The Dolores star., 1919-05-09
CHAPTER xvi-continued.


s$then he toP me the story. He turned
Sthe poor gal out o. doors. God O.
3Israel! It was in the night-yis, sir
&it was in the night that he sent her
3away. Goldarn him! He didn't have
:Sno more heart than a grasshopper-no,
6slr-not bit. could "a Drained him
with my shovel. but 1 didn't.
II found out where the gal had gone
fan' I 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
icrled. I guess twas cause 1 looked
efind O. friendly-uh huh! toll her
she should come right over to our
mouse an stay Jest as long as she
WANTED to as soon as she got we'll
Sis. sir, did.
"She was sick all summer long
kind o out O. her head, ye know, an I
Gsed to go over hossback an take
Sthings fer her to eat. An one day
when l was over there they was Won
sderin' what they was goin' to do with
her little baby. I took 1t in my arms
AN I'll be gol dummed If 1t didn't grab
hold O. my nose an hang on like a
puppy to n root. When they tried to
Make it away 1t grabbed its fingers into
'7hy whiskers an hollered like a pam
ther-yls. sir. Wal, ye know jes'
Fetched that little baby boy home in
my arms, ay uh My wife scolded me
Hike Sam Hill-yis, sir-she had five
of her own. tol her l was goin' to
4tnke it back in n day er two but after
\ Il had been In the house three days ye
couldn't "a pulled 1t away from her
with windlass.
4 "We brought him up an he was al
~uss good boy. We called him
Enoch-Enoch Rone-dld ye ever hear
h the nameT
sM "'No.'
81 didn't think twas likely but I'm
alwuss hopin'.
W EARLY that fall Kate got better an
left the poorhouse afOot. Went away
omewheres-nobody knew where.
Some said sne'd crossed the lake an
gone away over into York state. some
1;lid she'd drowned herself. By'm by
Ne heard that she'd gone way over
into st. Lawrence county where Silas
Wright lives an where young Grim
ehaw had settled down after he got
married.
"Wal, bout five year ago the squire
5ouried his second wife-there It's over
there back o. Kate's with the little
apeckled angel on it. Nobody had seen
the squire outside O. his house for
Years until the funeral-he was Grip
4 pied 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. I
guess.
wal, sir, fust we knew Kate was
there in the house livin' with her fa-
liner. We wouldn't "a knowed 1t, then,
HI 1t hadn't been that Tom Linney
Come over one day an said he guessed
2.the OF squire wanted to see memo,
sir, we wouldnt-fer the squire amt
E eOciable an the neighbors never dark
IN his door. She must "a come In the
night, jest us she went-nobody see
Ter go an nobody see her come, an
g24hats a fact. Wal, one day las fall
fter the leaves was Off an they could
Zee corner O. my house through the
PUSHES, Tom was walkin' the oil man
Hound the room. All to once he
Eopped an p'inted at my house
X lrough the winder an KEEP p'intin'.
om come over an said he ca'llated
he squire wanted to see me. So I
tent there. Kate met me at the door.
Gosh! How old an kind O. broke down
pc looked! But l knew her the min
te set my eyes on her-uh huh-an'
ne knew me-yiS, sir--she smiled an
fars come to her eyes an she patted
Ry hand like she wanted to tell me
y pat she hadn't forgot, but she never
pid word-not word. The OIL
luire had the palsy, so t he couldn't
se his hands an his throat was para
n Zed-couldn't speak nor nothin'.
There do ye suppose he was when I
ia bund him?"
i&# "In bed? asked.
mo, sir-no. stree! He was in hell
that's where he was-reg'lar OIL fash
Yned. down-east hell, burnin' with fire
brimstun. that he'd had the agency
Pr an had recommended to every sim
PR in the nelghborhood. He was set
pa In his room. God O. Isr'el! You
ITO a seen the motions he made with
hands an the way he tried to
peak when 1 went in there, but all I
Puld hear was Jest long yell an
nd of rattle in his throat. Heavens
airth how desperlt he tried to
PIT out the thing that was gnawin'
vitals. Ag'in an ag'in he'd try to
IL me. Lord God how he did work y
All to once it come acrost me what
wanted-quick as We could say scat.
wanted to have Kate's headstun
OK down an put away-thats what
wanted. The stun was kind o. lay
on his stummick an painin' of him
an night. He couldn't stan it
knew that he was goin' to die purity