The Place Beyond the Winds

oss of one, so in this man's life the cramping process, begun by his own wrongdoing, and prolonged and completed by other conditions, had the effect of focussing all his

held in his life, he relinquished the one hope that had held him to the past. Then, for a year or two, the light of the doctor's contempt, which had been turned on him, took the zest from the small eff

"they have kept their reason by so doing; why, in heaven's name,

apart and clung to the few-Priscilla Glenn, Mary McAdam, and old Jerry McAlpi

and he was genuinely anxious a

e, while the tears fell from his eyes and the other dog whined dolorou

during the first years of Nathaniel's relaxed severity, was like a bee sipping every flower, and Farwell was not at all confident that anything he had to give would hold even her passing interest for long. Then, too

t or angered her, gradually disappeared, and in its place came a staid de

tion and traditions. She was offered occupations as cook, maid, or laundress. She had sense of hu

king smile and comical courtesy "is bidden to the service of Mrs. Flighty High as s

amusement and felt the cha

and I have watched and tended together. She says I have the touch and nature of the true nurse and she has told me how in the States, and Engl

ually go was slight in Farwell's heart. He, keener than others, saw the closing-in of conditions. He was not blind to Jerry-Jo's primitive attempts to attract the girl's attention, but he was not deceived. When the moment came that Priscilla recognized the half-bree

definite shape in Jerry-Jo's mind, but he meant to have Priscilla before he heeded the lure. With all his brazen conceit and daring he intuitively knew that the girl had never thought of him as he thought of her, and he dared not awaken her by legitimate means. Quite in keeping with his unrestrained nature, he plotted, indirectly, t

nning of the half-breed was diabolic in its sureness. Anton Farwell could not assume responsibility for Priscilla if all Kenmo

r own good, the e

get her. I'm only playing he

dering the Lure, which never was long a

rwell's cabin in so startling a manner that she roused the man

a wonder, what he was reading had absorbed him, and he was far and away from the In-Place. He had taken t

product of l

that life's col

eds in vain i

storm of pas

main in rich,

d, and must be r

truggle with i

than the poor

! And at that moment a stir outside the open door caused him to turn and confront what, in t

h and started to his feet. A visitor from

en a laugh, familiar and ringing, bro

k the veil from her merry f

er in the battered finery of the pla

lightly and displayed her gow

e 'poor' glinting around in this gay silk gown all frayed at the hem and in holes under the arms! The hat and veil, too, go with

d upon Glenn to loosen the rein upon her, that the even stream of their intercourse had been unruffled. He had pass

m beneath which smouldered dangerously, but unconsciously, all the forbidde

him, Farwell was always glad to remember that hi

imed. "I did not know

ce-the astonished male on guard against the attack

you know, Mr. Farwell, I never thought about my-my face, much, b

lly and speaking slowly. "Yes, you are very-bea

ell, and I fancy that with my looks and my

or and did not notice the elderly man, who,

he blue eyes in the dusky skin, the long slenderness of her body, and the

y and self-contemplation, turned about an

r, but she sh

ast summer; an odd flower it had. I think I am like that. You've taught me to-well, know myself. I shall not shame you, Master Farwell. You know we of the lonesome In-Place make friends with strange objects; everything in nature talks to us, if we will but listen. You have taught me to listen, too. Back a piece in the woods are a strong young hemlock and a little white birch. For years I have watched and tended t

ar-dimmed, her f

rose in Farwell's eyes. "What could you, such an one as you have

a shook

erstood me if you have imagined that. I have always known I must go. Lately I have felt the

trouble into which you are willing, in your blindness, to plunge. Why, you are a-a woman; a be

y knew: the world of his own ungoverned passions and selfishness. A kind of shame came over him, and he felt he was no safe guid

it do, Mast

ewhere something like this-we must all mould and chisel our characters; some o

maternal in her rose to the call of his sad recognition

y; "'twould be a poor return if I fa

have I

hat and soiled veil, struck Farwell again by its change, which now seemed to have settled into permanency. Of course it was only the ridiculous fashion of the world he once

ss swept over him. He thought of the time on ahead when his last vital interest would be taken from hi

scilla," he said; "you used to think y

ter Farwell. I'm just thinki

eart's Desire at t

think I would want

t th

tramp along your road, if it is your road, and be jolly and friendly with those you ca

rry-Jo will feel

right has he to th

flashed with mis

played together and quarrelled together, but you're all wrong, Master Farwel

ht and fun left her eyes. She

er?" she said

Prisc

t go to their making? You're quite wron

enly she

e rags for my own plain things. I only wanted to surp

ever of escape overcame him. With the thought of Priscilla's flight into the open, he strained against the trap that Ledyard had caught him in. The g

ess. Before the dread spectre, suddenly imbued with vitality, Farwell reeled and covered his face. Murder was

! I-I thought I-was master.

is lamp. His hands were clammy and cold, and he could not blot out with book or violin the horror of Charles Martin's face a

ld not stir from her contemplation. Yes, it was Jerry-Jo's personality that disturbed her, and it was Farwell's words that had torn the shield she herself had erected, and set the truth free. Yes, she had played with Jerry-Jo; she had tested her coquetry and charm upon him for lack of better material. In

oubtedly Jerry-Jo himself had never given the matter a moment's deep thought. Wel

ay, Jerry-Jo McAlpin strode in sight from the wood path into which the highway ran. She waited for

ll Place. Him and her's

repeated, her face flus

s holding her with

e later on, might have held her to the past, but Kenmore dealt briefly with personalities and visualized whatever it could. The name T

you wanted to thank him for-for the books. We might take the

ot notice the gleam i

an adventure it would be, to be sure.

hind

uld never

the beck and whistle of your

itude of mind to receive this

ldn't go if I want to," she s

were taking in the loveliness of the ra

nt to! I'll g

close to her and s

give us a ki

of adventure, that before she realized her part in the small drama of p

instant, and the hot kiss he press

spered, struggling into freedom, "I'l

she always speak when her reservations were threaten

back in shame

dding you-good-bye. Him and me is different. Once you see

h a bound, back to a kindlier mood. After all, it was a tribute th

had been a flurry, but it had served t

managed to arouse in the girl the one stat

ook of suspicious antagonism. Every nerve in the girl's body twitched with resentment and her spirit flared

hat's a kiss? You c

e Priscilla wiped them, took her usual course

d-McAlpin?" Nathaniel

t need for anyth

ed smiling and

ry that half-breed an

like-would

s unfor

e such performance as I saw to-day and no decent man will marry you! As for J

dropped a cup, one of Glenn's mother's cu

, who you have trained into what she is, or stay with me who has

led her to-night as it never had before. Again she realized the finality of something-the breaking of t