The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-29
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copYeloHL 1897 BY TIE AUTHOR,


"Strong is just as good lookin in hi
way"
And i don't think it's for us to com
plain when the governors KEEP Strong
at Singleton college these years at hi
own cost,
"That is because Strong is named TO
him, and he wants the responsibility o
the name KEEP up. But Strong and Elizi
is two different people, Eben, and Tn
not Sayin college is goin to harm on
boy. He's got his way to make in thu
world, and all three of the boys cam
oversee for Adrien when the governor
gone. Strong don't expect TO come home
and spend the rest of his days starin out
at them niggers' cabins, listenin TO thai
everlastin slambang in the blacksmith :
shop, and at lot of mules switchin the
| flies off close to our very bedroom win.
dows. Sometimes 1t sorter CRATES even on
me, old man, specially if I've just come
back from the big house, where it's all
so different, but I've got used to it, and
she's been out of it now for eight blessed
years. And there, Eben, | done wrong
in lettin Mrs. Strong send her all poor
Gabriella's fine clothes and things.
Gabrielle was dead. She didn t want
the frippery no longer. -
Yes, | reckon i knowed that as we'll
as you do. But it has helped to spoil
our Liza, She's got on a silk dress right
there III that picture now, Ebcn. She
used To say when she was little girl
that she loved to hear Mrs. Strong's silk
dresses go swish swish along the hall at
the big house. | remember that very
dress. It's IA little blue and white check
silk with lace--real lace, old man-in
the throat and sleeves. l don't think
she'll care to hear it go swish swish
over these rough plank floors. Martin,
do you?"
She caught her breath and went on
more anxiously: "And then, Eben, the
worst wrong of all I've done her was
lettin Mrs. Strong do all the letter writ.
IN, and when she comes home her moth
er-her own mother'll be the worse
shock of all TO her, old man." The
words eliminated in hard, dry sob.
but somehow when her first letter
came home, lookin so sweet and clean
and prim, just couldn't bear to send
her back one of my awful scrawls, and
when Mrs. Strong said it sorter comfort
ed her by maxim her feel as if she was
writin to her own Gabrielle, just let
things go ON, never lookin far enough
ahead to see the time when the child
would get through school and halter
come home. And now, Eben, she'll find
out what a cheat am. / almost wish
she did not halter come back at all"
Don't say that, Becky. She oughter
be real comfort to you when me and
the boys has to leave you by yourself so
much. She'll get used to things little by
little.
Dukes filter company for me than
that slim, dainty thing, Eben. I'm goin
to be afraid of her. She won't fit in
here, Eben. Never, never, neverl And
if she don't reproach us in words she
will in her heart. She'll pine away here,
Martin.
From its turreted perch on top of the
wooden clock the cause Of all this anxi-
ETY. looked down with placid, lovely
eyes that were shaded by broad straw
hat whose brim cast Rembrandtish shad-
ows over the smooth oval of her cheeks
and the rounded perfection of a slender
white throat. 1t was the picture of a
very beautiful girl From where he sat
facing it the overseer scanned it critic
ally
1T must be the books and the pian-
ners and the nice clothes and the soft
things all about her. 1t makes good
deal of difference, reckon, to grow up
to fine ways and smooth COINS. Liza
didn't used to be too fine for her NAM
my and her daddy
He dragged his chair, clumsy, splint
bottomed affair, back to its place against
the wall with his left hand. He was
conspicuously picking his teeth with a
long, cleaning quill pick. He offered
his wife some clumsy comfort while he
was filling his brierwood pipe from the
bag of tobacco" that stood on the din
ing room mantelpiece for his and the
boys convenience.
Don't you go TO borrowin trouble in
wholesale packages, Becky. After all.
we are not such bad lot at heart "
Its by our outsides Liza's goin to
Judge US, Martin. "
ledge usl BY lingo! / don't see as
she's got any right to jedge us at all. "
1T amt a question of her rights. It's
q question of what she's likely to do"
The overseer rumpled his thick, gray
locks with All impatient hand. His frank
eyes were filled with perplexity. it was
not often he was called on to decide
ethical points, and as a comforter he
was consciously inefficient.
II don't know what to say for your
old woman. She's our own
girl | reckon we can't disown her.
How woul it do to take the picture up
to the big house and talk your trouble
over with the MADAME"
Mrs Martin caressed Dukes silky
ears abstractedly. Eben waited for his
good advice 20 be absorbed
well, | spose L might as we'll
Sooner or later I'm sure to come to it
There's three things there's no mo- use
tryin to get out of reach of than there
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