Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-03
SIS TIE X s
Rg KATHLEEN NORRIS
Author Of "yosseivn's Wife"
fcopyr,sht, 1919. By Kathleen Norris)

LIS heap I1,,,IyI ouietly. he went
II his enesn Dasa;n and duly and
out 10 Che hre ea,,a, the day Her
ouietly moved LIsbt atand as they
books and mus,SS muS 1.,ns and her scat
were, her ,,oasessious--the sewing
tered sinah W. aivays handled with a
basket tnai tnaiardness' sr and the camera
boys s,.sS no weil--shouid keep their
she useq ,,,g ~ be went 10 her desk, think
places .,,,s long solitary evening. TO
Ing IN tn nr,n,,a papers that she might
destroy sN,rnyed before the cabin was
wls,.od WISH And here he .ound her letter.
ueT Te found It only after he had some
wna' I'D pigeonholes of the desk.
ers ors and pigeonholes which were. TO
draWe,,riaa Ali in astonishing order for
hs sur yEverythjng was marked. tied.
Aanlrlte,ed Allh her accounts were balanced,
and II she ne hs~ ve,e al least nowhere 10
papers, .ney
be founoi o,, this N dread confirmation
Seeing IN a,,,nien a., tnie ~ her death. Peter
OF his hst sp'.r,ancad n ahock when
nevertheless , NJ mad beeu niacen
he found ne, nrawer. face up. ana was
In an enpIy addressed Simply with mis-
sealed, anu ""'
name ,.,s,,r 4, In bis hand and
He sat nolulhs ,ora he no,,ls, o,.,n ~
moments passeo peiV.o . .hi .aar
SO II had peen tIue' .hy'' VIZ
that he had tried All tnese weehs 70
crush? lie had been welSnihs, measur-
ing, remembering, until nus very sour
was sick with the uncertainty his minu
had been q confused web OF memories,
~ This casual word and that look, or
S,bat she had possibly hearu, nau
mwrohabIy seen, had suspecteu--Knowil.--
Now he would know. He tore open
the enyeIope, and the oozen yyritten lines
were before n,s eyes. Tne letter WAS
aat.d, Il most uiu.GaI thing Ior <Aiix "
do. and Saturday, l O'clock was writ
her death.
pet.r, dear, don't feel too badly IL
rirs ! End q sorpa for severai w % days about ei it
n,,'va done so much Ior me? and
st,er svs 'e voi' of course, there's no one
siter you, Vi sn.. co,;id be trea now:
be couIdnt preyent NJ. When 1 saw
ro xour FACE face n few minutes ago / knew
o. couIdn't fignt il out. Rememper,
naS,bsr rnIs s Ii that / want You TO be happy
becauss / 1--we you SO.
- ~, s,or,n. ", q awb,,o with.
Peter sat staring "A. IL awnlie ne. WIN VIII
expression on on ms s. race; ace % linen ne ioIded et
and went out to the backyard. where %
kow was ieeuins one SeSems; r;i,s, ne a.,
wet DARK aay snss. MAS ehSs irb4 ,bat ssnt Ionn ~,
wash OF reu sunset nsat .mat sent ions
shadows from 'he soung ira'' All iI1es siov aa1
touGned eyesy er 'ws sa,d After an u efrost w.
snaaS how .ba rse was nns,,ccessiui sn @ " Tne chi.
SPsskb boH 5HaI ooKed Tas at him socltousy for
Peters race was Iaa ashen Mo ana Rpou! bis hs
NOUN were ura"h hi'es' no"' he
saiu, l 20 no". ~,
go now other house?' Kow nodded.
But Peter terked his head instead
toward the bare ridge
"No, | 20 now-n6t come back, he
said. briefly. ''Tonight-maybe Bolinas
BY ans by the big mountains, Kow-
by and by forget"
Tears glittered In the Chinese boys
eyes. but he smiled with a great air
II Keep house." he promised.
The dog came fawning and springing
from the stables, and Peter whlstled to
him
Come on. Buck We're. going now.
He opened the farmyard gate where
her hand lad SO often rested, crossed
the muddy corral, open-d another gate
and struck off across the darkening
world toward the ridge. The last sun
light fingered on crest and treetop
branches OF a few tall redwoods--and
was gone. Twilight long twilight
that had In II some hint OF spring-lay
sottly over the shadow; the mountain
Gaining the top Of the first ridge, he
paused and looked back. Lights were
beginning, to prick forth in the brown
trees The busy little mountain rain
stssn, seseenu'Is' Rr puaed Lorth smoke ant
tba nana,s % wo,nG away; the % SILVER riopons o.
and bevond ISe bay tnIogn tSs the marsh shor
t~y,,ght I'M ehaih ot gems IN the pale
Peter ,ooI,ed ot tho ooh,n ,,o ,,,.,,
brown house that bn % bad h;,,i, nhe ,,os, naeat
II was in the beginning a sort ~ ex.
much alone in their big city house, and
she had suggested with rare wisdom
that as he did not care for society and
as his travels always meant great lone.
iiness for her, he should have n little
,:, rSrie OF nus own, TO which he might
ieSba' ca ,Ms WMnshGNer me tancy touched him