The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-09
WILD GEESFA
~ BY Stanley j, Meyman.

woe to him whose aim proved faulty or
his hand uncertain!
But this reputation alone. seeing that
reckless spirits were not wanting,
would have awaited him little If the
not been cast over him. Why it was
cast over him men scarcely dared to
guess. 1t was a dark thing into which
It were Ill to peer too closely. But the
fact was certain that the anxiety of
the young man that the colonel might
meet with no hurt vas plain and no.
torious, a thing observed stealthily
and with wonder.
DID Colonel John saunter across the
court to look at the lake? The Nc
Murrough was at his shoulder in a
tWlnkling, and thence, with a haggard
eye. searched the furzebush for the
CLINT of a gun barrel and the angle Of
the wall for a lurking foe. 1t was the
same IL the colonel Jared as far as the
ruined tower, or stretched his legs on
the road by the shore. The McMur-
rough could not be too near him,
from time to time vigilant looks to
the rear. A score Of times between
rising and sleeping Colonel John smiled
at the care that forewent his steps and
covered his retreat; nor perhaps a
the contempt in which he held James
Y - d IllSllSI
pitch than while he thus stood from
hour to u indebted to that young
man for his life.
!, What Uncle Ulick, if he held the
Key to the matter, thought of it, did
NOT appear; nor was Colonel John
o~Vercurious to know. But what Flavia
thought of the position was a point
which aroused his most lively curiosity.
He gave her credit for feelings so deer
and for a nature so downright, that
time serving or paltering were the last
faults he looked to find in her. He
could hardly believe that she would
consent to sit at meal with him after
what had happened; and possibly-for
men are strange, and the motives of
the best are miXed-a desire to see
how She would bear herself in the
circumstances had had something to
do with the course he was taking.
That she consented to the plan was
soon MADE clear. She even took part
IN 1t. James could not be always at
MS elbow. The young man must some
times retire. When this happened the
girl too her brothers place, stooped
to dog he c%olonel's footsteps, and for
a day or two cast the mantle Of her
presence over the man she hated.
But stoop as she might, she never for
a stopped to mask her hate.
In her incomings and her outgoings,
IN her risings-up and at table with
MIN. every movement of her body,
the carriage of her head, the glance of
her eye, showed that she despised him;
that n who now suffered him was
the same woman who had struck at
his life, and failing, repented only her
failure.
For her brothers sake she was will
ing to do this, though she abhorred 1t
and though every time that she broke
bread with the intruder, met his ewes
or breathed the air that he breathed,
she told herself that it was intolerable,
that 1t must END.
Once or twice, feeling the humilia-
ton more than she could bear, she
declared to her brother that the mar
must g {. Let him go!" she cried, in
uncomfortable excitement. Lei him
go!"
But he will not be going, Flavvy."
H must go!" she replied.
And Moristown his?" James would
answer. "Ye are Forgetting! Over and
above that, he's not one to do my bid
ding, nor yours!"
That was true. He would not go:
he persisted in remaining and being
master. But it was not there the diff
Guilty lay. If he had not made a will
before he came-a will hat doubtless
set the property of the family forever
beyond James reach-the thing had
been simple and Colonel Johns shrift
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earth of him was to place the power
In the n of a stranger, an alien
for whom the ties of family and honor
would have been no stringency. True
the law was weak in Kerry. A writ
was n thing and possession another
A bold nan might keep the forces OF
law at bay for a time; but James Nc
Murrough, Notwithstanding the folly
into which he had Deer led. was nc
desperate. He had no desire to live
l. MI n ~N,>1 $3.50 -
to the bog on the least alarm, and ir
the issue, to give his name to an Irish
Glencoe.
A. position it had been hard to con-
ceive more humiliating to a proud ant
untamed spirit such as Flavia's. Thu
McMurrough found little difficulty ir
Subduing his temper to his interests
though now n again his churlishness
broke u For Uncle Ulick, his habit
was to be easy and to bid others be-
easy; the dawn and dark Of a day
reconciled him to most things. TIL
O'Beirnes, sullen and ~distrustful, were
still glad to escape present peril. Look.
ing for a better time to come, the
helped to shield the common enemy
supposed 1t policy and felt no shame
Flavia alone, in presence of the maj
who had announced that he meant t.
be master, Writhed in helpless revolt
swore that he should never be he
master, swore that. whoever bowed he
head, she never would
And Colonel Sullivan, seated appar.
emily at his ease, on the steep lap O
danger, found his thoughts dwelling OF
the n untamable person. on the on,
enemy who would not stoop and who's,
submission seemed invaluable. Th,
others took up the positions he as
signed to them. gave him lip service
pretended that they We're as they hat
!, been and as he had been. She did not
she would not.
!, Presently he discovered with surpris,
that her attitude rendered him unhap
py. Secure in his sense of right, certain
that he was acting for the best, h,
should have been Indifferent. But h,
i was not Indifferent.
) Meantime, she believed that there wa,
j no length to which she would not z,
against him; she fancied that there wa
no weapon which she would not stoo.
+ TO pick up II it would hurt him. AM
5 presently she was tried. A week ha,
/ passed since the great fiasco. Again
8 was the y of Sunday, and in the usua