Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-08-09

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whilst I was drinhiag ~ co9ee-"t
WHO ssvs Il b yesr'
-Old Bunny. he Mex. Pardaloe
eoes eut to the bunkhouse; I dts down
to ny supper. aloae. With Bunny at
the stove. All Of Q sudden who comes
a-trippin' In from the front Of the
house bat Nan I Jumps up N
strong ~ I could. but ! ri too cold
and sin to jump up real strong. She
seen me. but didn't pay NO attention.
] dropped my spoon on the hOor. 1t
didn't do no good. neither. 90 I pushed
q hot plate Of ham and gravy on the
table. 1t hit the dog m he jumped
like kingdom come. Old Bunny sails
into me. Nan a.watchin'. and while
Mex was pickin' up and cieanin' up.
I sneaks 0ver to the stove aud winks
ut Nan. Say. you oughter see her
look mad ut me. She was hot, but !
kept a-winkin'. and I says to her kind
Of huskylike: Got any letters for
| Calabasas tonightf Say. she looked
Mt me as II she'd bore holes into me.
but I stood right up and glared back
Mt the little girl. Come from there
this mornin',' says I. going back to-
night. Someone waiting there for
news.
by jlng! Just AZ I got the words
out O my mouth, who comes a.stalk-
ing In but Gale Morgan. The minute
no seen me. he lit on me to beat the
band-called me everything no could
lay his tongue to. l let on I was
drunk, but that didn't help. He or
dered me OF the premises. N the
worst of It was, Nan chimed right in
and began to scold Bunny for lettin'
me inland leaves the room, quick.
like. Bunny put It on Pardaloe, and
she and Gale had it. an b. jlns, Gale
put me out-said he'd pepper me. But
wait till I tell y how she fooled him
1t was rainin' like HI. m 1t looked
as II l wns booked for a ride through
1t and hadn't half drunk my second
cup of coffee at that. I starts for the
barn, when someone In the dark or
the porch grabs my arm, spins me
around like a top. throws a flasher W
into my face. and there was Nan
Bull she says, I'm sorry. I dom
want to see you ride out In this witt
nothing to eat: come this way quick.
"She took me down cellar from thu
| ,,,t~t1n v,rJar thn Gtfnhpn NhpF
Gale goes ont again she filings up thu
trapdoor, speaks to Mex, pulls all tn
kitchen shades down. locks the doors
and l sets down on the trapdoor step
N eats a plpin' hot supper; say
Well. / reckon l drank n couple G
quarts of coffee. Bull she says,
never done you no harm. did Il
: Never says I, and I never done yo'
none, neither, did I? And what
more, l never will do you none The
! + up and told her. Tell him. say
, she, I can't get hold Of 4 horse. nc
a pen, nor a piece of paper-1 can
leave the house but what l al
watched every minute. They kee
;, track of me day and night. Tell him
she says, I can protect myself; the
Z think they'll break me-make me q
r what they want rue to--marry-bl
they can't break me, and I'll never Z
it--tell him that
"'But,' says I, that amt the who
case, Miss Nan. What he'll ask m
(, when he's borin' through me with h
Q eyes like the way you're borin' II
7. through with yours, is: When will "
n see him--when will he see your
J. "She looked worrit for a min
D. Then she looks around. grabs up Il
Is. cover of an empty 'bacco box and
fork and begins a-writing inside" Il,
u with as much of n smile as he cou
u call into life from his broken nerve
NJ opened up his blanket, drew careful
III from an inside coat pocket an oilsk
~ package, %unwrapped from it the fl
III square top Of a tin tobacco box.
which Nan had scratched a messai
pe and handed 1t triumphantly to
Spain.
hc He read her words eagerly:
nc "Wait; don't have trouble. l c
III stand anything better than bloodsh
Henry. Be patient"
10 While De Spain, standing close
~ the lantern, deciphered the brief nc
MS Bull. wrapping his blanket about
u with the air Of n whose RESPONSE
US ity Is we'll ended. held out his hal
Ing toward the blazing stove. De Sp
lhu went over the words one by one, 1
the letters again and again. 1t "
after all their months of ardent mi
he ings, the first written message he
zen ever had from Nan. He famed
grily at the Jews that she was p
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