The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-07-29

He turned away with a shudder, and
isIt the room. hurrying out upon the
arencned lawn, where the leaves Of the
preceding autumn still lay dank and
Drown beneath stark and leafless trees
70 which the breath OF spring had not
yet come. He stopped at the lower
gaee TO look back at the grey house he
How small and insignificant it was.
and how desolate! The Giants Castle!
he had a sudden feeling of pity for it.
II represented all that was big in Cor
inth, and yet how it had shrunk since
ne had last looked upon 1t.
And 1t was still called the Giants
Castle by imaginative small folk, and
II was a dreadful place where ogres
lived!
Il don't wonder that Mary left it,
ne said, half aloud, the bleakness Of
the view wringing the confession from
his soul.
He was half an hour ahead of time at
Jabez Carr's cottage. The old man,
as dry and shriveled as a butternut
hull greeted him with great joy and
q new g-arrulousness that proclaimed
his 80 odd years in a way pitifully
plain. The old man was not long in
getting to the subject that pleased him
pest to discuss-the great religious up
heaval In Corinth's First Congregation
al church. He had views on the sub
.~f " sSANSo 1Sl wv III IkldIly d IT,
Joyous cache. Jabez had not been in
side the doors of a church in 60 years,
and he had no settled ideas as to reli-
glon aside from a recognition Of
the Holy Trinity, yet to have heard him
on this wet March morning as he sat
close upon the little stove in his cot
tage you might have thought that the
burden of all Christianity rested upon
his shoulders.
Eric sat by the tiny window, watch
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MS eyes narrowed. Adam Carr. had he
been present, would have noted the
sudden c%lenching Of his hands and the
squarfng of the jaw.
John Payson was coming through the
gate. a strong we'll put up figure of a
man, trinity dressed and brisk.
Ignoring Jabez, who was in the midst
OF an eloquent appeal to zoe to witness
his absolute lack of prejudice in the
Blagden-Preshrey controversy, Mid
out into the open. He wanted to meet
his man where it was wide and free.
Payson came on. his eyes expressing
recognition, but not the faintest sign Of
confidence.
Eric stopped short and was staring
hard at the face Of the newcomer, fas-
cinated by what he saw there. For
weeks he had been trying to recall
something he had overlooked in John
Payson's features. Now the thing he
mad always missed recognizing forced
itself upon him with such a positive
clearness that he was shocked beyond
expression.
The clean cut, aggressive face of the
young man was s~ingularly like that Of
Adam Carr. with the distinction that it
was not so coarsely moulded, and far
from sinister. The grey eyes were set
far back in the head and the cheek
bones were high and broad, as in the
case of Adam Carr. The lower part of
the face was not so broad nor SO reso-
lutte, but still there was a singular re-
semblance to the jaw and the hin of
the detective. Payson's countenance
was frank and open, full of power and
virility. while Adams was heavy, ex-
pressionless, almost sphinxlike in ira
~immobility. The resemblance, startling
as 1t was, ended with the face. The
younger man was tall. supple, graceful;
Adam was stocky, Samsonian.
Eric had not seen the ex-teller in five
or six years.. but he was able, in this
instant, to call up vague, haunting Inn
pressions that had always puzzled him
when he met him face to face. He had
never known him well. Payson was
older than he by half a dozen years.
Observing the peculiar look in Mid
> thorne's eyes, Payson stopped when
some six or eight PAGES away. His own
, narrowed slightly.
Am I an object Of curiosity to YOU.
Mr.. Midthorne?" he asked quietly. Eric
started. Inc tone, the absence of In
Election, the very manner Of putting the
) question was SO familiar to him that
he experienced the actual sensation of
awe.
Yes" he replied levelly; IAN object
) Of great curiosity"
Perhaps. animosity?"
z Yes, distinctly So"
/ Payson came forward. I am
sincerely sorry for that, Eric.
l hope to overcome that feeling. May
!, l ask: why this aversion?"
Eric surveyed him coldly. 1T don't
believe 1t is necessary for me to answer
e that question"
> Permit me to disagree with you. If
I have done anything to deserve your
harsh opinion Of me. I desire to know
V what it is and where I stand before
D taking up the question that means so
1 much to both of u.s."
r w can settle that, Mr.. Payson,
4 without exchanging condolences" said
g Eric. white to the lips. You nave act.
. ed like an Internal scoundrel In entic-
ing my"
Pardon me- interrupted the other.
II did not come to insult you nor to
Y be tnsulted by you. ~Scoundrel is a
: hard word. I will not ask you to re.
r call it now, but I'll expect you to dc
it some day. You"
Has Adam Carr told you what I In.
t tend to do to you If you do not keer
away from my sister?" demanded Erte
n hOt1V ionnr{no thn fa11pf