Show f y Harlan Hatcher r 7 1 u r to e er rs X 0 i SYNOPSIS In 1785 Saul Pattern ot of VIrginIa came Into the tho beautiful be virgIn coun- coun try country ot of the Dig Big Sandy valley vaHey In Chief ot of the perils were the Shawnees who vho sought to hold their lands from the tho ever encroach Ing whites Prom From l a hugo huge pinnacle Saul gazed Upon the fat bottoms and the tho primeval endless acres ot of forest In Its quietude at the mouth of the Wolfpen and felt an eagerness to Possess It declarIng It a place tit fit for a man to LIVE LIVI In Five years lIter later he returned with Barton Darton his year old son and built a rude cabin In Saurs Sauls absence the In- In Indians lans attacked Barton Darton and wounded him so badly Saul was forced to re- re turn return with him to Virginia In 1796 when It was reasonably safe safo Saul returned with his family and a pat pat- patent ent for acres this time to stay Ire He added to the cabIn planted crops and fattened his stock on the tho rich meadows Soon other settlers arrived A century later In the spring Pattern ot of 1885 we find Cynthia Pat Pat- tern ot of the fifth generation follow follow- Ing followIng Saul perched on the pinnacle from which her great grand father Bottoms had first viewed Wolfpen Dot Dot- toms The valleys alleys heretofore un- un untouched untouched touched Ly by the waves aves ot of change sweeping the Republic are nt at last begInning to feel that restless surge Iler IIer dad Sparrel and her brothers Jesse Jasper and convert the theold theold old water wheeled mill to steam power Cynthia feels that something out ot of the past has been burled with Saul Imaginative Cynthia Is pretty and tive miss In her late teens who often oCten created re-created Saul and her ber other fore fore- bears forebears and fancied them still living Sparrel proudly brings home the nut first meal out ot of the steam mill and Julia his wife Is pleased Genera Genera- Generation tion after aCter generation has added comforts com com- comforts forts and conveniences to Sauls Saul's homestead and Sparrel has not shirked The family goes Boes easily Into the work ot of the new season duo due to the tho simplicity of life designed long ago ngo on the Wolfpen Joy Is abundant abundant dant Jesse plans to study law A stranger by name comes to Intent on buying timber Sparrel refuses his offer tells ot of progress In the outside world With the advent ot of some Intangible dis- dis disturbing disturbing alteration seems to affect I the atmosphere ot of Wolfpen Spar Spar- I reI decides to sell timber land to CHAPTER V Continued d 7 Yes I want to know law v and be a lawyer like you Tandy studied him as trough he were about to seat a juror Well WeIL Do you honest I sure do I just wondered It you'd take me Into your office here herewith herewith with you and help me learn law I mIght be able you n a rIght smart looking up things for tor you and writing papers Ills eagerness mounted with the words and Quivered ered In hIs throat Well now I dont don't hardly know Jesse When would you want to come Sot much before taU fall I dont don't reckon till things about the place are up In shape nut But I thought u it How flow much schooling have you had Jesse A A smart Five winters at Cannon Gannon Creek school And then Ive I've read all Dads Dad's books over o and andI I always s read the Cincinnati Week Week- J Iy Gazette Well now I dont don't hardly know Jesse JessCo Tandy walked about the room impressively I thought if you'd agree to It I could take one or of your books over home and get started some before tall fall s I Well Jesse Ill I'll tell you It If youve you've made up your our mInd to follow ow the law Jaw Ill I'll be glad to ha have ve you ThIngs are slack right now v but they're go- go goIng goIng Ing to pick up before long around here Im I'm getting practice down the river now and It'll be handy to have somebody hero here In the office be much obliged to you OU Jesse said Dont mention It Tandy showed him some ot of the law books and told him how v they were arranged In serIes and how you found by number the statute and judgments on a case And heres here's a brand new book I even read myself You tale take It and read It Its It's the rock bed rock ot of the study ot of law Jaw lIe placed In Jesses Jesse's hands the Cooley edition or of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws ot of England with reference notes to English and American decisions and statutes to date 1884 1 and some considerations regarding the study ot of the law Jesse the folios from his lap and took Into his V plow plow-har- har bands the unopened volume volum ot of rock bedrock law After Atler II a while he found himself up by the fence tence around the hl high h grounds of the In above e the crowded town lie sat on II a log In the sun his eyes eres moving from Crom the book down to the courthouse court bouse steeple and the wha wharf rf then hack t to the book projecting himself Into the day when he would like Tandy Mol Mor lawyer lawer lie be a great jan gan and have nn an ounce and clients to plead for lIe was absorbed be be- be beyond yond all disturbance The morning morn morn- mornIng Ing passed midday came and went without suggesting food lood and the dream and the book full ot of strange and puzzling words like and and nb- nb absorbed him Into the middle ot of the afternoon Then he came to see see- seeIng Ing that the square was emptying or of horses and men lIe got stiffly to his feet placed the book awk- awk awkwardly under his coat and hurried down to the stable for the lone Jong ride rille back to When Sparrel detached himself from his boys lie he walked by the bank and the three stores greeting the men he knew and up to the corner or of tile the Gibson house The thing Sparrel had made his mind up to now v wavered within him and In In- In Instead stead or of going In at once Jle he turned and went back down the street greeting the men In the square and watchIng the horse traders rIding up and down the street be before Core the skeptical customers lIe went on around the court house square slowly traversing Its four sides banked with horses and saddle mules hitched to the rails and came up to the Gibson House from the opposite direction and then as though the destined moment had arrived he lifted his head above the press or of men and walked straight ht Into the lobby or of the Gibson House was sitting In a chair with his legs crossed and one toot foot resting on the shell shelf ot of the bay window v o smoking looking not nt at the r f t 4 11 Yes I Want to Know Law and Be Bea Bea a Lawyer Like You square but above It Into the tim Um- timbered mountains lle He looked the part ot of a well well-to-do stranger tem tem- temporarily temporarily Isolated In a mountain mountaintown town to There was no one else In the room stood up and ex tended his hand In eager hospitality Good morning Mr Pattern I howdy lIo Sparrel said reservedly how this Well Nell are you morning Well Nell as common Sparrel said and then calmly In his hi slow voice with the melody In It You got around nil an right I see I got around an all rIght thanks to your mule muJe What do I owe you for forthe tile the use ot of it Nothing at an all nothing ot at alt Glad to acCommodate you Smoke offered n a cIgar No but much obliged to you fOU They sat down A good deal or of trade on the riv- riv rivers ers Yes Pikeville Is a right good sized town now Sparrel said cud It will 11 Jet get better betler as this reo re- opens ul UI The subject was ready to be brought Into the open but Sparrel was stilt sUII Then Well Weil Mr Pattern I rode by that I lower It ma may not be beas fiS as good as I first thought but ut Ill I'll stick slick to the proposition I made What do you say about It I 1 dont don't guess I can do It Spar Spar- 11 said You You mean you wont won't sell I 1 Shel lenberger exclaimed about what It amount to But ut why why not not Pattern why not not Four dollars donars an acre Is a bl big price Well what do you want for tor It he helI lI resolutely Five dollars an acre smoked making short putTs pulls and twisting the cigar hue have It surveyed by a competent man saIl said Ill board hIm him Sparrel said laid and you pay the wages against the prIce or of the land Jond The tensIon rexed there was a pause and said more morl naturally and pleasantly Youre robbing and cheating me mC Mr 11 Int tern but Ill I'll do It And well we'll get et n man over o there ns as soon as possible Do you ou know anybody Ive heard beard or of a good man down at Catlettsburg his name Warren Ill see him when I go down to- to tomorrow tomorrow morrow and send him up It if I can and 1 Ill I'll be back In here In a couple ot of weeks or so As Sparrel walked through the square greeting the men talking of the crops and the price ot of cattle the feeling that he had made a good bargain with the extra dollar sustained him In the backwash ot of I doubt that followed the Important and Irrevocable decision Jasper was already at the stable Jesse with the book under hIs coat cont came breathlessly with long strides through the open doors just as lIar lIar- din brought the mules from the stalls Did you make out all right Sparrel asked I 1 got what I came for Jesse said mounting You know we got an extra est mule here Jasper said It seems like a waste just to lead her bel sputtered Jasper had no retort lIe He swung Into the saddle Then as Sparrel mounted and started to go without sa-ln sa saying any any- anything thing could walt wait no Jon longer gel for tor the news Did you trade any with that feller feJer Sparrel I figure I may do some business with him later on Sparrel said lIe He rode out ot of the stable and down the road followed ved by Jasper and Jesse CHAPTER VI seemed emptied to toV V Cynthia when Sparrel and anI Jesse and Jasper had ridden out ot of It Or perhaps the feel teel ot of emptiness was only the moment ot of unusual stillness between the tumult ot of day day- daybreak daybreak break and the cadenced sl hence Jence ot of a mountain farm tarm when people were not about tufted car car- cardinals flashing red among the cher- cher cherry cherry ry blossoms and scattering liquid notes on the morning like a flutter or of released petal spiraling to the ground bleating lambs Jambs leaping nerv- nerv nervously and awkwardly about the lot Jot still dazed and bewildered 11 by the new and unfamiliar world Into which they had suddenly been dropped Slowly she went back to the house and put the kitchen In order Julia had gone out to her garden had disappeared Into one or of the hol hol- hol hollows lows The wonted equilibrium waS even more upset within and she could feel the fragments moving about her Into new arrangements She went upstairs and sat on the loot foot ot of her bed looking out on the or- or orchard chard The world looks different to a body when you look Jook out or of an upstairs windoW What would It be belike like It If you were always above It as high as a house Instead or of down In It as low as a man and looked over o an orchard In bloom the way you look over a cornfield In June Would you still feel a bit twIsted out or of shape Inside because ot of the way your folks and things move about In the bottoms I feel like Im I'm be- be beIn being In ing pulled by something that Is moving around the place and taking me with It and I guess Ill In just go It was the smell or of the orchard surging through the window and retreating with the wind that did the pulling She wandered down among the apple trees where the bees were diving In the golden dust In the pollen centers and the catbirds were flutter flutter- fluttering utter In ing with no sound through the branches The wavering bleat ot of a young lamb ran over the jagged shingles or of the barn root roof and broke Into pieces about her That reminded her or of Jesses Jesse's charge and she went down to the barn and leaned over the bars of oC the sheep lot Dr By the thedoor door In the sun lay likE Ilke a piece or of cloud a little pile or of white fleece and on the wan wall was stretched the raw hide to dry before It went on onto onto to Sparrel's tanning vat The sight ot of these things made her heart heavy with the Ule thought or of birth and death The ewes In the lot were placid with the weight and experience or of timeless and ageless years or of bear bear- bearIng bearIng Ing and being born Their unconcern unconcern cern for tor the lambs was for the mo ment monumental They lay In com com- complete tranquillity under the sun as though their ener energy y had fled then them and was now leaping again In the spindly legs ot of the new offspring She went quietly down to the lower bars and when she had slow slow- slowly slowly ly drawn them without disturbing the calm which was on the sheep she drove them down to the creek to water them The fhe shepherd bounded oft oct professionally down the fence and across Wolfpen to pre pre pre- prevent vent the sheep from scattering They hovered on the edge ot of the th creek In hesitation lifting doubtful heads toward Cynthia and then starin staring at the do dog Ile He was alert but Then Chen one of th the oldest ewes accepted him and went down Into the water and drank The whole flock dank and then raised their heads to look again letting lettinga Q a trickle of water dribble from the tuft or of fleece under their throats The same ewe started to cross the creek but the shepherd lower lowered d hIs head and barked and sh turne turned hack back and was followed by bythe r the others Into tile the pen Cynthia closed the bars better she said and the dog muzzled her hand Sheep Shep live e n a calm and easy dont don't they Sheli Never much to bother them worse than your bark that wouldn't hurt a lamb Jamb It if lie he Just knew It And of al ways somebody to see that the they have hae food and water The women always water th the sheep theres there's thele Bible for tor that And come to think or of It the Bible women always alwa's mc met their men at the well when the they watered their sheep Lets Let's see fee there was and Rachel Hachel and lethro's Jethro's daughter I wonder If It would be better to be waterIng n a flock of scared ewes just putting up the last bar like Ilke this for In in- in instance stance and the stranger from nn an other land would come up path and see you and say he had com come from a far place to find you ou and could he water your our flock ock for you fOu No I still think It would be bet tel ter to be 1 by y the pear tree with a sprig or of blossom In your hand for likely as not an all the silly lambs would start lag baa at once till Q a body couldn't hear what he was Wag saying When she had reached the end endot ot of that dream she found herself herselt back In the barnyard barnard a dazed In her mood or of Idle and purpose purpose- purposeless purposeless less wanderings and there came rushing back to her ber the vision or of Sparrel disappearing In the dawn with Jasper arid and or of Jesse riding away on a sudden notion The un un- un unbalance balance returned and she followed It through the sweet potato patch where the plants were beginning to trail the sandy earth earth- with slew slen- slender der green tentacles and down to the creel creek There was satisfaction In this kind ot of Idleness the cows In the quiet ot of afternoon under a chestnut tree staring staring Into the great peace beyond the world ot of wearied flesh She drifted without hast haste to the sparse clump ot of willows where the water censed ceased flowing over oyer the serrated slate bottom and lapsed Into the profound peace ot of the mill milldam dam Does Docs running water like to Into the pool and stop and lie down like Uke a tired ewe or does docs It try to get away again and run rundown down doti n to the mill and tumble with the bl big wheel clasping Its paddles and pulling It around while the wn wa water ter eases Itself down to the creek creek- bed |