The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-10-07

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IN never believe, yol've neither money
nor men nor powder"
You know a heap OF things, AS
gill James McMurrough answered dis
dainfulIy.
Il do. And more by token, I know
this. Asgin retorted. He had risen to
depart, and the two stood with their
faces close together. "This!' he re-
peated, clapping one hand on the other.
If you're a fool, I'm a bigger. Or
what would I be doing? Why, I'd be
pressing you into this, in place of
holding you back! And then When the
trouble came, and you'd to quit, my
lad. and no choice but to make work
seas. and your sister'd no more left
than she stood up in, and small choice
either, It's then she'd be glad to take
Luke Asgill, as she'll barely look at
now! Ay, my lad, I'd win her then,
If 1t We're but as the price Of saving
your neck! There's naught she'd not
do for you, and I'd ask but herself"
James McMurrough stared at him.,
c~onfounded. For Asgill spoke with a
bitterness as well as a vehemence thai
betrayed how little he cared for the
man he MISUNDERSTANDING he swung
or lived, begged or furnished. His tone,
his manner, his black look all made it
plain that the scheme he outlined was
no sudden thought, but a plan long
conceived, often studied, and put aside
with reluctance. James s%huddered, and
his c~ountenance changed. A creature
OF small vanities and small vices.
worthless, selfish and cruel, but as
weak as water, he quailed before this
view OF a soul darker than his own.
1t was with a poor affectation of de-
fiance that he made h!s answer.
And hat for, if it's as easy as you
say. don't you do it?" he stammered.
Asgill groaned. "Because-but there,
you wouldn't understand! Still, If you
must be knowing, there's ways of win
ming would be worse than losing!"
The McMurrough's confidence began
to return. our grown scrupulous,"
he sneered, half in jest, half in earnest.
AsgtlPs answer flung him down
again. "You may thank your stars I
ami" he replied, with a look that
scorched the other.
"Well-wel," McMurrough made an
EFFORT to mutter-he was thoroughly
disconcerted-'at any rate, I'm obliged
to you for your warming"
You will be obliged to me-" Asgill
replied. resuming his ordinary manner,
i'm you take my warning as to the big
matter; and also as to your kinsman,
John Sullivan. For. I tell you. I'm
"of him?" James cried.
"Ay, of him. Have a care, have a
care, man, or he'll outgeneral you. See |
II he doesn't poison your sister against
too hot for you! AS long as he's in the |
house there's danger. I know the Sort
Asgill continued shrewdly, land little
by Little you'll see, he'll get possession
as It is, my lad"
"Pho!"
""Tis not .pho!' A n in a week
you'll know it. and be as glad to see
his back as I should be today.s
What, a man who has not the spirit
to go out with a gentlemant-
"A man, you mean," Asgill retorted,
showing his greater shrewdness. "who
has the spirit to say that he won't go
Sure. and I've not~mueh opinion of
a man Of that kind McMurrough ex-
claimed.
II have" Asgill replied. ira not
have played the trick about your sis
ter's mare If I'd known he'd be here.
1t seemed the height of invention when
You hit upon it, and no better way
Of commencing myself. But 1 misdoubt
1t now. Suppose this Colonel brings
her back?"
But Payton's stanch."
"Ah, / hold Payton, sure enough"
Asgill answered, sin the hollow of my |
hand, James McMurrough. But there's
accident. and there's what not, and If
your sister, John Sullivan restored
~her-faith, my lad, I'd be laughing on
the other side Of my face. And il he
told I'll be bound he knows of |
you, 1T would not suit you either!"
ct would not" The McMurrough re-
piled, with an ugly look which the |
cleaning failed to mask. ut would
not. But there's small chance Of that,
Things happen" Asgill answered in |
a sombre tone. Faith, my lad, the
mans a danger. D. you consider" he |
continued, his voice low, that he's |
owner Of aI1-in law; and if he said
the word, devil a penny there'd be for
| you! And no marriage for your sister
but with his good will"
McMurrough's face showed a shade
paler through the dusk
What would you have me do?" he
muttered.
Quit his plan Of a rising, and give
!! him no handle. That, anyway"
But that won rid us Of him?" Nc
Murrough said, in a low voice.
True for you. And I'll be thinking
| about that same. He's no footing yet,
and il he vanished 'twould be no more
than IL he'd never come. See the light
below? There! It's gone. Well, that
way he'd go. and q little more talk,
IL It were well plotted"
But how ?" The McMurrough asked
~nervously.
4 viii consider" Asgill answered.
CHAPTER VIII.
ANsAFTER DINNER GAME.
Easiness. the failing Of the old
world Irishman. had been Uncle Ulick.s
bane through life. 1t was e~asiness,
which had induced him to condone q
baseness in his nephew which he would
4 have been the first to condemn in q
stranger. Again, 1t was easiness which
had beguiled him into standing idle