The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-06-16

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brain and fingers were working together
although he did not know il. At las
he evidently reached what he was after
for, he twahged the strings more conf.
/ IDENTIFY and said, laying aside the violin
50 It's like this We never said moth,
ing to nobody, nor to ourselves neither
for that matter But she knoHed
thought a whole farm of her and always
\ shall-oh, how good she's been to me =
4 and he ,fersely clutched his knees, his
features distorted and his eyes IN tears,
101 Good to him /, Well thought I, # eveI
4 any wpmau loved jim she sgdS coed to
him she couldn't haye wanted him for
/ anything! else. 10 How shomely and an
Il egular he looked, his long neck shot oul
! iovardl the fire, which in February is
4 needed, even In Texas, to take OF the
chill saIb u bloc iisgg o. oa - :
Presently he Strengthened mp.
No; there wasn't nothing said, but
she 7nowed me, and when i LEFT she
asked me- to write her, and I'm going to
do it She's bin waitin now too long,, 8
4 Then he stopped abruptly and began to
look back over the months, while / held
4 MY Breath. -'- - y .',''
Ny God, man, it's mi. on two yeas, -
j he said, and, it seemed to me, he saw Ia
1 q moIhett yhat his long neglect .1nigbt
mean that IL had been the very. refine
ment Of cruelty. He at once sbekan
4 with an almost feverizhl haste to make
| ready his writing tools-oply y hesitate,
/ pen, In ha9dO over the. white peper I
l handed him, writnG little at D time and
! NOT concluding TIL his lamp had out
burned the backlog, and its Goals
llsmsldered sullenly On the hearth. Then,
smuttering something, shout screech-
lowl near, her house, he crept nto bed. :"
% tsE n .1F4o ss i.--s sSIsftn
'ta II.
What excuses he put forth in his let
1 Ter, I never ht y. They would not, ]
] am quite certain, have answered for any
/ love letter I might have sent about that
| time after two years silence though, to
be sure, ave - taking the reader into
! confidence for q momant1 were both
| younger at that time, while jackson was
| -S0Si day He may have urged that
helwas o poor letterswriter. d That was,
1 true. Y .hsvvei yet to see his isqnal in
power TO Ereak a really appalling ven-
agreed, have gteedfness for letterH
only equaled by Their ine1cusahiy be.
wildering arrangement of the same And
his way OF, making up sentences was
something wonderful. He, may have
| urged, too, that he had worked early
and late with scarce o roomentof relaxar
ton. That was ,tr1e of both Of us, and
1 had written many times. ~ saasir
Whatever he may have said In that
letter, to which he brought 30 many
pains, i fearlhe did not hit On the true
reason for his long silence; indeed, 1t Is
| possible, even probable, that he did not
know of it hfmseh, For my part, ii
seemed then, as it seems now, that he
had not written, GimpE because. he had
not at any time, on Il for any pur-
pose, found in letters 30 ready .
means of Io communication, that he,
turned to them without effort 1oAnd,
more than ell, he had lived bylhes side
| IN daily thought since the hour in which
they paeted. BIS memory of her many
graces WAS as fresh on the hundrdth
day as1 On the second and, 'hadit been
four years of silence instead Of two; her
face and form would have been rs dis
tinct IN his mind at the end of that long
time as though daily y1etters had passed
between them, A contemplation almost
sonAtA9t had Prppsht heg g him .o som
.lfasSsn, too. Ia Had q hitnhsds on, and,
| though man grown, had conceded to
me every right that was his In the man
agement Of our small business. Honest
himself almost pitiably honest, for il
game from an innocsnce that had been
kept fresh by Ignorance. of mores than
quarter of q century he placed the
fullest faith In the man he had chosen
to work with. So he felt much at ease,
with little Thought OF the future, except
when long droughts, under q sky like
brass, made us despair of profit from
farming In Texas. He rested in the love
he was sure of, and did not once think
that the flame he he'd somehow famed
into sight-miracle. though, it must have
seemed to him, for he knew that he was
homely-would need any further care TO
be kept alive and at . ferYent glow.
All this passed in my mind while
riding hye miles the following evening
to post the precious letter, which
dreaded to let out Of my hand. So
much depended on it that it seemed
impossible that it should go.aright in
the usual prosaic way, In commoh nnail
bags. ".9yed ~
3 Once away from town, however, and
on the upland Prairie, the matter looked
differently. -. --t.,
Heaven be praised for that screech.
owl, ] said aloud. "Bil will have to
take one for his coat Of arrns-adding . |
steel pen and holder, perhaps.
It's pity, though, that the owl waited
so long. 1t was q tardy reminder.H
mentioned the coat of arms TO him
when he dropped his violin for mo-
ment as I came In, and he took it good
naturedly. So far as / could see-and
jackson concealed nothing, he was Hks |
o child In lthst--eYery thought of the
wrong he had done had gone away with |
the lstter, and he evidently had no fear |
of the result ll a93s 3'9l salo2
1d"I told her. he said, bounding his |
bow about on the tense strings, H that I |
was dogoned sorry I'hsdJ forgot my |
promise towriteA A'twasn't cause / didn't |
think of her with ev'ry seed Of cotton |
and ev'ry kernel Of corn we planted, and |
with ev,ry step made /; ] seen her faos
IN everything / did, and when I ses .
pretty sight she seen 1T too, and there's !
lots OF strange things here. go 'slo@ ii |
What sight for hot-house lovers |
this, the glow that came to Jackson'g
face as he dropped his violin across bis 1
knees and hngensd In thought on the /
happy moments they had each day spent
together, only In imagination !, That
they Uere imagined scenes never ocsa
currod to him, for he saw In her face
from time to time all the pleasure she
would have enjoyed IN noting with him
the strange features OF q country strange
to both. sgsib nlot gaiisig- n9dD .
n;ssYes, !" he said, striving for q few mo-
nents to bring refractory string into
harmony with It's. fellows, and then
drawing round, sweet notes the length
of his bow-sfYes, Tn dogoned serry,
but she knows n1eg" A
- III.
There shossld have been an answer to
the letter In about two weeks il she was
Like other rEnrnan- Rut two. yes. three L