Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-03

s,,Iru the first breath of the first sum
|W .,or ofter their return to the island,
s..rnil anJ Cell went uH into the glen
ANN. They had no tent; two ham.
swung FROM neighbOring trees
sss ''sSsJ them Tor beds nnd the horizontal
Iurhs Of other trees for wardroDes'
Tscre for II long month. amid the
.,.nt ~ the boneysucklc. the gorse and
4. ~ heather. aud the smell Of the brack-
" ..' and the pine. they fished. they shnt.
~ ~ smoked, they talked. Late IN the
.,.u,nc. , after they had rolled them,
.',,ss into their hammocks. they heard
M murmuring of the trees down the
,i.nsth of the glen. like near ana dis-
IN sca waves, and saw. above the
....,,v nine trunks. the cleaning OF
y. .lS With It's stars. As they shout.
~ u t their last "GOod night" TO each
.,h.r from tho depths Of their sway.
',ns S Mods the dogs would he barking ~
~ Ralirommt's mill Mt the bottom
- thc glen and the water would De
sn,sshinc in the topmost fall OF IT,:
lmd then night would come. perfect
s,.ht and the silence Of unbroken sleep.
Avaking with the dawn they would
,pe the last stars pale out ana near
Inc first birds begin to call them IN INC
cock would crow at old VIII SEiiii :
canes croft on the ''brough., inc
,beep would bleat in the fields beyond
Tho souirreis would squeak III tht
iranchcs over their heads and the iiNn
would leap in the river below. And
then, as the sun came striding dowi'
on them from the hilltOps to the east
th.y would. tumble out of their ham
mocks, strip and plunge into the sie',
stream-the deep. round, b'uc dnns 0,
n. in which the glistening water. wo'ilt
jash their bodies like living element
And then they would run up TO tht
,headland (still in the state OF nature
ana race over the heather Ii kc wild
horses in the fresh and nipping air
They were doing this one midsum
liner morning when they had an cm-
lbarrassing experience. which. in the
Geyious ways of destiny. was not to be
Without its results. Flying headlone
down the naked side of the glen (fOl
cake Of the faster rum they suddenly
ibecame aware Of somebody coming up,
NJ was young woman IN Il sunbonnet.
lShe was driving four or five heifers to
khe mountain. Swishing twig in her
hand and calling to her cattle, she was
making straight for their camping
place.
The young men looked around. but
there was no escape on any side. sc
bown they went full length on thril
faces in the long grass 'hOw short >
ind buried their noses in the earth.
In that POSITION OF blind hcIplcssness,
Al a., 4 h,,s Il tt0
the girl and her cattle bad passed. anl
hope to be unobserved. They cOulG
hear the many feet Of the heifers, tht
tapping of their tails (thc flies mus,
be pestering them and the frequent
calls of the girl. On she came. with
a most deliberate slOwness. and hel
voice, which had been clear and charl
when she was lower down the glen
seemed to them to have a gurglip: note
in 1t as she came nearer to whore they
Jay.
Come on, Of that. you gawk. an,
get along, will you"' She cried. ant
Victor could not be quite st1e thai
It was only the cattle she was call.
Ing to.
At one moment, when they thought
the girl and the cattle must be very
close, there was sickcning silence
and then the young men remembers,
their breeches, which we're hanging opeI
over a bough, and their shirts whicl
were dangling at the end of it.
Get up, stupid. What are 20,
lying there for?' cried the girl, an,
then came another swish of the twi,
and a further thudding Of the feet o
the heifers.
The devil must be in that girl, :
thought Victor. and he would hay,
given something to look up. but dar,
not, so he lay still and listened. tell
ing himself that never before had tw,
poor men been in such an unfair ant
ridiculous predicamcnt.
AT length the feet Of the cattle sound
"a faint over the ripping of the river
ana the girls voice thin through tn,
latterng Of the leaves. And then tn
Two sons OF Adam rose cautiously from
the grass, slithcred down the glen sid
hhd slipped into the essential part O
their garments. '
hair an hour later, the lark bein,
oud IN the sky. and the world usti
shd decent. they were cooking thci
breakfast !Gell holding a frying paI
over cracking gorse fire, and StoIeii
III mn ms wellington boots, striding abou
WY; WIN teapot when they heard tn
aa1.S ama coming back. And being now en-
,hssa ,Sss IN the close armor of their clothe
;,ne' lelt that the offensive had change,
iS,aat0ooh iS atoh1 and stepped boldly forwar,
Sne was fine girl Of three or fou
yssn; *. .;wehty; with coA black hair an,
kaa,hs 6iack eyes under her sun
S..ns., S.. which was turned back frou
az, tforshead, showing a cOmely fac
snd mesh ne complexion, with eager mout
soII.S "drm I'm red lips. Her sleeves wer
'0nea oack above her elbows. Icov;n