The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-06-14

stove.
Cant | see Lindy?" asked Sam.
mo. YOU cant. She told me 10 tell |
YOU ii you come that You could go |
home and have Win Potts. that she's |
through with you"
Cant see her jest minit7" plead
ed Sam.
mo, you can't and the old lady
took her cup and left the room, shut
ting the door hard after her. Sam
dropped into chair and leaned his
head on his hands; great tears ran
down his fingers and dropped of on
the floor. Ills mother-in-law opened
the door. She was going 10 say some
thing sharp, but the sight OF him soft
ened her.
"Ill ask Indy agin IL she'll see
you"
A few minutes later she came back.
"shc says she won't see you. and She
wants you 10 let her alone"
Without a word sam gotup and went
home. Get your traps together. Win,
quick as you can, and I'll get Bill
skinner TO take you home"
lis Indy over TO her ma'ss'
Yes"
"she was jest playin' joke on You,
wasn't she?"
Yes
"iie's the sickest loolsin' jolxed man
ever See" she said 10 Bill skinner as he
, drove her home. And IL. bet you
faint no ordinary jokin' neither"
sam tried for several days To see Lin
DIV, but she refused TO see him.
Tell her" he would say TO her moth
, er. that if she'll Jest see ME l know /
, can fix it all right II she'd only jest
let me look at her 'twould do me SO
. much good"
, Once he asked for the baby. He took
il in his arms and the tears rolled from
l his eyes and dropped over II. Poor
!. little feller," he said. One day he laid
e five dollars down on the table. Give
that to Indy. she might need sum
e thin" he said
J. lie tried to 90 on with his work just
! the same. But he couldn't pillow where
4 he could look over at the little house
! where Lindy used to be. He couldn't
D stay in the rooms where he had never
r lived an hour without her. and where
o every little thing was made and placed
r by her hands.
IN Jest fix things up and get out o
v the country. ! can't live here
so he wrote TO Lindy:
DEERE LfNDY: i'm a-go!n' clean away whel
7 you won't hev TO here about me never wa
guide enur fur you and always moved 1t bu
, tnout you liked i'm a-goin TO start to
l. day left the things al our place fur you ans
II you can 60 down and Kit them thout you'
r. need them fur the little Teller good by
= SAM
g Lindy read the note and handed ii 4
her mother. who read il and looked a
= her. Her face was white and set.
: shall some of us go over and tel
/" him not TO go?' she asked.
mo, ma. Ia rather you wouldn't.
- And she took the baby in her arms am
: left the room.
Indy was pale and quiet all day. L
= the evening She put her baby to slice
I" and went out into the yard. 1t was
warm evening in the middle Of May
I, The moon was shining. although it wa
scarcely dusk. She wandered out in,
," the orchard and on beyond. where ST
could look across the fields toward h
own little home She would like
see it again just as ii was when ST
!. was so happy. Her father and moths
were going down the next day after tn
Ae things. and il would never be the sam
again.
II b'leve I'll go on over the hill an
:. see il l can see it." and she hurried oil
- "A would like to 60 in and see II thing
* is lest as | left EN-. low Sans &,
everything all upside down sence left
She could catch faint outline now
40 the house She felt an awful HON
sick, lonely feeling. II must see
no once agin," she said to herself, and II
!, tears rolled down her face. 'Oh. Z
wish Sam was there. it looks SO blac
~. an lonesome" On she went, every ii
- tie thing about the place GROWN
~ palmer and palmer in the moonlight
~ She came to the well-curb and leane
against il. "Oh. il | jest could go
u. an find everything like II used to be
80 she sobbed If Sam only was ther
~ wouldn't care if old Win Potts W;
y, there. too. II sam was only there. A
80 Sans gone-gone clean off-an' may
I'll never see him again" She walk
'er slowly on sobbing every breath, 10 Z
icn kitchen door. She reached out. open
it. and stepped in. As she stood in Z
'ne doorway. the moonlight falling on h
drew her full form out in shining CO
.en trast TO the dark room.
~ Good God. Indy. is that your"
NJ Sam" she screamed. and in anoth
"a instant was close in his arms 20
ali sam, sam" she sobbed. don't go wa
~. I've been sech a fool. but don't go wa
IN love you SO. sam, but got SO jell
OF Win. Oh. don't go, Sam" she sa
lar holding tight to him.
why. Indy. girl. I'm not goi
-, nothin' could make me leave you.
knowed you'd come back. Indy.
80 couldn't 20 til Id seen the place ag
an Jest come over tonight to $
y, good-by to il, an now you've col
rhs back"
n "Oh. Sam. was so jellus OF Win
lest hated her. an old Mis- Trover I,
me things about you-said you b
~. your arm round her. an her head v
, On layin' agin your shoulder as you W.
i'm goin to town. an jest got SO mad