Jonas was cooking a bit af bacon
on the little stove when the door open.
ed and a rasping voice spoke famil-
larly: “Goin’ to sell out, 1 see, Jonas,
eh?"
Jonas looked up in evident displeas-
ure. He was a slender, old man-—per-
baps seventy years of age. His hair
was thin and white, and his beard and
moustache grew long and straggly,
showing the pink skin beneath, for
Jonas was in prime health as a result
of his regular, active farm life. Now
his cheeks were pinker with irritation,
Bquire Barlow was not a welcome vis-
itor. Jonas's glance encountered
another old man—as advanced in years
as himself, but not as well preserved.
He was short and stout, with black
beady eyes deep-set in a yellowish,
leathery face. He looked the mean,
hard-fisted man he was known to be;
and as Jonas was not pleased with the
interruption he turned again to the
stove, giving curt assent to the
Squire's inquiry:
“Ye see right, Guess ye know the
meanin’ of red flags jes’ as well as
I do, seein’ as how gen'raly ye happen
to be ‘roun’ where there's bargains.
Will ye shet th’ door, Squire? 1 ain't
got no plans for heatin’ all out doors.”
Jonas spoke impatiently. Then, as
the Squire closed the door with an
| whipped the groun’ from under my
{feet with ye're consarned pretty man-
[ners an’
{ Ann Eliza out o' my arms, an’
her, damn ye. Mebbe ye don't remem
ber that, ye—-ye whelp, ye lyin,” dirty,
low-down."
It was well for the Squire that his
breath failed, for Jonas was up in an
instant, his eves flashing, his nostrils
white and dilated with sudden, virile
anger He leaned with one
{the table, and in his grasp was the
long bread-knife. His voice was ome
inously quiet:
“Steady, Squire. I
man to insult me in
nor anywhere else, 1
‘bout enough.
out an' stay.”
don't allow
my own
guess ye've
no
house,
said
ly. He picked up his hat, buttoned up
his coat over his still heaving breast,
and laid a heavy hand on. the door-
knob, Then he
minute the two men
about to spring. The
were drawn In a sneer,
yellow stubby teeth, “I
weepins,”
door. “But
row ye won't
Squire's lips
showing
ain't
mebbe this time to-mor-
be so quick to ask me
git out. 1 jest called to give ye
, THE PRE
meat out of
and put it on 1
ontinued his prepar
He gave a fina
the pot and
meat on the table, and cut
slice of bread. Then, as he
to eat he looked up at the 8q lire
1d, hard eyes:
‘1 didn't
n' I'll not ask ye to
ave yerself.” He spoke
almost as though he were
himself. And as the Squir
reddened with suppressed anger
he had expected Jonas fo cringe
fore hi Jonas calmly stirred hi
fee, looking meditatively ent of
across the bleak, frozen
coffee
set
sat
CoO
in, §
long
very quliet-
talking
face
for
bee
f.
ask ye to «
ome
at go
Fd ns ye
I
13
to
8 00
the
hill
m)
wind
gids
Jonas's
Ww
indifference was too much
for the Squire's temper and he let him.
golf ont with an oath. “Ab-h-h!"
snarled. “Ye may well say ye didn't
ask me In, Jonas Updyke. But ye
dassent nsk me why 1 come. For
ugh we've lived here in this valley
nigh seventy year, boys together, and
men togethe this Is the fust time In
forty year gone that Iwe crossed this
here doorsill ut it won't be the last,
Jonas, it won't be the last, me boy."
There was an unctions sneer In his
volee that grated on every fibre of
Jonn's being
“There wouldn't be no tears shed,
Squire, If ye wasn't to come back no
more An' as for crossin my
forty year, nobody knows bettern’
self how that happens.”
The Squire opened his coat, adjust.
el his collar, and began impressively,
emphasizing his words by tapping on
the table with a fat forefinger:
“Jonas Updrke, let me ask ye a few
questions, Maybe ye don't remember
how old ye're gettin—mebbe
yo've forgotten Ann Eliza
that lived in this town as a girl some
forty year back.” He waited for reply.
Jonas nodded his head “The best
girl that ever lived, peace to her ash-
v8.” he replied reverently,
“Aud mebbe ye don't remember”
went on the Bquire in a louder voice,
“thet for nigh five year I was a vis
tin’ Ann Eliza Wimble every Satur
day night, and takin her to meetin’
ever Thursday evenin' In good weatLer
and goin’ drivin’ with her, to say
nothin of buyin’ her gum drops, an
cologne, an sich.” Again
and again Jonas nodded
of the window sadly, for Aun
had been his wife for forty years,
less than two years before he
Insied her in the little village church.
a
y The Squire's volce rose in passionate
climax. His gestures became emphat
le: ‘Mebbe ye riccollect, then, Jonas
Updyke, that ‘bout that time ye
yer.
ir
B06
looking out
Ella
| gin,
he |
| ther:
step In |
Wimble |
he paused, |
and |
had |
CIOUS BUNDLE CLASPED IN HIS ARMS
not! ce,
notes,
com
Jonas, 1
08
I've b
! | for thirty
n the fust mort
fay 1
ye're duds
my turn now
He dodged the
oot and hastened
walk to his buggy a
Jonas went bas he kit : nd
cleared up the br
he sat own with
ever d
his pi pe to think it
over The Squire's words were no
Ir He knew that Barlow had
bought the notes: he knew that
there was no hope for | fter
morrow. He had packed his
clothes In a grip 1 was ready
To-morrow, hefore the wild be
he would walk out and leave the
old place, with all its memories, to its
new Owner.
Jona's nature was
and he did not sho
rise
up
alrend
ni
sale oo
fow
self-contained,
w his emotions, Yet,
as he wandered about the house,
thinking of Eliza, he came very near to
tears. It was all so lonesome and for
lorn. The dust | thick on the par
lor table, something he had never
known in the 1 days His mind
went back, as it had done a hundred
times during the to “Sonny.
his son Bill—and sob welled
up in his throat If Billy re only
but he put the thought reso
away. Billy was not there
Milly was but a memory, and Ann
Eliza was dead, and home was home
| no longer, Jonas was up long before
dawn the next morning. As Bquire
Barlow had predicted, he cooked his
last breakfast, and by sun-up he was
ready to depart. He stepped out of
{the yard without a look back, The
air was sharp with November frost
but he swung away Jown the road at
a gait that set his heart pounding joy-
ously. Over his shoulder, on a heavy
cane, he earried his carpet grip-sack
In his pocket was money--not so much
to Le sure, but enough to keep him for
a month, And why worry beyond
that, even at seventy
If you had asked Jonas whither he
Oke
week
a great
we
lately
but he felt In his heart that he could
| young. It was his boast,
| his ne Ighbors, that he
day, In look or manner,
| ten years. Bo he strode on with a
| light step, and for a week covered
| about twenty miles a day, putting up
in the past
| Uke wine;
a delight. He lived agn'n the days of
gixty-three when he tramped up and
down the State of Tennessee, fighting
and being fought, day after day,
through that terrible cawnpalgn,
ye're bank account, and took |
married |
band on |
Ye might as well git |
The Squire ealmed down Immediate |
turned and for full a |
looked steadily |
each into the other's eyes like animals |
his |
got no |
he said finally, opening the |
years of age? |
was bound be could not have told you, |
make his way to one of the large cities |
and find work, for his spirit was yet!
admitted by |
had not aged a |
at country hotels, The fresh air was |
the varying landscape was |
Have you ever thought, young man,
| what it means to be dubbed “old and
| no good?’ Have you an idea of the
hopelessness of age when the only out
| look Is continued peed and reduced
| earning capacity? The truth came
home strongly to Jonas when he began
to seek work. There was no work for
him. They wanted young men, He
was too old; he couldn't stand the
racket, And some were gentle
with the rebuff, Gradually
fund dwindled, and at last he made
Lis way by begging at farm houses
along the road He found shelter in
| Igy ricks and barns, sneaking in after
| dark and leaving before dawn, Lack
of food began to tell. ‘The wrinkles
deepened In his face; his eyes took
on a hopeless expression: his gait was
slower; his back began to bend. In a
| few weeks Jonas was an old, old man.
And with weakness enme the feeling
| of dependence. His pride melted, He
wanted a strong arm about him. But
there was only one in all the world ou
whom he might call-“Sonny.” And
where was “Sonny” now?
Joss
There was ample time for Jonas to
As be plodded along |
| the frozen road he recalled the occur |
when |
“Sonny” had passed out of his life. |
On the boy's shoulders had fallen the |
{ burden of the farm with its mortgage. |!
Together they had worked, Bill doing |
the encunr |
| | regret the past,
rences of ten years before,
| the lion's share,
brance; and when the money was al-
most In hand, Jonas had
against Billy's earnest protest,
friend on an unseMured note, at heavy
interest. And when the friend failed,
Billy saw the fruits of his labor swept
away in a night. Was it any wonder,
then, that he proposed giving up the
farm and moving to the city? Were
| the ¥ to continue there, with noses to
{ the eternal grindstone, merely eking
out a living? The mother agreed,
faith in her son being deep and abid-
ing; but Jonas said No, and when.
after months of argument. Billy an-
nounced his intention of going alone,
rose in wrath and showed him
loor, bidding him with a curse to
and stay, and never show your
iain.” Now, in hb bitterness,
nd weary, Jonas sat down by
of the road and wept quie ty-
time In yes Oh, If he could
“Som “Bont yy" wonl
forgive His heart nt back
the old home; to the sorrowing mothe r,
who Ee pined away grieving for her
son. He did not know that on the day
of his departure, Billy, prosperous ane
generous, having ily of the ap
proach] had appeared before
the astonished Squire Barlow and up-
set that individual's prophecy by satis
fying all demands and rendering the
sale unnecessary; nor that for weeks
Billy bad been advertising all over the
East for his father to come he
It was New Year's
een on the road over a m
ut knowing how, or, indeed,
proceeded steadily nort
to raise
the first
only
iTS.
]
wi 0
nd
ana
ng sale,
me,
eve. Jomas had
Wit
why, he
, through
nth
the
and
him
fire
front
The &¢
v : ied on it with
his fists IRE!” he shouted; and
again, “FIRE! ' od
sud show seared
agen y,
a
aps VOT
lame told
was on
to the
h we
\ rope
face of
“
Women and
hither and : His
| W hy Jonas hurried up tl
As he turned into
] ( loud of fmoke env ol
tered the
ran
now ing
stairs
hall a
He en
to the
: ited Into
“FIRE! FIRE™ He
ef, but as In a dream,
wan He
back or die, like rat in a
he groped his way he fell
bed. A tiny vo startied
was a baby, choking in the
dense smoke. He reached out blindly;
his hands en:
gl ng beneath
grabbed
kets, and
little one’
«
ly k
e broad
upper
oped |
and ran
1
r
©
room
ut it
stifiin Hm.
©
he coverings. He
it up. d ‘ned ng off the bilan
wrapping them around the
and body,
1 the door, stag.
8 head
ymehow he cl
gered Into the 1 ar
wny. As Le started down he tripped
over the end of a blanket and rolled |
down, down, over and over, His he ad |
struck a sharp corner at the foot of |
| the steps, and he lay still, the precious |
bundle clasped in his arms
An immeasurable space of
passed--then Jonas awoke slowly
knew that he was warm
{lay on a soft hed:
heavy and he could
| Then a familiar volee soun
ears, “Father, father
that was “Sonny's”
time
He
and that he
not rt the Dds
led In his
"it sald Rurely
volee, and he wan
fo get up and milk the cows He
struggled against the heavy
His eyes opened and looked up Into
Billy's face, "Bouny, is it you? he
asked, weakly, Where am 1, Sonny?
“Yes, father
strong, familiar
know me, father?
you everywhere
home, my home”
Slowly the truth dawned upon him.
He closed his eyes again, trylag to
remember. “Sonny, there was a fire,
and—g-a-~baby-"
volee, "Don’t you
I've been hunting
You're right here at
| child whose mother is
his little |
loaned It, |
to a
1 nnon : Yi child strug!
1 found the stalr | the wiseacres of that date
but his even were |
back In the ld home, and It was time | was our baby,
sleep
its we, Billy" tame the |
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gray eyes, a full,
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carries an interesting, carved cane.
van Calava.
An ee gh
“Yeu, father. It was right hore
clothes, a
The fire's out, There's no
And I've bought the old home,
and you ean go back
pever work or want any more!
But Jonas did not hear. A great
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that "Sonny" held him; that “Sonny”
would take care of him; that his long
Journey was at an end.
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