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Show I I.F.HI FREE PRESS. LF.HI. IT AH ,j r TTF Coprriht bj CHAPTER tHa XI Bobba-lCerrl- Continued her enough to cave The work around the house than she could do. .fferfd re Slow!' .t,I''eulf,er waa Creeping Into Soon Onthla would he (jofhin-- s think on. m-- olfln. ami ,l'e th'llKht vvas f,,'as' had finished the diverse col- ins Bt jiiiP men's shirts and ored cloth for the for her own dress, blue twill cloth the and as sewing them while Julia she the cutting. "Nest eek will come iu a hurry," Julia said. It's been such an odd summer.' Ojn tbia answered. "No two summers are the Mime. Cynnow -- thia. one is such an awful lot the others seem alike." "There havt heen others. Cynthia The summer Jesse whs sick, and the the spritm year Lucy pot married, and hut on over moved llorsepen: Jenny it like you were little and didn't notice I did to see the two trirls gone." " "And now with me about t' "But it's just over to town to the Institute, and not like marry ins ami foing off for pood and nil." "Sometimes I don't think I'd better fo anJ leave you here with everyt"But tli i ss different hing." "It's not much, ilullens stays at Cynthia, now that the camp with the new men. I don't mind Sheltenberijer like you do, and I'll Ket Amy to come over on wash days. I'll manage all right like I always have. I want you to ko and you must. And what we don't get done can Just wait And there'll he a right smart of money when Mr. pays for the land. We've been putting more than enough stuff away You just set your mind each winter. it rest, and be thankful for your tbanees." Cynthia sewed quietly In thought for She looked at her mother, noting the unselfish look of her face In a time. and conscious of the kindly itrength of every faint line about her month and forehead. Uer sense of withholding herself from intimate with Julia was suddenly and Impulsively gone. "Mother," she said. "Yes, Cynthia." "Do you think I ought to marry somerepose body?" "Why, yes, Cynthia, some time you ihould marry." "How old were you when you married Daddy?" A "Just about your age. little younger." "Is that too soon to marry or not?" "It would be too soon for you, but it was right for me. I was big for my age. I knew how to manage a house and your father asked me to marry him. A girl should marry when the right lime for her comes." "Do you think I ought to marry Doug, Mother?" Julia controlled her surprise before she spoke again. "Doug is a mighty good boy." "But do you think a girl ought to marry just a boy who is good? Doug asked me to." "And what did you say to him?" "I said it wasn't time to think about things like that, and he asked me If . . if . . ." "Asked you what?" "If . . . well, he wanted to know If ' if he . . ." She shifted the varicolored shirting on her lap, looking up and then down. "He said, 'Has that . . . have you gone to liking that surveyor?' it was utiered. and U seemed very strange to see It taken out of secret and put In the room between her and her mother just a little phrase that surveyor." "liking was such an odd world within to be folded up in three words and stood noon a sewing stand or a bench by the U ioom. . Julia let it stand there until it was ill at ease, and then said without probing Cynthia's secrets, "What did you tell Doug?" "I told him a lie." Its sudden stab was so unexpected that Julia exclaimed, "Why, Cynthia!" "It seemed like a little tiny lie when "o longer 1 tld today but that was yesterday and it looks as big as Cranesnest. . . . It, "Mother." "What, Cynthia?" "Do you think Reuben was about the nicest hoy you ever saw?" "Well, I still remember your father, Crnthla." "And how he saw you first on the cnlP pile. You always look the same wh-anybody mentions that, I'm glad Tti saw him first that way. . . . "Mother." "Yes, "fo dear?" you know how I first saw nenben?" 'o, you never said," "I had burned my hand on the stove, an,l I was stirring the batter with my hn"d. slopping it out , against my ? . dress, and I was so hot and my ir was stringing down in my eyes nl I was Just about to cry. Then I the gate and thonght It was Jesse n" I went to the porch saying some-,n nln and there he was tall and 'at as 8 popinr, and I couldn't even Jin like y(n did when you first met ai''l. hut j Rtond there and mumbled, the,, j Daek )n ,he k(C..n N ri.(1, 1 By HARLAN HATCHER Co. 12 jur OF WOLF .Mother. ' She Mulled to him, and waved back "Yes?" as she took u e ford over (Jannon. "Don't things ever 'Hie out the way An l she baiiied with her own sense a body dre;i!is themV of pleasure as she heard Abral's voice "Hardly I'.u: pitched bigh saying, -- .No. It won't go they are better." that way. Here. Watch me." I aiw;is he io. king neat She dreaded the thought of hiking and l:i.;!;ke an.) s:aiii:-liy a pear up the hollow w here the trees had been tree, an, t ;lMl i.ui ln:i he it was cut. a.s she came into the road beyond more !,Ke yoti :u.i had.lv." the shadow t,f the Pinnacle where Dry Thi-.b..tt, H.,.,,t imhv ,.a,., riln. Cre. k would burst Into view, she played ning forward ur!i !.r tt a game with herself and ;l,.,u,'l,t the Finemare. and unaware f..r in.- - i: . !iKlt a "We'll s.-if we can go by without unique mo,,,,.,,. t,;!, ,,:ls,..j either of us looking over there to the them and that !t had said things slaughter pens," she said aloud. It was more intimate!;. v , r before. Af. a difficult game to play. She fixed her ier a in.- .niii;, nine hack irefullv eyes on the Kinemare's ears for many ' preserving the Then she looked off to the ,X,aiiMe!ns pae.-s- . which had con d these things to bright, sun tinieil rrwn rtn Oiu tlin- her. hered ridges to th. north, and down Then. ou - in thai much, into the cool dark pockets in the hol'y hi nia '" lows where the shadows lay. The Pine-- , "Yes. Mo,),,., Ui.ire held her heck straight down the I "Haw von anything about r.iad between the patches of rank It?'' horse-weedas high as her back. "It's " es h,.1 no. not ri.ht plain out. not fair tor me, Finemare, because you It is Mime, hi, it you ins, know jihon, Couldn't see over along here evea if W.'IV VOll know ion are l,reall,in. you wanted to. Hut I Just naturally or a laurel iri l.urst nut pick m tare that over there because I sit sidethe sun up Ihe I'inna. de or is that ways, and I have to stretch my neck to iost cra talk Jasper always said look the other way. It's funny how you about me savin- - Saul was prowling try not to look at something you don't around the placer" want to see and all the time feel it "It's real tiice to he able to know pulling at your eyes so hard you can't any thing that w ay. A body can't always hardly keep them off of it." She looked know tilings for a at a great white roll of cloud, trying certainty." lies going to he a county surveyor to decide whether to have it be a dragon Some day. hat is a county surveyor?-- ' straining for its prey, or a fair host of "I don't just know, hut your Daddy angels draping a veil of luminous wings over the unmolested hills. Then she dewould.'' "I reckon It doesn't matter much. cided they were Just ordinnry clouds Don't you think he is different from with nothing to do but go riding In the sky in the afternoon. Doug?" So she resisted Dry Creek w hile they "Yes. I!ut he's lived different and , the rank and the passed worked different. Doug Is nice folks." shooting pule yellow poles "Mother. Do you think 1 ought to high above her, and came to the open marry Reuben?" meadow. There she suddenly felt the "Well, Cynthia, you're going to school lure of ugliness rushing across the next week." and reaching for her eyes, "Yes, and I wouldn't miss that for open space as though a barrier had fallen. She next Hut is there anything hardly. resisted with an effort. She heard the t e-- r. .j.-a- r e 1! w.-rt- , s j horse-weeds- cane-brak- e year." "And," Julia continued, "he hasn't so much as asked you." "He said he would come back, and, Mother, It just screamed out that very first day: 'That's him.'" "Yes, but he may have . . . interests down the river where he lives, and you mustn't . . . unless he has told you . . . ?" "Can't you tell a body things in any way but words. Mother?" "Why, yes, I reckon so, Cynthia, only a body could be mistaken, you know. Plenty folk mistake plain words. And it comes by nature for Keuben Warren to be nice to people." "That afternoon we sat on the by the sycamore and he laid his hand over mine In the white-hairemoss, and then he took it away again but it was still there, and that's how you know when it's true." "You are a strange girl, my dear child, and I reckon you ought to know if it's that way with you. But I wouldn't have any blight spot your heart for this world." "I guess I oughtn't of lied to Doug gray-ston- e though." "I reckon that was just the thing you ought to say to him." Julia said. "I wouldn't want to make Doug feel had. He works awful hard at the place and he is banking so much on his crop "You'll Be Coming Back to Visit Before Long, I Reckon." voices of men framing the curious. sharp, monosyllabic cries to the mules and oxen. She felt the smell of wood smoke in her nose and on her tongue. Still she did not look, and the mure was absorbed In the animated manipulation of her own legs. "I reckon maybe we can do what we make up our minds to. And if you won't look while I do It, I'll shut my eyes till we are clean across the meadow and get our backs CHAPTER XII to It." She closed her eyes, and gave end the at her body in relaxation to the rhythm It was in the afternoon to of each precise step of the mare. of August that Cynthia went down Then she felt the muscles on the Mason and Doug. say good by to Sarah weeks shoulders contract with a snap, In mare's many It'wis the first time and rid and tighten back to her rump, as she Finemare tlie sat had she that was a Joyous swerved and broke the rhythm of her den out of Wolfpen. It How under gait. Cynthia Involuntarily opened her thin- - to feel horse muscle with her spirit, eyes to see a young rabbit leap into a connect and her thighs of quirk (lump of berry vines. to hear the soft plopping 4 she followed its lean she heard men ' u sanu. ' the ,, hoof! against , ,, ',. laevvouoi louoveo what of oj io. snouiing, the thought ,n ,.,T:, a tree bew at of crack holl explosive the the sharp see when she peered into with new men who,,, ginning its fall. The mare looked and Dry Creek filled and was troubled Cynthia looked into the hollow at the Spnrrel called riffraff him fall of a great tulip tree, ning "'she waved to Jesse In the meadow ing against all the efforts of the Inlum- a tossing berman down hill through space where he had heen furiously a thundernis sighing swish, rebounding under now was sitting hav and his the ground on resilient limbs and on from hook opened with the a huslmeans sure springing like a beheaded chicken knees "I reckon Jesse from the stump on the down yards ness whether he pitmen unj hillside. giau ne n oC o.wfl steep reckon a body Just has to look the law I'm right ,m "I for rut n "' even there too, sometimes when things get hurt and week or two." die. Does it make your stomach twist lean . ..,,!o Ids shop, ' ; Sparrci i .u ""-too? We both did It at the same time, hv the door, lookand mavbe you are not so different with Wo.fpen off from other people Just because your . It clinnpil n his- face. , words." , puzzieinc... square mouth won't make any came into uie Into the smoking looked And the Cynthia Z spX kindly to her and putted where ;oiish piles and ugly stumps rnmo of the Finemare. sHnnis used to crouch In the padded looking outfit. of 'seng. I did promise him I'd go look at his 'seng bed before I go." must "You ought to do that, and send Sarah some of tlie purple dahlias and seme wheat loaf." And on this they began to readjust their inner lives to the new intimacies born of Cynthia's confession. 1 , - . tio . ST nreoutof - a fine You two make I' myself." iynthln. seeing a remnant of her and voice. piJl" Spnrrel in his eyes more Pleas have to ght "lie ought if liei sun ami be happj own plnci. his with Hwo.iselveS. Wolfpen up silence. The Mason place was unaltered: the weathered paling fence where she left the mare, the chickens about the yard, house the slight musty smell of the of wood smoke, uiialred compounded r,,,,,,,, cooking and sickness. It dawned It was this suddenly on Cynthln that which had redolence of other people at ulwiiys made her vaguely unhappy the Masons'. WtTOBrrtoa The roof over the porch was stll1 incomplete. There was a hen In Sarah's hickory split rocker. Cyuthla went on into the kitchen. Sarah had her large hare feet prop-- d on a cushion while she shelled beans from the sack by her side She wept to see Cynthia, dabbing at her eyes, and smiling and talking all the time about how long It had been since she had come to see her, of the progress of her alllictlous, of the gifts Julia had sent, and of Doug. "He's gone over to his seng patch again. He goes over there pin t' near every evening with his gun." Cynthia told her about the news from Volfieti and her plans for the Institute. Sarah made her usual exclamations and another of these visits was Hearing an end. "So you go off next week," Sarah said again, hobbling to the porch. "You'll be coming back to visit before long, I reckon." "Yes, It's not so far." "Doug Is over by the "seng bed, Cynthia. He'd never get over it If you went off w ithout saying good by," she said, dabbing at her eyes again. "I'll go by the patch like 1 said. You take good care of yourself while I'm gone." "I'll do the best I can, Cyuthla. I wish you didn't have to hurry off." Doug was crouched In a clump of sumac bushes looking down ou the oblong glade. He was so Intent that he did not see or bear her at once. She slipped down from the mare and stood watching him shoulder the gun, and trying to see what he could be shooting at. There was nothing to be seen but a few cardinals flitting about the red seed pod berries on the 'seng. While she looked, he fired, and as she batted her eyes and calmed the startled mare she saw a puff of red feathers jerk sharply upward and then flutter Lacy Squares Form a Spread or Scarf j "Yoo won't feel too stuck up after you've heen over there?" "Doug Mason, sometimes I get so mad at you I could die. You know better than that." "It's Just that . . . you know . . . sometimes it's right lonesome and I get to thinking about you going off to ieo-pl-e not Just like us, and . . . You won't change your uiind about going?" "Why, no, Doug. I've been planning on this all year." She got easily Into the saddle. "Good-by- , Doug." "Good by, Cynthia." He went back to the 'seng patch, stopping to look at the pile of birds, and then, hearing again the peculiar liquid chirping of the redblrds biting into his 'seng berries, he added three more to the heap. Cynthia booted the mare with her heel and hurried from Sarah and Doug, the birds and the fallen trees, back to W'olfpen through the ruins of the visit she had planned. The final days were busy ones for Cynthia, but wltjout visible evidence or her inward excitement at the thought of being away from home. Julia was always near her with kind words and suggestions for the packing. She would lay a garment on the bed, saying, "Do you suppose you might need this, Cynthia?" "Maybe I'd better take it along. A body never knows." They fingered the articles and looked affectionately at each other during the long silences. Then three days before the time for Cynthia to leave, Abral came home enrly from the camp looking pnle and weak, but declaring he was all right wl en Cynthia and then Julia asked him il he felt sick. "You look pale, son," Julia Insisted. lie ate little for supper, leaving the table before tlie others to lie In the to the ground. cool on the porch. Sparrel went out lo "Oh !" she cried, as If she were hurt, him. and hid her eyes against the mare's "What's the trouble with you, son?" neck. "I guess I Just got my stomach riled "Yhv, howdy, Cynthia." He came out of the bushes full of a little at the camp." "When uid It begin to hurt?" pleasure at the unexpected sight of "It's felt funny for a day or so." her, and then looking puzzled as he Sparrel gave him some oi his remsensed obscurely that she had turned edies and after a while Abral went to away her spirit. two days very "How's the folks?" he said, touching bed. He lay there for food. sick and refusing the mare's mane. Then Julia, who had looked tired for "What In the world are you shootmany weeks and had been up and down ing. Doug?" she demanded. foi two nights with Abral, fell sick In "Rirds." "Was that a cardinal you just the third night and had to He In her bed very pale and without strength. killed?" On Monday at the hour set for half "Yes. That makes nearly two hundred I got this week and I only missed a year for Cynthia to ride away from Wolfpen, she sat by Julia and was three." to see how large her eyes were startled could How "Oh, shame on you, Doug! under the pale skin of her forehead you do such a thing !" and how weak she had grown from her "Why, they're heartln' every berry in sickness. I my 'seng patch and eating the seed "Y'ou must go, dear, as we planned. wanted to save." be all right now," she said In a low I'll a to it's shoot cardinal sinful, "Hut voice. "I've never been sick to fin&ount Doug." to anything." "Not when they riddle my seeds." Hut Cynthia sat by her bed, saying. kill cardinals "Hut. Doug! You don't "Abral's some better. I wouldn't go off Just because . . ." She looked at him. today and you sick. A few day won't Words were useless unless their meanmake a sight of difference." Thinking: ings were already sensed before they "1 wonder how sick she Is and why It were spoken, and here they were not so sudden right now. It must on came and could never be. be tlie spread over the place of the "Do you want to let them eat up my sickness in the treet. or it wouldn't beexseeds I want for next year?" he gin down there In Dry Creek and fasclaimed. ten ou Abral and come on up here. It Into back She turned the mare slowly won't make a bit of difference if I'm the way she had come, moving down a little spell late. She looks so pale unthe hollow again toward the road. der her dark hair, tidy even when she Doug followed along close behind her, lies In bed sick, and hardly any gray. confused and perplexed. "I guess you'll It's been a hard summer. She mka be going away right soon now," he said tired. I'd rather see her He a time and at last. well than go over to the Institute "Yes. On Monday. Daddy is riding get at the start I guess she's asleep right me." over with now. Maybe she'll rest a while. I'll see off "What's the use of your going Jesse." over there, Cynthia? You don't have no She left Julia In a weak sleep, th book of learning." need for that kind fingers of one hand lying delicatelong "Hut I do, too." the sheet. She found Jesse by "You're Just going over there be- ly along kiln spreading apples in the tlit drying know cause of that surveyor, and you sun. It." "Hw Is she?" Jesse asked, whisper "Why, I'm not either; I've been it. ing counting on going there all year and "Asleep now." a right smart before any of those men "She didn't sleep any Inst night. en me to the creek." (TO BE CONTINUED) "I saw you looking at him." "That doesn't make any difference in it." Canals, Box Trees Famed "You swear It?" in Holland's Water Towns "I told you once when you were up No traveler knows Holland unless he to our house." has seen at bast one water-villag"You swear it then?" one of the loveliest, Aalsmeer, consists "I don't feel any call to give account of one long, straight village street; lu he to you, Doug." It was sharper than more than a narrow towing no fact, had ever heard her sieak. Instead of with a canal on either side. path, It. It halted his rising temper. advancing Small swing bridges connect the houses "I calculate I ought to get about a with this towing path, and many of thousand dollars for my seng. I'm gothem are entirely encircled by water, now." It soon ing to dig one solitary, picturesque und pros"That'll be nice and I'm right glad," each The villagers propel their perous. I now. back to "I have go said. she means of a pole, to take to by barges good-by,Just stopped to say market the box trees for which Aals"Cynthia." meer is famous. She waited, looking up the hollow, The box tree nurseries are most Keuben moving In and out of her for here the industry has excurious, thoughts. 2W years. In the rich peaty for isted . . . Let's over there. "Don't go off the box trees are trained Into ev. soil, . . . let's us marry." we can't why ery conceivable shape, balls, men, dogs, Cynthia scringed, seeing nirds tumsofas, chairs, ships and birds. It bling through the still air Into death. lions,looks as IT some enchanter had "I'm getting things In good shape all wand over a menagerie and his waved I about you been thinking now and turned all living things Into box trees. while was doing It. Will you?" "It's not time for me to think about Source of Tru ProgreM that. Doug." The good of others Is our own good "When you get hnck, then?" "We can see about II then. 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