The news & observer., 1897-09-26

in a. tenn where the Gorgeous carries j
off SO high. Here / jaws over the rivel
into the gay, as who has better righ
than an Egyptian? Here am | set on by
all the little devils in barefoot and stock
ings, by all the dogs in the town. Now
I saws nothing to that, for have / not my
staff ITO drive off the juckels and my vast
TO cuff the chauvies about their ears
Indeed have l both my staff and my vast
as they learns to their sorrow. But by
he Gods truth will no longer remain in
the land where every chicko muskro,
every dirty policeman, may chiv me to
staraben for telling fortune and ask
ing my lawful pay for the dukerin."
Mrs. Hearne was indeed a tragic fig
ure as she stood in the dusky room
where the deputy sheriff, who made
the arrest, had seen her locked safely
O. half hour before. She stood near the
barred window, tall gaunt figure, with
the last gleam of the lingering light Of
the yellow sunset gliding her tawny
face.
''Dawdy, Dawdy. What are the poor
people coming too, when they cannot
take what they can get from the dinello
GORGEOUS without a gresy muskro put
ting them to staraben, to prison, with
never a thought for their children
Here's the mush with the dud.'
a prison attendant brought in a light.
Its closing time; you can't stay much
longer" he said. Then locking the door
upon us, he continued his rounds.
I turned again to the gypsy.
You must tell me what has happened,
dye, or / can do nothing for you. 1t is
growing late.'
81 will tell, young man. 'Tis grow
ing late of truth: / can feel the night
coming on dark over my heart for my
chauvies are all alone in the van across
the doyav the river, and they are young
children. They do not know where their
mother is. They are waiting for her TO
come homewith their supper. But she
cannot come.
''Are they all alone. dye?
"All alone with the horses The dog
was killed the last fortnight. Ha. he
took up some meat a farming musn
threw him with some poison upon it.
The pitifu GORGEOUS They loves nothing
the poor person has.
when the yellow light fades my
chauvies will sit in the tan waiting for
me, but / will not come. ] will not, for
the GORGEOUS are slow 10 open the doors
of their prisons
Il will tell you. then, quickly, how it
befell. My rom Mushie Hearne, shipped
TO California in the spring to bring soma
vans back which his brother left him
by will. Coming cycElsr is slow trav-
cling. It's some time before L expects
him. Now I travels with some of my
people, also | travels alone. As you may
know, it is not easy for me to cook the
dinner. to care for the horses, to mind
Ia - I'LL Ill -
the day it is little / have to put in the
kettle. or to try in the pan, aye, many 5
the day / have but crust for my mouth.
But the chauvies are fed and | asks no
more Now come / to this CAV, the
curse Of the beng be upon it and upon
me for pitching by tent within sound of
it's church bells. Here do / come TO pen
dukkerin. Here do / find foolish old
gentle who asks me If his son has not
robbed him.
Knowing it is the way of the GORGEOUS
for the son to rob father, father to rob
son, answers that no doubt he has.
Thereon / takes some of the young
mans hair which the father brings me,
few threads, and | lays them between
the leaves of certain book which is
mine, land / says an incarnation, boiling
my kettle, walking backward to the wa
ter, washing my hands behind my back,
having nothing better to do, for which
silly dealings and the like he gives me
in hills in vonger, which is none too much
to pay me for being a fool. The next
day do the same, and the next. For
each i gets the same luyyer, nor would
you doit for less. If the mush would
make me fool he must pay. Now on
the fourth day / tells him for sure that
his son is a thief, that he has taken as
money. What does the old man do then
but ask me to come with him into the
CAV that / may show him where it is
hidden. j makes my excuse, saying l
have my other engagements, but he will
have it that / go. SO / jaws with him.
meaning to give him the slip, for likes
not has way. Once we gets into the CAV
| suspects something wrong by the look
IN his eye. as well as byhis laying his
hand on my arm Seeing a muskro COM
ing towards, i thinks it is time / am
Jawing. So / shakes of his hand ami
hurres away down lane lords. the
fields. Now what should the fool do bur
set up great cry and start after me as
fast as he can. / waits for no more. but
being good runner, | mends me my
pace, leading him pretty chase on
down the lane. Hal Now come the lit.
tie boys and the dogs after me with the
mush and the muskro yelling behind and
the fields and the woods getting nearer
and nearer. Dawdy! Then | catches nv
foot IN rent in my CAD, and | falls fiat
in heap in the gutter with a crowd
coming up all about me. The little BOYS
pulling my eases, my dress, while the
juckies snap at my feet Then runs III
my pretty old Gorgios, all out of breath
and when he can speak he calls me a
thief for taking his money, ma! and a
mischief maker for setting him against
hhs son. What then does the muskro,
What indeed, does the muskro, but take
me up rough by the arm and drag me
here for no reason. Then do learn thai
the thieving son has given the vonee,
back to his father 'Tis for this that they
put me to prison
"By the Gods truth when my ron
comes back he shall strangle that olc
man and his son. Bad luck be upoI
them"
'But.th money 1e<gave you?'
Fool t'sat 4 vas TO keep it about me
ThSy searcheNme."
And found itH
Iay it burn out tiIeir pockets. Ma,
ay for the bane which shall be thei
ruction when their children MIKE
- their food. ! bates them
"They have thfr money again. Ic
Vorrow, dye, pfomise you shall go bac