The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-30
CHAPTER xvl--contlnued.

'One DAY the Oh squire got me TO dig
this grave an put up the headstone an
then he tor me the story. He 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. Goldarn himl He didn't have
no more heart than 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 I follered her-yis I did--found
her in the poorhouse way over on
Pussley Hill--uh huhI She jes' put
her arms round my neck an cried an
cried. I guess twas cause I looked
bind O. friendly-uh huh I 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, We know, an I
used to go over hossback an take
things fer her to eat. An one day
when 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 If it didn't grab
hold O. my nose an hang on like a
puppy to q root. When they tried to
take 1t away it grabbed its fingers into
my whiskers an hollered like a pam
ther-yis, sir. Wal, We know I 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 I was goin' to
take it back in day er two but after
1t had been in the house three days We
couldn't "a pulled 1t away from her
with a windlass.
"We brought him up an he was al
wuss a good boy. We called him
Enoch-Enoch Rone-did ye ever hear
the name?"
emo
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-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.
oval, 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
pied so with rheumatic. After that he
lived all lone in the big house with OF
Tom Linney an his wife, who've
worked there for bout forty year, 1
guess.
oval, sir, fust we knew Kate was
there in the house liyin' with her ia
tner. We wouldn't "a knowed it, then,
At it hadn't been that Tom Linney
come over one day an said he guessed
the OF squire wanted to see memo,
sir, we wOuldnt-fer the squire amt
sociable an the neighbors never dark
en- 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 fact. Wal, one day las foil
after the leaves was off an they could
see a corner O. my house through the
bushes, Tom was walkin' the OIL man
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 callated
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 I knew her the min
ute l set my eyes on her-uh huh--an'
she knew me--yls, sir-she smiled an
tears come to her eyes an she patted
any hand like she wanted to tell me
that she hadn't forgot, but she never
said word-not a word. The OIL
squire had the palsy, so It he couldn't
use his hands an his throat was para
iyzed-couldn't speak nor nothin'.
Where do We suppose he was when
found him"
"In bedT asked.
''No, sir-no, stree! He was in hell
that's where he was-reg'lar OIL fash
toned, down-east hell, burnin' with fire
an brimstun, that he'd had the agency
FOR an had recommended to every sim
ner in the neighborhood. He was set
tin in his room. God o. Isr'el! You
orto "a seen the motions he made with
his hands an the way he tried to
speak when went in there, but all
could hear was jest long yell an
sind of rattle In his throat. Heavens
an airth! how desperit he tried to
spit out the thing that was gnawin'
IFS vitals. Ag'in an ag'in he'd try to
ell me. Lord God! how he did work !"
"AIl to once 1t come acrost me what
lie wanted-quick as We could say scat.
de wanted to have Kate's headstun
ook down an put away-that's what
ne wanted. The stun was kind o. lay
n on his stummick an painin' Of him
fay, an night. He couldn't STAN 1t.
He knew that he was goin' to die purity
soon an that Kate would come here