The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23

stepped off the train. Besides, I
must hurry along before it gets too
dark"
Eyes, yes, of course. Theren be
time enough for visiting later on"
PLENTY" Autumn declared. ''I'm
coming in to spend whole day with
you just as soon as get settled at
home"
How are you going out?"
Autumn patted one of his brown
hands affectionately. "I'm going to
ride one of your hunters" she told
him. ''It wouldn't look right for
the daughter of Jarvis Dean to go
home in an automobile, would it,"
Hector smiled. Zone of my hunt
ers? I have only one left, my dear,
but you are welcome. Are you 60
ing to ride in those clothes?"
mo. I'll telephone for my lug
gage. I have a riding habit handy
in a bag. You see, I had it all
planned. Where is the telephone,
Hector? Isn't that frightfully stupid!
It's the only thing about the house I
have forgotten"
Hector pointed to a low japanese
gilt and black lacquer screen that
stood below a Seventeenth century
brass lantern clock with single hand.
Back there" he said.
When she had arranged for the
immediate transfer of her luggage
to Hector Cardigan's house, she re-
turned to the fireplace. Hector had
laid another log on the fire, and the
pitch was swapping spiritedly. He
had also brought out remarkably
cut old English decanter with ruby
glass snake wound about the neck.
Two fragile wine glasses stood on
the tray beside it, and the liquid
within them glowed with a fixed and
inviolate coruscation. On Meis-
sen porcelain plate were tiny FROST
ed cakes and shortbreads.
20, Hector! You sweet" Autumn
cried, kneeling before the wine to
look at the light flaming through it.
81 take back all I said about my
welcome" She seated herself upon
a battered hassock and took the
glass he offered her. She slipped the
wine and reached for one of the
tempting little cakes.
"Chablis, isn't it?" she remarked.
Hector smiled at her over his
glass, and it seemed to her that he
was more his old self again, the
surprising and eternally enigmatic
old self that she had known, Puck
and Pan and Centaur, all in one,
and sometimes Ariel and sometimes
Caliban-all the naive and grotesque
and impish legendary beings she
knew.
Your education is complete, I
see," he laughed. Autumn laughed
too, and ate another cake in one
mouthful.
"Oh, when went over" she said,
"they were teaching children to
drink so that they would stop beg
ging for another war" Her mood
changed then and she frowned down
at the last drop that lay in the crys-
tai hollow of the glass. Seriously,
though, that's why wanted to come
home, Hector. I had to get away
from the constant RELIEVING of a night
mare that my generation missed"
81 KNOW know" Hector re-
marked.
"The only real thing in the PAM
pered life of Aunt Flo was the loss
of her sonny cousin Frederick,
you know. I don't know whether
there is such a word or not-there
ought to be-but Aunt Flo simply
voluptuated in her loss. I couldn't
live with it any longer"
''It isn't the same back home
as"
"Oh, I don't mean they are all
like Aunt Flo," she fastened to add.
"But there is something smothery
about England now, with all those
hungry-eyed women stepping on
each others toes. Do you know what
I mean?"
eyes," Hector admitted. CT think
do. You wanted room to breathe
WELL yOo o1S 4A64it, w.
your father isn't the same man Ell
Their. You will find him very diff
cult at times. He rarely comes to
see me any more-and you know
how devoted I have been to him."
Father has always been difficult,
Hector. But I've always loved him,
nevertheless-and he has always
loved me-"
Certainly. He loves the ground
you walk on. ! think, perhaps, that
was one of the reasons he didn't
want you to come back"
Listen, Hector" Autumn said,
shaking a finger at him, ''I know
father wanted me to stay in Eng
land. He wanted me to marry and
settle down over there. Why?"
Hector coughed lightly and took
another sip from his glass. eff Jar
Wis has any reason for not wanting
voII hack here he said fipaIIv