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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1924-7-24, Page 6PPEA.RA1NCES BY JAY GELZBR, PART III, Cullen Beck, remembering more ex- citing amorous passages in his St. Louis days, sighed. Patty Jessup, he told himself fret- fully, was thin, and he preferred plump girls. And Patty manifestly lacked spirit. His heavy chin sank upon his breast. in the warpath of the blazing fire, he drowsed comfortably. Patty Jessup, her face flushed, and her eyes bright with tears, slipped at length from the circle of his careless embrace and went out to where Joel Beck smoked stolidly outside. With a little sob she sank down be- side him. Joel dropped his pipe. "Whar's Cullen?" -Asleep," "Cullen's jes' tired," consoled Joel Beek gently. "Shouldn't wonder but whut he's plumb tuckered. out," "Hit's more than that," said Patty almost inaudibly. Remembering the candy produced as an afterthought, Joel was silent. Together they watched an autumn moon rise above the mountain top and float in a pool of silver light. "Reckon I'll hev the last o' the cot - tan in shortly," hazarded Joel. Patty Jessup murmured something indistinctly. Joel sighed. Little Patty—so nearly his own wife! Days followed in which Cullen lounged contentedly in the sunshine upon the steps before the cabin, col- larless, unshaven, vest unbuttoned over what was quite frankly a paunch; or departed, a battered felt hat low over his eyes, with a fishing rod and a can of worms. Rapidly he reverted to the soft, slurring speech of the back- woods mountaineer. Once, awkwardly, Joel tried to broach the subject of his prospective return to Cullen. "hen ye figger on goin' back, Cullen?" he asked bluntly. A slow, dark flush invaded Cullen's averted face. "When I've wore out my welcome!" "Sho' now!" placated Joel. "I didn't mean no harm, Cullen." Cullen's resentment faded. Raptly studying the twin mountainsides, he proceeded to make a strange remark. "Reckon Pap must hev had con- sid'bie of a time, with Maw forever hounding him," he observed negli- gently. Astounded by such blasphemy, Joel uttered a feeble defence of Maw's dili- gence. "Somebody hed to drive Pap --ter git any work out'n him." "Work!" scowled Cullen. "Sounds like Uncle Keating. Hit's all he thinks of! An' thar's more in livin' than work Joel. Sometimes a body jest likes ter sit an' think." "Ef everybody jes' set an' thought, folks'd starve," pointed out Joel rea- sonably. "We raise more'n we need," declar- ed Cullen restlessly. "Thar's fish ter ketch an' rabbits ter shoot an' honey ter find. An' Maw's got more quilts'n she kin ever use now. Paw worked hisself plumb out so 't Maw 'd hev quilts a -plenty!" "Cullen," said Joel sternly, "thar's somethin' I want ter talk erbout: You bin spendin' too much time down at May Gowdy's place sence ye came back: Tain't fair ter Patty!" "Patty's skinny," shrugged Cullen moodily. "An' I like 'em fat an' sassy. That May Gowdy—" he gesticulated inarticulate praise. A quietness invaded Joel's manner. "You an' Patty air tokened. An' Patty's waited three years now." "But how's a man goin' ter know at twenty whut kind o' female he'll want. at twenty-three?" "I'm twenty-five," said Joel. "An' I've known ever Bence I kin remember that I wanted Patty Jessup." "Then whyn't ye marry her? May Gowdy suits me better." Joel Beck trembled, a haze blurred his vision. Cullen was scorning Patty Jessup. "Patty Jessup's got her mind set on you!" he returned thickly. "Reckon ye got ter keep yore word, Cullen." Their eyes caught and held. ' "Well," yielded Cullen, sulkily, mak- ing good his escape. Lacing a broken bit of harness to- gether with stout twine, Joel wonder- ed if Patty knew of Cullen's atten- tions to May Gowdy, Likely she did, news circulating freely in the Valley. Likely that was why Patty Jessup's eyes had frequently of late borne traces of tears. Maw would prefer May Gowdy. A strapping, broad -hipped, full -breasted girl. May had a lively way with her. Patty Jessup, it seemed, did know about Cullen and May Gowdy. He found that out that very evening, when he encountered her outside the cabin, staggering under a load'of fire- wood. "Whyn't ye let Cullen tote that wood?" he demanded hotly. "Cullen's gittin' too lazy ter live! He's allers bin lazy but he's worse'n ever now." Patty allowed him to take the wood. "Cullen's a Beck," she returned startlingly. "Only yore Maw cain't see hit 'cause o' his looking like the Keatings. But ye ca'n't allers go by appearances. You—you're the Keat- ing o' the family, Joel." Joel gulped astonishment. The Keating of the family! "Joel," said Patty Jessup suddenly. "Did ye know Cullen's courtin' May Gowdy?" Joel stammered with pity. 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Whitens teeth. sweetens breath and teethe goody that "I hain't carin'," she said. "Hit wuz all a mistake, my bein' tokened ter Cullen, Livin's powerful hard fer wimmin in the mountings, an' 1 hain't strong. Reckon I kinder figgered Cul- len 'd be able ter give me an easy life, him lookin' so much like a Keating an' all; reckon hit's powerful hard fer a girl ter know jes' why she likes a man sometimes! But Cullen, he ain't goin' ter be able ter take care o' no - buddy; he ain't that kind. An' besides" —her voice dropped to an excited whisper—"I'd rather hev you, Joel!" It seemed to Joel Beck in that mo- ment that he had not heard aright. Himself, with his lame leg and his lack of Cullen's charm and his re- semblance to the shiftless Becks? "Patty—?" he implored. Patty Jessup crowded closer, her face raised to his. "Joel -Joel! Were hit jes' the prom- ise ye made ter Pap " An immense tenderness wet his eyes as he dropped the wood and drew her close. "Oh, Patty, honey—" he whispered. He did not in the least resent her previous preference for Cullen. That was the natural, instinctive reaching out of her weakness for security, and it was her very weakness which espe- cially 'endeared Patty to him. Then with vexing distinctness the old problem of/ Cullen's return came back to fret him. He could not, he decided, endure waiting an instant longer to know the cause ofthat am- biguous ret Putting Patty aside almost sternly, he strode across the hard grotahl purposefully. To Cullen, lounging before the fire- place, he put insistent question, Maw coming to listen. "B! ye didn't come back fer Patty, Cullen, whutever air ye hyar fer?" "Hahi;'t I got a right hyar?'3 de- manded Cullen violently, Maw Beck interposed, quiet and forceful in her black calico. "Answer Joel, Cullen." Cullen weakened. "I hain't never goin' back!" he flung at them. "Cities—I hate them. An'. anyways, Uncle Keating sent me back. He says ter tell ye ter send Joel of he ain't cut off 'n the same piece o' cloth. "He says—" Cullen paused briefly. "Uncle Keating says I'm a Beck all through. He says there ain't no goin' by appearances!" There followed a brief siknco dur- ing which It seemed to Joel that Maw aged before hia eyes. "Uncle Keating said—that?" she In- quired at last. Cullen nodded sulkily. "Reckon hit's true," he acknowl- edged. "I 'like doin' jes' whut Pap did —huntin', fishin' an' jes' settin'." Spectulatively she allowed her eyes to rest upon her older son, the image of his shiftless father. "Joel's the Keating o' the family," informed Cullen suddenly. "Only ye never c'd see hit, Maw." "Joel's done right smart with the farm," brooded Maw aloud. "Mebby hit's true what Uncle Keating said erbout appearances." Patty 'Jessup's hands fluttered up toward her throat in a gesture of agony. Instantly Joel knewwhat she was thinking. Another lover was to vanish over the thin strip of road leading to the outer world, this time never to return. But Patty needn't be afraid. He would never forget Patty! His eyes met Maw's imploringly. Would Maw give him his chance? Would Maw spare him, knowing be- yond mistake that Cullen could never take his place on the farm? Maw spoke at last with surprising gentleness, the old prejudice entirely Iwiped out of her tone. "Reckon ye better go, Joel, Ye've worked right spry on the farm and I reckon hit's yore due, son." Instantly the deep -buried restless- ness came alive in Joel, all the old throbbing demand for new conditions of living and new problems to wrestle , with. His whole being flooded with a mighty emotion of joy and release. He had no slightest sense of fear of the world outside .which had worsted Cullen. Characteristically he choked down his emotion, accepting his release I casually. "I'm takin' Patty: with me," he ac- cepted quietly. 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