“Yet some great noon in the sun-glare bright

In some vast open space,

You’ll stand, flesh-clothed, with your arms outstretched,

And triumph on your face.”

She sat for a quarter hour with the framed poem in her shapely fingers. Her eyes were looking through a million miles. Nathaniel Forge! Who was he? What had ever caused him to write such a poem?


CHAPTER XIX
TACT AND DISCRETION

I

The box-shop was haunted!

Old Jake Richards made the discovery. He based his contention on concrete observation and abstract deduction.