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il t..|.».H.»»»» l t.».|i.|.»».|<»»»»-|i»<Mi»‘H»i‘'t"M»l'‘M"M l » l »’'»*» >+++*M**»4 ❖ I! ABNER DANIEL By ... WILL N. HAR.BEN Author of Copyright, 1902, by HARPER. ® BROS., Who Publish the Work in Book Form. All Rights Reserved • - ’♦’■"W* *f* d"f* *i* *' ’'^Bssrsis^s CHAPTER XXIV. |BOUT a week after the events recorded in the preceding chapter old •man Bishop, just at dusk one evening, rode up to Pole Baker's bnmhie domicile: Pole was in the front yard making a tire of sticks, twigs and chips. “What’s t : ferV” the old man ques tioued as he dismounted and hitched his horse to the worm fence. “To drive olT mosquitoes,” said Pole. | wiping his eyes, w 'eh were red from the effects of tin* smoke. “I'll never HI i.oru: i Know tne place like a book,” said Pole, “an’ it's a dandy in i vestment, Mr. Bishop. They say he offered it fer fifteen hundred. It’s | wutli two thousand. You won’t drap i any money by buyin’ that property, .Mr. Bishop. I’d hate to contract! to build jesi the house an’ well an’ out houses fer a thousand.” ! "I bought it,” Bishop told him. “He let me have it fer a good deal less 'u tiftccn hundred, cash down.” "Well, you made a dandy trade, Mr. Bishop. Ah. that’s what ready “What’s the use o’ me tryln’ to git even with Alan.” Pole exclaimed, “ef he's eternally j^-goin’ to git up some’n? I’ve been tickled to death ever since I cornered old Craig till now, but you an’ him has sp'iled it all by this heer trick. It ain’t fair to me.” “Well, it’s done,” smiled the old man as he went to his horse, “an’ ef you don’t live thar with Sally I'll make ’er git a divorce.” Bishop had reached a little pigpen in a fence corner farther along on his way home when Mrs. Baker suddenly emerged from a patch of high corn in front of him. "Is he a-goin’ to take it. Mr. Bishop?” she asked, panting from her hurried walk through the corn that hid her from the view of the cabin. “Yes.” Bishop told her. “Pm a-goin’ to send two wagons over in the morn- in’ to move yore things. I wish it was ten times as good a place as it is, but it will insure you an’ the children a livin’ an’ a comfortable home.” After the manner of many of her kind, the woman uttered no words of thanks, but simply turned back into the corn, and, occupied with her own vision of prosperity and choking with grati tude, she hurried back to the cabin. pass another night 1 the last un ef m,)n, '- v "111 dellien you got the cash. I kin hc'p it. I ’low .d my hide was things seem to come at bottom tigurcs. thick, but they bored fer oil all over ! I*' s hop drew a lohled paper trom me from dark till sun-up. I never ’ve i ^' s lin '* Cupped it on Ins knee, tried smoko, but Hank Watts says it’s | I closed the deal this eveuin , ahead o’ pennyr’yal.” “Shucks!” grunted tl e planter. “You ain’t workln’ it right A few rags burnin’ in it pan nigh yore lied may drive 'em out. but a smjke out heer in the yard ’ll jest drive ’ei i in.” “What?” said Pole In high disgust. “Do you expect me to sleep sech hot weather as this is with n lire nigh my bed? The durn things may eat me raw. but I’ll be 1 darned ef I barbecue myse’f to please ’em.” Mrs Baker appeared n the cabin door holding two of the youngest chil dren by their hands. “He won't take my advice, Mr. Bishop.” she said. “I jest rub a little lamp oil on my face an’ hands, an’ they don’t fetch n e.” Polo grunted and looked \ ith laugh ing eyes, at the old man. “She axed me t'other night why I’d quit kissin’ ’or,” he said. “An’ I told er I didn’t keer any more fer kerosene than the mosquitoes did.” Mrs. Baker laughed pleasantly as she brought out a chair for Bishop and Invited him to sit down. He complied, twirling his riding whip in his hand. From his position, almost on a level with the floor, he could see the interior of one of the rooms. It was almost bare of furniture. Two opposite coi ners were occupied by crude bedsteads: in the center of the room was a cradle made from a soapbox on rockers sawed from rougli poplar boards. It had the appearance of having been in use through several generations. Near it stood a spinning wheel and a three legged stool. The sharp steel spindle gleamed in the firelight from the big log and mud chimney. “What’s the news from town, Mr. Bishop?” Pole asked awkwardly, for it struck him that Bishop had called to talk with him about some business and was reluctant to introduce it. "Nothin’ that interests any of us, 1 reckon, Pole.” said the old man, “ex cept that I made that Investment in Shoal Cotton factory stock.” “That’s good,” said Pole, in the tone of anybody but a man who had never invested a dollar in anything. “It’s all hunkey, an’ my opinion is that It ’ll never be wuth less.” "I did heer, too.” added Bishop, “that it was reported that Craig had set up “ Well, it’» yorct,” he said, ft little grocery store out in Texas, nigh the Indian Territory. Some thinks that Wlnshlp ’ll turn up thar an’ jlne ’im. but a body never knows what to be lieve these days.” “That shore is a fact,” opined Pole. •‘Sally, that corn bread’s a-burnln’. Ef you’d use less lamp oil, you’d smell bet ter.’’ Mrs. Baker darted to the fireplace, raked the live coals from beneath the cast irou oven and Jerked off the lid in a cloud of steam and smoke. She turned over the pone with the aid of a case knife and then came back to the door. “Fer the last month I’ve bad my eye on the Bascome farm,” Bishop was saying. “There’s a hundred acre» even, some good bottom land and up land an’ in the neighborhood o’ thirty •crea & good wood. Then thar’s a five room house, well made an’ tight, an’ a barn, cowhouse an’ stable.’’ an' I was' jesi a-thinkin’ that as you hain't rented fer next yeer—I mean”— Bishop was ordinarily direct of speech, but somehow his words became tan gled and he dell venal himself awk wardly on this occasion. “You set', Alan thinks' that you 'n Sally ort to live in a better house than jest this heer log cabin, an'’— The wan face of the tired woman was aglow with expectation. She sank down on the doorstep and sat still and mute, her hands clasping each other in her lap. She had always dis liked that cabin and its sordid sur roundings, and there was something in Bishop's talk that made her think he was about to propose renting the new Karin, house and all, to her husband. Her mouth fell opeu; she scarcely al lowed herself to breathe. Then, as Bishop paused, her husband’s voice struck dumb dismay to her heart. It was as if she was falling from glowing hope back to tasted despair. “Thar’s more land in that farm ’an I could do jestice to, Mr. Bishop, but cf thar’s a good cabin on it an’ you see Ut to cut off enough fer me aa’ one boss I’d jest as soon tend that as.this heer. I want to do what you an’ Alan think is best all round.” “Oh, Pole, Pole!” The woman was crying It to herself, her face lowered to her hands that the two men might not see the agony written in her eyes. A house like that to live in, with all those rooms and fireplaces and win dows with panes of glass in them! She fancied she saw her children playing on tlie tight, smooth floors and on the honeysuckled porch. For one minute these things had ’been hers, to be snatched away by the callous indiffer ence of her husband, who, alas, had never cared a straw for appearances! “Oh, I wasn’t thinkin’ about rentin’ it to you!” said Bishop. And the wo man’s dream was over. She raised her head, awake again. “You see,” went on Bishop, still struggling for proper expression, “Alan thinks — well, he thinks you are sech a born fool about not acceptin’ help from them that feels nigh to you an’, I may as well say, grateful, exceedingly grateful, fer what you’ve done, things that no other livin’ man could ’a’ done—Alan thinks you ort to have the farm fer yo-e own prop erty, an’ so the deeds has been made out to”— Pole dr«w himself up to his full height. His big face was flushed, half with anger, half with a strong emotion of a tenderer kind. He stood towering over the old man like a giant swayed by the warring winds of good and evil. “I won’t heer a word more of that, Mr. Bishop,” he said, with a quivering lip—“not a word more. By golly, I mean what I say! I don’t want to heer another word of It. This heer place Is good enough fer me an’ my family. It’s done eight yeer. an’ It kin do an other eight.” “Oh, Pole, Pole, Pole!” The wom an’s cry was now audible. It came straight from her pent up, starving soul and went right to Bishop’s heart. “You want the place, don’t you, Sal ly?” he said, calling her by her given name for the first time, as If he had Just discovered their kinship. He could not have used a tenderer tone to child of bis own. “Mind, mind what you say, Sally!” ordered Pole from the depths of his fighting emotion. “MiM what you say!” M The woman looked at Bishop. Her glance was on fire. “Yes, I want It—I want it!” she cried. “I ain’t goin’ to He. I want it more right now than I do tlfe kingdom of heaven. I want It ef we hpve a right to it. Oh, I don't knowl’^he dropped her head in her lap and^kan to sob. Bishop stood up. He toward her in a jerky fashion and laid his band on the pitifully tight knot of hair at the back of her bead. . “Well, it’s yores,” he said. “Alan thought Pole would raise a kick about It an’ me an’ him bad It made out In yore name, so he couldn’t tetcb It. It’s yores, Sally Ann Baker. .That’s the way It reads.” The woman’s sobs Increased, but they were sobs of unbridled Joy. With her apron to her eyes she rose and hur ried into the bouse. The eyes of the two men met. Bishop spoke first: “You’ve got to give in. Pole," he said. “You’d not be a man to stand betwixt yore wife an’ a thing she wants as bad as she does that place, an’ by ail that’s good an’ holy, you sha’u’t!” This storv will be continued ir m xt Friday’s issue. The Uenentl Itlra. (Cliai-leston News and C'ourier.l Col. John T. Sloan, Lieutenan' Governor of South Carolina, spent h few hours in Charlotte, N. C , several days ago. The Observer reports thai “Col. Sloan will be one of the guber natorial candidates in bis Srate in ne ut xt campaign. His friends s»\ Mat his past record will insure bii- lection to the highest office in ih- qate.” This will be news to Col 'loan's thousands of admirers it "outh Carolina. 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