The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-03-16

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u Stared Across at; Daddy Hiram.
eatin' with d Nat fork " all right
Stanpie, but they don't make the man
mr. the woman; there's got to be some.
thin inside; somethin' a heap bigger
than any. O. them things"
Quite So" X admitted.- = =.
: Another silence and at .the. ,esid OF
1T ,the old phraosopheS again: :,
:. you beeda sJrt"o Sore about INV
,Isanie, sincf yesterday She's
been eatih' your gran-paw,s bread. like
me, and you thought and Thought,
that she might at .least. we waited a
little spell afore she run off with Char
ley Fullerton. Maybe we've been
jumpin' al things too sudden, Stannie.
What made her ride way up y6ndGr
Ito Greaser sidin' to catch that train?
And how come .gharley FULLERTON to
marry 'hSr. ope day and be up. here
with his Eunth 8 ggninen by daybreak
the mex" mornin'?"' Y '"
HAS JEANNE. friends in Angels with
whom she could be :$aaylne?a Flashed.
'"Sott.a single soul. He'd a-had to
leave her-. at the Chink's hotel; and
t that amt no place for woman mar
ned.!r t'oth@Hdse." w-|N
But supposing they didn't go to
Angels?" .-
There amt no other place. they
could 90 and let him set Iback~ as. you
might suy, liz the siuiie iday."
Say it all; 'Baddy,"f prompted.
,.'There amt; much to say. StannIe.
boy, .'ceptiu' what 1 Sdid afore that
maybe we'd. been jsmpin' at things
sort o biind-lilic. JehnniG's got a heap
o sense-if do say it as shouldn't
and the whole gee-ripittin, thing as we
: been puttm' it up, ain't no more like
her than winters like dog days.
,rHRing gvtd .'tirtesSubjtct into: 4 cor
4er we were both speechlcss for "a lit.
-1fe' time and t,ilIpA it w,asalmost with
sense of relief that we sprang alert
when.the dog, hitherto sleeping quietly
at our feet, 5untpeT mp and ran'to hold
his nose at the. thseshotl, Of tie door
opening upon the qgmp head. -:
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=. Burnt Matches -Hs,
Following the dog. to the door, we
could neither Aseesaors fear anything
gong on outside, though Barneys
snfiings under the door, and his low
gr"wi warned us, that something was
afoot, either on. tie dump head or in
the. partly WRECKED cabin beyond.
While we were still peepng and peef.
ing, each at his auger.hple, and each
ready 10 take an ::olflland SHOT at any
thing that seemed suspicious, the ST.
lehce of the mountain night was ripped
and torn by the most hhle6us clamOr>
dlQaSinablc, arising, apparently, IN the
capin or perhaps from the grAiing Of
trees just behind 1t. The racket .yas
deafening; comparable to nothing that
iq ever. heard; magnified orchestra
ton, SO to speak, OF the. pandem6niIm
made by crowd Of country boys
serennding newly married pair with
tin pans and sucliilike, noise making
implements. ,tt+.'.: -.
."what in the maine O. Joah!" slut
tered Daddy Hiram. Reckon them
gosh-duhmed pirtteers We gone, plum
loony" .:-n s.,.'. - : "a
Wait" I qualified, apd"L yhads tS
shout to make myself heard. ''Thsresf
be more to follow. This Ii. oplss the
curtnin-raiser." :. -. :.
/, But my guess appeared, to be no
good. For quite some littfs tlme we
crouchea, guns ut the ready prepared
to repel, the ASSAULT which Keiiiatural.
ly SUPPOSED Mould be :hiate under
cover OK the fistracting, racket But
There wasno' nsspplt .tAauSh fhs ,mean-
lngfess t"mor Kept ,Hp, ,withept nbate-
BY the time We've We were x't beslsSius nj = to !,
grow a.triae hardened.to It the tccamor
stopped. as abruStlssasait had Begun
and the. SILENCE &wDie4 sssGceeAeE yss
even more deafeHings ,ths9s they noise
had been. Whilssf fanctel Icogld see
dim figures Stet1iig a9@h the rssd
that 'led to tie beRSlifT below, /. heard
Daddy say: -a'Now, s1fiat.1 the name
O. Jehofachim1-" - -. ~ ~,
- He had turned away from ,Mfs,beep,
hole and 1.could sense, fata,erthfE see,
That he was rabblgg his eyes. Then'I
realized that .upP1 me. also, assaadsn
bIiDdneSs Aaa fallep; the interior Of
the sh9ftAonse had beeQme, ,as, darle
as the insfag6 Of 4,pocket. The effect
was so Simplifying that 1t took, both
OF lis d miISts Snse, to 91dsFsGnd
that 'soh,se.tebsnge. 'ss- Vet mtefShble
had sbedn' asoysEY either ip us or in
our our, snrroasesia asrlps The noisy in
terlude.t %;T .s5t
Great .Jetti!s|F |Fexcraimed' the old
man<-thouslt Ne was within arms.
reach 1 c6pla snake him out only as
dim shadows -s(ireat Jehul II b'lIeve
I'm sOini blind, ,stapnle! II can't
see nothint a.tdIlr' =
"Dont worry" hastened to say;