Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-09-23

But he was there, with tho
fierce old eyes quenched and swim
ming and the passionate Dabney lips
trembling strangely under the great
moustaches, when the black-frockcd
little waif from the Old World ran
down the landing stage and into his
arms. Small wonder that they chung
to each other, these two at the further
extremes of three generations; or tina
the child opened a door in the heart
of the fierce old partisan which was
locked and doubly barred against all
others.
1t was all new and very strange to
a child whose only outlook on life had
been urban and banal. She had never
seen a mountain, and nothing more
nearly approaching a forest than the
parked groves of the Bots de Boulogne.
How the F~rench-born child fitted in
to the ~haphazard household at Deer
Trace Manor, with what struggles she
came through the inevitable attack Of
inconsistencies, and how Nanny Juliet
and every one else petted and indulg-
ed her, are matters which need not be
dwelt on. But we shall gladly believe
that she was too sensible, even at the
early and tender age of 10, to be easily
spoiled.
She never forgot a summer day soon
after her arrival when she first saw
her grandfather transformed into a
frenzied mailman. He was sitting on
the wide portico directing Japheth
Pettigrass, who was training the great
crimson rambler rose that ran we'll up
to the caves. Ardea, herself, was on
the lawn, playing with her grandfath-
er's latest gift, a huge, solemn eyed
Great Dane, so she did not see he man
who had ~dismounted at the gate and
walked up the driveway until he was
handing his card to her grandfather.
When she did see him, she looked
tdwice at him; not because he was
trigly clad in brown duck and tightly
buttoned service leggings, but because
he wore his Beard trimmed to a point,
after the manner of the students in the
Latin Quarter, and so was reminiscent
of things freshly forsaken. Her grand
father was on his feet, towering above
the visitor as If he were about to fall
on n crush him.
Bring youh Yankee railroad through
my fields and pastchuhs, sub? Foul
the pure allah Of this peaceful Gyarder
of Eden with you'll dust flingin', smoke
pot locomotives? Not a rod, sub! not a
foot or an inch oveh the Dabney lands!
Do l make it plain to you, subj"
| But Major Dabney-one moment
this is purely a matter of business;
; there is nothing personal about 1t. Oul
, / rnmnanv 10 ah1a q nd u-ilinr tn nav lh.
orally for its right of way; and yol
must remember that the coming of tn
! railroad will treble: and quadruple you
land values. l am only asking o t
! consider the matter in a business way
and to name your own price"
Not anotheh word, sub, or you
make me lose my tempah! You ad
. insult to injury, sub, when you offe
me youth contemplate Yankee gol'
: When / desiah to sell my birthrigf
I for youth beggahly mess of pottage, L
send a black boy in town to infawl
I you, subj"
1t is conceivable that the locating er
gineer of the Great Southwestern Raj
: way Company vas younger than }
looked; or, at all events, that his e1
AliNilC ~ Ia " DiOuBht "a
: in contact with fi~re-eating gentleme
: of the old school. Else he would hare
: ly have said what he did.
e cot course, it is optional with yo
II Major Dabney, whether you sell US OF
Vt right of way ~peaceably or compel US
e acquire 1t by condemnation proceeding
% in the courts. AS for the rest-is
lie possible that you don't know the W;
II is over?"
IS With a roar like that Of a maddent
u lion the Major bowed himself, caugl
y his man in a mighty wrestler's gr
lie and flung him broadcast into the colel
bed. The words that went with Il
fierce attack made Ardea crouch al
he SILVER and take refuge behind the gre
lie dog. Japheth Pettigrass jumped dep
from his step-ladder and went to he
r. the engineer out of the flower bed.
Or THE old itebrand!" the engine
e, was muttering under his breath VIII
st Pettlgrass reached him; but the for
3, man cut him short.
you got mighty little sense, loo
BY like, to me. Stove up Iany?" -
Nothing to hurt, I,guess.n .
,u well, your hawss- is. Waitin' for D..
ey down yonder at the gate, n 1 dol
blieve the Major is allowin' to ask
H. to stay to supper.
When the engineer had mounted a.
ridden away down the pike, the for
-, man Strengthened himself and fac
n. about. The Major had dropped into I
as big arm chair His hands shook. Pc
ut tigrass moved nearer and spoke so tn
Il the child should not hear. IF you r
ID, me off the place the mex minute, 1
he goin' to tell you you ort to be tolerat
'shamed OF yourself, Maze Dabn,
he That po' little gal is scared u of
r. years CROWN, right now"
he e" know, Japheth; know. I'm
,r. old heather! For. insultin' as he WI
a the man was for the time bein' T
ng guest, suh-my guest!'
us I'm talkin' about the little one-r
or. that r%ailroader. So far al I know,
tn earned what he got. | allowed the,