The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-30

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him the life he had lived there. and
the old court should be once more
closed and deserted. Uncle Jefferson
and Aunt Daphne might live on in the
cabin back OF the kitchens There
was pasturage fer the horse and the
cows and for old sukey. and some
acres had already been cleared for
planting. And there would be the
swans. the ducks and chickens. the
peafowI and the fish.
letter had come to him that morn
Ing. The corporation had resumed
business with credit unimpaired. Pub
lie opinion was more than friendly
now A place waited for him there.
and one OF added honor. In D. concern
that had vigorously cleansed itself and
already looked forward to Il new ca
reer OF prosperity But he thought of
this now with no thrill. The old life
no longer called. There were still
wide unpeopled spaces somewhere
whsfe a mans hand and brain were no
less needed. and thsre was work there
that would help him to bear. II not for
get.
He paced up and down the porch un-
der the great gray columns, his steps
spiritless and tagging The Virginia
creeper. trailing over it's end. waved
10 and fro with a SOUND like a Sigh.
How long would II be- before the lawn
was once more unkempt and draggled?
Before burdock and thistle. mullen
and Spanish-needle would return to
smother the clover? Before Damory
court. on which he had spent such
loving labor, would lie again as 1t lay
that afternoon when he had ratified
thither on Uncle Jefferson's crazy
hack? Before there would be for him,
In some faraway corner of the world.
only Wishing. House and the Never
Never Land7
In the hall he stood a moment be
fore the fireplace. his eyes on Its
was like a spear-thrust. He began to
wander restleesly through the house.
up and down. like a prowling animal.
The dining.room looked austere and
ehill-~only the little lady In hoops and
love-curis who had been his great.
grandmother smiled wistfully down
from her gilt frame above the console
and In the library a melancholy
deeper than that OF yesterdays trag-
edy seemed to hang. through which
Devil John. drawing closer the leash
of his leaping hound. glared sardon-
ically ut him from his one cold eye.
Tho shutters OF the parlor were
closed. but he threw them open and
let the rich light pierce the yellow
gloom. glinting from the figures In
the cabinet and weaving a thousand
tiny rainbows In the priams of the
great chandelier.
He went upstairs. into the bedrooms
one by one. now and then passing his
hand over IA polished chair-back or
touching an ornament or frame on
the wall; into The Hilarium with It's
records OF childish study and play.
The dolls stood now on dress parade
| In glass cases. and prints in bright
eolora. dear to little people, were on
the walls. He opened tho shutters
here. too. and stood some time on the
threshold before he turned and went
heavily downstairs.
Through the rear door he could see
the Kitchens. and Aunt Daphne sitting
under the trumpet.vine plecing nine
patch calico quilt with little squares
OF orange and red and green cloth.
Two diminutive darkies were sprawled
on the ground looking up at her with
round serious eyes. while wary ban.
tam pecked industriously about their
bare legs,
"En den whut do roostah say,
Aunt Daphs :"
"of roostah he hollah to all no
wtfes, Oo--ooot Oo--ooo, Young
Mars come Young Mars come .
Young Mars comet En- dey all mighty
skeered. case Mars John he certn'y
fond oh fried chick'n. Hut do big tub.
key Eobhler he don bleeve ct tall.
Doubtful doubtful doubtful he say
LAX dat Den de drake no peep eroun
do cornah. en- he say. Hash. Haish 4,
Haish' Fo' he done seed Mars John
comm, sho' nuf Hut Ut too late by
/ den. 70 Aunt Daph she done grab
Mis' Pnllet, en- Mars John he gwine.
/ ter eat huh dis berry svenin' TO be
sappah Nov you chillun runs erlons
home ter yo mammies, en- don yo
pick none OBJ dem green apples on de
/ way. neidah."
( u was not till after dark had come
that Valiant said goodby to the gar,
den he loved Il best under the star,
light He sat a long hour under the
I perwcla overlooking the lake. where
he could dimiy see the green rocks
and the white trOth 81 the water hub
htink and chuckltng down over their
rounded outlines to the shrouded level
below The moon lifted hnauy and
SCARED through the shy. blowing out