Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-03

would be yours: And you could keep
the woodchoppers awaX<forevcr."
Hardly that" he answered. sud.
denly thoughtful. But 1 know what
1 shall do"
Something splendid. I know"
Another statement with the intent
of a question. He seemed to feel i,
Il don't know that it's Splendid
he said. I'm going t o buy some
books: and then
He hesitated. The girl dropped her
eyes and stood toying with the bon
net strings around her arm. She did
not mention that the storekeeper had
told her the tragedy Of the grave al
Fallen Rock; of the mother who had
died the very evening OF success;
whose eyes had not been permitted to
rest on the faultless sheen Of the
jewel for which she, too, had search
ed a lifetime.
And then she repeated, when
il seemed he was not going on.
4 tiny breeze fell into the woods
through the gap cut by the road, and
stirred the leaves. There is death as
we'll as life in the woods. Death al
ways: even in June. The breeze
found a dead leaf amongfthe nvins
mes and shook it loose. 1t threat
ened to light on the girls bright hair,
but futtered down past her face and
fell at her feet.
The breeze: the falling leaf-the
woods. her woods, had whispered;
and she heard.
Daddy she cried suddenly. 1--WE
left him too long"
Her voice had grown serious. She
held out her hand FOR the basket
The Pearlhunter passed it yer and
she turned away.
1t was an awkward parting and the
P~earlhunter felt t ,\but he was a mar
Of slow speech. His<words had to b.
n at a time, as men of old fash
Toned their arrowheads.
wild Rose!"
She turned. The name hat
brought the dimples back.
May I walk along with you?"
The words were past recall befor,
he knew it.
The woods are as much yours a
mine.'' was her smiling answer
He never could remember just hov
the basket managed 10 get from he
her. the sole recollection that stoo,
out in his memory being the fact tina
the path seemed TO fly up and hit hi
them down.
CHAPTER x.
CABIN OF THE THREE GABLES.
For some distance back from tn
river the Earthmaker scrambled tn
F1atwoods. Scrambled-that's exact
~ what seems to have happened to
strip along the north bank. A MAJ
Of gulch n cliff, Of gully and blun
all bearded thick with trees an
dense underbrush; all alive with tn
Half a mileAsometimes less. some
times ~more--bAck from the streaT
this wild tansle smoothsAitsclf OF in
~Flatwoods.
The path the girl Travelled twoun
itself, or rather unwound itself, rfgf
through the heart OF these hills, dee
into the mystery of the thick Nood
until it turned sharply and led u
the east bank Of Wolf Run, the II
tile stream in which the Pearlhunts
had washed the elecampane roots.
AS they passed the pool the ma
involuntarily turned his head towar
the nat rock jutting out from tt
bank, But the girl hurried by, ar
he did not dare hesitate or venture
, word.
A short distance above the pool. +.
near that the Pearlhunter wonders
he had not seen 1T before, a tire
gabled. one-story. log cabin snuggl
back against the bluffs just. wheI
] they left the bank Of the stream al
curved to the teast. a step farthe
a small plot ~ creek bottom hi
lbeen cleared and fenced---what Il
F7atwoods called 4 garden patch
!, Back Of the garden. 2 stable hugg!