The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1900, Page 4

UNDAY CAL —— " 3 z : AR ars that had elapsec © E of Devonshire—where the recently garn- They were now in the last days of sum- vent round Torquay without en- dozen Yeors Cife . coring the gloomy edi ered yellow wheat left the harsh patches nd it seemed as thoush the heat in- he town, along Park Hill road and 2eath. ;, R e stormy days of stubble standing beside the ploughed d and the sunlight became more ched Babbacc eaten awa nd embrov The no land, fields and cultivatec a zzling. Dr. Bryce, who had inhabited pretty little shiny crud of the St full blas d that this atéau to t n shiny sed to the full A times a tardy harvest was being got In, thc district for a long time, oppo From this poir a strongly built b dragging the cart, tardy return cf the dog d rognosti- et g winds, was CoVve 3 with its wide spreadi wRlla coted ‘omatanerii) - tampeaty | OWe Shall Derce Rock, =o near that the g tur red by the cwhere the b houses have some bad weather and then the syn- could disting: A o g thatched with straw, were of light will return with the autymn, for the shrubbe ul s cut ir L i entricn construction. At other p: the fields Uhis corner,of Hnglind has a more regu- Path winding down b ameng ey, while an inest of potatoes formed i ure above lar, average warmth than Nice or Italy.” the rocks, but had grown betwe " Georg and Lea profited from the rapped e do the chancel a the ground, or the i3 d and turned fine days to extend thef e alkaite s happened - that humid, ave after early breakfa remain grouped absent until evening. lunching in some mee trees. At the bend in s little inn where beer, butter and sheli- - ¥pok Erating vo vaulted with leafy branct fish, or a lobster i’ crabs, were always m-r‘;;j‘f N sheep would suddenly appear. crowding to be found. After lunching Lea would ™! together in alarm at the sight of the tWo rest upon a sofa, or. seated in some old romenaders. A little sheep boy with and comfortable armchair. with Geo en hair would get them in order again, Lolding her 1, she would fall 1d the sheep would pass in a mad flight; They always returned ear void rubbing against th their wool compliance with Bryce's instruct reddened by the of t] s. Then sudden lowering of the temper the lane again became solitary and silent. fcllowed the setting of the su and the two lovers wouid unile their 1ips Ana every da their = excursic with kisses. But in the voluptuous around. the bas perceived calm of {he country their yearning lost Rock rising ou e sea like a 1% bitter after tast pyramid, the piace where Georg, Lea’s arrival, took refuge in his moo: day sir,”” he sald ay, Bissie. Is everybody well The old woman he was uneasy at them while fe For all, even ptain yutline 1 incredibly wherc nd of the padlo in his woolen ve 2 ike curta sclitude and hatred of all sounds an 38 s peeny i : f lorg asldpiathes lov faces. According to the point fro With seg o s S o 5 ¢ he in - Q. POIBt E¥( shall we have e the horizon and the in- which they perceived it..they > finitude of the sea would meet their gaze. votered with vordare o & 1t smiled at them, 1 NAE Thay Tad: Tec e T fauue gy 3, Te Cof Devon- ©nce divimed at the end of the vailey of 1.aa loved (his i . the Thames. as they stood on the hill of §f with her eves \der leaved phoentx, bristling 1iampshire Heath and contemplated Lon- hefore her. - She for. t's to the me h was open ze led Lea e air a it. She was in wits ¢ L rejes 1 ! kgt Fog ey passe Tn their hirsute sheath, aloes, 40m emerging from the springtide mist for JHnE ST (Swim Geore as to a come back g crionate. et {sthmatic and vbrestes Al the fora of the AN instant—thc sea. evocatress of 10nE Snor whera he had thoght Ietm e ol il od the trées of the north YOvages and journevs toward the coun- siat ang bitterness. But Br sald Lea T werful seru irns wit W, tven Dpines and the beech, Lries of the south! The purple rocks near ‘them to walt untll Lea had in as active and cheer- Wy paikting paraphernalia, was ere as though woven of ‘the soft moving plain descended abruptly, , » e b Door aallo folet harsbella like huge bristing with points and lumps, but ali ho guatter ‘)?(;:vl”grlt:sr':ié’m be- the” 1t scarlet fuchsias and Ways covered with shrubbery, flowering crossing, a spasm of the stomach might A single phrase alone bushes and thick verdure, that hid the proltued (Vefl Cttiing of blood. scribe at once the Sinuous lines of the paths. They would © (I@¥g 8 o HoEt S0 E Rt swth and the ex- Stop in delight. and with arms enlaced Tnand. yelit y 2 painting o> Pthrown lled hi Rock en de- w table ; ants, Tt was as Would seek in one another's eyes the b Tk taon e the abl mirage of this Immensity, The effort of S for o o e o the window Stre sd upon the & the walk and the balminess of the air bof she sellow aRg rant Tece oh, and tar- : brightened Lea's cyes and coior, * N Lol Taeis yeu. e epermen's U “ . Georg would think ‘at such moment the light lace work of the the wall side is not possible that she Is dangerously i'l. ;way on the coast after every gentla Life is too vigorous in her. She has sim- in was stiil low he heav- . vera s to- A iy besw sindermined by Sarrow . Amaknis- A T e s a stout iittle bar e e aeat dhal- fortune, that is all.” led by a h i in could have been st BTl Goors pt the short hours ALiBeieid 3 Little by little the sea conquered Lea as - fortat A chain fa d S8 St e Ang shts upon that it had conquéred Georg. They abandoned dith had already left for church. She to a strong ring sunk into the clf roin e b - the lanes of the Interior for the pletur- spent her entire Sundays there. Tea unlocked the padiock, released the ok saiting her own past to that of esque coast, and rarely lost sight of the dressed alone. For the fi horizon across the bay. They would go months off by the rocks under the afternoon sun re t time for and push boat fown the sioping « P i g B A her beach into the water, Lea in the mean- ;Tf;:‘ in a sort of loving fervor, m 2rd ".How we both have suffered!” he felt strong and vigorous piration was free and unfettered, her time admiring his supple skill lttle R de one of v A ; k She leaned upon his arm, drinking Jn i kS betore. 2 spectacie presented those mdss o the humble articles Bad 3 " grown stonees a d the solitary sufferin of her beloved. The dome of the chancel was cracked in an oblique direction, and through the fissure a few sturdy branches seemed to spring from the rock, ome of them almost touching the earth. They re- s curfous appellation as d women, the her- he adver n of men ir t . had deep She had derived 5 book from them. And turned to the crumbling window, and bst of the nov- from there all the outline of the coast - < work, she ¢ was Invisible. They could only see - ..; .“;“\.m« ion s and the sea toward outhwest, P (1o the as he prow of a sh ipon _the L erty, M H cean .;Am_u_-p dragged the comch befors the window so that Lea could rest face to e with the horizon. They side, pervaded b a sentime peace. The sun mounted toward t e’s marriage replied 1o v th cct in the hosp ridian, flooding the o T Her past at that mo- perpendi uvl_.u- B with OrTo! She a )= flecks : ity a1 har physical de- being effa € r t now that she was rock, then biue, e betrothed and had like an imme rok t attached her to “I am so : >ir it it almost with other woman ~ memory of his you!" He did u sort of keen joy ressed eac Georg felt th oman 1 his su 2 appeared to , was al- Tinka. She in spite of d two soft, g on the tips . ctionate dog, Be the stool for Tinka 8 o head would nestle on § s 3 m. At other times lda . o a4 w 1 gravely :blish herself upon a hair furnished with a book and pe - - She would then devote all her efforts t . mitating the ude and movements of 3 her mot tracing all sorts of myst rious hieroglyphics upon the white pages, . A and if any one questioned her she repiled that she “writing a book like 1 men, v - mamma."" plicity: her fr t 4 a % .S marr The girl,- Carola, was e the symbo antiquated et s o B slower, s amusing, rather 3 ¥ b mads . - somewhat _ hustled leve each other, leave each other RS dominated over by 143, her hate each other, then they had 3 ar and 2 half. She showed united, still to suffer until tk for her father, who moment, in which they pard , finding in her a faint r ot J sembfance to himself. In fact, her pretty, broke the sile and a fat v face had his big prominent blue grave volce & eyes, and her fair hair, instead of being “I was t short and curly, like that of Tinka and b g - . was gatheréd in wavy tresses, prob- gy B - . =t like Hoedel's in his childhood, to ee women t 1 ' ‘mperious by what he said. “She is the Jiving cction and love of man, They be t sculine ot of what I was at hef age,” the to be their duty. I myself bejieved - g good fellow in the gold rimmed spectacles o e, Rt how ) e cot 3 that . Would say. He took her with him In his e e e Wil yau - entomological excursions, and they could 3 n passing along the,roads and lanes, foac e s S e one holding the tail of her fath- I love you sald ‘n'fl;‘rsfi‘ at e AN . frock while he netted insqets he posed her clasped Rands against the - She would then help him joung man’s bosom. her eves st 2inz to fix them in b@xes; and him as th ugh e W ale e those of the degtor, gave hi; \l:‘p: \.h: v\nnr- ¢ truth. v G i - e ed by what 'Tmi(:v and you sai - abs. s ay ing I arrived remember it at almost all day long g s 'to me ihat when I was with Pir 15¢ had discovered a and F rique 1 was right; I feminist group, tinged with Methodism, ought to do; and it seems to at Torquay and had affiliated hersell also. now that I am near yo! with it. She _only put in appearance at ormity W Lh meal times. e came in red and quiver- o duties, the two ing with enthusiasm and disCussed vast J (rv\dt:-t each nlhbvvl ' projects, such as the idea of going to join no longer feel their contradicti B ealony in Queensiand. founded upon the rebellion or hatred in me. Tell asis of absolute equality of the loved, you who penetrate so m: v r which colony the group she had into the secret of the conscie v was recruiting adherents. Zurope comes the peace that I enje N declared, “is the land of Gomorra not because I am indifferent t just ought to flee from it before the fire once the truth of yesterday of aven consumes it.” day.” Every evening. morcover, the .worthy Georg was silent for a mom nurse took her place by I side, watch- tating. his eves fixed upon tha 1 1 % ing her and sleeping for a few hours of like a slash in the horizon L > light slumber upon a little couch near the 3 sea. It wan sfowly grow P N virgin bride. Although Lea's health was and was clouded here and there by a faint visibly improving, her nights were stili booe s P =g restless and with sudden fits of suffoca- ! g g - SRS " tion, racking coughing and enfeebling per- Georg: T often_questiomed m ~ 4 spirations. Edith having brought Lea back these ihings, and, like you, I < -y to Georg had assumed the task of curing Frederique, Plrnitz and Editl £ good: t Tink: [ we g A . her, and only then, when her task was } e. 1o vain now he accomplished. would she consider herself e at Lea free to embark for Queensland. we left Tramsoe o! t sneer at such absolute id. The necessit 1S sary 9 & too stri After supper. when lda and Car6la had not erroneo: t mory offered their cheeks for a kiss from all, pating women is not a utopi ¢ they usually remained together in the yel- really the serf of man tg low draw e b tyr g-room, the windows open upon alcony overlooking the bay. Georg it down and play the old mahog- fano. Tinka and Lea were fond of i€ic; the professor was not insensible to . & Tinka would sing Finnish melodies as « days of Apple Tree Yard. Some- times Le without forcing her voice so fatigue her lungs and throat, the melodies with her. Hoedel b his hapds together with silent fon: nothfMg but music could pre- sleeping after meals. Edith went, in complete indifference, leaving the drawing-room to go and see if the children were quiet, or to help Liz- and the maid In the kitchen. When me silent they would talk org and 'r‘ d \l\'thl‘d be- - With L ghxonie of fhe Yrase Ao Smple it hey Went Without Much Difficulty Up a Stair themselves their own conscience. Hoedel from time to time would contribute #pho d rom hils German mys: al Thank G t oving m what my e case Cut In the Living Rock. >ma to say n love and i f i iith, upon her side, throwing in 7 in spite in W pev f the Scriptures, for both were though one were living in an open alr after breakfast, avolding the well-known wan 8 vict Did we n &ud th P ~d that reasoning could be re- hothouse, of which the crystal of the sky paths, for he was as nimble as a chamols feel that dmitting it orims( 3 by rhetoric. These tranquil mo- formed the vault. In fact, the perfume of or bear hunter, and she, confident and during t} e? e s were sweeter to Lea than the trou. & hothouse reigned everywhere, for the daring so long as her hand was held in “They 1 org, “in . s she passed clasped in atmosphere was laden with the dust of Georg's. When they discovered a suf- ety b he hostlle sexes, ™ i reading a tyrannical flowers rendered more pungent by the ficlently wild spot fo_their liking, some Which 18 re the humanity of ¥ 1 hi; The warmth of the salubrious breath of the sea creeki well out of the way of ordinary ex- to-day the future city whose e e a fictitious fullness and bril- _Lea visibly changed in the vivifying ar- Cursionists, they would stop, would sit i ima s shall have been bullt, w Le her cheeks. She was beautiful dor of nature. :Dr. Bryce, who auscultat- GOWn on the shore or the cliff and let the the ema ed woman shall have be- nents and she knew it. She ed her every day, fiow ventured to give hours slip by witk the light which gradu- came t! do you think b (hought her beautiful, ang @ more encouraging prognostic. Hope be- ally descended like the golden sand of a ape of th t tor and the 1es she would take his hand and a1 to glow in the heart of the two loy- gisantic hourglass from the sky toward other the hed because the .{1.,\'0 ave faith, ers. They began to have falth in life the sea. 2 =0 happy hefe!” again, and sy a natural tendency, as In an ever-increasing tranquillity they aw a future of fraternal thoughts of death left them, their love would tell each other at last of those and then only did the souve- W more peaceful, their desire was no hours of separation of which the story by tz and Frederique, whom she longer anxious and . unwholesome, and a sort of hostile modesty had died upon each other? cert [ to the individual dress o 1y dissolv sch moments pity other. strength sincerity of g's head be- ‘fervor. She took Geo - g's beart and he wou 3 ned in the midst of the con. they awaited the hour when they could their lips at first. And, little by little, - ) “pale. And his flict. arise before her to trouble her joy, postess each other completely, in'all the their past'surged from the depths of their Tuae O s s thet . s noticed by Lea, who could have wished them there in that plentitude of their will and in' the health memory. They lived it over again, were she had uttered the words of their b her dress with a despairing peaceful home, in that enchanting coun- o: their consclence and of their beings. @stonished to have been what they had betrothal on the moor of Hampstead ting it like & screen. so as try. calim as she was, free ns she was. Lea again became eager for air and been, to have done what they had dore, e urar® Georkt 1 3 er illness, _ea’s health improved, particularly af- movement, and they recommenced the and yet tg feel the mysterious link of their throat unobstructed. She had no-pain of strength. In ofder to show that she was : ;‘“{i" ‘;“;’\‘;p ‘{‘-"‘r‘: ‘“{’*:k "}:1 in srder ths v he right to abdicate WV \5\&\: the tone of her ter the second week in September. The cherished afternoon excursions of old—at personality unite the present to the van- any kind, and at the morning breakfast now quite strong again she carried the o™ in udden! the words temperature rose and remained at a ge first in a carriage, then on foot, as in the ished past, the conscience and will of yes- her gayety and beauty impressed all the oars upon her shoulder. They got intu the nable ¢ i - by degrees more uine summer helght. Yes, it was really days of London and Richmond.’ They did ‘terday to thelr conacience and will of to- inhabitants of Dartmore House. She told the boat in a little creek that was close nitz I must be e ¥ Rt nE the, Adsummer. at (e beginning of mot care for the town, with its banal, day! And from that moment, lucld and Georg secretly of her longing, and she at hand. Lea tock the rudder and Geer< predict, the woman of the future ci ce.nti a light it of cough- autumn. It was Indicated by the bluish, busy strets, nor_eyen' the promenade heaithy, they tejoiced to examine thelr Seemed so strong that he consented. They rowed sirongly in order to go round Gilder If T am oniy 3 pock heig, stil imprisoned tter it and throw 1t off. limpid sea and glowing sky. the white along the shore and the gardens near the~ thoughts, to study the particular form ot arranged to leave on foot as soon as Rock, upon which it was impossible (o T the past. they are right—I really abdl- this, but Georg. in and red villas with wide open windows pler. They met there too frequently ‘the comprehension, of will, that explain the breakfast was over without awaiting land at high tide except from th e AN e s i, Siving_mys s of Frederique and Pir ome the Eve that th imself, watched for it, imagined and balconies protected by striped awn. oconventional Bath chat Bryce's daily visit. - - ta-voul OR! do not deceive me! Yo g gy - . y € - r, in which a soul, so to speak. They were overjoyed s Sty visi ¢ They reached the rock in less th -~ w rele > = . are Lo ivaced It even in moments when the Ings. under which gray haired women and young weman With bloodlest cheeks of io nd their souls as they had been at the hey left the house about 10 o'clock. an hour without Lea's having su D vear ity Soul 1o beal . than hy E ! Tven thoue! volce rs strong and powerful. And it falr young girls In many colored 1 a_ peri 2 1 f thef No one had been informed of their plan. the least. @ vas T was one 6f his bitterest s ouses w Y print a perishing youth was being wheeled time of their more mystic affection. They, > - the least, so calm was the sea. The o B 7 e shas LR, hesr the ‘voie on hah et Ign R r;riwtb"m ur”: where smooth faced, ing couple with deep sunken, feverish rl‘pened by experience and knowledge of “buv‘) =“ ‘Ol:‘ fi:!;l,uu:]nents.t Dhease kt em. help of dynamite a little port and a fairly aquished. § Woald be the siave ":‘ the D e Yoo that Lea had formerly sroncly bullt youths and adroit girls hii eves. They undertook longer and longer life They cherished the changeiess form HISVe ! (G5 SHReT S835 ot the week, par. large landing stage had been made. Geors YA UG ow dawn batore vou:~ Bt Tos together. they noticed with dlstress ”m: the s b ”"" s-n forward wiih walks as Lea's strength returned. As of thelr souls, though they also worshiped aiiout Iyo'clock ( h fie n“ e P jumped out first, fastened the boat, and are really th K{ ol e mee e ot ice with distress that mothodical agllity. Summer was indicat- they were active pedestrians, they were. the elcatrices marked upon them by soll- apgoluto sollt e s aru, - LAxing Lea in his arms Hfted her du shore. ) ,, the man of the future eitr A ncerts upon the crowdes glcr. Ot 1008 11 leAroiing The enviione o r (ot Tuds &nd nflering. s solltude characterized the shore, From there to the glal{orm upon which v Loht be the foture Bon “‘»,".";,',J sire aggravated by the horrible thought at the end of which one might have been odorous bay from one end to the other They were soon familiar with all the Gsas. with the Smpty renni Court: the Tt ich IRy Gl ey et St tn Dride worthy of vor out much difificulty up a staircase cut in exceeded the power of their at the bow of a ship entering an ideal of the rock: 5 000" excoafed D f thei 5 a cky antennae which enclosed it. celebrated points scattered around the . wh * e = Without replying he a o fhey would then embrace without port J:‘xnp;"l’a?e."{n“x%: of verdure, flow. The railway took them info the ‘open bay. “Felgnmouth, ~Dartmouth. Oddi- BRd even the roads, o JoNGr Mmade qusty mourhfal Gethic eyl bt the Englich She howed her head pon Geors's Shouts they exprem Thamse)ves | ds? music, Summer was shor 3 , 3 i ers It seemed to them at such moments that pleturesqu he beauty of thelr affeetion intoxicat ema asain mingla’ port' and roadstend, the there would ramble about the shady lanes that had no name. and that they prefer- the dcserted country, roads and sea all bf the blous Sncills ot nat becn ‘cons —— e e, the his wit el e 4 B o » a3 3 ts with thelr delieate tracery of rig- all over the county—the rich, lush county red as things belonging to themselves. belonged to them. tinued and proved by nature during the (Continued xt Week.) -