Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-03-27
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CHAPTER VI.

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CHAPTER VI.
Mammal" shouted Hector, at the top
bis voice, dsshing into the ParlOr in a
ate OF great excitement, followed
osely by little Ran, ''please come over
\ the quarters right straight. Uncle
Patrick is in the kitchen and he says
bst Mr.. Anthony is going TO pull all
be cabins down and send all the colored
Iolss away. Uncle Patrick says he
HASN'T got any place TO go. Hes old
nd can't work any longer and nobody
sants TO be bothered with him and Aunt
KITTY any more, because they amt any
Sc. He's crying, mamma, awful hard,
Ind he says they'll have 70 90 TO the
boorhouse II you don't help them. Mr..
Anthony says they will"
"He don't want 70 go 70 the poor
house mamma, chimed in Ran eagerly.
f'DoD't let him go; it's dreffful 70 see him
rry, and he's so old. He says he can't
ktand IL 70 gO;,he would lever be dead!'
The boys eyes filed with tears, and
fit little lips trembled as he pressed
rlose 70 his mothers side, tramPling on
fer dress with his dusty lictle shoes Ia
lis excitement and distress.
"And, mamma, Mr.. Anthony Is going
q pull the houses all down" insisted
Hector. "He ought not 70 do that. The
tervants won't have any place TO go, and
father always let them live there. Mr..
Anthony ought not TO pull the houses
town."
BY the exercise OF considerable pa
+ience and a good deal OF ability in cross
Questioning, Mrs. Beverley finally ar
we'd at a clear comprehension OF the
base. The cabins, five in number, all
HAT were left Of the original row,
ttood, as has been stated, just in front
bfthe oyerseer's house, and not a stones
4brow from 70. The site selected tat
Aiary's suggestion, as she remembered
howl for the handsome new residence
khich the owner OF Lower ReptOn pro
h1sed TO erect for himself was on the
rest OF the hill, in a fine grove OF trees,
md commanding a most magnificent
t.ew. The cabins would be In full
rht OF all the front windows and were
tnything but an addition TO the land
tcape. looking, ia truth. as their
twner expressed il, like "a lot or min
- shanties round an old shaft"
As the work upon the house was 70
commence Immediately, the material all
engaged aud the architect actually on
Is way TO Virginia, Mr.. Anthony had
racided not 20 wait about moving the
rabins until after its completion, as be
adj spoken Of doing when he talked
bs matter over with Mrs, Beverley, but
r0 take them away at once. According
y. the work of demolition had been in
suCurated that very morning, and the
raoins were being taken 70 pieces and
,srted 10 other parts of the estate for
re.erection. The negroes whom An
thony wished 70 retain in his employ
Lad arrangements made for their ac-
Icommodation during the period OF their
homelessneSs, while those OF whom be
wished 10 rid himself simply had notice
given them 20 quit by a certain day.
Among these last was poor old Pat
rics and his equally old and still more
+1frm wife. They had never been house
sarvants nor very intimately associated
frfth the family life, but they had been
horn and raised on the Beverley estate,
md had occupied that particular cabin
YER since their welded life began,
early sixty years before, and had, not
hruaturally, counted on being allowed
die i'm IT, They had long outllved
their children, and their grandchildren
bad all drifted away 20 seek a liyell-
hood I'm other places, leaving the an
c.ent couple still fixture on the old
plantation, firm in the conviction that
the white people would never see them
come 20 want. They were so old that
beyond their own few household mat
tiers. no work was expected OF them,
and they lived on from year 10 year,
their few wants supplied and their COM
fort looked after by the white family,
Just as 10 would have been had they
never been emancipated.
When the sale of the lower part OF
the estate put the cabin in which the
Old people lived beyond their con-
troll. Mrs. Beverley had been anxious
90 move her pensioners over 10
house in her own yard, where she
could see that they were properly
attended to. But they were loath
90 leave the cabin 10 which they