Felion

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At last, leaving her and the child asleep, old Felion went forth into the little city, and the people flocked to him, and for many days he came and went ceaselessly.

Parables of a Province Gilbert Parker 1897

In time they ceased to think of Felion at all, and he was left alone; even the children came no more to visit him; and he had pleasure only in hunting and shooting and in felling trees, with which he built a high stockade and a fine cedar house within it.

Parables of a Province Gilbert Parker 1897

Yet he never lived in the house, nor in any room of it, and the stockade gate was always shut; and when any people passed that way they stared and shrugged their shoulders, and thought Felion mad or a fool.

Parables of a Province Gilbert Parker 1897

A mile below, the raft was brought to shore, and again the people said that Felion had saved the little city from disaster.

Parables of a Province Gilbert Parker 1897

And they came to Felion, because in his youth he had been of the best of the schoolmen; and he got up from his misery -- only the day before his wife had taken a great and lonely journey to that Country which welcomes, but never yields again -- and leaving his little child behind, he went down to the mines.

Parables of a Province Gilbert Parker 1897

Felion looking out towards the east, his lips moving as though he prayed.

Parables of a Province Gilbert Parker 1897

But Felion, seeing, ran out upon the girders of a bridge that was being builded, and there, before them all, as the raft passed under, he let himself fall, breaking his leg as he dropped among the timbers of the fore-part of the raft; for the children were all gathered at the back, where the great oars lay motionless, one dragging in the water behind.

Parables of a Province Gilbert Parker 1897

And he, Felion, who had been lord and master of the valley, worked with them, but did not seek for riches, and more often drew away into the hills to find some newer place unspoiled by man.

Parables of a Province Gilbert Parker 1897

Felion drew himself over to the huge oar, and with the strength of five men, while the people watched and prayed, he kept the raft straight for the great slide, else it had gone over the dam and been lost, and all that were thereon.

Parables of a Province Gilbert Parker 1897