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The Re-Creation of Brian Kent By: Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) |
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By Harold Bell Wright DEAR AUNTIE SUE: I have wondered many times, while writing this simple story of life and
love, if you would ever forgive me for putting you in a book. I hope you
will, because if you do not, I shall be heartbroken, and you wouldn't
want me that way, would you, Auntie Sue? I fancy I can hear you say: "But, Harold, how COULD you! You know I
never did the things you have made me do in your story. You know I never
lived in a little log house by the river in the Ozark Mountains! What in
the world will people think!" Well, to tell the truth, dear, I don't care so very much what people
think if only they will love you; and that they are sure to do,
because, well, just because You must remember, too, that you will
be eighty seven years old the eighteenth of next November, and it is
therefore quite time that someone put you in a book. And, after all, Auntie Sue, are you very sure that you have never lived
in a little log house by the river, are you very sure, Auntie Sue? Forgive my impertinence, as you have always forgiven me everything;
and love me just the same, because I have written only in love of the
dearest Auntie Sue in the world! Signature [Harold] The Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, California, April 30, 1919. "And see the rivers, how they run
Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,
Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,
Wave succeeding wave, they go
A various journey to the deep
Like human life to endless sleep!" John Dyer "Grongar Hill." CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. A REMARKABLE WOMAN II. THE MAN IN THE DARK III. A MISSING LETTER IV. THE WILL OF THE RIVER V. AUNTIE SUE RECOGNIZES A GENTLEMAN VI. IN THE LOG HOUSE BY THE RIVER VII. OFFICERS OF THE LAW VIII. THAT WHICH IS GREATER THAN THE LAW IX. AUNTIE SUE'S PROPOSITION X. BRIAN KENT DECIDES XI. RE CREATION XII. AUNTIE SUE TAKES A CHANCE XIII. JUDY TO THE RESCUE XIV. BETTY JO CONSIDERS XV. A MATTER OF BUSINESS XVI. THE SECRET OF AUNTIE SUE'S LIFE XVII. AN AWKWARD SITUATION XVIII. BETTY JO FACES HERSELF XIX. JUDY'S CONFESSION XX. BRIAN AND BETTY JO KEEP HOUSE XXI. THE WOMAN AT THE WINDOW XXII. AT THE EMPIRE CONSOLIDATED SAVINGS BANK XXIII. IN THE ELBOW ROCK RAPIDS XXIV. JUDY'S RETURN XXV. THE RIVER ILLUSTRATIONS
BETTY JO "LOOK, JUDY! LOOK!" AUNTIE SUE SAID, SOFTLY, "SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND, BRIAN." ...SHE MADE THE LITTLE BOOK OF PAINFUL MEMORIES A BOOK OF JOYOUS
PROMISE.
THE RE CREATION OF BRIAN KENT CHAPTER I. A REMARKABLE WOMAN.
I remember as well as though it were yesterday the first time I met
Auntie Sue. It happened during my first roaming visit to the Ozarks, when I had
wandered by chance, one day, into the Elbow Rock neighborhood. Twenty
years it was, at least, before the time of this story. She was standing
in the door of her little schoolhouse, the ruins of which you may still
see, halfway up the long hill from the log house by the river, where the
most of this story was lived. It was that season of the year when the gold and brown of our Ozark
Hills is overlaid with a filmy veil of delicate blue haze and the world
is hushed with the solemn sweetness of the passing of the summer. And as
the old gentlewoman stood there in the open door of that rustic temple
of learning, with the deep shadowed, wooded hillside in the background,
and, in front, the rude clearing with its crooked rail fence along which
the scarlet sumac flamed, I thought, as I still think, after all these
years, that I had never before seen such a woman. Fifty years had gone into the making of that sterling character which
was builded upon a foundation of many generations of noble ancestors.
Without home or children of her own, the life strength of her splendid
womanhood had been given to the teaching of boys and girls. An old maid
schoolteacher? Yes, if you will. But, as I saw her standing there that
day, tall and slender, dressed in a simple gown that was fitting to her
work, there was a queenly dignity, a stately sweetness, in her bearing
that made me feel, somehow, as if I had come unexpectedly into the
presence of royalty... Continue reading book >>
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