Honoré Willsie

Name: Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins
Author: Honoré Willsie

Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

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“Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins”, published in 1917, is a work by Honoré Willsie. It explores elements such as Lydia, Lake City and Billy.

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

“ Billy put out his hand, solemnly, and the two shook hands. For all Billy was four years older than Lydia, they both were very, very young. So young that they believed that they could fight single-handed the whole world of intrigue and greed in which their little community was set. So young that they trembled and were filled with awe at the vast importance of their own dreams. And yet, futile as they may seem, it is on young decisions such as these that the race creeps upward! ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

“ For clearly as though the pine had put it into words, something said to Lydia that it was not her business to decide whether or not the Indians deserved to live. It was her business to recognize that in their method of killing the Indians, the whites had been utterly dishonorable. That her refusing to take a stand could not exonerate them. History would not fail to record the black fact against her race that, a free people, the boasted vanguard of human liberty, Americans had first made a race dependent, then by fraud and faithlessness, by cruelty and debauchery, were utterly destroying it. ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

“ Both the young men were in flannels and hatless, and lolled on the grass at Lydia's feet, as she sat with her back against a tree. She noticed how Kent was all grace, and ease, while Billy, whose face had lately become thinner, was all gaunt angles.
"I'm willing to take the blame, if necessary," said Billy.
Kent sat up with sudden energy. "Look here, if it once got round town that you're the father of this, you'll be run out of Lake City."
Billy laughed. "Oh, no I won't! All you respectable citizens have got too many troubles of your own." ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

“ You're shivering."
"When you talk that way, I hate you!" exclaimed Lydia, but Billy only laughed again.
Amos at first was furious when he heard of the investigation. He, with every one else in town, was eager to know who had started the trouble.
"Some sorehead," said Amos, "who couldn't get all the land he wanted, I'll bet. And a sweet time the commission will have. Why, they'll have to dig into the private history of every one in Lake City. It'll ruin Levine! Oh, pshaw! No, it won't either! He can get everything whitewashed. That's the way American investigations always end!" ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

“ CHAPTER XV THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS
"Nothing is so proud or so brave as the young pine when it first tops the rest of the forest."
The Murmuring Pine.
FOR several days Lydia was unhappy and absent-minded. At first, in her thoughts she was inclined to blame Billy for forcing this turmoil of mind on her. But, a little later, she admitted to herself that for years, something within her had been demanding that she take a stand on the Indian question something to which Charlie Jackson and Billy had appealed, something which Kent and John Levine had ignored. ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

“ No one can hold a candle to you."
There was a sudden lilt in Lydia's voice that did not escape Kent as she answered laughingly, "Well, if you feel the same after seeing Margery this summer, I'll be glad to go to one of the hops next fall with you, and thank you, deeply, Mr. Moulton."
"All right," said Kent, soberly. "The first hop next fall is mine and as many more as I can get."
It was late in the spring and after the conversation with Kent, that it began to be rumored about town that ex-Senator Alvord's office was at the bottom of the Indian investigation. ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

“ Charlie Jackson acted as interpreter. Lydia saw him once or twice on the street when he nodded coolly. He had dropped his white associates completely.
The local papers refused to report the commission's session. But papers outside the State were voracious for the news and little by little tales were published to the world that made Lake City citizens when out of the city, hesitate to confess the name of their home town.
The leading trustee of the Methodist Church was found to have married a squaw in order to get her pine and her pitiful Government allowance. ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

“ Ma pulled the covers over the shaking shoulders. "If I were you, Lizzie, I'd think about getting well and let Lydia do what she thinks best. A day or so out of school isn't going to count in the long run with a young thing like her."
She waited till Lizzie slept, then she told Lydia and Amos that Dr. Fulton had better be called, and Amos with a worried air, started for town at once. ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XV. The Investigation Begins (1917)

“ He did not wait for an invitation but stepped over the pail and brush to the chair beside the table. An open book lay on the chair. He picked it up. "'Ancient Rome,'" he read.
"I'm trying to keep up." ”

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