The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-06
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Kate and Caroline Need live
ON n farm with their indolent,
lovable grandfather, Major Sam
Need, and two old negro servants,
Althy and Zeke. Kate is engaged
to Morgan Prentiss but breaks
the engagement just as he is on
the point of jilting her for Eve
El~ell, wealthy and beautiful.
Major Need loses the farm to
JEFF Howard, a bitter young
mountaineer. Kate hates JeH tor
taking. their home and treats him
in.olently, but Jeff finds himself
loving her.
Kate and Caroline add to their
xrandfather's small pension by
selling baked goods. In desperate
need of money. Kate sells her be-
loved horse, Brown Boy, to a
neighbor. Later she finds that JEFF
has bought Brown Boy and she is
angered.
Eve and Morgan announce their
engagement. Johnnie Baird, a
former sutton, asks Kate to marry
him but she refuses. Johnnie be-
lieves Kate still loves Morgan.
She will not admit, even to her
self, that she is strangely fasei-
mated by Jeff Howard.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XVII
The steps came nearer. Not
hurried, but deliberate and pur-
poseful And then the man
himself was in the room.
Kate, flat against the bricks,
eyes closed, was thinking, This
must be a nightmare | can't have
gotten myself into a mess like
thisr' But she had. And now
she opened her eyes to look into
the peering face of Jeff Howard,
who had stepped around the CHM
ney with the relentless instinct OF
q hunter on a hare's trail.
"Well," he said shortly, 80 it's
you. / might have known"
"Why might you?" Kate re-
torted with hostility.
Because you can't keep off my
property. What do you want this
time?"
Something | left here" Kate
answered. ave just found it.
I'll take it now and leave"
Maybe you'll not take it."
cts mine, tell you. The whole
trunks mine"
"Then why do you come sneak
in up here like house-breaker?
Some more of your blue-blooded
tactics, | reckon?"
The sneer in his voice and the
Justice of his accusation madden
ed her. She could not bear to
have him in the right and herself
in the wrong. She felt despised
and Inundated by him. She said
with a short laugh, YOU'D have
preferred having me come fawn- !
ing and begging of it, of course.
That's typical of you" /
"You don't know what's typical
of me~ he said violently.
Typical of your class then. The !,
person who comes up from moth
ing because he has money
"You'd like to have money your
self" he retorted, striving toI
wound. in his own turn. Why
can't you be a sport about this
business"
"Tm not envious of your
money" -,
"You're envious of what it's
done for me. It's gotten me your
house and land. Your horse even.
You're pretty poisonous about il.
"You think you've gotten Need
Meadows" Kate said. "But you've
only got its present. It's history
belongs to my family"
"Your wonderful family" he
remarked. "Well, the blood's run
out, if you ask me. Nobody left
but a cheerful old sot and couple
of lazy girls. He did not pause
at her indraw exclamation of sur
prise and rage. "I'm about to
give the place a clean slate and
CttdT ~ VI any OAN khCoSS NSN
haunt it. Pm changin' its name
from Need Meadows to Towards
place. Furthermore, Pm plannin'
to put some of these pastures in
tobacco"
They did not know that, as they
looked at each other, seeking
words that would taunt and sting.
the candle had turned over and
consumed the tissue paper from
the trunk. The flames of their
own anger were too intoxicating
to let them perceive the little lick
ing flames that shot along the
floor. eating into the papers
spread there.
II was the smell of the parching
dried beans that made them see
what was happening. In the
stupcfied silence, Kate spoke first.
"Meed Meadows is burning"
Jeff Howard uttered an ex-