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"He air the same feller who hev been spyin' ye all the time this war's been goin' on; hit's that dried-faced, snaky Eli Crump, who ye knocked down 'n' choked up in Hazlan one day fer sayin' something ag'in Isom." "I knowed it I knowed it oh, ef I could git my fingers roun' his throat once more jes once more I'd be 'mos' ready to die."
But I tell you he's gone. He asked me to shut my eyes to this thing and let you and him carry it out; but I couldn't do that, so he went away." She knew he was not deceiving her, and she turned on him with reproaches. "You want to chain me here and see me work myself to death for that old miserly Isom!" she stormed. "You're just as bad as he is; you ain't got a soft spot in your heart."
"I reckon thar's enough to fill the sack, Isom," said the old miller, breaking the strained silence of the group. The girl rose and handed him a few pieces of silver. "I reckon I'd better pay fer it all," she said. "I s'pose I won't be over hyeh ag'in." Old Gabe gave some of the coins back. "Y'u know whut my price al'ays is," he said. "I'm obleeged," answered the girl, flushing.
"You can use them molasses in the blue barrel," instructed Isom. "It's about gone," said she. "Well, put some water in the barrel and slosh it around it'll come out sweet enough for a mess or two." Isom got up from the table as he gave these economic directions, and stood a moment looking down at his wife. "Don't you worry over feedin' that feller, Ollie," he advised. "I'll manage that.
Marcum was in the dust when the smoke cleared away; and now, after three months in bed, he was just out again. He had come down to the mill to see Isom. This was the miller's first chance for remonstrance, and, as usual, he began to lay it down that every man who had taken a human life must sooner or later pay for it with his own.
"Where was Ollie Chase when Isom came into that room?" asked the prosecutor, lowering his voice as the men who tiptoed around old Isom when he lay dead on the kitchen floor had lowered theirs. "You have heard her say that she was in her room upstairs," said Joe. "But I am asking you this question," the prosecutor reminded him sharply. "Where was Ollie Chase?"
After Hammer had asked further questions tending to establish the fact of good feeling and friendship between Joe and Isom, he gave it over, knowing full well that Joe had set back his chances of acquittal further than he had advanced them by his persistency in testifying as he had done.
Johnny Martin, Wayland, Kentucky Thomas Johns, Dwale, Ky. Isom Slone, Beaver Creek John Bud Harris, Emma, Kentucky Billy Slone, Caney Fork, Right Beaver, Kentucky. This list is as remembered by the oldest citizens, and one T.J. "Uncle" Jeff Sizemore, 94 years old Civil War Veteran and citizen of Prestonsburg, Kentucky, dictated then to the writer in just this order.
Newbolt, leaning toward the coroner, shaking her head reprovingly. "I've got the right to ask you anything that I see fit and proper, young man," the coroner rebuked him sternly. "Well, maybe you have," granted Joe, drawing himself straight in the chair. "Did Isom Chase ever find you alone with his wife?" the coroner asked.
If I wanted to, even, I couldn't hide away a pound of butter or a dozen of eggs any more than I could hide away that stove." "But I don't suppose Isom means to be hard on you or anybody," said Joe. "It's his way to be close and stingy, and he may do better by you one of these days." "No, he'll never do any better," she sighed. "If anything, he'll do worse if he can do any worse.
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