The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-03-25

derness the transparency Of the skin
with its violet veining and the shad-
ows beneath the closed eyes. Emma
line, moving on soft worsted-sh feet
about the dim room, at Length had
'whispsred.
You go tub bald, money. stay
with Mis- Judith till she go tub sheep"
Yes. go. Shirley" said her mother.
Haven't l any privileges at all? Can't
/ even faint when feellike It, without
calling out the flre-brigadef Youu
pamper me to death and heaven kn0Ws
I don't need n"
You won't let me telephone tor Doc
tor Southall7"
= Certainly not!
And you are sure It was nothing
but the roses?"
why, what else should It boz" saAd
her mother almost peevishly. II must
really have the arbors thinned out. On
heavy nights it's positively ovSfpower-
Ing. Go along now. and wen talk
about It tomorrow. I can ring II
want anything"
In her room Shirley undressed
thoushtfully. There was between her
and her mother q fine tenuous bond
Of sympathy and feeling a. rare. per-
haps. as It was lovely. She could not
remember when the other had not
been . semttnvalid. and her earliest
childhood recollections were puncta-
ated with the tap Of the little cana.
Tonight's sudden indispositioo had
shocked and disturbed her; to faint
at q rush of perfume seemed to sug-
gest q growing weakness that was
alarming. Tomorrow. she told herseh.
she would send Ranston with Q wagon
load of the roses to the hospital -
Charlottesville.
; She slipped on - pink sheIl-shaded
.dressing-gown of slinky silk with .
riot Of azaleas scattered In the weave.
and then. dragging her chair before
the open window, drew aside the light
curtain and began to brush her hair.
All At once her gaze fell upon the
floor, and she shrank backward from Q
twisting thread-like thing whose bright
saffron-yellow giowed sharply against
the dark carpet. She saw In an In
slant. however. that It was nothing
more dangerous than . fragment Of
lovevine from the garden. which had
chung to her skirt. She picked mp
tho tiny mass OF tendrils and with .
slow smile tossed It over her right
shoulder through the window. II u
takes root" she said aloud. my sweSt-
heart loves me-" She leaned from The
sill to peer down into the misty ar
den. but could mot follow IT. fall
Long ago her visitor would ha~0
reached Damory Court shs had .
vision Of him wandering, candle ia
hand. through the empty ecA0tnS
rooms, looking At the voiceless pos-
traits on the walls. thinking perhaps
Of his father. Of the fatal duel Of which
he had never known. Che liked tAo
way he had spoken Of his fAthsri
Az she leaned, out of the stiffness
there came to her ear mellow sound
II was the bell Of the courthouse IN
tho village. She counted the strokes
falling clearly or family ~ the slug
gish breese ebbed or gvellsd- Il was
eleven.
She drew back, dropped the curtain
to shut out the wan giimmer. and IN
the darkness crept into the soft bed
a. II into q hiding-plaos.
A warm sun and an air mildly mel
low. A faint gold-shadowed mist over
the valley and q soft lilac haze blend
ing the rounded outlines Of the hflis-
Through the shrubbery at DAmory
Court q cardinal darted like Q GRIM
son shuttle. to rock impudently from
. heering limb. and here and there
on the bluish-ivory sky. motionless ~
. pasted wafer. hung q hawk; from
time to time one of these wavered and
slaated swiftly down. to climb once
more in huge spiral to its high tower
Of sky.
Perhaps 1t wondered, ~ its tels-
scopic eye looked down. That had
been its choicest covert, that dishev-
eled tangle where the birds held Per
petual carnival. the weasel lurked In
the underbrush and the rabbit lined
hid windfall. Now the wildness was.
gone. A pergola. slistening white. now
upheld the runaway vines, making .
sickle-hke path from the upper ter
race to the lake. In the barn loft the
pigeons still quarrelled over their new
cotes Of fresh pine. and under q clump
Of locust trees at q little distance from
the house, half-dozen dolls cabins
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