TfllRSHAY, APRIL fi. 1916 PLATTS MOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE 3. THE NEW CLARION WILL N. HARDEN Copyright. 1914. by Harper Cf Brother! CHAPTER V. Abner and Mrs. Hillhouse. TILL, there it rests." IirT!hoT!e labored :iml was delivered of u deep groan as Abner sneer ed at liiiu. "If 1 had told iix'tit our talk that I'd listen to l'iiMsitiin with anv notion of t: it up well, she would have aw.! my eyes out on the spot. I I.:. 'V. the oia:;n. Ah. and yon don't. ' :i r'M-r ha'o lived with her." ... tliai.k "d I mean. Hillhouse," A!.:i.r -.rreeted quickly, "that she !...ii.'t treat in you half t!eiMit. Vou - :!. I.s. or ort to be. Seriptur' lay down powerful strict laws : hi.iiicii t-'.ktn a hand in what ort to 1 run ly tbe head " the fnm l!v. Now. the trade is made lietwlxt i mi' thar ain't no way out or it on i.iy l-Jirt fer reasons I won't go into. J receipt I hold over yore name is t s iVndin' as imy ducuinent that could 1-t- drawed up in any law t.Uice in the Mali." "V.u say it is?" Ilillhouse's face Ha full of yearning indecision. "Yes. the Clarion is mine, an' you l ie lucky to git rid of it. Now. listen tu rut. You hay yuu've lived with yore wife an' I hain't. That's all so. hut l'ii ht a hoss to a gingeivake that 1 kn-w Vr better' n you do. .Now, 111 tell you what you will nae to do. You'll tae to work her so tine that t-he will think she L sellin' the paper. .vhe's let n boss so Ion? that whenever you take a Land she gits her dander up ai d squares herself ag'in it. That Is at the I tot tooi o' the whole thins." "That may he a good idea, but I can't do it." Hilluoue answered. I know that everything that does hapien is what she proposes. 1 can't recall a sin gle thi:n; that I ever mentioned that r ent through, while every thing she Lints at somehow goes right off the "Well, then, I'll have to help you out." Abner said with firmness. "1 hJiit jaid fer the work, but simily out o' pity fer you as a sufferin' man that I've knowed an' liked a long time I'll take it in hand. Let me grit at 'mr. Is she lit home now V" "Yes" Hillhouse raised a pair of doubtful eyes "you'll find her in th? front yard where I left her a minute up), r.jt. Ab. 1 want you to be cart ful. When she is opjosed she some times has hysterics so bad that a doc tor has to come. The last time 1 call ed in lr. Stone he got mad at her for the w ay she went on. He told me that l. stf ij.s wasn't no aoaal disease, but was just imagination and tbe way jouie woDicu have of letting off steam. He came powerful near saying that It was what was meant by the evil (spir its our Saviour used to cast out. She was lying there to all appearances un able to talk and making signs when he come in. "He took one look at her and sniff ed. He called me out of the room and said: 'She can talk as well as anylxdy. Nothing is the matter with her. 1 f-an't charsr!.. for visits like these, and i don't wa-.it to be called away from important cases when I don't do some food. .Vow just get me a glass half fvii of water. Watch me close, and the iiejt time she acts this way you aduiinister the same treatment.' "I thought he was going to give her a dose of some soothing mixture, for he had his saddlebags with hiin. but I was mistaken. When I brought the water he hid the tumbler behind him and went in and stood over her. Then he asked her to sit up straight, and she did, he still keeping the tumbler out of sight. She hadn't more than reached an upright position when he dashed the water smack dab in ber face. Oh. wasn't she mad? She hop ped out of bed and told him if he over darkened that dor again she would have the law on him. " 'Well. I have cured you, haven't I? ! grinned. 'And I am not going to -barge for it." And with that he left her mopping her face with a towel, madder than any wet hen you ever taw." "I'll lKt you never used the treat ment." Abner commented dryly. "You hain't got backbone enough." No. 1 never did. to tell the truth," Hillhouse responded. "The treatment is simple an' cheap, and It worked like a ( harm in my wife's case, but a doc tor is a privileged character. No, If you are going to talk to her. Ab, you must keep your wits about you. 1 hope you will accomplish something, but 1 don't feel at all sure about It. My wife is a strong willed woman, and she has had her way a good many years." In the front yard of a simple cottage near by Daniel saw the object of his visit. She was a tall, thin woman, with blue eyes, sparse chestnut hair r.nd almost bloodless skin. She stood i: p. a garden trowel in hand, a short piece of twine between ber drawn lips, ms Abner leaned on the gate. "Good morniu'. Sister nillbouse," be -miled. "Don't let me stop you at yore work. 1 was Just passin'. I was in at the Clarion Just now. Yore bus- l .r y.i:r band says you run the house, an' 1 'lowed I'd ar you ef you'd like to buy some o" my prime smoke cured hams." "We don't need any." she answered cordially. We have been using sugar cured hams from Chicago. The mer chants here advertise with us. you know, and we feel that we ought to deal with them." "I'iggest mistake you ever made." Abner unlatched the small gate and went in. ostensibly to examine and smell a certain rose. "You ort to know. Sister Hillhouse, that our old fashioned smokehouse meat is miles an' mlle.s ahead o' the quick cured stuff that is shipped by the carload from the west. Why, you ort to be out our way an" see how we do It, We hang the upper part o" the smokehouse full o' hams, shoulders, sides, spiced an" peppered sausage in clean Inside com shucks, an' then we make a tire in the center out o' seasoned hickory wood an' chips as dry as powder. We close the bouse tight an keep the tire goin' fer days an days. A Chicago meat drummer stopped one day to see the process, an he told me that his stuff was jest smoked barely enough to stain the outside a little tiny bit. lie said that ef western meat was smoked as thoroughly as mine that you folks would have to pay a dollar a pound for it. Y'ou see. wood ain't no object to us out our way. whar we are constantly clearln up new ground, an", as fer the bother ' keepin tbe tire goin. a child could attend to it. though a body has to make quick runs In an out. holdin the breath, to put chips on. 1 declare I'd rather see the Kuoke oozin' out betwixt, the shingles pf a smokehouse than any sight 1 ever looked at." "1 know your hams must le deli cious, but" "They are as sweet as sugar on the tongue." Abner went closer to the porch as he interrupted her. Two chairs in the shade behind the honey suckle vines looked Inviting. "Take a seat and rest. Mr. Daniel," Mrs. Hillhouse now bethought herself to say, and as he accepted and doffed Lis hat she went on: "About the hams. Old fashioned eatables do seem to be passing out of use. Folks buy so many fancy things put up in cans here late ly. I'll think over your meat and let you know. I noticed in the Clarion not long ago that you took a trip away. Where did you go?" She had seated herself by him and was divesting her thin hands of the cotton gloves she wore while doing garden work. "Ob, I went everywbar. it seems to me" he was laying his hat carefully on the floor at his side "north, west an' south; stopped quite awhile in Au gusta. By the way. that's a pretty town. Sister llillhouse got the widest, shadiest avenues you ever laid eyes on. The big, fine houses, set away back on wide lawns as green an' level as a billiard table, with grass clipped as close as a convict's hair; an' roses: Oh. my! Joe Hillhouse's wife. Jane, yore sister-in-law, has oceans of 'em both summer an winter. I used to go to school with Joe over in Gilmer, an' he made me put up overnight at bis new mansion. 1 felt a little like a yahoo at that fine table, with all them glitterin dishes an' silver contrap tions. Jane is a wonderful up to date woman, jest the wife fer a risin' man like Joe." "1 never thought she was anything extra." Mrs. Hillhouse said frigidly, "not in education anyway. She never had half as many advantages as a girl that I had. Her pu was Just a poor circuit rider, while my father ' owned the finest river bottom plantation that" Jane's inakin' up for lost time, 1 reckon." Abner seemed unconscious of the fact that he was interrupting her. "Up here an this God forsaken section she had no sort o' show fer her nat urul talents, but down thar in that swift town she is feelin 'er oats. It is a pretty sight to see Jane In a fluffy yaller silk dress, cut low at the neck, an' her arms white an plump at the head o' that scrumptious table orderin' them nigger gals to tote forward this an' that toothsome dish. Joe's makin" money like a dam broke loo.se. He's got a big, growin business, an' he spends freely." "Yes, he's doing well." Mrs. nillbouse declared, with animation that crept from her flushed cheeks to her eyes. "He wants a partner too. He has writ ten John to come down an take an in terest. Joe says we needn't have any rent to pay, that there is plenty of room for us all in his big house. Yes. he's crazy to have us come," "You don't tell me!" Abner exclaim ed in well assumed astonishment. "An' what a pity, too. fer John certainly is tied here hands an feet. Unloadin' a piece o property like a newspaper cn its last legs nln't no little undertakin. I'm here to state." "We'd have no trouble at all." Mrs. Hillhouse answered. "In fact, two young men here in Darley are now bor rowing the money with the hope that we will decide to sell." "Oh, them fellers!" Abner said, in a tone of sympathetic dismay. "Well, If your sole hope lies in that direction I'm sorry to say you will meet with disap Iolntment. They came to me after bein' turned down everywbar else. I couldn't lend money to crack brains like them an' told 'em so." Mrs. IHIlbouse's features fell into anxious gravity. It was as if she could think of nothing to say at the moment. "It Is that way all through. Sister Hill house," Abner said consolingly as be took up his bat and fltttyj it over his knee. "Thar is always some wall or other risin betwixt us an' tbe plums o' life that is fer some of us you an me an' John, for Instance, but Jane an Joe have drifted at high tide into a patch o' clover especially Jane. If yore husband jest could git in with his brother down thar now you'd eclipse Jane mighty soon, fer you know what's what. Y'ou are dyin' of the dry rot in this measly old town." "Y'ou say those young men can't get up the money?" the woman faltered. "No, they can't make the ritlle." said Abner colloquially, "but you must pay Jane a visit anyway. Shed be glad to see you, I know, fer she was mo. an' I'm nothin' but a scrub. Y'ou ort to see her chicken house. It is in a great lot fenced off with wire uettln. Her fine bens lay eggs that fetch a dollar a dozen for hatchin purposes. It's a pretty sight. The water is good in Au gusta, too fine pure freestone, as soft to wash with as rain water full o' sal soda. "What a life you are missln. Sister llillhouse! Y'ou could do like Jane says she is goin' to do siend the winter thar when all the New Y'ork million aires are at the hotels playin g .If an' the warm months here fer a change. It makes me mad to think o' what a little thing Is standin" betwixt you an all them adantages, but it is the little things that sump us an' tie the halter of failure round our necks. I guess John Hillhouse will hang on to that patent inside tdieet till the subs.-rilx'ts bury 'im at thr expense out o grati tude fer the many obituaries he has printed nlout thr kin. I don't know. I'm shore." "I'm going to sell the paper." she said sharp!?"' "John makes a lot'h of everything he attempts. He tried awhile back to get me to cons nt to trade the Clarion for a farm miles and miles from civilization. If I had con sented we'd be further from Augusta than we are now. Surely there art persons who will pay $1.00 for a pa per like that, and I'm going to find them If I have to run an advertise ment in outside papers." "Thar is one thing that would help you." Abner had the air of a paid le pal adviser. "Y'ou certainly could give the buyer good reasons for you sellin' out, an' that would be an Item. Just explain the offer Joe Hillhouse is makin", an' all doubts would be laid. Y'es, I agree with you. Sister llill house, if the paper is sold you'll have to do it. John never could do it in this world or the next, as fer that matter." "I'm going to sell," the woman said. "I've never failed yet in anything I set out to accomplish. Jane Hillhouse r "I'm going to sell the paper," she said sharply. may think I'll spend the rest o' my days lu this poky town, but she will know differently very soon." Abner rose to take his departure. As he stepped down to the ground he swung his bat idly at his side. "It is funny, but all this talk about sellin" the Clarion makes me think that I Lad a notion o' owniu' a weekly ruy se'f. I think a sight o' Howard Tins ley, an' he's about to go away off som'er's to embark in newspaper work. I've got $1."300 lyiu idle too. I'd never have dreamt o' tradiu' with yore husband. Like many men. he don't seem to know his own mind long at a time. Of course if I was to buy I'd want to deal straight out with you." Tbe woman was flushed with com bined eagerness and anxiety. "111 let you have it," she said. "John will do exactly what 1 say. He always does." Abner turned toward the gate, put ting his hat on to shade his face from the sun. "Thar is a paper that could lie bought over in Gilmer county. 1 hain't been to look it over yet. an' " "But that would take you and How ard both away from home." urged the woman shrewdly. "Surely you'd rath er have u paper here at Darley." "Well, thar is somcthiu' in that too." Abner's entire being wore the vest ments of a man being led unwittingly by a suierior influence. "An It tuck a woman to think of it too." "Well, what do you say?" Mrs. Hill house followed him to the gate, which he was closing after him. "Y'ou will take it, won't 3-011?" "I'll swear." Abner said sheepishly, "you certainly know bow to wheedle a feller. Shorely you kin wait till I take a trip over to Gilmer to look that plant over." "It is now or never with me," was the firm answer. (To Be Continued.) Never can tell when you'll mash a finger or suffer a cut, bruise, burn or scald. 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