Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-07-06

pat spoke all or SuOuent ana said
to me how would you like to go TO
live with Mrs. Dale bills mother. 1
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 1 asked.
of course pat said. ide be glad 10
have you but Mrs. Dale wants you
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 a
sad and remorsehe woman. then
got To thinking bill mite be the cause
of bringing peece between you and
yore parents and so told pat would
go and l did. ime glad said pat but
ime sorry 10 loso you but ii is the best
way and VIC can see each other often
cant we deer.
well bill it wassent long until a 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 patrisha 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 baV
from beginning TO end and when told
him about the fife In the river he
grinned and grinned and said you al
ways was jam full of the fife stuff.
hell come out Of IL all rite the worst
OF 1t is his haveing 10 stay in Jail until
the trial comes off said your father
at the Hext term OF cote. weed bet
ter see If we can't get him out on
bond he said haddent we elizabeth and
indede q sad woman. there wassent
much about her TO remine me Of the
time when she called me q savaje
person. she said am delited you came
| elizabeth and cride little couldent
help il 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 10
the shooting OF black adam and you
was free and 1t has set his mind at
rest. but IL diddent set my mind at rest
for because / no the mountain hart
know Gale Moreland is jest takeing
yore place In jail until the day Of the
trial for that is the way of the More
lands. pore Gale is a 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 /.
we'll bill kind friend jimmy fayne
has jes sent yore mothers made UP
hear TO ask IL he can see me and
will half to go down stares and see
what he wants.
yOlto ltoDtNliNtly.
Babe.
Bill Dale folded the bulky letter
and put 1t slowly back into the enyel-
ope. Then his gaze wandered through
window and to where q golden
winged high-holer was hammering in
dustriously at the top branch of
dead tree. lie 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 hillman in the
straight-back chair behind him.
"'Yores respectively, Baber' Haw,
haw, haw! Well. Bill, dadsling it, 1t
shorely to goodness amt nothln' to
turn all that red about! When the
nights gone the day comes, don't 1t?
Bill. old boy, it's the same thing!"
"You get out of here, Byw Dale
stormed in mock severity. go and
help the commissary clerk with the
new goods; eh?'
Heck laughed another horselaugh,
rose and went out.
When he had gone, Dale began TO
think-of the ultra-spoiled, charming
after-a-fashlon, wealthy, young, high
night devotee, Jimmy Fayne. And he
wondered, and wondered, what would
come of Fayne's quick liking for Babe
Littleford.
After he had viewed the matter from
above and below and all sides around,
he frowned like a berserker.
Here is what came OF Jimmy Fayne's
quick liking for Babe Littleford-
-
The days had passed swiftly. and au-
tumn was far advanced. Save for a
few chrysanthemums and asters that
grew in places sheltered from the
frosts. the flowers were all gone; the
naples were shedding their leaves OF
brown, crimson and gold.
Ben Littlefords daughter had
changed much In many ways. She had
tried a. hard as ever mortal tried TO
learn the correct use OF words; and
Mrs. Dale had been patient, palnstak-
ing and efficient In her teachings. Fot