The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-02-01

you soft old noodle. You'd give IL away
10 the Young ones that wanted TO marry.
like Mrs. Richards. Oh, you don't think
I've noticed and understood your hin ing
how poor she was, and how hard she
must find il to get along with her five
small children and deserted by her worth
less husband; ; and I've no doubt. il tho
truth were known, he had some good rea-
sons for leaving her. And you'd give II TO
the old ones. just because they were old
women. You'd give lot Of IL to Mary
Wallace. for her mothers sake. Pve-no
doubt. Oh. yes. Beautiful ideas you'd
have, and fine things you'd do with the
fund IL / Was out OF the road"
If should do all that You have said,
brother, think the fund would be- doing
great deal more good than 1t does now"
"Ahal There! You admit IL knew
1t But you needn't think you'll ever get
the chance. I'll live to bury you yet.
BY this time he had worked himself up
into veritable passion; his lean old fin
gers trembled with the agitation OF his
wrath, and his perverted senses were deaf
aud blind to the loving kindness of Jacobs
meek and gentle response. "And | hope,
Peter, that you may"
You don't. You're a hypocrite" he
retorted. furlously. Jacob looked at him
sadly, shook his head. and after lighting
his pipe in silence, strolied away for his
evening smoke to the woods. where he
was wont 10 retire when Peter made the
house too warm for him.
But the crushed worm, proyerbially at
least. eventually turns; and one day the
Young brother bsdgered beyond andur-
ancc 10y those oft-repeated taunts and re-
pFoaches, which were a. ways accom- panied
by cruel raspings OF the Oil wound IN his
heart. faced his tormentor and replied:
We'll" he said, take it by and large
and | think II should do all that you
have said with the money I'd make bet
ter use OF IL than you'd be likely to-"
What do you know about what I'd do
with it?'
mo more than you know what would;
but I've got just as good right to guess
as YOU have"
"Weli what do you guess" retorted
Peter. with sneeriug, wicked grin.
Why, l imagine that as long as You
I lived you would hang on to every penny
of it, like an old miser as you are, and
when Death oosed the greedy clutch of
your aVaricious fingers from il, il would
be discovered that you had lett II all to
found home for sorn-out, dried.up, use
less, ill-naturned old animals such as wa
are, creatures who have outlived all love
but that of self, and deserve no other :;
men who. like you, have no without a
blush for what they are, and a sigh ior
what they might have been"
Jacob. you're a chuck e-headed ass"
Peter. you're a sou!less old curmud-
geOn, and a brute"
Don't YOU Ia k to me like that, For 9
cents I'd knock your head oi -
For a money consideration I've no
doubt you'd try it; but I'll bet you a
Thousand dollars you can't knock one side
of il OIL"
you'll bet thousand dollars I'd
like To know where you'd get 'em"
Right In the house. Halt the money
that's there belongs TO me. Ii ali belongs
to ire just much rs to you"
'Oh. indeed And you'd like to knock
me in the head and get possession OF it,
wouldt your"
No. But I'd like to jam some sense
into your thick skull, aud bleed out some
OF the meanness and seIhshness that fills
your heart"
"Faw de Lo'd's sake. Is you bows
qwa'in'?" demanded old black Betsy.
coming upon. the porch; and they skunk
away ashamed before her.
But when Jacob had once ''read the
Declaration OF Indepe Evidence" as he
l =
dOmineerlng disposition, lie soon fell into
tho habit or repeating the precedent, and
as Potter did not willingly or easily relin-
quish his soverelgntv-the prerogative of
seniority In his opinIon-tEey had many
wordy wrangle, and not infrequently ut
tered TO each other such threats as might
wei have seemed ominous If overheard
| by strangers. And they were overheard,
and their quarreis were repeated and mag
nihed In circulation from mouth to
mouth, so that it was not long before it
became matter of common notoriety in
the community that the two Old men had
actually had knOck-down fights; aud
once, when Peter was laid up with the
rheumatism. and Jacob was nursing him
most tenderly and Observation-Disclosures
standing the invalids temper was lust
then even worse than usual-it was popu-
larry believed that the elder brother had
been almost killed By the younger in q
bloody combat. and there were those who
even talked of speaking to the squire
about it" But the brothers never did
come TO blows. and the only immediate
result OF their quarreis was formal diyis-
ion between them OF the money on hand
IN the house, after which II was q Flowed
to lie In two parts, useless as it before
was In one. Jacob. indeed, had some
idea OF giving his share to Mary Wallace,
but could not exactly make up his mind
upon what pretense or with what excuse
] TO otter 1t, and feared to offend her.
One day he sat on little messy bank
by the roadside when she passed him,
coming from the woods with a bunch Of
/ wild flowers in her hands and going
1 toward her uncle's house. She was close
to him. but did not see him. Her
I thoughts were upon her absent lover, and
/ in the exaltation OF her happiness she was
/ oblivious to all about her but her own
| JOY. The old mans eyes were upon her,
| however, reading her secret in her coun-
tenance TRANSPORTED by love and hope.
/ An! how her look brought back her
! mothers face to his remembrance.
Little she would care" he said softly
/ to himself, for the money now. She has
love- and that is better than gold"
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