Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-04-06

FimSelfY" Dave Asked.
friend Of Austin's; you'd better tip him
to set his watch ahead a few hours and
save himself a lot of trouble. The
prosecuting attorney don't like Ed any
too well. Understand"
The judge pondered this suggestion
for a moment. "'Young Ed is a queer
fellow. Once in a while he gets his
neck bowed"
$50 do T." Law declared quietly. HE
treated be like q hobO-Sent me to the
kitchen for a hand-out. That sticks.
If I hadn't tanned down considerably
these late years, I'd have-wOund him
up, right there"
From beneath his dropping lids
Ellsworth regarded the Ranger Curl
ously. "You have bad temper, haven't
your
'ROtten!"
ST know. You were a violent boy.
I've often wondered how you were get
ting along. How do you feel WREN
you're-that Way?"
1t was the younger mans turn to
hesitate. 'Well, I don't feel anything
when I'm mad" he confessed. "Pm
plumb crazy, guess. But feel plenty
bad afterwards"
There was a flicker of the judges
eyelids.
Dave went on musingly: II dare say
80 iyI al fot hnr
was the same. He Was-a killer"
eyes. He was all of that"
Dave lifted an distracted gaze from
the Pullman carpet. II hardly know
what I mean, judge. But you've had
lunches, haven't you? Didn't you
ever know that something you thought
was true wasn't true at all? Well, I
never felt as if I had bad blood in
me- My mother was Mexican"
Spanish"
GAIL right. Am Spanish? Have I
any Spanish blood in me?"
''She didn't look Spanish. She was
Iight-c0mplexioned, for one thing. We
both know plenty of people with a
Latin strain in them who look like
Anglo-Saxons. You were educated in
the North, and your boyhood was spent
at school and college, away from ev-
erything Mexican"
'That probably accounts for it." Law
agreed; then his face lit with a slow
smile. "By the way, don't tell Mrs.
Austin that I'm a sort Of college per-
son. She thinks I'm red-neck, and
she sends me books"
Ellsworth laughed silently. 'Your
talk is to blame, Dave. Has she sent
you The Swiss Family Robinson%"
mo. Mostly good, sad romances
with an uplift-stories full of lances
at rest, and Willie-boys in tin sweaters.
tiful, too, and the villains never had
redeeming trait. It's a shame how
human nature has got mixed up since
then, isn't it,"
"Alaire Austin's romance is sadder
than any of those novels"
Dave nodded. "But she doesn't cry
about it, Then he asked gravely :
"Why didn't she pick real fellow
who'd kneel and kiss the hem of her
dress and make man of himself?'
"What's the matter with you?" quer-
led the judge. care you smitten with
that girl?"
Dave laughed. Maybe! Who
wouldn't be? Why doesn't she divorce
that bum-she could do it easy enough
and then marry a chap who could
run Las Palmas for her?''
ga man about six feet three or
four" acidly suggested the judge.
That's the picture | have in mind"
"You think you could run Las Pal.
mas?"
II wouldn't mind trying
'You must never marry" firmly de-
clared the older man. you'd make
bad husband, Dave"
"She ought to know how to get along
with bad husband, by this time"
The judges face broadened in a
smile. '"rhank heaven Young Ed has
the insides of steel range. and SO NV