The Wilderness and Thou SCENE-The Borders of a Gentleman's Estate in a Tropical Land. An old Indian, with a mahoganycoloured face, is trimming the grass on a grave by a mangrove swamp. Presently he rises to his feet and walks slowly toward a grove that is shaded by the gathering, brief twilight. In the edge of the grove stand a man who is stalwart, with a kind and courteous air, and a woman of a serene lear cut loveliness. When the old Indian comes up to them the man drops money in his hand. The grave-tender, with the stolid pride of his race, takes it as his due, and goes his way. The two in the edge of the grove turn back along the dim pathway, and walk close, close for, after all, what is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it? CURTAIN THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. |