Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-11-01
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his behind IT,
IS = can't help IT." Hunnicott protest
/ ed. SIS = don't helievsSth Hat any man or
clique could bring this thing about
unless we were really on the upturn.' :
Very good; believe what you
please. but do as l tell you. Sell every
loot Of CASTOR dirt that. stands In
your name; and while you are about
It sell those six lots for me In subdi-
vision i've. More than that. do it pref
ty sOOn.'' sl. .5.z =.z.3...5 i.
Hunnicott promised, in the broker
age affair. at least Then he switched
the talk to the receivership.
"Still up in the air. are you, In the
railroad grab case?" 4z# essz. =.
Kent nodded. .S Il s: !. s' r.
No news of MacFarlane?"
PLENTY of 1t. His health Is still
precarious. and will likely remain so
until the spoilsmen have picked the
skeleton Clean" 5=..ss. =. ~! T. Z
Hunnicott was silent for full min
ute. Then he said: .* ..~ III. ><.s- RI Il
Say, Kent, hasn't it occurred to
you that they are rather putting meat
on the bones instead Of taking 1t OF !:
Their bills for betterments must be out
Of sight" h r <4,= .=j=z s-s * s N. s ,s32N
1t had occurred to Kent, but he gave
his own explanation Of Major Gull
ford's policy in terse sentence. Xix
1T is q part of the bluff; fattening
the thing little before they barbe-
cue IT." " r ~. ., ',t.= 4. - IN: .$ & "
II suppose so. It's pity we don't
live little farther back in the his
tory Of the world: say at q time when
We could hire MacFarlane's doctor
to obliterate the Judge, and no ques-
lions asked" -
+ Who can explain how It is that some
testing word, trivial and purposeless
it may be, will fire Z hidden train of
thought which was@waiting only for
some chance spark? ''Obliterate the
judge" said Hunnicott in grim jest:
and straightway Kent saw possible
ties; saw a thins to be done. though
not yet the manner Of its doing.
r If you'll excuse me, 2 he said alb
ruptly to his companion, Fl believe
I'll try to catch the tyer back to- the
capital. I came down to see about
selling those lots Of mine. but If you
will undertake it for me-. 1T
"Of course" said Hunnicott: '.I'N
be only too glad. You've ten minutes:
can you make it," p:
Kent guessed so, and made the guess
a certainty with two minutes to spare.
The through sleeper was lightly load
ed, and he picked out the most I'M
neigh bored section of the twelve, being
wishful only for undisturbed thinking
ground. But before the train had
swung past the suburb lights of Cas-
ton, the smokers unrest seized him
and the thought-wheels demanded to-
bacco Kent fought it as long as he
could, making sure that the smoking
compartment liars club would be in
session; but when the demand be-
came a nagging insistence, he found
his pipe and tobacco and went to the
mems room. = = = /. ..
The little den behind the drawing
room had but one occupant besides
the rear-end brakeman tall, satur-
nine man in a gray grass-cloth buster
who was smoking q Porto Rican sto-
gle. Kent took second look and held
out his hand IL, 800
]. :: This is an unexpected pleasure,
Judge Marston. I was counting on
three hours of solitary confinement -
The Neutrality-suspicious. acknowl-
edged the hand-clasp, nodded, and
made room on the leather-covered d.
van for the newcomer. Hildreth, the
editor of the Argus, put it aptly when
he said that the grim-faced old cattle
king had blown into politics. He
was q compromise on the ticket; was
no part of the Bucks programme, and
had been made to feel it. ! Tradition
had it that he had been a terror to
the armed and organized cattle thieves
of the early days; hence the brevet
title of Judge" But those who knew
him best did not know that he had once
been the brightest man upon the SUI
preme bench Of his native state: this
before failing health had driven him
into exile. -.
For a time the talk was 4 desultory
monologue, with Kent doing his best
to keep it from dying outright. La
ter, when ne was fairly driven in upon
his reserves, he began to speak of him
self, and Of the hopeless fight for en-
largement in the Trans-Western strug-
gle. Marston lighted the smatch.de-
vouring stogie for the twentieth time,
squared himself on the end Of the d.
van and listened attentively. = *.
Marston opened his watch and looked
at it. Then he lighted another of the
villainous little cigars. - .SS 3. v :. FL
j. 1--WE have an hour yet" he said.
You have given me the legal points
in the case: now give me the infer
ences-all Of them r.. -.
Kent laughed. ~ ;
I'm afraid l sha'n't be able to for
get the acknowledgements. I shall
have to call some pretty hard names"
Call them" said his companion.
briefly; and Kent went deep into the
details, beginning with the formation
Of the political gang in CASTOR the
dismantled. 5s.~ # s:-. III. s.s.zz3
The listener in the gray dust-coat
heard him through without comment.
When Kent reached the end Of the in
ferences, telling the truth without
scruple and letting the charge Of po-
litical and judicial corruption lie
where it would, the engineer was
whistling for the capital. s. r.. = = :.
+. You have told me some things I
knew, and some others that Isonly ,sus-
pected," was all the answer he; got
until the train was slowing into the