The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-07
l Outrageous Fortune
ERs ~ Rszsleea Ne,szMusH


seeeeesseeeeeseeeseseess,
northern edge-a hill with double
top.
He sat looking at 1t for . long
time, and for as long as he looked
at 1t there were pictures in his mind
broken pictures that came and
went, forming. dissolving. and re-
forming. When he tried to think
about them they were gone. He was
left with a sense Of things most deep
" familiar.
He walked on towards the hill.
He had bought food in Lexington.
At midday he sat on q sunny slope
and ate. Afterwards he fell asleep
and dreamed about the emeraIds. It
was the same dram every time he
slept, but it was getting clearer. In
the dream he always knew where
the emeralds were. but as soon as
he woke up the knowledge faded.
Sometimes he could hold 1t for q
moment by shutting his eyes and
keeping his mind empty; but as
soon as he tried to keep it, 1t was
gone.
The dream always began the same
way. He could remember the Begin
ming Elmer's hand with the scar.
and the emeralds dangling from 1t
under the light-eight square green
stones with pearls between them.
Then the dream broke up into a
rush OF colored fragments. There
was a voice in fog. There was the
sound OF a shot a long way or. There
was the voice, and there was q pic
ture in his mind Of tall stone pillars
with pineapple tops. and a drive
that wound between them out OF
sight. The voice said. Like q kids
green beads and, Nobody knows
where they are" But in the dream.
he knew. A round room with five
little windows like slits--a place
where you might look for q year.
and never find them.
He woke up, the sun hot on his
face. The dream was gone. but the
hill still broke the horizon. In some
strange way he associated the hill
and the dream. He made pillow
Of bracken for his head and lay on
the slope watching the hill. Pres-l
emily he would get to it-present-
ly... 3.
He slept again.
"TTs eleven o'clock" said CarolineI
! to Patsy Ann. I'm going toI
bed"
She went up the stairs. which
ended on tiny landing with 9 door,
on either side. Her room was on the
left. and you went down two steps to
It. Both the steps and the floor OF
the room were old polished BOARDS
very wayy and uneven. The window,
which looked to the front Of the
house, was set In q deep embrasure.
She shut the door and turned on
the light in the lamp beside her bed.
Hazelbury West had had electric
light for the last eight years and
considered itself very up to date in
consequence.
Caroline turned down her bed,
folding the quilt carefully and lay
Ing it on the chest In which she kept
her hats. She had said she wanted
to come to bed. but she wasn't really
sleepy.
She opened the bottom drawer OF
the chest Of drawers which faced
the window and took out bundle
Of letters tied with q twist Of pale
blue knitting silk. Then she went.
over to the bed. Sitting down on the
edge Of It. she united the bundle and
turned the letters over.
There were not q great many Of
them. Two the first year after Jim
went out--one for her birthday, and
one for Christmas-and two again
the second year. and the third. In
the fourth year he only wrote for
Christmas. The pain Of that missedl
birthday came across the three,
years interval and hurt her still.
In the NTH year there was no let
Ter at all. On her birthday and on
Christmas day Caroline read the old
letters and tried 10 make believe
that they had just come. It was mot
q very successful make believe.
In the sixth year there were stili
no letters
And then Ii the seventh year
this year--they began again. He
had written at Christmas from New
York.
Caroline got out the letter and.
read It again. II was q very nice
letter. She hugged herself . little
over Il. Il began. as all his letters
had begun. Darling Caroline: and
Il was quite long. He had been
building q bridge in Mexico. and he
had been in Chile. and Peru. and MP
in wild places in the Andes. He was
hers. Jim. He always signed Just
like that: 'sYours. Jim"
fcopmisAt. 1855. !. y. Liepimsots ca
The movements ~ IIm Eandal
hocoU1a clearer. Monday.