The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1922-01-03
us rubbing the poverty gibe into nae

HxI1RHgIt 1T was about time to tell him
WfAere he got off.
Then, by Jove, the wheels needn't
=nEDzt" l cOuntered. "And that lets
Yea ont. If you want to go to law
-2A<zut that contract-sail in. That's
ssx I've got to say"
eGEh, hold on" he protested, with
sozSck concern. Then he showed me
pIzsiniy what he'd been doing in the
Interval between his first and this sec
R43 appearance in the Red Desert
region. "rye had time to look you up,
Yes know. You're engaged to a girl
fS5ssck East and you can't marry her
Because you haven't money enough.
E9sd loaf is better than no bread;
aEs I'm offering you very nearly the
half loaf. Take a day or so to think
III ever. I'm in no hurry" And with
z2fizE liFe went back to the cabin across
tie: dump and left me warming the
=zkuEzI
Z guess it will say itself that the
next few days stacked up about as
zguzztSled an interval as ! had ever
sszssE called upon to put over.
ExilertOn had a masterful sort of
SEI8 that seemed to give him stran-
gtegloid upon everything he tackled.
Af sable and in the evenings before
EfBe Gre he mOnOpolized the talk and
ssS rest of us sat around like slough
7stHs@1ottieS and let him do it.
r. didn't help matters out much
v.ylxzn Daddy Hiram. chasing me up on
s'SEE- of the days when l was lodging
EhH4ertOn, gave me the sealed enve-
sEs4ss which my grandfather had left
MA him. As will be remembered, it
~<x=zs on the night of BullertOn's arrival
Ut she Cinnabar that had told Daddy
=Sa1sz his daughter who 1 was, and the
>sEIfSiect hadn't been again referred to
5sFy my of US. But now Daddy, having
~sTxsszIaken me on one of the trails
=sttsaVe the mine sat beside me on
111zE rock and we had it out together.
You knew who | was from the first,
4 ksssdy?" / asked
~NSot right plumb at first, no." he
osEzEaIifed. You see. didn't know who
= vEas looking for. Always reckoned
==sssaSebody'd be along, f course, but l
T5EzaSh't had any idea who r when"
I'm afraid I've been a pretty sorry
disappointment TO yOu," muttered 81
5xEEgze no money and / don't know
-ssz1r-sss gh to be any good at the mining
Szcse. And that reminds me: my
sEEsndfather paid you regular salary
5ssr tile earetaking, didn't he?'
~Uh-huh"
That has been discontinued since
: ais ,1eath:"
~T reckon So"
- have a little income of my own !;
.-Ezss- aBnch, but enough for the way
~SWve living here. 1t must he under
>-sfEBsd that l share ii with you and
.-FIzz5ie, so long as stay with you"
knit no need o. your dom that,
s=s4E1fiie. l got a little stake hid out
5zsE a pinch"
HI ali this, you will notice, there
'Ssszs no word said about Fullerton. We
sszf IA silence for a while, Daddy chew
aGnaS spear of grass. After a time he
szG&sd attention to the envelope which
II skill held unopened in my hands.
E3On't We want TO know what your
gEa,paw says?" he asked mildly.
2t& contents were a deed in fee simple
ska the Cinnabar and note to me,
written in Grandfather Jasper's
s=1EDped, old-faShiOned handwriting.
zEE E1se note he merely said that he was
ssseagiRg me a property which had cost
tk1izE pretty well up to half million
and that he hoped I'd brace up and go
~ work and make something out of it,
szd2Gi1g that if 1 hadn't been such a
IaGseless idler all my life he might
szrzEe considered the prOpriety of add
Exzg an experimental fund to the gift.
AS at was, l must work out my own
szx1zRtion-if were anxious to possess
Gny OF that commodity.
think it was on the fourth day after
MS arrival that Fullerton cornered me
again, and again it was in the deserted
: Blacksmith shop.
~Well, Broughton," he began abrupt
IL, seating himself once more upon
aEa&e empty dynamite box, "Tve given
-sFom plenty of time to think it over.
-s<nere do you stand now?"
EEght exactly where / did in the
Beginning" l snapped. 81 don't want
zHEy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES per cent part
szUszrSilip with you; neither that nor any
e3ftGs- 7kind.''
-All right" he rejOined, brusqueIy
Eae'n call that phase of it a back num-
sI1sr and go on to something else. I'll
Htfy your mine, just as it stands. water
zzaEAd all-and that's what nobody else
7Esould do, you'd better believe"
For how much?"
For fifty thousand dollars-cash."
NO" 1 grated. Il don't need a lit
sIle money that badly"
Fifty thousand isn't little; at a
-szsRnd. safe, investment interest it will
zz7ve you an income of three thousand
"A year. And that's more than you're
- fling now ont of what your father
eft you"