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mbrellas at reasonable prices, and go to the lake where there is no civilization to bother and distract. The lake is 'The Lake' par excellence to St. Etienne. It was created by

s, dusty with flour, and turned his log huts into houses of brick and stone, and erected saloons and department stores. And when he had worked like D?dalus-and you've probably forgotten who D?dalus was, now that you have been a few weeks out of college-when he h

he tale. He was used to talking wh

. What kind of an omniscient editor are you going to make, think you? Nev

se and sniff at our lake because no salt codfish dry upon smelly wharves and no sea anemones or crabs appear and disappear with the tides, then will the entire population of St. Etienne rise and howl anathemas

Long tortuous passages opened out anew into ever more bays, as though the water were greedy to explore. Around it rolled the woodland in billows of intense green with sandy beaches in the troughs and straight cliffs

air it makes you want to stand on tiptoe on a hilltop and shout. An

uffer!" cried Dick. "This is the land to wake

been trying to analyze it ever since I came West. It wouldn't appeal to the tired or the w

my boy,"

asy chairs, cushions, magazines, all made fragrant by a huge jar of roses and another of sweet peas. And there was not too much. The veranda in turn gave upon a wide expanse of green that stretched steeply down to that cool wet line where the lapping waters met the lawn. The trees whispered softly around. Every prospect was pleasing, and only man was vile; for there was another man, s

I hear she's so awfully clever, you know. Taken degrees and all that sort of thing. Give you my word it comes out

o the new-comers as though she had already had a surfeit of this subject. It is a pleasant thing to have had a good educati

e ride out?" M

good motor with a thoroughly tamed and domesticated gasoline engi

rd the gods into his intercourse with y

Even in the West we couldn't keep house without Dionysius assisted by Heb

d cast a grateful l

l familiar with the gods so that y

er, to despise everything that's done nowadays, because

s look the least bit frayed or soiled around the edges, pop, in they go, and come out French dry-cle

of the old things-fears and superstitions," said Madeline. "Things tha

er of signs of palmists and astrologers and vacuum cures?" exclaimed

at him in astonishment, as one who

e how funny we are

" murmur

ous.' That's why she takes astrologers in earnest. They're in Boston. Anyway, I think you were mighty sensible to come back to us

ton showed a long head," s

, having made his opening, "don't you think it'

liness," Madeline remonstrated. "Really, Mr. Davison, it isn't an

nty of unwomanly w

hen it is killed-not through the brain, but through the heart. It's

as only the antechamber of her nature. She gave him the impression of "the heart at leisure from itself". There was the unconsciousness of sheltered girlhood, but already, in bud, the suggestion of that big type of woman who, as

tree of life in man, and the flower in woman-

hanged his me

academic halls. But I can tell you you'll feel pretty lonely out here. Th

know how I love it! It's fresh and vigorous and its face is forward." She flung out her arms and smiled

lease, Madelin

use I was at home again. Perhaps it will tell you how I feel, for it's a song of Minnesota." She tu

blue of the quiet waters. The three men stretched themselves in their easy chairs, as a stroked kitten stretches itself, with a

wind off t

wind off

zure lakes,

s of liv

ty river

ow, fiel

nd voices n

the hear

nce of the

red hoard

millwheel, 'n

man's ri

his voice w

reat chor

notes of h

le the fo

blood of

in a worl

tions of

our vit

daughters

a, moth

to the si

nd stream

bruptly, and Dick

ed. "You make me feel how gr

when I wrote it. Oh, here come fathe

son rose

going. Miss Elton, I didn't mean a word of all t

ed down the drive. "Dick, I wish you'd always be on hand

hap," sa

known all his life, to ask the innumerable usual qu

sdom. Both the boys were clean-shaven, after the manner of the day, a fashion that seems to become clean manliness, vigorous and self-controlled. Both were good to look at; but here the resemblance ended, for Dick's long slender face and body lithe with its athletic training, was alive and restless, as though he found it difficult to keep back his passion

back and watch you young ones," the elder man ejaculat

d Dick. "When there's noth

none of our responsibility any longer. You've got to tackle it. The new

elp us by stating the

ion of the land, is about done, and the question is now up to you; what are you going to do with it? You know the old story of the man who said he had a horse who could run a mile in two-forty. And the other

ces bring out abilities. That's the law that operated in the case

unities is to rehash the traditions until they become authority. New communities have to face problems for themselves and solve them by new ways. The first kind of

fellows'," said Dick. "To-

til you get intellectual gout and have to tickle your palate with dainties. A good deal of stuff that's written nowadays seems to me like literary cocktails,-something to stir a ja

us, I suppose she has to

eveloped is that which takes the raw material of forest and river and creates civil

sleepy twitter of birds, and even of a long slender thread of pale light that struck acros

s own great purposes and youth's craving for sympathy in its ambitions. M

ted for a young fellow like me to

I knew your

t has always been my ambition to live up to his

lery eyed him with some of the old college

ssity for me to try to add to my income. Of course, it isn't a great fortune, but it's more than enough; and my ambitions don't lie that way. There's a

d. It's a ma

s enough of a background for life, you see; but I long since made up my mind that

politics, Dick?" sai

t, haven't we, Ellery? to know that it is rather an ugly mess-I mean municipal affairs in this country. The

when he spoke there was an unpleasant cyni

ty could do something here, if he knew what he was going to do. It's

nable to contain herself. "Don'

w with the lovely feminine belief in masculi

ting to be buried, and most of us are content to hold our noses and let it lie. Or perhaps we give an exclamation of disgust when it is ser

r some of you young fellows to be going into politics; perhaps that

ced themselves home,-the first when he looked down on that expanse of vivid water, vivid sky, vivid green. Here a man, even a young man, might waken to all his faculties

He watched her steady eyes that kept upon her father and Dick as they talked. He saw her face glow with sympathy and interest and yet remain calm, as if secure in the good

t his scrutiny, and queer pains darted

his far-away excursion with a sense of surprise t

trade of a newspaper man, and I'm afraid I shan't be able to think a

of the press. We'll make St. Etienne a model city in the sight of gods and men, eh,

efore Ellery and I go b

paper yet, and that's more to my old brain tha

out of which an occasional mysterious thread of light brought into sight some uncanny shape. The purple of the evening zenith had sunk into deeper and deeper blue,

should be frightened at the very idea of being alone among them at night?

rejoined. "There's more

nd they went

spot I always meant to own some day-right here next

"Let's sit down on this log and look at the stars. Tha

sperous? Reserve your t

ty, where the children could go barefoot if they wanted to. But as soon as it was suggested, Mr. Windsor presented his daughter with a big tract, and insisted on building this great palace, and they have to keep so many servants that Mr. Lenox says it is a regular Swedish boarding-house. And there are so many guest-rooms that it would be a shame not to h

d Norris, and they all looked solemnly at the

s. And nobody says to her, 'Oh, do stay to lunch,' when they've nothing but oysters or beefsteak, but they wait till they get in an extra chef and then send her a formal invitation. I believe ours is one of the half-dozen houses where people

gs!" said

race now. Would you like to go o

y more complicated. Besides, I prefer the society of you and the

when every one else has gone into winter quarters, she is going to ask you and me a

that they will have lost part of th

n how to lose money, and of course Mr

don't marry a millionai