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merged with the horizon. Inc Lazy Lass
was nipping into long tumbling swell.
Hurricane Tom snapped Hang it
all! We've got to fetch back to Mans
island
-Four hundred miles sou'west,n' re-
minded him. "Why?'
"That other schooner will get caught
in this, and Nan'll be marooned for
months, maybe he told me savagely.
"Cant let her stop there alone that long.
@She's safe enough insisted. "And
Wen run right back into the worst Of it.
"If you can stop chattering and keep
the wheel for half hour, I'll be about
my reckonings," he said, and was gone.
The schooner behaved beautifully.
The wind was blowing unsteadily, but
with good strength, and, close-hauled as
we were, we made fair weather of it.
"We're in the exact position to make
the four hundred miles by keeping dead
before the storm as the wind veers. Now
for some sailing, old friend!' said Tom.
| remembered that Tom Endicott had
been pretty fair sailor of yachts in the
old days, but | trembled when saw him
hoist big, booming spinaker on the
weaving IOrelnaSC ana uOuDie the SneetS
on the big mainsail. The very Kanakas
looked askance at him as the little vessel
began to surge along with gathering
speed, and the swells broke under the
forefoot with a roar.
4Not much leeway,' he told me in the
afternoon, as the two men at the wheel
toiled and sweated to keep the Lady Lass
on her course. Got to make that island
by morning, if we take the sticks out of
her. This is only the first wave of the
wind. Tomorrow you'll see what a
tropical hurricane can do
@Still don't see your object pro-
tested. miss Harloe is safe-you can't
say she would be safer aboard this
schooner. And it's sure thing we can t
land and let your vessel go hang"
He paused long enough to stare at the
thickening vapor overhead and murmur:
"Poor Nan! To think of her stopping
down there for months, maybe, and not
Knowing whether ] was lost or SAFE
4You mean to tell me you are taking
this risk because you dream woman who
has made it plain she cares nothing for
you may worry over your safety"
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- - general manager, nodded. "He's
worked for Canton d. Company, hasn't
he? That'll tell about him; what kind of
'send-off did they give him?"
"Fine. Here it isl
Grant the sales-manager, handed over
a sheet of paper with Canton & Com
pany's well known name and design at
the top. The document was a formal
recommendation of the usual sort, stat
ing that Samuel Inghs had been in their
employ for three years .as.city salesman;
that he was at all times regular in his
work, which was always satisfactory and
that his leaving the company was occa-
stoned by necessary reduction in the city
sales force following the discontinue
ance of certain specialtics. The letter
was signed by ~ Quade, the sales
manager.
"That's all regular. You've telephoned
this Quade, Of course?"
Yes; he says Inglis is bright fellow;
made very good sales
Take him on, then. Anything else?'
Nothing else, Mr.. Corlett. I'll start
1ngis right away; you know we need
The sales-manager went out. Corlett,
beyond making the mental note that he
now had good, well recommended man
TO take care of the growing sales on the
northwest side, dismissed the matter, and
he did not have occasion to take up en-
ployment problems again until just be
fore starting for home that night when
the chief OF the retail sales department
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You dom know Nan, ne Salu, GraW-
ing me into the shelter of the poop. "She's
the kind that worries. When | had the
fever down in Guayaquil, / woke up to
find her with broken clinical thermome-
ter in her hand. spat out the glass and
called her Ann Augusta. Bless her heart,
she dropped down on her knees beside
me and cried. She told me she was glad
l would get well and go back to New
York. A pail Dye think I'm not going
back to speak the island and signal her
I'm all right?'
@But Ann Augusta?" l cried.
"The butler, the footman, and the
maids are looking after her. he said
curtly.
ONLY the sharp eyes of the natives
found the island in the wild smother
the next morning. Tom chung in the fore
rigging and peered long and anxiously
ahead When he came down and rejoined
me where | held on by the jerking wheel,
he nodded in satisfaction.
"The gale won't be much worse till
night he bawled in my ear. 1--WE can
make it!'
@Make what?' yelled back.
He brushed his bare head with one sin
envy hand, and kicked native from the
wheel. The Kanaka glanced at him with
an appalled, expression. The peak rose
ahead Of us with prodigious speed, the
laundering seas about us began to leap
aboard, the long decks filed, the whale
boat went oversize in splinters. And Tom
held the shrieking vessel to her course
into the reeking gulf ahead.
think we cried out with one voice,
the Kanakas and |. For behind us a
huge crested comber lifted itself peril
ously, steaming and boiling its foaming
ridge driving off in long whip-lashes over
the doomed schooner. Ahead the vast
shadow of the mountain doomed in echo
ing magnificence, bathed in spume and
spray. The Lady Lass scared, bows
awash, bulwarks crashing, masts whip
ping, spun onward with lurch, took a
tremendous back-swell to the topmast,
shot upward to the send of another
surge, leaped clean through the terrific
surf, and came down with a roaring, thud-
ding impact on the rocky beach.
An instant later Tom and | were
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got along splendidly. | was perfectly
happy. / wasn't ever going to leave.
But everybody thinks Ann Augusta has
gone on the rocks! Look here, Nan
marry me. That will put me out of
AIMS thoughts and give me the right
to-
al yield no rights" she said firmly.
The man stared at her.
Nov, if were pirate, he muttered.
"You aren't! You're bully nice boy
and good pal. But you don't know the
first steps in piracy-nor ever will. Law
full gains for you, Tom-and Ann Augusta
as reward"
Their parting was Of the briefest; they
shook hands, and Nan, relenting at the
last, offered him her burning cheek to
kiss. He pecked at it, turned away sur
lily, and leaped into the whale-boat.
AS we clambered aboard the schooner,
he turned to me with grimace.
3The only two kisses she ever gave me
were in your presence, he mumbled.
4Now what do you think Of that?"
II don't think of that told him in
irritation, Except that you are a pair of
fools. What did you think you'd discover
on this wild-goose chase?'
an tell you what hoped for he
said bitterly. II hoped I'd fall in love
with the finest girl God ever made.
didn't. Now'-he roared at his crew
swell spread some canvas and beat up
for the American coast and Ann Augusta"
An hour later, as the Lady Lass
rounded the little headland, picked up
the binoculars and gazed back. On the
shining beach, right in the midst of the
crystal circle made by the glass, I saw
Nan Harloe. She was looking at us, quite
still, and remote.
POUR days thereafter Tom Endicott
tumbled out of his berth at midnight,
took the steps to the deck in two leaps,
and | heard the tramp Of bare feet, the
rising song of the sleepy sailors, and the
dull crash of swinging booms. The
schooner laid over on the other tack.
drowsily went up to inquire the. meaning
of this vancouver.
The moon was half way up the sky,
slashed with dark ribbons of cloud, and
backed by an Opaque shadow that
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scrambling after the natives out ~ 4.
shadows to the higher ground. Thar !.
faced about and tried to peer into n.
unspeakable blast of the hurricane !
saw nothing of the schooner-was 1.
fact, flung backward in the underprow.l
Of the mountainside by the furious wind
l got my footing with infinite dif8cultv
clutching at my bleeding knees an
struggling for breath. l was driven ~
up the slope as if an irresistible power
impelled me, and fell at last exhausted i
the shelter of an outjutting rock.
The echo Of the storm was about M.
and poised on the ridge Of crag saw
tree whipping straight out from its foot.
hold before the blast, like pennant. II
seemed as if | heard it's tortured roots
yield under the strain, and watched n
see it flick away. 1t stayed, motionleas
and taut. ! sat up and looked about ma
Above me ! saw Nan Harloe coming
down the steep ascent, skirts BLOWING.
her arms outstretched to balance her
Tom was waiting, braced against a boul-
der. They swept into each Others arms.
and she lifted her streaming face to his.
Inelr lips met.
As l watched them fascinatedly, saw
him suddenly hold her out at arms
length, his face contorted with anxiety.
She held one hand over her bosom.
4You are hurt!' he cried with profound
solicitude.
She nodded, her lips twisted with agony.
3My hearth she answered.
Asa mountainous sea crashed on the
shore and drove up almost to my foot
hold, the Kanakas fed by me in huddle,
silent. terror-stricken. Tom stood with
Nan in his embrace. staring into her eyes.
4Nan!' he called st
Slowly she held out her arms again, as
If in single gesture to dismiss pain and
welcome happiness. Overhead the world
shattered away in unspeakable tumult,
and the sea battered dangerously to
their very feet. Needless pair, clasped in
each Others arms, lips pressed to lips.
| sat down YEARLY | clutched my
own hand over my breast, feeling another
pain than they suffered in bliss. Mine
was the pain of age and loneliness and
desolation.
! and Ann Augusta!
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thrust down on the desk before Corlett
Look at those, please!p
oorlett, scrutinizing the sheets. saw
that they We're statements of sales to
drug stores which all seemed to be on the
northwest side of the city; all the state
ments had been stamped aPaid" by the
firm stamp and initiated as. l..
We'll, what about these. Grant?n
"lnglis is gone-skipped with four
thousand dollars of our money, which he
collected from our customers in his ter.
ritory. That's what, Mr.. Corlett,
suspected something was wrong yester-
day when he didn't show up, and one of
the druggists out there, who'd been told
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appeared at the
door of the private
Office.
@Come in, Barnes.
Shut the door. Now
you've located the
trouble on your floor,
have your
eyes. sir; that is,
| think | have, sir. "
"Who is it,"
dan Farrell. At
least, it's the boxes
that he's beenrllani-
ling where we have
had the losses. Som
of these drugs this
year, you know, are
wor, h their weight
in gold. Ten oul.ces
of the solution
-. q, d,
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his mind, with both
of the little problems
that had been trou-
bling him all settled.
That there was any
contradiction in the
settlement of the two
troubles never oc-
CURED to him.
1t was not until
one day about a.
month later that the
essence of the con-
tradiction offered
itself to him as a
subject for thought.
That day Grant
burst into his office
aboutnoon. his hands
full of receipted
FARM, ,l,:l.
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almost thirty dollars worth arc missing
again to-day"
you've seen him take the stuff?'
Not seen him, sir, but almost the
same as. / can trace the losses to him,
all right. I'm sure it's Farrell"
3Then get rid of him. II you've no
definite proof, just let him out on any
good excuse. You'd better not let even
him know why we're firing him. and of
course not any one outside. If he didn't
do it, we'd be doing him an injustice;
and, besides, we might lay ourselves open
to trouble. Understand? Good night,
Barnes"
d Corlett went home quite easy in
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Proving Up on Past Performance

+ looks all right to your
"Yes; what do you Think
"Oh, all right. ., Corlett, the
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
'C0UClNG IN
COAL PRICES
IS admitted
Mine Operators Reap Profit Of
From so to Several Hun
dred Per Cent, and
Want More.
their CHANCE, THEY SAY
Trade Board Urges Action to
Insure Supply and Prevent
Extortion of Added Elk
cessive Profits.

Washington, Q. c., May 22.-The
Interstate Commerce commission,
the supreme court decided today,
has power to compel railroads to
furnish "a reasonably ~adeuuate'
supply of coal cars to handle .nor-
NAL and seasonal" demands for in
t~erstate originating at
mines along their line anr to
award ,reparation to shippers for
failure TO supply such cars"
Washington, May THE bituTnin-
Gus coal shortage is blamed on the
railroads, in a report today by the Fed
eral Trade commission. Producers by
taking advantage of the lack of cars.
are charged with responsibility, how
ever, for prevailing high prices.
The unprecedented demand for this
fuel in the past six months together
with the difficulties Of rail and water
transportation, rot only. have absorbed
the coal as fast as it could be shipped
from the mines, but had led also to al
most complete exhaustion Of the coal
stored at tide water points and at the
docks on the great lakes.
"The country faces u serious state of
affairs in obtaining a commodity which
is basic to practically every form of it's
military and industrial activity"
Excessive Profits Taken.
Under war time conditions says
the report, lit may become the duty OF
the government to take steps similar
to those oGn necessary by beillgaFent
European countries and not only to
regulate the distribution of Gea from
the mouth of the mine to the ultimate
by alIotirg the quantity of
the product. which the different classes
of shall be allowed to pur-
chase, but also to establish the prices
to be paid by different classes OF con-
sumers. 8 7 Al y time like the
present excessive profits should not be
permitted to be extorted from the pub
lie by producers and distributors of
any prime necessity of life"
OF prices now charged for coal the
reppr ays
Aemit They Are Gousing.
Figures submitted to the commits
sion show that most Of the present
prices now charged arc far in excess OF
the cost as shown By the operators
books. Many Of the operators frankly
take the position that they are trying
to get for their coal the highest prices
possible under the present demand and
are refining ven at prices greatly in
creased owe last year, from contract
ing their output to tho extent Of their
usual custom. They defend this action
by claiming that under the operations
of the laws OF saippiy and demand t6ey
have for many years past baen eating
little more for t!ie5. coal than the bare
cost of production; that the mining of
bituminOGs3 co;lfs$tlfing thai period has
been u most unpratitable industry and
that this is their chance to recoup
themselves for the losses of Several
years.
Accordingly, they are demanding
prices at the mine today which run
from SO per cent to several hundred
per cent over thec cost of their output.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
FAIRFAX AND BURKE
PLAN BITTER FIGHT
Election Contest Will Be Heard
by the Supreme Court
Next Week.

Wheeler. S. D., May 2o.-The parti-
sans OF Fairfax and Burke are prepar-
ing to make a hard fight before the
state supreme court on May 26, when
the rehearing granted by the supreme
court in the case involving the county
seat of Gregory county will be held
before that court.
Attorneys representing the two rival
towns will proceed to Pierre in force.
At the election last November the
own of Burke, on the face of the re-
turns. won the county seat from Fair
fax, which had been the county capital
since the county was organized in the
early days.
II the supreme u is the result
of the rehearing holds that Fairfax was
originally selected as the permanent
county seat Fairfax will continue to
be the county capital. If, on the other
hand, the court decides that Fairfax
was originally selected as the tempo
rary capital Burke viii realize its am
bition to be the county seat.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
GERMANS WILL HEAR
INDIAN WAR WHOOpS'
Scores Of Redskins in Dakota
Regiments That Will Go
to Europe.

Hot Springs, s. o.. May 21.-Severai
score of Sioux Indians will be among
the South Dakota volunteer troops and.
national guardsmen who doubtless will
be sent to Europe with other American
forces to actively take the field against
the Germans. Thus the warwhoops of
the Sioux. who are among the most ia
nous of Indian warriors, Will, there Is,
every indication. be heard in due time
along the battle line in France.
In the Rapid City company of South
Dakota national guard are more than
a score of Sioux Indians from the Pine
Ridge and Rosebud reservations. The
Pierre company also a a number OF
Sioux Indian. recruits. These redInen,
If occasion demands, are expected to
give as good an account OF themselves
as he white national guardsmen n
volunteers. In the past it has been
demonstrated that when led by white
men in whom they have full confidence
the average Sioux Indian will fight us
CALAMITY and persistently as the aver
age white soldier.
IN addition to having contributed q
number OF recruits to the two corn
panies mentioned of the Fourth regi-
ment, South Dakota national guard,
reports from the various Sioux reserva-
tons of South Dakota are to the effect
that if the government wants their
services the Sioux warriors stand ready
to organize one or more full cavalry or
infantry regiments, and will gladly go
to any point the government directs in
order to perform their share of the ma
ional duty.
AS scouts the Sioux have no super
iors, and as riders they surpass even
the famed Cossacks. Sioux Indians
mounted on their wiry little ponies can
perform feats of long distance riding
that would cast in the shade anything
done by white cavalrymen, whose heav-
Ter horses could not stand the strain
and keep UP h steady gait of the In
dian ponies.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
PIERRE GETS NEXT MEET
OF STATE ODD FELLOWS

Yanktoa, May 20.-State Odd Fellows
in grand lodge here, voted to meet next
year at Pierre. The choice was unani-
nous. The Rebekahs liz assembly elect
I'd officers as follows: Grand president,
Mrs. Ellen Dana. Armour; grand vice,
president. Mrs. Selma Fish. Redfield;
grand warden, Miss Maud Orr. Philip;
grand secretary, Mrs. Hattie Borland,
Madison. The assembly also decided to
meet at Pierre next yea The center of
attraction for the week with both Odd
Fellows and Rebekahs was the presence
pf 10 girls from the Odd Fellows home
1T Dell Rapids. The children showed
cellent care and received many gen
erous attentions. The home also con
!ains Is boys and six old gentlemen.
fhe past presidents association of the
Rebekahs closed the weeks doings,
Ind Is past presidents Of the order
were present for this gathering.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
HUCCER TERRORIzINC
GIRLS OF WATERFOWL
Many Women Have Been Han.
died Roughly by Unknown
Individual.

Watertown. S. D.. May 19-The local
authorities have thus far failed to cap
ture a Jack the Hugger," who has
been frightening the women and girls
of Watertown for some time. Women
and girls going about the city late at
night without male escorts have fire.
quently been accosted and in some in
stances have been roughly handled be-
fore they could make their 1t
is believed the hugger is some de-
mented Individual, Who thus far has
succeeded in concealing his identity,
The authorities have not given up
hopes of capturing him, and a watch
is maintained each ni.Et.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
TWO MEN ARE ARRESTED
ON FLOUR THEFT CHARGE

Madison, S. d.. May 20.-Culver
Frost of this city has been arrested and
lodged in Jail for stealing sacks of
hour from the railway cars. For ON
time flour has been missed from the
ears but there was 40 apparent clue
until Frost was suspected n a watch
set owe his action. Yesterday a watch
Intercepted the prisoner and another
man with IL sacks # flour which they
were bringing to town to sell. 1t de-
veloped that Frost and another man
by the name OF ert John who has
since confessed to being an a~cconplice,
have been stealing flour from the cars
Rnd secreting it in the country. Both
will nave a hearing on the charge of
grand larceny.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
DAKOTA MAN FLEES AFTER
INJURtNG MITCHELL WOMAN

Madison, S. d., MAY 1a-Mrs. Samuel
Sigmun, wife of a Lake county farmer,
was badly bruised and cut when an
automobile driven by w. E,4Ioward. Of
Lake county, AN into q buggy in which
herself n husband We're riding, over
turning the vehicle and smashing the
rear wheels. a warrant was sworn out
for his arrest, but before it could be
served he departed either for Montana
or the British northwest. An older son
later appeared in our and entered a
plea OF guilty for his father TO the
charge of running al automobile with
out lights and paid u fine.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
HAND AND BEADLE TO
JOIN IN SUMMER WORK,

Huron, S. d.. May 22.-Hand and
Beadle counties will join in the annual
summer school teachers institute held
at Huron college from June IL to 70.
Prof. C. w. HochstetIer, OF Huron col
lege,who has conducted fsuminer
schools and Institutes here for many
years, will again conduct the institute
KENNEBEc.-J. 4. SPOTS has pur-
chased the local telephone system and
will conduct 1t In future. He also a
entered into a contract to %provide the
city with an electric light system and
will at once Install the plant. tn head
quarters OF the telephone system and the
electric light plant will be In q cosnbi-
nation building, which he Is erecting and
a part OF which will be devoted 70 opera
house purposes. structure eornpiate
will cost about 81, 0oo
ABERDEEN.-This section OF South
Dakota will havesa rare treat early IN
June when sCordeIia Lee. world famous
violin yfrtuoso and a daughter OF Absr-
deem, Will give ~a5concert, assisted BY the
Crpheus club % this city,szSa I1ale chorus
The concert will be given At the North
ern Normal and Industrial sehool.
DEsMET.-At a meeting held by g large
ntfmbersnf the patriotic men andgwomen
of DeSrnetsa local chapter9of the National
Red CrnsS van organized. THE following
were elected Officers: ChairrnansM Mrs. A.
Bostroi1; Vice chairman Mrs. John
Doyle: secretary, Mrs. Al
treasurer, ID ACrawford. \ happier
started out with about 100 eharter8 mem
A4II4BANK.A new high mark for
9WhsAt haaheen reached in this city hy
MI Trspp' ygao siyes e = & farm =.
bushels 10 the local elevator thafsbronght
her alchecks for $as62.S0 The wheatsgradedg
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
ALEXANDRIA TEAM WINS
STATE DEBATING HOkORS

Alexandria, S. D.. May 22.-The state
high school debating championship
comes to Alexandria for 1917, the VIC
tory being definitely settled by the de-
feat here of the debating team from
Pierre. The question was regarding
the universal training of all boys IA
to 21. Alexandria's team, composed of
William Marble and Misses Mildred
Yule and Eleanor Twamley. had the
negative side of the question. The vic
tory of the local team also reflects cred
it upon Superintendent Phillips of the
city schools.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
MAYOR OF WAGNER ACTING
AS CITY MARSHAL ALSO

Wagner, S. D., May 19--In the alb
sence of a competent man to perform
the duties of city marshal Mayor Pat
ton, of Wagner, is acting as his W
city marshal and is proving a terror to
law breakers. Within a. few hours after
he donned the marshafs star and start
ed in to perform the duties of marshal
he had roundedHu ard arrested three
persons on the charge of intoNication.
The m-ayor-rnarshal hailed the three de-
PENDANTS into court, where they were
assessed fines and costs. A. d. Carter
soon viii assume the duties of marshal
and thus relieve Mayor Patton OF his
double duties.