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Updated: May 28, 2025
The house had been locked up and entrusted to the sure care of Martin, an old fellow bent half to the ground, who with his wife also kept an eye on the rest of the buildings, the garden, and the forest. When I arrived I found the whole of my wild, forgotten forest-world absolutely changed and transformed into one great camp.
They represented birds, bees, butterflies, and the other winged denizens of the forest-world, and the tout-ensemble was so fairy-like and brilliant with swift movement, light, and color that the eye was too dazzled and confused to note objectionable details.
While the air of the hut reeked with the acrid smoke, the echo of the volley sounded through the silent forest-world miles away. But the silhouette in the window remained. Once or twice it moved slightly as though in surprise; that was all. The pompadour rose in bellicose retaliation the gesture that had always ensued when Wiley was angered or excited.
On hard-wood ridges every sugar-bush ran sap; the aroma from fire and kettle sweetened the air; a few battered, hibernating butterflies crawled out of cracks and crannies and sat on the sap-pans sunning their scarlet-banded wings. And out of the hot South into the fading silver of this chill Northern forest-world came Hamil, sunburned, sombre-eyed, silent.
She was a normal woman, weakened to near-prostration by the trek of the past twenty-four hours. Was it not better to turn away while there was time? She stood debating thus, the eternal silence blanketing forest-world and clearing. But she was allowed to make no decision. A living body sprang suddenly upon her. Before she could cry out, she was borne down precipitously from behind.
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