The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland

Author:Hamlin Garland [Garland, Hamlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Literary Collections, Westerns, Fiction
ISBN: 9781421848334
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Published: 2007-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XIII. THE YOUNG EAGLE DREAMS OF A MATE

As the young men sat at supper that night a note was handed to Jack by the clerk. Upon opening it he found a smaller envelope addressed to “Mr. Harding.” Harold took it, but did not open it, though it promised well, being quite thick with leaves. Jack read his note at a glance and passed it across the table. It was simple:

“DEAR MR. BURNS: Won't you please see that the inclosed note

reaches Harold. I wish you could persuade him to come and see me

once more before he goes. I shall expect to seeyou anyhow.

Father does not suspect anything out of the ordinary as yet, and

it will be quite safe.

“Your friend,

“MARY YARDWELL.”

As soon as he decently could Harold went to his room and opened the important letter. In it the reticent-girl had uttered herself with unusual freedom. It was a long letter, and its writer must have gone to its composition at once after the door had closed upon her visitors. It began abruptly, too:

“DEAR FRIEND: My heart aches for you. From the time I first

saw you in the jail I have carried your face in my mind. I

can't quite analyze my feeling for you now. You are so

different from the boy I knew. I think I am a little afraid

of you, you scare me a little. You are of another world, a

strange world of which I would like to hear. I have a woman's

curiosity, I can't let you go away until you tell me all your

story. I would like to say something on my own side

also. Can't you come and see me once more? My father is going

to be away at his farm all day to-morrow, can't you come with

Mr. Burns and take dinner with me and tell me all about

yourself—your life is so strange.

“There will be no one there (I mean at dinner) but Mr. Burns

and you, and we can talk freely. Does being 'under

indictment' mean that you are in danger of arrest? I want to

understand all about that. You can't know how strange and

exciting all these things are to me. My life is so humdrum

here. You come into it like a great mountain wind. You take

my words away as well as my breath. I am not like most women,

words are not easy to me even when I write, though I write

better than I talk—I think.

“Mr. King asked me to be his wife some months ago, and I

promised to do so, but that is no reason why we should not be

good friends. You have been too much in my life to go out of

it altogether, though I had given up seeing you again, and

then we always think of our friends as we last saw them, we

can't imagine their development. Don't you find this so? You

said you found me changed.

“I have little to tell you about myself. I graduated and then

I spent one winter in Chicago to continue my music studies. I

am teaching here summers to get pin money. It is

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