Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . The Lost Kirk BY HERMAN WHITAKER CAPEN DONALD McKAY dustedhis Sunday hat with his sleeve,placed it carefully beneath hischair, and mopped his fiery face. Theday was warm. Outside, the sun blazeddown on field and forest, but a broadveranda kept the widow Murrays bestparlor comparatively cool, and a timidbreeze wafted an odor of honeysucklethrough the flapping blinds. In the half-light the widows turned rag carpet look-ed almost new; her cottage organ shonewith an unearthly polish. A brilliantreflection of the capen danced on t
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . The Lost Kirk BY HERMAN WHITAKER CAPEN DONALD McKAY dustedhis Sunday hat with his sleeve,placed it carefully beneath hischair, and mopped his fiery face. Theday was warm. Outside, the sun blazeddown on field and forest, but a broadveranda kept the widow Murrays bestparlor comparatively cool, and a timidbreeze wafted an odor of honeysucklethrough the flapping blinds. In the half-light the widows turned rag carpet look-ed almost new; her cottage organ shonewith an unearthly polish. A brilliantreflection of the capen danced on thewell-blacked stove, the horse-hair furni-ture was spotless, while the portraits onthe wall smirked through gleaming glass. Stooping, the capen rubbed a fingeralong his chair—not a speck of dust! Shes a comfortable woman, he mut-tered. A varra comfortable woman! Im minded to do it. He stroked hisjaw thoughtfully and pondered over theproposition. From the barn came thehomely cackle of fowls, and along theveranda, from the back kitchen, travelleda pleasant tinkle
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