Alone By Norman Douglas













































































 -  I rode past them on the watershed
behind Cineto Romano. These were sweet water. Of sulphur lakelets I also
saw - Page 277
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I Rode Past Them On The Watershed Behind Cineto Romano.

These were sweet water.

Of sulphur lakelets I also saw two.

Sitting on a stone into which the coldness of midnight had entered (Alatri lies at a good elevation) I awaited my companion in the dusk of dawn. Soon enough, I knew, we should both be roasted. This half-hour's shivering before sunrise in the square of Alatri, and listening to the plash of the fountain, is one of those memories of the town which are graven most clearly in my mind. I could point out, to-day, the very spot whereon I sat.

We wandered along the Ferentino road to begin with, profiting by some short cuts through chestnut woods; turned to the right, ever ascending, behind that strange village of Fumone, aloft on its symmetrical hill; thence by a mule-track onward. Many were the halts by the way. A decayed roadside chapel with faded frescoes - a shepherd who played us some melodies on his pipe - those wondrous red lilies, now in their prime, glowing like lamps among the dark green undergrowth - the gateway of a farmhouse being repaired - a reservoir of water full of newts - a fascinating old woman who told us something about something - the distant view upon the singular peak of Mount Cacume, they all gave us occasion for lingering. Why not loaf and loiter in June? The days are so endless!

At last, through a gap in the landscape, we saw the lake at our feet, simmering in the noonday beams - an everyday sheet of water, brown in colour, with muddy banks and seemingly not a scrap of shade within miles; one of those lakes which, by their periodical rising and sinking, give so much trouble that there is talk, equally periodical, of draining them off altogether.

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