Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-12-23

under shimmering lines Of dazzling air
and In the village, from ten o'clock
until the afternoon began to wane,
there was no stir. Flies buzzed and
settled on screen doors, the creek
shrunk away between crumbling rocky
banks, the butcher closed his shop and
milk soured in the bottles.
The Turner's and some other fami-
lies always camped together in the
mountains during this season, and they
were of when school closed, in an
enviable state of ecstasy aud anticipa-
ton. Cherry had planned to join them,
but an experimental week end was
enough. The camp was in the cool
woods, truly, but it was disorderly,
swarming with children, the tents were
small and hot, the whole settlement
laughed and riOted and surged to and
FRO In a manenr utterly foreign to her.
She returned, to tell Martin that it
was horribly common" and weather
the rest Of the summer In Red Creek.
Martin sympathized. He had never
cared particularly for the Turner'S +;
was perfectly willing to keep the
friendship within bounds.
He sympathized as little with an
other friendship she made, some
months later, with the wife Of a young
engineer who had recently come to the
mine. Pauline RunyOn was few
years older than her husband, hand
some, thin, intense woman, who did
everything in an entirely individual
way. She took one Of the new little
bungalows that were being erected in
Red Greek Park" and furnished 1t
richly and inapprOpriately, and estab-
lished a tea table and a samovar be-
side the open fireplace. Cherry began
to like better than anything else in the
world the hours spent with Pauline.
Pauline read Browning, Francis
Thompson and Pater, and introduced
Cherry to new worlds of thought. She
talked to Cherry of New York, which
she loved, and of the men and women
she had met there. She sometimes
sighed and pushed the bright hair back
from Cherry's young and innocent and
discontinued little face, and said ten
derby: ION the stage, my dear-any-
where. anywhere, you would be a
furore"
And thinking, in the quiet evenings
for Martins work kept him later
and later at the mine-Cherry came
to see that her marriage had been g
great mistake. She had not been ready
for marriage. She would sit on the
back steps, as the evenings grew cool
er. and watch the exquisite twilight
fade. and the sorrow and beauty OF
! life would wiring her heart.
A dream Of ease and alteration and
beauty came to her. She did not visu-
alize any special place, any special
gown or hour or person. But she saw
her beauty fttingly environed; she saw
cool rooms, darkened against this blaz-
ing midsummer glare; heard ice elink-
ing against glass; the footsteps Of at
tentive maids; the sound of cultivated
voices. Of music and laughter She
had had these dreams before, but they
were becoming habitual now. She was
so tired-so sick-so bored with her
real life; it was becoming increasingly
harder and harder for her to live with
Martin. She was always in a sup
messed state Of wanting to break out
TO shout at him brazenly: Il don't
care If your coffee is weak !! ike II
weak l don't care if you don't like
nv hat-I dol Stop talking about
yourselfl"
Various little maDnerisms OF MS pc
oan seriously to annoy her; rather
crave symptom, had Cherry but known
II He danced his big fingers on the
handle of the sugar spoon at break
fast. sitting the sugar over his cereal;
she had to turn her eyes resolutely
awav from the sight. He blew MS
rose folded his handkerchief. and then
hrusbed his nose with it firmly left ana
right: she hated the little performance
tbst was never altered. he hau
e.rta,n mental slowness; would Dunk
at her politely and patiently when she
dashed plans or hopes at him; i
donr follow you. my dear" Ihis
made her frantic.
She was twenty. undiscipllned ana
sxactlng. She had no reserves "ithih
ssrself 70 which she could turn. bau
things we're hopelessly bad win onef,
-. nor despalrs were the dark and
teers,,l despairs OF girlhood' preina-
,,~elv transferred 10 grayer matters
Martin was quite right in some OF
AZ eontenhons; giri-like' she was
.,,ssnodlc and unsystemaue 10 hef
sonsekeeping: she had times Of being
,,'11n,ented and selfish. She mated
oeonomy and fhe need Cor careful man
aging M .h.o.sd 10 write
long AND unusually COSBY 'e.'
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