The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
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, gz sxas!
woe to him who's aim proved faulty or
his hand uncertain!
But this reputation alone. seeing that
reckless spirits were not wanting,
would have awaited him little II the
protection OF the McMurrough had
not been cast over him. Why 1t was
cast over him men scarcely dared to
guess. It was dark thing into which
It were i'll to peer too closely. But the
fact was certain IA the anxiety of
the young man that the colonel might
meet with no hurt was plain and mo-
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
eye, searched the furzebush for the
CLINT OF 9 gun barrel and the angle OF
the q for q 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-
Oss9 ~ AVk=UG 100 near MN.
walked with his hand on his arm. cast
from time to time vigilant looks to
the A score Of times between
RISING n sleeping Colonel John smiled
az n z that fOrewent his steps and
covered his retreat; nor perhaps had
me Gon.em1pt IN which he held James
McMurrough ever reached a higher
pltch than while he thus stood from
hour to hour indebted to that younR
man for his life.
What Uncle Ulick. IL he held the
Key to the matter, thought of It, did
appear: nor was Colonel John
3o~vercurious to know. But what Flavia
y 9 the position was a point
which aroused his most lively curiosity.
He gave her credit for feelings so deep
and Tor 9 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
cgnsen1 TO sit at meal with him after
what mad happened; and possibly-for
men are strange, and the motives Of
the best are mixed-a desire to see
now h would bear herself in the
circumstances had had something to
with the course he was taking.
That h consented to the plan was
soon made clear. She even too part
Y. sis;, Jamest o be always at
MS elbow. The young man must some
retire. When this happened tho
girl too her brothers. place. stopped
TO dog the colOnel's footsteps. and for.
q day or two cast the mantle OF her
over the man she hated.
But stoop az she might, she never for
e momen stopped to mask her hate.
IN her risings-up and at table with
MIN, every movement OF her BODY.
the carriage of her head. the glance Of
her y g showed that she despised him:
that she wh0#now suffered him was
Ine ann woman who had struck at
failure.
For her brothers sake she was will
TODD this. though she abhorred it
and though every time that she broke
bread with the intruder. met his eyes
breathed the air that he breathed.
1he told herself that It was intolerable.
that II must end.
20 Once g vice. feeling the humilia-
declared TO her brother that the man
-. Z let him rot" she cried. In
!a,nsc nc 8 excitement. Let him
But heNill notbs Eoins. Flavvy.
He must go!s fe replied.
sAndsMoristown his?' James would
Eswsr are Forgetting! Over and
ABOVE thatssshe's q m to do my bid-iI
ding. nor yours!"
That was true. He would not Ro:
persisted In remaining and being
master. Built was not there the difn-
Guilty lay. If he had not made q Will
before he viii that doubtless
set the property Of the family forever
beyond Jamss' reach-the thing had
been simple and. Colonel Johns Shirt
short. But now. to rid thei
earth OF him was to place the power
e the hands OF 9 stranger. an alien.