General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: Little, Brown, and co. Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Adult Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Fiction / Romance / Historical Fiction / Romance / Suspense Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER HI PAST AND PRESENT JOHN MARSHALL rose, and shook himself impatiently.
Straws, he muttered.
So that’s the way the wind sits. Poor fellow! He ‘s too good for her. He moved restlessly about, then stood staring out of the window.
She '11 make a fool of him. I can’t interfere. If I write mother to leave her in New York, she 11 be dead set to start for Patterson on the next train. He whistled softly a minute, then threw up the window as far as it would go, seized his hat, and passing out of the room, turned the key in the door. He felt his way along the upper corridor, and by the feeble light of a lamp in the hall below found his way out into the night. The train was thundering up to the station, and Marshall turned toward the silence of the hills. A moment he looked off on their softened outlines, in the bewitching moonlight, to get his bearings.
The blacksmith shop stands just as it used, he thought,
but all this other trash has been dumped here since. Even Hackett’s store is new. Well, so wags the world; every man for himself, and all for the shillings. He turned down a familiar road, walking aimlessly, drinking in the sweet cool air, which scarcely stirred the leaves. Faintly in the distance came the cry of a whippoorwill, sharply answered froma great gum-tree over his head. He looked up, feeling the impulse of his boyhood to throw a stone into the tree to…