The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1920-08-26
. TIE BObBS-rIERRILL COMPANY

! should grow strong.
"And why not2 It's empty, and no
body would care. In these deep woods
there's nobody TO care"
A flicker of light crossed her face.
"Td get well up there, under the
strong cliffs, with the cool spring so
near. And I've lived so long-since
you were q child In arms--on the river
the Ohio; the White; the Wabash !"
always, motherl Always the house
boat-drlfting drifting-and you so
frnil, so beautiful !"
The man left the window and knelt
by the rocking chair. The Iron-Gray- |
Woman saw the question In his eyes
hunger for some word out of the |
past; a word that had never come. All |
his life she had kept II from him
whatever II had been TINT happened |
back there behind the veil Of her ST.
lence that left him nameless; river
walf q nomad In an orderly world n
fisher Of pearls; pearlhunter. Her
eyes came back and faltered over him.
No longer a child; n boy-the reflec-
tion startled her. A man knelt at her
slde-the question written big upon
his face And 1t was his right to
know. Her head dropped back against
the quilt that cushioned the chair It's
n solemn thing to be the mother OF a
man--clorious but solemn
The lustrous eyes-brighter for the
fever wasting them--came back TO him
after time. He saw far.flung
,houghtfulness in them; knew they
had strayed into that past from which
he was barred. The thin lips parted
The mans fingers curled tense upon
I the chair arm.
wro n city on the Wabash, In early
dovs come three families of yirginla's
unrest blood-my family, your fathers
family md the family of-of-nnother
man"
Ths Iron.Groy.Woman shuddered
and was silent for n moment. The
man nicked nm a wasted hand strol:ed
| n softly between his own. and she
went on. strained md slow. like one
desperately neryed to long-dreaded
,.sr
"Nfv ,orents both died when I was
| 90 sinai, ,hot 7 can barely remember
them leaving me. their only child. TO
the care of n distant relative. n great
uncle OF my fathers. This great-great-
uncle-weli. as / look back upon my
| IIfe conno, remember that no ever
gave me n pleasant word.
"NIy aunt was MS different ms dawn
to dark. She was everything that he
was not. A thousand times she loved
my hurt away.
"They had daughter, an only child
almost my age, AID of the same name
surname and all. When uncle was
away on business trips, rs he often
was for weeks, 1t was like sunshine
after rain. Such happy times They
are high among the few pleasant
memories Of my life"
The Iron-Gray-Wonnn paused, her
dark, deep eyes seeming to search
back Into the dead past, like a traveller
straining his gaze across a stretch II
desert 70 where the oasis lies. The
man sh'rted 10 MS other knee ana she
went on
MY aunt died when we were In our
nr'hood' AFTER thnt--the gray days
were ever more thah the bright A
Pulu,anee se','ed deep upon my uncle
his pes, woro was grow. Inc serV,
an's "ioNeu "oou' 'he mousse IKE silent
s"auo"S.
IN this same city upon the wabash
nVeu TWO o'ner faniiies' as J nave tod
sou-your ialhers FANNY ana the
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