The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-02
GOOD FOR EVIL.

er, Hayes, when you know | don't like
him: I've warned you often enough.
When a man is ashamed to tell his bust
ness. it doesn't take much discnrnmrnt
to see that something il wrong. He
has been in our house now about five
weeks and dnring the whole time has
not limited II word as to the meaning of.
his trips into the woods. Yesterday ]
saw him prowling about the old quarry.
but when | asked him what he was att
er he said he was looking for game. n
likely place indeed to find anything to
shoOt!'
FEATHER, - said the daughter, Mr..
Hayes has always treated me like a gem
tlcman, and as there is no other COM
pany here | don't see what harm can
come from talking with him.
Il know that it is lonesome here.
Jessie, with 10 one bot Inc for COM
pany. and when we can afford it we
shall 90 where YOU can have better ad-
v%antagcs, but that fellow Hayes Is not
The right kind, and | don want you to
have anything at all B. do with him.
I've left word with DIX * to have his
horse ready when &c. ~ ,l'k, for he has
gOt>tO leaAo this pc 8. OF course
I've got no proof we, - IS a bad one,
but 1t Is easy nOi : see. OOk at
his brace Of pistols. | tell you a rifle
but the sheriff : posse. But [ must 90;
remember what | say and don't look
for me back before night and Moslv
turned away.
Anton Moshy's occupation was to
protect a large section Of pine timber
owned by an eastern company from en-
Croachments ny rival firms and necCs-
STATED long tramps along the bounda-
ries of the great forest estate. His home
was located i'll a small clearing not
large enough to escape the shadows of
the trees for more than half Of the day.
The nearest village was a numbering
town about IS miles distant. From
this village ran a narrow. sCraggy rOa
out into the forest, past Mosby's house.
anG then at the distance of a mile or so
divided, n branch turning south and
leading somewhere in the direction Of
civilization, the other running several
miles northward and ending in an old
quarry which was dug in the side of a
rocky ledge.
After Mosby's departure Jessie went
on with her work indoors with a heavy
heart. Her fathers suspicion that the
man Hayes. who had been sojOurning
with them, was only a refugee from
justice, PANIED her. He had always
I lcor IVY oll;.;~x ol,o,+ +1, lo..co I,l
books in his saddlebags and sometimes
read aloud to her, which was a matter
of real entertainment, and while she
did not care for him she felt extremely
sorry for the treatment he received at
her fathers hands. She had to confess.
however, on thinking it over, that 1t
was a queer place for a man to cume
whose only occupation was pleasure.
Her father had an idea that some day
an officer Of the law would ride into
their little clearing and demand a pris-
oner; that a scene would follow. and
the prisoner. escaping, would seek safe
ty in the Shiny caves which penetrated
the sides of the limestone ledge. He
even dreamed about it and awoke one
night lmbuel with the idea that the
house was surrounded by mounted
horsemen. Day by day his suspicious
increased. until finally from fear of
J~essie's falling IL love with a villain he
decided to drive him away.
Hayes was an ordinary looking man
Of about ) feet 10. hair brown, eyes
blue and rather quick and nervous in
his speech. II was a suspicion Of en-
barrassment in the latter respect when
questioned as to his business that first
led Mosby to observe his actions, and
his preference for the old quarry road.
which was rough and swampy and led
through a tangled growth of under
brush, seemed evident enough that he
belonged to those who prefer darkness
rather than light.
These suspicious made Mosby, nat
urally a hospitable man, cold and sa-
t~irical, and many an arrow of sarcasm
was plumed for<his victims breast, but
Hayes usually seemed perfectly obliv-
ious of their meaning, Il fact which only
further determined Mostly in the belief
that he was a bad one.
The season had been exceedingly dry.
For nearly a month not a drop of rain
had fallen. The sand lay in drifts in
the middle of the road and blew away
from the roots of the trees. During the
previous weeks a great fire had been
raging to the northward, several towns
being RACED to the ground and a wide
stretch of timber ruined. The ledge of
rocks referred to ran in a crescent and
acted as a barrier to the flames, so that
the country over which Mosby presided
was left unframed.
This great northern section, however,
where the fires had been so destructive,
was inhabited by wolves, which now,
goaded by fire and hunger, sought safe
ty to the southwark. Mosby saw them
frequently, and their baying could be
heard at night while prowling through
the woods in search of food.
When Mostly went on the tramp, he
invariably took his rife with him, hop
ing to obtain enough pelts during the
season for d robe.
Wolves - he used to say to HAYES,