The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-24

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PHGBE READING While HER FATHER WROTE.
California then He was third or fourth
cousin of your mothers, II worthless Great
ure, but we helped him on account of his
distant relationship
Phoebe, reading while her father wrote,
inquired at once;
"Isnt Thorney my brother, then"
"No; Thorncy is Thames son. Your
mother was kind to the miserable little
soul. We kept him with us; his father was
brutal TO him. | gave Thane employment
for several years. He bore n bad name
when he came to the coast, and was prob
ably worse than knew but we could hardly
shake him of. Inever imagined then that
he would separate my child from me and
finally shoot me. Your mother had known his
wife in the States, poor, detected young
woman who lied early; and the boy Thorn
ey was only half-witted. When | read in
your note how Thane had used you, il
seemed as if had never suffered before in
my life! And you forced To appeal TO n
stranger while your father lived. The sight
of him filled me with such fury | don't
know what might have done if he had not
shot"
docs he look as he used to. fatherl"
4" | scarcely noticed. | knew it was Thane
White. The muscles of his face look ex-
posed, and twitched.n
" II must have been you he meant when
he told me there was somebody in the neigh
borhood he wanted to avoid"
I" If he saw me Us | ordinarily go he did
not recognize me tonight until turned on
him. What did he do with you when he
landed in the States"
10 4 :;
that orphan asylum ut Pittsburgh. He has
been in prison often. Did you know that
fatheri'
"Yes, hunted him up behind the bars.
and he repeated to me on oath that You
were dead. You were lost overheard at
sea. | sent him from Virginia City II week
before intended to start. 10 take passugc
for US on an isthmus steamer. May be |
gave him enough money To make 1t a
temptation. May be the idea came into his
head suddenly. and he carried it out, in
tending to make me pay him well for re
storing you. II is hard to read all the
motives of man like Thane White. Aft
erwards he found was poor. ana dropped
you where il was most convenient. revcng-
ing himself for his disappointment by de
claring you were dead. He went over to
San Francisco and engaged passage two
Then he delivered my letter To the lady
who had YOU in charge; she was friend of
your mothers, | asked her to have You
ready against came for you. Thames boy
l kept him AT the same plGcc-and you
were allowed To go on the street with
Thane. You were about three years old
He never brought you back. The family
sent for me. We found he had sailed
with you, aud | believe he took no nurse. /
| eould not discover what vessel brought him
to New York; and he said You were lost
| overheard between the isthInus and that
port | spent months tracking him, and,
finally, n letter from him, which had fol
lowed me around, brought news of your
death. never believed il until saw him
in prison. and he sworc il 20 me without
having any conceivable object in doing so.
May be | was more readily disheartened
| than when your mother lived
Father" wrote Phube ON the tablets,
"we seem so well acquainted. My heart
ached so about you the night we took YOU
| that maple sugar that could hardly endure
| il. DO look at all like used tor
EYES," he wrote in reply. From the
day of your birth your face was very dis
tinctly marked. | can see your baby face in
| your features YETI
Psyche Fawcett is my own cousin, isn't
she,"
'Yes. And she must divide with you.
There was another thing which struck me
| like convictions before could be certain. |
saw you standing before my portrait and
you showed the Fawcott as we'll IA your
mothers blood. II was young Gurley who
came with YOU the first time saw you was
| itm
yes"
"And he was here .o-mght"
"Ecs. He is bringing the doctor. Tho
bullet will be taken out and you will get
well.n
III like to see him about you. He's man,
Remember said this.
"But, dear your pain is not very great
now, il it."
mot very Nv mind feels easy. III You
push the quilt in there is room enough Tor
| you to sit on the lounge beside me-"
Ph9bo sat there until the doctor came, II
was twelve O'clock by the time the cNamina-
ton was finished, and the doctor remained
by his patient.
Phmbc resumed her seat by her father
J and watched him all night He dozed or