Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-11-12
lUL AN.nn MISS.
Many Months They Joined
and Hearts.
time an ergin forbit
ter do with Pnnl len,

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+ know how it come
tenten ter what
ST dss
ms rnsg her pretty heac
ashes snffuscd her Lowell,
s~1lcch but instead of answer
yer fathHr's question she stood idly
eripg the strings of her bonnet,
nee or twice she tried to speak, but,
noqf'. she did not look up, she knew
shf, her fathers cold, sharp eyes were
gazing steadily at her, and the words
were lost in a trembling whisper.
..Why don't you speak ont, Miss. in.
Ia o standin' there as if you'd lost
fur tongue? Why is it | see Won an
ISanl Jennings tergether last night?"
Pap" and the soft sweet voice Is
scarcely audible, Il can't see why YOU
hold anything aCSast Paul. No matter
what others may have done, | know he
hain't never harmed a hair of YER head
an he coukn't be hired to do anything
agin' yet Ter the world
"Ms',ss, I'm s'prised at yer. Jist .er
sIhfr1 that "a child o. mine should stan
W right in my face an un'er,ake ter
NoP up fer one o them Jenningses
arter all I've suffered at their hans.
It's err hard thing ter bear, Miss er
hard thing to know that my own child
is willin' ter fergit 'er pap's wrongs an
take up fer them as has allers been his
enemies. 1t was bad ernuff fer en- to
beat me outen tier claim alter Id i'm.
proved it, but now fer my child, Their
only being IN the worl' as is likely to
'Rssrfer me, ter go and hol' up fer one
'ot eya, is a hundred times worse, |
iheSer thought afore that I'd ever live
10 see Their day when you'd turn errin
me-"
Pap, you know | hain't turned erciz
you, an that | wouldn't take ar p,r
nobody. even to Paul hisselt VIM was
err enemy to you. But Paul hain't done
nothin' fer you ts condemn him fer. 1t
wasn't him that took the claim
mo. it wasn't him as took therclain,
but y wus his father, an the Jen-
Ifsinrses air all alike"
Has Paul ever held up fer his father
lin the matter?'
81 donno as he has an l don't know
as he hain't, but ! know he's one of
Their family an that's ernuff."
Pap, You do Paul wrong. lie amt
nowise ter blame fer what was done
years ergo, an eff you'd get to know
him you'd say he wasn't bad
Il don't want ter know him. an
don't want You to hev notbin' more ter
do with i'm. said years ergo that me
an mine 'ud never mix er miprle in
any way with ole Joel Jennings fam
HE M fer my part I've KEEP to that
prorsise, an so did yer poor mother
ohile she lived, an | hoped YOU
would"
1T amt Christian, pap, ter hold err
grudge so long, an ergin Their limo
cent, too"
1T may not be Christian, Miss, but
it amt likely I'll forget nv WRONGS
while the Jenningses live on nv land
an hev all Their comforts O life. an me
an mine has ter giterlong Their best we
kin on this poor forty; an it amt likely
SO we'll hev this long, fer Smiths poin'
ter close Their mortgage less'n | raise
the money ter pay int'rust. an kahn,
dc thet fer I've tried high an low. No,
1t amt likely tibet I'm a goin' ter ferx,t
an forgive at such err time"
Miss face blanched at hearing these
words, for they were the first intima.
Won she had received of the closing of
>he mortgage on the little home, As
she looked at her fathers aged and
bent form and careworn features, and
recalled all the hardships and suffer.
ings lie had passed through, and pic
tured out in her imagination what Tho
future would be, she could not find Il
in her heart to blame him for the hitter
grudge he held against Joel Jennings.
But Paul was SO unlike his fatbcr-so
Kind and gentle, and always mindful az
the welfare of others. She knew ,ba,
her father had no right to blame him,
They were both a longtime silent, then
Miss came and put her arms about
her fathers neck and kissed him.
u don't want you to think, pap, that
ever take sides agin you, not eve,.l
Ter Paul. I've tried ter be faithfu, ~
you all my life, an l intend To 20 on
20" y"
Yves, ! know Miss, what v~ou,ve
been ter Inc, and l know YOU mean
well. But lovin' Paul as you do. it,s
hard to be toward me what you've allus
been"
"Paul's SO good an kind, an I do
Owe him, pap, an it hurts me TO think
Q never hevin' nothin' ter do with i'm
no more"
"fou needn't try to persuade me. fer
.ve said I'd never forgive an won't
Inc little farm'n be sold 70 pay the
mortgage and we II be set ont in the |
world 70 live where we kin. an, $
eckon Paul won't care no o tb.n
~ Pap does. Let EN- enjoy what tbey 1
% irnm me by dishonesty, II thew q
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