The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-09-13
The Extra
Feature
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By s. B. HAcKLEY
By $. 3. HAcKLEY
~ I'IJf " lIIo WNOEu
paper Syndicate)

ton orchard, where old Tobias and Je-
NINA and Minerva. their granddaugh-
ter. assorted some mighty mounds of
fallen winesaps. Then Minerva spoke.
"Zack wants me to run off and mar
~ him, grandpappy. after fodder
strippin's over"
Lord. Merry, don't yer old To-
bias faded eyes were piteOusIy be-
seechlng. "Stay by US. honey. No
body feels for us old ones like you do.
NervyT
Minerva smiled family, Il told
lack. grandpOppy, I couldn't marry
him II ma-wasn't willin'. Shed drive
me or and surely mistreat you and
grandmammy il I married against her
will.''
"Was zachariah frettedf" the grand
mother asked anxiOusly. Minerva
crimsoned. They must not know how
much lack was "frettedr'
"He-he said he'd stay away until
sent for him. there's mai"
In southern Appalachla 1t Is custom
airy for the aged father and mother to
live with the youngest son in the. old
home. But old Tobias log dwelling
was an unusually large one-a most
desirable home and Eliza, the wife OF
the eldest son. by skillful machina'
lions contrived to get Charley, the
youngest son. and his wife, Phoebe
away and TO get her own family in
stalled.
Lazy herself. she depended almos!
entirely on her young daughter. her
only child. to do the work Of the house
and to keep her services she had de-
termined Minerva should not marry
any but some young man she could
take into her house aud rule. as she
did Joshua the girls henpecked ia
Their.
By her orders, Zachariah Burden,
who was not the "humble sort" she de
sired for a sOn-in-law. stayed away
from the Compton house, but lack
was resOut3eful and managed often
I to see the gentle little creature who
was like guardian angel to the old
ones.
"Cryln'. Jemimy" old Tobias. sitting
smoking on their bedroom hearth that
evening, aSked uneasily. Jemima
wiped her eyes
~ got .tOastudyln' about Mlnervy q
waitin' on her happiness on account
of us and 1t worried me some, Bias !"
she, confessed.
After JenIinia slept, Bias still sat on
the hearth. Minerva was delicate, like
their little Hettie who had died six
teen years before, three months afte'
the soldier sweetheart they had moi
been willing for her to marry had beer
laid under Cuban palms.
Little Hettie! Little Hettle" M
murmured. lord, If I'd let her had
her way about Jess Duty, she might
not have Rlned away! Jess, he wasn'l
Il bad boy-I wish l hadn't stood il
her way-I do wish it, Lord %
His pipe clattered on the hearth
His heavy groans awakened Jemima.
"The pain Doc Higgins said wa
from my heart, it's pinchin' little |!
he labored out, his hand clutching hi
chair rungs, his rugged old fac
chalky.
Jemima trembled az she measure
out the drops the young doctor ha
left for him. The doctor had warne
her all worry must be kept from TIC
bias, and he had worried because h
had caught her crying about Minerva
: "YOu reckon you worked too hGr
at the apples, Biasr she asked hir
when at last she got him between tn
bed covers.
mo. got to tAinkin' about GU
little Hettie. was wisMn' / cOul
10 back them sixteen years and tel
the little, lovIn' thing her and JeS
might marry before he went to tn
aghtin. Then the pals struck me-"
She patted has hands in genti
soothing. "Hettie and Jess WASH
long separated, Bias, honey! TIL
Lord saw to that! Now try to go t
sleep"
But 1t was Iona before he close
his eyes.
~ "TheR,cOuld come and live with U
and things would be all right" Jemim
heard him murmuring over and owe
in his fitful sleep. III Eliza was vii
mi" Then once he cried out:
"She's a-Soin' like Hettie, Jemimy-
like Kettle! Can't you see it?"
When he was quiet again, Jemim
arose aud dressed herself II he wo
rled himself much more he might brln
on another attack, and Joel Higgir
had said two attacks close tOgetht
might kill him.
81 can find my way to Aaron Blu
= den'S," she said 10 herself, some wa,
y dark as 1t is. I'm bound to see lack
: Two hours later she stood breatl
less in the Burdens yard on the to
1 of the mountain. The dog slept, bI
fear of him set her knees shakin
With trembling hand she tapped O
the window of lacks bedroom.
Near the dawn, when lack helpe
her off the gentle mule he had lie
down the mountainside, her old fac