Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-01-02
tcspyrishted 1911 By Harper 4 Brsa


difference that suggested the stole but his lips smiled
The fate of man is about his neck" was his some
what enigmac reply.
Some months later Dr. Berry reached his lodgings
in New York and rapidly prepared for journey
west and south.
In the mountains of the Kentucky border were his
relatives The term is plural yet it is doubtful
whether Dr. Berry had thought just for more than
one. That one was his cousin
He had known her since she had been the small girl
whose horizon ended with the shaggy hill ridges
since he had been the young physician returning from
strangely crude.
He had her personify the miracle with which
the child turns woman and after that he had
found the mountains otherwise than wonderfu-when
she was there But like himself, she had been sent
away that she might grow into the life which old
the ridge" Like himself she knew both lives, and
still loved her native hills and woods There in the
past two years, she had been too busy with her labor
of developing the schools and fastening the renais-
sance to give due attention to his numberess proposals
of marriage.
Homecoming meant going to her. and in the haste
of preparation he even thrust some Of the waiting
mail, unnspected, into his pocket. Later on, in the
train, he tore an envelope bearing English stamp
and he opened the letter newspaper clipping fell
from the folded sheets He first read the enclosure
and his forehead gathered in distressed frown. The
item this:
'Mahmid Pasha, who was formerly attached to the
Turkish Embassy at London and who is known in
most of the European capitals was recently recalled
After visit to the Yildz Kiosk, he became guest
under guard in Stamboul and has not since been seen
1t is rimored that he had been closely associated with
the Young Turk party and that the secret service dis
covered a plot upon the life OF Abdul Hamd, of which
he author. The many friends OF Mahmid Pasha
who with Ottoman methods, have little
hope of seeing him again.
With sense of amazed grief the specialist took
up the letter and turned it to see the signature At
the bottom of the sheet he read "The Earl of Mel
vile" and beneath that in parentheses the truly Eng
sh explanatory clause ('formerly Brownlow Carter)
He spread the screed on his knee and read fo;,o :.
the Bosphorus now was quite right; we revert to
type: My uncle the earl, died Likewise his SON.
the title Not only an, I back but find myself grow
ing narrow and insular One might think I'd never
been out of England! I find myself thinking often
visit to England to Melville House and-have
tea on the terrace. Tea the terrace for us that
have drunk from goat-skins in the desert"
In great tract of virgin timber the house Of Isaac
Berry sat back of trail-like road sticky With mud
and deep with ruts. Hedging it about in broken
circle lay the sentinel hills under whose ragged slopes
slept rich deposits of coal Up and down steep grades
crossing the bottoms and climbing the peaks wandered
the Kentucky Virginia boundary. 1t line which,
at the ragged and undeveloped edge of Harlan COUNTY
became important only when question of criminal
invisible ethical barrier between himself and pursuit
Now this was The season Of impossible roads and
original log cabin to sprawling structure OF mary
additions, reached desoate stretches OF stark trees
ws s dFeH 9s ad or @ & MAN r the
had given him fortune, but they had taken toll OF
+e,..4 Jo .kat, he
,s a d r '-r ~" ,eo ~ t noro nnish"d h,e
wee ,d bnarorase contrv he annca-ed cr,d and
thht =; r , ~ evn;tc,,ent he isossd ;rto ne
hail. i1iterate dialect Of the ,nountaineers In his
da,'chtr and nenbcy he had resolved 20 rcct;fy ali
N1, III; bcort heat orodI,, ss he oaye c3r ~
tho ,s music driftimg from the livng Sally was
th- - tb n;an9. .,d IoLr Perr,, already n. "a
o,s .n.c;oI; vas r,aIng HE wav or n,urback over
~ .;i rn.Js fron, the railroad station At Pncv;,,
Ill., H.; o, , aY,ov flor ali he lie had ;ts cor,ne,
sa ,,; 'i'''~'
Yer. reflected tn I'D mar r. Wind would rest
; ~ t4 fr tLe r,,,ors tb,t Ca,cb Pcrrv The b,act
t h. D IS tbe family had been dr;.t;nc and had
aacs 70 V;rginia And V;roiria was The stronc-
hoid of tbe Culloms The names Berrv and Cullon,
t>tn a,nl, otter such relation as once did Mort,g,
a nOt' C ~ vIe
Isaac Berry turned and went back to the music
wiz; a. that n;ane oyer ~ NAV roeIs ,;+b an
ox.tea5, had been labor Of ,rcules and labor Of
,o m. r,anv signs Of ref, ,.nent about the place
Ter. reHections of Sallv's SELF Sallv Dlayed with
%s.e re o th window from uh ,h. could see thc
a s 1,d 81 the road over which the Doctor would
crr,e MN IN her ewes was sparle of authorization
;t would have given Dr. Berry brave homes had
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