Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-22
CHAPTER xxx
At the Dome.

A WARM sun and an air mildly
IA mellow A faint gold-shadowed
mist over the valley and a soft lilac
haze blending the rounded outlines
of the hills. A breeze shook the
twigs on the cedars, fiuttered the
leaves of the poplars till they looked
quivering mass of palpitating silver,
bearing away with it the cool elias.
tic grace notes of the dripping
water, as it sparkled over the big
green streaked rocks at the foot of
the little lake at Damory Court. Over
the wild grape-vines a pair of drunk
en- butterflies reeled. kissing wings,
and on the stone rim of the foun-
tain basin a tiny brown-g green liz
ard lay motionless, summing itself.
Through the shrubbery a cardinal
darted like a crimson shuttle, to rock
impudently from f1eering limb, and
here and there on the bluish-ivory
sky, motionless as a pasted wafer,
hung q hawk; from time to time one
of these wavered and slanted swiftly
down, to climb once more in a huge
spiral to it's high tower of sky.
Perhaps it wondered, as its tele-
scopic eye looked down. That had
been its choicest covert. that dishev-
eled tangle where the birds heiA
perpetual carnival, the weasel lurked
in the underbrush and the rabbit
lined his windfal. Now the wildness
was gone. The lines of the formal
garden lay again ordered and fair.
The box-rows had been thinned of
their too-aged shrubs and filed in
anew. The wilderness garden to-be
was still stretch of raked and level
soil, but all across this slender green
spears were thrusting up-the prom
Use of buds and blooms, A pergolas
glistening white, pow upheld the run
away vines. making sickle-like path
from the upper terrace to the lake.
In the barn loft the pigeons still
quarrelled over their new cotes of
fresh pine, and under a clump Of
locust trees at a little distance from
the house, a half-doZen dolls cabins
on stills stood waiting the honey
storage of the black and gold bees.
There were new denizens, also.
These had arrived in a dozen zinc
tanks and willow hampers, to the
amaze of a sleepy express clerk at
the railroad station; two swans now
sailed majestically over the lily-pads
of the lake, along its gravel rim o.
pair of bronze colored ducks waddled
and preened, and its placid surface
rippled and broke to the sluggish
backs of goldfish and the flirting fins
of red Japanese carp. Hens and
guinea-fowl strutted and ran in
wire waffle behind the kitchen, and
on the wall, now Strengthened and re-
paired. a splendid peacock spread its
barbaric plumage of spangled purple
and screeched exultingly to his sober
hued mate.
The house itself wore another air.
Its look of unkemptness had largely
, vanished The comb of the roof had
been Strengthened and the warped
shutters repaired. The boards of the
porch flooring had been relaid. Moss
and green lichen had been secured
from the bases of the great weather.
beaten pillars. These, however, bore
no garish coat of new paint The
soft gray tone of age remained. put
the bleakness and forlornness We're
gone; there was about all now
warmth and genial bearing that hint
ed at mellowed beauty, freight and
cheerful voices within.
ITO Re Continued TomorrowD