The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-28
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Kate and Carolina Need live OF
a farm, Need Meadows, with then
lovable and incident grandfather
Mai Sam Need, and two old ne
gro servants, Althy and Zeke
Kate is engaged to hausome Nor
gar Prertiss, who pegleets her to'
Eve Elwell. beautiful and veal
thy. . q,
Major Need loses Need Mead
ows to jeff Howard, bitter
Young mountaincer who owns
coal lards. Kate treats JEFF rude
" ard he responds with insolenee
though he is drawn to her. The
Needs move into a nearby tenant
house. Kate learns that her fam
ily buried a valuable silver ser
vice during the Civil War. She
broods over this news and per-
suades Althy and Zeke to &C
company here TO Need Meadows
one night, where they dig for the
silver.
Jeff shoots to brighten them,
and wounds Kate slightly in the
shoulder. He does not know this
until he 6rds the spade with a
bloody handle. Jeff fights his
growing love for the girl. He re-
turns the spade and Carolina tells
him that Kate is not badly hurt.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER Mn
The offices of the law firm OF
PrcrtisS and Elwc.l occupied sew
eral Old-taShjOuCd ROOMS over Il
hardware store on Center street.
Though unprctentiouSly housed.
il was one of the most important
legal firms I'm the state. Somcday
the name on the window would
be changed 20 "Prcnt.SS. E,wcll,
and PrcntlSS." for Morgan Prem
tiSS' son. had entered into the
partnership con beginner
basis two years before. after
graduation from The University "i
Virginia.
Morgan was alone i'm The otii.r
today. Judge PgcutiSS was trout
fishing in Canada. and Mr. FL
well was in Lexington on bust
ness. Morgan had just persuaded
4 client 20 compromise with Il m2n
he wanted 20 sue.
After all, Mr.. Brown, Morgan
uointcd out. 1--WE cant have every
thin. i'm this world IL would be
pleasant. | grant you. but ro ones
ever found the way 10 work II.
When the client had gone Nor
can reflected ON Ills own advice.
He had actually directed that
statement at himself, He VAS
thinking Of his provisional pro-
LoSal 10 Kate Need the night be-
fore. She would accept his terms.
of course. and they would be mar
licd soon. I'm many ways he'd be
short-changed when he cot nate
Need. There We're a great many
things she lacked that the wife OF
a rising young lawyer should have
money. influence, ambition. q
talent for diplomacy.
But she stir> me-, he admitted.
There's some kind of charm and
power i'm her makeup that the
others lack"
II was NOT the first time he had
argued pro and con about Nate.
After Cynthia Cheuault'S dance
Morgan had suspected that Eve
Elwell was making a play for
him. The thought fIattered him.
Eve with her many admirers scat
tered over the country. Eve with
her good looks and her cynical
wisc-cracking. Eve who made
every other girl i'm the ncighbor-
hood Except Cynthia Chcnault
look small-towu and provincial.
Was Eve actually fishing for him.
ne wondered. or was she only
keeping in practice until bigger
game driftcd into Signt?
Tempted time and again TO iilt
Kate Need and be done with her.
Morgan had RETAINED. for reasons
too complex 10 untangle. Eve
might be playing with him. And
then. hate herself held him
strangely. He was often conSci-
Gus of a nostalgia for her vivid
personality. her simple devotion
and strength. Seeing her again
al that miserable party Of hers
had been his undoing. He had ab-
horrcd the party. had Croancd over
il with Eve afterward. Gc: Hates
sweetness and gallantry through
it all had touched 4 part of mis-
heart that was still uncalloused
and chivalrous. Last night he had
impulSivcly gone 20 her with MS
proposal.
The office telephone rang. The
secretary answered in an adjoin-
ING room and Morgan could hear
her side of the conversation: