Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-07-11

What do you-all know bout Hester
Latimer's likes an dislikes?" demand
ed his sister, pausing with the cup and
coffee-pot suspended.
"A good deal less N nothin', 1 s'pose;
but I've got eyes, an reckon can use
EN- same's anybody"
We'll, don't ye go an forgit that they
amt no sleeps eyes," retorted julie, an
srlly. You amt got no call to be th'ow.
IA EN- round at anybody that's kin to-
the Latimer tribe"
A ravenous silence followed this re-
mark, and when Bud left the table he
said to jeff: want to see we bime-by;
come outside when ye get thoo."
jeff lighted his pipe moment later
and followed his younger brother to the
barn. What was we wantin', Buddy?"
he asked.
Bout that thar city feller-don't
we reckon VEAL could give him a sort
OF scare that d run him back whar he
come from?''
Il dunno. Why?"'
"Oh, jest reckoned hit ID be better
If we-all ever do what we was tallin'
bout spell back, hit'll be some easier
# they amt SO many of 'em."
YOU'RE plum right about that; but
then thar amt nothin' shore bout what
Jim Dobles was a-sayin; he only lowed
maybe that's what was a-goin' on
THAT don't make no difference, no.
how" argued Bud. eff he's got any
fight in him, he'll stand up for his
frien's, an if we can run him out fore
han we're jest that much ahead.
You're plum shore he amt revenuer?"
"Oh, reckon not; from what could
pick up down at the settlement, lowed
ae'a some Teller that Tom Ludlow d
knowed back in the north; he's a-stop-
pin at Ludlow's now. Talkin' about
revenuers, though, hit moughtn't be
SIGH bad idee to let on like the boys
done took him for one; hit ID sort O.
make the scare come more MATCHED
like"
The brothers smoked in silence for 6
few moments, and then began to dis
cuss plan suggested by the younger.
While they talked the stars came out
one by one and the shadows deepened
in the cove until they lay black and
brooding over the thickets on the sides
of the curtain of darkness the noises
of the night began-the drone of the
jar fly passing with the fading light
into the chipping of the cricket and the
shrll song of the tree-toads. Thread
ing the irregular voices of nature with
the measured pulse of human effort,
the rhythmic beat of the blowing en-
| gines at the Tregarthen furnace vi
brated upon the still air; and at inter
walls a dull red glare appearing above
the shoulder of the mountain an
nounced the feeding time of the fiery
monster of the valley.
The brothers talked on in low tones
pausing only once, when shadow
| passed the door-yard and glided TOWARD
| the forest.
"Who's that?" queried jeff, peering
intently into the darkness.
"Hit's only Jed, reckon" was the
reply.
"Whar's he goin' at this time o
night?"
II dunno; goin' to soak his haid in
the creek. maybe. more n half believe
sometimes, that he's gettin' foolish
much sense, nohow. But, as l was
a-sayin'-' And the talk dropped
back into the channel from which Jed's
appearance had diverted it.
The two men sat on a log behind tbs
barn, facing the cliff at the head of tbs
cove. Had they been gifted with tbs
visual powers of the owl which hootec
dismally from the top of blasted oai
standing in the adjacent corn-feld
they might have discerned, half an houl
later, black speck zigzagging up tht
bace of the apparently inaccessible
cliff. 1t was Jed, and when he reached
the summit just under the shadow o
the tree that years before had born,
such CHASTITY fruit, he turned his fac,
southwark and walked rapidly towar,
The Laurels."
"Do you know, Mr.. Ringbrand, tina
I've always had persistent and haunt
ing impression that we've met some
where before?"
Ringbrand was spending the even
ing at the Latimers as usual, and the,
were all sitting in the starlight on thu
veranda of Tine Laurels."
"You mean before came to Tregar
then, Miss Hester?"
Eyes, it might have been ages ago.
Ringbrand smiled under cover O
the darkness. perhaps it was. d.
you believe in transmigration?
II think not" she answered doubt
fully. 81 believe in the creed"
MAY ask what creed?"
I'D think you'd be ashamed to
when there is only one-or, at most
two"
"rstand corrected. Would it be her
esy if I asked where might find tn
one-or two?"
"Of course not; they're in the praye
book; supposed everyone knew that.
"Going back to your impression
again, do you know that have an ex
actly similar one? I am almost posi-
tive that you are right. Can't you he'll
me solve the mystery?"
whats that you-all are talkin:
about?" inquired the colonel, knocking
the ashes from his long-stemmed pip
and crushing dry tobacco leaf in tn
palm of his hand for fresh charge.
Miss Hester was just saying sh
thought we'd seen each other some
where before came to Treparthen an