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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1923)
_%^WMWa *** ^‘e0^aGone~StrAtton--Porietr > * (Continued From Intunlw.) Mr. Mlnturn could not quite agree to the camp at the swamp, but he provided a car and a driver and al lowed them to go each morning and often to remain late at night to prac tise owl and nighthawk calls, veery notes, chat cries, and the unsurpassed melody of the evening vespers of the hermit bird. This song once heard, comprehended, copied, and repro duced, the musician and the boy with music in his heart, brain, and finger tips, clung to each other and suffered the exquisite pain of the artist expe riencing joy so poignant it hurt. After a mastery of those notes as to time, tone, and grouping, came the task of perfecting them so that the bird would reply. Hours they practised until far in the night, and when Malcolm felt he really had located a bird, gained its attention, and set it singing against him, he was wild, and nothing would sadsfy him but that his father should go to the swamp with him, and well hidden, hear and see that he called the bird. Gladly Mr. Mlnturn assent ed. Whether the boy succeeded In this was a matter of great importance to hls father, but It was not para mount. The thing that concerned him most was that Malcolm’s interest In what he was doing, his joy In the study he was making, had bred a deep regard in his heart for his in structor. The boy loved the man in tensely in a few days, and immedi ately studying with him, watching him. copying him. He moved with swift alertness, spoke with care to select the best word, and was fast be coming punctiliously polite. On their return Mr. Dovesky had fallen into the habit of lunching with the Mlntums. The things of which he and the boy reminded each other, the notes they reproduced by whi ttling, calling, or a combination, the 1 execution of those on the violin, the .^preferences Mr. Dovesky made to cer tain bird songs which recalled to his mind passages in operas, In secular and sacred productions, his rendition of the wild music, and then the hu man notes, hls comparison of the two, and his remarks on different com pos ers. hls mastery of the violin, and his ability to play long passages preced ing and following the parts taken from the birds, were Intensely absorb ing and educative to all of them. Ihen Mr. Tower would add the description and history of each bird In question. Mr. Minturn started the boys’ library with interesting works on ornithol ogy, everything that had been writ ten concerning strains In bird and human music; the lives and charac ters of the musicians in whose work tha bird passages appeared, or who used melodies so like the birds it made :he fact apparent the feathered folk had inspired them. This led to mi nute examination of the lives of the composers, in an effort to discover which of them were country born and had worked in haunts where birds might be heard. The differing branches of information opened up seemed endless. The change this work made in the boys appeared to James Mlnturn and hls sister as something marvelous. That the work was also making a change In the heart of the man himself, was an equal miracle he did not realize. As each day new avenues opened, he began to understand dimly how much It would have meant to him In hls relations with his wife, if he had begun long ago under her tui tion and learned, at least enough to appreciate the one thing outside so ciety, which she found absorbing. He began to see that If he had listened, und tried, and had Induced her to re peat to him parts of the great com BSW^posers she so loved, on her instru ments, when they reached home, he soon would have come to recognize them, and so an evening at the opera with her would have meant pleasure to himself instead of stolid endur ance. Ultimately it might have meant an effective wedge with which to pry against the waste of time, strength and money on the sheer amusement of herself in society. Once he startd searching for them, he found many ways in which he might have made hls life with his wife dif ferent, If Indeed he had not had it in his power to effect a complete change by having been firm in the begin ning. Of this one thing he was sure 10 certainty: that if he had been able to introduce any such element of Inter est into hia wife's residence as he had. through merely saying the word, in his own, it surely would have made some of the big difference then it was making now. He found himself brood ing, yearning over his sons, and his feeling for them broadening and deep ening. As he daily saw James seek ing more and more to he with him. to understand what he was doing, his pride In being able to feel that he had helped If it were no more than to sit In court and hand a marked book st the right moment, he began to make a comrade of. and to develop a feeling of dependence on, the boy. He watched Malcolm with his quick er intellect, his dally evidence of tem perament, his rapidly developing mu sical ability, and felt the tingle of pride In his lithe ruddy beauty, so like his mother, and his talent, so like hers. The boy. under the in terest of the music, and with the progress he was making in doing a new, unusual thing, soon began to de velop her mannerisms; when he was most polite, her charm was apparent: when he was offended, her hauteur enveloped him. When he was pleased and happy, her delicate tinge of rose flushed his transparent cheek, while the lights on his red-brown hair, glint ed with her color. He shut himself In his room and worked with his violin until time to start to the tam arack swamp. When Mr. Mlnturn promptly appeared with the car, ho found Malcolm had borrowed Mr. Dovesky's khaki suit and waders for him, and on the advice of the boy ho wore the stiff coarse clothing, which the tamaracks would not tear, the mosquitoes could not bite through and muck and water would not easily penetrate—there were many reasons. When they reached the swamp both of them put on hoots and then, fol lowing his son and doing exactly what he was told, James Mlnturn forgot law, politics, and business. With anx Teachers Open That Charge Account Today The Beddeo Clothing: Co. will welcome your name on their books. Supply your every (Tor ment need while in the city. Take as long: time or is neces sary to complete the payments, BEDDEO 14IS-1417 DOUGLAS ST. ious heart he prayed that the bird the lad wished to sing would evolve its sweetest notes, and that bis high hope of reproducing the music per fectly enough to induce the answer would be fulfilled. Malcolm advanced softly, slipping under branches, round bushes, over deep mosst beds that sank In an ooze of water at the pres sure of a step and sprung back on release. Imitating every caution, step ping In the boy's tracks, and keeping a few rods behind, followed his father. Ho had rolled his sleeves to the elbow, left his shirt open at tho throat, while for weeks the Joy of wind and weather on his bared head had been his, so that as he silently followed his son he made an impres sive figure. At a certain point Mal colm stopped, motioning his father to come to him. "Now this is as far as I’ve gone yet,” he whispered. “You stay here and we'll wait till the music begins. If I can do it as well as I have for three nights, and get an answer, I’m going to try to call the hermit bird I sing with. If a hen answers, I'll do the male notes, and try to coax her where you can see. If a male sings, I'll do his song once or twice to show you how close I can come, and then I’ll do the hen's call note, and see if I can coax him out for you. If I creep ahead, you keep covered as much as you can and follow; but stay as far as that big tree behind me, and don’t for your life move or make a noise when I’m still. I’ll go far ahead as I want to be, to start on. Now don’t forget to be quiet, and listen hard!” "I won’t forget!” said James Min turn. "Oh, but It will be awful If one doesn't sing tonight!” ''Not at all!” answered Mr. Min turn. “This is a new experience for me; I’ll get the benefit of a sight of the swamp that will pay for the trip, if I don’t even see a bird.” By the boy’s sigh of relief the fath er knew he had quieted his anxiety. Malcolm went softly ahead a few yardB, and stopped, sheltering himself in a clump of willow and button bushes. His father made himself as inconspicuous as he could and waited. He studied the trunks of the big scaly trees, the intermingled branches cov ered with tufts of tiny spines, and here and there the green cones nes tling upright. The cool water rising around his feet called his attention to the deep moss bed, silvery green in the evening light. Here and there on moss mounds at the tree bases he could see the broad leaves ripen ing pods that he thought must be moccasins seeding. Then his eye sought the crouching boy, and he again prayed that he would not be disappointed; with his prayer came the answer. A sweep) of wings over head, a brown flash through the tam aracks, and then a burst of slow, sweet notes, then silence. James Minturn leaned forward, his eyes on his son, his precious little lad. How the big strong man hoped, until It became the very essence of prayer, that he would be granted the pride and pleasure, the triumph, of success; for his ears told him that to reproduce the notes he had Just heard would undoubtedly be the crowning performance of bird music; surely there could be no other songster gift ed like that! The bird made a short flight and sang again. Across the swamp came a repetition of his notes from another of his kind, so the brown streak moved In that direc tion. At Its next pause Its vole* arose again, sweeter for the mellow ing distance, and then another bird, not so far away, answered. The bird replied and came winging in sight, this time peering, uttering a short note, unlike its song; and not until it came searching where he could see it distinctly, did James Minturn awake to the realization that the last notes had been Malcolm's. His heart swelled big with prideful possession. What a wonderful accomplishment! What a fine boy! How careful he must be to help and to guide him. Again the bird across the swamp Rang and the one in sight turned in that direction. Then began a duet that was a marvelous experience. The far bird called. Malcolm answered. Soon they heard a reply. Mr. Min turn saw the boy beckoning him, and crept to his side. "It’s a female," whispered Mal colm. "I'm going to sing the male notes and calls, and try to toll her. You follow, but don’t get too close and scare her.” The father could see the tense poise of Malcolm, stepping lightly, avoiding the open, stooping beneath branches, hiding In bushes, making his way on ward, at every complete ambush send ing forth those wonderful notes. At each repetition it seemed to the father that the song grew softer, more plead ing, of fuller intonation; and then his heart almost stopped, for he began to realize that each answer to the boy’s call was closer than the one be fore. Malcolm would sleep that night with a Joyful heart. He was tolling the bird he imitated; it was coming at his call, of that there could be no question. His last notes came from a screen of spreading button bushes and northern holly. At the usual in terval they heard the reply, but rec ognizably closer. Malcolm raised his j hand without moving or looking back but his father saw and interpreted the gesture to mean that the time had come for him to stop. He took a few steps to conceal himself, for he was between trees when the signal came, and paused, already so elated he wanted to shout; he scarcely could restrain the Impulse. What was the use In going farther? His desire was to race back to Multiopolis at speed limit to tell Mr. Dovesky, Margaret, and Mr. Tower what a triumph he had witnessed. He wanted to talk about It to his men friends and busi ness associates. Distinctly, through the slowly dark ening green, he could eee the boy put ting all his heart Into the song. James Minturn watched so closely he was not mistake in thinking he could see the lad's figure grow tense as he de livered the notes, and relax when the answer relieved his anxiety as to whether It would come again, and then gather for another trial. At the last call the reply came from such a short distance that Mr. Minturn be gan Intently watching from bis shel ter to witness the final triumph of seeing the bird Malcolm had called across the swamp, come Into view. He could eee that the boy was growing reckless, for as he delivered the strain he stepped almost Into the open, watching before him and slowly go ing ahead. With the answer, there was a discernible movement a few yards away. Mr. Minturn saw the hoy start, and gazed at him. With bent body Malcolm stared before him, and then his father heard his amazed awed cry: "Why mother! Is that you, mother?” "Malcolm! Are you Malcolm?” came the Incredulous answer. James Minturn was stupefied. Dis tinctly he could see now. He did not recognize the knee boots, the outing suit of coarse green material, but the beautiful pink face slowly paling, the bright waving hair framing It, he knew very well. Astonishment bound him. Malcolm advanced another step, still half dazed, and cried: "Why, have I been calling you? I thought It was the bird I saw. still answering!” <Con«lnned m The Morning BoO Especially Prepared for Infants and Children of All Ages Mother! 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