For fifteen years now hehad done as she had bidden.
You know, he said, that the Harveys are on the rocks? Weve been wanting to run up,
year afteryear.
John junior shrugged his shoulders impatiently. He
did what he could; and he hardly noticed that there were thingswhich he could no
longer do.
Then, on Saturday night of the second week, he
received Cathleenspostcard.
You know, he said, that the Harveys are on the
rocks? John Elliot looked up as if he were shocked.
His incomefrom his investments exceeded three
thousand dollars a year. Next morning, he took the local train southwest to
Faulknor. She had learned that she must rule or beruled; and she had come to do the
former. He stood there till three oclock without having taken any
dinner.
Everybody seemed to be immersed
inthought.
One day, late in winter, he went to town to see Mr.
Woodrow and the little girl Martha had gone for a walk over thehills.
That was the Trans-Canada Highway along which they
must come. Cathleen and Woodrow did not think after all that they could staytill
Monday. Their few household goods had been sold to cover themoving
expenses.
When they returned, they pitched the tent, on a
level spotnorth of the house. He finds it hard to get here in any case.
In September the municipality resolved to relieve
distress incertain districts by road work. The second day Kenneth came without his
team.
Itlooked almost uncannily dead and quiet in the
night. At last he ceased, in summer, to use any fuel except the coal-oilfor his
lamp. I know, ofcourse, that my children were born with the taint.
That single week, however, had wrought a great
change in him.
If I had a house that were halfwaydecent! Well come
more frequently after this, Cathleen said.
She was not yet forty but in appearance she was
nearerfifty.
And I dont see how that could be different in any
year.
John Elliots quick, sharp look betrayed that he did
not know.
When he boarded the train, he had taken a ticket to
Regina. Of course, he has two hundred acres of flax in; and if the priceholds . He
should be among them, advise them, whether his advice was heededor not. By seven
oclockhe was in the field, on the summerfallow whence two weeks ago hehad seen the
car. He stood and held his cheek up, pointing to the place where hewanted to be
kissed.
The next moment Cathleen stood by his side; just as
he climbed downfrom his seat.
He stood and held his cheek up, pointing to the
place where hewanted to be kissed.
But this car looked different from other cars.