The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-07-24

took away the cheap little firearms
that the boy had purchased with his
allowance for himself and the other
boys, and he declared the allowance
should cease until such time as the
boy would own to his fault and come
TO his senses. One isn't just quite sure,
but, perhaps after all, the removal OF
his allowance was the very best thing
that father eyer did for his little, lone
ly son who had begun SO early to re-
form the world with a high hand.
Jasper went up to his room and
thought. Then he went out and con
suited with a newsboy friend Of his,
and presently he was established On a
paper route of his own. For several
weeks he sold papers till he had
enough money to replace his lost re-
volver. Then he was satisfied and
retired from business Tor the time, hui
ture, and his father began to discover
that the threat of taking away the al
lowance had no effect whatever on his
determined young son.
Yet in spite Of his bravery and
strength, in spite Of his high purposes
and anarchistic tendencies, there was
in the boys nature a great wealth OF
love and a desire to be loved. He was,
IN his younger days, forever throwing
his arms about his beautiful mothers
neck and kissing her to her great dis.
gust and the severe detr.msnt of her
complexion; until finally he became
shy about showing his affection, and
the lines OF loneliness and yearning
grew deeper about the young mouth.
il was the time he ran away that
made him sure that no one cared for
him.
Jasper had been up before the par
entail tribunal for some trivial offense,
and his word had not been taken in
explanation, against the word of his
younger brother--who had arrived on
the scene some three years later than
himself. and through some strange
fantasy of se%lfishness was the beloved
darling Of his mother.
Perry Holt had sharp little effemi.
nate features like his mothers, and
had been petted and spoiled from the
moment his whimsical mother first
saw him. II there was any trouble
Perry was usually at the bottom of it
and Jasper vas blamed for it, because
Jasper was $50 queer" ard ESQ Wild
and always getting into trouble and
doing what he ought not to do" That
was the way his mother put 1t. And
eso she had ordered Jasper to his
fathers den for a repr!naad for some
thing Perry really had done, and Jas
.per's word was doubted!
He took his punishment silently and
Went to his room and his bed, where
he lay motionless staring into the
darkness. II ne had been n girl he
might have sobbed, so hurt was his
soul; but being Jasper he held back
the singing tears that burned his eyes
and started hard into the dark. At
asleep. he arose and stole softly from
the house before his mother and faith
eI had returned from some social func-
.ica slsss we're attending
He stayed away three days, COM
%panioning with waits who had no
homes, and then his homesck heart
brought him back again with longing
"a see his mother. He reaciied the
house at early dusk and found his
mother and Perry getting into the car
to ride to the station where they were
to meet his father and take a pleasure
"trip TO Washington for Il few days.
They had not even missed him and
were going off without knowing where
he was. HIS mother looked at him
with disgust and told him to go into
the house and wash his face, that he
Cooked a perfect fright" and ther
the ear whirled off and left him gazing
after his dream of what a mother
ought TO be.
After that Jasper y expected
anything more from his mother or hi,
family. He began to see that life wal
msant to be a lonely job and q WA.
up to him how II turned out. HI,
seemed to grow up and be wisn be,
gond lis years II few seconds Ina
he stsod gazing after tho car vanish
NJ iras.in the dusk.
Whon It was discovered that he wa
spending most OF his time on tn
y street SIN the company Of ncwsboy
and working mems sons. he was fitte,
out expensivelys and SGT away Z
boarding school where he began
iipe8y NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
adpred him. u tsfhey were few an.
were mostly confined to small boy