Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-06
CHAPTER xv-(continued).

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Meanwhile Harlan plugged away. lie
Doemed more reserved. but stlll ms
8An1al self. He picnicked with the glrls
u his set along the river; the Hlgn
~ young people wandered in ano
out Of his mothers home at informal
Dumme dances, and played tennis OF
the lawns. and ate ice cream OF eve
nangs, and flirted on the veranda mucn
~ they had done when he was 10
Nothing was changed. only he was no"
. man at a mans work. Much llke nls
father. people said. From his offlce
window Harlan could see h judge
6r4ve in town behind old Dutch, tie him
b tho rail and walk slowly under the
naples to the court house steps. speak
kng gently to every one. bowlns WIFI
oIA time courtesy to the m pat
ting the dogs-a fine. upright. beloved
figure Of u man. Thai was what ne
should come to be. doubtless. a sturdy,
unfearing. clear minded American OF
b best people.
And once as he watched the court
0r1ying in. he thought of that eve
xfn9 when John Lindstrom's hoarse
and despairing voice cursed his father
and the law. He felt that even now
he hurt of 1t was on his his fathers
mind. A hurt growing with h the
own was slowly coming to think of
Lndstrom. He had defied society. cut
himself off. a religious fanatic. in his
patch OF corn land in the pocket. Only
hst week. a shotgun under his Grip
pSed arm. the gaunt quarry worker had
oome upon the surveyors on his land
running the line for the diversion dam
and forbade them further entry. Har-
IN remembered that he had heard
GAryat. the good ratured sheriff. tel
No. III. tt,1~ %Int h1 yv0,,11 ho WE RI
Gxfve out and have a little friendly talk
With John. The somber quarryWan
Was q bit Off maybe. Taken his chill
1ren out OF school. forbade them to mix
With b town boys and all that. The
Judge had not answered. Harlan knew
In his heart there was a grief and an
outrage he would not reveal. People
had whispered that John had become
"a outlaw from the day Judge Van
Hart put the faint Of the Jail on him.
Then to Harlan's mind the thought
Of Lindstrom brought the memory of
another summer-the long quiet eve
n1nEs when he had met Aurelie in the
hills. 1t seemed that he must have been
desperately sorry for her to love her
%. That was it-her pathos and her
race and prettiness and all the magic
Of the summer. Now he heard her dis
cussed about the verandas by the nice
= ~ AAo ~ ANVIL = SklO 1ou6AA.
able idea of her going on the stage!
And backed financially by the McFet-
ridge boys! 1t seemed to Harlan, as
the nice girls talked Of it in the ham
mocks and over their ices. that all that
was cheap. unworthy. grotesque. utter
n apart from all he had known. had
come to gather about Aurelie.
"Imagine!" said Elise Dickinson in a
group about his mothers porch one eve
ming ga trnvyA0{Sou - - ~-l H.
papa's store yesterday told him that
Aurelte Lindstrom was being billed in
= stock company as the $780, 900 prize
bcauty-and was wearing diamonds! I
don't suppose they are real!"
Mrs. Van Hart was watching Har-
1An's face. She was thankful that none
q the younger set had aver known Of
Aer sons summer infatuation. Now
aAr1asfs firm lips closed as coldly, his
square Jaw set as hard as his moth
rs had done the night Aurelie was
dismissed. The mothers placidity was
unruffled. AS real. my dear" she
murmured. "as her beauty prize. AS
an advertisement for the newspaper
she wa undoubtedly a success, how.
ever. But the diamonds-are those
men who used to run the livery stable
Sail her managers?"
Ever 80 c~arelessly! But Harlan's
5sw set more doggedly. She had stung
Betridge boys-and Aurelie!
And the story Of those diamonds wan
dered over the town and grew and
grew. First a mere brooch. then a neck
lace-after that a tiara! Playter. the
DRUGGIST. told Wiley Curran Of Hen
'4cFetridge clothing Aurelie in dia-
monds out Of the exploitation OF his
oouotfui oil speculations. and Wiley
called MIN q liar. The News lost an
otner advertising contract right there.
Wiley told Aunt Abby about 1t that
niEht at supper. She looked ~curiously
q his drawn face. wiley. / don't be-
lieve It. That girls as good as gold.
And good girls don't sell their virtue.
Wiley-they give 1t away, maybe. be-
cause thew ove. And Aurelie doesn't
love Hen McFetridge-the twins Just
aMuse her. Her letter shows that"
And the old LADY waddled to the sew
ing circle that night to hear what she
could hear. to defend what might be
defended. There was need. Aurelie
was the towns daughter Of scarlet long
before half the missionary boxes were
dlled that year. and the Shakespeare
club was done with It's critical study
q Desdemona's story. Aunt Abby was
unable to. counterfeit the Shakespeare
club digressions. for the Shakespeare
High street ladies. And Shakespeare
club gossip. though covert ana wei
bred. was as deadly. The Rome Shake.
Dpeare club held itself alOof. The Earl.
Xillc Woman's club was busy with civi,
programs. Every time the Rom,
shakespearian ladies had a paper q
Twelfth Night Or Lear, the Earlvill
~ about street lighting or the saloon,
the need OF 1hadA trees. A. IN,