The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-10-31
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cps short Your brothers and / don
ay never mean to believe that Samu,
IA meant to cheat We out o. that $500.
ed what did he mean, them" snau
700 ped her husband, fiercely, his square
No dogged chin in the mir as he comb
ed his whiskers upward, a favorit
action of his when he felt particu
Is larly pugnacious. --
be Mrs. Macklefresh turned one O
er the Tong stockings she,yas' 'darnins
OF from heel to-toe and back again be
i fore she answered
n Didn't mean hothin'. husband. .
a she said softly. Were all feller
mOttIes. Some of us is human
,e sometimes. He Thought had pay
. We, l expect, when he borrowed it.
Then he couldn {, thafsall.
- Il dunno anything about could
Mt l know about didn't" said
! JohR Macklefresh doggedly, still
eombing that perverse chin into the
air. This / know, he's got the two
hundred, and | hain't, and I'll
: never"
Don't John, dear!" interposed
: his meek little wife.
We'll, bein' a deacon and a"
, Christian suggested his wife,
seeing he skipped that hard word.
q s'Pose Iean't say Iswon't for
give him. But they amt no com
mands between the leds OF that air
book about"
/ 7 Twenty five cents to pay" said |
a small business like voice at the
EdSOr, Mrs, -Macklefresh turned the
rough brown envelope over fearful
1 " in her hands, trembling as peo-
pie do at kilograms. l wonder if
the telegraph boys over get used to
! it. sssE ~ ~ftt. : e-r
"Don't be bOthering. Alice" said
her husband, pushing her aside. not
urgently, though his words were
rough as usual. ttOFsf = (
This IS what he read when he had
torn a thin outlet at the end of the
envelope
Your brother Samuel died this
morning. Come at once"
The Western Onion Telegraph
Company has a good deal to answer
for-but then so have a great many
other people. John Macklefresh o
did not swOOn away on the door Q
stePyor throwsup his hands with
piercing cry, or any OF these things. u
He mechanically took out a quarter :,
from his loose change pocket, care u
tul even IN this moment to count the q
pennies given in change, shut the r
door, handed the dispatch to his
wife, and walked away to the win
dow. 1t was only his heart tainted. y
This, then, had come to the man he "
had said, but a moment ago, he =
would 9ever-pO, no, not that; he =
didn't say that-Alice stopped him. y
you know Besides, no was a dea- 10 10
,on and a-Christian. Alice had u
,aid so. "a
But then he couldn't forget. That u
vas what he was going to say when l'
he door opened. The Bible don't Ju
Isk that Or, does it, when it "
peaks about God casting our sins 70
nto the depths of the sea-behindl ~
- back-remembering them no =
more against us? Forget? What ~
vas there to forget? He had lent 1Th ~
lis own brother $500. Might have III
-iven it to him and never missed it. Ir IIrr
5nder his renlorscIess eye his great -
Ields stretched away, white now W.
With snOw-white as the soul God "a
Iad forgiven, but yellow enough he u
new. as summer came on, yellow -,
; the gold they would bring to his lo
OekeL These few poor. apitifuf wa
illsides of Samuelsl Why hadn't oc
e given it to him right out and
lyed hard feelings? There was pc
ohnny (named for him) wanting to mn mn
o 70 college ever since he was out IL
Petticoats. Suppose he had given w W
to him. g2G OF
Misery misery of remembering Oh
lkindness, when it is too late Eal va:
ad 1t reached him before he died. ssi,s
was it only his poor stricken ~. ~.
Others family that would read .Ie 'he
e brief, harsh words? cue
He turned to his wife, who sat cry
'lding the dreadful envelope, sad. S?u
II doubling ii she would bo wise to III
eak to him vet. WI WI
"Get your things on, will We pa l{ n ~ ~
said, in voice that sounded dry ier ~
ID harsh even to himself. "Ill be she IN
und with old Billy to the front oiI' oii
or. Wrap mp warm and take a Tt 1,t
apstone. IN have the buffaloes. ;n n'
5 mortal cold" ing
She was ready and waiting when lnS
brought Billy around. The "l'
nse could take care ofitself She ,hsq saq
ked it. ~ ett'
They had soIas sixty miles to ou'
9, In the course oft his tongue SniI
;ame somewhat loosened, and he ;n Sou'
d in broken and jerl1y sentences - nSi
o her sympathetic ear what little ~, M
the chaotic grief and remorse lhe
5 able to put in words. IL Lor
My brother, after all. Used to pel
y together when we were little. mou
I'M, hum" ing
man grows very tender when Ine- I-.
goes back to the days when he nH'e
alittle." ft & "a won
Bought me pair o skates once, ie"
en- I~wanted some. Older t6aa Pun
l;ites and Whistles "a 1nlJ 1n bis f
lie traps. Never could seem to ms
along. Big family2 Yes. / ohly
-ht to have helped him. Amt a rea1 an
n livin' could scratch anything WIN
moss of them rocks no calls a tlenc
n. IN help the boys-see'f i egIe' %
l --...r .t.r t.fr q
was long, cold ride. Mrs. Ia: lallil' I
,klefresh wrapped the buffaloes .n .is .
her and higher tll az last she .oP,
Qnite eXtinrniahed in their hAuh'