Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-10-08

Yes, Michael. There's only one
thing to do-face all the facts with all
the evidence. and you are fact and
evidence, too. You know more of the
truth than any one else"
Several hours later, when the sun
was abating its force a little, after
travelling the burning roads through
vans and cocoa. grenadillas and all
kinds of herbs and roots and vagrant
trees, Dyck Calhoun and Michael
Clones came into Spanish Town.
Dyck looked around upon the town
with new eyes. He saw 1t like one for
the first time visiting it. He saw the
| people passing through the wide
verandas of the houses, like vast
colonnade. down the street. to be hap
PLY sheltered from the fierce sun. AS
| they passed Kings house they saw
troops of the viceroys guests issuing
from the palace-officers of the kings
navy and army. officers and men of the
Jamaica militia, pale-faced, big-eyed
men Of the creole class, mulattoes,
| quadroOns and Octoroons, Samboes
with their wives in loose skirts. white
stockings and pinnacle hats. SnatChes
of song were heard and voices of men
who had had full meal and had
taken observations"-a looking
| through the bottom of glass of
%quor was called by people with naval
| spirit-were mixed In careless carOu-
sal.
All this ia77ed on Dyck Calhoun and
| gave revolt to his senses. Yet he was
| only half-conscious of the great SEN
| suousness of the scene as he passed
| through it. All was brought to focus
at last, however, by their arrival at
| Charlotte BedfOrd's lodgings, which,
| like most houses in the town, had a
lookout or belfry fitted with green
blinds and a telescope, and had a
green-painted wooden railing round it.
AT the very entrance, inside the gate,
in the garden, they saw Sheila Lyn,
her mother and Darius Boland, who
seemed to be enduring from the moth
er some sharp reprimand, to the
| amusement of the daughter.
As the gate closed behind Dyck and
Michael. the three from Virginia
turned round and faced them. AS
Dyck came forward, Sheila flushed
anG trembled. She was no longer a
young girl, but her slim straightness
and the soft lines of her figure gave
her a dignity and charm which made
her young wOmanhOod distinguished
for she was now twenty-five and had
carriage of which a princess might
have been proud Yet 1t was plain
that the entrance of Dyck at this mo-
ment was disturbing 1t was not what
she had foreSeen.
She showed no hesitation. however.
but came forward to meet her visitor,
while Michael fell back. as also did
Darius BOland. Both these seemed TO
/ realize that the less they saw and
heard, tie better; and they presently
got together in another part Of the
garden, as Dyck Calhoun came near
| enough almost to touch Sheia.
Surely, he thought, she was supreme
| in appearance and design. She was
| touched by a rose on each cheek and
made womanly by firm and yet gener-
+ Gus breasts, tenderly imprisoned by
the white chiffon of her blouse in
which was one bright sprig Of the buds
| Of a cherry tree-a touch of modest
! luXuriance on a person sparsely orna-
menfed. 1t was Sheila herself, whom
| time had enriched with far r.ore than
/ years and experience. Il was a per-
sonaity which would Al where have
taken place and held il. It was I'M
/ defeatabe, persistent and permanent;