The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-04-09

TOO fine and shiny, and cost a sight o
money TO an old whisky runner IKE
me. Wouldn't get that leg out IN the
rain and mud TO a pretty! So we hung
it up in the parlor."
But Uncle Mich"
Finest leg, 1 reckon, In this yere hull
government! n yere's another mar
who knows Louisany where the birds
they sing SO sweet-way down river
where Aurelie done come FRONT"
There was a scurry. Ladeau was out
and beaming on Curran, terrierwise.
"Op Mich"-he cried-"we struck up,
talkin' dem OF days! And I come offer
Legal knowledge?" Curran had put
the u~npleasing fact of Ladeau away
weeks ago-and had paid him pittances
Of money. Now he was reminded.
Il study dat correspondence school
of Pittsburgh when | was in Kansas.
carry bats for RUDE. But dat law, l
know heem. I advise m'sieu in dis
trouble"
THE Lord will direct me-" Johns
deep voice had the majesty with which
martyrs walk to the stake. The iron
was in his soul, Curran felt the vanity
OF argument. But Ladeau shifted of
some compromise he was about to
make. He went on with a great ha-
rangue of terms and settlements, while
the Dane sat in his ~Cromwellian faith
IN the right and grimly listened. On
the table was a shotgun, and hanging
on the wall. a repeating rifle. Outside
MS lean hounds watched the road with
instant warning Of approach.
But here's your family. John? What
can you hope, If YOU get into trouble.
for Them"
God will answer. So I told the sher-
III, MIR. Curran. when he came to see
me-. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth So l told him, and he went
away. The holiness brethren have
prayed with me, Mr.. Curran, and they
tell me God will see my cause JUS"
Wiley reasoned charitably that his
was to be expected of a university that
mad no windows open to the sunny
side. John. I'd think twice"
Ladea beamed in~gratiatingly. 7
have fought for m'sieu, My legal
knowledge. Tree t'ousand dollars we
demand. l stand by m'sieu to get hees
right. Name Of God-no? Den we
fight"
Curran turned sharply on him. Now
you keep still in this, Ladeaul Graft
your"
The cajun shrugged. 81 eat. I sleep.
sighed, and here is dis room unused.
IL wait TO mam'selle who run off TO-
de stagei"
He sighed again, deprecating such
FOOLISH sentiment, But Curran looked
past him. 1t was Aurelie's room. Mrs.
Llndstrom was by his side at the door.
NO a thing changed. sir-tust wait
l nngg Tor her She glanced at John.
vas always a good girl-kind as could
be- Her toil-weary eyes lightened,
meeting Curran's own. The bows
crowded nearer. Old Michigan lifted
MS shaggy head. Albert, the pitiful
peuier agent, raised his glance from
1he catalogs he was everlastingly at.
Even j John listened imperturbabIy.
Word OF Aurelie! Aurelie off in the
world doing some sort Of marvel! Au-
rene, their defiant protector, the red
coated champion of old days when she
little foster brothers! Never would one
of them forget.
Done comm home!" muttered Mich
1gan-'some day!"
s.td Apa she wont be stuck up either!"
gotn' huntin' with US up Eagle Point
When Nellie's pups grew big!"
Ihey looked in the tiny room. SPOT
less. the bed hung in pink and white
chlntz, contrasting with the suualor
OF inc Kitchen room without. Her love
OF cleaness, of pretty things; her buov-
ant nopefulness and nicely spoke In
every line. On the dresser was her
latest photograph in a frame made of a
!, walnut tree burl which the boys had
! lound IN the slough and which Michi-
gan mad dressed from It's r]oughness.
IN a pitcher was a spray Of late cosmos
!. Wh1ch Mrs. Lfndstrom had saved from
. me last frost.. Some way, for Aurelie
: they. would shyly bring whatever Of
sentiment their hard lives held. I'm
3 seen, some grace of love she had left
l for them still lowered Thoy 49,