In the month of June, 1872, Mr. Edward Lynde, the assistant cashier and bookkeeper of the Nautilus Bank at Rivermouth, found himself in a position to execute a plan which he had long meditated1 in secret.
A statement like this at the present time, when integrity in a place of trust has become almost an anomaly, immediately suggests a defalcation2; but Mr. Lynde's plan involved nothing more criminal than a horseback excursion through the northern part of the State of New Hampshire. A leave of absence of three weeks, which had been accorded him in recognition of several years' conscientious3 service, offered young Lynde the opportunity he had desired. These three weeks, as already hinted, fell in the month of June, when Nature in New Hampshire is in her most ravishing toilet; she has put away her winter ermine, which sometimes serves her quite into spring; she has thrown a green mantle4 over her brown shoulders, and is not above the coquetry of wearing a great variety of wild flowers on her bosom5. With her sassafras and her sweet- brier she is in her best mood, as a woman in a fresh and becoming costume is apt to be, and almost any one might mistake her laugh for the music of falling water, and the agreeable rustle6 of her garments for the wind blowing through the pine forests.
As Edward Lynde rode out of Rivermouth one morning, an hour or two before anybody worth mention was moving, he was very well contented7 with this world, though he had his grievances8, too, if he had chosen to think of them.
Masses of dark cloud still crowded the zenith, but along the eastern horizon, against the increasing blue, lay a city of golden spires9 and mosques11 and minarets--an Oriental city, indeed, such as is inhabited by poets and dreamers and other speculative12 persons fond of investing their small capital in such unreal estate. Young Lynde, in spite of his prosaic13 profession of bookkeeper, had an opulent though as yet unworked vein14 of romance running through his composition, and he said to himself as he gave a slight twitch15 to the reins16, "I'll put up there to-night at the sign of the Golden Fleece, or may be I'll quarter myself on one of those rich old merchants who used to do business with the bank in the colonial days." Before he had finished speaking the city was destroyed by a general conflagration18; the round red sun rose slowly above the pearl-gray ruins, and it was morning.
In his three years' residence at Rivermouth, Edward Lynde had never chanced to see the town at so early an hour. The cobble-paved street through which he was riding was a commercial street; but now the shops had their wooden eyelids20 shut tight, and were snoozing away as comfortably and innocently as if they were not at all alive to a sharp stroke of business in their wakeful hours. There was a charm to Lynde in this novel phase of a thoroughfare so familiar to him, and then the morning was perfect. The street ran parallel with the river, the glittering harebell-blue of which could be seen across a vacant lot here and there, or now and then at the end of a narrow lane running up from the wharves21. The atmosphere had that indescribable sparkle and bloom which last only an hour or so after daybreak, and was charged with fine sea-flavors and the delicate breath of dewy meadow-land. Everything appeared to exhale22 a fragrance23; even the weather-beaten sign of "J. Tibbets & Son, West India Goods & Groceries," it seemed to Lynde, emitted an elusive24 spicy25 odor.
Edward Lynde soon passed beyond the limits of the town, and was ascending26 a steep hill, on the crest27 of which he proposed to take a farewell survey of the picturesque28 port throwing off its gauzy counterpane of sea-fog. The wind blew blithely29 on this hilltop; it filled his lungs and exhilarated him like champagne30; he set spur to the gaunt, bony mare31, and, with a flourish of his hand to the peaked roof of the Nautilus Bank, dashed off at a speed of not less than four miles an hour--for it was anything but an Arabian courser which Lynde had hired of honest Deacon Twombly. She was not a handsome animal either--yellow in tint32 and of the texture33 of an ancestral hair-trunk, with a plebeian34 head, and mysterious developments of muscle on the hind35 legs. She was not a horse for fancy riding; but she had her good points--she had a great many points of one kind and another--among which was her perfect adaptability36 to rough country roads and the sort of work now required of her.
"Mary ain't what you'd call a racer," Deacon Twombly had remarked while the negotiations37 were pending38; "I don't say she is, but she's easy on the back."
This statement was speedily verified. At the end of two miles Mary stopped short and began backing, deliberately39 and systematically40, as if to slow music in a circus. Recovering from the surprise of the halt, which had taken him wholly unawares, Lynde gathered the slackened reins firmly in his hand and pressed his spurs to the mare's flanks, with no other effect than slightly to accelerate the backward movement.
Perhaps nothing gives you so acute a sense of helplessness as to have a horse back with you, under the saddle or between shafts41. The reins lie limp in your hands, as if detached from the animal; it is impossible to check him or force him forward; to turn him around is to confess yourself conquered; to descend42 and take him by the head is an act of pusillanimity43. Of course there is only one thing to be done; but if you know what that is you possess a singular advantage over your fellow- creatures.
Finding spur and whip of no avail, Lynde tried the effect of moral suasion: he stroked Mary on the neck, and addressed her in terms that would have melted the heart of almost any other Mary; but she continued to back, slowly and with a certain grace that could have come only of confirmed habit. Now Lynde had no desire to return to Rivermouth, above all to back into it in that mortifying44 fashion and make himself a spectacle for the townsfolk; but if this thing went on forty or fifty minutes longer, that would be the result.
"If I cannot stop her," he reflected, "I'll desert the brute45 just before we get to the toll-gate. I can't think what possessed46 Twombly to let me have such a ridiculous animal!"
Mary showed no sign that she was conscious of anything unconventional or unlooked for in her conduct.
"Mary, my dear," said Lynde at last, with dangerous calmness, "you would be all right, or, at least, your proceeding47 would not be quite so flagrant a breach48 of promise, if you were only aimed in the opposite direction."
With this he gave a vigorous jerk at the left-hand rein17, which caused the mare to wheel about and face Rivermouth. She hesitated an instant, and then resumed backing.
"Now, Mary," said the young man dryly, "I will let you have your head, so to speak, as long as you go the way I want you to."
This manoeuvre49 on the side of Lynde proved that he possessed qualities which, if skilfully50 developed, would have assured him success in the higher regions of domestic diplomacy51. The ability to secure your own way and impress others with the idea that they are having THEIR own way is rare among men; among women it is as common as eyebrows52.
"I wonder how long she will keep this up," mused53 Lynde, fixing his eye speculatively54 on Mary's pull-back ears. "If it is to be a permanent arrangement I shall have to reverse the saddle. Certainly, the creature is a lusus naturae--her head is on the wrong end! Easy on the back," he added, with a hollow laugh, recalling Deacon Twombly's recommendation. "I should say she was! I never saw an easier."
Presently Mary ceased her retrograde movement, righted herself of her own accord, and trotted55 off with as much submissiveness as could be demanded of her. Lynde subsequently learned that this propensity56 to back was an unaccountable whim57 which seized Mary at odd intervals58 and lasted from five to fifteen minutes. The peculiarity59 once understood not only ceased to be an annoyance60 to him, but became an agreeable break in the ride. Whenever her mood approached, he turned the mare round and let her back to her soul's content. He also ascertained61 that the maximum of Mary's speed was five miles an hour.
"I didn't want a fast horse, anyway," said Lynde philosophically62. "As I am not going anywhere in particular, I need be in no hurry to get there."
The most delightful63 feature of Lynde's plan was that it was not a plan. He had simply ridden off into the rosy65 June weather, with no settled destination, no care for to-morrow, and as independent as a bird of the tourist's ordinary requirements. At the crupper of his saddle--an old cavalry66 saddle that had seen service in long-forgotten training-days-- was attached a cylindrical67 valise of cowhide, containing a change of linen68, a few toilet articles, a vulcanized cloth cape69 for rainy days, and the first volume of The Earthly Paradise. The two warlike holsters in front (in which Colonel Eliphalet Bangs used to carry a brace70 of flintlock pistols now reposing71 in the Historical Museum at Rivermouth) became the receptacle respectively of a slender flask72 of brandy and a Bologna sausage; for young Lynde had determined73 to sell his life dearly if by any chance of travel he came to close quarters with famine.
A broad-brimmed Panama hat, a suit of navy-blue flannel74, and a pair of riding-boots completed his equipment. A field-glass in a leather case was swung by a strap75 over his shoulder, and in the breast pocket of his blouse he carried a small compass to guide him on his journey due north.
The young man's costume went very well with his frank, refined face, and twenty-three years. A dead-gold mustache, pointed76 at the ends and sweeping77 at a level right and left, like a swallow's wings, gave him something of a military air; there was a martial78 directness, too, in the glance of his clear gray eyes, undimmed as yet with looking too long on the world. There could not have been a better figure for the saddle than Lynde's--slightly above the average height, straight as a poplar, and neither too spare nor too heavy. Now and then, as he passed a farm- house, a young girl hanging out clothes in the front yard--for it was on a Monday--would pause with a shapeless snowdrift in her hand to gaze curiously79 at the apparition80 of a gallant81 young horseman riding by. It often happened that when he had passed, she would slyly steal to the red gate in the lichen-covered stone wall, and follow him with her palm- shaded eyes down the lonely road; and it as frequently happened that he would glance back over his shoulder at the nut-brown maid, whose closely clinging, scant82 drapery gave her a sculpturesque grace to which her unconsciousness of it was a charm the more.
These flashes of subtile recognition between youth and youth--these sudden mute greetings and farewells--reached almost the dimension of incidents in that first day's eventless ride. Once Lynde halted at the porch of a hip-roofed, unpainted house with green paper shades at the windows, and asked for a cup of milk, which was brought him by the nut- brown maid, who never took her flattering innocent eyes off the young man's face while he drank--sipping him as he sipped83 the milk; and young Lynde rode away feeling as if something had really happened.
More than once that morning he drew up by the roadside to listen to some lyrical robin84 on an apple-bough, or to make friends with the black- belted Durham cows and the cream-colored Alderneys, who came solemnly to the pasture wall and stared at him with big, good-natured faces. A row of them, with their lazy eyes and pink tongues and moist india-rubber noses, was as good as a play.
At noon that day our adventureless adventurer had reached Bayley's Four- Corners, where he found provender85 for himself and Mary at what had formerly86 been a tavern87, in the naive88 stage-coach epoch89. It was the sole house in the neighborhood, and was occupied by the ex-landlord, one Tobias Sewell, who had turned farmer. On finishing his cigar after dinner, Lynde put the saddle on Mary, and started forward again. It is hardly correct to say forward, for Mary took it into her head to back out of Bayley's Four-Corners, a feat64 which she performed to the unspeakable amusement of Mr. Sewell and a quaint90 old gentleman, named Jaffrey, who boarded in the house.
"I guess that must be a suck-cuss hoss," remarked Mr. Sewell, resting his loosely jointed91 figure against the rail fence as he watched his departing guest.
Mary backed to the ridge92 of the hill up which the turnpike stretched from the ancient tavern, then recovered herself and went on.
"I never saw such an out-and-out wilful93 old girl as you are, Mary!" ejaculated Lynde, scarlet94 with mortification95. "I begin to admire you."
Perhaps the covert96 reproach touched some finer chord of Mary's nature, or perhaps Mary had done her day's allowance of backing; whatever the case was, she indulged no further caprice that afternoon beyond shying vigorously at a heavily loaded tin-pedler's wagon97, a proceeding which may be palliated by the statement of the fact that many of Mary's earlier years were passed in connection with a similar establishment.
The afterglow of sunset had faded out behind the serrated line of hills, and black shadows were assembling, like conspirators98, in the orchards99 and under the spreading elms by the roadside, when Edward Lynde came in sight of a large manufacturing town, which presented a sufficiently100 bizarre appearance at that hour.
Grouped together in a valley were five or six high, irregular buildings, illuminated101 from basement to roof, each with a monstrous102 chimney from which issued a fan of party-colored flame. On one long low structure, with a double row of windows gleaming like the port-holes of a man-of- war at night, was a squat103 round tower that now and then threw open a vast valve at the top, and belched104 forth105 a volume of amber106 smoke, which curled upward to a dizzy height and spread itself out against the sky. Lying in the weird107 light of these chimneys, with here and there a gable or a spire10 suddenly outlined in vivid purple, the huddled108 town beneath seemed like an outpost of the infernal regions. Lynde, however, resolved to spend the night there instead of riding on farther and trusting for shelter to some farm-house or barn. Ten or twelve hours in the saddle had given him a keen appetite for rest.
Presently the roar of flues and furnaces, and the resonant109 din19 of mighty110 hammers beating against plates of iron, fell upon his ear; a few minutes later he rode into the town, not knowing and not caring in the least what town it was.
All this had quite the flavor of foreign travel to Lynde, who began pondering on which hotel he should bestow111 his patronage--a question that sometimes perplexes the tourist on arriving at a strange city. In Lynde's case the matter was considerably112 simplified by the circumstance that there was but a single aristocratic hotel in the place. He extracted this information from a small boy, begrimed with iron-dust, and looking as if he had just been cast at a neighboring foundry, who kindly113 acted as cicerone, and conducted the tired wayfarer114 to the doorstep of The Spread Eagle, under one of whose wings--to be at once figurative and literal--he was glad to nestle for the night.
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brute
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proceeding
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