Show 1 MUTINEER I A LONE MUTINEER The sunshine The late afternoon streaming through the bare branches of the maple trees fell warmly over the solitary little figure that moved slowly up the road threw coppery splotches of heat over the brown neck and face the broken hat rim and the ill-fitting ill coat that hung about the childish form As the shadows of the long branches slanted farther and farther beyond the roadside the childs child's steps lagged and at last he cameto came cameto cameto to a standstill The sun was al almost almost almost al- al most down its upper dis disk half melted into its own glare As it disappeared a sharp breeze sprang up which rattled the fringes of milkweeds at the edge of the wheel tracks and catching up the dry leaves from around the base of the trees carried them down the middle of the road in a brown swirl The child shivered and crept down in inthe inthe inthe the friendly shelter of a fallen log But the wind died away again and no other sound broke the gray stillness stillness stillness still still- ness beginning to settle over forest and open Once only a nighthawk circling above the trees uttered Buttered a dismal Wark W Wark ark and the child hid his face with a moan of fright E Even en after the bird had flown he dared not look out again but but crouched down very still with his face turned away from the dark shadows He was thinking now of the bowl of hot porridge by the kitchen fire He was thinking of the senora who 1 only this morning had handed him himan an apple over the back fence and patted his brown cheek kindly Even Dandys Dandy's might not be so bad if only the p pretty etty good senora senora- A great limb overhead creaked in the wind a terrifying Who who came from a nearby thicket The child cried out and cowered into the loose folds of his coat It was growing cold now now cold cold and death He thought he should never care for anything again so much as for the bright hot sun He tried to pile the dry leaves over his legs but shrank back bac fearful of their crackle By degrees a sweet heavy drowsiness drowsiness drowsiness drow drow- 1 siness began to steal over him numbing the sense of or fright and aching chill He was hungry but cared less now to think of the hot porridge than of the senora Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow To To- morrow perhaps he would go back to the senora and beg beg and and beg begHe begHe begHe beg beg- He drew his head into his coat collar and hugged the shelter of the tree trunk He sighed once twice and curled his brown legs up tip Tony Torino mutineer lay ay fast asleep 1 |