New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-09-06
REeIs HERE TODAY.

Godfrey eernet, on a voyage
Northern Canada and Alaska 20 e.
change two thousand silk and xelNs
gowns 18th the Indians fer me fur
The profits are 20 be split fk-ss. IN
lions share 70 Ned,
Corner 10 accompanied on the yas
age by his hsneee. Lenare Harden
worth. AMI the laltsr's mother, hes
Gilbert Is hired % so As seamstfess
Mrs, Hardenwoffh objects 10 eatinl
&C the same iahle with ness,
Al Vancouver, the night following
their departure from Seattle. thel
loaded on certain heavy stores, Cap
tain knntxen, In charge OF the craft
Ia ably assisted by MeNah, Resl
makes up her mind 10 avoid the tire.
aristoerafs as much as possible, Thes
IN turn ignore the girl
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
There was such alittle group OF
them. only eight In all, The ship
was mere dot In the expanse OF
blue. Around them endlessly lay the
sea swept by unknown winds. cursed
by the winters cold. like death itself
In its infnity and Its haunting fear.
The life they had left behind was al
ready Swallowed and dim: the farewell
shouts. the laughter. the gaiety. the
teemine crowds that moved and were
never still were all like something
Imagined. unspeakably far off. Only
the sea and the sky were left, and the
craft struggling YEARLY, ever farther
into the empty North.
Lenore found herself oppressed by
an unreasoning fear. Realities were
getting home to her, and she was
afraid OF them. II would have been
wiser not to come. yet she couldn't
have told why. The launch was
wholly comfortable: she was already
accustomed to the cramped quarters.
The men of the crew were courteous,
Ned the same devoted lover as al
ways. The thing was more an in
stinct with her: such pleasure as the
trip offered could not compensate for
an obscure uneasiness. a vague but
ominou shadow owe. her mood and
heart that was never lifted. Per-
laps a wiser and secret self within
the girl, subconsciousness which
was wise with the knowledge of the
ages before ever her being emerged
from the germ pasm was even now
warning her to turn back. 1t knew
her limitations: also it knew the
dreadful. savage realm she had dared
to penetrate. The North would have
no; mercy If she we're found unworthy.
Perhaps In her heart she realized
that she represented all that was the
antithesis of this far northern do
main. She was the child of luxury |
and ease: the tone and spirit of these |
wintry seas were travail and desola- !
ton. She was the product of a gen.
GRAFTON that knew life only as struc-
ture that mems civilization had built;
out here was life itself, raw and |
raked. stripped and bare. She was
Iawless, undisciplined knowing no
code but her own desires; all these
seas and the gray fog-laden shores
they swept were in the iron grip of
Law that went down to the roots of
lime. She had never looked beyond
he surface of things; the heart that
pulsed In the breast of this wintry
.ealm lay So deep that only the most
wise and old, devotees to natures
ecrets, could ever hear it beat. She
lad the unmistakable feeling that, in
mi unguarded moment, she had blum
Tered into the camp Of an enemy.
Ever she discerned malevolence in
he murmur of the wind, veritable
hreat in the soft voices of the night.
The nights, her innate sense of
.rtistry told her, were unspeakably
,eautiful. She had never seen such
tars before. They were SO large, SO
rhite, and yet so unutterably aloof.
ometimes the moon rose in splash
I silver, and its loneliness on the far
cas- was thing that words couldn't
each. Yet Lenore did not like
Kings she could not put in words.
or all their beauty those magic
lights dismayed and disquieted her.
hey too, were of the realities, and
or all her past attitude of sophisti-
alton, she found that realism was
lie one thing she could not and dared
OF accept. Such realities as these,
lie stretching seas and the in
nifty of stars, were rapidly stripping
er of her dearest decisions; and with
rem, the very strongholds of her
eng. Heretofore she had placed
or faith in superficialities, finding
rength for her spirit and bolstering
D her self-respect with such things