The Detroit times., 1913-07-21
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And 10 dig nuts and eat them ana
then come into town, proud-on, 30
very proul--With a flower IN ohes
hair. marching into the recitation
room al high school without deignins
10 sneak 10 anyone He thought back
TO the time he was senior, ana
Aurelie had been-a gypsy child Win
short dresses and long legs-he won
dered what an amazing change had
come to ner In the four years. lie
had forgotten her until this lazy sum-
mer when. fishing along Sinsinawa'
he had come upon her gravely watch
Ing his threshing OF a pool for bass,
and she had mockingly derided him.
She met him again hunting. and show
ed him an otter's den I'm wild morass
of the bottoms. when none would have
believed there was an otter In the
state After that-well. he met her
day by day. and then by night-a
unique creature. ne said at first.
laughably untamed And he amused
himself by tanning her and ended by
loving her To be French and Catho-
lie. TO come "up-river' out OF corner
OF the south foreign and unknown
10 know the outdoors as the wild alone
ness that seduced him.
Hungry" Why the first winter
here, when Michigan's house-boat
stranded in the Pocket and the old
Indian woman who raised me, died or
pneumonia, we were always hungry
We trapped any sort OF animal to live.
And when the Lindstroms came and
lived with us, il wasn't much better
sometimes Then they started me
10 school-and couldn't read or write
when / was twelve. Amt done well,
Harlan?'
"Adorably. But" he sighed
Il know You want me 10 go on
and graduate-and be a regular lady
Just 10 show everybody Oh, and
| will. dear. | promised myself
would-just for you. Everythings
just for you"
lie was laughing, again with tina.
curious hurt in his heart. And as he
held her, murmuring his fondness, he
WINGED at the remembrance OF the
DAYS 10 come. His mothers stateli-
ness. the Van Hart tradition-Har-
ward his law career-vague and OF
the well-ordered future but he knew
PARENTS devotion. the singleness or
their pride Of class and environ.
Aurelie-what was all this 10 her. and
what could she be 10 IL?
And now youll 20 east" she went
on. And IT, | can't go to school
don't know what I shall do, Oh Har-
Ian. LIES so snarly--one can laugh
and be proud. but il hurts And 70
JAL -, .aH he tyh
with me. but that hurts, too,
He was still. and at length. some
thing like a sigh came. II wish you
could know my father. Aurelie. Why,
he'd be the first man to help Lind
strom II he could-and Uncle Michi-
gan. and Knute and Peter and all OF
Won He's the gentlest. most tender
hearted man / know. But YOU see
John damned the court-that damned
everything father stands for-and his
father before him-and behind that,
hundreds Of years of--of'--he paused,
wondering If she could realize what he
meant-"well, OF our family"
We don't want charity" she cried,
we wanted JUSTICE" And then at the
hurt in his eyes she went on with
quiet passion: "Al this summer I'd
been so happy, Just waiting here.
unknown and alone for you oh, il
vas wonderful 70 have you come 70
love me-" She held out her hands
triumphantly. "Of all the girls you
knew-High street girls--you came up
here 70 me--alone."
"Aurelie,'' he muttered, that's one
thing I'm sorry for.
She looked up quickly. and he went
on slowly Mother wouldn't like it,"
She tried dimly 10 grasp this rever-
ence. What il meant of upbringing
was beyond her in her meager and
unadvsed IDEA OF honor. She had a
sense OF some strength back Of him
hat had made his character, that had
made the great land Vaguely she
tell II meant home, a large house
with wide lawns about II. like the Van
Harris; good living. surrey or mo-
tor az the door; and the easy and
welcome fitting Of fair girls In cool
white such as she had seen--a beau
tiful way Of life linking all clean and
clever people together everywhere but
never extending to quarrymans
shack. II was this blind cropping TO
understand his world that made her
humble with him. and SO proud with
out him, 10 brave the ignorance she
knew was hers. The conscience OF
her lover was quite beyond her. For
with him, though youth might be high,
and blood hot-and there was adven-
ture In the September nights-yet al.
ways he would think back 10 the OBJ
ligationso his birth and breeding.
And She? Well, such n little thing
II takes 10 make or defeat one-such
a little thing The sort OF girl one
meets unknown to all in the moon.
light.
Aurelie was shot through with her
old jealousy OF this mother. this col.
lege in the east, and ali the brilliant
world that claimed him. Your moth
er wouldn't like IL? Or me, hate
then she bit her lip-"Oh, I'll not spoil
II, Harlan-our last night together!
AID it's only another year as you
gay You'll be free and can work."
She stopped again. suddenly fearing.
what would that freedom mean He
mad never asked her to marry him.
Ihey had lived an idyl OF the hills.
the moon shimmering over the purple
valley, the river Winding IN Tho CO..