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If he were recognized or gave proof of an honest identity he was allowed to go; otherwise he was marched along under arrest. These armed forces were thorough in their search, and in the country districts they had an especial interest in likely camping-places, and around old barns and straw-stacks. In the towns they searched every corner that was big enough to hide a man.
They were generally of stucco, and glared with fresh whitewash through the foliage of their gardens. When a peasant's cottage broke their line, it gave, with its barns and straw-stacks and its beds of pot-herbs, a homely relief from the decaying gentility of the villas. "What a pity, Miss Vervain," said the painter, "that the blessings of this world should be so unequally divided!
The other fowls were as nice to her as ever, for they knew it was a sad thing to be so discontented, and they knew, also, that if they had not been foolish enough to let her, she could never have made them unhappy. It was a clear, cold winter morning, and the Cattle stood in the barnyard where the great yellow straw-stacks were.
Toward morning I used to have pleasant dreams: sometimes Tony and I were out in the country, sliding down straw-stacks as we used to do; climbing up the yellow mountains over and over, and slipping down the smooth sides into soft piles of chaff. One dream I dreamed a great many times, and it was always the same. I was in a harvest-field full of shocks, and I was lying against one of them.
Nothin' nuver made no diffunce 'bout dat. He nuver hit me a lick in his life an' nuver let nobody else do it, nurr. "I 'members one day, when he wuz a leetle bit o' boy, ole marster hed done tole we all chil'en not to slide on de straw-stacks; an' one day me an' Marse Chan thought ole marster hed done gone 'way from home.
As the daylight became gradually brighter we distinguished figures moving round some straw-stacks folks who had collected there to pass the night sheltered as much as possible from the cold and the morning dew. I thought they were soldiers who had lost touch with their regiments and had taken their brief night's rest in the open air. But I soon saw my mistake.
He saw the young colts and cattle frisking in the sunny space around the straw-stacks, absorbed through his bare arms and uncovered head the heat of the sun, and felt the soft wooing of the air so deeply that he broke into an unwonted exclamation: "Glory! we'll be seeding by Friday, sure." This short and disappointing soliloquy was, after all, an expression of deep emotion.
But Kurt did not conclude his speech. His last words were thought-provoking. "It's turned out well," said Olsen, with satisfaction, and, shaking hands again with Kurt, he strode back to his horses. At last the wide, sloping field was bare, except for the huge straw-stacks. A bright procession lumbered down the road, led by the long strings of wagons filled with brown bags.
Machines and engines dotted the golden slope, and wherever they were located stood towering straw-stacks. Horses and men and wagons were strung out as far as the eye could see. Long streams of chaff and dust and smoke drifted upward. "Lenore, there's trouble in the very air," said Dorn. "Look!" She saw a crowd of men gathering round one of the great combine-harvesters. Some one was yelling.
He saw the young colts and cattle frisking in the sunny space around the straw-stacks, absorbed through his bare arms and uncovered head the heat of the sun, and felt the soft wooing of the air so deeply that he broke into an unwonted exclamation: "Glory! we'll be seeding by Friday, sure." This short and disappointing soliloquy was, after all, an expression of deep emotion.
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