Attica High School - Crimson Yearbook (Attica, IN)

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awed by his title and dignity, tried to set her at ease by starting a conversation. But Kate was obdurate and the Judge gave up in despair, promising himself, however, that he would win her interest. For, he thought, she would make an excellent heroine for a mountain novel. When Jed invited him to spend the day with them, say- ing that perhaps Kate would show him the country, the Judge was delighted, but his delight was short lived for Kate said sweetly, I am sorry I cannot do that for you, daddy, but I have promised Collins to go with him to Sas- safras Gulch tomorrow. You know Collins is going away the next day, and I could not disappoint him. But you may come anyway, she added, turning to the Judge, l'Daddy can show you many things in which you will be inter' ested, and Miss Kate rode away leaving the Judge disconsolate, and the townspeople hurt because their honored guest had been treated so coolly. As the postmaster said, i'Kate Darrow could ride with Collins Warner any day, but it wasn't every girl who could have the Judge as a guest. The next day the Judge set out for the farm in a happy mood, for he felt that Kate would change her mind and let Collins Warner go to Sassafras Gulch alone, but about a mile from the farm he met Kate and the young surveyor running a race on their playful horses. Ah , he thought, perhaps she fears that I do not enjoy her so- ciety. If only she knew how much I should like to know her she would not ride away from me so swiftly. He spent the day very pleasantly with Mr. Darrow and as they stood on the bank of a deep gulch, Jed told him the story of Bud Warner who had conducted a still in this very valley. Bud Warner had been a wily trans- gressor of the law but he had finally been discovered and was now serving his sentence while his wife and Collins tried to live down the stigma of their disgrace. When Judge Chesterfield returned to the town he made covert inquries into the facts of the Warner case. Young Dick Howitt, a jilted admirer of Kate, wrathfully denounced the whole Warner family and naturally the Judge conceived a bitter distrust of Collins. He now spent much time near the Warner Gulch and the townspeople who thought he was writing another volume, left him strictly alone. But soon it was whispered among the town dignitaries that there had been queer actions on the part of the stranger concerning the tale of the moonshiners. Some one had actually seen him near the cave of the old still, so now they felt that Humphrey Chesterfield must be a revenue ofiicer, and their reverence turned to hatred. The cave itself was near the Darrow home and one day as he was nearing the place he had met Kate coming from the Gulch with a tin bucket on her arm. That very day he had noticed a few broken weeds and following them he found that they made an undeniable trail thru the woods to the still. He also learned that young Warner was not at heme and by putting two and two together he had decided that moonshining was not extinct in the mountains, that Collins although honored by the neighborhood was even then engaged in unlawful business. To be sure it would be hard to accuse such a girl as Kate of being an accomplice in such a crime, but the law must not be violated and so he carefully planned to bring the transgressors to Justice. Q Y