The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-03-26

went before, an She DeCkoncd, tOi'
lowed her here. And she's gone out tu
the old well. I'm sort o. feared to fol.
low her into the high, wet grass, brt
she keeps a-beckonin', and guess J. Il
have to gol'
She started for the door, passing her
hand in confused fashion over her
forehead.
What does she mean?" asked Harry
Wait.
"She means mother" said Kitty
'mother, that has been dead and buried
these fifteen years"
Don't you see her a-beclloniu?"
piped the little old woman, Gust there
by the old we'll? We never could :
Eben to put a curb there, and Sister
Sarah was always afeard somethiu 4;
would happen"
~ see the tall grass waving" sal I
Kitty, land cloud coming over tna
surface of the rising moon, and that -
all"
"It's Sister Sarah, said Aunt Rue,
pushing resolutely ahead, "and sh
wants me. Why, Kitty, do you mcun
to tell me that you don't know YOU
own mother?"
Kitty sent for Harry Wait the ncxt
day.
Harry said she, do you want TO
do something for me?"
~ want to do everything for yol,
Kitty"
That's nonsense!" (But she laughed
and colored nevertheless 81 want
you to put curb around that old sunk.
en- well. Aunt Ruey keeps wandering
out there. She declares that mother
stands beckoning her and leaning ovrr
to look in And it's as near to bring
out water from there as to go to Hem.
lock springs"
II thought the old well was dried u
long ago." said young Wait
"There's water there. ! see it shine
and sparkle. And Mr.. Tucker says he
will dig it out anew and stone it up il
you'll build curb 1t will be hand I
for the cattle, too"
very WE'LL" nodded Wait. ANY
time Gid fuckers ready l am
Mrs. Tucker came few days later tc
the first husking bee of the season, full
of excitement.
"Hev we heard?" said she.
And Mrs. Bradley, the buXom host
ess, made answer:
"We amt heard nothin neww
'If hadn't heerd it with my own
cars an seen it with my own eyes,
said Mrs. Tucker, ~ never should hn'
believed it But it's true!"
whats true?" breathlessly demand
ed Mrs. Bradley.
"Miss Ritchics come into her for
tune" said Mrs. Tucker.
What! cried all the company.
'In gold" said Mrs Tucker "The
old captains prize money. l lznowed
it must be somewhere. And it was
there all the time!"
"Where?" questioned the company,
with one accord.
"Wedged behind the big halfway
stone in the old sunken well, where
they used to lower the cream pail tC
keep it cool" eagerly spoke Mrs
Tucker. "In an old tin box rustet
clean through, and tied up in the same
Ritchie once showed me years an year!
ago. She must ha' put it there herself
to keep it out of her husbands hands
that time he had such a notion o
putin everything into minin' share.
an lottery tickets, an died afore she
had chance to tell anybody where i
was. Gideon he discovered it, fiXin' W
the new stun wall"
Mrs. Bradley gave Il start.
Don't you KNOW" said she, poo
old Aunt Ruey always stood to it tha
her sister Sarah was standin' there b,
the well, beckonin' to her? She de
clared that sister Sarah went afore he
all the way from Ohio"
yes" said Mrs. Tucker, in a low
voice. "And when Gideon got to tn,
house there was Aunt Ruhamah settin
by the fire, with her llnittin' work il
her hands, jest for all the world lils'
she was asleep, but stone dead. Ant
wasn't it lucky she signed them It'll,
papers O Gidcon'5 last week? AnC
Kitty's cryin fit to break her heart
Kitty can be married now wheneve
she plcases There amt nothin' NOR,
to wait for. And who knows" she add
ed, looking timidly over her shoulde
at the gray shadows of the cleaning
"but that Aunt Ruhamah saw cleare
than we do, and sister Sarah, Kitty
mother, was really beckoning on tn
edge of the old well?"
"Ah!" said Mrs Bradley, "wh
knows?"-lIelen Forrest Graves, il
Saturday Night.