Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-06

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sedgwick smiled bravely. THAT
Is all past"
kindly?"
"I'll think Of you with every beat of
my heart" he said passionately.
Across her face passed the look of
fairy wistfulness that was all her own.
mo-" she said, 1t would be better
for both of us--that you should forget,
for the time"
He leaned over her:
What shall assuage the unforgotten
pain
And teach the unforgetful to forget.' "
he quoted very low.
sand yet," she persisted, 1T would
be easier, now that am going away"
Going away! For long?"
She nodded with compressed lips.
Sedgwick turned very white.
ooh, don't look like that" she
faltered. II can't bear It! Can't you
see that, after what has happened,
must go? l must have time to forget.
There is so much to forget! Surely you
can be patient-and trust"
Again he smiled at her, with a cour-
age shining through his pain that
brought the quick tears to her eyes.
Eyes. can wait and trust-and
love-" Again he leaned to her:
"'And think how she, far from me,
with like eyes
Sees, through the untuneful bough the
wingless skies.'"
He drew her gaze to his own, held
lit for the space Of a heartbeat, and
CHAPTER XXI.
Rewards.
Summer had warned from the coast
and with 1t had passed the keennesa
of local interest in the strangest vic
tim of Lonesome Cove. Even the IN
defatigable tongue Of Elder bennett
had almost ceased to clack on the
topic, by the fall of the first snow
Other subjects OF absorbing interest
|supervened during the long winter:
the wreck Of the schooner yacht on
Dead Mems Eddy; the coming OF the
new Presbyterian minister at Martin.
dale Center whose wife was reported
to be suffragette; the mysterious
benefaction that had befallen old Mrs
circuit late in February, enabling her
10 leave her home next to Annalaka
|churchyard and take her asthma south
ward In search of cure; the rumor
that Hedgerow House was to be sold
before summer.
'And young Blair's body along with
lit, expect" remarked the Elder
malevolently. Seems to me, IL was
millionaire like Alexander Blair,
wouldn't sell my own flesh and blood
dead or alive"
or Alexander Blair himself, nothing
had been seen in the neighborhood
since mid-July, nor of his daughter-in
law. Hedgerow House was In charge
OF Gansett Jim as caretaker. Pro
lessor Kent had left about the same
time as the Blairs. But Francis Sedg
wick had struck to the Nook, studying
first the cold grays and browns OF NO
vember, and later the wonderful blaz
ling whites and subtle blues of drift
and shadow spread before him In win
ter's endless panorama, with the same
l~enthusiasm that he had devoted tt
lOctober's riot Of color Though thu
work prospered, the worker had paled
lit was the opinion of Martindale Cen
tier and Annalaka alike that thu
'spainter Teller" was looking righ'
peaky and piny, like one whose con
science ached. But Sedgwick had
nothing worse than heartache, ant
the .ates were making medicine FOL
that.
Wind-borne on the blast Of a mid
March gale, Chester Kent dropped
down at the door Of the Nook one wiit
afternoon, without warning. AS al
ways, he was impeccably clad, though
his stout boots showed the usage o.
recent hard wear. Leaving Austin tina
morning, with his light valise slung K
his shoulder, he had footed the ffteer
miles of soggy earth to Sedgwick's
place. in luxurious tussle against thu
wind. Throwing open the door, n
called his friends name.
Instantly the artist came lopinl
down the stairs and had him by thu
shoulders.
"I've got callor UP above" he sale
after the usual greetings and ques
tionings were over.
Eyes? Have you gone In for loca
society,""
"Not exactly local. It's Alexander
Blair
"Hel-lo." said Kent in surprise
what brings him."
"Why, he came down to Hedgerov
House to look after certain books ant
papers, and ran over here to make hi
amende honorable in form Chef,
|kate being apologized to-"
"Of course. Every one does. Never
theless, it's good exercise for Mr.. A
Blair, Esquire. Brings into actor
some muscles of his soul that nigh
otherwise have atrophied from dis
use"
Hes the grim-jawed, hard-bittee
Blair Of old. Just the same, he made
his apology as handsomely as need be
lIl bring him down here"
The fabric magnate descended from
the studio and greeted Kent briefly
then turned to his host. "You viii
excuse me II ask Mr.. Kent to stel
outside. have some business Will
him."
"stay here" said the artist I'll
/ 70 back to my studio" Which he did
when man once declines employ
ment with me-" said Alexander Blai
to Kent, ri never give him a SECOND