Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-25

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oman all bout it, When / sed that
ar strange look came over his face.
He looked down ar minute an wuz
still. Then he raised his head an
seq: Ike, is Kildee up at her housei /
tried to get back sooner, but | could
not; but | knew she would wait till /
came. Let's go there first. II has
beenten long years I've been waiting
TO look in those eyes again. Come,
let's find her. A great big lumpcom
in my throat an my eyes bergun 10
water when he sed that. Poor %fellerl
he's been workin all these years look
in forward TO comm back an gittin'
his leetle gal-an' now she's gone, the
Lord only knows where. Bill, / seq,
tryin' TO swallow ther lump, 'Kildee's
gone. She run away with ar stranger
long time ago, an no one don't know
whar she is. The ole man am his
wife, an your dad, too, are in them
col graves in ther field nigh Big Bar
cave
''Sech ar look ez come over that
mans face | never seedl He turned,
an afore | could say ar word he wuz
gone, gonel
Il lived on the same old mounting
life. Two chilun wal given me, a gal
an ar boy. The gal we named Mary,
the boy answered ter BILL
Now Jedge, bout Kildee. II war
ar mighty long time afore we ever
hearn Of the gal. never thought I'd
hear again.
"When Their Teller run away he took
her 10 New York. He made her ar
big lady. She he'd ar fine house an
horses an everything. She he'd plen-
ty of f%rien'S, too, when she WIZ ar
lady. ] WANT thar, but ! knows that
leetle mounting gal was the puttieSt
woman thar when she got on them
thar fine clothes, an them eyes q shin.
~ an that hair a-wavin'. An some
times she'd git in her fine carriage an
go ter church. Onct she went ter hear
the biggest preacher thar preach.
Thar wuz somethin', she couldn't tell
jes' what, that made her like him so
much. An his face wuz so kin look.
in.
Late one night when Kildce wuz
sick in bed, her ole man come in; his
face was sorter excited like; he went
over ter whar kildee was layin' an
tole her he had TO go off OH some bust.
ness for ar few days. She didn't
think nothin' queer of that cause he
was used ter doing il. But Their mex
morniu' when she picked up ther
newspaper, 10 and behold, thar wuz
her husbands picture right afore her
eyes, an ar great long piece about
him! lie wuz ar theft! He had been
Robin the bank he wuz in for years
an years, an ther bank folks had icz'
found it outl But he had gotten
away.
How come me at home acaing
she asked, lookin' round and tindin'
herself in a plain. leetle room, with a
kin faced woman watchin' over her.
Mother where is Bill and Ikel Well
all go down TO the cave. an'-but no,
that's not mother. What does il
meanl Where is my husband and
childl This is not our house. What
does it mean, kind womanf Tie wo-
man then told her about the bank rob
berry, and how her husband had gotten
away. Aud about her reading about
it in the paper and fainting. And
that the house and everything had TO
be sold, and she and her little boy
be brought to the hospital.
Poor leetle gal, there she lay. No
friends now an no money. But ar
thought struck her. Shed send fer
that kin lookin' preacher.
IAN tier preacher come. He did
look SO lovin' TO her. He took her
little thin, white han in his. She be-
gun ter tell him her story. But, ledge,
she didn't finish that story, no, yer
bet she didn't! Forgittin' whar he
wuz. Bill threw his arms round her
poor, weak, leetle neck, an lookin'
her straight in ther eyes. sed:
"kildee, Kildee, don't you know
Billi Look at me-
"'Oh, Bill, is il you! No, no.. |
can't look you in the eyesi Had / but
been true TO you, instead of runnin'
away and being miserable all my days,
and then this end! But God has for.
given me, won't you, Billl Show me
you will by making me two promises.
One is, have me carried back TO the
old mountain home and buried near
Big Bear cave; the other is, hat you
will take and keep my child; he's
named for you, Bill
And then, as the sun was going
slowly down in the west, an every
thing was still an quiet like, she went
Home, softly sayin', Forgiven, for
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