Licking Valley courier., 1921-10-20
THE CLAN CALL.
Continued from page two.)

old bill he had such high temper no.
body could ever understand 1t but II
cant be are you serious elizabeth.
well said yes i:mean 1t. pat shook
her head sorrowfle and said tell me
all about IT. elizabeth deer. when 1
had told her the hole story about It
we went up slarrs pat went TO q
closet and got butife dress my size.
ordered this the day, before you left
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. 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 O
vranda which had a dim lite on II.
pat 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.
er bill cause Of what she said about
me and got about half mad. don't
you want me to live hear with you
pat | asked. -"a
of course pat said. lde be glad to
have you but Mrs Dale wants you
too pat said. her treatment or her
son which Is you bill has most broke
her hart pat said. pat said the only
hold Mrs. Dale has on her son ls
through you elizabeth and she is q
sad and remorsefe woman. then T
got to thinking bill mite be the cause
Of bringing peece between you and
yore parents and so / told pat would
go and | did. line glad said pat but
lme sorry to lose you but 1t is the best
way and we can see each other often
cant we deer.
well bill 1t wassent long until big
moter car called around at pats for
me and setting in the hind seat was
yore father hisself John k Dale. he
helped me into the car with him and
he seemed glad to see me, after we
had said good morning and so forth
he said anxious like now elizabeth
please tell me all about bills trouble
for patrlsha mite have omitted some
thing you know. at first was awful
afeard Of him but soon got to like
ing him fine and | told him about you
and that lowdOwn black adam baR
from beginning to end and when told
him about the fite In the river he
grinned and grinned and said you al.
ways was jam full of the fite stuff.
hell come out of II all rite the worst
Of 1t is his haveing TO stay In Jail until
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 he said haddent we elizabeth and
said yes. bill found yore mother
lndede a sud woman. there wassent
much about her to remine me Of the
time when she called me a sayaje
person. she said am delited you came
elizabeth and crlde little I couldent
help 1t when ! jest half. to cry Jest
half to cry and nothing else don't help
bit. Because she kissed me bill.
well bill yOre father he wired the
athorties In cartersville and found out
that Gale Moreland had confessed to
the shooting Of black adam and you
was free and II has set his mind al
rest. but II diddent set my mind at rest
for because no the mountain hart. !
know Gale Moreland is jest takelng
yOre place In jail until the day of the
trial for that is the way of the More:
lands. pore Gale is good boy, | am
doing fine hear bill but often wish
| could have old Doe River hear to sing
me to sleep like 1t used to. yore moth
er Is teaching me how to read and rite
and spell like pat did and am learn.
ing fast. you can see by this letter
can rite an spell fine cant 1.
well bill kind friend jimmy .fayne
has jes sent yore mothers made up
hear to ask II he can see me and !
will: half to go down stares and see
what he wants.
yores respectively. =
Babe.
Bill Dale folded the bulky letter
and put II slowly back into the envel.
ope. Then his gaze wandered through
q window and to where golden
winged high-h0ler was hammering In.
dustrlously at the top branch of O
dead tree. He smiled to himself, BY
Heck and nearly all of the rest OF
the world for the moment forgotten
and muttered aloud:
"Yores respectively, Babe.'"
"Haw, haw, hawl" laughed the keen.
cared and watchful hlllman In the
straight-back chair behind him.
"Yores respectively, Baber Haw,
haw, hawl Well. Bill, dadslng It, II
shorely to goodness amt nothln' to
turn all that red about When the
nights gone the day comes. don't lti
Bill, old boy, It's the same thlngr"
"You get out of here, Byl" Dale
stormed In mock severity. "Go and
help the commlssary clerk with the
new goods; ehf"
Heck laughed another horselaugh,
rose and went out. ,.... 81.
When he had gone, Dale began to
thlnk-of the ultra.spolled, charming.
after-a-fashion, wealthy, young, high.
night devotee, Jimmy Fayne. And he
wondered, and wondered. what would
come of Fayne's quick liking for Babe
Llttleford.