Grand Forks herald., 1922-06-10

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about his mouth were drawn lines
"Kow." he, said, I so now!'
go now other houseH Kow nod
ded. glancing toward the valley.
But Peter jerked his head insteat
! toward the bare ridge.
tNo, &c. now-not come back" h,
said, briefly. "Tonight--mayhe Bo
(! ltpas--tomorrow. Inverness. don
know: BY and by the big mountains
kow-by and by I forget"
| Tears glittered in the Chinese boy''
eyes but lie smiled with a great ali
| of cheer
II keep heusc!'. he promised.
The dog came fawning and spring
ing from the stables, and Peter whis
tied to him:
! Come on Buck! We're going now!'
! He opened the farmyard gate where
her hand had SO often rested, crossed
the muddy corral. opened anothe,
gate, and struck off across the dark
ening world toward the ridge. The
last sunlight fingered on crest and
tree-top. tangled itself redly in the
woods, and was gone. Twilight-a
long twilight that had in it some hint
of spring-lay softly over the valley;
the mountain loomed high in the clear
shadow.
Gaining the top Of the first ridge
he paused and looked back at the
cabin, the little brown house that he
had built almost fifteen years ago
He remembered that it was in the be-
ginning sort Of experiment: his
| mother. and he were too much alone
in their big city house, and she had
suggested. with rare wisdom. that as
/ he did not care for society. and as his
travels always meant great loneliness
for her, he should have little eyrie
of his own, to which he might re-
treat whenever the fancy touched
him. =
She liked Del Monte and Tahoe,
herself, but she had come to Mill Val
ley now and then in the days Of his
ilrst wild delight in its freedom and
beauty, silk-gowned and white
gioVed and very {nuch dislikins dust.
Sne mad sent him plants, roses, and
lrutt trees. and she had told him one
day that he had neighbor in the val
ley VINO was an old friend Of hers, a
Doctor Strickland. widower, with
children
He remembered sauntering up the
opposite canyon to duly call upon this
!nveIlof-p physician one day, and his
deAght upon finding a weli-read.. mn
sic-loving, philosophic, erratic man
VINO mad at once recognized a kindred
spirit, and who had made the young-
ef man warmly welcome,
| presently, on the fret c,n 80 -.
! cnantinG little girl in a sha bby smock
lad come ina little girl all dimples.
occurrences and untouched boyish
beauty. She had said that Anne wath
MAD Wiy her and that AIix--" she
managed to lisp the name. "wotb IN
In the madrone!' w
A somewhat Older child n,n,oa
Aiix a freckled leggy little norsdn
with enormous front teeth. had nrovl
60 the claim by falling out of the ma :.
orone, and had received no svmnsth,.
Tor pump, but a--to hin,-rather
surprising censure. He had vet tn
h ,ea nze that nothing ever hui Alix
out ana 'nat she always ruined her clothes
anu frequently hurt other persons
an! amu otner things. He found her .
,pa.su, ,r, enthusiastic little person. ox.
onnae; s aruculate, and quite unself-
him ,,,;tL' A oHe ilaQ cnterta jned
femd ~ ~, an excited account of n sex
some violence at her school a WIN
ussa expressions that rather oh ao,,aa ,aa
e.er. quiet third girl-a niaos
ne sathered-had joined the srn,,s ".s
who elucidated: s'eah hands
Ahx and I don't like orr
h.d t. a sneak and skunk!" A,;x
l.aa irankly contributed, Chcrrv HA an.
guietiy esta blished in her fathaS.. nuw
nag smiled with mischievons a.ip' iap'
,Htht' NOBODY else, to Peters .,,s Lily
,aa PAID this extrao-dinarv' rap p,lse,
sne sAs sntest attention. He ren,an,hn
Wal ne had fancied oply tha sr,"M
~ o. these children. and had Sn,am. hanI.
room. went out OF the
s! Leok,ns {, Kin. down ], the cabin ..
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~ syh..uned grass. But when ~ tba.m uiump
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