The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-12-19

th4y'u near y0u three of eo0r mile,
Yos'il have everybody tween hsrl
ssd Olifty walked up." Fss Nsa
Means had become 70 excited over tn
l Idea ofbsing caught allowing Hannah
toeo - spsltiu' school that shs Faissd
h6e mt "Ketch me!e to . psf1sci
whoop. "That's the way Tn treated.
You allsrs take aides with that aiI
hussy asia yoar swn Assh and blood
You don't keer how much trouble
have. Not . dog on'd bit. I may b
diseracsd BY that air ongratsful crittsr
and you sst right hsrs 10 my owu
houss and go me shout II. A party
fellow you air! An me . dsvlin' and
| : dfudgipg' fer yoa al my born days.
A party son, ain's yoa
BID did nos say another word. HI
al ID The chimney corner and whis.
tiled Dandy Jim from Caroline. y
His divession had produosA The sdsci
sosght. For while biz tssAss. hearted
mothsr poorsd bsr broadsids into hia
iron-clsd sselinss. HauaAh he'd clipped
up staia 70 her Gasrst bsd-roen, and
whsB Mn. Means turned from thu
callos1s Bad 70 anish her assault upon
ths sepsitlvs girl. shs could only gaash
her lesthl In dlsappoimtosst.
Z 0sang y ne insults 70 which shs
ctRId not grow inssnsibls, Hannah lay
awake uutl ths msmory Of That walk
thrsneh iths darknsas eaDs iato hel
soai Nike - bsnsdictlcn. The harsh
voice Of the osrs disd Out, and ~
geotls end ee~stso0s voics Of HafasoOk
nlisd hsr sDui. She recalled pisss b
piecs the whoss iconveratisn -aiI ths
commonpiAce rsmarks shout the crops;
III the unimportant words about the
spslltns~shsol. Not for the saks q
the rsmarks. Not Tor the sake % the
crops. Not fpr the sake Of the spsll.
Ing -school. But for the SAKE Of the
auAsstons. And thsn sAs tssveled
hack oyss The thre6 ysAss q hss hsed-
age and over the three ysan yst b
eons, and I'D her heart on the dim
hops of rsbuilding In the Same form
the home that had bssn % happy.
And abe prayed. with more faith than
ever before, for dsllvsTAses. For love
hsings faith. Somewhere on In the
slsspiess night she stood at the vim
dow. The moon vas shining now,
and thsrs was the path throOg the
pasture, and there vas the fsucs, and
there wss the box-eldsr.
She sci there long time. Thsn
che saw some one come over the fencs
and walk to the tres. and then on to-
ward Pete Jones's. Who could Il be
She thought she recognized the figure.
But shs was chilled and shivsring,
and she cFspt hack again into bed. and
dreamed. not OF the uncertain days 70
come, but. Of the blssssd days that
we're past-of father and . mother
and brother In happy home. But
somehow the school, -mastsr We thsre
too.
afs 81 CHAPTER vi.
A NIGHT AT PETE JONES'.
Whsn Ralph got 70 Pete Jonss's he
fosDd that sinistsr-lookiug individual
In the act Of kicking one Of his many
dogs out OF the house.
Come In. stranger, come In. You'll
lind this ERE house full Of brats, but /
guess you kin kick your way around
among 'em. Take . cheer. Herr. git
ont 60 10 thunder with you I" And
with these mild impesativss hs boxed
one Of his boys over In one direction
and one Of bis girls In the other. II
believe In trainin' up children 70 mind
whom they are spoke to-" hs said to
Ralph apolngetically. But Il seemed
to the teacher that he wanted them to
mind just little before they were
spoken to.
"P'raps you'd like . bed. Well,
Jest climb up the ladder on the outside
OF the house. Takes up . thundsrin'
sight Of room to have stairs inside,
and We ba'n't goa no room to spare.
You'll nnd ! bsd 10 the furdsst corner.
Ny Pets's already got half Of Il, and
you kin take the t'othsr half. Ef
Pete goes to takin' his half In the mid
die. aud tryin' % make you take
yourn on both sides. Jest kick him.
In this comfortlsn bsd "in the fur
dest corner" Ralph found sleep out
ef the question. Pets took thrss-
fourths Of the bed, and Hannah took
oil his thoughts. 80 hs lay, and
looked out through the cracks iu the
.clapboards" tas they call rough shin-
glss In the old Wsstl at The stars. For
the clouds bad now broken away. A
hs lay thus rscounting to himself. -
the missR counts the pieces that eo0-
poee his hoard, every stsp Of that soad
from the tims he had osertaksn Han
nah in she hollow 70 the Ieues. Then
hs imsgissd again the pleasure Of
helping her over, and then hs rstsassi
ths ground 70 the box-sldsr Tree q the
spring, and repeated 70 himself the
nversati0n until hs came 70 the part
IN which she aid that only time and
God could help her. What did 80
mean2 What Wa the hidden part os
her lifsf What was the connsetion
between her and 6bocky7
Hours wore on. and still the mind
Of Ralph Hartsook went back and
,travslsd ths road. over the ssnos. past
the box-eidsr, up TO the issxplicable
part Of the convsraatlon, and steod
bewildersd with the same pushing
qNesti0ns about the bound eiFl's ulss
! A. last ~ got W. Arsw % his
clothsa, and aat down On ths ~. 81
the la66ss, locking down over The
btue-0sass pasture wbish lay @ The
Ftus1er beswesn the laad of Jooss and
Fshe Danl, = Msese. The easth -
whseg~sGh nssallsaA 11s esasa ~