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Updated: June 1, 2025
I meditated my next move, and now resolved on another try at community life.... The Eos Artwork Studios, founded in the little New York State town of Eos, by the celebrated eccentric author and lecturer, Roderick Spalton. I was in such impatience to reach Eos that I did not cross over to Haberford, to drop in on my father.
He played the piano with violent, expert energy ... his favourite work was the "Turkish Patrol," which, Spalton exclaimed, as he applauded vigorously, he would now adopt as the Eos anthem. The drawing-room was crowded ... a few visiting celebrities ... Eoites, too, but only the quasi-celebrities among them.
Slowly and firmly she disengaged herself ... silently she slid away. She stopped in the shadow a moment before going up the long, winding stairs. "Good night, my dear poet," she whispered. She had no sooner disappeared than I started out, my heart beating like a drum to a charge in me. Spalton frequently wrote till late, in his office.
There was a young man and an older one, both chopping wood, in the back of a building, but in fairly open view. I walked to where they worked with both inward and outward trepidation, for, to me, Spalton was one of the world's great men. Just as I reached the spot, the younger of the two threw down his axe. "So long, Dad! now I'll go into the shop and tend to those letters."
She was the child of "John" and Dorothy. Again Spalton asked me to stay, "we need a poet for Eos!"
"I see my finish," I replied. Now, Spalton was as much in love with Dorothy, his second wife, as I have ever known a man to be in love with a woman. But that could not entirely exclude his jealousy over my sympathetic relation with the "Southern Lady," as the artworkers termed her. And he feared for her on another score.
But by this time the lumber-jacks and I were on terms of proven friendship ... I had told them yarns, and had listened to their yarns, in turn ... the stories of their lives ... and their joys and troubles.... I was reported to Spalton as having been a first-rate cook. I went to work in the bindery again. Every day seemed to bring a new "eccentric" to join our colony.
Dorothy was so thin as to be stringy of body. She had a sharp hatchet-face, eyes with the colour of ice in them ... a cold, blue-grey. She was a woman of culture, yet at the same time she was possessed of a great instinct for organisation and business enterprise just what was needed for the kind of thing Spalton was trying to inaugurate at Eos.
Spalton welcomed me back, and stood, that evening, before the fire in the sitting room, with his arm about my shoulder ... even as he did so I remembered the picture taken of him and the celebrated poet L'Estrange, together ... their arms about each other's shoulders ... and the current Eos proverb, that Spalton always quarrelled not long after with anyone about whose shoulder he first cast his arm.
I feared also that my leaving school the second time, "under a cloud," would not win me an enthusiastic welcome from him. By nightfall I was well on my way to Eos, sitting in an empty box-car. I had with me my new clothes which I wore and my suitcase, a foolish way to tramp. But I thought I might as well appear before Roderick Spalton with a little more "presence" than usual.
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