Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-16
Mr.. bill Dale.
cartersville.
tennessee.


seat myself with pen in hand to drap
you few lines to let you know am
we'll hoping you the same. well bill
have some news to tell you about
what happened when got back hear
and since got back and hear 1t is.
the first person seen when 1 got
to the railrode stashun was jimmy
fayne and he was dressed up like a
millonair and reckon he is one. he
took me in his moter car up to pats
home. patrisha you know. pat she
hugged me and Jimmy left rite away
but snid he would be back. asked
pat had she heard about yore trubble
bill and she answered no what. then
| told her bout you and the lOwdown
black adam ball bill and she said pore
old bill he had such high temper no
body could ever understand 1t hut II
cant be are you serious elizabeth.
well said yes mean It. pat shook
her head sorrowfle and said tell me
all about 1t elizabeth deer. when !
he'd told her the hole story about II
we went up stares. pat went TO q
closet and got butifle dress my size.
| ordered this the day before yol lefg
us pat said but It mite half to be al.
tered. vile you are dressing pat said
will speak to Mrs. Dale over the
telephone. pat said yore mother has
softened tord her son and promised
TO tell her any news had conserving
him. n said all rite.
pat was gone down stares talking
over the telephone for long time and
when she returned to me was dressed
and we went down stares together
and the new dress diddent half to be
altered. after dinner was over me and
pat went to swing at the end OF a
vranda which had a dim lite on II.
nat spoke all of suddent and said
to me how would you like to go to
live with Mrs. Dale bills mother.
remembered haddent liked yore moth.
AZ bill cause Of what she said about
me and | got about half mad. don't
YOU want me to live hear with you
pat l asked.
of course pat said. ide be glad tt
have you but Mrs. Dale wants yo'
too pat said. her treatment OF her
son which is you bill has most broke
her hart pat said. pat said the only
hold Mrs. Dale has on her son Is
through you elizabeth and she Is
sad and remorsene woman. then !
got to thinking bill mite be the cause
of bringing peece between you and
yore parents and so told pat would
60 and did. ime glad said pat but
ime sorry to lose you busit Is the best
way and we can see each other often
cant we de%.
well bill IL wassent long until big
mo,er car called around at pats for
me and setting in the hind seat was
yOre father hisself john Dale. ne
helped me into the car with him and
he seemed glad to sec me. after we
had said good morning and so forth
he said anxious like now eliZabe
please tell me all about bills trouble
for patrisha mite have omitted some
thing you know. ut first was awlui
afeard Of Kim but soon got to Ike
Ing him fine and told him about you
and that lowdown black adam baR
from beginning to end and when told
him about the fife In the river ne
grinned and grnned and said you al
ways was jam full Of the fife stun.
hell come out Of it all rite the worst
of it Is his haveing 10 stay,in jail untli
the trial comes off said your father
at the next term OF cote. weed bet
ter see II we can't get him out on
bond lie said haddent we elizabeth ana
said yes. bill I found yore mother
lndede sad woman. there WaSSeht
much about her to remine me OF tile
time when she called me q SavaJe
nerson. she said am delited you came
elizabeth and cride little couldent
help it when jest haf TO cry ! jest
half TO cry and nothing else don't nelp
bits Because she kissed me bill.
well bill yore father he wired the
alhorties in carterSvile and found ont
that Gale Moreland had confessed TO
the shooting of black adam and you
was free and It has set his MIND al
rest. bat it diddcnt set my mind at rest
for because no the mountain hart.
know Gale Moreland is jest takelns
yore place in Jail until the day OF the
trial for thGt is the way OF the More
lands. por" Gale is good boy. am
doing fine hear bill but often wish
could have old Doe River hear to sing
me to sleep like it used to. yore moth
er Is teaching me how to read and rite
and spell like pat did and am learn
ing fast. sou can see by this letter
can rite an spell fine cant l.
well bill kind friend jimmy fayne
has les sent yore mothers made up
hear to ask if he can see me and
will half TO 20 down stares and see
what he wants.
yores respectively.
Babe.
Bill Dale folded the bulky letter
and put il slowly back into the envel-
ope. Then his gaze wandered through
a window and 70 where Il golden