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The old familiar voices of hill and field and forest and stream soothed and calmed him. The physical exercise satisfied to some extent his instinct and passion for action. Coming back through Old Town, and leisurely climbing the hill on the road that leads past the old Academy, he paused frequently to look back over the ever widening view, and to drink deep of the pure, sun-filled air.
The trustees used to silently line out for home when I finishes, an' never a yeep. It stuns 'em; it shore fills 'em to the brim! "'As I gazes r'arward, goes on the Colonel, as by one rapt impulse he uplifts both his eyes an' his nosepaint, 'as I gazes r'arward, I says, on them sun-filled days, an' speshul if ever I gets betrayed into talkin' about 'em, I can hardly t'ar myse'f from the subject.
I gathered up my portfolio and left the room, went down the stairs and through the passage and courtyard to the sun-filled street. I went on slowly, and after a time found myself close to the church again. I went in, for the interior interested me, and found service was being held.
Back of it rose wooded steeps, running the whole lovely gamut of greenery and blossoming colour to a sun-filled sky which was flawless. The store of Jake Crabbott was open and already possessed of its quorum for the discussion of the day's news. And to-day there was news!
We wandered round the sleepy, silent courtyard, and in and out the chequered greenery, hot with windless, sun-filled air, back through the black-and-white courts, until at last the great outside door shut upon Fatima, her tea party, and the eternal mysticism of the East: we were without the gates of Paradise, and in an atmosphere of rude realism once more.
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