Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1915-04-13
as soon as saw you / knew who

"hSio hNe, anu ne DIlnBS me cdnuy.
/ told him I'd find him a wife, and |
have"
II looked as IL the old man was go
ing to be easy TO get away from, and
Miss Katherine also lost her fear of
him. She saw that hattery was the
thing to use, and she said:
"Mr. Cupid, think you have a good
voice for singing"
Il know have" he replied. 81 was
singing a song just before you came,
It is called the Seven Black Crows.
IL goes like this"
And in voice that was cracked and
bent and twisted and full of shingle
nails he sang two lines of verse over
and over again about seven crows,
each with a nose. Then his drawl was
stopped by fit OF coughing.
That was surely a beautiful song,
and as a reward IL you will come down
to the house with me, I will hunt you
a better suit of clothes than that"
said the girl.
Il knew you'd like the song, and 1
will go with you. Come" How easy.
They headed for the highway, chatter
ing as they went, but were not yet
halfway there when the I'D man
clutched her arm with a grip Of iron
and dragged her back.
You can't fool Cupid! You are try
ing to run away from Mr.. Irwin. Don't
you scream! Don't you dare do it,"
AS he pulled her back to the hut
he seized long strip of bark he had
been using as rope, and passed 1t
around under her arms, and then
forced her to sit down and made her
fast to small tree. The gir, neither
struggled nor protesteA The Did mans
mood had ch I'd might
again.
Il don't LyL Vt the
stake he siood b, and
looked at aosn TO keep you
from runnh Suppose I tell
Mr. Irwin II 've a wife for him
here, and he 8 here to see and
you are gone IN. no. you won't get
away! shall be back in about an
hour"
With that he started OF at a brisk
pace, and was soon lost to sight and
hearing. Miss Katherine waited ten
minutes and then set out to release
herself. She couldn't accomplish It.
The bark strip was as strong as q
rope. and being made fast behind her
the knot was too much for her.
Would the old crazy man ever come
back?
1t was high noon before the cook at
Beloits discovered that Miss Kather-
Inc had changed her clothes and gone
away somewhere, but 1t was four
o'clock In the afternoon before any
real alarm was felt Then the cook
didn't know what should be done, and
the gardener replied that he didn't.
1t was finally decided that she had
walked to the village and was taking
her time aboSt getting home.
At twilight both servants were
standing In the middle of the high
way in nervous state when a young
man came along in an auto.
Are you in any sort of trouble?'
he asked
did you overtake young lady in
coming from the village?" was asked.
NO"
"Then she's been carried of by the
Black Handlers" walled the cook.
What story there was to tell was
told, and the young man said:
'T am Mr.. Will Irwin. l passed
along here this morning about ten
o'clock, going the other way. Down
there by the woods l saw young lady
turn off the road and go in among the
trees"
1T must have been her" walled the
cook
"And she'd never stay there as long
as this If she wasn't hurt or dead"
added the gardener
He was ordered to get two lanterns
and then assist in the search. The
woods were entered and beaten back
and forth. There was shouting and
whistling, and just when they we're
ready to abandon the search they ran
upon the captive. She looked up at
them In an anxious way.
IT think you are Mr.. Will Irwin. and
think you have come for me-"
He looked into her face for a few
seconds. and then, as he began to free
her. he. said:
Sure. have. This must be Cupid's
work"
- 1t turned out to be. AS they
drSTJsfrom the church after the mar
riage they passed a crazy old man sit
ting on the fence and singing about
Seven Black Crows.
Copyright. 1915. by the Mcclure Newspa-
paper Syndicate)
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