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"Pretty, isn't it?" said Kate. "Very, quite pastoral," sniffed I. We were sitting round the open door an hour after, listening to a whippoorwill, and watching the slow moon rise over a hilly range just east of Centreville, when that elvish little "week! week!" piped out of the wood that lay behind the house.
The bases of the mountains forming the gorge in which the little village lay, were richly green; and high above this gentler vegetation, grew forests of dark fir, cleaving the wintry snow-drift, wedge-like, and stemming the avalanche. Above these, were range upon range of craggy steeps, grey rock, bright ice, and smooth verdure-specks of pasture, all gradually blending with the crowning snow.
I want to know what these clever people are thinking, even if I don't always agree with them, and you ought to read them too. It's quite true what foreigners say about our men, that they live in a groove, that they haven't any range of conversation." "I'm quite willing to be educated," I replied. "I haven't a doubt that I need it."
Miss Kinnaird and Ida Stirling were seated among the boulders not far away. "I understand that the river bends around the range, and the crest of the first rise seems no great height," he said. "There is evidently a bench I think you call it before you come to the snow, and the ascent should be practicable for a lady. Take these glasses and look at it."
The distant view of the barrier range was beautiful beyond description, for, though the peak on which we stood was the highest for many miles around us, the lofty peaks of the Indian Caucasus were many thousand feet above us.
Then over the bald, featureless, fire-blackened mountains, glaciers began to crawl, covering them from the summits to the sea with a mantle of ice; and then with infinite deliberation the work went on of sculpturing the range anew.
Just beyond the second lake lay the range of hills that constituted the backbone of the island, and although the sun was hot he climbed them, their height being about a thousand feet. From the crest he had a view of the entire island, finding the new half much like the old, low, hilly, covered with forest, and surrounded with a line of reefs on which the surf was breaking.
"We want you to find out and tell us that Dry Mesa cannot be watered. Irrigation would break up Daddy's range and put him out of business. It is just what we do not want." "I see," said Blake, with instant comprehension of the situation. "I know it cannot be done. But there are so many reclamation projects, and Daddy has read and read about them until he almost has a bee in his bonnet."
By this time the Su-chen had approached to within a distance of about a mile from the fort and the small bight in the river, inside which lay the five junks, and Frobisher determined to try a sighting shot at the building, to accustom the men to a changing range.
So, having "cashed in" to the "limit" all the gold-dust they possessed, they felt they were entitled to spend a few days in watching events, and a few dollars in passing the time until such events, if any, should come within their range of vision. What events were expected it is doubtful if the most inventive could have put into words.
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