The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-07

.sForafve me. SIRE aaadh& with sur
urisin0 nuieknasa. ssThe maa able busi-
ness belongs 10 years gon6 bk. never
like 10 stir IL mp but = y0a have been
90 kind / would not have you get a|
wrong impression ut me- 20 listen and
despise me IL you oan.
He packed up his implements, threw
his sack over his shoulder and started
ON his why.
"Tm bound for 8 said I Are
ron going the same wayi"
1.-THE same, sir, whichever way Jon
10 / am everywhere-or rather, 10
where-at home.
We walked ON and soon entered again
the magnificent wood. But its beauty
found me Indifferent now. 7 was all abb
sorbed in the mysterious man at my
side, whose eyes were fixed intentIy
upon the messy earth
lyon were going 10 tell me your sto-
~, " said L taking mp the conversation
where we had left OF.
81 was going to-yes. But really,
now, I'm almost sorry ! said 80. How
ever, I promised, and / must keep my
word, for somehow you're different
from the rest.
He struck q match and lighted his
pipe, which he had already filled with
my tobacco
Zone would never think, to look at
me now, = said he after o few pulls OFT
his pipe, ''that ! was the son Of q rich
farmer. All, truly, time can do strange
things with menl MY father-blessed
be his memory-was wrong when he 50
often said, nearly 80 years ago, that his
wild boy wouldn't live to see many
years. I've seen only too many of themi
There was my brother Xavier-an
entirely different sort of fellow-my ex-
net opposite. While / wandered the
whole day long I'm the woods he would
sit porting over books thick with dust
even in our grandfathers' day which he
found in the garrett.
I'm the catechism he stood at the
head. The pastor had not met SO indus
trious q boy in years.
"And I? Oh, I was q good for moth
ing, who deserved a whipping every
dayl / got it often enough, too, and IL
didn't agree so badly with me either, for
I grew to be such q big fellow as
couldn't be matched in the neighbor-
hood
'I think for one while there wasn't
o village fair in the vicinity where ]
didn't play the rowdy. This would have
been q pretty bad state OF affairs If IL
had lasted long, but an end Don came
TO it--an end which / would gladly
have exchanged for an honest stab I'm o
tavern brawl It happened thus:
: team You see, sir, that old tumble
down hut oyer there between those two
larches? Twelve years ago that was the
, home OF an old day laborer. Tt is easy
to be seen that wealth had nc plact
there, but the house was kept by Marie,
the old mans daughter-a girl SO pref
ty that the angels in heaven might have
reioiced TO look ut her. What wondel
was 1t that I often stopped to chat witt
her over the fence or fasten o nosega.
i'm her bodice on my way home?
WELL the suInme passed away, ant
when winter came ON, raw and cold
and + had no excuse for wandering
. among the mountains, still something
drew me irresistibly to those old paths
and>I could not let o single day 60 b.
! without seeing Marie.
t'Her father saw how matters wer
going, but he made no objections. Fo
while he knew that / was a wild sor
Of a scamp he did not believe there wa
anything really bad in me. And he wa
i not mistaken.
t"The time came at last when j mus
acuuaint my father with the state of al
fairs. Oh, but you should have seen
sir, the storm Ii raisedl It had neve
entered into my lovesick brain that Ma
rie was the daughter of a poor peasant
The old man was stubborn, and ] equal
Nv 80. For six whole weeks / did not 81
i down / o a meal with him. Xavier /
I the meanwhile was all devotion. An
!. he was right-my noble brother-fe
= was 7 not making my choice betwee
:. Marie and my share OF the property?
i sJust then it seemed as il heaven !
y self meant to spoil his calculations. II
dreaded day for the military draft can
y ON. / had the year before drawn tl
lucky number which ~exonerated n
Z from service. It was nov Xavier's tur
to try the wheel of fortune.
y HE drew a blank, and unless a SUI
stitute should be provided he must witt
i'm O few days join the army.
: my father was inconsolable. A So
= stitute was no easy thing to obtain, G
p~ecially al the very air seemed full
y ominous portents, and amy day mig
]. come the news that war had been d
clared.
as "A thought flashed through my min
4 I swallowed my pride On the insta
and once more entered the old mar
- presence.
Father, said ], liz you will gi'
your consent to my marriage wi
Marie, I will be Xavier's substitute.
ssThree days later / was wearing {
s. kaiser's green uniform"
The ant hunter stopped for an insta
n and looked about him.
stIt liz q beautiful little bit OF cart