Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-01-15

like Wiley; he, the dilettante, who
never quite gave himself to anything.
He began to eason absently over the
faith, the friendliness, the goodness he
seemed to have found about him so
curiously. Love, that was 1t. He had
awakened; and all about him had
awakened. discovering good in him.
CHAPTER x.
ROLLING STONES, GATHER MOSS.
The following week Rome had an
other sensation. The Mcffetridge twins
back. Now the McFetridge twins
belonged to an older and not easily rel
|ished ANIMAL. They were the nephews
of Old Mowry, the undertaken, and had
been the village cutups before they in
|herited the Carmichael livery-stables.
But even a livery-stable did not re-
form them, and promptly, on attaining
their majority, they sold the stable and
went off. to the relief Of all Rome.
What deyiltry Hen McFetridge did
not think of in his teens, Ben did.
They had been a pillar of red neckties
by night and a cloud of bad cigar
smoke by day or the drugstore cor
iner, since they spent their patrimony
trying to develop racer In the period
when all Iowa went mad over trotting
and built a mile track in every county
and paid fabulous prices for mares and
drivers-the days of Allerton and AK
tell and Bud Doble. But the fleet
Hmbed Morgails have long since given
place TO Percherons and C~lydesdales,
aIit the mile tracks are in%nocuous
county fairs, or raising orn today;
and with the passink of the trotting
a passed Hen and Ben McFetridge,
bankrupt at 81.
Occasional rumor and "reminiscences
of the McF'etridge boys came out OF
the west as other sons returned, but
and 40, same red neckties, same bad
cigars. were discovered in front Of
Ca~rmichaels relating a tale Of Allad-
din to Rube Van Hart, the broken
down league player. They had regis
tered at the Parsons House. slapped
Miss Amelia on the shoulder, dropped
their real alligator skin cases and
store and office; upstairs to Vawter,
the artist; blithely into the back. room
of Gal Rice, president of the First Ma
.ttonal; and to Uncle Mowry's, Dick
inson's grocery and all through the
court house, bringing a presence Of
freckles. good living, diamond pins
and dizziness. They saw everybody,
'..jollied. everybody-within two hours
every n In town knew the McFet-'
ridge boys had struck it rich.
Same old town. Ben" said Hen.
same, Hen" answered Ben. Lets
80 over to Wiley's and get something
in the News about u.s."
But Wiley was off trying to collect
bills, He did not see the McFetridge
boys until he went to the Maccabees'
supper at Odd Fellows Hall that even
ing. There, with Old Mowry, In his
long black coat and white tie, at The
door, were Hen and Ben, q self-con-
atituted reception committee for the
ladies. Wiley was always invited to
lodge functions and affairs of the sort
because, for his share Of chocolate
cake and coffee and ice-cream he
would have something about It. in next
weeks News Notes OF a Busy Day"
He had heard that the twins hadn't
changed q Bit except to get. fat, and
diamond was in: q horseshoe pin,
while Ben's was set in q real and Inn
EMS nugget.
Hen and Ben slapped him on the
back simultaneously and spilled cpffeo
his best trousers.
Hello, Wfley-you old gazabe!"
S"Still running the old sheet, Wiley,
that the old man used to chase us out
Yes. Hello Hen-Hello, Ben! Yes.
making out about the same!"
and Old Thad bumped you when they
arranged 70 have the E'arlville papers
set over here for early delivery. Say,
heard about VI In Dill
.sYes.
Big. Tulare fields, California, Hen
and me was beating it from one water
tank g another n day-dippered.
both OF W.. Cleaned out in the dray
business In Fresno. Well. Hen and me
coming down q canon along the track
about dark, saw some cow tracks.