Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-05-27

she cried.
The guards we're yelling at them
From the creek side OF the field anoth-
er shot rang out. Janet. looking that
way, saw Harlan mounted; motoring
To the men. Then from Lindstrom's
house came the squirt OF a gun. and n
of Harlan's group fell face downward
at his feet. They scattered.
"Arne." his sister whispered. get
word to him-ro Harlan. hat she's
here"
He stopped the big car with a jerk.
And as he was climbing out. with the
whir OF the machine. Inc the warning
shouts of the deputies In their ears,
they did not notice that Aurelie a
slipped from the other side. Not until
old Michigan raised a cry did Janet
turn to see the open door behind her.
Thirty feet away Aurelie was run
ming. She had thrown her furs from
her, scattering the roses among the
frozen clods. and was flying onward to
her old home 300 yards across the field.
her now. He turned to follow. Janet
sprang Out, a cry on her lips. Old
Michigan uprose. calling his pleadings.
Janet stopped. There was nothing
she could do. The panorama was spread
before her like a moving picture: the
bleak corn stumbled field. the gray little
house detached in the winter sunlight.
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all three sides of 1t a struggling line of
men advancing. firing here and there,
yelling insanely. loading to fire again.
The spatter OF shots thtckened; 1t be-
came a volley: the blue smoke MD the
farther fence. the masses Of people far
beyond under t~hesleafless trees. From
the. gable OF Ltndstrom's house came a
single report. sharp from Its nearness.
A man Of the line went down.
She saw Harlan coming with the
posse from the other side. Her broth
er was running faster. but Aurelie was
woodland litheness. Then another fig
ure caught Janet's BYE. Wiley Curran
had leaped the fence from anon the
deputies and had outstripped them. He
was shouting; and the angle Of his
course would cut Aurelie of from the
house. Janet cried u to him. She
saw the men beyond the house. UNI
der Harlan's orders. stopping to fire
cody. deliberately. at the window from
which Lindstrom "a Kidding the dep
uties.
Then came the crash of a volley loud
er than all else. And she saw her broth
er stop short midway between her and
the veil of smoke. He was staring 1t
a patch OF color. maroon and glistening
black plumes. against the gray of the
guns and the wintry woods.
In the moments intermission fol-
tOWll6 IAo VOllSy Iloy saw z maj step
from the door1 tall. grim cure. stag
gering in the acrid haze of the powder
smoke and then coming on alone, up
right, majestic.
Aurelie was flying to him. The out
law did not stop-she flung herself
agains thin. clasping him. looking up;
and John merely put his stub Of an
arm abou the girl. holding her CLOSE,
as II to shelter her. and came on. his
Winchester swinging up to his other
shoulder as he strobe.
He fred squarely into the line Of his
advancing enemies. A man dropped; he
fired again. again, again. cool, sure,
merciless, the mutter Of a prayer upon
his lips. the pleadings Of the girl with
In his ears. But he would not stop.
The God who ruled above mans petty
justice was with him: he had come
forth to save his wife and children from
the hurricane Of bullets slivering his
home. but he yielded nothing.
The girl. clinging to him. was trying
to reach his neck. seeking to. draw him
down. to kiss his gaunt lined cheek, it
seemed. And he did stop. They saw
his LETT arm swing the rifle down until
he was clasping Aurelie, listening to
groups Of men about the cottage. who
could not see what those on his side
could. came b q Of another
volley. From h fence Janet saw Cur
ran running On. reaching out his hand.
and then stopping to stare through the
thickeninE smoke about the cottage.
Janet knew q great silence had come.
Van Harris line OF men had stopped.
They were staring-all the hundreds
OF people were staring. Janet knew
Lindstrom was down. riddled by the
deputies behind him. And that Aurelie
home. The roses she had chung to as
she q lay red and scattered about her
on the frozen clods. CQrran was kneel-
ing by her. And the Silence held as II
earth and sky-the gray lonely land
with q CLINT OF sun through the clouds
had hushed to hear. had followed to
hold the agony that broke from Cur
rams heart.
When Janet and Arne reached them,
Curran had turned Aurelie's face up
ward. Curran himself was bloody from
9 tsssel Of e wound torn across his
the bullet-swept and burning house
kicking away the b~arrtcade Of boxes
from b door. Under the window they
found LAdeau dead. his Nps forever
sealed. and In another room lay Albert
ne peddler: his piteous life come te
the inevitable n0thingness. The wom-
an children. burrowed in the cellar
coIu. starved. were unhurt.
But on the froaen Held . group had
formed Curran knelt TO watch hil
chtld's face. Harlan had dlsmountet
J Vas starring. He could. not speal
} eyes and muttered:
''ehe kept crying for you to stop
Couldn't you ooef Couldn't you hear
Crying to you. Harlan. 20 stop. Tha,
; e !oved you-with IN her soul sh'
The other man,s nps moved !usslessly
: Then he turned Is tie others you
q machine. Arnol ou1ckls