The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-09-12
CHAPTER IV-Continued

Inc glory or the year deeDened
swiftly. and joy kept pace with it in
Ellens heart. The harness was long
gone. the couch was upstairs again,
and only cushioned rockingham in
its place. Ellen could sweep the gar
den path again, with her blue sunbon-
net over her eyes. Ellen could cut out
cookies on condition that she went
straight upstairs and lay down for an
hour afterward. Except that she
usually went to bed at eight o'clock,
and avoided the more violent forms of
youthful amusement, Ellen might live
her old life again.
But II would never be the old life.
1t was so enriched and so enhanced by
the five long months in prison that
Ellen felt sensations of freedom alb
solutely birdlike. warmth and flowers
and blue sky intoxicated her. Leonard
Henshaw, for whose attentions she
had wistfully longed a year ago, was
her captive now, but she did not want
to marry Leonard Henshaw She only
wanted TO be alive, and to claim her
work and play among the living again
-Hos eA-i NitNhs away a great udl
In Port Washington annals, broke
cloudless, and found all the village al
ready in holiday mood. The yacht
clubs would 90 into commission at
high noon, with every imaginable form
of gayety to do honor to the occasion.
At the Port Washington club, where
Ellen and her friends would presently |
gather. there were to be swimming |
races. great outdoor luncheon, a |
baseball game between the married |
and the unmarried men, moving pic
lures, games and prizes for the small
children, dance until long after mid
night and. of course, the raising of
the colors.
Ellen was taken down by the Hen
shaw boys, in their car, at eleven
O'Clock, and was under parole not to
race. even If she swan. not to "crew"
even if she sailed and to be home at
five o'clock to get three hours rest be-
fore the dance.
Strings of color were fluttering
everywhere, women with baskets were
gathering on the clubhouse porch,
pier end like restless gulls, tenders,
loaded to their capacities. were maxi
ing for the yachts. Presently the col
ors went up, duttering gayly against |
the blue. and the cannon, fired from I
The grassy mound before the club |
house, was answered by twenty boom {
ing shots from the boats As the det- r
Dnation died away the band burst c
nadly into sound. and thirty young
igures plunged from the pier end for I
he first swim, to pull themselves upon Il
he float a moment later as sleek as v
eas. and add their shrieks and laugh
er to the general uproar. a
II Ellen Latimer. one of the seals, o
yho was warning Bobby Carnival that n
{ he pushed her into the water again
e would be sorry for II the longest N
ay of his life. had CHANGED to glance
oward The Eaglet. one OF the visiting az
achts In the bay anchored three hun ST
red yards away from her. she might
I this moment have received shock pl
or n man with thick mop Of sill In
cred hair under a visored yachting A
ap was standing there, yawning hap
ly In the warm sunshine.
Gibbs Josselyn. If he had been ~
trough no such schooling as Ellen In
e last few months had suffered. too. sv
his own way. Like Ellen. he had as
emed to lose his place in the world sc
it'll his fathers marriage. his resig- a
ltion from his fathers firm. and the
from his fathers house tn
his club. Sensitive and proud he =
md the attitude of his lntimates yo
uNly dlstasteful. whether they sym wi
tblzed with him or criticized him,
missed his work. and found no in AS
ntive to take up anything new. tn
his realizing IT, the pretty alb
tie Miss Latimer had touched him ini
q WIS rot flirting. like Lucia. she fin
IS dead In earnest, the brigbt-eyed,
" little enthusiast thf