The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, December 28, 1922, Image 8
The Good Luck
Knocker
xnsaoi
By JANE OSBORN
A
<€ by McClure N*w«pap«*r Uyndlcate.)
Myra Oriinwude stopped at the nur*
serymau’a on her way hojne fiAmi
achool one Suturday afternoon In Oc
tober. She watt buying , some bulba
to be planted now for spring flower
ing. The nurseryman asked her If
she did not want to set out any shrubs
or sinall 4rees.
Myra hesitated. ‘‘I know the place
lacks shade dreadfully,” she said, “but
it would be several years before they
did anything." 1
' “You aren’t thinking of leaving, are
-.you?" smiled the old nunteymau good
uaturedly.
“Oh, no," assured Myra, "duly one
hates to put a lot of money In a place
on shrubs and trees when one isn’t
sure that one will stay long enough to
enjoy them. 1 get toy appointment by
the school board only for a year at a
time." •
“I guess there’s no chance the school
board won't reappoint you," assured
the nurseryman, who was well In
formed In local politics. "Why, there’s
Miss Snooks. SSie’s taught* tb the
schools for forty years."
Myra suppressed a slgb. * “Forty
years!” she gasped. "That's a long,
long time.”
Itut she went home with her bulbs
withoot buying the shrub*
Myra wan twenty-four $h** bad been
appointed to touch Kugllsli In the high
school tn I>ulton two >esrs l*ef\»re when
site left college, end bemuse she had
no fauill) and didn't like hoarding
houeoa and did like the shady streets
and quiet wa>a of the little town of
Lfeitoo. Site bad built s little house oO
M
I
It 0>Ht **•< s Or<t*w> e
d
Mr “ , | * •••
i‘f tier i»etgM«ir« th<-agM
n tbst Mtva ttrlmwale
te«>-|i in I •■It<4, the rr>*l
H'*'< > \|.—
o< it a* s •'
ha«t dea t
id hre life
Une fl.ix M » r» was brow •mg ar.aitel
a little •ei^Hid-hsnd fumtiure •hufk.tn
a mn-«loan neigtil«i*rhond of olil I tul-
top She ws» Imihliig f<tr an lne\|«en-
alve pair of Niidtrotia Kite i||«| not
find the andiron*, hut sin* del naiie
up<>n m much rsrniHheil hrua* knocker
thrown In with nther bits of Junk in s
decrepit old •cuttle She bought it fi»r
s song, 'unking no comment* thut
might Induce the dealer to raise Its
price
*‘lt'a one of those miserable ^oh|
things.” commented the dealer.
came off a house the> tore down some
where around here. Had to chop the
door down, almost, to get the knocker,
hut, then, the doo* whs bust In, any
way. Nowadays they makes the
knockers so they screw on easy, but
tills one has rivets that goes right
through. If it hadn't a’ been made so
queer 1 might ’s' sold It before. Hut
no one wan ted to go to all that fuss to
fasten It on.”
Myra waited until she reached home
to admire the knocker ae leisure. It
was large, ami displayed a griflin’s
head of a stamp that Myra bad never
seen on any modern replicas. But she
hesitated about putting It on her front
door. Once It was attached, reasoned
Myra, it would have to remain in
place. If she left and sold her house,
future tenants would not appreciate
the old knocker; they would not pay
her what it was worth. Besides, she
wanted the knocked herself: ^ ’ ...
Then one day after a rather gloomy
day at school and a gloomier visit from
MU* Snooks. Myra gave instructions to
a nearby carpenter to go to work and
fasten the old knocker on her front
door. The seat day when she re
turned from school tie was waiting to
finish the Job Before her supper the
knocker was la place. When it was
knocked It aeot out a booming soon
that faixJx JhQQlk tot Ultia hauar
“I'm going to atay here the neat of
my Ilf*” afce t«M a younger teacher
wfeo caMed an her that evanlog ‘Tve
la
rates
"Fiddles!Uka. Myra." said her com
panion. "You'll marry, af coarse."
"Wlmm would I msrryT* asked
Myra, with eyes wide open.
"Don't ask me," laughed the other
teacher. "Kvery girl has two or three
men to choose from when tbs Unit
comes."
”1 haven't," sald^Iyra simply. The
other teacher shrugged her shoulders
Slid the'tnalter seemed to be settled.
The next Ifay a letter estne from
Tom Jurrold, u letter that Myru had
been expecting for many months. But
when she opened It and read it she
found that the letter said more lima
she had expected Tom Jarrobl's letter
would say. Briefly he wanted to marry
her. Ilg had been on a long ,l>usii0.sg
trip.. Affairs had shaped'themselves,
us lie would explain later. Me had
been released from an old engagement
and now offered himself and his mil
lions to My fa. *
Myfa at lirst felt resentment that
Tom had not relieved her anxiety by
writing before, ihPin there was curiosity
concerning the igher engagement, of
which she had never known. Later she
was In a mood to write a letter that
would amount to an acceptance. Then
she looked uj) from her desk, saw the
rivets of the knoCker sticking through
to the inside of the door, and wrote a
Letter of refusal.
"Somehow now that I’ve got that
knocker attached 1 can’t leave," she
told herself. “Those old rivets seem to
hold me right here to Dalton." ,
The letter was sealed and Myra
aturted at a loud resounding knock.
She opened the door gnd stood f**c«M4»
face with Bailey Manway, known to
every one tn Dalton save newcomem
It tee herself.
“Fardon me," he said, "hut I *awr
our old knocker, your old knocker now,
of course. You see, our family has
lived hen-' for centuries. That knockef
was mi the old Hanwa> house, inru
down ten years ago while | «ra* off at
ndU-ge. Then you know I wag in
Franc* daring the war ami after that
hustiHSM kept me bct*w* for a while,
amt —well, I always Ibtetuled to get I
hold "f the old d<n*r km* her. but I I
ne\er did I Just hap|a-n»«t to we It as '
I was pa*alt*c and I thought I’d % tut>" *
Myra asked Halley llanwnjr to sit 1
•b»w a la her ttttt* living rooni Fi
plaining Ms at'S'bment fur tW old
knocker ho asked |f || nas mweffd# I
that be might buy It hwh.
Then a,nf a ten kettle •••ding '
oseT •wiled VI * m to the ktf-heo As J
she oeni She ashed Mr Manway »•• ‘
slay l-aig e—otgh to dnwh a ntf -f tow >
•od Mn Manway »rry g’adiy aesrptod ,
-| dmiT mo hM I #wa let yww haso
the kowthef." she esgtslnod WSOT tho
ten enf* “T.aa soo. H fcs attwched tn
tho .».-e I fmmt 4or«4ad hwiaf that I
e—*M noser teO«o ISsll~at and thts ttttle
h'—o > mi ana* of tho kwwtkar se I
•hmT aoo W*w |Tn ^dng In •wft wtfh
n m
kit Mnoony dH ant nrge his ymtmt
•*w» ohm ho omt that efts mom ho
ashed If ho asight at team return the
nett day at (no to son (ho aid kn«rker
»• rwh In * aildho^ at am >»toii
Thai reload M|fn ws«M to the ywM
-dNe •« fspnteh her totter i* fuan
Jace>a«t nho did M W—W wtihunt to
•truhe*! fhe mid .<id grtdht “tissaf «dd
Steehes * sho so*d tto *»euu» wsaidd
ha*r • ««iar If ■( hodnT Iwon f*W tow ’
1 be mti •kay Ikt.tey (ton*ay cnMod
a*«*'» seer s» swohn i<i iheS* O' •V-<aio*eW-e
t-i • -e- -4 l a tartly Vklam ho Isno
a • tee •** **l I wan tod |o Indnro yon
to tri toe hate (he kmaher, hot'Wow I
k,«o«w I sJatll ne«Of wont t«, hj«r tho
knj^et uitlMatl I hr • hanwtng lllllo
ale, res» itrd It
,V«mI tie* *ery i»r%t weok nil ItaHm
«a* tnikittK «d the surprising engMgs-
Wenl of Vltm t< tin wade, a n*danty.
amt h ui*-) Manway. ri*h amt tndn-
rnual •l*-«*'rSelani of tfir founder of
the town
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