The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-01-13
THE DAILY
ST ORT STORY
THE SHINING WAY
~ s. 3. HAcKLEY.
ItccpyriGht 1919, by the Mcclure
Newspaper syndicate.)

N.fsI4 HAANA sCULLOM, an aleIL HttIe
4 fray.hatred woman, paused when
Che came to the "big road" at the
loot % the mountain, and set down
the iitflo basket Of fried chicken and
kigCuilS she was taking to sick
li4tekhor Though It was long way
tiif come from the hidden Cullom
STRONGHOLD at the top Of the mountain,
6be md not stopped to rest, but to
think ever things.
Today was Wednesday, and Mon.
1laHs she had let the children set as
Tie day when she would be married
tie SecOnd time and without love
( it6out love!
She nntied the strings OF her black
Inlp4c gunbonnet and threw them
clE Things were closing In on her:
gh0 fit 90 Il she were smothering.
Back IN '66, WHOM young Isaac Cul.
:icm brought her 70 his new home here
81 the Widest part of the country, he
had ret out great orchards with an
|sege to making ''moonshine.' And
|ISGGc had made Q success Of his ven.
ttfe, No revenue officer-nobody for.
elgn 20 the MISUNDERSTANDING ever
hate dreamed Of fields and orchards
lying behind that forest Of hemlock
and 0alg, poplar and chestnut.
Az 1seae's death, his son, Sheridan,
4en heir TO his orchards and his call
Ing, hut Sheridan could not make the
Liquor as Isaac had made It, try as he
might. A year after 1saac's death,
eSV - ,SA.. 1Aa - "A khat 01,,ar ~,
Conc was N expert distiller and per.
Suaded him to stay with him. Sheri-
I dan paid good wages and gave Simon
\ oEefY consideration.
When he chose, he slept late in the
mornings and his breakfasts were kept
3Wafm for him. Roxana, Sheridan's
mother, did most Of the cooking. and
Hbetore many months Simon began to
turn admiring eyes on the spry little
woman who cooked better than any.
Shcdy no had ever known.
Sheridan and his wife, Dorcas, were
much peiased. II Simon married
mother his stay with them would be
tertain- permanent, Their persuasion
Ind Himon's urging were too much for
H6xana, She promised to marry him.
That morning Dorcas had made her
tfy On the dark blue poplin dress they
Ind bought for her. Roxana had sug.
kested that the color was unsuitable
tors g woman In her sixty.fifth year.
Black Is all right to mourn a hus-
band ir, Dorcas had insisted, "but
not 70 wed one In, mother!"
.r1t ma lsS1xSS hS1 a1Sanat AnA ahn-a11A
had not incurred Isaac.
I'm bound to You and I'll stay with
you and do my duty by you as long as
I have tor she told him in the first
year Of their marriage. "but don't ex-
rect love from woman you married
thlottSh . lei 7,
The year before Herndon Herlot, the
young man she loved, had gone away
to the war.
q Wisht ] could road and write.
Roxie. dariin'," he told her at parting,
:e6's z could write to you while I'm
Away; but I can't and wouldn't trust
nobody to do It for me; but You be
Msitins and ready to marry me when
lfconte home -Roxie-you be ready"
But that winter whom Isaac Cullom
told her OF reading In the papers OF
Hetnss marriage she believed him, and.
stung with the insult she believed
Hern had put upon her, she married
saac hastily.
Then; one day In May, when she
vent out ia. gather the white azaleas
Hefn always loved the boy himself
came: behind her.
HeSwas gaunt and pale-the left
aieeey othis blue army coat hung limp
fon the elbow, but he was smiling.
I've come back to marry you,
3cxiein
.Don't tech NEEDN'T kiss me,
Hern! She pushed him back from
6ers I'm another mans wiiei Isaac
1ullom told me you were married. L.
believed him, Hern!"
HE listened 70 her story, his face
Niiiter than the aSalea blooms she had
et fall
u never grieved for my arm" he
old hen. y Test laid there IN the hos
pital and tried to get well quick-l
moved you'd love me Jest as much
With one arm as itwo-and, soon's they
q me- I came 70 find you. Your ma
slid yen WA out hero. She never told
nc B turned away aud pressed
bis nnihjured right arm across his
lace. 70 Rode- Roxier slow, desc.
afe sobs shook hfm-"l can't hardly
hear III.
Then he'd gone, and she had never
seen him again, The child. Sheridan,
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