American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-04-18
CHAPTER xvl-continued.

ftfh' "a ah Pun W. AAAt iiRhteNpiAR "a
then he toll me the story. lie turned
the poor gal out o. doors. God o.
Israeli 1t was In the nlght-yls, sir
II was in the night that he sent her
away. Goldnrn hlmi He didn't have
no more heart than n grasshopper-no,
slr-not a bit. / could "a Drained him
with my shovel. but | didn't.
II found out where the gal had gone
an / follered her-yis / dld-found
her In the poorhouse way over on
Pussley Hiil-uh huh She jes' put
her arms round my neck an cried an
cried. / guess twas cause / looked
lind o. frlendiy-uh huhl ! toll her
she should come right over 10 our
house an stay jest as long MS she
wanted 10 as soon as she got we'll
Wis, sir, / did.
"She was sick all summer long
kind o. out o. her head, ye know, nm |
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 goln' to do with
her little baby. / took II In my arms
an I'll be gol dummed IL It didn't grab
hold o. my nose an hang on like n
puppy to a root. When they tried TO
take II away 1t grabbed Its fingers into
my whlskers an hollered like a nm
ther-yls. sir. Wal, ye know ] jes'
fetched TINT little baby boy home In
my arms, NY uhl My wife scolded me
like Sam Hill-yls, slr-she had Ave
of her own. | toll her | was goln' TO
take it back In a day er two but after
IL had been In the house three days ye
couldn't "a pulled II away from her
with a wlndlass.
"We brought him up an he was al
wuss a good boy. We called him
Enoch-IGnoch Rone-dld ye ever hear
the name?"
"sNo.'
81 didn't think twas likely but I'm
alwuss hopln'.
"Enrly that fall Kate got better an
left the poorhouse afoot. Went AWAY
somewheres-nobody knew where.
Some snld 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.
"Wnl, bout Ave yenr ago the squire
buried his second wlfe-there It's over
In there back o. Hates with the little
specified nngel on It. Nobody had seen
the squire outside o. his house for
a ru x.ntH thn f.,pnHnI - Ia. .,f,a ,ui.
pied so with rheumatic. After that he
lived all lone In the big house with OIL
Ton Linney an his wife. whe've
worked there For bout forty year, /
guess.
oval, sir, fust we knew Kate was
there In the house Twin with her fa-
thcr. We wouldn't IA knowed II, then,
n il hadn't been that Tom Llnney
come over one day an said he guessed
the oil squire wanted to see me-no,
sir, we wouldn't-fer the squire uln't
soclnble an the |nelghboFs never dark
en- his door. She must IA come In the
night. Jest as she w~ent-nobody see
her go an nobody see her come, nm
that's n fact. Wal, one day las fall
after the leaves was off AN they could
soc a corner o. my house through the
bushes, Tom was walkln' the oil man
round the room. All to once he
stopped an p'lnted It my house
through the wlnder an KEEP p'lntin'.
Tom come over an said he ca'lnted
the squire wanted to see me. SO /
went there Kate met me Mt the door.
Gosh How old an kind o. broke down
she lookedi But | knew her the min.
ute set my eyes on her@uh huh-an'
she knew me-yls, slr-she smiled AN
tears come to her eyes an she patted
any hand like she wanted to tell me
TINT she hadn't forgot, but she never
said a word-not a word. The oil
squire had the palsy. so t he couldn't
use his hands an his throat was para.
~aysed-couldn't speak nor nothln'.
Where do ye suppose he was when
found himf"
"In bedT" | asked.
mo, sir-no, street He was In hell
that's where he was-reg'lar oil fash
loned. down-east hell, burnln' with fire
an brlmstun, that he'd had the agency
fot an had recommended TO every sin.
AIT. In the nelghborhood. He was set
tin In his room. God o. Isr'ell You
orto "a seen the motions he made with
his hands nm the way he tried to
Rreak when | went In there, but all l
could hear was Jest n long yell an a
Kind of a rattle In his throat. Heavens
am airthi how desperlt he tried to
spit out the thing that wal gunwin'
his vitals. Ag'in an ag'in he'd try To
tell me. Lord God how he did work u
"Ail to nee It come aerost me what
he wanted-quick as ye could say scat,
lie wanted to have Hates headstun
took down an put away-that's whit
he wanted. The { was kind o. lay
In on his stummick an palnin' OF him
day an night. He couldn't stan II
He kne,v TINT he WA goln, To die nurIN