Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-02-20


like this for ever"
You mustn't talk SOL am nothing
to you"
Yes, you are. You're everything
to me-" said Darlington doggedly.
You shall love me-" She was pow
erless in his embrace. She felt his
breath on her cheek, then he kissed
her Suddenly his arms fell at his
side his face was white. Il was a
brute to do that-Betty, forgive me!
| am sorry-no. can't be sorry!"
They were alongside the New Mad
rid wharf now, and a certain young
man who had been impatiently watch
ing The Maids lights ever since they |
became visible crossed the gang plank |
with a bound
"Betty-why in the name OF good
ness did you ever choose this tub?"
said the newcomer.
Charley"
Darlington stepped back. This
must be the brother who had come up
the river from Memphis to meet her
but her brothers name was Tom
He looked this stranger-this Charley
over with a hostile eye, offended by
his good looks, his confident manner,
in which he thought he detected an
air OF ownership, as if-certainly he
was holding her hands longer than
was necessary. An instant later, when
Betty, remembering, turned to speak
to him, his place by the rail was de-
serted.
All that day Hannibal was haunted
by the memory OF what he had heard
and seen at Slosson's tavern. More
than this, there was his terrible sense
OF loss. and the grief he could not
master Marking the course OF the
road westward, he chung to the woods,
where his movements were as stealthy
as the very shadows themselves.
Presently, as he stumbled forward,
he came to a small clearing in the
center of which stood a log dwelling.
The place seemed deserted.
Tilted back in a chair by the door
of this house a man was sleeping.
| The boot of an owl from a nearby
oak reused him. He yawned and
stretched himself, thrusting out his
; fat legs and extending his great
arms Then becoming aware OF that
} path as he slept and now stood be
fore him in the uncertain light, he
fell to rubbing his eyes with the
small figure which had stolen up the
I knuckles OF his plump hands.
who are your he demanded.
I'm Hannibal Wayne Hazard.
k said the boy. The man quilted hi:
4 chair
n Well am glad to know you
y Hannibal Wayne Hazard. | am Slo
; cum Price-Judge Slocum Price
sometime major-general OF militia ant
:. ex-member of congress. to mention
few of those honors my fellow coun
II trymen have thrust upon me-" HI
made a sweeping gesture with his tw'
hands outspread and bowed ponder
I. ously
IS The boy saw man OF sixty. who's
gross and battered visage told its ow'
story There was a sparse whit
frost ABOUT his ears; and his eye:
4 pale blue and prominent, looked on
] from under beetling brows. He wor
! a shabby plum-colored coat and tigh
~ drab breeches. About his fat nee
1 was black stock. with just a SUI
gestion of soiled linen showing aboy
I it, His figure was corpulent and III
wieldy.
You don't belong in these part
] do you?" asked the judge, when h
! had completed his scrutiny.
1 NO, SIR" answered the boy +
4 glanced off down the road. whel
4 lights were visible among the tree
II What town is that
u "Pleasantville-whic is a lie-bl
n am neither sufficiently drunk n,
y sufficiently sober to cope with the pc
II sibilities your question offers. Ha'
M you so much as fifty cents abo
M you?" and the judges eyes narrow'
Nj to a slit above their folds of put
'A flesh Hannibal, keeping his CLAN
M fixed on the mans face. fell back
Nv step Il can't let you 60 If you a
Nv penniless-I can't do that" cried I
WI Judge. with sudden vehemence. "Y'
MI shall be my guest for the nigl
MI They're a pack of thieves at the Il
MI ern," he lowered his voice. Il kn(
Nh EN-. for they've plucked me-"
XII rested a fat hand on the DO.
All shoulder and drew him gently
AM firmly into the shanty With flint a
w steel he made a light. and presen
< a candle was sputtering in his han
: He fitted it into the neck of a t
~ bottle. and as the light flared up
boy glanced about him.
The interior was mean enoui
with its rough walls, dirt floor a
m. black. cavernous fireplace. A sha
" down bed in one corner OF the ro
= was tastefully screened from the p
> lie gaze by a tattered quilt.
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
Peculiar.
II "One O. de mos curiosest THU