The evening times., 1896-09-23
BROS.

would be obliged to break in the door If she
would not come out
Mr. SpriI & nan and Mr.. Cook continued
to entreat Miss Kate to leave the place
quietly At the same time the furniture
was steadily ing out. Tables, chairs.
boxes, curtains. brio-a -brac-all old flash
ion-werc ithered in heap on the vacant
lot.
Can you give us the key to this door,"
asked Mr.. sprii gnan, when they reached
the front parlor.
NO." answered Miss Kate. 1T hasn't
been opened for so loi z that don't know
where the keyis.'
Anentrance was fou nd from the back par
lor, which was open. Everything in the
room was covered with the dust OF many
days. The piano. OF antique pattern, had
not been used Tor years. The curtains hung
loose from their fastenings.
In the back parlor was an elegant Clock
in white and gold, and numerous other
articles of unused finery. In the corner OF
the dining room stood an old-fas shioned pen
dulum clock, six feet high, and in closet in
the rear was a curiously constructed fold
ing ladder. .''-r
REMOVED ALL THE GOODS
ALI the goods, books. china clocks, cans,
barrels and cooking utensils We're rem owed
to the pile on the lot at the side.
AS the work went on the crowd outside
steadily grew larger. Miss Sarah came
out of her loom again and Miss Kate told
how they had been wronged. She said she
nursed her brother John through sn allpoS
years ago, and they idolized him. But for
a. LONG hnf ha a
come to their house.
For eighteen months before his death
he did not 1--we with his own family When
he was taken Ill he was removed to the
hospital, and bis wife, who was a Miss
Antisel, daughter OF Dr. Antisel, OF this
city, was called to his side. She let him
die without sending them word that he
was ILL., A s soon as he was dead she be-
gan to try to get possession OF the prop
erty.
They employed Mr.. James Cragin their
lawyer. He said he WAS in sympathy with
them, but was really a member OF st.
J"hn's Church. adjoining their lot on the
north. with which they had quarrel for
years. The church had been wanting To
get their place.
THE SALE
Without notifying them. Mr.. Cragin had
consented To sale OF their place. 1t
has. been bough by Mr.. Hays. she believed,
for the church.
Mrs. Hays said this was absurd. They
bought tie place for their own use and
were going to live in IL. a-..
The feud between the ladies and their
neighbors, the church. reached a culmina'
ton several years ago, when a pipe organ
was put in the church. This, they claimed
greatly disturbed them, and II is said they
for a long time went into their back yards
and beat tin pans and made every unusual
noise possible when services were in
progress.
MIR. SpriBgman made final appeal to
Miss Kate to go amicably.
I'VE will take you anywhere you direct"
he said.
Where can we co. she replied. where
would you go il you were a helpless W oman
driven from the home your father gave
you?'
60 with Mrs. CruikshaDk''
I'VE have had no communication with
her for years. We have no friends, no
money, eXcep as Mr.t CragiB will sign the
papers; no way to get home. This is our
house, and it has not been legally Sold
1t is said there are funds sufficient for
their support at their command in the Poto-
macInsurapce Company and with the Wash
ington Loan and Trust Company.