The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-28
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when Eel, Acted
lLawrence AlIreA .cIall


Mrs. Whltai who,had been upstairs TO
see why the daughter Mary didn't
come down. stood at the foot of the
stairs and made the above announce
ment
what do you mean, ma?r slowly
asked the husband, while Zeb turn.
ed pale and rose up, and Jimmy, the
l4-year-od-son, had guilty look.
Come right upstairs and see for
| yourselves tell you her bed ain't
been slept in, and shouldn't bit
wonder If most OF her clothes was
gone.p
The husband. wife and Zeb filed up
the stairway and gazed al the bed
While Jimmy made sneak for the
barn The bed was there, without a
crinkle III 1t, and Marys best things
were missing.
She wouldn't hang herself In the
garret. would she?@ asked the father.
She wouldn't drown herself in the
Wen, would she asked the white
faced wife, as she wrung her hands.
Zeb Hastings had been farmers
hired man since he was 10. He was
steady and Woodworking He hat
been with the whites for three years
and for two years he had been lii love
with the daughter Mary. He hadn'l
| exactly said so, but the father knew
/ 1t. the mother knew II and Mary knew
t. Zeb was a little slow--thats all.
'Zeb'll make Mary good man,
was the comment between husband
and wife.
Mary liked Zeb AS for loving him
she didn't know. She had let things
drift along without asking herself tht
question. She had seen little OF men
No young man had come counting, anG
not once a fortnight had she driver
into the village She was better edu
Gated than Zeb but she did not criti
else. Hard work had given him BIZ
of stoop, and his hands were big ant
rel and his face unshaven most OF
fhe time, but she made no compari
sons to his detrlment.
! Eut for the arrival Of summeI
boarder things would have continued
to drift He was young man o.
good looks, wore clothes Of the latest
/ Ehii'tI II rtIl WhN ~ uiM INlIlH w 'Jit
Isolated girl He told her of the out
side world appealed TO romance, am
bition and curiosity and. after &
stay of fortnight, gave the farmer
4 worthless bank check for his board
aud disappeared
1t was week later that Mary fail
ed 10 come down to breakfast. Zel
had been Jealous Of The boarder, anG
had heayed a sigh of relief at bis de
! parture.
For the lands sake, what Is IL, ane
what YOU goin TO dor asked Mrs
| White. looking al Zeb instead OF hel
husband
Without word IN answer HeE
turned and walked down stairs ant
! made his way 10 the barn The gran
ary door was shut. He opened II anc
got 4 firm hold of the collar of tht
! aiding Jimmy and lifted him out OF
he baln floor ANA shook BIN three o.
soue tines. and demanded:
Toll me where she weat You know
Nj about IT,
She's--shos run away" blubbered
he youth.
And, gol darn you, you knew shs
was going and kept still about IL, &C
III and tell me everything or III
shake the head off you!'
lie was led into the house to sol
1ut his story The summer boardei
vas an actor-manager In no othel
way could he have appealed so stron.
Y to the girl. She had never seen {;
play, but she had read. She had but
10 be east as little Eva in "Uncl,
Toms Cabin and romance, fame ans
! The world were hers. AL first she
had doubted her talents, but after
committing a fifty word speech tC
memory and repeating II TO the man
ager he had pronounced her a marvel
and she had doubted no more,
Brother Jimmy had overheart
enough, so that they were obliged I,
;ake him into thei, confidence. II
ssct on the night Mary left the house
he had carried her satchel for three
miles on the way to the village
When his story had been finished
land there We're many other detail
both father and mother looked
leb, Never before had they seen {
Daleness through his sunburn-hi.
eyes looked too steely. his jaw so hare
set. They didn't ask what he was
going to do; they could read it in his
face, The New York Uncle Toms
Cabin company was to foregathei
that night twenty-five miles away foi
rehearsal previous to taking the road
The boy Jimmie had it all down pat
If he had only been year or two
older, so he had been told, he would
have been taken along to play the
part of George Harris.
Zeb Hastings went upstairs anC
changed TO his Sunday suit, Whei
ne came down he went to the barr
and harnessed the old mare to tn,
Democrat wagon. He had the barn
yard gate open TO drive out whei
Mrs. White came out and asked be
tween her sohs;
Zeb, what are You gOin' To do?"
, Coin to tip over Uncle Toms Cab
in"
He drove to the village where
Mary must have taken the train. pu
M The horse at the tavern barn an'
then went 10 the depot 20 watt 70
his train Men who knew him for |
gool fellow shook hands of slappei
him on the back, and. after LOOKING
at bin IN. his, SUNDAY suit, asked |
he was sIEpiilg IA lbe maEriel TO thei
surn,1ssS ne fapllfAlI itlAiat hcn ,was. 4,
wasn,b, lmeptiobtpg iiafpes. ,,buG enSf
poe'ed 10 RfiygE we .s PsagF fIih INT fifl, Z,