The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-01


wrinAled face working. {
She smiled at him.
81 have vest here for you, Daddy,
and I'll give you clean white shirt to
take home"
'Doctor!" the old man gasped. II
cayn't-"
''Don't worry, Daddy. Try on the
vest"
He put 1t on, Juggling weakly at the
buttons.
"Jest what needed" he muttered,
husltily.
"You look very nice, Daddy. There's
only one thing more, and here 1t is
the finest, warmest coat in Buncombe
county"
She held 1t up by the shoulders and
he drew it on.
"Now, is not that a lovely coat?"
He stroked the soft cloth gently, pull
ing at the fronts with his stubby I'm
gers.
"It's lined with silk" said the doctor.
Daddy, I shouldn't know YOU"
He looked down at himself in dazed
way. Then he started.
"rd better go home now" he said,
hurriedly.
"Inever had nary a suit O. clo'es afore.
God bless we, doctor"
He caught her hand.
"Tm so glad to give them to you,
Daddy" she said, softly, with tears.
The next day julie Fraley came up TO
mend the roof, and while he warmed
himself mt the fire he told the story OF
Daddy's return home.
"We wuz a-pullin' corn, me an Liz
an Bud, an see the ole man er comm
down the hill, an 1 says: Look yon,
Liz. Is tibet yer dad"
".Naw!' SAYS Liz Tibet amt dad.
Looks like ole Preacher Freeman
"Sure nuff-he did look pint blank
like ole Preacher Freeman. An we
watched i'm tell he crossed the branch,
an when he elm up the bank he stag
gered a bit-yer know Daddy's mighty
onstiddy on his legs-an' knowed who
hit was, an said:
"'Tis yer daddy, Liz An Liz were
plum outdone at she didn't know her
own daddy" concluded julie, INDUCING
: in one Of those silent laughs peculiar
TO his kind. He went up on the roof
presently and the doctor came out from
time TO time to overlook the work, al
ways charmed into lingering by the
! wonderful beauty OF the landscape
) The house sat upon one OF the foot
t hills of the great Appalachian range
east of the French Broad. Looking
< west one saw wooded, undulatine
country, rolling away into the valley
y and there stayed by the massive wal
of a great mountain that rose far into
the blue. Along the mountain side tho
railroad made it's way over high trestie'
:, and red clay embankments, and a
times one caught the sound OF th'
k | whistle. the rumble of wheels, and saw
the train rush along, small In the dis
e lance like child's toy. All at onc'
e there was n shout from julie Frale,
e and at the same instant shot rant
out.
r "Thar's convict got off," cried julie
e when the doctor appeared. saw mn
jump off the train"
d The doctor shivered.
"And they didn't stop?"
N "Why, no, but the guard fired o
him. They'll send party back whe
y they gifts to Biltmorc an offer 500 r.
J. ward fer him, likely. Don't wish
cd git it,"
"Will he get caught, do you Think
Ip ..I reckon. They gin'ally does. He
TUX ter the woods now. They aray
does when they makes break. IL,
k. he'll git an outing, anyhow. Dos
T? goned eff blame i'm"
e, "Mr. Fraley, where do they go whe
they escape like that?'
v. "They LAYS in the woods. Mebh
lr, they knows niggers that'll feed 'em n
sc give 'em clo'es. They're apays In
mighty hurry to git shet o. their stripe
nv suit, an eff they do sometimes they g
away fer good"
Daddy John came once to visit Il
ed doctor, wearing his new clothes, M
then he paid visits to all his kinsfo
wv and old neighbors, and the queer, p
tie thetic figure in the fine black sui
ed weakly climbing over the hills, BEGAN
Ike familiar sight.
Then one night terrible calami
TX. befell and the next morning 1t WI
2" known all over the settlement tn
Daddy Johns new clo'es at come
the doctor woman's barl had BET
ed STOLE"
EN- Horsemen riding to town drew re
,as and discussed the theft for houl
e Every other woman put on her su
as bonnet and called on her next neig
Dor, and then the two went together
lad Gee Daddy John. So 1t happened tn
when the doctor arrived she found t
tn. house so full that two of the won
tor rose and sat on the floor to offer bel
chair. There was a curious stiffness
I'D, the house. One Of the women VIII
res pered: :.
"Hit's just like a buryin', only III
ure amt no corpse"
Daddy John was sitting by the fl
IL huddled together, the picture OF m
ow- cry.
md srve lost my new clo'es," he qui
cred.
ten "rm 80 sorry Daddy John" sale
doctor, taking his hard, bony hand.