Cleveland County herald., 1919-05-08
CHAPTER XVl-Continued.

AAAN ~ this grave an put up the headstone an then he tol me the story. He turned the poor gal out O doors. God O Israeli It was in the night-yis, sir it was in the night that he sent her away. Goldarn him! He didn't have no more heart than a grasshopper-no, sir-not bit. I could "a brained him with my shovel but I didn't.
 q found out where the gal had gone an I follered her-yis I did-found her in the poorhouse way over on Pussley Hill-uh huh She jes' put her arms round my neck an cried an cried. I guess twas cause I looked Kind O friendly-uh huh! I toP 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 wis, sir, did.
 "She was sick all summer long kind O out O her head, ye know, an I used to go over hossback an take things fer her to eat. An one day when I was over there they was won- derin' what they was goin' to do with her little baby. I took it in my arms an I'll be gol dummed if it didn't grab hold O my nose an hang on like puppy to a root. When they tried to take it away it grabbed it's fingers into my whiskefs an hollered like a pam ther-yis, sir. Wal, ye know I jes' fetched that little baby boy home in my arms, ay uh! My wife scolded me like Sam Hill-yis, sir-she had five of her own. I toP her I was goin' to take it back in a day CT two but after it had been in the house three days ye couldn't "a pulled it away from her with a windlass.
 eve brought him up an he was al- wuss good boy. We called him 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 'tis over in there back O Rates with the little speckled angel on it. Nobody had seen the squire outside O his house for years until the funeral-he was crip- pied so with rheumatiz. After that he lived all Tone in the big house with or 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 fa- tner. We wouldn't "a knowed it, then, if it hadn't been that Tom Linney come over one day an said he guessed the oP squire wanted to see memo, sir, we Wouldn't-fer the squire ain't 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 leaves was off an they could see a corner O my house through the bushes, Tom was walkin' the oP man round the room. All to once he stopped an p'inted at my house through the winder an kep' 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 door. Gosh How old an kind O broke down she looked But I 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 said a word-not a word. The ol' squire had the palsy, so t he couldn't use his hands an his throat was para lyzed-couldn't speak nor nothin', Where do ye suppose he was when I found him?"
 ''In bed?" I asked.
 uGlk that's where he was-reg'lar op fash toned, dOwn-east hell, burnin' with fire an brimstun, that he'd had the agency for an had recommended to every sim ner in the neighborhood. He was set tin in his room. God O Isr'el! You orto "a seen the motions he made with his hands an the way he tried to speak when I went in there, but all I could hear was jest long yell an a kind of rattle in his throat. Heavens an airth! how desperit he tried to spit out the thing that was gnawin' his vitals. Ag'in an ag'in he'd try to tell me. Lord God how he did work p
 "All to once 1t come acrost me what he wanted-quick as ye could say scat. lie 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 stummick an painin' of him day an night. He couldn't stan it. He knew that bn wac pOin, tO dia r,11rtv