The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-07-25
CHAPTER xvI-contInusd.

! CHAPTER Continued.
Zone day the OIL squire got me to dig
this grave an put up the headstone an
then he tor me the story. 9e turned
the poor gal out o. doors. God o.
Israeli It was In the night-yis, sir
it was in the night that he sent her
away. Goldarn himi He didn't have
no more heart than grasshopper-no,
sir-not bit. I could "a Drained him
with my shovel. but I didn't.
II found out where the gal had gone
an follered her-yis I did-found
her in the poorhouse way over on
Pussley Hill-uh huh! She jes' put
her arms round my neck an cried an
cried. guess twas cause I looked
<ind o. friendly-uh huhl toll her
she should come right over to our
house an stay jest as long as she
wanted to as soon as she got we'll
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 day
when I was over there they was won
derin' what they was goin' to do with
her little baby. took it in my arms
an I'll be gol dummed II 1t didn't grab
hold O. my nose an hang on like a
puppy to a root. When they tried to
take 1t away 1t grabbed Its fingers into
my whiskers an hollered like a PAN
ther-yis, sir. Wal, We know jes'
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. I toll her 1 was goin' to
take 1t back In a day er two but after
1T had been in the house three days ye
couldn't "a pulled 1t away from her
with a windlass.
I'VE brought him up an he was al
wuss a good boy. We called him
Enoch-Enoch Rone-did ye ever hear
the nameT
"sNo.'
IT didn't think twas likely but I'm
,alwuss hopin'.
EARLY that fall Kate got better an
left the poorhouse afoOt. Went away
somewheres-nobody knew where.
Some said she'd crossed the lake an
gone away over into York state, some
said she'd drowned herself. By'm by
we heard that she'd gone way over
into st. Lawrence county where Silas
Wright lives an where young Grim
shaw had settled down after he got
married.
"Wal, bout FIVE year ago the squire
buried his second wife-there it's over
In there back O. Kate's with the little
speckled angel on it. Nobody had seen
the squire outside o. his house for
years until the funeral-he was Grip
piled so with rheumatic. After that he
lived all lone in the big house with oil
Tom Linney an his wife. who've
worked there for bout forty year,
guess.
"Wal. sir, fust we knew Kate was
there in the house livin' with her ia.
ther. We wouldn't "a knowed 1t, then
If 1t hadn't been that Tom Linney
come over one day an said he guessed
the OIL squire wanted to see memo
sir, we wouldn't-fer the squire ain't
sociable an the neighbors never dark.
en his door. She must "a come in the
might, jest as she went-nobody see
her go an nobody see her come, an
that's 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 OIL mar
round the room. All to once he
stopped an p'inted at my house
through the winder an KEEP p'intin'
Tom come over an said he ca'llated
the squire wanted to see me. So
went there. Kate met me at the door
Gosh How old an kind O. broke down
she looked But 1 knew her the min
ute set my eyes on her-uh huh-an
she knew me-yis, 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 never
said a word-not Il word. The oil
squire had the palsy, so t he couldn't
use his hands an his throat was para
lyzed-couldn't speak nor nothin'
Where do ye suppose he was when
found himw
'In bedT' 1 asked.
"No, sir-no, sIreel He was In he'll
that's where he was-reglar OIL fash
toned. down-east hell, burnfn' with fire
an brimstun, that he'd had the agency
for an had recommended to every sin
ner in the neighborhood. He was set
tin In his room. God O. Isr'eli You
orto "a seen the motions he made with
his hands an the way he tried tc
speak when 1 went in there, but all
could hear was jest long yell an
kind of a rattle in his throat. Heavens
an airthl how desperit he tried te
spit out the thing that was gnawin
his vitals. Ag'in an ag'in he'd try tc
tell me. Lord God ! how he did work 7
"All to once 1t come acrost me what
he wanted-quick as ye could say scat
He wanted to have Kate's headstun
took down an put away-thats what
ha yvapfod Tho ctttr was kind a. iaV.