Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-30
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gentleman OF gypsy habits. 20 wnen
Janet Il mean Miss Curpheyl mem
toned at tea that you were likely to
come down the glen about sunset
me?" he said.
| She laughed again. having said more
than she had intended and finding no
way Of escape from it.
When air was done and he had helped
her up (how his fingers tingledD and
they stood side by side for the first
time (she was less than half head
shorter than himself and her eyes
seemed almost on the level Of his own
and they were ready to go, he suddenly
remembered that they were on the wrong
side for the road. So il she hadD't
to take off her boots and stockings
and wade through the water again
or else walk half a mile down the gler
to the bridge, he would have to carry
her across the river.
Without more ado she let him do 1,
picking her up in his quivering arms
and striding through the water in hi.
long boots.
Then being dropped to her feet sh.
laughed again; and he laughed, and
they went on laughing, all the way
down the glen road. and through the
watery lanes of the Curragh, where the
sally bushes were singing loud in the
| breeze from the sea--but not so louG
as the hearts of this pair Of children
III
That night. after dinner, leaving tn,
Deemster and the Governor at tht
table. discussing insular subjects Ga
constitutional change which was ther
being mooted), Victor took Fenella Out
onto the piazza (his mother had called
IN A.
which overlooked the coast.
He was In q dark blue jacket suit
not yet having possessed evening wear
but she was in gauzy light dress
with satin slippers, and her bronze
brown hair was curled about her face
in bewitching ringlets.
The evening was very quiet. almos,
breathless. with hardly a leaf stirring
The revolving light in the lighthouse
on the Point of Ayre (seven mile,
away on its neck of land covered b,
a wilderness of white stOnes) was an.
swering to the far off CLEAN of the ligh
on the Null of Galloway, while th'
sky to the west was slumberous red
as If the night were dreaming of th'
departed day.
They had not yet recovered from
their experience in the glen, and. sit.
ting out there in the moonlight (for tn
moon had just sailed through racl
Of cloud. they were still speaking in
yoiuntarily, ana then lausn.hs nervous
J! at hothlhg- g-hothih1 nht .nat thsIinl
sense OF sex "hlcn made tneh airal'
OF each other. tnat mysterious call o
man 10 maid whicn' wnen II nrst comes
Is az pure as an anger "hlsper.
hat "ohaeriu' uas ~ mas oeeh'
she said. H..
me most wohderIul Gay nav
eve. Apd Rh'wh What ne wonderful anSIp' home 70,
= ana wnat, wonueiui hon'e 9o'
Haven't we: ne rephed: AND thei
he told her that over there IN the dar
lay ireland; ana over there scotlnnu
and over there Engiand' ana straigh
ahead was Norway ana the North fole
That caught them up INTO the zone 0
great things. the eternities, the vas
darkness out OF when the generation
come and toward which they 60 and
having found his voice at last, he bega
to tell her how the island came to b
peopled by It's present race.
Ihis was the very scene OF the Nors
invasion-the vikings from lcelan
having landed on TINS Spot thousah ,L,
years ago. When the old sea King I'M
name was Orry) came ashore at tn
Lhen lit was on starlight night iik
this), the native inhaDltahts OF man ma
gone down TO challenge him, "Wher
do you come from they had cried
ana tneh' pointing 70 ,ic iiiiihs way
he had answered. That's the road {
my country" But the native PeGp,
had fought him to throw him back INT
the sea-yes, men and women. 100 the
say. This very ground between thei
and the coast had been the pattleneit
who had died that day.
What a wonderful story she saie
isn't it?"
THE women fought too. you say!