The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-03-09

Annie, when he gets TO talking that
away. tell you just 4 drop makes
silly out OF him. Just drop.
81 tel you. Liddy. it's killing me!
Poisoning NE, | can't stand hearing
it. II won't. It's the same as II ne
tore the heart out OF me and the soul.
l can't stand it. Llddy! wont.
But, Annie"
IL can't. didn't want to call YOU
Liddy. out today in all this weather
and let II out to you. but can't ho!u
in no more. Liddy. l can can't Slt
here with the rain beatin all day ana
the house in this terrible quiet and
nothing waiting for me nights but h.
Can't. Can't. Can't"
Annie. girl
"The-the way he looks when he
comes home nights and-and nobody
here but me waiting. The way ne
looks, tell you. he's oacksiidtnG
Iiddy, tsaright to HI. With our Oaoy
gone, he's backSljdIns. and can
stand it with him, Liddy. l can't. l
won't"
Annie. Annie. my poor, poor An
ME-" cried LidGy kineady. folding the
crumpled figure close to her spare one
NV poor, poor Annie!" And huddled
there they wept with the wind
WINNING down the tlue and the
sound OF the lashipgg and washing OF
rain in their ears.
You can come home with me. An
ME. and stay few days
40. No. that don't do no good. He
knows I can't hold out against him x
,u.l :<ro~s IL" tracks from MIN.
He knows the minute he's himself
again, with his head up he can set me
back. That sort OF going don't do no
good. I,iddy. You can't do me no good.
God knows I done my duty by you
warning you that morning IN April
Annie. Steve wasn't no saint but as me
boy If"
yes, and 7 took the chance. Took
the chance, with OrricA LowUey crazy
wild 10 ditch over hts grandfather and
a million IL I'd close my millinery shop
10 be his misses and of TO Europe with
him, Took the chance and stuck IN
this burg with him through those hrSt
two years Of hi before the oaoy came
took"
Annie, you're making yourself sicN'
girlr'
Took a chance, And even with every
thing wasn't sorry. But I'm done row
What got left I'd Ike 70 know with
nv baby gone and the THIRST back on
him. I amt got the strength - stand
r. ILddy From the gayest girl IN TWO
counties I'm n wreck. L.ddy. LOOK al
me, a wreck. L!ddy. Both my oao!eS
gone, one worse than
But, Annie, dear lords sake. Annie
Done tell you. Sister or 10 SIS
ter OF hts. can't help what YOU are I'm
done. swore 70 him last night. and
he was TOO silly - hear me. but swear
20 YOU now. Liddy. and TO God above
Annie" .
"-,ha, I'm done. And i you don't
= lajlsvs me look at my packed telescope
there In the corner and my veil on my
hat. and"
Annie"
We had enough respect for his jot
al these wears meyer 70 show IN there
,ipsy: nc had enough respect :or his
ba5v never 70 let him smell the N!'SncS'
on hts fathers breath. Hc-heS got
enough respect for his sister never u
want her 70 ne here at the house when
he-hc comes home SHY. but hNi
what's ~ got FOR ne? His VIE. 70;
me. What. T.!d4y, what What And
she rel' forward IN hrC own arms
drerched IN q bath o. '"aTS
Hes your husband. Annie: before
God. he's your husband. and E.oth'Hg
can change T."
..I tel YOU. riddy - he comes home
a. rNd-eyed tonight 50 help r(N r there
ANYTHING can change me. There's III"
81 seven-r!ftv 81. Louis accommodation out
% hero. and tel you I'm done. Done
".Eo. no, Annie girl. You come 70 ne,
For Gods sake. you come 10 nc. IT u
amt all well tonight. TIL keep the
lamp burning FOR you In the side win
dow and the shade UP so you'll SEQ II.
Annie. when you reach the tracks. Ia
= stay here with you. Annie. only Z makes
steve sore II stay to--to see him come
like that. I'll keep the light, girl and
% and you come 20 me. 7" me.
NO no, Idly. that amt the Kind o.
done am. Reasiey's always got cor
uer for me somewhere In her roonIns
house. I can get Job trlmmtn' in Elm
STEMS there easy as anything, any day
want. I'm done I.!ddv, for sure. Done
tell you. I'm going"
"Annle-Annie you-you wouldnt"'
rwouldnt I? Watch"
Ala little after 1 came dusk 20 a dusk
. oolored day: at 5. night. with tho wind
gone down and tho rain faster and finer,
= Ike sp!lllng sands. The Chicago limit
q ed, with a Shrek OF a maniac and with
out pause for Spartan. tore neck and
. neck with It's schedule through the
Do town. rafting its window-1anes and the
warning bell at crossroads.
At6 O'Clock a medley OF steam wills
. ties rose Ike rockets from the various
roofs OF the ncto7-f,owney Wire
? Works. and 500 workers Strengthened
and wlnched OF crick IN the back.
In Annie K!neady's Kitchen Il lamr
burning against tin reflector anc
through Il brilliantly c.cra chimney
threw yellow patch out into the Hud
q died side yard. Annie K;n"adv drew
, that shade and placed 4 th,ck rll'H ot
: thickly CIT bread n the crhter oc the
= spread tab,e. strong smells % the
= not coupon clippers arc strong enough
f. 70 digest. rose from TIC range 70 ;At
rsaltnr and down again. warming anc
, ,hIckenIn, thr -onsr Tho smell ~
: once rana thronC finally. ard tn.
e. sound o: sc"thlnr. and with her bril-
liant head nunE back AGAINST the rise
OF steam. she pushed the Over-ho!llH2
not 20 tho rear Of the stove. raised tbs
=. s,ove-Nn and NoNrd a. the live Goals
e their red flowing all over he-.
Then she sat down IN thu low rocke
. between the racre and the indoor els
81. tern. but not back ag1!ns' q: erect IN
stead v!,N her cgrs strHiD!0E through
the steady sound o. rain AMI re
hands. whore they r'used over M
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