exploring Columbia. The
late afternoon found him in the love.
ly cathedral churchyard, where an
aged negro, tending the graves of an
illustrious family, leaned upon his
spade and recited the achievements
and virtues of the dead.
AS the shadows heightened, Girls.
void walked back to the hotel. where
he ate supper, then, calling for a
horse, he rode through the streets in
mood of more complete alienation
than he had ever experienced in a
foreign country; yet the very scents
of the summer night, stealing out from
old gardens, the voices that reached
him from open doorways, spoke of
home.
AS he reached the outskirts of town
and rode on toward the governors
mansion, his mood changed, and he
laughed softly for he remembered
Ardmore, and Ardmore was beyond
question the most amusing person he
knew. 1t was unfortunate, he gener-
ously reflected, that Ardmore, rather
than himself, had not been plunged
into this present undertaking, which
was much more in Ardmore's line
that his own. There would, however,
be a great satisfaction in telling Ard
more of his unexpected visit to Co
lumbia, In exchange for his friends
report of his pursuit of the winking
eye. He only regretted that in the
nature of things Columbia is mod
ern city, a seat of commerce as well
as of government, place where bank
clearings are seriously computed, and
where the jaunty adventurer with
sword and ruffles is quite likely to
run afoul of the police, Yet his own
Imagination was far more fertile than
Ardmore's, and he would have hailed
q troop of mail-clad men as joyfully
AS his friend had he met them clank-
ing in the highway. Thus, modern as
we think ourselves, the least venture
some among us dreams that some day
some turn of a street corner VIII
bring him face to face with what we
please to call our fate; and this is the
manifestation of our last drop OF
medieval blood The grimmest seek
er after reality looks out Of the cor
ner of his eye for the hutter OF
white handkerchief from the iVled
tower he affects to ignore; and IN
snite of himself, he is buoyed by the
hone that some day horn Will souhu
for him over the nearest hill.
Miss Osborne met him at the Ver"n,
da steps. Indoors a mandolin ana
niano struck up the merry chords Vi
'The Eutaw Girl"
"My young sisters have company
wou sit here. If you don't mind.
She led the way to quiet corner,
and after they were seated she was
silent a moment. while the light from
the windows showed clearly that her
nernlexity of the morning was not YET
at an end. He felt that she was SER
ouslv anxious and troubled anu ne
n,ished To hearten her If he coulu,
Tho soft dusk of the family llgh'eu
corner folded her in, He heard WIS,
norod in his heart a mans lrst "o'u
If the woman he is destined 10 Ioye,
" uhich he sets her apart; above ana
navond all other womenknd-she Is
Sty sbe is not like other WON
en-! - cold her
ro,co thrilling through him MY Ia,
tber should have been here an t noT
o ou We have heard nothing IRON RON
him The newspapers have teiephoneu
"anootedlv to know his Whereabouts,
have nut them off by intimauns . .na,
Ld nav ts o r on important public ousI,
"ess and that his purpose mlsh a,,, We
1 ,s.. ~.l' ~ his exact Whereabouts
VIZ 81 have no doubt in the world .na'
,bo exclamation you gave the new wd,,r
ners Is the truth of the mat'e,' ,aa,~
, pVi9 must be absent great uea' 80
' '"' g. nart Of a governors business ~. ~
Keen in motion, But we may do