Show is lon 8 n so I 1 6 I 1 e 1 me storm a 0 W io K 1 a e bit D 8 a country a 6 me P polly olly P m 2 ml 0 11 9 me 0 bygrace BY GRACE m to MILLER a WHITE a illustrated by R H livingstone 4 AVA a VA by bt little brownn brown company mcany CHAPTER I 1 four miles from ithaca N Y oscar nen Belk notts faint faim spread its acres blonn tile face of west lie between tween the valley tracks unil und way leading t to oscar oi cur bennett was what the country people and even the HIP ithaca folks called a fine farn fanner ler ills farmhouse faced ft A lane inne that led IA to the west shore of lake at and fron from the rt frant ont porch lie could set iier to tits ills dislike the few ati squatter shacks lint flint brought to tin nn end northward the sl lent lelit city like till nil other oilier substantial citizens oscar detested the squatters squat teis in his estimation they were a set of hiding loafers and sneaks and many times limes lip lie hail had wished he 0 owned tied tle tile ground athly tin y on instead lit of marcus of course it uis its no secret that benzle never let an opportunity help t to pop 11 IN berman into jail hut but in ilem alts opinion that treatment trea I 1 allent avit ivna 4 not kiil to vl re enough find bemid besides eg it lid ild not accomplish anything mac lr Ke kerages razes iden wits ans to jail jah the men mit ni vor r the chance cattle rind and for a aci foil us its long icing us as the law lalov would allow hut but wint good lid did that do fierce linfred lint reil flatner in the haggard faces of lit lie women und and they field to their squatter rights violah alth the tenacity of eclied li until their husbands husband were riven given hack back to them bennett would have donnaway dune done away with the wives anil and mothers inot lieis it if the job of breu breaking kIng up the nt city alty find hern his no man in an mould hang hanc to a hut long icing without lovit hout a Aoi iian in it IL oni morning in alie the early spring oscar was tva ill ili s breakfast when ill hie door opened slowly A girl walli fill it a tin pau pall ill li glicr ter band stopped stepp cl into tb thi room she stalled smiled at lilan kit al it alint the lie dor hp he shouted nt at tier wheres your manners dilill hup kins cant you see the rains oni ing ine in fiffer after yon the 1 lir millie failed from froin the hp girls fit anre slie site tl ilind clot cloel atif alit tit door and feuti euard d beri elf it a aar and Illi placed tile pull liall fit at li it ide so sit youve yol lioe come collie begging ln keliik afi 1101 leop yop x vent e n I 1 on of till alir former fanner wiping lils lil lit s fillon the tl alieve vc of tits ills 1 well you nil lit ell ill turn lai ill find run ran home hoine ragain for boure noi ilof go 0 finx to tit net I 1 more inore froin in me I 1 dont want a poa tion liefh chers brat aroulia bere the W irla bare wet fret ft et drew art w delibe ly huck vivid under tile izmir lull bill sit sir remained roma ined ally allent nl at nib alitia vii tier let anil and culled called lt jur r iut tint wits was slit lio no MT a ter after afler lot hed change ill and then alt clr would take honse what slie site calne for slit faliu noted with A quid quick hr alli oscars byis softener soften ei the ahne lie vias mas silent tim I 1 boiled boded well fur for tier her errand erro ind but ben beat belts mind was wit not tin on milk or till an of if moat suffering eting for the want of it lie he loot lind just ju t discovered that aliat 11 boll cill pvn ans even if she wor wet find ragged her straly tit noting were coat ril with wet seemed to have alvn iven to tit the bolde eyes their shade or of ritte ripe roily polly fir ei circled elfed cled every moment thill that oscar will roach out for tit lie pill pal and though with bild grace hed give hill the milk just jost the lie same slie site waed lit in tier lier chair anti drew if lom filing sigi lie ile yolo nt at ile he in ancl site a ini timer from froin under ills beavy brow s i why hod hail lip lie not before that polly hoplins vur fo oscar wondered said and it a slow shw d ills hah I 1 lips I 1 im pollys hollys eyes lowered and ami thi long dark lihas only added to lien hen budden A quick I drawn arenth slipped filip pod audibly part hie fie inano teeth leeth sensed in ills his attitude tier a new quality tat she recognized intuitively as finger PUS nus to ID bring ills bis back to the purpose pui bohe ot of tier visit she to say 1 I thought it hurt you lione iain oscar nar to gamme a little for granny hope holie nn fill jerry loan im always errands for you nit an your dornan vor nan heavy farm boots made a groping anund under tile the table want koil good flops dries ant that do mp me he returned upon my soul I 1 might ns fig vell veil be willmut voll hout a wife as to have one who wont live with me or let anyone know loan im her husband hutt hand im petten get tIll sick ick grind and plenty sick I 1 can tell you bliss polly hopkins this speech did not disturb poil iolli ver over much for hed mado it a dozen times limes before it was only tile exl slon in his gaze ite slit she did did not like tier her mind went to koli ertson the lie girt girl that oscar had mar ried As if it were but yesterday slip KP remembered how flow two years ago aco she had gone with them under protest to a fui buck back in ili the hills evelyn had bad explained that for some time to come coine no one hut but the three must know of tile the marriage had learned a groat great many things in two ayearst years I 1 what girl does not after ashes passed her fifteenth birthday one of the things she had found out was that oscar was a dreadful person more dreadful than most of the squatter men of course the men folks of if her people c lid did beat their women now and then that was their right without any question the blood colored even her ears as she remembered how oscar hectored vectored hec his eife toi foot tile the money it was so hard for evelyn to pet get another tiling thing she had coine to understand was that it if oscar had flat not boin abeln afraid of the powerful holi bob ertson faintly he would have forced evelyn into ills hn home long beffie tills this it had in been it a hurd hard two years talk to keep him quiet delibe yuu you tire ore gettin sick oscar slie site interposed 1 I dont know debbe but you know what that old aisa 11 Ro Iloh crlson beltson would do to you tin an tier her girl if you told get uve eve ll ebbe hut but you sure get any mure inore money I 1 tit TI naris face darkened Tl ints just the rub he conceded hut at U that eve aint playing square me ine the ine have money ii 1 hul hum it and ami she deals it out to me in fit noall little dolli I ollars irs I 1 tell you im sick if f tile the violle hol thing noted the glitter in bonnetts Bonnett 8 arry eyes and felt again the quiver if f ir air slip slie gives you till nil she gets her finers rs im slip she came 1 back nek at him in de ellse of if tho absent evelyn Pv elyn Ilc lots its of lines inns sacs KHI got itliong on about rint bin 0 rend you cash tin nn I 1 come up tip bete libie with it as soon as n she ive it to tit tup tile now tier her mus inas gettan in if flint eye aint spend ln tier her money in it hirmle hirM lit lf fill 1111 lie he watches ter er like a I 1 i awk does it chicken she told me only the squatter girl clr rose to her feet klix foug to lo be one oscar you lie he lettin me I 1 invin juat a wee bit of milk you lint bosin not liln through mo me she up the pall and with a 41 i owl awl the man snatched it out jut of tier her linold I 1 a d dd d nuis nuisance fince lie he I 1 I 1 well aalt bero bere 11 i lie ite out of file room and polly dreim at IM lorig bre hrc ith it was tan harfler every day it to got get the n bilik she he dod I 1 j i li alion lien lie be artl returned slip slie wits was tar bior kinod on oil tit door snob rt ioli I 1 pail lead Y v if ir KO in ili p slip took in he I 1 1 ito ort erad tier I 1 I 1 looka beje he bevin tib us its polly i oni noil the dot aloof i I 1 I 1 fa A 31 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 V f el 1 jr I 1 tp h 1 ip r 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 if I 1 I 1 4 1 J I I 1 1 m 0 r f 1 I 1 av lat k I 1 41 d I 1 T I 1 9 A rd i I 1 N V 1 1 I 1 I 1 il pl I 1 I 1 1 11 ix 11 io V I 1 1 N r it 1 f E gt 1 ty Z J J 11 1 J 1 A Z r 2 i I 1 it 4 wicy 9 mo J 0 me A 1 I 1 V 4 I 1 I 1 I I 1 wr t s I 1 1 IV I 1 0 I 1 k I 1 0 o I 1 11 to vl I 1 1 A tr atar X 1 I 1 31 1 1 I 1 I faa r 1 1 1 r 1 i I 1 j I 1 I 1 k a tl I 1 a J F va I 1 1 I 1 P 4 AI t vi k V 11 i if 1 lei a I 1 I 1 J 11 I 1 1 1 0 f I 1 1 6 IT I 1 I 1 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 TI T I f I 1 L I 1 I 1 1 I aik you for money what ehnts i to tn hinder bohr air for louir coir nilla clr I 1 tiala it 11 with extreme elt tho fill last words polly bolly lirra liv up tip tier cpr bend and cyd till him hlin ply rily 1 I run fit nil legs mot olt off fur for you yani ns 19 31 oscar slip she retorted 1 in belo and the but lit I 1 dont never hilve no money yon yeii know flint eliat fill an notify dont get much filter it if I 1 had a dollar I 1 bet et id rp sand nd evera avei jr penny of it till iii jerry nn all jill hoop bip welli in milk ilk in an aas to tit cmike lit li I 1 0 r t i A at T at t A i ata I 1 ir f n wiy I 1 I 1 understand how anxious she was to P please lease him she went forward a pace an id buy em cm all of you oscar as true as cranny hopes hope goi goff Is settle settin up in the sky 1 I ask you for money an alered bennett stating nt at her suddenly ho he came close to her and polly packed bucl ted to the door ills face was rot red I 1 and agitated tile the cords in his bis neck were mil mildren dlen while abile ills his fingers finders twisted gingerly rii LIn gerly that wua was another thing about which clog lind find been opened in two years of growing womanhood when a man looked as aa oscar did now a girl pot AWAY as ai fast As aa she could you iou might pay fifty me in kf kisses seft he fie hoarsely towering over her ter ten kisses for each bucket youre a heap prettier titan than eve 1 vor for a icing moment polly did not speak her breast heaved as she swayed backward 1 I get all the kisses I 1 want to home she said here take your hand oarn me oscar or ill tell eve the first farst time I 1 get sight of her site sho up at hlin like a cornered animal 1 I said id tell eve ill do more than that ill put old woman itoe ertson next to your coppin her kid on an marlyin marry mar ln ler cr 1 oscars fingers re relaxed fixed and his hand band dropped away from her arm as a rough laugh left ills his lips she looked so lovely her eyes blazing her curls curia tumbled in fit confusion on her shoulders tho that the he would have taken his pay for the milk without her permission if she had not thrown at him a threat he feared she would carry out mens liens kisses are what you 11 get I 1 my pretty lass I 1 he predicted grimly and if I 1 was finished with eve I 1 by god id set about getting my share I 1 wont always be married to my lady It mind you Poll yop 11 the blood tied had left hla his face lie ile was quite white anti and stern and by this time lime polly was as on the poach taint Tn Int so easy to get unmarried as tie to get married she told him an me mel im just daddy hopkins brat an I 1 dont want any kisses but lilga id let jerrys tongue go twist for milk before id pay for it with with oscar sprang at her she was so fo beautiful so alluring even in tier grotesque attire that for the moment lie forgot he had reason to I 1 benr ell r I 1 her i e r ill kiss you anyway ho snarled hut but polly fleet footed and afraid shot front from the porch and reached the lano the milk dashing against the cover of nf file lie pill pail the man halted looking after her with a shrug ol oil ills his shoulders he turned back into the house for the moment he paused in the kitchen he could hear bear his old mother pottering lottering pott ering about overhead in his bedroom site was war doing tile the work ills his wife ought to dol ilo what a tool fool he had bad been to marry evelyn robertson I 1 instead of the fortuno fortune he hail had expected he was tipi tied liand hand and foot without money or woman ile he thought of the radiant squatter girl who tad had just left him two years ao womanhood had bad not dawned upon polly hopkins but today ile he tin an oath and went out to the born barn polly hopkins ran dawni dewi the lane as fast us its tier her lugs legs could carry her the milk wits safe fate in the bucket and she had scarcely r reached ed the railroad I 1 trucks tracks before site she had decided not to I 1 mention oscars vicious demand upon her it if she told daddy hopkins he would do some harm to bennett and there would be no more eggs and milk for cranny and jerry if she spoke of it to ivelyn evelyn there was no telling i what lint the girl would do I 1 the haired squatter girl wits was ohp daughter of jeremiah lI the mayor or of the silent city the leader of J pit alose aho v vho ho lived in the rows of huts buts lint flat ran along the lehigh valley trucks track and on oil down the lakeside uncouth un auth and ignorant were jere and tits his kind and visitors who mine to ohp little city if f ithaca agreed with tile the towns inhabitants that it wm 11 minnie the law allowed such a blot n na as A the duent city upon the natural III 41 hennity of cayuga and its bajes tc t stood shivering tier her troubled gaze sol archIng the nice lake tor for a bout boat daddy lion dils find bad gonek gone away parly with wet jerry and she alway worried a little hen dpn they were out yet Q he iann hnry stat the only to get the broad boons and bacon for the family ioas as for daddy hopkins to defy the law and drag hla nets whenever the game wardens warden were not abi ut without the lake and its hidden bidden ford food be a desolate world indeed wee jerry ivas pollys hollys five year old brother and long fo ng before he could walk he had rhoen chosen cho sen his fathers big shoulders upon which to beat his way through an unfriendly anti and often bun iw world hut but this same world which had wizened jerry had given to polly a mid beauty a body strong and as rilland rill fint us its a marsh reed ath a alah turned to the chii jh ii w ans As shut mint the storm and a thin curl of smoke twisted upward front from the toppling chimney losing itself in the baby of tle the willows the little lines I 1 t ant bad traced the troubled brow vanished tit nt tile the sight of a slab nt wood over tile the codr on it was paint led in crude letters it if your heart 1 lit loving and kind come right in if it aint scoot off find and granny hope hotel worked a long time to make tills this sign and even longer to nail it TIP lip poll help the silent city folk craftily Oran riv she had lid ild especially Specially I if I 1 ti ilar A lot lat at pill PHI she hung filing the ali lir door and wert I 1 I 1 L 1 7 I 1 a P i 14 I 1 fat la aloang it behind her in one corner b of the kitchen an am old woman so old that no squatter could remember her other than aged mat near tile the E tove about her shoulders was a ay bhawe and its ducs were hold held t to 0 afe I 1 gether with fingers 1 L 4 munching on a bit of hay bay althy aall 9 wood box was a lean goat a angold kc alil friend of 0 polly hopkins long bigo ago she bhe had bad found him lost in the wild wilder ar ress reig of the storm country and had bratZ lit him film to the silent city jhc I 1 he shanty consi ot of hires rooms back cf c them the kitch il daldo D iedy s I 1 adopt and in the miserable coop holo hole where polly had once stored rut rubbish bish granny hopp chod out lier her weary I 1 I lones iones ones at night pollys hollys bed ranged the kichel wall and the room had but a bench beach two old chairs and a three legged table to offer in rudo rude hospitality I 1 Z 1 I wheedled a little milk from oscar or granny said the girl goddy but hes gettin stingy stIng yIl 1 she put down the pall 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