The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02


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the following OF old Adams Inherit
ianee during the pleasant months Of
summer he made such garden as he
could, HIS profession Of mining en-
gineer gave him other employment.
Round about Rim lay treasures inesi
Unable, precious metals abounded in
the hills. He had located them. tested.
analysed, estimated the wealth that
was his for the taking It was as val
ueless TO him as the doubloons and
golden guineas were TO selkirk on his
islahd. Yet tie knowledge that was
there gave him an energizing sense OF
potential power, uncohsciously enorm-
ously flattering To his self;esteem.
Sometimes he wandered to the ex.
treme verge Of the range AM. on clear
days saw far beneath him the smoke
Of great cities Of the plains. He
could be master among men as he was
a master among mountains. II he
chose. On such, occasions he laughed
cynically, scornfully, yet rarely did
he over give way to such emotions.
A. great and terrible sorrow was
upon him; cherishiug great passion
he had withdrawn himself from the
common lot to dwell upon 1t. From
a perverted Sense Of expiatloil, in a
madness Of grief, horror and despair.
he had made himself a prisoner to his
ideas In the desert Sot the mountains.
Back to bis cabin he would hasten,
and, there surrounded by. his living
memories deathless. yet Of the dead!
he would recreate the past until de-
lection drove him abroad on the hills
to; meet God II not manor woman.
Night.day. sunshine.shadow, heat-cold,
storm.calm; these were his life.
Having disburdened his faithful AMI
mails Of their packs and having seen
them safely bestowed for. the winter
in the corral he had built near thsi
base of the cliff upon. which his rude
home was situated, he TOOK his rife
one morning for one Of those lonely
walks across the mountains from
which he drew such comfort because
he fancied the absence Of man con-
duced to the nearness OF God 1t was
a delusion as old nearly as"the Chris
tian religion. Many had made them
selves hermits In the past In remorse
for sin and for love toward God; this
man had buried himself in the wilder
ness in part for the first Of these
causes. in other part for the love Of
woman. In the days Of swift and sud-
den change he had been constant to
remembrance, and abiding In his de-
termination for FIVE swift moving
years. The world for him had stopped
its progress in one brief moment five
years back-the rest was silence.
What had happened since then out
yonder where people we're mated he
did not know and he did not greatly
care. ,.fU ~ .lt a.G
In his visits to the settlements he
asked no questions, he bought no pa
pers, he manifested no. interest in
the world; some things in him had
died in one fell moment, and there
had been. as yet, no resurrection. Yet
lifes-hope, and. ambition do not die.
they are indeed eternal Resurgam!
Life with its tremendous activities,
ifs awful anxietfes, its wearing strains,
its rare triumphs., It's opportunities
for achievement. for service; hope
with It's Examinations, Its encourage
ments, It's expectations, ambition
with its stimulus, its force, its power;
and greatest ofall, love, itself alone
all three were latent in him. In touch
with woman these had gone. Some
thing as powerful and as human must
bring them back.
1t was dgainst nature that a man
lowered as he should SO live to HIM
self alone. Some voice should cry in
his soul in. its ttefements Of futile re-
morse. vain expiations and benumbing
recollection; some ;, day he should
burst these. grave clothes self-wound
about him and be once more man
and a master among; men; rather than
the hermit and the reeluse OF the soli-
ttdes. -4ls-..lss
He did not allow these thoughts to
come into his life; indeed, 1t is quite
likely that he scarcely realized them
at all yet; such possibilities did not:
present themselves to him. Perhaps
the man was a, little mad that morn.
Ing, maybe Ito trembled on the verge
OF q break-upward downward,
know not SO it be away-unconscious-
ly as he strobe along the range that
morning ~,
He had been walking for some
hours, and as he grew thirsty 1t, oc.
Cured to him to descend to the level
of the brook which he heard below him
and Of which he sometimes caught
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