A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST
Henceforward Harry's wooing, like my own, was conducted in an intermittent
and fragmentary manner. But little time was left us for dalliance or soft
speeches, and we paid our homage in practical fashion, with axe and saw
and bridle, for there was truth in what Harry said: "The best compliment a
man can pay a woman is to work for her comfort. Still, I don't know that
more leisure for other things wouldn't be pleasant, too. There is more in
life after all than an endless round of sowing and reaping."
Jasper was among the first to congratulate him, which he did so heartily
that I concluded that he had stopped his visits in time, and it was with a
repetition of his former kindness that he added:
"You'll need to rustle this season, for you've plainly bitten off more
than you can chew. Still, you've friends on the prairie who'll see you
through, and if it's horses or men or money you're stuck for, I guess you
know where to find them."
We borrowed oxen, we borrowed mowers, we hired help everywhere, and
somehow paid for it, while by dint of endless planning we managed to avoid
an overdraft at the bank. Still, I lamed Ormond's hunter, and dawn was
often in the sky when I rode home from the Manor to begin the day's round
again without resting. But our efforts prospered, and the weather favored
us, while Jasper and other neighbors, including some from Carrington,
helped us on opportunity, until one summer day I rode over to the Manor
to press for a decision. I hesitated when I got there, for I was heavy
from want of sleep and troubled about many small matters, and, when Grace
greeted me, she looked so fresh and tranquil that it seemed unfair to
bring the stains of turmoil and fierce hurry into her presence.
"You are tired, poor Ralph," she said, laying a cool hand on my forehead
when I drew her down beside me. "The sun has darkened you to the color of
a Blackfoot. You are thin, and there are too many wrinkles on your
brow--put them away immediately. I wonder whether any one would recognize
in you the fresh-faced and somewhat callow stripling with whom I talked
about the Dominion that day on Starcross Moor. It is not so very long ago,
and yet life has greatly changed and taught us much since then. You must
not be vain about it, but I really think I prefer you now."
She strove to avoid my answer, which was an active one, and then settled
to grave attention when I said: "You were always the same, Grace,
unequaled among women. I was very raw and foolish, but you have helped me,
and experience in these new lands teaches even fools. Now, however, I am
chiefly lonely--and Fairmead is waiting for you."
"I wish to know my duty," said Grace. "I still think and think until my
brain grows tired, and yet I cannot see it clearly. As I told the others,
the Manor is an undesirable inheritance; but I am its mistress, and it
brings heavy charges with it, a load of debt among them, which it would
seem cruel to leave my aunt to grapple with. If we sold it there would be
nothing left for her, and even that might not be possible while my father
lives. Ralph, dear, he was once very kind to me, and it is hard that I can
do so little to help him."
She sighed, and looking at me wearily made no answer to my further
pleading, until, as it happened, Miss Carrington, preceded by a very
awkward Scandinavian maid, entered the room with a tray on which was
placed the Russian tea and dainties for which the house was famous.
"You looked in need of refreshment, Ralph, when you came in," she said.
"There have been changes at the Manor, but we have not forsaken all our
ancient customs."
She was, as Aline said, "a dear old lady," sweet of face, yet stately,
though now she looked careworn too; and rising I bowed respectfully, as,
acting under one of those sudden impulses which are sometimes better than
judgment, I said:
"I hope you will believe that no one regrets the changes more than I do,
and it is only trusting in your kindness that I venture to look for a
welcome here. There cannot be many who would so kindly receive one who
even against his will has been indirectly connected with your troubles.
Besides, I have been abusing your generosity further by trying to persuade
Grace to desert you, and, strangest of all, I ask you to help me."
Grace blushed, and her aunt sat silent for a while.
"I am glad you told me," she then answered quietly, "for I have been
thinking what she ought to do. I wondered now and then that my niece did
not ask me, and I am going to tell my thoughts to both of you. There is a
will extant leaving her this property, with a portion to me, but it will
be a long struggle to free the land from its creditors, and my poor
brother may live as he is for years. He has been mercifully spared all
further anxiety, and I hope that he will. I am old, and my day has long
gone by. Grace is young, with the world before her; and it is neither
right nor necessary that she should put away all hope of happiness
indefinitely. There is only one time when the joy of life is more real
than its sorrows. With kinsman Lyle's counsel, and Foster to work the
land, I can hold the Manor and care for my brother, and for both to remain
here would be a useless sacrifice. So if you love her, as I believe you
do, it is right that you should enjoy together what is sent you. Grace
should go to you."
I had passed my younger days among a homely people, and had been taught
little except what I learned in the silence of the mountains and on the
wide prairie, and yet I think it was without awkwardness that I bent over
Miss Carrington's hand. Speech would hardly have expressed the gratitude
and respect I felt, while I recognize now that the motive of the action
was in her and not in me. Then I turned to her niece and waited with
longing in my eyes until Grace, who had changed to her softest mood and
was now only a blushing girl, said simply:
"You have made it easy, Aunt. Ralph, I will come."
"That is right," said Miss Carrington. "Ralph, you have waited patiently,
and I can trust you to be kind to her." Then she smiled upon us as she
added: "If not, I take my brother's place, and you shall answer for it.
There is still a Carrington at the Manor holding authority. And so, to
turn to the practical, if either of you can consider such prosaic things
as tea, it is growing cold already, and it is a pity to waste the
Carrington tea."
The tea was not wasted. We are only creatures of flesh and blood,
thankful, the wiser among us, for the transitory glimmer of romance that
brightens our work-a-day lot, and gives some much-needed strength to
grapple with it, and I had ridden far after a night spent in the open and
a hard morning's work. So I accepted what was offered, and found it
delicious to rest in that pretty room, where the last of the sunlight
sparkled on the silver and lit up the sweet face of the lady who beamed
upon us. Again it seemed almost too good to be true, and hard to believe,
that victory had crowned the struggle, while even as I balanced the dainty
China cup it reminded me of the battered kettle from which we filled the
blackened cans in a British Columbian camp. There, instead of embroidered
curtains, were festoons of cedar sprays, biting cold and acrid wood-smoke
in place of warmth and artistic luxury, and I knew that I had been favored
greatly--for though many strive, the victory is to the few. Still, from
out of the shadows of the somber firs, I seemed to hear our partner who
lay among the boulders say: "The long, long road has a turning, and there
is rest at last."
Before I left the Manor late that night all was settled, for when I
pressed for an early conclusion Grace, yielding, said: "I am not afraid of
poverty, Ralph; and if it comes we will lighten it by each bearing half.
So we will take the risk of the harvest together, for if I share in your
prosperity I must also take my share in the hardship."
I did not get home to Fairmead until the next day, for I nodded in the
saddle until I could not see the way, and several times nearly fell out of
it, and when the tired horse stopped on a bluff I found a couch in
withered fern and slept there soundly, to waken long after sunrise, wet
with dew. That, however, was a trifling matter on the Western prairie,
because the man who loves small comforts has no business there, and after
the events of the previous day discomfort was nothing to me. Dreams seldom
trouble the toiler in that land; and when I stood up refreshed under the
early sunlight, and memory returned, the world seemed filled with light
and beauty to reflect my own gladness. Ormond's horse was cropping the
grasses not far away, and when I caught him the very birch leaves rustled
joyfully under their tender shimmering green as we rode over the bluff,
while once out on the prairie a flight of sand-hill cranes came up from
the south, calling to one another, dazzling blurs of whiteness against the
blue, and even their hoarse cry seemed to ring with triumph.
Aline ran out to meet me when I dismounted, and my mood must have been
infectious, for she smiled as she greeted me.
"I sent Harry to scour the prairie in search of you, for I feared you must
have been dead tired and the horse had fallen in a ravine. But you must
have slept among the fairies, Ralph, and risen transfigured. You look too
radiant for my serious brother."
It was after hay-time, and the wheat was tall and green, when Grace and I
were married in the little wooden church at Carrington, and every man in
the settlement rode there in her train. Few princesses of royal blood ever
had a finer escort than hers, and she came in state, as was due to
her--for Grace was a prairie princess and the heiress of Carrington.
Perhaps the memory of what had happened made her subjects doubly anxious
to show their loyalty; while, remembering who I was, and how I landed in
that country a poor emigrant, once more I found it hard to understand why
of all men such a gift had been bestowed on me.
The riders of Carrington also filled one room at the Manor with glittering
tokens of their good-will from Toronto and Montreal, besides such useful
things as tools and harness, while among the presents lay a plain letter
with a black border which Grace and I read together. It was from Martin
Lorimer. "I wish you both many blessings," it ran, "and knowing your
foolish way of thinking, I could not send the present I wanted to; but
you'll take this, with an old man's very good wishes. It's a certificate
of paid-up stock in the new Day Spring Mining Company, of which Calvert is
manager. Sell or hold as pleases you. You'll find a market--for already
Calvert's sending up good ore. I also send you something else--your
cousin valued it."
Another paper fluttered out of the envelope, and my amusement died away as
I recognized the letter I had given the bankers in Winnipeg when I drew
upon the loan.
"Of all the gifts I value this from poor Alice most," I said a little
huskily. "We should have gone under without it, and perhaps it alone
helped me to win you. Grace, to both of us, this is the strangest of
wedding presents; but what shall we do with these shares in the Day Spring
mine? They represent the principal portion of the paid-up capital."
"You will keep them," Grace said. "I think I understand why he sent them.
I had a very bitter feeling against your uncle, but I have conquered it.
The past is never done with, and it may be that what my father toiled for
and lost will come to his daughter in its own way. Ralph, there's a story
of hope and struggle and sorrow written between every line on either
paper."
We rode, in accordance with prairie custom, straight home from the church,
for Grace was no longer princess of Carrington, but the wife of a
struggling farmer, and she said that until the harvest was gathered there
must be no honeymoon. Fairmead, as all the inhabitants of the prairie
know, was only a small holding hampered by lack of capital when she
married its owner and forthwith commenced to live in strict accordance
with her adopted station. We hoped to improve that station, but this
depended on the crops and the weather, and the heavens continued to favor
us that year. Seldom had there been such grass for cattle or such a yield
of wheat. No acre returned less than its twenty bushels, and many nearer
forty; while Grace, who drove the first binder into the tall yellow stems
and worked on through the rush and dust of harvest and thrashing, rejoiced
as she said she had never done when all was safely gathered in.
Then Harry and Aline were married and settled in Hudson's dwelling; and
one evening toward the close of the Indian summer, when our work was done
at last we drove slowly down the long incline away from Fairmead. A maple
flamed red on the bluff, the birch leaves were golden; but the prairie was
lone and empty, save for a breadth of tall stubble, and there was neither
a sack in the granary nor a beast in a stall. Harry had taken the working
cattle, while the stock were traveling eastward across the ocean and the
wheat lay piled in the elevators or had been ground already into finest
flour. But the result of our labors was bearing interest, and would do so
until spring, in the shape of a balance at the Bank of Montreal. Each
venture had succeeded, and evidence was not wanting that at last we were
being carried smoothly forward on the flood-tide of prosperity; and so
with thankful hearts we prepared to enjoy a well-earned holiday in the
older cities of eastern Canada.
The garish light died out as we passed the last of the stubble, which grew
dusky behind us, the stars that shone forth one by one glimmered frostily,
and silence closed down on the prairie, while the jingle of harness and
the groaning of wheels recalled the day I had first driven across it.
Grace, too, seemed lost in reverie, for presently she said:
"Another year's work ended, and the bounteous harvest in. Ralph, why is it
that happiness brings with it a tinge of melancholy, and that out of our
present brightness we look back to the shadows of other days? I have been
thinking all day of curious things and people we knew--our first dance at
Lone Hollow, of Geoffrey Ormond and your cousin. They all played their
part in giving us what we now enjoy."
I cracked the whip, stirring the horses into a quicker pace, and, slipping
one arm around her, I said: "It is not those who work or suffer most who
are always rewarded as they would hope to be; and, as Johnston once said,
the fallen have done great things. But we will look forward. You made true
forecasts that night at Lone Hollow, and no fairer witch ever came out of
Lancashire. So look again deep into the future, and tell me what you
see."
Grace laughed, and nestled closer to me under the furs, for the nights
were chilly, before she answered: "There are compensations, and one cannot
have everything, so I lost the gift of prophecy when a better one came to
me--and, Ralph, it came that very night at the Hollow, I think. Instead, I
will tell you what I hope to see. First, you faithful to your task, as
faithful to me, laying together acre on acre and adding crop to crop until
the possessions of Fairmead are greater than Carrington. But even before
this comes--and come, I think, it will--we will try to remember that we
are but stewards, and that possession brings its duties. My father was a
keen sportsman, and I, too, love a horse and gun, but we thought too much
of pleasure at Carrington. We will fling our doors wide open to the
English poor--there are no poor in the Dominion like the English poor--and
share with the needy the harvests that are granted us. I have been
thinking often of your helper, Lee, and as a beginning he could send you
two families in the spring--we have room for them. And so, Ralph, if you
will humor me in this I shall never be sorry to preside over Fairmead
instead of Carrington."
"I will," I answered simply; but she seemed content with the answer, and
asked for no further assurance as we drove on through the night. No one
could laugh more joyously than Grace, or cast about her flashes of
brighter humor; but we had just completed an arduous task whose reward was
greater almost than we dared hope, and our gladness was too great to find
expression in merriment.
On reaching the Elktail station I was handed a telegram from Calvert
which had lain there some time awaiting an opportunity for delivery. It
was brief, but reassuring.
"Great news. Bottomed on rich ore at last. Day Spring stock cent. per
cent. premium. Don't sell. Looking for surprising dividends."
"This is the beginning," said Grace. "Some day all the rest will come."
And then, with a blast of the whistle and the lighted cars clashing as
they lurched up out of the prairie, the Atlantic express rolled in and
bore us east to enjoy our belated honeymoon.
Grace's prediction was fulfilled, for although we had reverses we
prospered from that day, and there are now few farms anywhere on the wide
grass-lands between Winnipeg and Regina, to compare, either in area or
fertility, with Fairmead, while the flour made from our wheat is spread
across the breadth of Europe. And better than lands and stock is the
content and peace that came to me through Grace's companionship.
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