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Updated: May 1, 2025
It came back vividly to the girl how the newspapers had said that Louvania Bence had taken off her slippers and left them on the bridge, that she might climb the netting more easily to throw herself into the water. The mother stared down at these, dry-eyed. "She never had 'em on but the once," Mavity Bence breathed. "And I and I r'ared out on her for buyin' of 'em.
Johnnie, ef you ever get a invite to a dance I'll lend 'em to you. Hit'd pleasure me to think some gal's feet was dancin' in them thar slippers. Lou, she never learned to dance looked like she could never find time." Louvania, be it remembered had found time in which to die. So Johnnie thanked poor Mavity, and hurried away, because the warning whistle was blowing.
She was alive in every fibre of her young body; she saw, she heard, as these words cannot always be truthfully applied to people. "Did Shade tell you anything about Louvania?" inquired the woman at length. "No," replied Johnnie softly, "but I seen it in the paper."
Louvania Bence, the only remaining child of the widow, had, two weeks before, left her work at the mill, taken the trolley in to Watauga, walked out upon the county bridge across the Tennessee and jumped off. Johnnie had read the published account, passed from hand to hand in the mountains where Pap Himes and Mavity Bence had troops of kin and where Louvania was born.
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