Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

I Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section The Copperhead (Continued from page 70) I argued and pleaded, but it was no use. He had just decided to go through life without an explanation and he would have, too, only — but that jumps forty years. Milt went away soon after the end of the war and took his baby with him. At least if he would not explain, he could bring up the girl where no one knew about the pa^t. Elsie grew up, married, had a little daughter, and again Milt, now an old man, but still strong in mind and body, had a little baby on his hands. Still he stayed away from Milville for quite a long time, and then one day came back. Didn't say anything to anybody, nor didn't make any secret of his movements. Just came back, opened up the old place, and moved in. He was all alone — his granddaughter, Madeline King, was in school in Boston. She came a few weeks later, a peach-blossom girl, pretty and happy, with never a trace in her merry features of the tragedy that had hung over the family half a century. Nobody said anything to her about it of course, though she must have wondered why it was so many of the neighbors only spoke to her father with a curt nod as she passed them. She could not know that when she was not by his side they did not speak at all. There were a few who were willing to admit that the war was over, but even among these there were not many who were cordial. And among those who were sternest in refusing to associate with Milt was Hardy, a Colone' now and a distinguished figure at all the G. A. R. reunions. Bye and bye Madeline came to understand in a general way that her grandfather had sympathized with the South in the Civil War, but from the long distance of the younger generation this was no hanging matter, and even if the word "Copperhead" h::d been spoken it would have lost its sting. Well, it just wouldn't have been natural in the circumstances if Milt Shanks granddaughter and Colonel Hardy's grandson hadn't fallen in love. There never were two people better suited to each other. Tom was a fine young chap, upstanding and manly, taking after his grandfather, and with all the old man's grit. He knew that the Colonel and Milt weren't on speaking terms, but he didn't know all of the reason, any more than Madeline did. But the old folks in the town wondered what would happen when the Colonel found out the facts in the case concerning his grandson's courting. Madeline wouldn't listen to Tom at first when he asked her to marry him. She said her grandfather was getting so old and feeble that she couldn't leave him, but Tom brushed that aside by assuring her she didn't have to leave him. And with that he hurried off to see the Colonel. Hardy sputtered and fumed, but Tom insisted. Hardy wouldn't go into details — he was too big a man to want to dig up all that past trouble. So Tom flung away from him with a declaration that he would marry Madeline anyhow, and the Colonel might as well make up his mind to it. He hurried back to Milt's house and told his story to the old man. "I guess you know what the town thinks about me," he said, looking Tom square in the eyes. "Buttons here," and he patted his dog, "and Madeline, is the only folks that don't call me a damned old jail-bird. I've kept as much of that away from her as I could, son — " "Mr. Shanks, I love her, and I don't care what anybody thinks," Tom insisted. They were interrupted by the arrival of a visitor in the yard, a grizzled, shuffling figure with an ill-fitting suit. His hair was cropped short, and there was a week's growth of beard on his face. 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