The Delta independent., 1915-08-13
SYNOPSIS.


foot Of rock from which he has fallen
sally Miller finds George Lescott, a land.
Dcape painter, unconscious, and after re.
v1ving him, goes for assistance.
CHATTER II-samson South and Sally,
taking Lescott to Samson's home, are met
by Spicer South, head of the family who
tells them that Jesse Purvy has been shot
and that Samson is suspected of the
crime. Samson denies it.
CHAPTER III-The shooting of Jesse
Purvy breaks the truce in the Holman
South feud.
rack Spicer for telling Sally that jim
HOLMAN is on the trail with bloodhounds
hunting the man who shot Purvy.
CHAPTER v--The bloodhounds lose the
trail at spicer south's door Lescott dis
covers artistic ability in Samson. While
eketching with Lescott the mountain
Tamarack discovers Samson to a jeerine
crowd of mountaineers. Samson thrashes
buster" who shot Purvy.
CHAPTER vI-Lescott tries to per.
suade Samson to go to New York with
him and develop his talent. Sally, loyal
The dance at VILE McCager's threatens
trouble to Samson and Lescott.
CHAPTER What the dance Samson
tells the South clan he is going to leave
the mountains Lescott goes home to
farewell and follows.
CHAPTER vIII-in New York Samson
studies art and learns much of city ways.
Drennie Gescott persuades Wilfred Hor-
ton, her dilettante lover. to do mans
work in the world
CHAPTER IX-Prompted by her love.
Sally teaches herself to write. Horton
throws himself into the business world
and becomes well hated by predatory
hnanciers and politicians At Bohemian
sporty social parasite, and Horizons enc
my.
CHAPTER x-Farbish sees Samson and
Drennie dining together unchaperoned at
the Wigwam roadhouse He conspires
with others to make Horton Jealous and
succeeds.
CHAPTER XI-Farbish brings Norton
and Samson together at the Kenmore
clubs shooting lodge. and forces open
rupture. expecting Samson to kill Horton
of the crusader. Samson exposes the plot
and thrashes the conspirators.
CHAPTER XII-Samson Is advised by
his teachers to turn to portrait painting.
Drennie commissions him to paint her
portrait. Sally goes to school. Samson
goes to- Paris to study. Drennie finds in
his studio pictured evidence of his loyalty
to Sally.
Samsons return from Europe, after
a years study, was in the nature Of
sponsorship of George Lescott and the
social sponsorship of Adrienne, he
found that orders for portraits, from
those who could pay munificently.
seemed to seek him. He was tasting
the novelty of being lionized.
That summer Mrs. Lescott opened
her house on Long Island early, and
the life there was full of the sort of
gayety that comes to pleasant places
when young men in f1annels and girls
in soft sumhery gowns and tanned
cheeks are playing wholesomely and
singing tunefully and making love
not too seriously.
Samson, Tremendously busy these
days in new studio of his own, had
run over for week. Horton was, of
course, of the party, and George Les
colt was doing the honors as host.
One evening Adrienne left the dane
ers for the pergola, where she took
refuge under mass of honeysuckle.
Samson South followed her. She
saw him coming, and smiled. She was
contrasting this Samson, loosely clad
in fannels, with the Samson she had
first seen rising awkwardly TO greet
her in the studio.
You should have stayed inside and
made yourself agreeable to the girls"
Adrienne reproved him, as he came
up. What's the use of making lion
OF you, If you won't roar for the Wis
it0rs?"
I've been roaring" laughed the
man. 1--WE just been explaining to
Miss Willoughby that we only eat the
people we kill in Kentucky on certain
days of solemn observance and sacri-
hce. I wanted to be agreeable to you,
Drennie, for while.
do you ever find yourself homesick,
Samson, these days?"
The man answered with a short
laugh. Then his words came softly,
and not his own words, but those of
one more eloquent:
Who hath desired the sea? Her ex-
cellent loneliness rather
Than the forecourts of kings, and her
uttermost pits than the streets
where men gather.
His sea that his being fulnlls1
So and no otherwise-so and no other
wise hillmen desire their hills I"
And yet" she said. and trace Of
the argunentative stole into her voice,
'you haven't gone back"
NO" There was a note Of self
reproach in his voice. But soon l
shall CO. At least, for a time. I've
been thinking great deal lately about
my futtered folk and Wild I'm Just
beginning to understand my relation
to them, and my duty"
"Your duty is no more to go back
there and throw away your life," she