After the Storm

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - NO June day ever opened with a fairer promise. Not a single cloud flecked the sky and the sun coursed onward through the azure sea until past meridian without throwing to the earth a single shadow. Then low in the west appeared something obscure and hazy blending the hill-tops with the horizon; an hour later and three or four small fleecy islands were seen clearly outlined in the airy ocean and slowly ascen-ding - avant-couriers of a coming storm. Following these were mountain peaks snow-capped and craggy with desolate valleys between. Then over all this arctic panorama fell a sudden shadow. The white tops of the cloudy hills lost their clear gleaming outlines and their slumbrous stillness. The atmosphere was in motion and a white scud began to drive across the heavy dark masses of clouds that lay far back against the sky in mountain-like repose.