The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-03-27

kind o. out o her head, ye know, an L
used TO go over ~hoSsback an take
things fer her to eat. An n day
when / was over there they was won
derin' what they vas goln' to do with
her little baby. / took it In my arms
on I'll be gol dummed If 1t didn't grab
hold o. my nose an hang on like q
puppy to q root. When they tried to
take II away 1t grabbed it's fingers into
my whiskers an hollered like a PAN
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, slr-she had five
of her own. / toll her / was goin' to
take 1t back In a day er two but after
1t had been I'm the house three days ye
couldn't "a pulled 1t away from her
with d windi6ss.
"We brought him up an he was al
russ a good boy. We called him
Enoch-Fnoch Rone-did ye ever hear
the manner"
".No.'
IL didn't think twas likely but I'm
,lwuss hopln'.
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 &C. \ aurAnnn nnppty vuharn CtIoa
Wright lives an where young Grim
shaw had settled down after he got
married.
"Wal, bout five year ago the squire
buried his second wife-there tbs over
in there back o. Rates with the little
speckled angel on 1t. Nobody had seen
the squire outside o. his house for
years until the funeral-he was Grip
pied so with rheumatic. After that ne
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 Twin with her ia
tner. We wouldn't "a knowed it, then,
II 1t hadn't been that Tom Linney
come over one day an said he guessed
the oil squire wanted to see me-no
sir. we wouldn't-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 q fact. Wal, one day las fall
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 ca'llated
the squire wanted to see me. SO I
went there. Kate met me at the doom
Gosh How old an kind o. broke down
she looked! But / knew her the min
ute / set my eyes on her-uh huh-an'
she knew me-yis, sir-she smiled an
tears come to her eyes an she patted
my hand like she wanted to tell me
that she hadn't forgot, but she never
"a ~ "a WI u NOJu. IHe III
squire had the palsy. so t he couldn't
use his hands an his throat was para
l~yzed-couldn't speak nor aStb;n,.
Where do We suppose he was when !
found him?"
"In bedT' l asked.
mo. 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 sin.
ner In the neighborhood. He was set.
""' In his room. God o. Isr'eli You
0rto "a seen the motions he made with
his hands an the way he tried TO
speak when / went In there, but all I
could hear was Jest a long yell an a
kind Of q rattle In his throat. Heavens
an airthl how desperit he tried to
spit out the thing that was gnawin'
his vttals. Agin an ag'in he'd try to
tell me. Lord God how he did work r.
All to once Il come across me what
he wanted-Qnlck as ye could say scat.
He wanted to have Hates headstun
took down an put away-that's what
he wanted. The stun was kind o. lay
I'm OF his stummick an painin' Of him
day an night. He couldn't stan It.
He knew that he was goin' to die purity
soon an that Kate would come here
an e Il an that everybody would
Q her standin' here by her own grave,
an It worried him. II was kind o. like
. ire In his belly.
II guess, too. he couldn't bear the
idee Of layin' down fer his las SLEEP
beside that hell hole he'd dug fer Kate
no. sirl
sWaI. ye know, mister. I jes' shook
my head an never let on that / knew
what he meant an let him wiggle an
twist Ike Z worm on z hot griddle. an
heller like q cut bull I'll he fell back II
, swOon.
Damn him / It don't give him nc
rest. He tries to tell everybody he
aoeo-thats what they say. He bel
len day m night an u you - down
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