Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

Say1n 1t come to We ag IN. Joe Randall keered more
fer money n he did fer ye. Eff he hadn't, his mother
couldn't toled him away. Folks said when Roddy
married tibet highfalun young thing down to Atlanta
that these mountains, an ye too Roxanna, had lost
him-the love O money an rich ways bein' in his
blood. l amt sayin' they amt down Roddy fer
treatin ye they airl 1t looks like she's weaned
him from ye, don't it, now?'
Roxanna's silence baf1ed Prissy But it too late
for retreat The sensitive fragely beautiful face face
filled with refnements of thought and feeling that
beyond her. baffied Prissy too In the fading light,
with that startled look her face it might have been
the young Roxanna of seventeen and not the
who for twenty-five years had hidden from her little
world that still under the lash of Prissys ruthless
tongue.
at amt wise to school chile an travel it above ye
1t amt to set up an worship the 1sraeites
did the golden calf maxim sacrifices to it an sayn,
This is my God, all know we've done, Roxanna.
faint Roderck blood that's in yore boy Folks say
he's runnin with rich set down to Atlanta tibet keers
nothn fer the old Governor, eff they heared Of
him. They say he's ashamed o comm from this vii
lage, an ashamed o We.
4Ye think We fool folks They know Atantas a
days Journey They know how We set here an wait.
They know flowers bloom the table O his
an winter. An they know Saturday don't
hardly pass without big bakins in this house Folks
kin smell, eff we do live set apart. There's that's
allus pted We. I'll admit give her an Roddy them
fust three months gallivantin an honeymoonn in
Europe an hev done without yore cook sence-but
faint much to cook an clean fer Eff yed had any
size backbone at all, wouldn't hid here like
An allus said, deserter blood ben' in Roddy-"
JOHANNA had risen. 4Prissy.' Her voice rang
- shrill with the swapping of lifetimes tension.
zoe Randals mother did take him from We
nothing but chdren-both under age. That was her
hold of him. She off the money-all his life he had
spent reckessly When she threatened to disinherit
him it frightened him. He went back try and make
his peace with her She got the doctor say that he
mn 70 keen i'm
she dragged him to the ends of the earth. All of
you knew that he never came back; but no one ever
knew that after his death she wrote that had killed
him,-that he was weakened by mopng for me and in
that way contracted typhoid She killed him, and she
killed Two joyous young lives slaughtered by the
sword of her ambition
Roxanna gasped, fought against her choking breath.
a could have sued My entitled to his fathers
money. But iercely, Il hated her blood-dyed
money!
"Laws massy, Roxanna Set down afore We drop"
Roxannas voice like a cry for help a storm
beaten people say grow used to loss. They
who say it have never lost We lose, and out of our
loneliness learn how to love. Because love Roddy
l have given him to that young girl who is his wife.
All his life have been making him ready, preparing
him to make her happy. History shall not repeat
itself! They shall adjust their lives without interior
from me! You say l make for Roddy;
that he has not been home since his neutrality-suspicious.
months,-and Atlanta only days journey. l write
him not to come. | write him to stay with her. She
has been strong If l have looked for him, her
voice broke, "ooking is habit with the lonely"
Roxanna paused to master her voice, then continued
will you go now Prissy? Tell the people they do
understand my son and me- and tell Them again she
fought against the choking in her chest, 4that
going to Atlanta tomorrow.
4The land o Goshen!7 Prssy shrilled. @An ye not
past this gate sence we seventeen! Don't ye know
tibet rough Of hack break every bone in yore body?'
"Wil you tell them? And will you go now, Prissy?"
Prissy From the gate the old white nag
mounted she called back @Mebby We forgot the hack
don't suota