Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18

a deep breath of satisfaction.
"Now, sir, u money is safe: no burst
to this bank. You ride along to San
Bernardino, and I'll go around and beat
up the Palos Verdes. Wen meet hero
IN ten days from now and decide on
what we want. and here will be our
money, all ready to hand over"
Benjamin Anyway cast more than one
lingering look behind where all his CAP
ital lay fallow. He contemplated the
scene with far greater complacency
when he returned at the appointed
time; content, too, and treasured, when
in q distant speck on the opposite road
he gradually came to recognize his
partner. Their undertaking had held
its share of danger. In those days a
MAJ on the quest for buying cattle
meant a man with ready money, whose
life would not be worth Il moments
purchase should he encounter any of the
lawless gentry of the day. The part
ncrs sat them down to discuss at once a
snack from their knapsacks and the SUI
P%eriority of the herd at the Palos Verdes;
then, stepping off so many PAGES to the
northward, they turned to make the
eastward bearings, and short they
stopped, aghast. The money had
been buried close to the edge of a little
%chaparral that had screened it's site
from the live-oak where they dined,
Thus its situation had been concealed
till they were close upon, and o only
q loose, irregular heap of scattered
earth showed where it had been hidden.
Huntley staggered back as under phys
zeal blow. Anyway came neal to inspect
the hollow closely.
otis MOTT can't be goner' cried
Huntley, with an oath.
"lt does seem hard" said ANYWAY.
tcmperately.
"Hardr' echoed Huntley, raging;
"hard! You call it hard when fortune
was waiting our grasp! 1 tell you, An
way, there. is no Providence that will
let this thing befall us; there is no
Heaven that will overlook it; there is no
God!' He raved on, in a wild burst of
blasphemy.
Benjamin was no Puritan nor saint,
but the others abandon shocked him.
He demonstrated gently, nationally, pa
tiently. Come, John, old man." he
concluded, "no use to make bad worse.
Let us look into this; there may be traces
some clcw that we may follow. Idon't
purpose to give up without an effort"
But a recent shower had passed, which
might have obliterated signs of foot
steps-no trace or clew was there.
''We'd best 60 into the town and get
assistance" said Benjamin Anyway; ''but
now l am convinced it's q hopeless
quest. The one who knew how to get
the money will know how to keep it."
He was staring at the other as he
spoke-in reality, with the unseeing, I'M
whiting gaze of blank despair. But Hunt
ley chose to discover in his look fresh
causesfor grievance.
"By heavens, AWAY" he shouted,
with furious passion, II believe you
think l sneakea back here and duo up
the money!
"Why, Huntley," cried Anyway, as
founded, ''you are mad to dream ofsuch
a thing!'
Huntley persisted; he protested; he
swore he would prove an a1ibi by wit
stopped.
AH ILLS, Cllcu ANYWAY, rs more
than folly. You are hunting trouble to
add to tribulation. See here, Huntlcy, 1
hnow you did not take the money! Does
that satisfy you"
Huntley's whole bearing underwent a
change almost instantaneous, as the
positive manner of Anyways %utterance
struck him. "He knoWs it," he NUT
tered; chow can he know I am inno-
cent, unless he knows another man
guilty? And whose guilt but his own
would he conceal?" From a raging
tiger at bay, he became more like a
crouching wolf or hyena, prepared to
spring on unsuspecting prey. His in
sane reasoning fascinated him. The
Anyway, in the strength of his moral
consciousness, was full of fatal signi-
ficance to his partner.
".Pcrhaps,' he said, with lips drawn
back to show his teeth, in a horrible
canine snarl, ''perhaps you came back.
Perhaps you have got the money!"
For u moment Benjamin Anyways
face was livid with the terrible white ire
tina tdominates mcn of his type, wrought
up to intensest passion; for Il moment his
powerful muscles, tense with the springs
Of murder, strained the heavy cloth that
CARRIED them. Then the consciousness
Of his power constrained him to for
b%earance.
':You are badly u%nstrung, john he
said, quietly; ''let us go into Los An
gelcs and see what we can and in the
way of detective skill-perhaps the
Vigilantes hang out hereabouts."
But in the City Of the Angels there
was no ability that could trace the treas
ure spirited away. Benjamin Anyway
speedily resigned himself to the loss, as
inevitable asst was unforeseen. AS his
share in the cache had been greater
than Huntlcy's, so his world
" possessions had been more COM
p9letelv merged therein. Now he was,
indeed, left destitute. Resolutely, how
ever, with the thought of MS helpless
family behind him, he applied himselfto
finding a means Of maintenance and
before the rebellious Huntley left the
town Anyway had obtained employment,
in subordinate capacity, that yet would
suffice for his family's greatest needs.
Huntlev was not without resources.
Not all his means had been involved in
this speculation that had promised SO
much and ended so abortively. He re,