The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-10-24

when we were little shavers" pursued
the major. 81 remember once. your
| father"
lie cleared his throat and stopped
dead
Please" said John Valiant. II
Ike TO hear about him"
II was only that | struck my head
on a rock on the bottom and-stayed
down The others were frightened,
but he-he dove down again and again
ull he brought me out II was a mar.
row squeak. | reckon"
silence fell Looking 1t the tall
muscular form beside her Shirley had
a sudden vision OF determined little
body cleaving the dark water. over
and over now rising painting for
breath, now plunging again. never Civ.
Ing up. And she told herself that the
son was the same sort. That hard
set OF the Jaw. those Arm lips. would
know no flinchlng lie might sutier,
but he would be strong
Half unconsciously she spoke her
father, do you mott"
Yes" he replied. there's strong
likeness have a photograph which
I'll show you sometime. But how did
you know"
Perhaps ! only guessed" she said
In some confusion. To cover this she
stopped by the pebbly marge and held
out her hand to the bronze ducks that
pushed and gobbled about her fingers.
What have you named them?" she
asked.
Nothing. You christen them"
Very well The light one shall
be Peezletree and the dark one Pilgar.
lie. got the names from John Jasper
he was Virginia's famous negro
preacher. once heard him hold forth
when he read from one OF the Psalms
the one about the harp and the
psaltery-and he called II peezletree. A"
valiant's laugh rang out over the
lake-to be answered by a sudden
sharp screech from the terrace, where
the peacock strutted. a blaze OF span
gled purple and gold. They turned to
see Aunt Daphne issue from the
kitchen, twig-broom In hand
"Heah!" she exclaimed. What 10
20 kyahin' on like er VIII syraff we'r
we got compny. yo' trihin' oil fan
tail. 20! Git outen heah!" Sh,
waved her weapon and the bird. with
a raucous shrek OF defiance. retired
In ruffled disorder The master o.
Damory Court looked at Shirley
what shall we name him?"
'Td call him Fire-Cracker II h
goes on like that" she said. And Fire
Cracker the bird was christened forth
with.
And now" said Shirley. Tets &c
out the ramblers."
The major had brought rough plan
sketched from memory, OF the old al
rangement OF the formal garden. "l'l
lust 70 over the lines OF the beds wit
Unc' Jefferson" he proposed. "whil
you two potter over these roses" b
Valiant and Shirley walked back u
the slope beneath the pergola tc
gether.
With Ranston. putting and BLOWN
like black porpoise over his creal
ing go.cart. they planted the rambler
crimson and pink and white-VI
liant much OF the time on his knee
his hands plunging deep into the blac
spongy earth, and Shirley with broa
hat flung on the grass her finger
separating the clinglng thread'lih
roots and her small arched foot tam
ing down the soil about them liz
hair-the color OF wet raw wood
the sunllght-was very near the brow
head and sometimes their finge
touched over the work. Once, as the
stood up. flushed with the exercise,
great black and orange butterh
dazed with the sun.glow. alighted q
Valiant's rolled-up sleeve He held h
arm perfectly still and blew gent
on the wavering pinions till It swa
away. When a redbird firted by.
his delight she whistled It's call
perfectly that It wheeled In mid-higI
and tilted inquiringly back towai
them.
AS they descended the terrace aga
TO the pergola. he said There's on
one thing lacking at Damory Court
, sun.dial"
Then you haven't found IT." 81
cried delightedly. Come and let n
show you"
, She led the way through the ma
/. OF beds at one side till they reach'
y hedge laced thickly with Virgin
cEeeper He parted this leafy scree
, bending back the springing from
' that thrust against the fiimsy musl
/ OF her gown and threatened to spe
a the pink-rosed hat that cast an ado
able warm tint over her creamy fac
thinking that never had the old pla
seen such a picture as she ma
. framed in the deep green.
a Some such thought was In the m
q jors mind. too, as he came slowly
a the terrace below. He paused to Ia
OF his hat and wipe his brow.
q with the place all fixed up II
A way" he sighed to himself, q eou
a believe It was only last week th
Beauty Valiant and southall and
? we're boys, loahng around this gy'
a den. And to think that now It's