The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-03-25

Let me make home for you"
Kitty hit her lip
And have It said," said she, '.that
Henry Wait was the only ore of the
Wait family that made bad matchr'
II 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 70
buy decent outfit" said she. mot
until I've paid the last debt that poor
father owed"
"I'll pay 'em, Kitty"
mo, Harry, you won't can be as
unselfsh as you arew cried the girl
"0h. hush Who is that?"
A board in the old floor had crealxed
softly, shadowy little figure had come
forward with sliding motion into the
light
"Be you Kitty" asked a soft, high
pitched little voice. as this home?
I've come good ways and I'm sort o
turned round"
ITS Aunt Ruhamah" cried Kitty.
why, how came she here? And all by
herselfr
"It's a good ways" repeated the old
woman, shifting her fiat travelling has
ket land I'm sort o turned round. But
] followed Sister Sarah all the way She
went before, an she beclxoned. I fol-
lowed her here. And she's gone ont 10
the old well. I'm sort o. feared to col.
low her into the high, wet grass, ~
she keeps a-beckonin, and guesyt W
have to gor'
She started for the door, passing her
hand in confused fashion over her
forehead.
What does she mean?" asked Harry
Wait
"Shc 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, lust there
by the old wellP We never could get
Eben TO put a 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"
"It's Sister Sarah" said Aunt guey,
pushing resolutely ahead, and 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
day.
Harry" said she, do you want 20
do something for mep"
II want to do everything for YOU,
Kitty"
That's nonsenser Out she laughed
and colored nevertheless.l II want
you TO put curb around that old sunk.
en- well. Aunt Ruey keeps wandering
out there. She declares that mother
stands reckoning her and leaning over
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 we'll was dried up
long ago" said young Wait
Where's water there. see IL shine
and sparkle, And Mr. Tucker saws he
will dig it out anew and stone il up IL
you'll build curb II will be handy
for the cattle, too"
VERY well" nodded Wait Amy
time Gid fuckers ready, am"
Mrs Tucker came few days later to
the first husking bee of the season. full
of excitement
And Mrs. Bradley, the buxom host
ess, made answer;
1--WE amt heard nothin' newr
"lf | hadn't heerd il with my own
cars an seen il with my own eyes, "
said Mrs. Tucker, II never should ha'
believed it. But it's true.
Whats true?" breathlessly demand.
ed Mrs. Bradley,
Miss Ritchie's come into her for.
tune" said Mrs Tucker.
"Whatr' cried all the company.
I'm gold" said Mrs. Tucker The
old captains prize money. | knowed
IT must be somewhere. And IL was
there all the timer
"Where?" questioned the company,
with one accord.
"Wedged behind the big halfway
stone in the old sunlxen well, where
they used to lower the cream pail to
keep it COOL" eagerly spoke Mrs
Tucker. I'm an old tin box r,:sted
clean through, and tied up in the same
identical shammy bag that Mrs
Richie once showed me years an years
ago She must ha' put it there herself,
to keep it out of her husbands hands
that time he had such a notion a.
putin everything into mimi shares
an lottery tickets, an died afore she
had a chance to tell anybody where il
was Gideon he discovered il, fixin' up
the new stun wall"
Mrs. Bradley gave start.
Don't you know" said she, Door
old Aunt Ruey always stood to it that
her sister Sarah was standin' there bv
the well, beckouin' to here She de-
clared that sister Sarah went afore her
all the way from Ohio"
YES" said Mrs. Tucker, in a low
voice Aud when Gideon got 10 the
house there was Aunt Ruhamah settin'
by the FIRE, with her knittin' work in
her hands, sest FOR all the world like
she was asleep, but stone dead. And
wasn't it lucky she signed them title
papers o. Gideon's last week? And