Show paw P aw TT E RN S wa by HARLAN HATCHER anu service copyright by the dobbs bobba merrill co SY SYNOPSIS Norsis in n 1785 saul pattern of virginia came into tire the beau beautiful tirui virgin country ot of tire the big sandy valley in kentucky chief of the perils were the Shawn shawntes ces who sought fought to hold their landi froni from the e v er encroaching whites from a huge p pinnacle saul gayed gared upon the tat fat bottoms it orns and the endless acres of forest in ls its primeval quietude at the mouth of the Wolf wolfpen pen and felt an eagerness to possess it declaring it a fit for a man to LIVE in five years yeara later lie he returned with barton his fifteen year old oid son and built rl a rude cabin in sauls absence the indians attacked dalton and wounded him so badly saul sail was forced to return with wit him to virginia in 1796 when it was reasonably safe saul returned with his family arid and a patent for acres this time to stay ito ile added to tho the cabin planted crops and fattened his stock on the rich meadows soon other settlers arrived A century later in the spring of 0 issa we ire dud cynthia pattern of the fifth generation following lowine fol saul perched on the pinnacle from which her great great grandfather erand father had first viewed wolfpen Dot bottoms the valleys heretofore untouched by tile the waves aves of change sweeping the republic are at last he be binning to feel that restless surge ifer her dad sparrel and her brothers jesse jasper and abdal convert the old water wheeled mill to steam power cynthia feels that something out of the past has been buried with saul Cynt cynthia lila Is a pretty and miss in her late teens who ho often recreated re created saul and her other forbears and fancied them still living sparrel proudly brings home the first meal out of the steam mill and julia his wife is pleased generation after generation has added comforts and conveniences to sauls cauls homestead and sparrel has not thirkeld shirked th sh irked the family goes easily into the work of the new season due to the simplicity of life designed long ago on the wolfpen Wolf pen joy is ab abundant 11 jdant jesse plans to study law A stranger shel lenberger by name comes to wolfpen Wolf pen intent on buying timber land sparrel refuses his offer Sh ellenberger tells of progress in the outside outbid e world with tho the advent of Shelle riber ger some intangible disturbing alteration seems to affect the atmosphere of wolfpen Wolf pen CHAPTER V continued S while she was dreaming farther and farther away into the blue bend of the sky a black cloud in a dragons shape crashed into the white puffs above Cran esnest tire the breakfast things are getting dry and harder to wash cynthia julia said the kitchen was dark after the sharp sunlight they worked in silence for a while cynthia washing the dishes julia miring yeast into the white flour and setting it in a wooden bowl on the hearth then cynthia spoke the words maun making audible a fragment of her thought thong lit as it passed easily out of the silence will daddy sell him any of our land for your daddy to say cynthia id not like to see our place look like soule some of the hills oner oer on sandy where logged claybe people do need lumber to build houses with in tile the towns indge and we to hold it just because a pattern happened to see it first and wanted a county full of timber about him to look at and hunt in 1 I hardly think of Wolf wolfpen perk without the timber to be like green sea waves moving oft off into the sky it be cut right around the place here and we could use a little ready money mabe you could go over to Pi keville for a winter it was the first mention of it she had ever made to cynthia oh could I 1 then I 1 could be there when jesse is where is jesse going there I 1 go blurting out what I 1 was not supposed to hut but I 1 dont reckon hed mind only to tell you yon himself lie wants to read the law ile he never said anything about it julia mused th thinking lillIng on the quiet way of jesse with her ber and how he was turned different from the others jesse ought to be right rl bt good at following law but we have to sell oft off any land to do that would we the feeling had returned for your daddy to decide cynthia julia answered their thoughts slipped back privately into silence julia rolled the flour paste from hands bands and went to her garden to be bilth herself cynthia watched her ber for a while from the door pondering the great contentment of julia ns she put seeds into the fine ground of tier her garden then as she went into the weaving room to mike make cloth for winter shirts for tho the men she meditated on julias words and the change of mood on Wolf iren since she sat last at the loom jesse drove the cows up the lane by the garden and into inlo mossy bottom meadow there he leaned on the bars watching the cows spread up the hot hoi I 1 low hearing them tear the crisp new grass crass with their rough tongues abdal coming back from seeing net son con on ills his way up the branch found jesse leaning on the bars what did you think of that feller abdal said climbing on the top bar and am idding at a straw lie ile was all right I 1 guess id like to see all tire places he h 11 talked about why do 10 wo we always just jus liap rr ahl hort oll nil tire the time its 11 good I claca ince to live patterns pattern liae hatte always lived here and done well josse jesse answered sure its nil all right that way but a feller might go out rind and then come back kan the old patterns had to come from somewhere else before they could get here they it if ono one of them come from the old country and another n other one of them come over here from virginia we be here would we wed already become be some place else jesse remained rom silent for he liked abdal when lie he plunged headlong adlong be with one no of ills his notions id like to see sec some of the world and dalio cattle down dowd the river for a drover or bo be a drover myself maybe lind and buy cattle id like to tike take a raft 1 down I on the lie big sandy and gu go up to pittsburgh on a boat anil and run a coal barge down to cincinnati and do a lot 0 of filings lings ti 1 did dad hardly spare any of us off tire the place during the season jesse jcsse sold said lie he gut of along lion nil all right when we v nere ere bitic lie and he likes it if hed sell some of it oft off to that feller for nil all that money 1 I dont think thin hell sell jesse said well just the same he outha to abdal benl said yes art and we vie ought to finish up tile the long bottom and get it planted half tile mornings already gone come on J jesse esse said sparrel S closed the gate behind lie stood with his right liand hand still lifted in farewell observing that the man did not know how hov to put liis ills knees into a fine saddle mule As Sh ellenberger disappeared down wolf pen P on sparrel turned back through the lot toward the barn feeling that the morning was advancing and the self contained mood which had always borne him through the spring work was suddenly broken ile he should be caring for the now new lambs and getting the boys into tile the long bottom and carrying forward the dally work of the place but some fragile quality had bad been shattered out of the delicate balance chica had made nil all tile the yesterdays full of content content in these things ile he went into the barn through tire the thick smell of horses then lie crossed the harness and saddle room through the sweet odor of leather and went into the alcove where abere he prepared his herbs and mixed ills his med medicines iInes but li q i 1 ril 1 1 as 35 on the words of the man riding down the hollow and on their portent for him and ills his children 1 I just never dever thought about selling any a man buys land if he can and lie sells only if he has to id rattler rather have my land A family ou ought lit to have plenty of land around them but here im getting along and it stands to reason in a few years go to the children sometimes es it pears like its coming to the place where you have to have more money instead of making your own things and I 1 could saw en in that hat new mill id like e to see how a big wheel saw the size of a millstone would go through a toa when my new engine twirled it jasper found him there among his herbs and canisters enveloped in a smell of turpentine ginger and tar through the small window came the bewildered bleating of the new DeW lambs how are arc they sparrel asked just as though ile he were not tb thinking inking of Sh Shellen ellenberger herger dropping pretty fast right now jasper answered making the some same pretense hows that young ewe ashes not making st it well try this sparrel said they walked around behind it alie I 1 e barn to the railed lot where the ewes were vere penned sparrel treated the afflicted one then they stood apart from tier her against the low lov fence what ilia did you think about that tel fel lers offer jasper asked as though ills his thoughts had suddenly and without warning become audible 1 I had a chance to think about it much yet son we better belter take it wily why so its a good price pi ice lir he a 1 sight of in money cincy sparrel regarded the lambs making friends with their mothers and mail no do reply 1 I want to pet get married before long iong dart dad jasper fraid with a boyish shy ness sparrel turned to look at ills his elde 1 l sun who was coerlin coer ln ills his words nords by moving a new lamb against its mother he was a well favored man at twenty four wide in the shoulders clear eyed a young mustache which emphasized the grafty of ills bearing 1 I allowed be getting warr married lol one lay day son I 1 know who do you favor jane burden over at pike it wits was emotional to utter tier lier name 1 I guess sties a good girl all right she conics comes of goud good people 1 I ought to have a place to take hei ber to you can have the farm theres a fine place tor for a house there ti lits ats just it I 1 want a house with will things in it and money to start on we can soon saw you up a house on 01 the new dew mill if you dont want to come into the tha home place tor for a while we ought to have that money dad there Is no sense to it you soil sell anil and let me ine li lime ie my part while do me some good A hody body gets attached to things filings jasper dont you feel that not to a lot of timberland timber land we nevor never see much of anyway and it wont mone they oneie cie silent again sparrel watched the pained efforts of ih iho 0 yo young ng ewe grow weaker she alc cant make jinhe it but its a pity to kill tier just because slie she ninde rl ait to 0 o start with will rie ile stood apart delaying for several more nil minutes but when the poor creature fixed I 1 her agonized eyes upon him lie opened ills his long ong hunting knife 1 and silt tier throat threat no one said anything more about site dilenberger or ills offer but thesper the spirit it of unrest lie had brought into the family continued and multiplied in silence through the week sparrel would have to decide anil and when he hid had made up his ls mind lie would say what was to be done in the mcinti meantime me the responsibility sib lity lIfty lay heavy upon him all the daily purposes of its his life grew easily out of tradition that is the way it had always been done doce on hut it for this problem there was no precedent and sparrel found it bewildering to settle on what was best tj ta do lie ile could think about buying land and building a now new mill because three generations erat ions before him had bought land and made new mills cut but there was nothing about selling and how was a simple honest hospitable man like sparrel pattern to know anything helpful about partnerships or royalties or selling it off surplus timber while reserving oner ownership shIp of the land or the mark marketing margetin etin 9 of logs lie ile sat with his perplexity in the corner by the fireplace in the evening fingering slowly at his bis trimmed beard and looking into the white oak hark bark N 11 I 1 01 J 1 k zt 1 I want to get married before long dad a ashes lies smoldering in the circle julia had arranged purposely for arih baking ing tire the luffy wheat biscuits for his supper lie ile loved her and her way of speaking to him through such personal gestures as as ash aa I 1 I 1 baked oil biscuits on the evening when the butter was sweet from the churn ile he took down the second volume of the alio history of the united states and hold held the he yellow cornered pages open in liis his hands there was the talc of the grow donth ali of these states and of tile the westward sweep of restless men who were a always I 1 v ays leaving one thing and seeking out another now they had bad done all that while lie he and liis ills rattlers fathers lived out their lays days in the self contained fields of wolf Wol frien pen tire alie rough sketch must now be filled in the fact was certain but theman the manner rested with tile makers of the future would it be continuous destruction and debris dirt and u ugliness alness Il ness wasted laud land and destroyed timber like the ohio end of the dig big sandy or might it bo be in the orderly manner of wolf poll haste and greed would never pause for vision or plan tile the ohio was filling the west was filling filing the mountains wore were filling everywhere from what lie could learn the unrest of men and the inexorable pressure of trade the outside jail pushed into Cati cutletts etts burg then up or to louisa LOUIS on to rich ardmon and PaInts paintsville ville and now the ilg big sandy boats were towing it right into Pi keville ilot of the timber on tile lower sandy was gone one and tho the hill sides were gutted with wa wali outs bouts the demand was increasing the hungry mills mill must be fed and now dow Shei lenber or was up liere here on gannon cannon and wolf pen wanting logs and land anil and after nil all why not no telling but the demand might cease ills children needed tile the money more than the alie stumpage there vas nas the new mill that could run a saw ile he had been so busy with the planting he had hardly seen ills mill it was no crime to soil sell timberland at a profit sentiment could nevor never prosper a man lie ile closed tile worn history bostory book and put it back on its shelf ile he wound up the weights on tile the clock and bathed ills his feet and lay ili i the bed xi litin for lulli julia when lien s she lie had bad put out the lamp and had taken inken inks tier her place by ills side he laid ills his hand on her face stroking it gently and said wo we wont much miss the land Sh ellenberger wants and the hie woney money will come in right handy 1 I think best too sparrel julia said just as though they tind lind I 1 nd ad a long lone talk about it we think much about not hang real money when we were joung ill did we julia wo we hall had tills this fine ce to start on and it a bit of trouble to make ti lings S 1 I reckon its not that way with our children we can see them all got a good start now julia said thinking ns as always alays ays of tier her children and not of herself youre going oer to town in the morning she said yes that was the talk they had about selling four thousand acres of timberland to Sh Shel lonberger ellenberger antha was awake when the first undecided birds in tire the orchard chirped uncertainly for the morning by tile the time they hey had swelled led to a full chorus with the coming of daybreak she was in tile the barnyard opening the pate gate and watching sparrel and jasper ride down wolfpen toward gannon cannon on their way to rih evIlle before they disappeared around the lower orchard sparrel turned in the saddle and waved goodby to cynthia she was still leaning on tile the gate when jesse came out of the barn with ills his own black gelding you ton open tile the gate for me will you |