The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-05-28

this! Give up your false pride, love!
Let me make home for you"
Kitty hit her lip.
And have it said," said she, shat
Henry Wait was the only ore of the
Wait family that made bad matchr'
81 don't care what people say"
II do"
kitty, let's go to the parson to
night. Let's be married!'
Kitty shook her head.
Not until I've saved up enough to
buy decent outfit" said she. ssNot
until I've paid the last debt that poor
father owed"
''I'll pay 'em, Kitty"
''No. Harry, you won't. can be as
unselfish as you are!'' cried the girl.
'Oh. hush! Who is that?"
A board in the old floor had creaked
softly, a shadowy little figure had come
forward with sliding motion into the
light.
BE You Kitty" asked soft, high
pitched little voice. SIS this home?
I've come a good ways and I'm sort O.
turned round"
'It's Aunt Rnbamahl" cried Kitty.
why, how came she here? And all by
herselfr'
''It's a good ways" repeated the old
woman, shifting her fiat travelling bas-
ket, land I'm sort O. turned round. But
followed Sister Sarah all the way She
went before, an she beckoned. I fol.
lowed her here. And she's gone ont to
the old well. I'm sort o. feared to fol-
low her into the high, wet grass, but
she keeps a-beckonin', and l guess I'll
have to gor'
She started for the door, passing her
hand in a 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-beckonin'?"
piped the little old woman, 'sjust there
by the old we'll? We never could get
Eben to put q curb there, and Sister
Sarah was always afeard something
would happen"
II see the tall grass waving" said
Kitty, land a cloud coming over the
surface OF the rising moon, and that is
all"
Its Sister Sarah,' said Aunt Ruev.
pushing resolutely ahead, land she
wants me. Why, Kitty, do you mean
TO tell me that you don't know your
own mother?"
Kitty sent for Harry Wait the next
lay.
Harry" said she, do you want to
10 something for me9"
II want to do everything for you.
Kitty"
That's nonsenser' fBut she laughed
md colored nevertheless II want
vou to put a curb around that old sunk
N well. Aunt Ruey keeps wandering
nut there. She declares that mother
tands reckoning her and leaning over
o Look in. And it's as near to bring
nut water from there as to go to Hem
ock springs"
II thought the old we'll was dried up
ong ago." said young Wait.
There's water there. see it shine
nd sparkle. And Mr. Tucker saws he
will dig it out anew and stone it up If
QUILL build curb 1t will be handy
or the cattle. too"
very WELL" nodded Wait. ANY
ime Gid fuckers really, am"
Mrs. Tucker came few days later to
he first husking bee of the season. full |
I excitement
'Hev We heard?" said she.
And Mrs. Bradley, the buxom host
rs, made answer:
"We amt heard nothin' newt"
IF hadn't heerd it with my own
ars an seen it with my own eyes"
aid Mrs. Tucker, 81 never should ha'
elieved it. But it's true!"
whats true?" breathlessly demand.
Mrs. Bradley.
Miss Ritchie's come into her for
me-" said Mrs. Tucker.
WHAT" cried all the company.
''In gold" said Mrs. Tucker. 1.-THE
d captains prize money. / knowed
must be somewhere. And il was
lere all the timer
"Where?" questioned the company,
it'll one accord.
"Wedged behind the big halfway
one in the old sunhen well, where
icy used to lower the cream pail to
'ep it COOL eagerly spoke Mrs.
ncker. I'm an old tin box rrsted
can through, and tied up in the same
entical shammy bag that Mrs.
tchie once showed me years an years
%. She must ha' put it there herself.
keep it out of her husbands hands
at time he had such notion o.
ttin' everything into mimi shares
lottery tickets. an died afore she
d a chance to tell anybody where it
Is. Gideon he discovered it, fixin' up
e new stun WALL
Mrs. Bradley gave start.
Don't you know" said she, "poor
Aunt Ruey always stood to it that
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