The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-11-07

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fsSsEn1sM comes blank and his tongue speeehiess'
EtS. it's warning" lie said, imprcssyey IT.
U% 4 sign tsat there's something serious the
matte To return to business would be
suicide To marry Nomd be criminal
Ns.arc has hung ont hcr danecrssnas II you INSIST
oa rvssing past tacn. only one thing can happen
Breydon was sisrt hand-orean was playing IN the
.,rect. The spring breeze tie open wndo" blew the
crrtaas in and ont Tile iune came to an end
stcadyne his voice And what is that one thing ne
questioned
The last one that can happen to any man.
The patient picked up his ha and cane As ne da 50
bc raueh reelection OF himself in the mrror--tat OF
1 handsome. bg-boned athletic man. Surely tnere
n,st be sonc mistake Dissolution and thirty seemed SO
widely separated.
Doctor how many chances OF complete recovery nave
II" lie jerkcd the question out hereely
IT YOU do as advise the chances are even Il yo"
don't, they're not one in seven.
IN take your advice and make fight ior IT.
lie passed into the snnl street swinging ms cafle'
humning the tune which the organ had played si's
of determination abou his mouth
lie had no appetite for travel and no instinct Tor
annsaI 10 hinl The objective OF his entire life had been
work London bored him: he made it his headquarters
AMY because it was the nearest approach TO New ork
that he had found liz could at least stand shouider
ccn n Broad street at thc rush hour jostled by the
pae-faced ccrkiug crowd, and imagine himself oack.
Ills whole soul ycarncd for the thunder Of the Elevated
i1c fe.erish morning Of husting work the ehokms u
fhe Office buzzer the nervous which the telephone
rave him lie hastily bolted meals and the struggle m
lhc evening on the hamenard Journey hanging iol uei
life 10 leather strap. Every previous annoyance
seemed privilege Beyond all else he wanted = See
Violet II he had kept his health he would have been
her husband now All things foreign detestabe to
him. he longcd for New York, the city OF ceaseesS
work
One week he had dallied at oxford. staying with an
,Id Yale mar Rhodes scholar. Two more ne haa
,pcnr in dong round OF the antiqmtles-NeniiWo
Gunner Warwick the cathcdrals he thought them
badv II need ii repair Then London drew hm back
Irritable and at an end Of his resources for sei-amuse
nent he met one night BY chance with some Ieno"-
countrynen They could talk of nothing bnt ancestors
In the conversation occurred TO hm that the
had come from Kinkon Strawiess. Next day. tor want
- something better to do he determined to seek out
II seemed as though he had stepped out Of the present
;, some lope-foreotten land At Colchester where ne
changed carriages onto branch line the high smg-song
III Fast Anelian speech commenced A different Amos
ohcre Of od-fashoned kindness enyironed HIM Inc
farmers wives who sat beside him. red-cheeked and
rnatrony with their look Of conented hearunesS' inc
red-valled farnhouses thatchcd and ree-shadowed,
,,,;rb stole out toward him from the landscape ana
shyy fed the sleepy sedgegrown rivers smooth anu
unurrying the gray-green pastures the DioSsonnms
aro,.rds the eisurev cattle the wndmills langmdly
crcling their and then hating, as thougn pos
ssscd ~ thought SO enchanting that they scarcely
,rd a. work and overhead the silver sailing clouds
III tbese combined to fill him with somnolent sense OF
rest In watching them thoughts grew up within MN
H., b had never known he could have It was Inc
season of the mating Of birds He found himself Won
dering what was going on in the leafy mystery OF
,.ood and hedges He forgot business forgot even 20
f sorry for his exile and instead grew curious ABOUT
the living world.
Evening had gathered when he aghted lie had sun
t,yo miles to traverse Far away across rolling downs
the cottage lamps Of Knkon Stra~less "inkieu. I19
had been the only passenger 10 get out SaNe 10.
solitary porter, the wayside station was deserted
roar Of the train died out. In the stiffness winch iol-
loed he could hear at regular intervals sound ike the
sll.n booming Of cannon He inquired Of the porter us
meaning. and was told that it was the muteF oi 'ne
sea made audible by the wind blowing inland
f. Trvdgine from the station along the ribbon OF "Me
road he felt strangely at peace with himself Inc Iis
ard boIjows OF the country though he had never seen
.bem before seemed known 10 HIM in their very aspect
He had that odd sensation, which one sometimes mas IN
new surroundings, OF meeting an old memory by ac'i
dent. His mind conjured sights and sounds NhlCh MS
ewes and ears, some seconds later realized anu 0o'
sr,,,sd His mood was that Of dreamer; ne expert
s,ced and observed, but did not seek the why and
wherefore. o.-..--
The dronine Of the sea drew nearer. Knkton Straw
les showed plainly now hudded against the SIDES Of
pao in the cliff through which he had glimpse OF water
h moonlight Though he had almost reached ms de'-
,;uaton he walked more slowly lie had missed some
tb;ng II was not ahead in the town or by the sea-
sbore # was somewhere behind him IN the baroness oi
the downs Hating irresolue, ne turned sweeping win
his gaze the semicircuar horizon oi the i"i4,-
Id ssiled higher and brighter as he travelled
f.,,,ed the white road lar into tie distance with
- .ves till Il vanished in group Of trees "n''"
-o,,eed ike cats with arched backs against the SKY