Chief Jim Billie: Alligator Tales

General Books publication date: 2009
Original publication date: 1906
Original Publisher: J.V. Dealy Company Subjects: Fiction / General

Fiction / Literary

Fiction / Romance / General

Fiction / Short Stories Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.
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Excerpt: CHAPTER Y. A LONELY MAN. It was all over. The family vault in the cemetery was closed and sealed. The wide halls and spacious rooms at "The Cedars" resounded no more with the happy voices of love and the music of cheerful companionship. The family was gone, and the dear old home was in the hands of servants. The members of the once happy family could not bear the idea of remaining at "The Cedars" after the wife and mother had left them, so it was decided that the father, son and daughter should spend some months traveling, and after the keen edge of their sorrow had been worn away Walter should enter college, and Edith be placed in a boarding school nearby, that brother and sister might not be wholly separated. As soon, therefore, as the various arrangements could be perfected, the Marchands bade farewell to "The Cedars" and their immediate friends, and set out upon their journey. After devoting the summer months to sight seeing at the places of note and importance in European countries, the little family returned to the United States much benefited, feeling that life still had charms for each of them. To Edith and Walter, the journey had been like a panorama of beautiful sights and scenes, while the activity of travel occupied their attention so they had little time or opportunity to brood over their sorrow. They were not only willing and ready, but really anxious to resume their studies. Mr. Marchand himself began to note that sense of longing, that inexpr...