The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-08-28

ruefully. Jackson Jones amused him.
always; to some extent he could SYM
pathiZe with his revolt against Jones'
Vile. He himself had revolted against
Jonesville in his youth. but there had
been no fortune coming TO him with
the arrival Of his manhood to release
him from the hated village. And. be-
sides, he was uncomfortable tonight.
He wondered if he ought to tell Broad
way what he had learned.
win you consider me your law.
yer?" the judge asked.
Consider you my lawyer, Judge? OF
course you are my lawyer. Weren't
you m fathers lawyer"
Not always: | did not draw his
will, for instance. And in other things
your uncle-well, if your father had
but listened. as | hope you'll listen, his
brother Abner never would have"
Sure, know. And you've already
been my lawyer. Didn't you get me
OFT Of Jail there in New Haven? lmag'
ire being locked up in New Haven!
And I'd only dropped a melon from tho
window. If the chief Of police hap
pened 10 be going by, vas that my
fault? I'd have eaten the melon j, it
hadn't been so spoiled. And still they
locked me up! They made a criminal
of me, It's bad enough to be a Grim
inal. bet to be a criminal imprisoned
in New Haven-heayens, Suppose a
man should be locked up in Jonesviile!
Why. he'd die of shame"
Wen, if you accept me as your law
yer, when your uncle asks you 10 sell
out your interest in the Jones Gum
company you will refuse. When YOU
do that, he'll try 10 bind you not to
sell cut to the trust as long as YOU
both live. l hope youN never sell out
to the trust, but don't sign any pa
pers, Jackson, although you know
what the trust purchase of the factory
would mean to Jonesville-and to all
OF US"
"Tll not sell out to the trust, judge.
but If my uncle
Hell not offer you a fair price. He'll
want to get a bargain. And remem.
DNI that Xix NOAlIltLhg ~ SCI NIX
every year"
But the trust may bust IT,"
Il hope you" take that chance, my
boy, rather than ever be a party TO
running the old home town"
"All right, judge. l won't sell -
Uncle Abner-anyway. just now.
won't need the money. There's enou sh
coming TO me to keep me busy for q
while"
jackson, | wish you might feel tlf
f~erently about the starting of your Nfe
as a grown man. If you could cult
yate a feeling Of responsibility"
1T bOres me. | could never even
spell it,"
I'm afraid it does, Jackson. aic
that worries me. But"
You'll come to New York, SON @
time, and-and-"
jackson, I'm afraid | shall"
And keep it secret that we're either
one of US from J%onesville."
Jackson" said the judge, reproving
~, you'd better get along towa-'d
home. And dent think too much abo II
those lights. Broadway, like eve-:y
other street, is safer in the daytime
before the lights are lit"
The lights are Broadway's eyes
said the young man. Until They've
lighted, Broadway is asleep. and y.u
see only men and ome on it,"
And what do you see later"
You can search me for the nam /.
But they're several degrees beyoLt
mere men and women"
After he had left the judge, Jackst &
found it quite impossible to go sedate
ly home, as he might possibly M re
done or almost any other night. He
often went to bed in Jonesville, he ex
planned upon occasion, because be
could not bear to stay awake there. IIs
said il made him feel ashamed.
(TO BE CONTTNUEDD
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