Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-12

~@SJ -SAiNA viz iioboS. 1 OOU KNOW, OIL
he never was seen goin' there after
that night, though he stayed in town
right along for two weeks, at the end
of which time he disappeared from the
face O. the earth, an she along with
him.
AN that's all the story, parson.
That's three year ago laclsin' two weeks,
an nobody amt seen or heard O. May
Day Meredith from that day to this
"Of co'se girls have run away with
men, an it turned out all right-but
they wasn't married men. Nobody
s'picioned he was married tell it was all
over, an Harry Conway he found it out
in st. Louis, an it's been found to be
true. An there's a man living in Tex
arkana tibet testified thet he was called
in to witness what he b'lieved to be a
genuine weddin', where the preacher
claimed to come from Little Rock, an
he married May Day to that man,
standin' in the blue cashmere dress she
run away in. She was married by the
Episcopal prayer book, too, which is the
only thing 1 felt real hard against May
Day for consentin' to-she being well
raised, hard shell Baptist.
''But O co'se the man tibet could git
girl to run away with him could easy
get her to change her religion"
Hold up there, Dan'l.' interrupted
old man Taylor. Hold on there! Not
always! It's good many years sense
my OF woman run away to marry me,
lat she was q Methodist, an Methodist
she's turned me, though I've been
dipped, thank God!''
well, of co'se, there's exception.
An didn't compare you to the man
I'm a-talllin' about, nohow. Besides
Methodist an Episcopal are two differ
ent things" returned McMonigle
But tellin' my story-or at least
sense I've done told the story, Ill tell
parson all l know about the old mig
ger, Proph, which is mighty little.
sit was jest three days after May
Meredith run away tibet 1 was ridin
through the woods twixt here an Clay
Bank, an who did run against but old
Proph'-walkin' along in the brush
talliin' to hisself ez usual.
"Well, sir, l stopped my horse,
him, an tried to draw him out
asst him how come he to proph-
csy the way he done, an how he
knowed what was comm, but, sir, |
couldn't get no satisfaction out o.
him.-not a bit. He lowed tibet he
only spoke ez it was given him to speak,
an the only thing he seemed inter
estcd in was the strangers name, an
he asst me to say it for him over an
over-he repeatin' it after me. An then
he asst me to write it for him, an he
put the paper / wrote it on in his hat.
He didn't know Il from bulls foot,
but l sposc he thought maybe if he
put it in his hat it might strike in
"Lilxe ez not he lowed he could git
somebody to read it out to him." sug-
gcstcd the doctor.
Like ez not. Well, sir, after had
give him the paper he commenced to
talk about huntin-had a bunch O.
birds in his hands then, an give en- to
me, 'lowin' all the time he hadn't had
much luck lately, count o his pistol
bein' sort O out O order. Lowed thot
he took sech notion to hunt with his
pistol thet twasn't no fun shootin' at
long range. but somehow he couldn't
depend on his pistol shootin' straight.
''Tool1 it out o his pocket while he
was standin' there. an commenced
shown it to me. An, sir, would you
believe it? While we was standin
there talkin' he give quick turn,
fred all on sudden up into tree, an
befo' l could git my breath, down
dropped squirt right at his feet.
Never see sech shootin' in my life. An
he wasn't no mo- excited over it than
nothin'. Jest picked up the squirt ez
unconcerned ez you please, an, SEE he;
Vas. she done it that time-but she don't
alrcys do it. Cont depend on her.
'.Then, somehow, he brought it
round to ask me ell wouldn't loand him
nv revolver. Jest to try it an see If
he wouldn't have better luck. Lowed
that he'd fetch it back quick ez he got
done with it.
"Well. sir, O. co'se loaned lit to thu
OF nigrer-an' took his-then an there.
I give it to him loaded, all six barrels.
n, sir. would you believe it?- No Twin
soul has ever laid eyes on OF Prophet
from that day to this.
sI'm mighty feered he's wandered
way off son'ers an shot hisself acct
dentally-an' never was found. Them
rcvolvers is mighty resky weapons eff a
person amt got experience with 'em.
$50 that's all the story, parson.
Three days after May Day went he
disappeared. an Of co'se he's Twin
along at aIerediths all these years, an
being so 'tached to May Day. and
propiesyinr about her like he done,
von can see how one name brings mp
another. So when I think about one !
seem to sec the othcr.'
"Didnt Harry Conway say he see the
Of nan in st. LOUIS enc't an tibet he let
on be didn't know wouldn't an