Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-31
: CHAPTER XIV.
Guns and String Beans.

"Claire Darling s.. Z
Almost two weeks since I wrote to
you. Will you love Inc any more?
LAS 1 write I am all alone on the
Elected from my little lamp that was
only intended to see me into bed and
not to burn half the night through
while I write to my pal.
"Is this summer night as perfect
where you are, Claire? (Tush-you've
probably been playing tennis and
dancing and flirting until you are too
exhausted to care about anything ex-
cept the breakfast bell disturbing
The sky is blue-black velvet, all
studded with stars hat seem sus-
pended-they are so very close. And
the air just caresses you! And there
are the sweetest smells, grassy and
earthly and all fragrant OF, roses.
There are queer little noises, too-as
though the night was full Of fairy
creatures. And I heard a whip-or-
will! And a screech-owl, way. way
"Since I wrote to o last I have
put my foot, in it again! Terribly!
It's too long a story to write to YOU
there isn't nearly oil enough for that
but I skated over the thin ice and
reached safety-in other words
am sui mere! Anu 1>dncy, 1. hHow
now. even Aunt Sabrina Is beginning
to like me! Do you know why? Be
cause 1 lost my head and told her
what I though was the matter. with
her and Happy House and t don't
suppose anyone dared to tell her that
before. q called her Leavitt .tradi-
tons tommy-rot.) And I think she
enjoyed the sensation! Anyway, che
seems to treat me now like Somebody
= -S eh4 onSd u4~oothiro tho ntho~' 10
about how lovely the autumns were
on the Island, as though she took i,
for granted I'd be here then!
claire. what. if I can never. ge!
away? Did I dream, when I took
Anne's shoes (to speak in f1gures)
and put them on. where they'd lead
me? And sometimes I think that
a long time I'm not crazy to see 1t
either. for it must end in Disaster!
II am beginning to understand
these. people. too. lin my usua
way. Judged them too quickly! On
must know their history to know
them-know what a splendid back
ground they have. Aunt Sabrina haa
takep up Ezekiel where she left Of
and tells me stories about the Champ
lain Valley. OF course. l know she il
doing it. because I called the Leavit
; glories 'tommy-rot' and when I read
in BIindy's book (gotten up, o
course. to bait tourists) what thes'
I, Islanders have done. I feel cheap ant
small and insignificant beside al
these people who have such 5heroi
: erandfathers and great grandfathers.
"I suppose, all owe the world
Island people must be different from
; people whose lands lie directly con
4 tingent with other lands and people
The very waters that shut away ~thes'
precious Hero Islands wash their live
back upon themselves-they live in
they can't help it.. The world tina
! PUSHES on SO fast for US, living in tn
big cities, scarcely stirs them here
These folks talk about Ethan Allel
1 and Remembrance Baker d. though
1t was only yesterday they wake,
down under the elms of the 'villag
street! They all eat of from yer!
s old china and sit in very old chair
precious because some hero dear t,
the Island has sat in them! !.
. "(All Of this is not original will
me-The Hired Man said it,
$50 just as I finished lgrandly say
Ing to Aunt sabrina that It didn'
) matter at, all what the people, VIII,
. are. dead and gone, have done, In
Opened before my eyes-that 1t doe
matter-quite little! They, thes'
dead and gone people,. leave w VIVA
they have done: II it's bad, we hav'
to pay for it; some way or other
its noble, we have to be worthy Of it
That philosophy Is all mine and no
the Hired Mans.
There are a great many thing
about the aforesaid Hired Man {
never think of him as that)l that per
plex me. He is a great big riddle
He is more interesting than any on,
J, Lever met before. I wish you wer
here 50 we could talk him over, tn
way We used to the Knights of tn
Pink Parlor. That he IL good lookinl
|. 10 not what seems 20 queer. becaus
I'll suppose there are good-lookin,
hired men as we'll az good -looknl
street car conductors or undertaken
He II 80 Observation-Disclosures ID lik'
? you and Anne and Dad. And b
knows 20 much about everything! II
must have gone to collegs-he. talk
ltuS like q college man. But one
when I limited he smiled andsteld m,
lthat he was sill q student In the col
: le1e OF Experience, where after al
one could learn more than It evel
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