Dorn of the Mountains
“That vast spruce slope seemed to have swallowed her. She was gone! Slowly Dorn lowered his arm with a gesture expressive of a strange finality, an eloquent despair, of which he was unconscious. He turned to the park, to his camp, and the many duties of a hunter. The park did not seem the same, nor did his home, nor his work.
“I reckon this feelin’s natural,” he soliloquized resignedly, “but it’s sure queer for me. That’s what comes of makin’ friends…. Nell an’ Bo, now, they made a difference, a...n’ a difference I never knew before.”
He calculated that this difference had been simply one of responsibility, and then the charm and liveliness of the companionship of girls, and finally friendship. These would pass now that the causes were removed.
Before he had worked an hour around camp, he realized a change had come but it was not the one anticipated. Always before he had put his mind on his tasks, what ever they might be; now he worked while his thoughts were strangely involved.MoreLess
“I reckon this feelin’s natural,” he soliloquized resignedly, “but it’s sure queer for me. That’s what comes of makin’ friends…. Nell an’ Bo, now, they made a difference, a...n’ a difference I never knew before.”
He calculated that this difference had been simply one of responsibility, and then the charm and liveliness of the companionship of girls, and finally friendship. These would pass now that the causes were removed.
Before he had worked an hour around camp, he realized a change had come but it was not the one anticipated. Always before he had put his mind on his tasks, what ever they might be; now he worked while his thoughts were strangely involved.MoreLess
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