The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-11-11
Continued From Yesterday,
CHAPTER XVII

They were driving down the lake
Go the cottages that moonut Ian.
wary night. twenty OF them In the
49, sled They sang -Toy Land
NH Seeing Nelly Home: they
kaped from the low back OF the
sled 10 race over the slippery snow
ratS; and when they were tired
they climbed ON tho runners for n
hft. The moon-tipped flakes kicked
no BY the horses settled over the
jewelers. and drippcd down their
necks. but they laughed. yelped.
beat their leather mittens against
their chests The harness ratified.
the slcigh-beils were frantic. Jack
Elders setter sprang beside the
= horses. barking
For a time Carol raced with
them The cold air gave f,ctiye
power. She felt that she could run
en all night. leap twenty feet at a
bride. But the excess Of energy
tired her. and she was glad 10 snug
E gle under the comfortcrs which Gov
ercd the hay in the sled box.
W. Ia the midst OF tho babel she
found enchanted quietude.
N Along the road the shadows from
oak-hranches were. linked on the
pow Ike bars OF music. Then the
came Aout on the surface OF
Lie MInniemashie. Across the
Nick Ice was a veritablc road. a
shorteut for farmers. on the glar-
( trC expanse OF the lake--levels OF
hard crust. flashes of green Ice
blown clear. chains OF drifts ribbed
IKE the sea-beaeh--the moonlight
was overwhelming. II stormed on
the snow. II turned the woods
ashore into crystals of fire. Tho
hight was tropical and voiup,uoua
in that drugged magic there was
no difference between heavy heat
and insinuating cold
Carol was drcam-sfrayed. The
turbulert voices. even Guy Pollock
being connotative' beside her. were
nothing. She repeated:
Deep on the convent-roof the SHOWS
Are sparkling 20 the moon.
Tho words and the light blurred
INTO one vast indefinite happiness.
and she believed that some great
Thing was coming 10 her. She with
erew from the ciaznor into a wor-
hip Of incomprehensibie gods. The
night expanded. she was conscious
the universe. and all mysteries
y ccped down to her.
,e was Jared out Of her ecsfasy
he bob-sIed bumped up the steep
d to the bluff where stood the
feoktages.
They disrnounted Mt Jack Elders
ack- Tho interior walls OF un-
. usnted boards. which had been
patefui IN August. were forbIdding
\ the chill In fur coats and muf.
mrs tied over caps they were
strange company. bears and wal
rrses talking Jack Elder lighted
ne shavings waiting In the belly OF
cast-iror stove which was like an
enlarged bean-pot- They piled their
wrzps high on a rocker. and cheerei
shs rocker m II solemnly tipped
ever backward
Mrs. Elder ana MIA Sam Clark
made coffee IN an enormous blac'<-
ened tin pot, vida sherwin and
Mrs. McCanurn unpacked dough-
nuts and gingerbread: Mrs Dave
Dyer warmed up hot dogs''--frank-
fnrfers In rolls: DR.. Terry Could.
afzer announcing. Ladies' and gents.
DrUars 70 be shocked: shock line
tnns on the right" produced a
LIE Of bourbon whisky.
The others danced. mutterfng
Ouch as their frosted feet struck
~ pine pianks. Carol had lost her
&eam- Harry Haydock lifted her
~ the waist and swung her. She
kuxhed. Tho gravity OF the people
Who stood apart and talked made
Der the more impatient for frolic.
Kennicott. Sam Clark. Jackson
Elder. young DIR. McGanum. and
lanes Madison Rowland. lettering
~ their toes near tho stove. con-
sersed with the scdate pomposity
q the commercialist- In details the
mn were unlike. yet they said the
ame things in the same hearty
uonotonous voices. You had TO look
. them to see which wa. speak