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CHAPTER 2
CONCEPT MAP
I. The World around Us
A. The Scientific Method: Experiments and Theories
B. Positive and Normative Analysis
C. Economic Models
1. Endogenous and Exogenous Factors
2. The Role of Assumptions
II. The Production Possibilities Frontier
A. The Graph
B. Opportunity Cost in the PPF
C. Economic Growth
III. Specialization and Trade
A. Absolute Advantage
B. Comparative Advantage
C. Price
IV. The Trade-off between the Present and the Future
A. Consumer Goods and Capital Goods
B. Investment
C. The PPF in the Future
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. An economist’s use of experiments and real-world data to test a theory is an example
of:
a. the scientific method in economics.
b. macroeconomics.
c. economic growth.
d. normative analysis.
e. comparative advantage.
ANS: A DIF: Easy TOP: I.A.
REF: The Scientific Method in Economics
MSC: Remembering
2. On the television show “MythBusters,” the hosts design experiments, collect data, and
test theories based on popular myths. This is an example of:
a. the scientific method as used in economics.
b. economic growth.
c. gains from trade.
d. production possibilities.
e. absolute advantage.
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8. Which of the following is a positive statement?
a. My dog should lose some weight.
b. Legally requiring dogs to have rabies shots will reduce the number of rabid dogs.
c. You should take your dog to the veterinarian once a year for a checkup.
d. Chihuahuas are cuter than bulldogs.
e. All dogs should be required to wear leashes at all times.
ANS: B DIF: Easy TOP: I.B.
REF: Positive and Normative Analysis
MSC: Applying
9. Which of the following is a normative statement?
a. You should wear a helmet when cycling.
b. The sky is blue.
c. A bicycle has two wheels.
d. A unicycle has five wheels.
e. Electricity follows the path of least resistance.
ANS: A DIF: Medium TOP: I.B.
REF: Positive and Normative Analysis
MSC: Applying
10. Which of the following is a positive statement?
a. Individuals should make good long-term decisions.
b. Corporations should maximize shareholder value.
c. Government should reduce the level of unemployment.
d. The most important effects of policy happen in the short term.
e. The unemployment rate is 8%.
ANS: E DIF: Medium TOP: I.B.
REF: Positive and Normative Analysis
MSC: Applying
11. Which of the following is a positive statement?
a. Winters in Arkansas are too cold.
b. Everyone should work in a bank to understand the true value of money.
c. Harvard University is the top education institution in the country.
d. On average, people save 15% when they switch to GEICO.
e. Everyone ought to have a life insurance policy.
ANS: D DIF: Medium TOP: I.B.
REF: Positive and Normative Analysis
MSC: Applying
12. Which of the following is a normative statement?
a. The current exchange rate is 0.7 British pounds per U.S. dollar.
b. In January, the average temperature in Fargo, North Dakota, is 56 degrees.
c. Winters in Arkansas are too cold.
d. On average, people save 15% when they switch to GEICO.
e. University of Virginia graduates earn more than Duke University graduates.
ANS: C DIF: Medium TOP: I.B.
REF: Positive and Normative Analysis
MSC: Applying
13. The important act of holding all other variables constant while examining a particular
variable is known as:
a. endogeneity.
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from her promise, and she would be once more her buoyant, happy
self. But I could not bring myself to the necessary point. In part I was
restrained by the very urge of self-preservation, by the threat of
madness if I must live alone winter after winter; in part I was held
back by sheer stubbornness, the determination not to surrender the
prize on which I had set my heart. And in part I was misled by my
own blindness. I still felt that I had only to win this one victory, and
happiness would shine for me again; that once I had weaned Yasma
from her long yearly absences, neither of us would have anything
more to fear.
Had my eyes only been open, I would have been warned not by
Yasma's attitude alone, but by the hints of her kinsmen. Not until
later did I take note of the gradually changing attitude of the villagers,
and link together a multitude of signs, each slight in itself, which
testified to the unspoken reproach I had aroused. But what I did
observe even at the time, yet did not properly weigh or fathom, was
the uneasiness and even alarm in the manner of Yasma's father and
brothers. When Karem bade farewell before disappearing for the
winter, he mentioned Yasma in scarcely veiled tones, bidding me not
to "clip her wings"; when Barkodu bade farewell, he adjured me not
to try to adapt the Ibandru to my own nature. And when Abthar came
to say good-bye, it was with the manner of one who suffers a great
sorrow; the grizzled face became tender and the stern eyes soft
when he counselled me to take good care of his child. But he had
the air of one who reluctantly bows to the inevitable, and spoke as
though knowing that his words would be without effect.
I had hoped that after Abthar and Karem and the other tribesmen
had gone, Yasma would recover from her despondency. But, if
anything, her depression grew as the days went by. It was as though
the departing ones took with them her slight remaining joy in life; with
each of her kinsmen that disappeared, some new corner of her small
universe crumbled away. Her eyes would now travel toward the
south as if to seek there some great and glorious good hidden from
her forever; and it gave me many a pang to see how she craved
what was not to be. But still my purpose held firm.
Eventually there came a day when all but a few of the cabins were
empty; then a day when even those few were vacant—when all
except our own were deserted. The evening before had still seen two
or three belated men strolling about the village; but now we were
alone, utterly alone except for the screaming wild things in the woods
and the unperturbed figure of Yulada above. And now at last Yasma
and I were face to face with our fate.
And now the long-incipient revolt flamed forth. It was a wild, chilly
day of wind and flying cloud, reminding me of that other day, a year
before, when Yasma had left me. All morning she had been in a
somber mood, and I had been unable to break through her silence;
all afternoon she had been standing, like one in a daze, peering up
at the dreary gray curtain of clouds. My remarks to her, my
questions, my pleas, my soft-toned phrases of affection, were all
without effect; she heard me only as one in a dream may hear
murmurs from the waking world. Never before had I been so far from
her; she could hardly have been more remote had she joined her
kinsmen on their mysterious flight!
Late that afternoon I was busying myself in the cabin, lighting a fire
and preparing some simple articles of food, for I could not let myself
spend all my time brooding like Yasma. A brilliant light gleamed in
her eyes; ecstasy and longing and terror and furious enthusiasm
convulsed her features; she seemed a living blaze of vehemence
and desire. Urgently she seized my hand, and led me unresisting
into the open; then passionately pointed upward, upward to a
triangle of black dots darting across the gray heavens.
"See!" she cried. "See, the birds fly south! The last birds fly south!"
I glanced skyward, but first peered at her in fright, for it occurred to
me that brooding and excitement might have deranged her mind. But
except for her extreme agitation, she appeared quite normal; her
eyes flashed with a beautiful flame, and her old animated, fiery self
had revived.
"Let me go from here!" she pleaded, almost in a transport. "Let me
go, oh, let me go the way of the birds!"
I stood as if paralyzed by the force of her words; and if she had
made a motion to leave, I might not have been able to detain her.
"Oh, let me go the way of the birds!" she repeated. "Do not hold me,
my beloved! I want to go far from here, across the mountains, the
way the birds go!"
But dread of losing her was beginning to possess me, and I made
my first defense against the wild power of her appeal. "No!" I
forbade. "You shall not go! You shall stay here with me!"
"No, I must go! Yulada calls! For now the last birds fly south, the last
birds fly south! Oh, I must go, my beloved!"
In these words there was an intensity of longing that was almost
pitiable. But my own longing was at storm pitch; and desperately I
reiterated what I had just said.
"But Yulada orders me to go! I cannot resist her call! It is burning
away in me like a torment!" she wailed, and raised her arms
imploringly toward the gray skies, across which another band of
winged travelers was careering. "Oh, I must not be late! Good-bye,
my beloved!"
And she started away from me, and in a moment might have been
obscured amid the shadows.
But terror of losing her filled my heart; and I darted after her, and an
instant later had her in my arms.
"Yasma! You shall not go! You shall not!" I found myself crying, in a
frenzy that equalled her own. And my arms clung about her, and
forced the quivering form closely to me. "You must not go! You
cannot! You promised to stay! I will not let you go, I will not, will not!"
And what more I said I cannot now recall; but I held her to me
tenaciously, distractedly, in an abandon of fear and passion; and she
could not struggle free from my clasp.
And as the darkness deepened, and a red rift in the clouds like a
fiery omen marked the way of the setting sun, my madness
subsided, and hers subsided too; and she lay in my arms, a limp,
huddled mass.
"Let it be as you wish. I will not go," she was saying, in tones
wherein there seemed to be scarcely a trace of life. "I will not go. I
will stay with you here—if Yulada permits."
And she buried her face against my breast, and her whole form
shook and shuddered. And as I reached out a trembling hand to
comfort her, there came a weird querulous calling from the deep
gloom above; and I knew that still another flying thing, perhaps the
last, had gone gliding on its way beyond the mountains.
Chapter XXIV
THE WILL OF YULADA
Again it was winter in Sobul. The snow lay deep in the deserted
fields, and in the woods it wove strange arabesques about the limbs
of leafless trees; the mountains were white with vast majestic new
draperies. At times the blizzards came moaning out of the northwest,
with driving flakes and gales; at times the sky was icy clear and
scarcely a breeze stirred amid the charmed silences. But whether
the day was bright or tempest-blurred could matter little now, for all
days alike were desolate in this saddest of winters.
Not long after the last birds had flown south, I began to repent of my
madness in detaining Yasma. Once that fierce culminating revolt had
collapsed, she did not flame forth any more in rebellion or protest;
but I would have welcomed a return of the old impetuous spirit. She
was gentle now, exceedingly kindly and gentle; she would hover by
me fondly, and her words would be soft-spoken and affectionate; but
she was no longer her old self. Something had gone out of her that
had made her spirit like fire; and something with the touch of frost
had taken its place. The dreary mood of the autumn, with its mute
and morbid musing, had not left her even now; but with it another
mood was mingled, a chilling mood, a mood as of one dazed and
frightened. But of what she was frightened she would not say; she
was afraid of the outdoors, and would never go forth except in my
company, and then never far; and she liked best of all to linger amid
the shadows of the cabin, gazing into the golden log blaze or merely
staring at the blank walls and brooding.
And always she appeared to be cold, both mentally and physically
cold. An abnormal apathy, almost a lethargy, had drained all her
interest in life; she seemed to have few ideas except those which I
suggested to her; and blue days and gray days were all as one to
her. When I spoke, she would answer, but usually only in
monosyllables; she would agree to every statement as though the
world held nothing worth disputing; she had the manner of one
whose visible form occupies this earth, but whose spirit dwells far-
off.
Yet scarcely less disturbing than her mental inertia was the actual
bodily cold she felt. She was always shivering, and not seldom when
I took the little hands in mine I found them icy. The heavy goatskin
robes, which I stripped from my own back and piled about her,
seemed without effect; she still shivered, as though the very blood in
her veins were chilled. And she hardly seemed to care whether or
not she was cold, and, except for my little attentions, might have
suffered perpetually. Reluctantly I told myself that she was leading a
life for which nature had not fitted her; that she would have done
better to join her tribesmen in their migration.
And there came a time when, ironically, I began to wish that she
could follow her tribesmen. Alarm was springing up full-fledged in my
heart, and I wondered whether her absence could be half so sad as
the change that had come over her; whether it would not be far
better to lose her for half the year and receive her back, buoyant and
happy, along with the first spring flowers. For days I pondered, in
dreadful agony of mind; and at last, seeing her growing even more
melancholy and more detached, I decided to advise the very step I
had once forbidden.
Shall I ever forget the time when I mentioned this most painful
subject? ... forget the hurt look in her eyes, the mute reproach? It
was on a December evening, when dusk had already engulfed the
world, and the wind went soughing by with a distressing monotone,
and the wolves on unseen mountain slopes matched the gale in the
monody of their wailing. All afternoon I had been noticing how like a
languishing flower Yasma looked, with her pale cheeks and drooping
eyes; and terror had come upon me, the terror of things I dared not
express. Even now I could not suggest Yasma's departure without
the pangs of self-sacrifice; but when I saw her huddled in a corner, a
pitiable figure that scarcely took note of the leaping firelight and that
responded in silence to my caresses, I felt that I had no longer any
choice, and hesitatingly proposed the solution that betokened my
defeat.
"Yasma," said I, gently, coming to her and taking her hand, "what are
you so sad about? Are you still sorry I would not let you go away?"
She turned about slowly, and looked at me with big eyes full of
sorrow. "Why do you ask?" she questioned, with none of her old
animation. "Why do you ask what you already know?"
"I do not know," I said, quite truthfully, "why you should be so
unhappy, Yasma. But it is certain that you are unhappy, and that is all
that counts. It hurts me deeply to see you so, and I think that I have
been very, very wrong. I cannot adapt your nature to my own, and it
was foolish to try. So I want you to forget everything I said before; I
am willing for you to go away if you like, and join your kinsmen until
the green leaves are once more on the trees."
For a moment she stared at me as if she did not quite comprehend.
Then a wistful light came into her eyes, to smolder away in a sad
glow, as of one who knows she desires in vain. But there was just a
trace of the old energy in her voice as she replied, with words that
burned like a rebuke, "Why do you tell me this now? Why did you not
tell me before, when the red leaves were still on the trees and the
birds were still flying south?"
"I should have told you before," I pleaded, abjectly. "I should have
told you. Forgive me, my darling, I did not understand. But is there
not time even now? Think, it will be whole long months yet before the
spring breezes blow!"
"It is too late!" she sighed. "Too late! I could not go now. It is too cold.
I would not know the way. The last bird has flown south. It is too
late!"
In her tones there was such finality that I knew it would be futile to
protest.
For minutes I stood there before her in silence, burdened with a
sadness that equalled her own, face to face with a certainty I had
never contemplated before. Perhaps, in that first moment of
realization, I did not sufficiently conceal my forebodings, for in the
end I felt a gentle hand tugging at mine, and looked down to see a
wanly smiling face peering at me with pathetic kindliness and
sympathy. And for a moment I enveloped Yasma's frail figure in an
embrace of such fury as I had seldom bestowed.
But her form, at first rigid, quickly grew limp in my clasp; and, with
renewed apprehensions, I released her.
For a few seconds she turned from me to stare into the dwindling
fire; then her whole body was shaken by a spasmodic twinge, like an
electric shock. And facing me again, she murmured, sorrowfully, "It is
too late, my beloved, too late. But do not be sad. It is no one's fault.
You could not be different if you wished, and I could not be. And one
of us must suffer the cost."
"Do not say that, Yasma!" I protested, in rising alarm. "What cost can
there be?"
"Yulada alone can answer," she returned, calmly but in tones of
certainty. "But better that it should be I—"
"No, no!" I interrupted, furiously. "It is I that should suffer—I—"
But my sentence was never finished. Yasma had again turned aside,
her whole form suddenly convulsive. It was long before I could
comfort her; and late into that dismal night, while the wind clamored
even more frantically without and the fire within sank untended to a
smoky glow, I hovered despairingly at her side, warming the chilly
hands, coaxing and caressing and pleading, murmuring reassuring
words I could not feel, and all the while disconsolate because she
seemed beyond the power of my consolation.
Eventually, after what may have been hours, the tumult ebbed away,
and she lay impassive in my arms, like one meekly resigned when
there is no longer any purpose in struggling. Her eyes had grown
listless and weary; her whole frame seemed without energy; it was
as though she had expended her last reserves of emotion. And in
the end sleep came, impartial sleep that could never have been
more welcome; and she lay huddled in my arms, unconscious of my
long dreary vigil, her breath rising and falling so faintly that at times I
scarcely heard it at all and listened in alarm for the feeble, reassuring
beating of her heart.
But if her present state was disturbing, she was to give me double
cause for concern as the days went by. Her languid and indifferent
mood persisted; she showed no more passionate flashes, no more
upsurgings of revolt; she had the sad submissiveness of a nun who
has taken the last irrevocable vows. And, all the while, a disquieting
physical change was coming over her. The color was being drained
from her cheeks, which were assuming a waxen hue; the blue veins
were standing out on her forehead; her face was growing drawn and
thin, with a forlorn, almost ghostly beauty; her hands were seemingly
without strength, and hollows began to appear about the palms and
wrists. Only her vivid dark eyes remained unchanged, her dark eyes
and her auburn ringlets.
I would have been less than human had I not fought with all my
strength against the cruel transformation. Yet what, after all, could I
do? I would spend hours in tending her simplest physical needs, in
building fires, in keeping her warmly clothed, in fetching water and
preparing food; but it seemed as if she were above all mere physical
attentions. She would scarcely put forth an effort to safeguard
herself; she would expose herself recklessly or unthinkingly to the
cold; and would hardly touch the morsels I made ready for her with
hopeful care. To argue with her, to coax her, to entreat her, was but a
waste of time; she remained immune to the power of my persuasion
and of my love; and I had the unhappy fate of watching her sinking
and fading while I was unable to reach out a succoring hand.
After the days had begun to grow longer and December storms had
made way for January blizzards, a still more distressing change took
place. Until now Yasma had been able to go occasionally into the
open, leaning upon my arm and breathing a few breaths of the
refreshing breeze when the day was not too cold; but even this
privilege was to be taken from her. There came a morning when,
perhaps incautiously, we ventured out into the clear tingling air
following a snow-storm; but we had not gone twenty paces when I
felt Yasma's form sagging; and I thrust my arms about her just in
time to save her from sinking into the snow. To bear the fainting girl
back to the cabin and revive her was a matter of a few minutes; but
she came out of this new trial weaker than ever, and was filled with
such dread of the open that she would no longer leave shelter. She
did not now hover brooding in a corner; she lay almost motionless on
her couch of straw, covered with goatskin robes, uncomplaining, and
speaking but little. And now came the real ordeal for us both. Fear,
always muffled before by reason and hope, was rising unrelieved
within me; I passed my days in a nightmare, tormented by my own
thoughts, tortured by sight of her, and by remorse at my folly in
bringing Yasma to this plight. But it was useless to waste time
condemning myself, useless to let terror paralyze me. Whatever
there was that I could do, that I did almost with passion; I would stir
the fire into a blaze as eagerly as though the flames might fan
Yasma's flagging spirits; I would prepare some poor broth of dried
beans or peas as zealously as though it might put fresh strength into
her drooping limbs. Yet all the while I realized that I was waging a
hopeless fight. What she needed was the most skillful medical aid,
the most tender nursing and carefully selected food—and how
provide these here in this wilderness, alone among the crags and the
snow?
But, to judge from her own state of mind, no means at the disposal of
science would have been of much use. She bore the aspect of one
waiting, waiting for the imminent and the inevitable; and she seemed
to feel as if by instinct that her fate was foreordained. Sometimes
she would call me to her, and in feeble tones confide that she loved
me, and that I should not worry; sometimes she would merely take
my hand, and speak by a silence more moving than words. Of our
few brief conversations there is only an occasional phrase that I can
recall: how once a bright light came into her eyes, and she
murmured that she had been happy, very happy with me; how one
moment she would say that she was tired, and the next moment that
she was cold, but always that I was very good to her; how at times
her wan face would be seamed with sorrow, and she would sigh that
she did not wish to leave me alone. But most distinctly of all I
remember the occasion when she sat up halfway on her couch, and
her countenance was transfused with a radiance that brought
reminders of her old self, and she held out a pleading hand to me
and whispered that I should not be sad no matter what happened;
that she would not be sad, but would be marvelously happy. And in
her eyes I noticed a beautiful glitter that might have been the
brilliance of delirium, and might have been the exaltation of one who
sees that which is hidden from most men.
Of course, I would always try to reassure her; would tell her that
there was nothing to be sad about, and that all would again be as it
had been. But in my heart I knew that this was not so. And my eyes
showed me signs that were far from hopeful. Gradually she was
growing thinner still; her cheeks, ashen before, were brightening with
a hectic glow. And when I placed my hand on her forehead, I
realized that she was burning with fever. Just how severe that fever
was, I could not tell; but my one consolation was that she did not
appear to suffer.
And now my hours were passed in continual dread. I scarcely dared
leave the cabin even to obtain water from the creek a stone's throw
away; I was reluctant to desert my post for brief sleep at night.
Perhaps I too was growing emaciated and weak, but could that
matter when my whole world was withering away before my eyes?
At last the long-protracted January days were over, and February
was ushered in by the songs of a demon wind. And with February a
faint hope, remote and candle-dim, came flickering into my heart, for
now the return of spring and the revival of the universe seemed not
quite so distant. But that hope was to be snuffed out almost at birth.
The month was still young when the shattering day arrived. The sun
had come out bright and clear over the fields and slopes of snow;
and toward noon a few clouds had gathered, lazy and slow-drifting
and scarcely disturbing the serene blue. Responsive to the tranquility
of earth and sky, my mood was more placid than for weeks; and
Yasma too seemed to feel the charmed peace, for her face showed
a calm as of utter content, and the fever had apparently receded and
left her cheeks almost their normal rose-hue. She did not speak
much, but it seemed to me that her eyes had more alertness than for
many days; and when she did break silence with a whisper, it was to
assure me of her love in tones unforgettably tender.
How often I was to remember those words in later days, to treasure
them, to repeat them over and over to myself like some old tune
whose magic never fails! But at the time I did not foresee how
precious these few hours were to be. Even when evening was
approaching and Yasma's eyes began to glitter as with some secret
ecstasy, I did not realize that the present moment might dominate all
other moments in my life; and when sunset was setting fire to the
west and the stray clouds wore vermilion and purple, I was still
unprepared for what the night had in store.
Dusk was falling over the world and in our cabin a lively blaze was
beaming, when I was surprised to see Yasma draw herself up to a
sitting posture and throw out her hands as though invoking some
unseen power. In her face there was a light as of one who gazes at
some ravishing beauty; she seemed utterly overmastered and borne
out of herself.
"Yasma," I murmured, myself overawed at her fierce transport.
"Yasma, what is it?"
She turned to me with eyes that burned and sparkled as in the first
ardor of our love. Her features were transfigured and glorified; it was
as though she were yearning, straining upward toward something
unspeakably lovely.
"I see the birds!" she cried, with a passion she had not shown for
months. "I see the wild birds! They are calling, calling! Oh, I must join
them! I must go where the flowers are! I must go, my beloved, I must
go!"
"What are you saying, Yasma?" I burst forth, in a frenzy of terror.
"Are you out of your senses? There are no birds near us now!"
She bent upon me a gaze in which her ecstasy seemed to be
crossed by a fugitive tenderness. "Yes, there are, there are! I hear
them! They call to me! But do not be sorry, my beloved. I will be
happier, oh, so happy! The birds are calling me—I must follow them,
follow them south—only"—here she hesitated just the fraction of a
second—"only, this time I shall not return!"
"Oh, do not speak so strangely, Yasma!" I pleaded, half beside
myself.
But she was already beyond reach of my appeals. "I see the birds! I
see the wild birds!" she repeated, rising to a crescendo of exaltation.
"I will fly with them, fly south, fly south! I will go where the sun always
shines! I will go where all things are green and fair! Oh, I am going, I
am going!"
Once more she turned passionately toward me; but her voice
faltered, and a note of something wistful and gentle softened her
fervid outburst. "Good-bye, my beloved—good-bye! I am going! It is
the will—the will—of Yulada!"
At mention of that dread name, all power seemingly left her. Her thin
form crumpled up and slumped down upon the disordered straw; for
a moment a muffled gurgling filled her throat, and then she lay
motionless where the firelight cast fantastic shadows.
With the fury of one scarcely conscious what he does, I bent down
and lifted the silent figure in my arms. But she hung limp and
unresponsive, and the open lips gave forth no sound, and the pulse
no longer fluttered.
Then when the first terror of realization came upon me and my
shoulders shook and heaved and the tears flooded down, I thought
that I heard a strange sound without. Even in the unutterable depths
of my agony, a rhythm as of whirring wings seemed to reach me; and
some will not my own took hold of me, and brought me to the cabin
door, and made me fling it wide before me. Not a dozen yards
above, a great bird was poised in air; and at my approach it retreated
into the twilight, speeding with swift-flapping wings upward and
southward; and against the last red flare of day it was dimly visible
for a moment, and then became a shadow, and then less than a
shadow against the spectral peaks. And the western radiance paled
and faded; and the stars came out one by one in the vague
solitudes, and a faint glow to the east presaged the moon-rise; and I
returned to the waning firelight, and to my grief that already was
merged in a flaming remembrance.
Blue skies shone above me when I paid my last tribute to the Valley
of Sobul. In the white breast of the new-fallen snow, a deep brown
furrow had been riven; and into this aperture, with hands that
trembled and threatened to give way, I lifted the rough-hewn oaken
chest that contained the sole earthly remains of her who had loved
me. Very carefully I had smoothed out the flowing auburn locks; very
tenderly I had sheared off a tress, which even now is with me; then,
with a tearless regret bitterer than words shall ever describe, I had
looked my last at that silent, tranquil face, had slipped a scented pine
twig impulsively against the unmoving form, and slowly had drawn
the oaken lid into place.... And now, beneath the bright beams of the
sun, under the circle of the inexorable peaks, I felt my eyes flooded
with a passion that at the same time brought relief; and as the first
clod slipped above the casket, it seemed to me (or perhaps it was
but my disordered fancy speaking) that I heard a bird singing,
singing faintly a thin elfin song, a strange, trilling song such as I had
heard long before when Yasma had come to me after the bleak
winter....
But no bird was to be seen, although I looked for one wistfully. And
no bird was to be seen, although I fancied I heard one, at that later
time when I stood bent beneath my pack on the flank of a western
mountain, gazing back at the solitary valley and the white-draped
figure of Yulada, aloof and invincible as ever. Before me was the trail
that led toward the natives I had chanced upon last summer; before
me, after months of waiting, would be the open road to my own land
and civilization; before me would be the beginning of a new life, and
new interests that would bring consolation, and work that would bring
forgetfulness; but here in this secluded vale, with its lonely woods
and encompassing peaks, I had left that which not all the golden
cities of the earth could ever give me back again.
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