The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-11-13

garments that hung from nails driven
In the logs. On the rude bed lay an
old man. She could see only part of
his face-a gray mustache dropping
over an open mOuth. and a forld cheek
turned 10 the glow Of the setting sun.
On a chair beside the bed sat a bottle
and the room reeked with the smell of
breath charged with alcohol. She
gently closed the door and busted her
self through the long evening with re-
forms In the kitchen and with little
mlnistrations designed to relieve the
sufferlngs OF her father.
The sun sank behind the Rockies
and darkness, soft and mystical and
silent. stole up the valley. hushing even
the noiselcss day. The girl stood
framed In the open window and the
moonlight painted her face to the pur-
est ivory and toyed with the rich
brown fastness OF her hair and cleaned
from n single ornament at her throat.
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new world, where were manhood, and
silence, and the realities OF being. and
moonlight. and great CULTS of shadow
between the hills, and large. friendly
stars. and soft breezes pushing this
way and that without definite dlrec.
ton, and strange. quiet noises from
out OF the depths, and the incense Of
the evergreens. and a young horseman
galloping into the night, And conven-
tons Ind been swept away, and II was
correct to live. and to livel
The first flush OF dawn was mellow.
ing the eastern sky when the girl was
awakened from uneasy sleep by sounds
In the yard In front Of the ranch
house.
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ly through the cold air. In the faint
light she could distinguish team and
wagon and men unhltchlng. She ap-
preached and. In voice that sounded
strangely distant in the vastness of the
calm night. called:
rs that you, Davef"
she had dared call him Dave. But she
soon had other cause for wonder, for
the bow replled from near beside her.
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