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Show 214 Partial list (for she does not want to excite the salivary flow without some means of satisfying it) includes: a raspberry pie, some fruit/nut cake, a box of homemade candy (which includes divinity-stuffed dates and chocolates), a dinner of green peas and potatoes with delicious dessert, a lovely fresh trout, a pitcher of cream. Alluding to the struggle she knows each of them is having, Ellis aches for her darlings but feels powerless to make their lives what she wants them to be. They should write Richard now and then so he will be remembered by one of his own. "What martyrdom some natures endure without one word." The nature of this martyrdom, to hazard a guess, may be a terminal physical affliction; for, as the record shows, Richard will die in ten years at age 68, and Ellis will be around to live through it. Bard, too qualifies for their letters. "He is one of the heroes." Four months pass, and Ellis, now in Kanab, has attended a quarterly conference. She reports to Nellie that the theme was primarily to save the young people, "and it is certainly needed here." She asks many questions about their situation in the cold weather and in their straitened financial condition-asks if they've been able to get the much-needed hired help and wishes she could contribute toward the cost of it. There are references to her efforts to raise money for taxes and to pay other bills-"too bad the renters left," (so she does still own at least one house), but overriding these concerns is the much worse feeling she has about Bard, "his |
