The Lamar register., 1920-09-29
SYNOPSIS.

aaAHci. eA4u AlHiUk WIN Ilr luOtHeF on a
houseboat on the Wabash river. The
Pesrlhunter'-the only name he has
learns from her part OF the story Of
heI sad life. The recital is Interrupted by
fssrfui Mt Of coughing and he hurriea
ashore to seek u root that affords relief
Returning with the root he meets =.
young girl whom he mentally christc"s
the wild Rose" She eludes him before
ne can make her Acquaintance.
CHAPTER IA vacant cabin on the
shore has attracted the attention Of the
ailns woman. and they move into IT,
Their nrst meal lie interrupted by
stranger who resents their presence. The
youth drives the man from their home
His presence has strangely affected the
mother. That night the youth finds with
in a mussel the largest pearl thai has
been found on the river the Blue Moon
Returning exultant to the cabin. lie dis
covers his mother dead she having sue
eumbed while endeayorIns to leave a
message revealing the secret OF his par
entags
CHAPTER i1I.-At the village OF Fallen
Rock. to which he takes the gem for safe
keeping. the ''PearlhunteT'' meets the
stranger who had disturbed his mother
In their cabin. and insults him They
part as bitter enemies
CHAPTER " In the village tn.
"Pearlhunter" sees tho girl who had at
tracted his attention ia the woods She
Ia annoyed by the stranger and the
''Pearlhunter'' rescues her from his un-
welcome attentions, He accompanies her
10 her horne.
1t was the girl or tine pooi-rne
Wild Rose.
The woods had hid them; the woods
had nursed them; the woods had set
them face to face-the Pearlhunter;
the Wild Rosa man; woman.
Strip away from life every nonessen-
tial: bare Il OF every husk OF sham
and convention; pare It right down
10 the red. quick core. beyond which
II is not possible to reduce It further.
and you come at last to a man and a
woman. Six million years the Al
mighty Artist practiced on such Sec
ondary studies as stars and suns. and
peopling them with inconceivably di-
verse and curious forms OF life. before
trusting his hand on his final master
piece-a man: a woman.
They stood staring as at that other
meeting at the pool. And that was
the Pearihunter-that other meeting.
And he had looked Somehow he
wished he hadn't: and yet he wasn't
sorry that he had. The thought drew
his eyes to her feet Shifting the
basket, his hand slowly stole up and
dragged or his battered hat.
The blue eyes under the sunbon-
net livened. The girl drew a step
nearer. The bushes she had been
bending aside sprang back into place.
She drew another step nearer. As
she moved. an overhanging limb
caught the sunbonnet and dragged II
OF. displaying a very soft and glossy
mass Of yellow curls. She turned.
disengaged the bonnet from the limb.
and was shaking the curls into shape
TO replace II when the Pearlhunter
made a quick step toward her with
hand upraised.
"Don't," he cried. Don't"
A man OF slow speech with eyes
hard to wake. he wouldn't have be
iieved such words were in him.
The girl stood fumbling the bonnet
He watched one stray curl lose Its
place and come slowly tumbllng down.
little by little. TIL II fell over her
shoulder and lay upon the softly ris-
ing and falling bosom. From the curl
he raised his eyes to her face. He
saw a smile steal across It II was
only a little smile. but It grew under
his gaze till II reached up to her eyes.
and pinched the lids together. and
squeezed out tiny ripple OF merri-
ment that ran out over her face and
settled In two round dimples that
teasingly uptilted the corners OF her
mouth-a good. winsome mouth.
fringed with full red lips and set
with wholesome teeth. The smile
grew until IT quite passed beyond her
control. She threw up her head: the
smile became a laugh.
II was the only thing that could
have broken the restraint. The laugh:
the slow smile that answered it
their Introduction. She tied the bon
net strings, while he watched her IN
gers as they formed the knot.
THAT song" he said. ''it was the
most wonderful thing ! ever heard"
This girl laughed agaln-s laugh like
water tinkling over pebbles.
'The birds are my playmates," she
answered simply. They fly down all
over me. ! had 10 learn their Ian