The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-06-28

Hiram Rogers. slowly. aNer another
swallow Of coffee
You don't say exclaimed his
wife a fevers Well ] dor know
as il IS 10 be wondered at won't
say that she amt neat seeing she's
your only sister. bur she does live so
hudsetty and Ciutered up.
she's so rheumatic. Il must be
hard for her to keep her house in or
der" said Abby Rogers. aged is. from
the end Of the table Il saw in
Through the window once and just
ached % get in and clear up for
her"
Abby had a firm. round. pinl.-cheek-
ed face and the orinkly hair that is
said to denote energy
How came YOU 10 look in az the
window o. demanded her father.
SHARPLY
Il went to get the yellow kitten
ont Of her pear tree She helped me.
and seemed very kind. but when
thanked her she said she had only
done it because she didn't want
Rogers kitten in her pear tree
Hiram Rogers chnckled That's
seliny all sver. be said
Poor Seliny, can't say that
ever thought twas just right for your
father 10 cut her OF with $500 be
cause she wouldn't give up Alvin
Getchell.~ said Mrs Rogers. reflect
lively TO her husband
We always meant TO DO something
towards making il up go her Horace Z
and /. said Hiram + pgers. uuuont-
eddy communicative. and reaching for f.
another doughnut. If she hadn't been .
so cantankerous. and the property
hadn't run down so We've had about
all we could do 10 get along he
ohufied a little uneasily as he spoke
Il suppose Jane Leggeu is nursing
sunt Seliuy. said Abby. slowly
shes old a1d almost blind She
won, make things any heater
Land, don't suppose your Aunt
Seliny would LEI anybody NEEDLE with
her things. anyway said Mrs Rogers.
rising from the table
Riah, Uriah." called Abby. clear
Nv but cautiously. at the back door
Her brother Uriah. II. and as tall as
h.s father. thrust his head out az
the hen-house door. and Obeyed Alb
by's mysteriously beckoning finger.
Il wart you 10 80 down TO Aunt
Selinys with me" she whispered.
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ABBY hooked back a. She climbed the
orchard wall and saw she expect
ed that he was following her
Jane Leggett lived at the poor
house. when there was no one who ,
would give her a home for her care
n sickness.
= will take the responsibility-lf
ou will please say nothing" said
Ibby :
Abby fell upon the kitchen first.
Who would have thought that il was
kitchen with a box OF budget in
very corner2" she said. with Hplifted =
ands
Abby restored the boxes and bud
PTS 20 their places conscientiously. =
tier she had cleaned the corners
here they were piled-in the kitch- a
In the shed she was not quite so
eTupulous She said 10 Uriah that
hey might have a bonfire and burn NJ
be rubbish that was piled up in the =
'it-moldy feather pillows. moth-eat- ~
rags and broken baskets and s.
oxes.
The loft was formed 81 three or =
1ur rough boards placed across the a.
cams OF the unfinished shed Ii wan
oyered thickly with dust and fes- p
1oned with cobwebs
Oriah did as he was hidden with
u remembrance. a
Aunt Seliny's fever was a slow one -
vas four weeks after the cleaning -
ay that Jane Leggett was. one morn
az, discovered automatically climb Il
az the orchard wall and breathiesslv q
truggiing up the orChard slope. F.
She's most had a TT" She an.
oraced She want well enough !.
D get up. but she would. she was So -
nxious about her things She knew II
omebody had been meddling with her
hings. and she's been haruinr on /.
yer since. So get up she would ana M
had 20 tell her that you had been ans
leaned up for her She's going on +,
bout her attic She saws You hove q q
u. her attic 2"
Her attic ~ echoed Abhv ar.,,,,
That place that she had IN alofr -,
q the shed. She said twas All tho n.
tito she had, and nobody wan, ~.
othing without an attic She keeps ~.
ringing her hands and saving
he could have borne anything ~
at to have her attic hove on, ~
he calculates to go to Carmel Mon ~
ay. to see her second cousin Mirandv
hats sent fer her 70 come. She hasn't -,
ee1 away from home for Is yeas -,
ut she says she's so upset by the n.
'ss Of her attic that 1t doeJnt mako II,
ny difference what becomes Of he-" -,
Abby dropped upon the window sea, -,
Jane Leggett hurried back down go
re orchard slope. The firm, rounded bo,
feeks under the sweeping cap were 81,
OF pink. but scarlet And the sweep. 80
~ cap became a thinking cap for as ma