Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-13

1.-THE sky Is as dull as cuer," said Annc.
them grows frantic and the rest follow.
Only now and then there's Red Evans
who has hate enough in him to kill the
insulting despot who ruined his daugh-
ter and who has been crushing and
cheating him for years. He went mad,
and now the law is loose hunting for
Red Evans as terriers hunt for a rat. If
they find him, they'll hang him, and
this is justice of course. But why need
Red Evans ever have become what he
was? Why? It's such a big. terrible
question.
DR.. Ericsson caught her hand and
kissed it.
"You should have put an iron casing
round those too ready sympathies Of
yours, Anne, befu1e you came here.
Well have very hard time of it if we
try to change conditions which have al
ways becn," he said mildly. "Besides,
I've come to the conclusion myself for
my own satisfaction that the small
thir:s Of life are inevitably balanced
here; SO life in total with all its opposi-
tions and wrongs must be as evenly
balanced somewhere else. What are
your plans for today? I wish could go
with you and Sefain. Confound this un-
certain leg of mine!'
"I'm first going with money to Red
Evans sister," said Anne, seating her.
self on the arm Of his chair and opening
her notebook. "Then l want to see the
interior of a mine if it's possible. I'd
like to get an idea of the graves where
these men spend their days. Tonight I
must get long special ready"
"Sefain must go with you every
where. Don't forget that. Goodby, my
dear. Don't fret over what can't be
helped. Remember all workers are not
like these. Think of niggers singing in
lily fieldi All. wish I were there
nowl''
Anne hurried down the stairs and
found Donald waiting for her with
venerable carriage. He did not see her
as she came up to him. Standing just
outside the doorway, an Inverness cape
tapping around him, he was sketching
in the salient points Of a noisy group
across the road. One man stood on q
barrel, his arms held up, while in bowls
he called on the others to resist. Around
him were a score of men-Huns, Poles,
with smaller mixture of Irish and
English-their working jeans discarded
for antique and yellowed broadcloth.
They were all stupidity listening with
out sign of answering spirit, their faces
showing that they were hungry and
shivering.
Donald was never fully aroused ex.
oept when he worked. His bro IN,
nervous fingers held the book intently,
his eyes flashed keenly from the page to
the men, but his dark face looked
pinched in the raw morning. His air
was frankly dissolute.
When Anne spoke to him, the smile
Of which he always seemed ashamed
made his face, attractive for second
before it settled again into the usual
ungracious quiet.
The horse went at crawling pace
over the hills and across swampy land,
and they talked Of the work for the pa.
per as if they were two men. No per.
sonalities were touched upon. There
was nothing to brighten the drive, and
after long distance covered in the face
of mist that made Anne's cheeks like
pale, wet roses they stopped before the
house where Red Evans had lived.
The clamor following disgrace sur
rounded it. Women bowed by the NAL.
formations of toll and years stood shout
der to shoulder with idle men, all talk
ing loudly, their eyes fastened upon the
sulphur hued cottage, whose under sto-
~ from tie trembling of the tunneicd