The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-07-10

from the plains and sifted through the
lacy shadow work Of vines. The day
had been long and full of excitement,
and the kindly night wrapped softly
about the young sweet thing sitting
with an angels problem to decide.
With the paper still held tightly in
her hand, her head dropped back
against the chair and she was asleep.
1t might have been an hour later
thai she awoke, the gruf voice of a
man startling her into consciousness
once more:
That you, jim? What's the mat
ter? Us iierce when ones having the
time Of his life to have to turn and
run at a moments call. What's up?
Something pretty stiff or you never
would have sent that message. IL
hnd it's any nonsense and squeamish.
ness II@l-"
"Sh-"
The yoice suddenly changed into a
gruff whisper. Jean was sufficiently
awake to realize that the man Har.
rlngton had sent for was come. Then
she addressed herself to her problem
again, and the voices in low humble,
gradually rising 10 distinguishable
sentences now and then, continued
under her window.
She was not conscious of hearing
.hem until suddenly she was startled
into sharp attention by a name.
Il tell you il Jasper Holt gets onto
THIS In time it will mean states prison
at least for us. 1t looks bad" 1t was
Harrington's voice that spoke.
I don't see it that way" said the
stranger. Holt hasn't got onto it. and
holt won't get onto it. You say the
girl said he handed her back the wal
let and never said a word. Don't Won
Know Holt would never have let his
own valuable private papers out OF his
hand II he had suspected in the least
mat he held them? You know Holt
bettef than that. Ten to one he was
SO taken with the girl that he never
noticed The wallet; and why would
ne tnlnk she had his wallet, anywayp
l thlnk 1t was pretty rare OF old man
Scathlin to think Of giving the papers
10 her. 1t threw Holt entirely off the
track for good. Now, what we want to
40 is to get hold of Blount. He's the
Whole show up there in New York
anyway. I'll Just wire him to come
on at once and talk it over, and wen
get to work and cut off the water SIM
ply while little ~Jasper's training his
roses and wondering what has be-
come OF his perfectly good deeds to
MS perfectly good silver mine"
But one OF the missing papers il
the grant OF water rights. II that
were here we might talk"
Jean sat up suddenly, with bated
breath. and her arm hit against the
hairbrush which, in her excitement NJ
preparing for bed, she had laid down
upon the window sill. The hairbrush
Tell with a sharp noise on the polished
DOR Just over the eggs OF the rug
ana the two men in the vine draped
perch below started fiercely and looked
up, the stranger with an oath.
What's that?,
"Oh. nothing, /. guess" said Har.
rlngton. his W voice a trifle strained.
probably my wife has gone into tuck
up the baby and dropped something.
On, you needn' worry, my sisterinlaw
is fast asleep hours ago.. Her light
Went. out just after l came out here
to watch for you, and there hasn't
been a sound overhead since. She
was worn to a frazzle."
Where is her room? This window
up here?"
NO. Just next, but she's asleep. I'm
sure"
Harrington rose and, stepping off
the porch. walked out on the lawn in
the edge of shadow next the path n
looked up. Jean, huddled back against
her great window chair. her face white
with excitement, could see his attitude
as he surveyed the windows, aud then.
reassured, came back to the porch.
Its ali right" he said in a low
tone, but maybe we had better go to
the other end Of the porch. / was
afraid of waking the baby owe there.
and the rascal is a difficult problem
when he wakes in The night"
Wen, talk lower, anyway" said the
stranger. What did you say the 9TH
er missing paper was? You have the
list of them all haven't your
Yes. copies. ! wish we'd sent the
COMES instead Of the originals, only
Scathlis.'s story about finding them
wouldn't have worked then. The 9th,
or lost paper is the claim. with loca-
Etionaf the GRE as..cssts Important
ISlya se that those two. the ones on
i the others all hinge. are gone!
can't understand. Do you suppose
lScathiinzi has something mn his ~sleayaa
Maybs he kept only those two. and
a1szns u got these IassF-but what
ipbisct cttuid he have had 2.
There was silencs Afogsa uomens
while the two men thought.
At last Garrett spoke:
sWhataA0 you supnosn Holt WAS do.
Ing 5 thAt train-1a samgz train
with saath!ih! Holt didn't teAve home
TIL scathlin had had bssn On ~ M near
ny Two uays. When WAs b IayS We
heard from Scathlin -