Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-09-29
some three hundred yards or so from
the. house. The shrubbery itself lay

the u n shrubDery itself lay
to the left, Of the drive as one looked
out from the front door-a tangle of
rhododendrons. laurels and a variety
Of shrubs below. Swallowed by the
foliage of. great trees. in which the
rocks nested and cawed, above. Cen
orally 1t was a dark and gloomy
place. but here and there were clear
err spaces where the sunlight pene-
trated, and in the midst Of one. Of
these was the Summer-house.
1t was approached by a. %gravelled
footpath leading awaysfrom the sweep
Of the drive before the house, and aft
ar passing the Summer-house. this
path led on, still among shrubs ana
beneath thick trees, till it came out
on the main road at the entrance OF
Upper Scotney village. This was in-
deed the neare way from the yil-
habitually hY those going on foot from
one to the other. Ehe carriage way
along the drive made quito a consid-
cradle detour, by comparison.
About halfway between the Sum-
mer- house and the main house the
path branched, and one branch, SO to
call%it, though 1t really went on al
most in a straight line, led to the
back regions, the servants part. And
besides these, two, which may, be res
garded as the main paths, there was
yet another branchlet leading to an
other entrance to the house through
whim Of my Aunt Enid to have built.
! suppose that, artistic taste in
architecture had at no. time been a
strong point with the CARTONS. Our
grandfather, at all events, had con-
tributed some Victorian additions OF a
rather terrible kind to$what had once
been an inoffensiye and entirely in
pretentious structure. But 1t had
been left for the latest importation
into the. family, my Aunt Enid, to
perpetrate the last and worst %atroctty,
in the form of this staring little COM
se%rvatory.
OF beauty OF form or harmony she
had no idea at all, but the bright col
ors of flowers appealed to her. rather
as they might to a child. The con-
servatory opened. out OF her boudoir
and, so to this path, which was little
more than q track, leading through
the trees until 1t Joined the %gravelled
way. @
The summer-hopse stood back,
some twenty yards or So, in its Clear
It's own short graveIied sby-path lead
ing to 1t at Fight angles to the main
one, fringed on each side with a strip
Of g~reenswatd. The space befOYe 1T
wa3 quite open, but the trees came
closely up to At behind.
1t wal rather a woodlousy and ear
wiggy little place, these insects lur.s-
ing, In the many creyices of its wood
en- wal g and matched roof. Its fur
niture va simple, consisting only OF
four wtckerSarmchatrs In addition to
the i~ron-segged circular-topped table
which I have mentioned, but It was
q very pleasant place wherein to sit
and read In the summer time, none
the less. The gardeners kept 1t AZ
clean as 1t is In natureSof such arbora
to be, sweeping tout daily and clean
n Its windows OF cobWebs and the
like. IS
The two windows. one on either
side Of the door. admitted al the
1t was avery fay0rtte resort OF mine.
because It was Just far enough from
,the house to make the servants disin-
scuned to come and bother me there
about any domestic matter which was
not Of more. than common impor-
lance.
I thought ~ I sat there that night,
In silence, with mysuncle, of the many
hours Of commemorative peace. which
! had passed there. and OF the utter
'fmpossibility that I could ever spend
peace OF mind. That dread object,
still 20 beautiful, though 80 dreadful,
which had been my young aunt. lay
there scarcely Inpre silent than It's
watchers
I was silent. thought hadsquestions
On my lips which ] keenly desired
TO ask, because + knew Uncle sRalph's