The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-06-13
home to stay" and she stirred the tea so vigorously it stopped over on the

homo to stay" land she stirred the tea so vigorously it stopped over on the stove.
 Cant see LindyP" asked Sam.
 '.No, you can't She told me to tell you if you come that you could go home and have Win Potts, that she's through with you"
 Cant see her jest minit?" plead ed Sam.
 ''No, you can't" and the old lady took her cup and left the room, shut ting the door hard after her. Sam dropped into a chair and leaned his head on his hands; great tears ran down his fingers and dropped off on tha floor. His mother-in-law opened the door. She was going to say some thing sharp, but the sight of him soft ened her.
 "I'll ask Lindy agin if she'll see you."
 A few minutes later she came back "She says she won't see you, and she wants you to let her alone" | Without word Sam got up and went home. "Get your traps together, Win, quick as you can, and I'll get Bill Skinner to take you home"
 ''Is Lindy over to her ma's?'
 Yes"
 "she was jest playin' . jeke on you, wasn't shep"
 "Yes."
 "He's the sickest looLin' joked man l ever see,' she said to Bill Skinner as he drove her home. 'And I'll bet you 'taint no ordinary jokin' neither"
 Sam tried for several days to see Lin dy, but she refused to see him.
 Tell her." he would say to her moth CT, that if she'll jest see me know l can fix it all right. If she'd only jest let me look at her 'twould do me SC much good"
 Once he asked for the baby. He took it in his arms and the tears rolled from his eyes and dropped over it. Poo, little feller," he said. One day he laid five dollars down on the table. Give that to Lindy, she might need sum , thin'," he said.
 He tried to go on with his work just the same. But he couldn't blow where he could look over at the little house where Lindy used to be. He couldn', stay in the rooms where he had never : lived an hour without her, and wher, ) every little thing was made and placed : by her hands.
 ''I'll jest fix things up and get out o the country. l can't live here"
 So he wrote to Lindy: "DERE LINpY: i'm s-goin' clean away whe you won't hev to here about me never wa gude enuf fur you and always nowed 1t ou thout you liked mo i'm a-goin' to start to day left the things at our place fur you ant you can go down and git them thout you, r need them fur the little feller good by
 SAM" Lindy read the note and handed it t. her mother, who read 1t and looked a her. Her face was white and set. "Shall some of us go over and tel him not to go?" she asked. No, ma, I'd rather you wouldn't. And she took the baby in her arms ant T left the room.
 Lindy was pale and quiet all day. Il the evening she put her baby to sleel I and went out into the yard. It was warm evening in the middle of May The moon was shining, although 1t wa :, scarcely dusk. She wandered out int
 the orchard and on beyond, where sh
 could look across the fields toward he own little home. She would like t see it again just as 1t was when sh was so happy. Her father and mothe were going down the next day after tn things, and 1t would never be the sam
 again.
 Il b'leve I'll go on over the hill an see if 1 can see it," and she hurried or y "l would like to go in and see if thing ? is jest as I left 'em. How Sam's go . everything all upside down sence I left | She could catch faint outline now c = the house. She felt an awful home sick, lonely feeling. T must see 2 once agin," she said to herself, and tn :. tears rolled down her face 'Oh, d wish Sam was there, 1t looks 50 blac an lonesome" On she went, every lii . tie thing about the place growth
 plainer and plniner in the moonlight !, She came to the well-curb and leane, :. against it ''Oh, if jest could go il f an find everything like it used to be, a she sobbed. If Sam only was there |, 1 wouldn't care if old Win Potts wa d there, too, if Sam was only there. Ar
 Sam's gone-gone clean off-an' mayb |. I'll never see him again" She wake . slowly on, sobbing every breath, to tn 1 Kitchen door. Sue reached out, opene q it, and steppeaia, As she stood in th
 doorway, the moonlight falling on he :, drew her full form out in shining COT T trast to the dark room. A Good God, Lindy, Is that youp" "Samw she screamed, and in anothe I instant was close in his arms. "Oi I Sam, Sam," she sobbed, don't go way g I've been sech fool, but don't go way I love you so Sam, but got so jellu
 of Win. Oh, don't go, Sam," she said - holding tight to him.
 Why, Lindy, girl, I'm not goin f nothin' could make me leave you.
 knowed you'd come back. Lindy. couldn't go til I'd seen the place agir
 an jest come over tonight to sa !. good-by to it, an now you've com = | back"