Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1926, Page 22

THE EVENING STORY Whispering Pines. AKE the chair—I wish ‘twas I rocker. Th don't furnish I rockers for us feilows who are doing our 10 or 15 years in this institution. | You're from back East somewhere. | aren’t you? New Jersey, eh? I wa sure you halled from somewhere| back there the minute I saw vou coming . Ever bc™n in Connecti- cut? > Say, stranger. you don't feel in a powerful hurry, do you? Sundays | wre mighty lonesome in this place. | Back in old Connecticut there’s a | valley of pines they call “Yawbux."| 1 “growed up” there, as the farmer: say. And all the time while 1 was| growing up the good and the bad in | me was having a fight—maybe you | know how that is, stranger? Here | unny sort of thing about it. | Bill Seawell who called out | all the bad that was in me, and it was Bill's sister May who called out | all_the good! { Bill and I ta West—but tinall R and vellow hair got tangled into my | heart so tight that I broke with Hiil| and the gang and began to play | me. straight and honest. Bill got worse | —and pretty soon he lit out for the|broken into six vears v | of those who helped to do it. officers got on my trail. West And then one dayx lizht fell softlike on the woods when the sun- i ! pines. {the wind whispered sort of gentle in! joined camps for the night. the pines—you've heard it, stranger, maybe—May promised to be my pal for life. We were out under the whispering pines, that time 1 kissed her first! Then she told me how, ever since she was a little girl, she had some- times stolen out into the valley there and tpe pines had talked to her. We stopped beside a dark pool and she looked down into it and ‘toid me that she saw o greav city. with hundreds | sl Sure eriough, it was a pine we folks goinz up and down thely,g camped under. I hadn't noticed | streets—and all of them happy. Sup-| it pose she did see all thut? Because | all T could see were the rocks and the mud and the reflection of the Some things in this world don't seem to be right. do they, strangec” was sick—and she until gne day she said to me: pines are calling me and 1 see that big city of the pool—only it's very, very bright with sunshine—" and she left me. he left me, stranger. Then 1 came West—and The next day Ma, kept gettin the bad part of me choked the good part. It | seemed as if I tried to be straight and the cards had been stacked against | 1 stopped trying When the bank at Kansas City was ago I was one The I was on horseba veling fast 2 % 72722, 2 % % 27 7 %% % 2 722 7 402 D %, 2720427, 2 % 7, 7 72 7 Z % 2% 72 7 2 Z 722 2 every 27 A w77 N.E. Corner 7th and H Sts. N.W. ) 7 //r Delivers . | something wistful-like in his face. |loward the mountains, where all the deputies in the State couldn't find me, when late one afternoon I fell in with a chap who had a sick horse. After 1'd shot his horse—that being the only thing to do. and he not having gump- tion enough to do it himself—we I figured that my horse, Beauty, might be able to carry double load for a while—if guhe ofticers got too close. The fellow was pretty glum, and as we ‘lay around smoking and looking | up at the stars I got to feeling down- right gloomy myself. 1 felt sort of homesick. 1 couldn't make out the | reason for it at all until he spoke up. | “Wind in that pine makes me think | of Connect * says he | | “Connecticut?” I repeated. | Then he got up and came over to | | where 1 was lying, and I could see | “Ain't you Harry Brown?" he asked. I guess maybe you 'understand, | stranger—he was Bill Seawell. But |how he had changed—he sure had struck the down grade pretty fast! “What you done with May?” he de- manded o savagely that T thought he was going to hit me. You see, he loved May in his way, after all. | After I'd told him about her there wasn't_anything said for a while. | Then Bill says: 3 | “T guess she was too good fol such |as us. Tell you one thing, though— |1f T get out of this I'm going to live | straight for s sake.” Long toward daybreak Beauty |awoke me up pawing the ground. In | {a flash I ¢ ear down listening. Store Hours: 8 to 6 STAR. WASHINGTON, They were coming—the officers! They had been closer than I had cal- culated. ¥ “What's up?” said a sleepy voice. Just for a second I hesitated. There wasn’t any chance for both of us now. 1 had to decide quickly. Well, Beauty was my jumped up and untied her wide awake now. “Don’t let them get me. I'll swing if they do!" he whined. But T couldn't help that. T had the saddle on and my foot was in the stirrup when—— I don’t know as stand, stranger. But just then a bit of a breeze whispered through the pine above ray head. It sounded like May's volce speaking to me, For just about one whole minute I stood still and rigld with my foot on the stirrup. Then I took my foot down. “I'll bother them as long as I can, Bill,” T said. *“You can make the hills. I'm doing it for May!"” Well, stranger, they sent me here. T don’t kick—T deserved it. But I do hanker for the sunshine and the whis- per of the pines sometimes. I've got three years more in here, and there's a cough thal gets me bad sometimes. T wouldn't mind if T could be sure that May is waiting for me over the big river and that she and 1 could hear the pines up there! I can't hope for that—but 1 do hope all the same, Stranger, do you suppose God will be very hard on a man like me? T've kept you too long. There's just one littie thing I'd like to_have you do for me—'tisn't much. 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Go slow now, my poor old cobwebby mind can't take that in ver§ fast. I don't quite get it yet. You say I might be out there this year—this Summer even? What's that—I will be, you sa Out there—where the pines whisper in the breeze! . THE END. l In France it is correct for an in- ferior to greet first a superior. Thus children must say “good moruing” to their elders before they are noticed by them. “TRUCK o]S‘ERVlCE” “TAXI SYSTEM” NY SIZE, AN E. ANYW) ANY AR A W T Hagerstown, Wi rg and Com very v Frederick, Hugerstown. Winchester, Fvery, Monday For Furniture, Freight and Baggage JACOBS TRANSFER COMPANY, INC. 113 FLA. AVE. N.E. PHONE NORTH 9300-01-02 dericksburg, hester, Freder e rtinata g % 2 7 4% 7, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1926. 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