The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-04-17
CHAPTER xvI-continu.d

Israel! IL was In the night-yiS. sir
1t was In the night that he sent her
away. Goldarn him He didn't have
no more heart than grasshopper-no
sir-not bit. could "a Drained him
with my shovel. but didn't.
II found out where the gal had pona
an I fOllered her-yis l did-found
her In the poorhouse way over on
Pussley Hill-uh huh! She les put
her arms round my neck an cried an
cried. I guess twas cause looked
find o. friendly-uh huh! tot her
she should come right over to our
house an stay jest as long as she
wanted to as soon as she got we'll
yis. sir, did.
"She was sick all. summer long
Kind o. out o. her head, we know, an |
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 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 root. When they tried TO
take ii away 1t grabbed its fingers into
my whskers an hollered like a pan
ther-yis. sir. Wal. We know / jes'
fetched that little baby boy home in
any arms, ay uh. My wife scolded me
like Sam Hill-yis, sir-she had five
of her own. l toll her | was goin' to
take IL back in day er two but after
It had been in the house three days We
couldn't "A pulled it away from her
with windlass.
"We brought him up an he was al
wuss good boy. We called him
Enoch-Enoch Rone-did We ever hear
the nameY
"'No.'
81 didn't think twas likely but I'm
alwuss hopin'.
early that fall Kate got better an
left the poorhouse afoot. Went away
omewheres-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 st. Lawrence county where Silas
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 it's over
in there back o. Hates with the little
speckled angel on it. Nobody had seen
the squire outside o his house for
years until the funeral-he was Grip
pied so with rheumatic. After that he
lived all lone in the big house with Of
Tom Linney an his wife, wh0've
worked there FOR bout forty year, /
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 memo,
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 a fact. Wal, one day las fall
after the lea..es was off an they could
see corner o. my house through the
bushes, Tom was walkin' the Of man
round the room. All to once ne
stopped an p'inted at my house
through the winder an KEEP pintln.
Ton come over an said he callated
hn lao, 20 Il
went there. Kate met me ut the door,
Gosh How old an kind o. broke down
she looked! But l knew Fer the MN
ute set my eyes on her-uh huh--aii
she knew Ihe-yis, sir-she snllied III
tears come to her eyes an she patted
my hand like she wanted to tell me
that she hadn't forgot, but she never
said'a word-not a word. Inc oi
squire had the palsy, so t he couldn't
use his hnnds an his throat was para
lyzed-cOuldn't speak nor nothin.
Where do We suppose he was when
found him2"
I'm bed?" I asked.
mo, sir-no, stree! He was IN heii
that's where he was--reglar OF lasi-
Toned, down-east hell, burnin' with hre
an brlmstun, that he'd had the agency
for an had recommended to every SIN
ner In the neighborhood. He was set.
tin in his room. God o lsrei -
orto "a seen the motions he mace wiz
his hands an the way he tried ~
speak when I went In there put a., =
could hear was jest a long yen III
kind Of rattle In his throat. hen,et 80
an airthl how desperit ne trleu v,n,
spit out the thing that was snn 90
his vitals. Ag'in an agin ne -. :"
tell me. Lord God how he DID W.T. S..
"All to once 1t come ncrost ll'e s scot
he wanted-quick rs ye could 81. ,stun
lie wanted to have Rates ~. ,yhot
took down an put nway-tnas :, Inv.