The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-01-09

he vowed before he LET. his home that
he would reap some day the revenge for
his failure in 81 game that his cold in
tellect admitted to have been fair from
the pistol shot to the breaking of the
tape. He had lost. He resolved to
abide the time when humility would be
transformed into the citation Of vic
tory.
The years ran thei- even course. Hays
who had a comfortable living at the
time of his marriage, gradually ate up
tho substance in ill-detined undertake
tngs. He was not exactly a dreamer
and he was no. extravagant, but he
was reckless and purposeless. From his
boyhood days the fascination of ink
erjnG with machinery Of every kim
grew to an absorption of mind. His
delight was in small inventions which
reached no higher level or the Their
mometer of practical value than useless
improvements. Ten years after mar
Rage Hays had wasted his substance,
and he was placed face to face with a
stern world from which he must draw
support for himself. his wife and chill
dren.
Prosperity had followed every move
that Payton had made. His strong
ma stecful will and untiring body worked
In unison. The fortune he had amassed
was big even in this day Of tremendous
did not bring satisfaction. 1t was
something h followed inevitably
from the straight unfringed course
pursued by this resolute, dominating
man. Love and the desire for the
woman had long since left him.. But
hatred and the longing for revenge had
not. Payton's Y was focused IN one
point, the complete degradation of
Hays. He wanted to see him at his
feet, begging for assistance. yes, even
charity.
From the west. after his fortune was
assured. Payton lad returned to Now
York. manipulating all his properties
and undertakings f.oE1 his Wall street
office. His name did not appear In
the firm Of which he was the financial
and mental life. His orders We're al
ways delivered through others and his
position in the background was very
much h power behind a throne.
Another two, years passed. Hays
and his family were reduced to poverty
almost perjury. Tapping his fingers or
his fine mahogany desk, and looking
, out on the white tall buildings of lower
! New York day after day he gloated ove
every physical pain and torture his
one time friend suffered. 1t was as il
they were materiaiized and presented
to him in geographic reproduction. "A
thought Of the woman and the children
never entered his mind. One of his
i men, employed soisiy for the purpose
Of keeping him informed as to the con.
ditions of Hays, made his daily report
+, IhaS WaS 4tu6 SECTCl SdIlSIdCClOu MIL
~lionai-e Payton drew from living.
One day as he sat a. his desk watch
ing a blizzard rag impotently roun,
and between the tower like building
Thomas, the man who had kept
steady vigil on H.ys, rushed into hi
a masters Office blurIing out:
Hes got an invention and they ar
offering him BIZ money for it."
With q glowering brow Paytol
snapped: Whom do you mean b
they"
johnson md Davis, the patent law
yers.' was the reply.
The next day Pa ton had a new nel
to fight in. Within tree months tn
patent lawyers has disappeared fror
the scene. Some $3o,0G0 had been pal
them to sell out tsseir client n Pay
ton had secured. through the fri
nasne which obscured his identity, tn
rights to Hays Invention, patent g
vet unapplied for.
All this tirne HAYS was slipping fol
By foot into the musky river whel