The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-09-24
CHAPTER XIV


Cattle OF the Sun. We're they fools,
do you think?'
"What were the Cattle of the Sun7
Agnes asked "Days?'
days. They devoured the days
the Cattle OF the Herder of the Heav-
ens-without counting Them
Must we count them?"
You don't want to, either"
II can't bear to- | can't bear to
know when this must come to an
end"
1T will never come to an end, Ag-
mes, what's between u.s.
No; but you must so back to the
people that need you. So many peo-
pie that so desperately need you!
And you're so young-so young!" She
caught his hand and kissed It; so he
| caught her to him; and for several
| moments both OF them forgot about
the Cattle of the Sun. Then he said,
| defantly. 1--WE won't count them,
either. Wen throw away the cal
| endar and never mark the days
But" she weakened, "can we?'
"see that great gray crag down
there?" Cathal gazed into the valley.
! 1t was MONDAY and they rested side
by side, far up on the flank of their
mountain, at the very edge OF the
snoW-line. Above them rose rock and
snow: beside them a single stout little
dwarf pine chung In cleft, brave
| outpost of the forest below.
The Sun, herding his cattle through
the pastures of Time. had climbed to
his highest slope in the sky; and his
/ radiance caught the gray crag SO that
/ 1t shone above the mountains shadow.
Agnes gazed at the great rock, and
she followed Cathal's feeling: Until
that falls into the shadow at noon,
let us stay Then we need never
count the days. Only, some day that
rock will tell us that we must 90"
And so they agreed on 1t.
They were far In the west and the
north, amid the mighty, majestic
mountains and for five days they had
been married. (And Bob Glenelth had
stood by his Light One In the service
at the house Of the minister.)
To be married. to take your place
In the procession Of life, to realize
at last how you had received your life
and how, If you willed you would pass
life on--that was solemn and also
an ecstatically happy situation. And
there were the mountains.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling
place In all generations. Before the
mountains were brought forth.
Before these mountains were brought
forth
For a thousand years In thy sight
are but as yesterday wheneit Is past,
and as a watch In the night.
A thousand years ago, no one had
ever dreamed of Chicago, and the
forefathers OF the millions In the
teeming city were to beget sons and
daughters and die and they would
bear children that would die through
six hundred years. before a genera
ton grew that would hear Of this
America. And the stock-market thai
now made" or ruined SO many meI
what was 1t? A center of schemlnt
through a moment of time. You
. stocks maintained their prices, In TIL.
: center Of mems schemes, and yol
remained powerful and great like In
3 sull. and clever and comfortable o]lk
Jeb. a. They declined, and you wer
) dsgraced like Philip Linsdale ant
{ John Ormstead or you must destro
$ Yourself. as Arthur Linsdale had done
r and Davis had tried to do, In orde
70 leave few dollars to Bee and tn
hovs. Thou earliest them away a
h with flood; they are as sleep.
e But the mountain would remain
the world continue to spin under tn
It sun each year In the spring exposin
II to the sunshine for a few days thf
IS great gray crag in the valley, and IN
e, mersing 1t again in the shadow uni
another twelvemonth was turned. On
r. new reckoned year to add to the III
re countable ages OF eternal Time.
ID Agnes shivered little.
i "Cold?" He clasped her closer.
n "Haye we been mad, CathaiY a.
hit we all insane in the clties?"
"Here," he said, ut seems SO. y
YOU and are going back"
Nv mot before we must Oh, why
az we ever leave heref'
He looked down at her. All
fin life. I'll remember how you said ina
And a thousand, thousand other
i'll What magic you've made OF =
a days!"
on "You think have? 1t seems TO
ey you've done it all. I've merely move
nd rathal, into your kingdom
nd miner he said. Miner"
"Wlth your words, tnnt night, y
m, made Its walls !"
0e. no BE CONTINUED