The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-03-14

May at last. II spose you are hungry.
1t isn't going to do you a bit of good
to eat but you don't know it. I'll ask
Aunty Rose If she has something for
you.'
She got up YEARLY and went across
the yard. Aunty Rose stood just in
| side the screen door.
Don't you want any dinner, Car'lyn |
May?" she asked.
mo, ma'am. guess I'd better not
eat" said the child.
"Why not?'
"'Cause my stomach's so trembly.
I just know 1 couldn't keep anything
down, even II could swallow it. But
Prince1l eat his, please. He-he don't
know any better"
'Tut, tutv murmured the woman.
"He's the most sensible Of the two Of
you. I declare"
The minutes of that afternoon drag
ged by in most doleful procession.
There was no, idea in the little girls
mind that Uncle Joe might change his
intention and Prince be saved from the
watery grave promised him. When
she saw the hardware dealer come in
to the yard almost an hour earlier
than their usual supper time she was
not surprised. Nor did she think Of
pleading with him for the dogs life.
/ The little girl watched him askance.
Mr.. Stage came directly through the
yard, stopping only at the shed for a
moment There he secured strong
potato sack, and with 1t trailing from
his hand went halfway up the knoll
to where there was heap Of stones.
= HE stopped down and began to select
4 some Of these. putting them in the
! bag. 'ss,x,ss
This was too much for Carolyn May.
With fearful look at Uncle Joe's UNI
: compromising shoulders, she went to
the tree where Prince was chained.
Exchanging the chain for the leather
: leash with which she always led him
! about, the little girl guided the mon
: grel across the yard and around the
] corner Of the house. .,r
i Her last backward glance assured
her that the hardware dealer had not
: observed her. Quickly and silently she
led Prince to the front gate. and they
went out together into the dusty road.
I'll know we oughtn't to-" whis-
, pered Carolyn May to her canine
y friend. "but feel I've just got to save
you, Prince. II can't see you
+ drownd-ed dead like thaty"
She turned the nearest corner and
went up the road towards the little
closed, gable-roofed cottage where
I Aunty Rose had lived before she had
3 come to be Uncle Joe's housekeeper.
Carolyn May had already peerei
D over into the small yard Of the cot
"A tage and had seen that Mrs. Kennel,
I, still kept the fower-beds weeded and
a the walks neat and the grass plo
" trimmed. But the window shutterl
were barred and the front door bull
- up with boards.
Carolyn May went in through tn
front gate and sat down on the door
: step, while Prince dropped to a com
Portable attitude beside her. The do
y slept. The little girl ruminated.
\ She would not 60 back to Uncl
\ Joe's-no, indeed! She did not know
! just what she would do when dar
n should come, but Prince should not b
y sacrificed to her uncle's wrath.
= A voice. low, sweet. yet startling
aroused her.
E "what are you doing there, littl
. girl?"
Both runaways started, but neithe
of them was disturbed by the appear
ansce Of her who had accosted Care
Ign May. he
II "Oh, Miss Mandy!" breathed the II
" tie girl, and thought that the carpel
ter's daughter had never looked 6
sc pretty.
tie "What are you doing there?" repea
nd ed Miss Parlow.
"We-we've run away" said Car
at Ign May at last. She could be nothin
re but frank; 1t was her nature.
nd run away! repeated the prett
woman. "You don't mean that2"
to eyes, ma'am, have. And Primo
ly. From Uncle Joe and Aunty Rose
ire Carolyn May assured her. nodding h
gh head with each declaration. N
Ike "Oh, my dear, what fort" asks
be- Miss Amanda.
We. So Carolyn May told her-and Wi
r." tears.
cry Meanwhile the woman came into Il
ler yard and sat beside the child on Il
the step. With her arm about the lit
md girl, Miss Amanda snuggled her I
ars close, wiping the tears away with h
own handkerchief.
/. /
Ign 81 just can't have poor Prin