Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-26

News Is insisting that the county, a
the benefited landholders, should pay
those ~squatters in the pocket whose
patches will be flooded by the new
dam. He insists they have a moral til
tie to that no-man's land"
And acting on that ~anarchistic the
DRY, went o n the judge amiably.
.Llndstrom drove away the workmen
Whom the contractor sent there. l call
that an excellent example-Curran does
not hesitate to put the law aside in
MS cryings for what he terms justice.
10 announce outlawry."
III Lindstrom is an outlaw, father"
Harlan said quietly. the law made him
one"
The Judge looked up. He ~reddencd.
Nothing in his kindly life, his righteo.s
world. hurt as did the gossip that he
mad crushed Lindstrom's manhood. And
his son spoke as n who had brushed
aside glib phrases n easy precedents
and has stared at the soul of the man
fushed. The judge frowned, to forbid
discussion. THE law cannot take ac-
count of a mans degeneration under
punishment. But you. my son? You
are going into office as a public prose-
cutor-where did you get these ideas?'
Think. A fellow can't help it. And
the new things. father-the spirit of in
curry. fearless. reasoning. weighing
values"
The judge had shaken his head. 1t
always annoyed him to have to con-
slider that 1t was not enough to be vir-
tuous. 1t was comfortable to believe
that everything was honest. decent,
wholesome. God-fearing and conform
able to the Notwithstanding ex-
cept the men who passed before him
at the bench. They We're another order
of beings; he deprecated their exist
ence, and sent them to Jail. When Har-
land had gone up town the father
sighed. 1t was we'll enough to sit be-
hind the impersonality of the law, but
the one-armed quarryman standing
guard over his wretched patch against
all society,", mute, imbruted, hostile!
Men had talked of it: Judge Van Hart
sent him to Jail wv years ago and he's
hardly spoken to a soul since; Just kept
TO his shanty. took his children out OF
school and become a sort of religious
fanatic n anarchist"
Inc Judge spoke to his wife at bed
Tune. My dear. do you uppose that
extraordinary affair he had with that
glri w years ago had anything to dc
with it?"
With it?" She looked UP in sur
prise. "Lindstrom?"
Yes. The girl has been back. YOU
know, and is-l'm Observation-Disclosures
pretty"
The lady shifted. II told you how
she nearly upset my trap"
But Harlan
Harlan did not glance at her-he,
scandalous behavior around the SQUARE!
The dust of that machine was thrown
IN every ones face! And that flair
a mere boys Naturalization a month
And her career since-tha impossible
stories they tell of her! AS if it were
possible with Harlan!" She had a Ro-
man matron's pride In this square
?awed serious son. A century of Amer
ican democracy vas needed for him
the sober sturdy sort of which tie,
had sprung.
The judge sighed again. Somehow
ne has never been quite The same I,
me since-he has seemed to look at us
no" and then SO measuringlv-anG
there has been something almost alb
normal in his desire for work,Nas Il
he We're trying to forget"
Harlan was in his office two hours
on that same indomitable application
At 8 he closed the desk and went across
to Wiley's shop. for a light was there
and he felt like bantering the edito,
as IN the old days. 1t would be u re-
ilei alter the curious sense OF strain he
had come to feel at home. Yet he corlc
not bring back exactly the old onar
comIadeship with Wiley; and thar. also
was curious. He had felt oddly alone
conscious as he was of a furtive ant
friendly interest in him. When he
dropped In the court house the othe,
candidates were cordial. but there was
a hushing Of conversation. He heea
TO mix with the county crowd" as he
SAID, under an idea that it was wha1
a young man, and the only new face
on the ticket. should do. But some.
now he was treated with respect an6
passed by in the chatting fellowshi
OF he local politicians.
He spoke Of it to Curran as thew sat
IN the dusk. Curran was complacentl,
at ease since his triumph; he had dis.
coNereo a pleasant vanity in this new
aegard or men. Perhaps" he sug-
gested, they're rather afraid of YOU
Harlan. You've laid aside your buli.
dog pipe. and the college clothes dc
not stick out SO conspicuously, but al
the same you're different" He eyed tbt
young man i%ntently. and besides
you'll be the district attorney, the f1rs
n whom they are unable to size up
1 don't see what any honest MAJ
has to fear in that"
Curran smiled systematically. Tex.
actly! But there are Dan Boydsto,
and Curry, the two men who pu
through Tanners contracts on tn,
board-all friends of your fathers. blu.
you-well,t the old crowd wonders abou
YOU"
Harlan looked away. Boydston.,
daughter was one OF the two or thre,
town girls under his mothers especia
social chaperonage. who met thei
eastern connections.
We'll, they all supposed that the sol
of your father was safe!"
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