The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-05-20

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takes root" she said aloud, my sweet;
heart loves me-" She leaned from the
sill to peer down into the misty gar
den, but could not follow it's fall.
Long ago her visitor would have
reached Damory Court She had
vision Of him wandering, candle in
hand, through the empty echoing
rooms, looking at the voiceless por-
traits on the walls, thinking perhaps
Of his father, Of the fatal duel Of which
he had never known. She liked the
way he had spoken Of his father!
AS she leaned, out of the stiffness
there came to her ear mellow sound.
It was the bell Of the courthouse in,
the village. She counted the strokes
falling clearly or family as the slug
gish breeze ebbed or swelled. 1t was
eleven.
She drew back, dropped the curtain
to shut out the wan glimmer, and in
the darkness crept into the soft bed
as if into hiding-place.
A warm sun and an air mildly mel
low. A faint golds shadowcd mist over
the valley and soft lilac haze blend
ing the rounded outlines of the hills.
Through the shrubbery at Damory
Court cardinal darted like a Grim
son shuttle, to rock impudently from
neering limb, and here and there
on the buishivory sky, motionless as
pasted wafer, hung a hawk; from
time to time one Of these wavered and
slantcd swiftly down, to climb once
more in a huge spiral to its high tower
OF sky.
Perhaps it wondered, as it's tcle-
scopic eye looked down. That had
been it's choicest covert, that DISNEY
elcd tangle where the birds held per-
pctual carnival, the weasel lurked in
the underbrush and the rabbit lined
his windfaIl. Now the wildness was
gone. pergola, glistening white, now
upheld the runaway vines, making
scklc-like path from the upper ter
race to the lake. In the barn loft the
pigeons still quarrcllcd over their new
cotcs Of fresh pine, and under a clump
OF locust trees at a little distance from
the house, a halfdoZen dolls cabins
on stills stood waiting the honey-stor-
age Of the black and gold bees.
There We're new deniZens, also.
These had arrived in dozen zinc
tanks and willow hampers, to the
amaze Of a sleepy express clerk at the
railroad station: two swans now sailed
majostically over the lilyponds Of the
lake, along it's gravel rim and pair
Of bronze colored ducks waddled and
preened, and it's placid surface ripplcd
and broke to the sluggish backs Of
goldfish and the flirting fins of red
Japanese carp.
The house itself wore another air.
It's look of unkemptness had largely
vanished. The soft gray tone of age
remained, but the bleakness and for
lornness were gone; there was about
all now a warmth and genial bearing
that limited at mellowed beauty, fire.
light and cheerful voices within.
Valiant heaved long sigh of salts
faction as he stood in the sunlight gaz.
ing at the results Of his labors. He
was not now the flippant boulcvardicr
to whom money was the sine qua non
Of existence. He had learned a sover-
eign lesson-one gained not through
the push and fight of crowds, but in
the simple peace of a countryside, un-
veXed by the clamor Of gold and the
complex problems of competitive ex-
istencc-that he had inherited a need
Of activity, OF achievement that he had
been born to do.
"Chunn," he said, to the dog rolling
on his back in the grass. what do
you think Of it all, anyway" He
reached down. seized hind leg and
whirling him around like a teetotum.
sent him flying into the bushes,
whence Chum launched again upon
him. like catapult. He caught the
white shoulders and held him wise like.
Just about right, eh? But wait till
we get those ramblers!"
Continued Next Week.)