Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-08-04

team"
Yes, perhaps" said AK thought
fully. Everybody calls him Fatty al
ready"
1t was from Alan that Gerry learned
that Kemp was still in town closing up
his connection with the orchid firm.
Gerry wired him, begging him to come
to The FRS for a few days before he
went West. Alix had told of Kemp's
word of comfort.
After the first excitement of getting
home was over Gerry found himself
restless with the same restlessness that
had attacked him during the days at
Piranhas. He tried for q solution in
the same way. Day after day, long
before the rest of the Hill was awake,
he was off for ten-mile walk.
At first it was with head dropped
and eyes on the ground that he plowed
his way through a dewsoaked world,
but there came time when he walked
with head thrown back, full lungs and
level eyes.
Then Kemp arrived. Gerry tried to
get him 10 join him in his walks but
Kemp shook his head sadly.
EFF yo' can't let me have boss, Mr..
Lansing" he said, "I'll ride the cow"
Gerry laughed They saddled the
horses themselves and started out On
the top of old Bald Head Gerry dis
mounted and sat down on a rock.
Kemp followed suit.
"Kemp," said Gerry, II want to
thank you for the things you said to
my wife-Alix."
Kemp fushed'and waved deprecat.
ing hand.
"You saw things straight" went on
Gerry, land l want to thank you, too
for letting me hog-tie myself"
II amt curious about that, Mr.. Ian.
sing" said Kemp, 80 much's about
what you're goin' to do when yo' unite
yo'seff."
"Well," said Gerry, "I've thought
that out too For a while it used tc
break my heart to think about Fa
zenda Flores but it came to me the
other day that what there is of me that
amounts to anything is just Fazenda
Flores.
when a man learns to eat work
Just like he does food because he's
hungry for it, there's bound to be q
place for him anywhere. 1t has struck
me there are a lot of fields around
here, some Of them mine, that are
about ready for resurrection, and res
direction is my job.
Il don't know exactly how I'm go
ing to start but 1t may be planting pc
tatoes. You can begin resurrection
With any one Of a number of simple
things. 1t doesn't matter much which
one you pick on as long as you star
right down at the bottom and spread
yourself in the subsoil of things
Everything that grows starts dowr
deep except your orchids and they arr
parasites"
easy on Orchids" interjected Kemp
Sorry, Kemp. Orchids are ornamen
tai but excepting your favorites they're
not even beautiful. Look at Cypri
pedium VeXillarium-"
Hybrid" grunted Kemp.
"a man in his D. It's couldn't bea
it for gorgeous horror" finished Gerry
"But that's neither here nor there
What I'm driving at is this. If l ha(
never been tossed over the home fence
| would have lived and died an orna
mental citizen with the girth of a beel
barrel. But now my eyes are a bi
open and | can see that the simple
things of life are the big things
Growth from the roots is the strength
Of man and Of his people. w,
come home in more senses than one
I'm going to send down my roots RICH
here"
Kemp had been whiting. Wher
Gerry had finished he pocketed hi
knife and gazed thoughtfully dowI
the valley. 1T seems to me, Mr.. Ian
sing, that you md me have been trav
elm different trails but come together
at the same gap. You remember 'Th'
Purple City'T
Gerry nodded.
"Wal, seems to me tibet 'ceptin' in {
mans own mind the amt no pupil,
cities. What a mans got to find ain
purple cities but the power to see on,
when he's got it. You had yourn RICH
here In this valley an yon side on Rec
Hill. You growed up in it but yol
never seen it-not till you learned
how. What you been sayin' about tn,
simple things of life-the things the
is at the bottom-has hoped my seeln
parts a powerful lot / knowed befor,
come to Red Hill that l was goin
out West to stay but l didn't right.
know why. Now eff you ask me wha
1 know l can tell you l know con
d'able.
"Out in Moo Mexico they's a rancl
in the fork Of Big and Little creel
that's the greenest patch in the shadow
of White mountain. It's mine and it,
got three-room shack on 1t that coulC
grow If need was. know a girl that
been holdin' a four-hush against al