The Washington herald., 1921-04-17
HolD One Shot Out of the
Dusk Brought the Hope of
Happiness to Two Men
and TIpo Women.

~ DITH KENDR1Ck was Watching INC
u train of foam in the wake Of q motor
boat far out on Porcupine Lake when
Lefty williams came up the corduroy read
from Golden City. We had been talking Of
the sea, Mrs Kendrick and Constable and I.
while we had waited for the canning Of the
other guests whom Kendrick was asking to
the dinner In celebration Of Ted Leffen's gold
strike at the MszinaibL Hundreds Of miles
from the Atlantic, up there in the North
Country under the caves Of James Bay. shut
In By the w1derness of the Bush, We were
drifting into the old nostalgia for salt water
that only those who have dweit beside the
ocean know after they have lived IN exile
1t was an ancient chapter with argonauts
Ike ourselves, but always Edith Kendrick
seemed to live it with a strange and wistful
intensity queeriy at variance with her IN.
different acceptance of the life in which Ken
driek held her. 1t lowered her somehow with
. quality 30 apart from her husband that
there were those of US In the Porcupine
camp who shut our eyes to Hendricks shady
transactions in order that we might hold his
wife In our midst
On that evening. with the air omtnousiy
heavy with threat Of coming storm, her
homezickness for place and . time gone by
overcast our pretense at Ezyety until We
looked at each other with something like
rslief as We saw the girl on the road. She's
going to marry Ted Lenen." Mrs. Kendrick
explained swiftly. to our surprise at discov-
erins her guest to be Lefty. Bert wanted
her asked"
Constable nung q cryptic look at me
Edith Kendrck went to the door Of the YER
anda to welcome the newcomer. We had
always guessed that Kendrtck staged his din
ners for a purpose beyond social amenities.
and We had suspected that he was entertain
ing for hot headed, hard drinking. Wild young
Ted Lefen so that he might worm his way
into making money out Of the boys lucky
md in the new camp: but We bad never be-
fore had Edtth's statement Of her own pas
stvtty in the game. At that, however, she
needed hardly to have said anything. That
Lefty Williams was coming up the tiny path
to the house by the lake was proof enough
asement. for Lefty Williams was of those
whom Kentrick would know and whom Edith
wouldn't
There wasn't anything definitely against
the girl. to be sure. She had come. a latter
day voyaseur, into the Porcupine as CORE
spondent for a Montreal newspaper. and re.
matned As assistant to Cary Connors in the
getting out OF the miniature weekly which
ehrontcsed the good luck and bad, the hopes
and fears the JOY and sorrow which make up
life to the full In a mining camp. She had
chosen from the first to cast her lot with men
rather than with women. and she had paid
the price Of her choostng in q social ostra-
etm which became marked as the social
system Of Golden City developed She had
taken her sentence lightly, to an appear.
faoe to Edith Kendrick now, showed that the
iron must have entered her soul.
-Isn't this . pretty placer she exclaimed
adr1trtnEiy as she came within the veranda's
shelter. paying tribute unoonsciousfy to the
woman VINO had wrought the miracle of or
dared beauty out Of the wilderness And
tnt It a lovely view7"
I'VE weren't admtring It properly, I'm
afraid.- Edith Kendriek said, slipping Lefty
into the conversation with that deftness Of
social skill which always made me wonder
what she had been before. she had married
Kendriek. and tustHhy she had ever happened
10 marry him at an I'VE were dreaming of
how the sea must look In a sunset like this"
Il don't know" Lefty williams said "1
never saw It Ted talks Of it often. though.
He comes from HaltfH you know"
From Halifax That's my town, but
etnt know him there"
You wouldn't have" Lefty gave me a
smile which revealed amusement In the cir.
eumstance. Ted didn't have much claim
to fame in his boyhood. He must have had
pretty hard time. although you'd never fnd
that out from him. Captain Stratton, though,
his partner. sometimes says that"
Is that Ross stratton?". Mrs. Hendricks
voice, nodulatsd though it was. drew taut
YES. He came from Halifax, too, didn't
her"
- believe 90. Has he been here?"
20. no. met him In Hafeybury.. He's
coming n tonight, though. That's why Ted
didn't come with me. He's waiting to see If
hs comes I'D on the first boat from Frederick
House Crossing '. .... ..
saw Edits hand close tightly upon the
arm Of her wicker chair. little tremor as
n NJ main tvftched her r,orth h,,t h.r ,p,t,.
held steady a. she asked. Is his wife COM