FOREST AND STREAM 
305 
AN INTERRUPTED JOURNEY TO CON¬ 
FLUENCE. 
(Continued from page 269.) 
King s cook thoroughly understood the culinary 
aspects of the species, and the things she did to 
ihai trout will always be a delightful memory 
to my interior. After supper we all went over 
to the store, and after again flooding our in¬ 
sides with lithia water, settled down comfort¬ 
ably in the sanctum. 
I inquired what he would be willing to part 
with some of his thousand acres for, say ten or 
fifteen of them in the neighborhood of our camp. 
1 had a notion to build a little shack there to 
use in the spring at trout fishing time and during 
the hunting season in the fall. 
I in sorry to disappoint you, but I’m afraid 
they can't be bought,” 'he answered, ‘‘I could 
have sold my valley many times over, either in 
parcels or complete, but I’ve turned down all 
offers. You see this is a little kingdom of my 
own. I haven’t any other place to go where I’d 
care to live. It suits me here. I’m free to do 
just exactly as I please, and live my own life as 
I see fit. If I sold a chunk of it to you, we 
might get in each other’s way. Then some one 
else would want another ten acres, and the first 
thing I knew IV 1 be cramped for air. I’ve got 
room to breathe here, and enough space to 
stretch out in, and nobody to get in my way. 
I’ve got a telephone and a postoffice to connect 
me with civilization when I want to be connect¬ 
ed, and I have peace in my soul. I’d like mighty 
well to have you come and visit me as often as 
you will, but I’ll keep my little kingdom.” 
That was all we ever got from him in the 
way of a solution of the mystery. 
We left at midnight for our tent. The next 
day was Sunday, and as we could scarcely do 
any fishing with the warden right on the ground, 
we planned to start early for home. We got up 
with the sun, packed our tent, put everything 
into the car, and seven o’clock found us eating 
breakfast with the King; a silent meal, for it 
was the last we were to have with him. After 
it was over he came out to the car for a fare¬ 
well handshake, and we began our uneventful 
voyage homeward. The last thing we saw as 
we looked back into the valley was his stocky 
figure, wreathed in cigar smoke, waving good¬ 
bye from the porch. Dick said he could still 
make out the smile, but I was unable to dis- 
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cern it, though I could feel its benign influence 
pervading the valley. 
“Well, Dick,” I inquired, as I cranked up the 
car after our last view of Unamis, “how did 
you like Confluence? Did I exaggerate its 
charms?” He was rummaging around in the 
tonneau to see if we had forgotten anything. 
“Confluence!” he snorted, “Confluence! No, 
from all I saw of Confluence you didn’t exag¬ 
gerate. What’s troubling me is what’s become 
of all those provisions we loaded up the car 
with. I can’t find them.” “I forgot to tell you,” 
I replied, “I swapped them with the King for a 
couple of bottles of lithia water.” 
* * * * * 
No doubt the coming spring will find the 
stream still winding down betwee n the bills, 
the trout again playing in the riffles or lying 
quiet in the pools, the partridge once more drum¬ 
ming on his distant log. But never again will it 
find Dick and me following the course with rod 
and line. For the valley is cold and cheerless. 
There is no genial smile to give it warmth and 
personality. The little girl may come again with 
her penny, but she will find no friendlv sover¬ 
eign to wait upon her. The kindly spirit that 
governed the little kingdom is no more. Even 
as I was writing the concluding sentences of 
this narration the word came that a sudden 
attack had taken him off. Unamis is an ordi¬ 
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a trout stream flowing through it like a hundred 
other trout streams. The King is dead. 
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