Hardy had been home a week, and
still he felt like a stranger in Taft
vllle. Not but what everybody wel
comed him, but they did it in an easy
going sort of way that left his own
enthusiasm cold after ten years of an
ticipation.
He had been twenty-four when he
had started West. There had been two
incentives, his father’s demand that he
throw up engineering and go Into the
store, and Winifred’s refusal to marry
him.
His yearning to make good and show
them the sort of man he really was
had been the spur all the years he
had worked and climbed. Winifred
had told him she liked boys who were
"steady.” That meant the hardware ;
store, and “Irving & Son” on the long
black and gold sign over the door, lie
had laughed bitterly, out in the lonely
Arizona nights, before he had struck
his right pace, and yet there had been
the sting of homesickness in it too.
With all the joy of adventure and ex
perience, the little mill town on the
Yantic river back in Connecticut was
home to him, and Winifred was the
only girl who could bring a thrill to
his heart, Just little Winifred Blake
with her big blue eyes that seemed to
challenge a fellow to do the very best
that was in him.
He had seen her only at a distance
since his return—once in church, twice
down along Main street when she was
waiting for the car. Then he met her
on the old hill road coming from the
reservoir Saturday afternoon, her
hands tilled with violets.
“You know they always did grow
longer and larger up there, it seemed,”
she said, as he waited beside her in
the road.
“I was going up after some,” Hardy
told her awkwardly.
“Take the short cut through Robin’s
lane, why don’t you? Do you remem
ber the way?”
And Hardy deliberately prevaricated.
No, he was sorry. He had absolutely
forgotten the short cut. Wouldn’t she
just turn back and show it to httn?
Winifred hesitated, laughed a little
and looked as if she didn’t believe him.
"We always went that way after
violets, Hardy,” she reminded him.
"It's Just the little lane below the big
woodiot. You know it so well.”
But Hardy shook his head, looking
dowrn into her eyes until she ignored
him, and watched the fringe of pines
and red oaks ahead of them, with slen
der white birches) lifting tremulous
new leaves in the sunlight.
He had made up his mind all the
way home that he would ask her again.
She had only been seventeen then.
Now she was twenty-seven, and it
seemed as if the years had only made
her sweeter and more desirable. There
was something indefinable about her 1
now, something that evaded him. She
^seemed sure of herself poised and tran
quil eyed, more tender, too, In her
w'ay. It must have been lonely for her
there in the little mill town.
"See the Island over yonder,” Wini
fred said suddenly. They had come to
the crest of the hill overlooking the
reservoir. It had always looked like a
miniature western mountain scene, the
broad lake with its rocky pine-edged
shores, and rocky islands here and
there. "What splendid times we used
to have up here, Hardy.”
"I’ve never forgotten one of them,”
he said slowly. “When you’re a thou
sand miles and more away from home,
only memories seem real.”
"I know,” she rejoined quickly. “Al!
the time I was in Japan I felt that way,
and when we were sent down to the
Philippines it was even w'orse, for
there I would meet somebody from
home once in awhile, and everything
they said made me want to take the
next boat back.”
“You’ve been away?” he exclaimed.
“With Aunt Dora and Uncle Phil,”
she nodded her head. “There were so
I jnan.v of us at home, and when he was
sent to the East by his company, he
wanted a secretary, so I coaxed him
to take me. Then he died in Tokio,
and because I understood the trade
situation pretty well, they made me
sales manager instead of trying to
break in a new man. I’ve only been
home about two months. They want
me to try South America this time,
but I’m tired of it. I suppose women I
are just tabby cats after all. You
work and make believe you like it, and
all the time you’re thinking of some
cozy corner to curl up in and rest.
I’m going to buy the Prendergast place
and fix up the garden beautifully, and
have five cats.”
Hardy laughed, laughed until stie
turned to look at him almost resent
fully. He was so tall and broad shoul
dered, so resolute and sure of himself,
just as she remembered him. One rea
son why she had gone away was to
show him that girls didn’t have to stay
at home.
"^‘You can’t buy it,” he told her teas
lngly, “because I knew you loved It and
the deed is waiting for me now. We
could make It the homestead, Winnie.
I’ll have to go West now and then, and
I want you to come along. I want to
show, you all the places where I’ve
thought of you and told myself to keep
up my nerve and go back after you
and make you say yes.”
Winifred looked up at him over the
violets held to her lips.
“I always wondered why you stayed
so long,” she said. “I thought you
were just a quitter, Hardy, when you
didn’t take me with you before.”
TABLEWARE
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My stock of Glasses is complete. Nippon Chinaware, in gold and
white, also decorated, in dinner sets, from $25 up. Single pieces of
sugar and cream, cake plates and vases.
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WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
Watch Repairing Phone 223
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Install the “Silent Smith”
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The illustration above show s the halal bearings in each typebar
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FRED M. SCHAUPP
SANITARY PLUMBING
Steam-Fitting, Marine Pipe and Tank Work
Sheet Metal Work
SECOND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
PHONE 72
Manhattan Hotel
R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
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OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99
Keist Furniture
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New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
Next door to Alaska 8. S. Office
NORTHWESTERN CLEAN
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TAILORING
All kinds of Repair Work. Fancy
Garments a Specialty. All Work
Guaranteed. Goods called for and
delivered
J. LEEN
Next to Hegg’s, on C Street
Phone 123-4
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E. R. GARNES, Prop.
, ; Residence Phone 101-3
Shop Phone 182
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Blacksmithing, General Repair
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AUTOMOBILES
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Office and Shop: City Dock
CORDOVA, Alaska.
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A New Assortment
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Womens
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SIBERIAN FUR COMPANY
C. Leen, Mgr.
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We Buy All Kinds of Furs
Honest Prices Paid
We make up all kinds of Furs, also
do remodeling. We also do Tan
king and Mounting. Fourteen
years’ experience.
Next to Hegg's, on C Street
Phone 123-4
Sanitary
GARBAGE CANS
Plenty of Them at
CORDOVA
SHEET METAL WORKS
Phones
Shop, 143 Res., 133-2
Sixty Steam-Heated Rooms, Electric-Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath
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