The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-07-18
do you know where Kate Fullerton

''Do you know where Kate Fullerton
lives?' asked.
"Well, It's purity likely that do" he
answered as he stood resting on his
sEath. "Pve lived seyenty-two years
on this hill come the fourteenth day O.
June, an If didn't know where she
lived I'd be 'shamed Of it. Do you see
that big house down there in the
trees"
could see the place at which he
pointed far back from the village street
In the valley below us, the house near
ly hidden by tall evergreens.
"Yes." I answered.
"Wal, that's the Squire Fullerton
place-he's Kate's father"
"D0es the squire live there?r
mo, sir-not eggzac1y. He's dyin
tbere-been dyin' there for two veal
er more. By gosh! It's wonderful how
hard 'tis fer some folks to quit breath
In. Say, be you any O. his family?"
"No."
"Nor no friend O. his?'
"No!"
| Course not. He never had a friend
In his life-too mean! He's too mean
| to die, mister-too mean fer hell an
wouldn't wOnder-honest, wouldn't
mebbe that's why God is keepin' him
here-jest to meller him up a little
Say, mister, be you in a hurry1"
"No."
"Say. hitch yer boss an come in
here. I want to show ye suthin'."
dismounted and hitched my horse
to the fence and followed him into the
old churchyard, between weather
stained messy headstones and graves
overgrown with wild roses. Near the
far end of these thick-sown acres he
stopped.
"Here's where the buryin' begun"
said my guide. "The first hole in the
Eill was dug for Fullerton"
There were many small monuments
and slabs of marble-some spotted
with lichens and all in commemorative
of departed Fullertons.
"Say, look a. that" said my guide as
he pulled aside the stem of a leafy
brier red with roses. "Jest read that
mister"
My keen eyes slowly spelled out the
time-worn words on a slab of stained
marble: w..
Sacred to the memory of
| Katherine Fullerton
17S7-1S06
proclaim his Word In every place
That they are dead who fall from grace
A dark shadow fell upon the house
Of my soul and heard loud rapping
at its door which confused me until
looking out, saw the strange truth Of
the matter. Rose leaves and blossoms
seemed to be trying to hide 1t with
their beauty, but In vain.
II understand" said.
'No We don't Leastways don't be
lieve ye do-not correct. Squire Full.
lerton dug a grave here an had an
empty coffin put into 1t away back in
1906. 1t means that he wanted every
body to understan' that his girl was
Jest the same as dead to him an tt
God Say, he knew all about Gods
wishes-that man. Gosh! he ha!
sent more folks to hell than there ars
in 1t, guess. Say, mister, do ye know
why he sent her there?"
l shook my head.
thing that's been sendin' women tc
hell ever since the world begun. Ye
know hell must "a been the Invention
of a man-that's sartin-an' it was
mostly fer women an children-that's
sartiner-an' fer all the men thai
didn't agree with him. Set down here
an I'll tell We the hull story. My day'i
work is done"
We sat down together and he wen
on as follows:
"Did ye ever see Kate Fullerton"
"Yes."
mo ye didn't, nuther. Yer too young
Mebbe We seen her when she was OLD
an broke down, but that want Katt
no more'n I'm Bill Tweedy, which ]
amt. Kate was as handsome as q
golden robin. Hair yeller as his breast
an feet as spry as his wings an q
voice as sweet as his song, an eyes al
bright as his'n-yis, sir-ye couldn't
beat her fer looks. That was year,
and years ago. Her mother died wher
Kate was ten year old-there's heI
grave in there with the sickle an the
sheaf an the portry on 1t. That wa.
unfort'nit an no mistake. Course the
squire married ag'in but the new wife
want no kind of a mother to the girl
an you know, mister, there was 6
young scoundrel here by the name o
Grimshaw. His father was rich mar
I-owned the cooper shop an the saw
mill an the tannery an lot O. cleared
land down in the valley. he KEEP com
p'ny with her fer two or three year
Then all of sudden folks hegan tc
talk-the women in particlar. Ye
know men invented hell an womer
keep up the fire. Kate didn't look right
to 'em. Fust we knew, young Grim
shaw had dropped her an was keepin
| cnpnD'nv with another Rai-viS sir Dr.