The daily Alaskan., 1919-04-05
| Took 1t In My Arms.

Enoch-Enoch Rone-did ye ever hear the name?"
 "'No.'
 q didn't think twas likely but I'm alwuss hopin'.
 "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 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 'tls over in there back O Kate's with the little speckled angel on 1t. Nobody had seen the squire outside O his house for years until the funeral--he was crip- pied so with rheumatiZ. Alter that he lived all lone in the big house with Or Tom Linney an his wife, who've worked there for bout forty year, l guess.
 Wal, sir, fust we knew Kate was there in the house Twin with her fa- tner. We wouldn't a moved It, then, if it hadn't been that Tom Linney come over one day an said he guessed the OF squire wanted to see memo, sir, We wOuldn't-fer the squire ain't sociable an the nelghbors 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 leaves was off an they could see a corner O my house through the bushes, Tom was walkin the Ol' man round the room. All to once he stopped an p'inted at my house through the wiuder an kep' p'intin'. Tom come over an said he Ca'llated the squire wanted to see Tue. So l went there. Kate met me Gt the door Gosh. How old an kind Q broke down she looked! But knew her the min ute 1 set my eyes on her-uh huh-an' she knew me--yiS, slr-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 said a wOrd-nOt c word. The Or squire had the palsy, so | he couldn't use his hands an his throat was para lyzed--cOuldn't speak nor nothin', Where do ye suppose he was when found hlm?"
 Tn bed?" I asked.
 "NO, sir-no, siree! He was in hell that's where he was-reglar Op fash toned, down-eas; hell, burEin' with fire an brimstun, that he'd had the agency for an had recommended tO every sin or in the neShhorhood, He was set
 n' in Lis room. God O Isr'ell Ton orto "a seen the motions he made with his hands an the way he tried to speak when I went In there, but all l could hear was Jest long yell an kind of a rattle in his throat. Heavens an airth how deSperIt he tried to spit out the thing that was gnawin' his vitaIS. Ag'ln an ag'in he'd try to tell me. Lord God how he did work"
 "All to once 1t come Rcrost me what he wanted-quick as ye could say seat. He wanted to have Kate'S headstun took down an put away-that's what he wanted. The stun was kind O lay in on his Stummlck an palnin' of him Gay an night. He couldn't stan 1t. He knew that he was goin' to die purity soon an that Kate would come here an see it an that everybody would see her standin' here by her own grave, an 1t worried him. It was kind O like fire in his belly,
 'I 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
 "Wal, ye know, mister, jes' shook my head an never let on that knew what he meant an let him wiggle an lNISl llht T. "Ol III Olt n AiON 6AANNANi NSA-t beller like 2 cut bull til he fell back In a swOon.
 Damn him! 1t don't give him no rest. He tries to tell everybody he seeS-that's what they say. He bel lers day an night an if you go down there he'll boiler to you an you'll know what it's about but the others don't.
 You an me are the only ones that knows the secret, I guess. Some day, fore he dies, I'm goin' to take up that headstun an hide it, but he'll never know it's done-no, sir-nOt 'tl ne gifts to the judgment seat, anyway"
 The old man rose and strengthened himself and blew out his breath and brushed his hands upon his trousers by way of stepping down into this world again out of the clcse and dusty loft of his memory. But I called him back.
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