Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-04-14
THE INDIAN DRUM
By txi1ium MacHarg e,,dE dsOin Balmer
Copyrshtby winBa
cHarg and Edtvir1 Balrner

? the station, pricked In Alan's veins
and hastily he dropped the window T.
, his right ard gazed out The lake
as he had known since his geography
days, lay to the east of Chicago
therefore that void out there beyond
the park was the lake or, at least, the
harbor. A different air seemed to
come from It.; sounds Suddenly
IL all was shut off; the taxicab,
swerving little was dashIng between
business blocks; row of buildings
had risen again upon the right; they
broke abruptly to show him a wooden
walled chasm In which flowed the
river aull of ice with tug dropping
Its smokestack as 1t cut below the
bridge which the cab crossed; build
ings on both sides again; then. to the
right, roaring. heaving crashing ex-
panse.
The sound, Alan knew, had been
coming to him as an undertone for
many minutes; now 1t overwhelmed,
swallowed all other sound. 1t was
great. not loud; all sound which Alan |
had heard before except the soughing |
of the wind over his prairies, came
from one point; even the monstrous
city murmur was conferred in compari-
son with this. Over the lake, as over
the land, the soft snowfiakes laziIy
hoated down, scarcely stirred by the
slightest breeze; that roar was the
voice Of the water, that awful power
It's own.
Alan choked and gasped for breath,
his pulses pounding in his throat; he
lad snatched off his hat and, leaning
'ut OF the window sucked the lake air
n his lungs. There had been nothing
o make him expect this overwhelming
rush Of feeling. The lake-he had
hought of it, of course, as a great
ody Of water, an interesting sight
or a prairie boy to see; that was all.
20 physical experience in all his
lemory had affected him like this
nd 1t was without warning: the 5
range thing that had stirred within L
Ina as the car brought him to the a
rive downtown was strengthened "
DIV a thousand-fold it amazed, half D
lghtened, half dizzied him. Now, as
e motor suddenly swung around a o.
'rner and shut the sight of the lake u
ON MIN, Alan sat back GREATNESS. y"
The car swerved to the east curb 81
'out the middle of the block and -,
me to stop. The house before 81.
hich 1t had halted was a large stone -
'use of quiet, good design; it was 80
me generation older. apparently. ~,
an the houses on each side of It, o.,
lich were brick and terra Gotta of -,
cent fashionable architecture: Alan a.,
ly glanced at them long enough to en-,
mat impression before he opened o.,
cab door and got out; but as the ,ar
D drove away, he stood beside his ~,
tease looking up at the old house 80,
iich bore the number given in Ben III.
MIN Coryets letter, then around nj 49,.
other houses and back to that -,
ain pa'
The neighborhood obviously nre- q
ded the probability of Corvet's he nor
merely lawyer--a go-between dor
must be some relative; the ones CON
ever present In Alan's thought sur
ce the receipt of the letter, but held me,
aneyance. as to the possibility and &c
'rness OF Corvet's relation to him. j,c
K sharper and more exact form Il
than he had dared to let II tnte r.
ore. NnH hfA
"i' ieiauonship 20 He
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