The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-01

| And run us OIU IN TWO mOuthS!'
''Ile won't run us out"
India rose and approached her
brother. Her face was lambert, us if
she were the spirit of fire.
| pink Bradshaw, didn't we make ND
our minds to locate here and take all
| the consequences"
YES"
"Am not your oldest sister?"
"Ycs."
Didn't educate myself ard man
age to get you boys places and give
you something of u chance for your-
sclvcS?"
YES, my dear, you did
did you ever know me to fail in
anything undcvtooii?"
Never"
She rested one hand on his shoulder,
and tipped up his face to meet her
eyes
81 have pledged myself, my health,
my life, my brains, to the success of
you two boys. Pink, would lay my
right hand down to be cut Off at the
wrist if that would secure success to
you. But instead of that, l can only
give the labor of that hand ANY
woman who honors her men-follls and
pushes tlclr IOrtuHc3, nOnOrS ana
gloriies herself. My darling boy, if
you and 10 don't make men that can
be proud of, you will ruin my life and
drown it in shame"
The young mans sensitive face
leindlcd from hers.
81 wasn't whining!" he exclaimed rs
II 'spurrcd. But man can see i'm
possibilities where woman can't"
"Thanll heaven for Il woman's vision,
then. l don't believe in impossibili-
ties have done too many impossible
things while people stood by to tell me
l couldn't. When say pledge my
life and brains and might to the doing
of 4 thing that tlsing will be done"
II know" said Pink, with enthusi-
asm you're the bravcst girl in the
world"
Not at all. I'm u great baby who
loves her brothers and is afraid of
snakes. But if l mads up my mind
said India, stretching her listed arm
before her, ito take Il RATHER around
the neck and stranglc it to death, l
should do it if it covered me with bites
and killed me-"
| 81 believe you'll" said Pink, with
| start as if he had been electrified
where's my clip and pencil? I must
| get to work. You're howlcr, Lady
| Macbeth"
YOU'RE tine-strung poet. johnny
Keats Haul the barrel and taElc over
this way. | want to know everything
you put in that first page article"
They consulted together, India start
ing the theme. Pink produced dccorat-
cd thoughts She took out his adj
| jcctives and reduced his sentences. 10
called for copy. India took it to him,
and distributed locals before the other
printer.
Don't you want to dress up your adj
refreshments now while l set type for
your she said to her younger brother,
who ut once washed his hands, ran
them through dark curly hair like his
sisters and took his rudy face away
to pore sturdily over her desk.
When the sun hung just above the
horizon, casting long shadows east
ward, India went home, stopping at
one of the wooden groceries for pro-
visions. The whole town was com
posed of yellow pine excrcscences,
from the first gigantic hotel to the tint
est land office.
| no hPl'iOsACllCQ IiCI uAlCHCCu
house on Il path which cut across hum
mocks of wiry grass, she was looking
forward, as the thrifty assistant wom-
an always does, to that time when the
boys would run their firmly csta blishcd
paper alone, and she could devote her
self to the residence, lined with pic
lures, glittering with silver, full of
comforts, which would take the place
of this threc-room nest. The prairie
did not bound her ambitions.
But wherever one stands" re-.
marked India, opening the door, "the
center of the earth is always exactly
beneath him, and the center of the
heavens exactly over his head"
'Well-nurtured girls III various cit
les said India to herself, "arc now
sitting down to dinner, and talking
about next months trip out of town.
But the assistant on the Rolling CITY
Chronicle must light fire and get the
boys supper, not neglecting to darn
those last two pairs of socks while the
| people are gathering"
She followed them back to the office
about dusk. rising sweetness was
abroad, and the air so clear that it cut
out every object with sharp edges
The town hcrder was driving home
the cows from their free pasture up the
ridge. frcighttrain far off on the
western road trailed into sight, and
puffs of smoke on the northern horizon
denoted some approach along that line.
The prairie was like mountain-pla-
teau in giving one a sense of ncarness
to the Sky. The hemisphere of many
| shaded el, ID.
the melting west.
i At the Office Indin hnrrin,l 70 G,;cl