The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-05-08
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Sand
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"Wen, what then?n, and his grasp on
her arm frightened.
II know nothing Of him who caused
No; it was none Of u work"
You are sui of that" 49,
do you suppose I would keep it
from you If I knew"
NO" and, dropping her arm, with
out another word. walked over again
to the way he had come. II go on
business Of, my own, and while I am
in the neighborhood l am to be left
with this parting warning, which his
implied more than his word,
he passed out into the passage, and so
on up into the outer air.
AS he stood for a moment a little
dazzled by the sunlight, two men en-
tered the glade. In deep talk they did
not notice him at first, but, when their
eyes fell on him, one uttered an excla-
nation and seized his companion by the
arm n dragged him into he bushes.
The object of their alarm. noticing
the action, simply laughed. and, turn
ing on his heel, went down a path to
the right. with a good-humored smile
on his face.
AS he made his way along, he paused
once and again to listen. He held the
pick he had borrowed with both hands,
as If preparing to use it in case of a
necessity.
To make SUI that no one was follow
ing, he withdrew into the bushes at one
side of the road and waited. He was in
a position to command the path, and
see aQy one coming or going ~
1t was not long before a cracking
Of dried branches warned him that his
suspicious were correct. Presently a
all young man. with dark, unshaven
face, and very ragged clothes, skunk
into view. He drew nearer, looking
about with frightened eyes. AS he
came abreast of where the other was
hidden, he paused to listen. 1t was
only for a moment hat he stood there,
for the man with the pick leaped out
In the road, with the weapon uplifted
and such q fierce look on his face that
the other, Will, a howl, turned and ran
up the path, his grotesque tatters fut-
tering in he wind, and disappeared in a
twinkiing at a turn in the way.
"A fine new recruit that" muttered
the man with the pick. looking after
him. But what of it? The most Of
the breed are cowards."
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: hrools r..s 49, = lnluusn Miicle
doy,n o1,ar tba hanI swL.as.lis a llisS
edge of the stream, and, for a moment,
stood looking around him carefully at
the rocks on either hand. Then one
particular shaped stone seemed to at
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81 unse pesan ! thTeW Up the earth
an 'a nnr lon. =, .ne rGcR. ms race wore
f,,l1 a ~ +eusa eaplsss.on now, INC was
rin,,sI1, &c essi Is ~ ,.o ne Worhsd u
hts ~ sely NE uepenaeo on
us e1 ~ : Not once dld ne pause, ex-
So ~ ~ 8 n.sn ms PACK, wipe the
aro,1nal 49, VIZ o.s.sau = ! east iooh
49, - ~ iillle faVlne 70 see II any
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s+,,,ols sa,nath a. npul before Ihe PICK
tallie so,,nd Ha .mas sase, ous q nIe
eagarnass 49,. - WIS tleiuDlins Win
sastl,es9 INV, as ne roppe down,
49, nf AZ - 81 iehgtn over the
1oaea ia = : ) ~ ~ - lel, a.lons the
Ms : o. = pol.otii Win MS myers.
-. - 49, sisa ieileA escapeu MN,
az az ne a.sw oul long meta. cyilnder
disaa n ell pe mace OF copper, now
IIs MA.n contact WIN tne earIh.
ne arose 70 MS rect, and, taking the
PICK N mana with a blow smote n
off 1jIro +Io = - - Ia4TS
.cnes - .oSei 70 ooS;
+arsa als e. e ! after all" he nut
o,,t ~ tha a ug,lsiitsa voice, as ne areW
~. ~ s.ne eupe q ron OF yelloW parch-
+ vs. o,a anu, u1troiilng IL, glanced over
~ ~ a rua !. ana 1adea WIRING.
= .ine s.loll, ne paced II careIuliy
aMay ~ an inner pocket, n then,
gee,nIiu Wy Lne copper cyilnder, sent II
,aSins ITO .le pusnes at the loot OF the.
iavthe.
ST. oaa Gays work. ne said, rub
DIug MS nands toge.ner softly.
l.ssseu oId nature is a better
suaruian than man: IN human
He stood and washed his hands in
the feebly-flowing brook and bathed
MS ieateo race Whatever the paper
and 1astIno in,nor+aaoe psei szsal
u,han Nc r,s ~ - tanee ~ nlin. ror;
in his nosssssinn ht m"s fana sann : ~. ~
lose its an,io1,s n aas 49, ssghieu ~
as r. b,, 500 s,h+1a - ne pecalhe,
much yo,,n.ar 49, q
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