The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-03-02
CHAPTER xEx

was in 3 S5EIzE8aH7n ct g-GvFs EerEs
hui il would h4Na sef.u fHIgriTsteEA de-
yond Ea aIEw# axx1n9E1sst IL
Old ysGxltLca E-azw a gs9,sG ssEp Ef-s-
he tasted IL End rliarass EE4ET % TIE
Right sort eE 6egi--rs.,n stz American sad
n me EGsssF nEEiarsETF- T9G=s 0-Ir
got SO give = azn1a &c K 3z1 In@ co-as
vfH be ETing EEA rTseAa-s. Ask for
what ynszrrE wanting 4Esta-, and I'll
skim tAe FEfdhsr wf1ss Gaez7t run to
fe4cf, II GS9nE kraEz MAI E1y mates
woaId hGve dors z yu1 hadn't come
anauRsag tEzaEz
II was hssnsszEy sud ard as honestly
EseznE- Aas ret willingly as I would
kaTe aErszsssS his cordial offer, fear of
she csfgz.sSzeEcss held me back. Who
wcn5M Ear. 20 rhEEk Of drink amid such
q rrgx as EsrSs. or te remind it that
go <.s - - hsd1
Cky7SA Ev servant had vanished
mxrrssEzEzhfy. no had ] heard a sin
Csc TavE concerning him since we came
IN E.sMr5 tsgether. The yacht had dis
sgrearsz1 from my ken. In these try
! EEg circumstances, / welcomed a re-
| rsaess frozn one OF the seamen that /
wgaid visit Colin Ross. the captain of
| the vessel and until lately the repre-
| sentative OF Valentine Imroth, aboard
hrr- This man ! found lying %grievous-
IL weunded by a bullet which had en-
tered b left lung and penetrated in
such an ugly fashion. that his life must
I De DMi a question OF hours.
There was still much mist when ]
came upon deck at IL o'clock after
caring for Ross, but 1t had lifted to
Abe larthward, and the atmosphere was
everywhere clearing. ! had some cx-
pectation of spying out the zach,
should the breeze strengthen, and YET
there was no hour of all that emprise
which found me In suefs q desclatieH OF
xuirff or SO doubtful OF the ultimate
issHe- Why had my friends made ne
effort to reach me? What kept them
Why did they leave me here at thu
mercy OF these cutthroata, my life as
1 EdssaaaST which any Puff Of aTga
might destroy, my liberty In thes
rrfiars. Keeping? Sober reason woul
f1xFe replied that they could have don
nothing else; but this was not the tim
for REASON. and, indeed. I came to cal
II the darkest hour of them all. Yaini
ragged against my W acts and tn
iudaanent which had carried me o
beard the ship. 1t had been madness I
come: 1t would DE madness to let tn
usen know as much. Already ! wa
aware ct a disposition to treat me wit
1eEs xespect--it may have been pun
imagination. but the Idea came into ~
head, ard q BRIG; conversation with r
American did nothing to dispiace II.
Il ana going aboard my own yacht
,1 sid TO him--that would have bet
absut tfie hour of midnight. II am 8,
ing aboard my yacht, but ! will retul
At dzyhreak and sec what more / cs
i Ia. HI. Ross says that you are lea
Ing for the Brazils. That 10 no affa
! OF mine The man I want lis no s0ng
On the ship. I nave no concern WI
The others nor they witb4me. Let
pus shings as straight as we cana
2 lhexs talk about the shore"
This should not have been said.
! -srrnxrcd, tA md almost as I uttered I
wrrgak. that the man had not hitheI
ah0xEAt about the yacht at all. b
NJ sD0ner had I spoke than he ste
Nea - s1e ~gargway and immediate
reA3txed the situations.
CuesB your people have gone ha