Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-09-17
CHAPTER VI.
Mr.. Grlswold Foraakes the Academic
Life.


Life.
Miss Osborne had asked Griswold
to await the outcome of the day, and,
finding himself thus possessed OF a
vacation, he INDUCED his antiquarian
instincts by exploring Columbia. The
late afternoon found him in the love
ly cathedral chur&hyard, where an
aged negro. tending the graves of an
illustrious family. leaned upon lis
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
n 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 doorwGys, 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. IL 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 great satisfaction in telling Ard
more OF his unexpected visit to Co
lumbia, I'm exchange for his friends
report of his pursuit of the winking
eye. He only regretted that in the
nature of things Columbia is a mod
ern city. a seat of commerce as well
as of government, a place where bank
| clearings are seriously computed, and
where the jaunty adventurer with
sword and rufiies is quite likely ia
run afoul OF the police. Yet his own
/ Imagination was far more fertile than
| Ardmore's. and he would have hailed
/ 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 will
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 futter OF a
white handkerchief from the ivied
/ tower he affects to ignore; and, in
spite Of himself, he is buoyed by the
| hope that some day a horn will sound
/ for him over the nearest hill.
Miss Osborne met him at the veran
/ da steps. Indoors a mandolin and
piano struck up the merry chords OF
THE Eutaw Girl"
MY young sisters have company
Wen sit here, If you don't mind"
She led the way to n quiet corner
and after they were seated she was
silent a moment, while the light from
| the windows showed clearly that hel
perplexity of the morning was not ye
at an end. He felt that she was seri
ously anxious and troubled, and hC
wished to hearten her II he could
The soft dusk of the family lighte,
corner folded her in. He heard whis
pered in his heart a mans first wore
of the woman he is destined to love
in which he sets her apart; above anC
beyond all other womenkind-she II
different; she is not like other won
EN-
1T is nearly nine" she said, he
voice thrilling through him. My ia
ther should have been here an hou
ago. We have heard nothing from
him The newspapers have telephone'
repeatedly to know his whereabouts
l have put them OF by intimating tina
he is away on important public bust
ness, and that his purpose might b.
defeated If his exact whereabout
were known"
- have no doubt in the world tina
The explanation yon gave the newspa
pors Is the truth of the matter. You
father must be absent a great deal
&c is part Of a governors business 4
Seep In motion. But we may as wei