The Washington herald., 1911-01-01

Among other good things resulting from his CROWNS
much formerly. There was lessening IN desire
for alcohol Of which even he at last became aware.
In way she herself was the needed inhibition The
thought Of her like a cocktail Or, at any rate.
she substituted for certain percentage Of cocktais
From the strain Of his unnatural city existence and
onto the cocktail route wall must forever be built
to give him easement from the high pitch and Deds
became part Of this wall. Her personality. her
laughter the intonations Of her voice. the impossible
golden glow Of her eyes, the light her hair. her
FORM her Dress her actions horseback her merest
physical mannerisms-an pictured over and over in
Of many a cocktail or long Scotch and soda
In spite Of their high resolve there was q very
In essence these meetings were stolen They did not
ride out brazenly together In the face Of the world
On the contrary. they met always unobserved, she
ley to meet him half way Nor did they ride on
any unfequented roads, preferring to the
second range Of hills and travel among church
going farmer folk who would scarcely have rec
ognized even Daylight from his newspaper photo
graphs.
merely in riding but in endurance. There were
days when they covered sixty, seventy and even
eighty miles: nor did Dede ever claim any day too
long nor-another strong recommendation to Day
light-did the hardest day see the slightest
chafe Of the chestnut sorrers back. sure enough
hummer" was Daylights stereotyped but ever en-
thusiastic verdict to himself.
They learned much Of each other ON these long.
uninterrupted rides. They had nothing much to
liberal education concerning Arctic travel and gold
mining he in turn, touch by touch, painted an ever
clearer portrait of her. She ampifed the ranch life
Of her girhood, prattling about horses and dogs
and persons and things until it was as If he saw
the whole process Of her growth and her becom-
period Of her fathers failure and death, when she
had been compelled to leave the university and 60
into Office work. The brother, too, she spoke of,
and Of her long struggle to have him cured and Of
her now fading hopes. Daylight decided that 1t
was easier to come to an understanding Of her than
that behind and under all he knew of her was the
mysterious and battling woman and sex. There,
he was humble enough to confess to himself, was
a chartless shoreless about which he knew
nothing and which he must nevertheless somehow
His lifelong fear of woman had originated out Of
non understanding and had also prevented him from
reaching any understanding. Dede on horseback,
Dede gathering poppes on summer hillside, Dede
taking down dictation in her swift shorthand strokes
all this was comprehensive to him. But he did not
know the Dede who quickly changed from mood to
mood the Dede who refused steadfastly to ride with
him and then suddenly consented the Dede in whose
ewes the golden glow forever waxed and waned and
whispered hints and messages that were not for his
ears In all such things he saw the glimmering pro-
fundities Of sex, acknowledged their lure and ac-
cepted them as incoHaprehensible.
There was another side of her, too Of which he
was consciously ignorant She knew the books was was
"culture." And yet what continually surprised him
this culture was never obtruded on their In
tercourse. She did not talk books nor art, nor SIM
liar foderos. Homely minded as he was himself
he found her almost equally homely minded. She
liked the simple and the out Of doors, the horses and
the hills, the sunlight and the flowers.
He found himself in a partly new hora, to which
she was the guide pointing out to him all the varie
ties of the oaks, making him acquainted with the
madrono and the manzanita, teaching him the Names
habits and habats Of unending series OF wild flowers,
shrubs and ferns Her keen woods eye was another
delight to him. 1t had been trained IN the open and
little escaped it. One day as test they strove to
see which could discover the greater number Of birds
nests. And be- who had always prided himself on
trail mod tiOn fOnn6
put to keep his score ahead At the end of the
day he but three nests In the Lead one of which
she challenged stOutly and OF which even he con-
fessed serious doubt He complimented her and told
her that her must be due to the fact that she
was bird herself with all a birds keen vision and
quick flashing ways
The more he knew her the more he became
vnced Of this brdlike quality in her, That was why
she liked to ride he argued. 1t the nearest ap
proach to flying field of poppies, glen Of ferns.
row of pOplars on country lane, the tawny brown
Of hillside shaft Of sunlight distant peak
him seemed like many Outbursts Of song. Her
joys were in little things, and she seemed always
When she rode Bob and fought with that magnificent
brute for mastery the qualities OF an eagle were
uppermOst in her.
These quick little joys Of hers were sources of Joy to
him. He joyed in her joy, his eyes excitedly fixed
fixed the object Of her attention
Also through her he came to closer discernment and
keener appreciation Of nature She showed him coors
III the landscape that he would never have dreamed
were there He had known only the primary colors.
All colors Of red were red. black was black aud
brown just plain brown until they became yellow
when 1t was no longer brown. Purple he had always
imagined was red, something like blood, until shs
taught him better Once they rode out on high hill
brow where wind blown peoples blazed about their
horses knees and she was In ecstasy the lines Vi
the many distances Seven she counted, and he who
had gazed ON landscapes all his fe for the first
learned what distance" was. After that, and al
ways, he looked upon the face Of nature with a more
seeing eye learning delight Of his In surveying
the serried ranks Of the outstanding ranges and in
slow contemplation Of the purple sumner mists that
haunted the lansuid creases Of the distant hills.
But through 1t all ran the golden thread Of love
At hrst he had been content just ride with Dede
and to be cOmradely terms with her; but the de-
sire and the need for her increased. The more b
knew Of her the higher was his appraisal. Had she
been reserved and naughty to him, been merely
giggling. simpering creature Of woman It would
have been different. Instead, she amazed him with
her simplicity and wholesomeness. with her great
store Of comradeiness. This latter was the unex-
pected. he had never looked upon woman in that
way. Woman the toy; woman the harpy: woman the
necessary wife and mother Of the races o6spring-
all this had been bis expectation and understanding
Of woman. But woman the c0mrade and playfelloW