Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-05-29
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81, comfortable bachelor house
u Y. W. Western town Of Nokomis, Judge
SD toria was seated in his arm chair.
M was not seated as a judge
y IA sit well poised and at ease,
SDn .a in the consciousness of his in
ssL Wv and the appreciation of his fell
sS'' mon Judge Charters was. hud-
Y, m and crouching forward, a
w ;,od glass of whisky and milk at
e'. -igbt hand, and at his left a hard
inhaled perfecto burning itself
.rIv away in an ash-tray. The
' .,,s's face was an unhealthy vel
y. l..' touched here and there with
,o.ts of livid white which gave it a
s,iOusly blotched appearance. And,
fact the man was trembling upon
- verge of a nervous breakdown.
Ia had returned that afternoon
.'m the court in which he had earned
r.mtation for the severe sentences
-scb he meted out to the wretched
,5minals who fell into the clutches
,tbe law. There he exemplified the
.vs outraged majesty; but here he
r,s nothing but a cowardly, weak.
,darv man, with whole life of evil
and Injustice stretching away behind
tn and the unknown future ever
having more near.
The knowledge that his life was
mssing and that it had availed him
rdbing bore hardly on him at times
Il introspection. But now the cause
his despair was more immediate.
tlay upon the table, sheet of paper
taken from an envelope that had been
Dosted in Pittsburg, which he had re-
pIyed some minutes before. On the
ecosure were scrawled four words:
Your turn comes next" they said.
That was all; there was no sigma
hre-but he knew well what that
message portended. When, five years
ueviously, he had assisted in the
NOkomis Land Company's nefarious
scheme in return for thousand shares
& IN it. he had imagined that he could
place his memories away and grind
bis conscience under foot, as he had
done so many times. John Haynes,
\ the millionaire owner Of the estates
which the land gang had coveted,
vas an Englishman, ignorant of the
law, the customs, and Of the country.
He had been torn from his wife and
daughter, railroaded into the peniten-
tary for fourteen years as Pete Tim
mons, gang leader-and the gang Sc
cured his lands, those upon which No
EOmiS stood. Five years went by
FIVE years of loneliness and despair
for Haynes. Then he was placed in
the penitentiary machine shop, where
be invented a gyroscopic attachment
which would propel any vehicle at an
Incredible rate of speed; he had es-
capped by means Of it, and, one by one,
was hunting down and Furnishing the
men who had betrayed and plundered
him.
None Of them knew where the next
blow would fall or who would be the
victim. Now here, now there, East,
West and South, John Haynes went
like the wind in some Internal con-
Fivance propelled by his gyroscope.
And each visit was followed by swift
and terrible retribution.
Had it been death alone that would
satisfy him, John Haynes might have
been met by armed men; his victims
would have taken heart and armed
themselves and gone abroad like ar
Senals.
Judge Charters looked up. The
lgnt was dying out of the West, the
lesolate prairies stretched almost up to
he threshold of his home. Charters
'huddered. In such land anything
vas possible. He would flee, he
would go south to warmer climes and
cave no trail behind him. The letter
LAD been posted only two days before.
surely, if he acted at once, he could
ct contrive to elude that terrible ven
eanee.
He would leave no sign Of his de-
arturo. He would pack couple OF
UT cases, rush East upon a speclal
ar to Des Moines or Omaha, and
mere vanish. His shares had been
old long since; his money was sailed
way IN banks in various cities. II ne
0andOned everything in Nokomis'
honey, house, land, reputation, ne
ould still reach Florida with more
ian a hundred thousand dollars In
Old Panic-stricken, he could think
nothing else to do.
he reached his trembling hand out
the telephone. ''Give me Girouard,
{, he called. Hello! Is that you,
r. Hopkins? This is Judge Charters
I've got to go to Omaha at
ice on private business. Private
IND you; nobody must know. Can
VI get me a special car inside two
'urs?"
he heard the President Of the NO
'Nls and Western answer:
Sorry, but the trains are stalled IN
iow-drifts. Now if you wanted to
West l could manage it, but
Then I'll go West" cried Charters,
rror-stricken at this conspiracy OF
9 elements against him. For Gods