Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-28

Il don't b'lieve he'd keer to talk
much right now, te's deep IN his rail-
road wheel, yeh know, an he lows
thet talk onsettles him. said Miss
Elizabeth, hurriedfy. ,'---------' -,-----
Well yeh must let me know ef
thar's anything / can do fer y all,
said Mr.. Runyah, as he gathered his
reins. 1'll be putin on now Mo'nin /,
Miss Beth Cup, Jim! Clk, elk,
elk. "a. 'l,.., ..ti .rsl., r..
The heavy wagon rumbled on. and
presently after Miss Elizabeth went
indoors, and several ants came out of
AMBUSH, beginning hopefully to lay
the ground work of new Notifications.
Who's tibet a-gsssin' with yeh out
from, s'Beth?' .#-
Miss Beth came into the mid one of
the houses three rooms, whence the
voice proceeded. why, reckon yeh
must hev heerd Mr.. Juke Runyan,
Gene, he passed the time o day as he
druv by. an--ast fer you'ns. ..,
'Did, hey2' said Gene, in thin
voice of sarcasm. He was something
younger than his sister Elizabeth, a
man distorted from his birth, drawn
and shrunken of limb and body as if
wrung out of fair shape by nature in a
demoniac mood, yet her freaks had
left his head noble, as if TO add a
deeper hurt by showing what she
might have maze him. Noble as to
high brow, clear eyes, and finely
modelled lips, though the beauty of
these was stained with a querulous
expression, born less of suffering than
of a profound realization of his diff
ference from other men. He sat in a
chair shaped to his meager propor-
tions; before him was table laden
with odd tools, coils of wire, sheets of
paper overwrought with diagrams,
and others of the furniture that ap.
pertains to the man of inventive turn.
He was working on small wheel,
the hundredth continent of his ambi-
tlous hooes, he set it down as he look
ed narrowly at his sister what does
Juke Runyan keer ef Pm we'll er sick,
s'Beth7'
4 reckon he jest feels friendly,
Gene
'Hm--m! think so? Don't yeh
reckon he'd feel heap friendlier eff
he wuz to go by some fine day an see
a string O. Grape a-danglln' on the
door knob, s'Beth? ..... ....
I'D be ashamed to loose sech
thoughts, Eugene Shattucl' exclaimed
his sister, Indignantly. 4 would so
# ych feel thet ways I'll 60 out in
the kitchen. I don't hev to tex sech
talk off'n yeh, an I amt a-goin' to-.
Gene laughed a little unpleasantly;
then his face drew together painfully,
and he leaned his pale forehead on one
hand. 'Yeh'd marry thet man eff
'twuzn't fer me, sBett--me an the
promise yeh made to mother thet yeh
wouldn't never let nothin' come be-
twixt u.s. ,..
S'Beth's lips quivered; then she
smiled. well, I will! l reckon I'd
wait till l wuz asst. anyways, which
I've never been yit.'
Folks can understand each other
'thout passin' words, said Gene,
sharply; IAN I've alwuz he'd the fancy
-But no diff'runce. S'Beth. you
wait; thars more ahead of yeh then to
be dirt hauler's wife. You wait till
this yer wheel gets done, thar'll be
money by the pile fer every last year
I've lived in this wreck of a body a.
pinin'. Well crost the seas an we'll
see the hull world. I know't! I've
dreamt it! Who knows, s'Beth--
thar's great doctors beyand the ocean
--who knows but what they can make
me like other folks2-make me
straight an we'll. Quit starin' at me
thet ways, Elizabeth Shattuc! I
won't hev it,
She came to him swiftly, and shut
his eyes against her breast. Some
thing like amused satisfaction curled
his lips
'Thet sort o talk alwuz fetches her,
he was thinking.
Il didn't go to stare at yeh, honey
murmured his sister. I'm only a
studyin' how can do fer yeh to make
yeh happy. | want yeh to quit a
maxim out like yeh jedged l wuz
hankerin' to marry away from yeh--
me that promised never to let nothin'
separate US.
She was close to tears. Her nature
was familiar instrument to her
brother, and he moved the tune that
pleased his mood upon its tight drawn
strings.
Not long after she had gone about
her morning work Gene was reused
from his muse by shrill greeting:
'Ain't yeh goin' to give me bid to
come in, Mr.. Shattuc2' Looking up
he saw Looly Ann Beasley standing
In the doorway. She was young
woman, whose fresh face looked as if
it had been stroked upward in the
plant time of babyhood; her hairless
eyebrows and dented upper lip rose
abruptly at each center; there was