Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-12
CHAPTER XI.

AnG So, Having Placed the Hcroe
aid Heroines and tie Villianess{
O. CHI G;t:y VINO Arc TO Wor
Out Their Destiny AS Tire Cos
On, We Come to the Memorial
Picnic Up in Blaisdeli's Glen an
Evening in Gold Piece Cabin.
Jack returned to colsciou%nc+S o
tie following morning with 4 softly
35rTov full bittc'*wrct prcHcntimcn
haunting his subconsctous mind.
D,!s lhc prc"ontimrMt people expert
&C NEo awake the liOrlilM after
Bankruptcy or the death OF Il yer,
car friend. He tried TO think wha
it w;.@-th@t feeling within him o
@y@ttrious hcartachc that WASH
>ally hcartachc Then it came L
IN that it Was the way he mad comt
. think Of the girl, Mary Wood, aug
| ncntcd by her argument with Mibl
= thc evening before. 1t was Tho
-tnti.ncnt Of love and wi'chood ant
.o,Acrhood to which she had givcr
OPPRESSION. lic lay with arms behind
~ head, the robbins and aparrows
aDiSF ia the trees outside his window
- morning breeze waiting the mus
u curtains gently and passed from
cam; with lii. cyc5 closed 10 dreams
oi,h HI, eyes open.
Nary Wood had suddenly come
..a.rr ard dcHrer TO him than she
"a been 4. Any time since ne had
..own her. Ordinarily, indeed, the
oUA" folk OF the town did not dis
- thing ~ frankly d. they had
,.il.cd that previous evening -tl"t il,
.ot unless Mlbb wa present and IL
.,r ,.lt4H-mo!cla WY attacked .'omc
och 'suaicct fcarlc.;:,ly, b!untly, TACT
tssi%. Eut since it had happened
ID Merry had made hcr reply, it was
" thou%i! the boy had been privileged
o cntc: tir private chamber OF her
!ca:, ,.t, .3vi, upon her nulity--thc
tnity q. ii,r soul and The manner OF
oman which she VAS. Somehow
.:lcn Il MAJ hiss viewed in that mud
it, the woman whom he love-, there
j.; strange, WiiC,, p.''!nordial Tic bind
.nE her closer 20 Eii.:,-a dc which
can never quite be ..kcn. And in
~. Il womaa WHOM y man has
.tnc u know that way is never
angry with the man for having
cooked upon that nudity --not wncn
he Is the man she Love; which j.,
another manifestation tina. the tic is
here and connecting them. ana 20
had the young man been l..!!ittcd 20
enter into something which up 20 that
time waH The modest, sweet, pure girl
mad guarded as she guarded her Vir-
&c bot which had been revealed 70
lin because she loved him. Truly in
Ike talk, abcttcd by love and the
i, ;tcnc1y OF The summer night and he
ooalight, the gin had laid bare her
oul and the plinordial il tho .n2A
las around and awakened.
Fiat longing and cait-liunGcr for
lor, was amounting to physical pain.
ct it wa; q wonderful time in which
&c Was livin"--a time which would
!cvcr come again, Z time to which he
,oUid look back with soft sadness in
nany many after years. To arise
I'd meet the r1c"Hing meant another
;y Of workin" with her in the. office,
,. :; huadrer pretty gr;ccs and coquct-
cries Which, she was with him, Of
talk5 in the evening when the valley
"a hushcd and the town rested from !
3 lahor and the dusk such az no city
nows no,' can understand, came
own and embodied it in its mantcl.
md the blood mounted to bis temples ;
g his financial helplcssness and pros ;
Gets came up before him and taunt- /
Il him.
At the office the talk WIS Of the |
icnic UP the Glen that afterEoon--a (
Celebration for the success of the 10 /
al talent Play. {
The eN-playcrs met on the Opera I
louise steps The girls had generous
,:l;ets of which the boys relieved i
ZEN as they arrived with awkward 8
lcctinga meant to be funny and at I
hich the girls laughed as they were !!
Ippo5cd to laugh. Quickly they v
irc1 off: Jack and Mary; Mibb and t
!ur Truman; Sam Hold and Alice; }
arriott Babcock and Frank Whit h
,mb; even Georgia Griffin and the "
halen girl WAS there-the latter il
ought her pathetic addition to the
frcshmenta done in i paper parcel. II
hen as they were about to start, :.
ick Robinson and Grace Rawlns az O
we'd from different directions. G.
"lm the odd one!" greeted Mrs. L.
nipple. you'll just make part b
,rsw /;
The crowd laughed and Dick color
|, glowering darkly at Truman in h
ossession of Mibb's basket. The C;
Iiltccn moved up Main Street and p
lstward out OF the village toward the S
= - "'~'-f~-a ~nnd Mrs WhinpIe n