The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-06-04

uatf--the Color OF wet raw WOOD IN
the suniight--was very near the brown
head and sometimes their fingers
touched over the work. Once. as they
stood up. flushed with the exercise. a
great black and orange butterfly.
daxed with the snn-glow. alighted on
Valiant's rolied.up sleeve. He held his
arm perfectly still and blew gently
on the wayering pinions TIN IL swan
away. When redbird fiirted by. 10
his delight she whistled its call so
perfectly that II wheeled in mid-fiight
and tilted inquiringly back toward
thsm.
A. they descended the terrace again
to the pergola, he said. There's. only
one thing lacking at Damory Court -
sun-dial"
Then YOU haven't found its" she
cried delightedly Come and let me
show you"
She led the way through the maze
OF beds at one side till they reached
hedge laced thickly with Virginia
creeper He parted this leafy screen,
bending back the springing fronds
that thrust against the filmsy muslin
OF her gown and threatened TO spear
the pink.rosed hat that cast an ador.
able warm tint over her creamy face.
thinking that never had the old place
seen such a picture as she made
framed In the deep green
Some such thought was In the ma.
jor's mind. too as he came slowly up
the terrace below. He paused, TO take
on his hat and wipe his brow.
With the place all fixed up this
way" he sighed to himself. II could
believe II was only last week that
Beauty Valiant and Southall and
were boys. loafing around this gyar.
den. And to think that now it's Va
liant's son and Judith's daughter!
Why, 1t seems like yesterday that shir.
ley there was only knee-high to a
grasshopper--and ! used 10 tell her
her hair was that color because she
ran through hell bareheaded. I'm
about thousand years old. reckon!"
Meanwhile the two figures above
had pushed through the tangle into
circular sunny space where stood a
short round pillar of red onyx. Il was
a sun-dial. Its vine-elad disk cut OF
gray polished stone In which its metal
tongue was socketed. Round the outer
edge OF the disk ran an Inscription
In archaic lettering Valiant pulled
away the clustering ivy leaves and
read: Il count no hours but the hap
py ones"
III that had only been truel" he
said
1t Is true. See how the vines hid
the sun from II. II ceased TO mark
the time after the Court was de
| serted"
"rll put moonhowers at its base and
where you are standing. Madonna
lilies. The outer part OF the circle
shall have bridal-wreath and white
irises. and they shall shade out into
pastel colors--mauyes and grays and
heliotropes. oh, shall love this spot
perhaps sometime the best OF all.
Which do You love the most now r
He leaned slightly toward her. one
hand on the diarB time-notched rim
Don't you known" he said In a lower
voice. Gould any other spot mean q
me what that acre under the nemiocka
means7"
Her face was turned from him, her
fingers pulling at the drifting vine, and
a splinter OF sunlight tangled In her
hair like lace of hrefiies.
Il could never forget H." he con
| tlnued. The thing that spoiled my
fathers life happened there. yet there
We two first talked, and there you"
''Don't!" she said. facing him
| DON'T"
All. let me speak I want to tell
you that | shall carry the memory OF
that afternoon. and OF your brave kind
ness, always. always II were never
to see you again in this life. / should
/ always treasure II. II died OF thirst
in some Sahara, IT would be the last
thing should remember-your face
would be the last thing should see
II T."
In the silence there was the sound
Of slow football on the gravel walk
and at the same moment be saw a
magical change. Shirley drew back
The soft gsntian blue OF her eyes
darkened. The lips that an instant
before mad been tremulous. parted In
a low delicious laugh. She swept him
a deep curtsey.
i am beholden 10 you. air." she
said gaily, for 9 most knightiy com.
pliment There's the major Come
and let US shoE him where. we've
planted the ramblera."