The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-23
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, Blue Grass farm, Need Mead
ows, with their indolent, loveabie
grandmother, Major Sam Need
and two old negro servants Al
tbv and Zeke. Kate is engaged to
handsome Morgan Prenti.s, who
neglects her for Eve Elweli' beau
tiful and wealthy.
Major Need, addieated to drink
lose. Need Meadows to jeff How
ard, bitter young mountaineer
Who owns coal lands. Kate treats
JEFF rudely and he responds with
in.olenee, though he is drawn to
her and cannot get her out OF his
mind. .,.,
The Needs move into "Rickety
House." a tenant house nearby.
Kate and Caroline are invited to
a dance at the home of a friend,
Cynthia Chenault. They meet an
old lady who asks them what has
become of the buried Need sill.
YER. Questioning her grandfather,
Kate learns a valuable silver tea
service was CURED during the
Civil War and never located. She
realizes that it lies on land now
owned by Jeff Howard, and be-
gins to plot for It's recovery.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIV
In order not to arouse her sis
ter's suspicious, Kate went back
to her room, undressed and went
to bed. When Caroline came up
stairs later she found her there,
apparently drowsy with sleep.
Kate mumbled family, "Too
bad for you, Honey. My week
next the window" They took
turns weekly sleeping in the more
placed bed. Actually
Kate would have been happy for
Caroline (who looked pale and
lifeless from the damp heat to
have the place by the window to-
night, yet she dared not risk it.
Much better, she decided, for
Caroline to sleep acros the room
where sounds from "the eXpedi-
ton" would not reach her.
Kate lay still an dthense until
Caroline's regular breathing told
her she slept. Then she got
stealthily from bed, dressed her
self in dark clothes and tennis
shoes and crept downstairs.
When she reached the quarters
of Zeke and Althy she found them
ready and waiting. Together they
went to the barn lot. She looked
to see if Zeke had carried out her
orders. Yes, Dobbin was hitched
to the Spring wagon" On the
wagon floor was the pick, two
spades and some burlap sacking
in which to wrap the silver, when
they had found it. Kate took her
seat on the sacking and motioned
Zeke and Althy to the drivers
seat.
No mishap accompanied the de.
parture. They went by way OF
the pasture gate, Kate closing it
silently behind them. They fol-
lowed the Mount Hebron pike for
a mile, then took the crossroad
that led to the State Pike. As they
were about to make this turn a
motor car rushed past them. caus-
ing Kate to realize her reckless
ness in insisting that they carry no
lighted lanterns.
This narrow escape seemed to
rob Zeke of his courage, to bring
him to his senses. He was all for
turning around and going home
while there was yet time for eau
ton.
"Dis here business" he an
mournfully, sis bad! It's
right sneaky, an risky, too. Amt
no good comm Of it"
Althy, always the more adven-
turous Of the two, gave him a re-
slap on the cheek near
est her. "You give me dem lines"
she snorted. "If'n you's 'fraid OF
yoah shadow, me an Miss Kate
can go on by ourselves"
The abuse had the desired eff
feet. Zeke put Dobbin into as
brisk a walk as the darkness al
lowed. A growing excitement
gripped them all, and, as they
drew near to Need Meadows, Kate
was actually aware of her heart
pounding at her ribs.
Hurry she whispered as
Zeke dallied with the tying of the
horse in the woodland avenue.
Hurry! Let's get at it"
The night seemed no longer
dark. The fragment of a new
moon was showing itself. Their
eyes could distinguish outlines
plainly.
They kept to the shadows. Only
at one place was there great
length Of moon-lit space that must
be traversed. This was the stretch
that led them to the oak tree near
the porch.
"Noww whispered Kate. She
vent to the west of the tree, which
was the side farthest from the
house. She looked up at the out
limbs and with her eyes
the measured it's height, calculat-
I'd it's shadows on the ground. She
inelt at a certain spot and pointed
% the earth. "Dig here" she said.
Zeke obeyed. The digging was
almost soundless. Recent rains
lad softened the earth until the
,ick's contact with the ground was
,nly muffled thud.
Kate looked at the great square
louse with it's fluted colmns and
lark windows. It's loneliness smote
Ter. Never before had she thought
# Need Meadows being lonely for