Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-27
CHAPTER XVII.
(Continued.D

"One day the OF squire got me TO
dig this grave an put up the mead
stun an then he toll me the story.
He'd turned the poor gal out o
doors. God o. Israel! 1t was in
the night-yis,-sir-it was in the
night that he sent her away. Col
darn him, He didn't have no more
heart than a grasshopper-no. sir
not a bit. I could "a Drained him
with my shovel, but didn't.
81 found out where the gal had
gone an | follered her-yis l did
found her in the poorhouse way
over on Pussley Hill-uh huh! she
yes put her arms round my neck
an cried an cried. / guess twas
cause l looked kind o friendly
uh huhi I/tol' her she could come
right over to our house an stay jest
as long as she wanted 10 as soon
as she got well-yis, sir, did.
"She was sick all summer long
kind O. out o. her head, ye know,
an I used to go over hossback an
take things fer her to eat. An one
dav when 1 was over there they
was wondering what they was go
in to do with her little baby. l
took it in my arms an I'll be gol
dummed if it didn't grab hold o
my hose an hang on like puppy
TO a root. When they tried to take
it away it grabbed its fingers into
nv Whiskers an hollered like a
panther-yis, sir. Wall, ye know |
les fetched that little baby boy
home in my arms, ay uh! My wife
scolded me like Sam Hill-yis, sir
she had five of her own. toll
her 1 was goin' to take it back in
Gay er two but after it had been in
the house three days We couldn't "a
pulled it away from her with a
windlass.
1--WE brought him up an he was
alwuss a good boy. We called him
Enoch-Enoch Rone-did we ever
hear the name?"
"'No.'
81 didn't think twas likely but
I'm alwuss hopin'.
EARLY that fall Kate got better
an left the poorhouse afOot. Went
away somewheres-no nobody knew
where. Some said she'd crossed
the lake an gone away over into
York state, some said she'd drown
ed herself. By'm by we heard that
she'd gone way over into St. Law
renee county where Silas Wright
lives an where young Grimshaw
had settled down after he got mar
ried.
wal bout five years ago the
squire buried his second wife
there It's over in there back O.
Rates with the little speckled angel
on it. Nobody had seen the squire
outside o. his house for years until
the funeral-he was d4ippled so
with rheumatic. After that he lived
all lone in the big house with OF
Tome Linney an his wife, whO've
worked there fer bout forty years
1 guess.
wal. sir, first we knew Kate was
there in the house Twin with her
father. We wouldn't "a knOwed il
then, if it hadn't been that Tom
Linney come over one day an said
he guessed the OF squire wanted to
see memo. sir, we wouldn ter
the squire amt sociable an the
neighbOrs never darken his door
She must "a come in the night, jest
as she went-nobody see her go an
nobody see her come, an that's a
fact. Wal, one day las fall after
the leaves was off an they could
see a corner o my house through
the bushes, Tom was walkin' the
OF man round the room. All to
once he stopped an printed at my
house through the winder an KEEP
p'intin'. Tom come over an said ho
ca'llated the squire wanted to sec
me. SO l went there. Kate met me
at the door. Gosh, How old an
kind O. broke down she looked! But
I knew her the minute I set my
eyes on her-uh huh-an' she knew
NEVIS, sir-she smiled an tears
come to her eyes an she patted my
hand like she wanted TO tell me
that she hadn't forgot, but she new
er said word-not a word The
OIL squire had the palsy, so t he
couldn't use his hands an his
throat was paralyZed - couldn't