Show PAT min E S woop SL bem pam P N by HARLAN HARLAM HATCHER service copyright by the dobbs dobbe co CHAPTER IX continued 10 mullens millions took tile corn knife and shel lenberger followed ili him in ell climbing around the cliff to the back of tile the ridge and then teen plunging again into the woods mullens was a different man among the trees he picked tile alo way through the giant poplars pine white oak chestnut ash hickory easily with the complete surety of long experience Sh ellenberger followed wild ginio started up from their approach and slipped clipped deeper lito the timber slowly thay went on in through the forest examining the stand of the timber elmber the distribution of f the species the adaptability of the hie hollows for skidding or driving the elie lo 10 into gannon cannon creek and noting the best meth od of attack when toward lite late art aft erno oon they finally camo came out on the ridge in sight of the pinnacle mullens said eaid to Sh ellenberger about ten thousand feet of long leaf pine to the acre and haibe maibe two thousand to three thousand short leaf in that second hollow how much poplar I 1 maybe ma abe avern average ge two thousand feet and the other stuff about the same for white oak chestnut and ash maybe five alve hundred hondred feet of pignut and shellbark shellback shell bark hickory what do you think of it shellen berger asked never saw a finer lot of stumpage for a loggin gang in my life just made right for cuttin Sh Sli ellenberger sit sat down and began to sketch in n a drawing on the back of an envelope have to build a camp in the hollow down there below that rock they call it dry creek this man has a steam mill and he Is getting a circular saw so that will be easy you can clear out that flat there at the mouth of the creek for a collecting point you can look at it again tomorrow I 1 dont think well need a dam in gannon maybe one in the smaller creek have you been all along gannon creek yes tes clear down to the big sandy its just about right you can take forty foot logs down it in the spring what about men well try the natives be cheap and a lot of them can board at leorne well get pattern to draw up a list of good men and ive ordered in tools we just as well get to work tte he says go right ahead and ill fix up money matters later on they took the path that led down the hill from the pinnacle to the house as they day began to withdraw from the western slopes CHAPTER X the days were easier at the house when the men carried their lunch with them to the hills the rush of the break breakfast fat hour pa passed sed and tile the middle of the lay day was left in some peace ind and without hurry to julia and tin cynthia they could have bare a simple dinner alone with jesse cynthia brou brought glit in the milk cold from the springhouse spring house julia made the corn brend bread and gathered a dishpan of lettuce from her garden to wilt in hot bacon grease and flavor with new onions because jesse liked it that way now how is the corn up in barn branch julia asked 1 I believe its about the best on the place this year will you get it finished up today ill be done with it about three the sweet potato patch Is ruining for the plow julia said 1 I plan on getting to them yet today cynthia saw him slip tile conless cooleys Coo Con leys blackstone into his shirt as he went out 1 I guess jesse lilies likes to be by himself to think about the law that lies to so wrapped up in it seems such a long iong time ago that we set out the sweet potato plants and lie he spoke about it maybe I 1 can get time to go up to tile the patch and lay some of the vines ones up on the ridges for him she took time and in the mid after noon when the worl work that was never done one was almott done she started up to the house field jesse had bad nut come slip wilted waited looking down upon the matted vines when lie he did not come she went on up to barn hollow by the over the rid ridge against the line of trees the corn wnm plowed but jq was not in sight eight she won dered where he could lie be thinking she had bad missed him by going up over the ridge then she heard his voice pitched to the oratorical tones of the Pi keville lawyers and re reciting elting all children born before matrimony are bastards bas lards by our law and so it Is of all children born so long after the death of the husband that by the usual course of gestation they hey could not be begotten by him hut but this be ing a matter of some uncertainty the ohp law Is not exact as to a few days forty weeks be begin in tile the time allowed now why in the world is desce saying all lint for up liere here in the hollow with nobody around to hear him but tile inife ruid end it dro drowsing sing ilk a old judge on a bench it must be jesses law book lienk 1 lap zo went lent on nn stumbling oer the wards u if a man dies am aid hs his widow soon after marries li again limalu and a child Is born within such a tim as that by bv the llie course of nature it might have been the child of either cither husband in tills this case lie Is said to be more than ordinarily legitimate for lie he may when hp he arrives to years of discretion choose which of the fathers lie he pleases plen ses site she eon could not see jesse from where she sat sal what would lie he took look like in the lie role of orator the impulse to lay eyes upon him overcome overcame tier lier she went n R little further farther up the ridge ov the hollow and climbed down the rock behind a clump of redbud jesse was standing under a pine tree before a moss co arod rock which tin had broker broken awny aay from the cliff ile HP held tile llie ollow ellow bound blackstone in ili ills his left hand pointing with will ills his right forefinger nt it the page tapping it for emphasis and making ills his voice vibrate with its his initiation Imi of a mountain law yer citing a point of law restraints upon marriage ringe es specially ally among the llie lower classes art are evidently detrimental to the public by hinder hindering laz the increase of the people anil and to religion nod mora morality lity by encouraging cou aging raging licentiousness a and rid debauch ery among the single of both sexes and thereby destroying one end of society and government which is eon con cubita vago slie she was vas fascinated by ills his zeal and tile the reality of the performance but after he lad had halted in the passage stumbling seriously oer the latin words the illusion was broken and ili slie site felt ashamed at the thought of spying on jesse from behind a bush and listening to something not meant for tier her ears cars she would go 0 down to him at once but then he fie will see ty by my face and the direction I 1 come from that I 1 have been listening I 1 will go back and come across the fiell field she climbed back up the llie rock and went down tile the gully through tile the cleared space to the plowed field and came down the young corn rows approaching pro aching jesse directly face to face tie he saw her coming not displeased bud and lie he sat on tile the rock veth the book open face down over liis ills knee when slie she caroe came up lie was composed 1 I looked for you at the sweet po tato patch slie she said as a greeting 1 I was just giving the mule a rest and I 1 pt got to looking at the picture of blackstone Clack stone here ile he showed her the yellow tinged engraving of tile the enormous appearing man solid land and legal behind the ample ninale contours of ills his ermine robe under the careful twi stings of the curled fleece wig stood out tile bushy busby black eyebrows the big eyes that had faced with tile the confidence of knowledge and experience judges and juries they wear funny clothes in england cynthia said ue he still sept ills his linger finger in the page where he be was reading ilae hane you read cle clear a r over there well not exactly only I 1 got tired of the chapters on tile kings titles and the kings prerogative and his revenue and of the clergy it t seem like illie it meant anything in t this ill ll 11 S country so I 1 kind of skipped to ae this part of husband a and rid gife and I 1 its ts right interesting it says a man has to stand good for ills his cifes debts as long iong as slie she buys necessary common supplies but not for anything besides necessaries Is that what law Is cynthia asked well just one little part there are so many things here it makes a body wonder if people really in do all the things this book says they do and how flow many people lind had to do an evil before a law was made about it it takes a lot of study nod and a man needs help on some of it youre going to read with tandy nor SI organ an Jes jesie Re what I 1 alm aim to do this fall well have ready money too and I 1 can go to Pi pikeville keville mother says the book lays down law on oil that it says here bore the flip last duty cluty of parents to their children Is that of giving them an education suitable to their station in clife life a duty pointed ted out by reason and of far the lie greatest importance of if any for it Is not easy to lma imagine or allow that a parent hns has conferred any considerable benefit upon ills child by bringing him into the lie world if lie he afterwards entirely neglects ills his culture and education aud and suffers him to grow up like a more mere beast to load lead a life us useless ess to others and shameful to himself this fellow alki tilka straight strai glit words like a lawyer ought be ie a great lawyer yourself some lay day cynthia said 1 I alm aim to if I 1 can they sat each with mill ills his own thoughts for a minute in silence Is reuben a great surveyor she asked interrupting tile the silence why ies lie ile seems to know a right smart Is lie he as nice out in tile the woods as he Is about lite lie lio house uc 1 I dont see any change in him bim 11 1 I like ills his way of t talking about the ohio river and things she said then rousing from the he dream in which lie he was still partly submerged he fie said 1 I guess lou like him blin a right stuart smart dont you the directness of it made her self conscious and slie site blushed blus lied she re into herself it little way la in defense 1 I think lies right nice youre in love with him youve been different since that lint night lie came and put flowers and a white bite cloth on the table why jesse I 1 why eliy to do you say that oil reuben Is a nice follow fellow I 1 dont blame ll inic you iny any cynthia had not meant to speak to jesee about Rel lieuwen site she hall merely sat there with will hot her man n thoughts int III they had move moved so quietly find rapidly that hint tile the Pre pressure sure of f the under urge surge I 1 biad ili 1 I suddenly esen ped into words what to do you do 10 or say nhoun it to an other person anyway would oxen een jesse understand A body to do or say anything hut but lots lets it leavo its own way it spir sparkles kles in heart where here N no one sees ind anil it lights hants ill up the son soul toil and changes the look or of tile the whole world you hold it there like it was stir star vapor front from another world or cor the flip first green apen mist list of loaves leaves sifting between tile be willow limbs on wolfson ind and it trembles inside inide of non ion with aith wonder abbo 1113 be if you let it alone and believe in it cynthia changed the subject skillfully fully back bach to lo jesse jcsse youve sure read a right smart in 11 such a hard hook book 1 I guess ive been getting along right well 1 I came out to lay some of the potato vines up on oil tile lie ridges for you you dont need to do that you got plenty to to do it dont look like wed ved h have ave much ra no I 1 I 1 time tim e f for 0 r house field this evening anyway theres theres never enough time in the day any more can I 1 carry your book back with me if youre not going to use it slie she took the book and jesse roused the mule it was too late for cynthia to help in the sweet potato vines olie the went on to the house and got the he water r W 1 P 4 ea I 1 01 li 40 14 all t al h 1 16 19 L k Y to il i 1 she was fascinated by his zeal and the reality of the performance bucket and went to the well as the sun slipped off of sauls headstone drawing draing after it a veil of dark site she saw and coming down the path from tile the pinnacle it was almost dark when the other men came in cynthia could see them from tile the bIt elien a bustle of wen men around tile wash rock rolling up their fleecs slee cs opening their shirts soaping and splashing and sputtering thinking how funny were when they llroy wished washed reuben neuben had come into the kitchen 1 I 1 hope we lin haedt put lout aou ou out ayn ofila being so late I 1 had find this instrument set up and I 1 wanted varied to finish 0 off ff a line before I 1 pulled it up nil it any trouble at all she said it was slow going and nade us late the itten eru ere unusually at the table and on the porch after supper cynthia sometimes listened yes we got around all right shel le was saving well cut in through dry creek and work back we e may liae to put in a splash dam to glie ghe them a start down gannon are you actually going to float logs down gannon cannon abril a asked we certainly are in rafts yes small ones olics can I 1 take one down abbul demanded you certainly cat can said nut but we have to cut the logs first io do you think ne e can call get good men along the creeks here therell be plenty out of these hollows spairel said tile country Is filling up fast and plenty of them have not land ello ull to keep anni illegal buy well have to put up a camp there if rig up tip a saw on your mill we could rip out boards pretty quick tile saw ought to be in now any time sparrel said so the talk went on while shellen berger explained about tile the superiority of oxen over mules males in lumbering be cause they draw heavier loads require no expensive harness stand shano rougher treatment eat cat less and cheaper foods and grille graze lit at night arid and of tile the num ber or of wedges and wooden mauls liall and crosscut saws unit unil uses ases and spike poles und and andzes and required aind or of blacksmithing and tile the hazards of logging and the carelessness or of men eien een micro hero their nocks necks are in danger cinthia had finished the dishes and wits was moung the limp lamp from the table it blushed against the polished brass of reubens compass com that was tile the first time lie he over ever called me anything cynilia yn IlIa lie says it so nice 1 I 1 hopr hope ue he haedt put pill you out cynthia I 1 dont reckon many a man would sir it about keeping n 1 I supper will waiting tina for choln it wits was slow going find mill made us lite youre in love with him youve youre licen left diffrient dil Trient since filar hat night lip ile cillie and you yon pin pill on 11 lowers flowers dmd anil 21 white cloth I 1 I 1 guess things just happen to ill a body they happen deep lit in iou 1011 when ion dont know it lind and then one lay day like tills this suddenly they onto ome out ind and they tire arc the coming or of site ion berger hill had not yet dearn destroyed ed the singular distinction of mood tile sabbath brought to wolf ion since tile days of slut saul pattern it had all been set apart by tie the I 1 cere cenemo in I 1 nial of peace and rest from dally daily toll toil and above the other days by a touch of solemnity church services nere rare possibly for that reason the lie patterns had been nt pains to keep alive in their isolation tile sense of its difference this weekly pausa p abuso between periods of labor when the mill was silent and tile lie churn and the loom were I 1 still give gave to their life some of tile the ancient dignity which the religions of quiet solf self discipline have always conferred upon pastoral peoples sparrel would read in ills his linc books ilis and ponder a 1 I passage from |