As for Seth, this sudden accession of feminine interest in, and concern for, him was extremely pleasant and grateful. The very suggestion of the trip, in his honor, was like a sweet taken in advance from the honeyed future which he was so soon to realize. Long that night, after he had walked over to the Warren gate with Annie, and returned to the unlathed attic2 where Milton lay already snoring, he thought fondly of the morrow’s treat.
The morning came, warm but overcast3, with a soft tendency of air from the west. “It couldn’t have been better if it had been made to order,” Seth said enthusiastically, when Isabel made her appearance before breakfast. “It will be good fishing and good walking, not too hot and not wet.”
Albert smiled a trifle satirically when the project was unfolded to him—with that conceited4 tolerance5 which people who don’t fish always extend to those who do. “You’ll probably get wet and have the toothache” he said to his wife, but offered no objection.
The lunch was packed, the poles were ready, the bait-can stood outside the shed door, breakfast was a thing of the past, and Isabel sat with her sunhat and parasol—but Annie did not come. Seth fidgeted and fumed6 as a half-hour went by, then the hour itself. It was so unlike Annie to be late. He made an errand to the hay-barn, to render the waiting less tedious, and it was there that Milton found him, rummaging7 among some old harness for a strap8.
“Annie’s come over,” said Milton, “I heerd her say somethin’ ’baout not goin’ fishin’, after all. Looks ’sif she’d be’n cryin’ tew. I tole ’em I’d fetch yeh.”
Seth came out into the light, slapping the dust off his hands. “What’s that you say? Why isn’t she going?”
“I dunnao nothin’ more ’n I’ve told yeh. Ask her yerself. I ’spose she’s be’n cryin’ at the thought of yer goin’. That’ll be the eend o’ ev’rythin’ atwixt you two, won’t it?”
“Oh, do mind your own business, Milton!” Seth said, and hurried across the barnyard to where the two young women stood, on the doorstep. “Why aren’t you going, Annie? What’s the matter?” he called out as he approached.
Poor Annie looked the picture of despair. Her face bore the marks of recent tears and she hung her head in silence. Isabel answered for her.
“Going? Of course she is going. It would be ridiculous not to go, now that everything’s arranged. Get the things together, Seth, and let us make a start.”
“But Milton said she wasn’t going,” persisted Seth.
“Dear, dear, how downright you are! Don’t I tell you that she is going, that there is nothing the matter, that we are waiting for you?” And there was nothing more to be said.
The sun came out before the trio had gone far, but not before they had begun to forget the cloud at the start. The grass in the pastures was not quite dry yet, but wet feet were a part of the fun of the thing, Isabel said gaily9. The meadow larks10 careened in the air about them, and the bobolinks, swinging on the thistle tops, burst into chorus from every side as the sunlight spread over the hill-side. There were robins11, too, in the juniper trees beyond the white-flowering buckwheat patch, Seth pointed12 out, too greedy to wait till the green berries ripened13. A flock of crows rose from the buckwheat as they passed and who could help smiling at Isabel’s citified imitation of their strident hawing? They came upon some strawberries, half-hidden in the tall grass beside the rail-topped wall, and Isabel would gather them in her handkerchief, to serve as dessert in their coming al fresco14 dinner, and Annie helped her, smiling in spite of herself at the city lady’s extravagant15 raptures16.
When they stopped to rest, in the fresh-scented shadow of the woods, and sat on a log along the path, two wee chipmunks17 came out from the brake opposite and began a chirping18 altercation19, so comical in its suggestions of human wrangling20 that they all laughed outright21. The sound scared away the tiny rodents22 in a twinkling, and it banished23 as swiftly the restraint under which the excursion had begun.
From that moment it was all gayety, jesting, enjoyment24. Isabel was the life of the party; she said the drollest things;—passed the quaintest25 comments,—revealed such an inexhaustable store of spirits that she lifted her companions fairly out of their serious selves. Seth found himself talking easily, freely, and even Annie now and again made little jokes, at which they all laughed merrily.
The fisherman’s judgment27 as to the day was honored in full measure. The fish had never bitten more sharply, the eddies28 had never carried the line better. It seemed so easy, to let the line wander back and forth29 between the two currents, to tell when the bait was grabbed underneath30, and to haul out the plunging31, flapping beauty, that Isabel was all eagerness to try it, and Seth rigged the little pole for her, baited the hook self-sacrificingly with his biggest worm, which he had thought of in connection with a certain sapient32 father of all pike further up the river, and showed her where and how to cast the line.
Alas33, it was not so simple, after all, this catching34 of fish.
First she lost a hook on a root; then it seemed to her that ages passed in which nothing whatever happened and this was followed by the discovery that her hook had entirely35 been stripped of bait without her suspecting it. At last there came a bite, a deep, determined36 tug37, which she answered with a hysterical38 pull, hurling39 through the air and into the thistles far back of her a wretched little bull-head which they were unable to find for a long time, and which miserably41 stung her thumb with its fin40 when she finally did find it.
After this exploit Annie must try, and she promptly42 twitched43 her line into the tree overhead. And so the day went forward, with light-hearted laughter and merriment, with the perfect happiness which the sunshine and color and perfume of June can bring alone to the young.
They grew a trifle more serious at dinner time. It was in the narrow defile44 where the great jam of logs was, and where the river went down, black and deep, under the rotting wood with a vicious gurgle. Just above the jam there was a mound45, velvety46 now with new grass, and comfortably shaded—a notable spot for dinner and a long rest, and then the girls could watch to much advantage Seth’s fishing from the logs, of which great things were prophesied47. Here then the cloth was spread on the grass, the water put on over a fire lighted back of the mound, and the contents of the basket laid in prandial array. It was in truth a meagre dinner, but were appetites ever keener or less critical?
Once during the forenoon, when allusion48 was made to Seth’s coming departure, Isabel had commanded that nothing be said on that subject all day long. “Let us not think of it at all,” she had said, “but just enjoy the hours as if they would never end. That is the only secret of happiness.” But now she herself traversed the forbidden line.
“How strange it will all seem to you, Seth,” she mused49, as she poured out the tea. “As the time draws near, don’t you almost dread50 it?”
“What I’ve been thinking most about to-day is your coming to the farm to live. It can’t be that you are altogether pleased—after what I’ve heard you say.”
“Oh yes, why not?” said Isabel. “My case is very different from yours. I shall be just as idle as I like. I shall have horses, you know and a big conservatory51, and a piano, and all that. We shall have lots of people here all summer long—just think what fishing parties we can make up!—and whenever it gets stupid we can run down to New York. Oh, I’ve got quite beyond the reconciled stage now. I am almost enthusiastic over it. When you come back in a year’s time, you won’t know the place. It will have been transformed into a centre of fashion and social display. I may get to have a veritable salon52, you know, the envy and despair of all Dearborn County. Fancy Elhanan Pratt and Sile Thomas in evening dress, with patent leather pumps and black stockings, scowling53 at Leander Crump, with a crushed hat under his arm, whom they suspect of watering his milk! Oh, we shall be gay, I assure you.”
Seth looked at her attentively54, puzzled to know how much of this was badinage55, how much sincerity56. She smiled archly at him—what a remarkably57 winning smile she had!—and continued:
“Then Annie will be company for me, too. I mean to bring her out, you know, and make her a leader of society. In a year’s time when you come back and I introduce you to her, you won’t be able to credit your senses, her air will be so distingué, and her tastes so fastidious.”
She ceased her gay chatter58 abruptly59, for Annie had turned away and they could see that her eyes were filling with tears.
Seth bethought him of those earlier tears, the signs of which had been so obvious when they started, and it was natural enough to connect the two.
“Something has happened, Annie,” he said. “Can’t you tell us what it is?”
And then he bit his tongue at having made the speech, for Annie turned a beseeching60 look at him, then at Isabel, and burst into sobs61.
“Isn’t it reason enough that you are going away?” said Isabel. “What more could you ask?”
“No, it isn’t that alone,” protested Annie through her tears. Her pride would not brook62 the assumption. “There is something else; I can hardly tell you—but—but—my grandmother has suddenly taken a great dislike to Seth; if she knew where I was she would be very angry: I never deceived her, even indirectly63, before, but I couldn’t bear not to come after I got to the house, and if I’ve done wrong—”
“Now, now dear” cooed Isabel, leaning over to take Annie’s hands, “what nonsense to talk of wrong; come now, dry your eyes, and smile at us, like a good girl. You are nervous and tired out with the task of tending your grandmother—that’s all—and this day in the woods will do you a world of good. Don’t let us have even the least little bit of unhappiness in it.”
Seth watched his sister-in-law caress64 and coax65 away Annie’s passing fit of gloom, with deep enjoyment. The tenderness and beauty of the process were a revelation to him; it was an attribute of womanhood the existence of which he had scarcely suspected heretofore, in his untutored, bucolic66 state. Annie seemed to forget her grief quickly enough, and became cheerful again; in quaint26 docility67 she smiled through her tears at Isabel’s command, and the latter was well within the truth when she cried: “There! You have never looked prettier in your life!”
Seth nodded acquiescence68, and returned the smile. But somehow this grief of Annie’s had bored him, and he felt rather than thought that his country-cousin, even in this radiant moment, was of slight interest compared with the city sister-in-law, who not only knew enough not to cry herself, but could so sweetly charm away tears from others.
Seth tested all the joints69 of his pole, and changed the hook and baited it with studious care, before he climbed out on the jam. Gingerly feeling his way from log to log, he got at last upon the wet mossy birch which projected like a ledge70 at the bottom of the pile. The women watched his progress from the mound, and gave a little concerted shout of triumph when, at the very first cast of his line into the froth of the dark eddy71, it was caught and dragged swiftly across the stream, and a handsome pike a moment later paid the penalty.
“That’s by far the biggest yet, isn’t it?” Annie asked.
“Wait, there are bigger yet. Watch this!”
The line, thrown in again, had been sharply jerked and was now being drawn72 upstream under the logs. Seth moved down to the end of the birch, stooping under the jutting73 heap of logs above, to be able to play the pole sidewise, and save the fish. It was a difficult position to stand in; he held the rod far forward with one hand, and grasped a bough74 above for support as he leaned out over the stream.
The thing snapped—exactly how it was no one knew—a log released from its bondage75 shifted position, a dozen others rolled over it rumbling76, and the women held their breath affrighted as they saw, without moving, the whole top of the jam tremble, lift a jagged end or two, and then collapse77 with a hollow noise. As they found voice to scream, the water was covered with floating debris78, and the air filled with a musty fungus-like smell.
There was no sign of Seth.
The roar of the falling timber had scarcely died away before Annie had left the mound, had torn her way through the alders79 at the bottom, and stood panting on the wet slimy rocks at the edge of the stream. She hardly heard the frightened warning which Isabel, pale and half-fainting, called out to her:
“Keep away from the water, Annie! You’ll surely be drowned!”
She was painfully intent upon another thing, upon the search for some indication of her cousin. The logs were moving but slowly in the current, and were heaped so irregularly that no clear survey of the whole surface could be had. There seemed an eternity81 of suffering in every second which she spent thus, scanning the scene. Could the crush of logs have killed him? Even if he had escaped that, would he not be drowned by this time? The grinding of the logs against each other, the swash of the water at her feet, Isabel’s faint moaning on the mound above, seemed to her dazed terror a sort of death dirge82.
Oh, joy! She caught sight of something in cloth between two great tree-trunks, drenched83, covered with the red grime of rotten wood, motionless; but it was Seth. His face she could not see, nor whether it was under water or not. She walked boldly into the stream—kneedeep at the outset, and the slippery rocks shelving off swiftly into unknown brown-black depths—but there was no hesitation84. A halfdozen steps, and she disappeared suddenly beneath the water. Isabel wrung85 her hands in despair, too deep now to find a voice; but Annie had only slipped on the treacherous86 slates87, and found her footing again. The water came to her shoulders now, and was growing deeper steadily88.
With a strength born of desperation she clambered up on the birch, which floated nearest her, and pulled herself along its length, swaying as it rolled in the current under her weight, but managing to keep on top. It was nothing short of miraculous89 to Isabel’s eyes, the manner in which she balanced herself, clambered from log to log, overcame all the obstacles which lay between her and the inanimate form at the other side. The distance was not great, and a swimmer would have made nothing of the feat90, but for a girl encumbered91 with heavy wet skirts, and in deep water for the first time, it was a real achievement.
At last she reached Seth—her progress had covered three minutes, and seemed to her hours long—and, throwing herself across both logs, with a final effort lifted his head upon her shoulder.
“He is alive!” she said to Isabel, feebly now, but with a great sigh of relief.
The city woman ran down at this, all exultation92. At Annie’s suggestion, she tied their two shawls together, fastened one end to a pole, and managed to fling the other over to the rescuer; it was easy work after that to draw the logs to the bank, and then Annie, standing93 knee-deep again in the water, made shift to get the heavy dead weight safe on land. The two women tugged94 their burden through the alders, and up to the place where the dinner dishes still lay, with scarcely a word. Then exhausted95, excited, overjoyed, Isabel threw herself in Annie’s arms and they both found relief in tears.
Seth had been struck on the head and stunned96 by the first falling log; how much he had been in the water or how near he had been to drowning could not be discovered.
He presently opened his eyes, and a smile came almost instantaneously to his face as he realised that his head was resting in Isabel’s lap, that he was muffled97 up in her shawl, and that she was looking down upon him anxiously, tenderly. A second sufficed to bring the whole thing to his mind, or at least the facts that he had gone under with the logs and by some agency had been landed here safe and comfortable, if not dry—and to bring also the instinctive98 idea that it would be the intelligent part to lie still, and be petted and sympathised with.
Isabel scarcely returned his smile. She had not recovered from her fright.
“Oh, Seth,” she asked earnestly, “Are you hurt? Do you feel any pain?”
“Not a bit” he replied—“only dizzy like. By George! How they did come down though. I must have had a pretty narrow squeak99 of it. Funny—I don’t remember coming out at all.”
She smiled now. “I should think not. You lay perfectly100 senseless way out there among the logs. We fished you out, and dragged you up here. I feel like a heroine in a Crusader’s romance, really!”
It entered Seth’s mind to say something nice in reply, that she looked like one, or that they were not equal in those benighted101 ages to producing such women, or something of that sort; but his tongue did not seem to frame the words easily and as he looked up at her he grew shy once again, and felt himself flushing under her smile, and only said vacuously102, “Mightly lucky I wasn’t alone, isn’t it?” Annie appeared on the scene now, her clothes steaming from the heat of the fire, over which she had endeavoured to dry them, and her teeth displaying a spasmodic tendency to knock together between sentences. She too was full of solicitude103 as to Seth’s condition, and to satisfy this he reluctantly sat up, stretched his arms out, felt of the bump on his forehead, beat his chest, and finally stood erect104.
“I’m all right, you see” he said—“only, bo-o-o, I’m cold,” and he made for the fire, upon which Annie had heaped brushwood, which crackled and snapped now, giving forth a furious heat.
They stood about the fire for a considerable time. Isabel was opposite Seth, rather ostentatiously drying sundry105 damp places in her dress which had come in contact with the rescued man’s dripping hair and clothes. He was so interested in watching her, and in thinking half-regret fully80, half-jubilantly, that she had been put to this discomfort106 in saving his life, that he failed to notice how completely drenched his cousin had been. The conversation turned entirely, of course, upon the recent great event, but it was desultory107 and broken by long intervals108 of silence, and somehow Seth did not get any clear idea of how he was saved, much less of the parts the two women had respectively played in the rescue.
It would be unfair to say that Isabel purposely misrepresented anything; it is nearer the truth to describe her as confounding her own anxiety with her companion’s action. At all events, the narrative109 to be gleaned110 from her scattering111 descriptions and exclamations112 had the effect of creating in Seth’s mind the impression that he could never be sufficiently113 grateful to his sister-in-law.
As for Annie, the whole momentous114 episode had come so swiftly, had been so imperative115, exhaustive in its demands of all her faculties116, and then had so suddenly dwindled117 to the unromantic conditions of drying wet clothes at a brush fire, that her thoughts upon it were extremely confused. She scarcely took part in the conversation. Perhaps she felt vaguely118 that her own share in the thing was not made to stand forth with all the prominence119 it deserved, but she took it for granted that, in his first waking moments, while he was alone with Isabel, Seth had been told the central fact of her going into the water for him, and, if he was not effusively120 grateful, why—it was not Seth’s way to be demonstrative. Besides she said to herself, she did not want to be thanked.
Still, late that night, long hours after Seth had said good-night to her at the Warren gate, and she had almost guiltily stolen up to her room without braving her grandmother’s questions, Annie could not go to sleep for thinking:—
“He might at least have looked some thanks, even if he did not speak them.”
Three days later, Seth departed for the city. It was not a particularly impressive ceremony, this leave-taking, not half so much as he had imagined it would be.
He had risen early, dressed himself in one of the two new, ready-made, cheap suits Albert had bought for him at Thessaly and packed all his possessions in the carpet satchel121 which had been in the family he knew not how long—and still found, when he descended122 the stairs, that he was the first down. It was a dark, rainy morning, and the living room looked unspeakably desolate123, and felt disagreeably cold. He sat for a long time by a window pondering the last copy of John’s Banner, and trying to thus prepare his mind for that immense ordeal124 of daily newspaper work, that struggle of unknown, titanic125 proportions, now close before him.
Alvira at last came in to lay the breakfast table.
“Hello, you up already?” was all she said; but he felt she was eyeing him furtively126, as if even thus soon he was a stranger in the house of his birth.
Aunt Sabrina next appeared. “There! I knew it ’d rain,” she exclaimed. “I told Alviry so last night. When th’ cords on th’ curtains git limp, yeh can’t fool me ’baout it’s not rainin’. ’N’ Seth, I hope you’ll go to Church regular whatever else you dew. ’N’ ef yeh could take a class in th’ Sunday schewl, it’d go a long ways tow’rd keepin’ yeh aout o’ temptation. Will yeh go to th’ Baptist Church, think? Th’ Fairchilds ’v’ allus be’n Baptists.”
The breakfast passed in constrained127 silence, save for Albert, who delivered a monologue128 on the evils of city life, and the political and ethical129 debauchery of the press, to which Seth tried dutifully to pay attention—thinking all the while how to say goodbye to Isabel, how to invest his words with a fervor130 the others would not suspect.
When the time came, all this planning proved of no avail. He found himself shaking hands as perfunctorily with her as with her husband, and his father and aunt. Only the latter kissed him, and she did it with awkward formality.
Then he climbed into the buggy where Milton and the carpet bag were already installed, and, answering in kind a chorus of “Good-byes” drove out into the rain—and the World.
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