The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-03-11

before a small hand mirror Scissors
and safety razor we're for a while
busy. The man who entered In i'm
peccable clothes emerged fifteen min
utes later-transformed- There ap-
peared under the rising June crescent
a smooth-faced native, clad in stained
store clothes, with rough wooden socks
showing at his brogan tops, and a
battered felt hat drawn over his face.
No one who had known the Samson
South of four years ago would fail to
recognize him now. And the strang-
est part, he told himself, was that he
felt the old Samson. He o longer
doubted his courage. He had come
home, and his conscience was once
more clear.
The mountain roads and the noun
tain sides themselves were sweetly
silent. Moon mist engulfed the flats
In . lake of dreams, and, as the livery
stable horse halted to pant at the top
Of the final ridge. he could see below
him his destination.
The smaller knobs rose like little
islands out Of the vapor. and yonder,
catching the moonlight like scraps of
gray paper, were two roofs-that Of
his uncle's house and that Of the
Widow Miller
At . point where s hand bridge
crossed the sstrting creek. the boy
dismounted. Ahead Of him lay the |
stile where he had said good-by to /
Sally. The place was dark, and the /
chimney smokeless, but, as he came |
nearer, holding the shadows OF the
trees. he saw one silver Of light at the
bottom of solid shutter; the shutter
OF Sally's room. Yet, for while, Sam
son stopped there, looking and max
ing no sound. He stood at his Rubi-
con-and behind him lay all the gilt
ter and culture of that other world, a
world that had been good to him.
That was to Samson South one Of
those pregnant and portentous mo-
ments with which life sometimes
punctuates its turning points. At such
times all the set and solidified strata
that go into the building of mans
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ranged. So the layers of mountain
chain and continent that have for
centuries remained steadfast may
break and alter under the stirring of
earthquake or volcano, dropping
heights under water and throwing
new ranges above the sea.
There was passing before his eyes
rs he stood there, pausing, a piano.
anna much vaster than any he had
been able to conceive when last he
stood there. He was seeing in review
he old life and the new, lurid with
contrasts, and, as the pictures of
Kings thousands of miles away rose
before his eyes as clearly as the SER
led backbone of the ridges, he was
and settling for all time
he actual values and proportions of
he things in his life.
He saw the streets of Paris and
Jew York, brilliant under their
trings of opalescent lights; the
Ihamps Elysees ran its smooth, tree
trimmed parquetry from the Place de
to the Arc de Triomphe, and 4
he chatter and music of it's cafes rang
] his ears. The ivory spaces of Rome,
rom the Pincian hill, where his fancy
aw almond trees in bloom, to the
iazza Venezia spread their eternal
tory before his imagination. He saw
fuses and hansoms string through
lie mud and fog of London and the :,
ndless pot-pourri of Manhattan. All Y
lie things that the outside world had
} offer; all that had ever stirred his
Uses to a worship of the beautiful,
lie harmonious, the excellent. rose in
tact value. Then he saw again the 81
lnrise as 1t would be tomorrow morn Al
g over these ragged hills. He saw -
10 mists rise and grow wisp-like, and
e disk Of the sun gain color, and all
g miracles of cannoning tempest
I'd caressing palm-and, though he
I'd come back to fight, a wonderful
ace settled over him, for he knew
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