The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-05
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Kate and Caroline Need live
on a farm with. their indoiens
lovable grandfather, Major Sam
Need, and two old negro servants,
AIthy and Zeke. Kate is engaged
10 Morgan Prentiss but breaks
the engagement just as ne IS on
the point of jilting her for I've
EIweU. wealthy and beautiful.
Major Need loses the farm to
JefF Howard, bitter young
mountaineer. Kate hates Jeh TOR
taking their home and treats him
insolently, but Jeff finds himself
loving her. 49,,
Kate and Caroline add to their
srandfather's small pension by
,ellins baked goods. In desperate
need of money, Kate sells her be-
loyed horse, Brown Boy, to a
r.;ghbor. Later she finds that. JeH
ha, bough, Brown Boy and she Is
angered. :,
Eve and Morgan announce their
engagement. Johnnie Baird,
former sutton, asks Kate to marry
him but she refuses. Johnnie be-
l;eves Kate still loves Morgan.
She will not admit, even to her
self, that she is strangely tasei-
mated by Jeff Howard.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXVl
kate and Caroline peeled toma-
toes while Althy cooked them on
the kitchen stove for canning.
The kitchen was hot, yet not dis
agreeable. The cheerful old col
ored woman was no longer MINI
BILE at her work. but her wit was
as keen and her memory as rich
as ever. Her curiosity, too, was
active, especially on any point
that concerned the girls. She
questioned them relentlessly.
"What for Mr.. Johnnie Baird
keep comm out heah attain
dark"
"To see me-" Kate told her.
al know dat, honey. But what
he want?" >,
kisses, love and marriage"
Kate said 1t was the sort of an
swer that delighted Althy and
shocked Caroline. The former
gave a shrill cackle, but Caroline
pretended she had not heard.
Kate said to Althy, "My sisters
disguised with me. She's been
hoping all week that I'm falling
in love with Johnnie Baird"
Caroline spoke up. "Of course
Pve hoped it. But / see now it's
a vain hope. You'd not be fhppant
if YOU cared anything about him."
"And that makes us both sor-
nv" Kate replied, suddenly seri-
Gus. 1--WE tried, Caroline. Just as
YOU tried to care about Mr.: Gray
SON, but | can't manage 1t. guess
the Need girls will be spinsters'
after al"
-Althy made an angry snorting
sound. Her fondest dream was 10
see both of them in white SATIN
and floating tulle, showered by
rice and old shoes. Other young
ladies attained that glory. why
not hers?
Caroline, looking out the win
dow, said, 1.-THE mailman's putting
something beside the newspaper
in the box. it's a letter."
She ran out to the mail box and
returned with the letter. Its for
me. Wait-Ill open it. oh, it's
from Miss Alsworth on the Foster
committee. She read it aloud,
after hurriedly glancing through
il:
Dear Caroline: We should like
to have you sing for US at the
Stephen Collins Foster celebration
in Bardstown next Friday, as our
county's contribution to the occa-
sion. Frankly, Mary Stokes was
to have been the Shelby represen-
tative on the program, but she
has been called to Arizona by her
brothers illness. She had chosen
to sing "Come Where My Love
Lies Dreaming" AS this has been
announced by the program COM
mittee, we shall ask you to sing
this song in order to avoid con-