Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-15

Michael gets hold of an old farm
his former companions.
He is also studying in a law office.
CHAPTER XIv-Continued.
Another night the talk would be
on fertilizers, and how one crop
would sometimes give out something
that another crop planted later, need
ed. Little by little. because he talked
about the things in which he himself
was interested, he was giving these
sons of ignorance a dim knowledge OF
and interest in the culture of life, and
the tilling Of the ground: getting them
ready for what he had hardly as yet
dared to put into words even to him
self. e.
And m day he took Sam down to
fore Christmas. They had made
their second visit to Jim the week
before and he had spoken OF the
spring and when he should get out
into the world again. He seemed to
be planning to get even with those
who had confined him for his wrong
doing. Michael's heart was filled
with anxiety for him.
There was something about Il Jim
that appealed to Michael from the
first.
He had seen him first standing be-
hind the grating of his cell, a great
unkenapt hulk of a fellow with fiery
red hair n brown eyes that roved
restlessly, hungrily through the corri-
dor. He would have been handsome
but for his weak. girlish chin.s Jim
had melted almost to tears at sight
of the scarlet geranium they had car
ried him on that first visit, and SEEM
ed to care more for the appearance
of his old comrade Milky than
ever Sam had cared.
Jim was to get out in April. If on.
Ily there were some place for him to
go!
They talked Of it on the way down.
Sam Seemed to think that Jim would
find it pretty hard to leave New York.
Sam himself wasn't much interested
in the continued hints Of Michael
about going to the country.
"Nothin' doin'" was his constant
refrain when Michael tried to tell hin.
how much better it would be if some
Of the consested part of the city
country; especially for the poor<peo-
pie, how much greater opportunity
for success in life there would be for
them.
But Sam had been duly impressed
with the Wilderness Of the landscape,
on this his first long trip out OF the
city, n as Michael unfolded to him
: the story Of the gift of the farm, and
] his own hopes for it,/sam left off his
scorn and began to give replies that
showed he really was thinking about
the natter.
"Say!" said he suddenly, "ef Buck
: was to come back would you let him
live down to you place an help do
e all them things you're plannin"'
: Il surely would said Michael hap
PLY. Say, Sam, do you. or do you
q not know where Buck is?"
Sam sat thoughtfully looking out
t of the window. At this point he
t turned his gaze down to his feet and
II thought so:" said Michael eager
1y Sam, is he in hiding for some
thing he has done?"
Still more slowly, cautiously, Sam
q nodded his head once more. ss 7
Sam, will you send him a mes
sage from me?"
Another nod.
TELL him that I love him. Michael
breathed the words eagerly. His
heart remembered kindness from:
Buck more than any other lighting
of his sad childhood. "Tell him that
1 want him-that I need him: Tell
him that / wan him to make an ap-
Ipointnyent to meet me somewhere and
let us talk this plan Of mine over. ]
want him to go in. with me and help
me. make that farm into a fit place
TO take people who haven't the right
kind Of homes, where they can have
honest work and good air and be hap.
py! Viii you tell him."
And Sam nodded his head ennha.
tically.
AN Jim'll help too eff Buck goes
That's dead sure!" Sam volunteered
and Sam, I'm counting on youfp
&"Sure thing!!' said SAM.
Michael trarDced all over the place
with Sam. showing him everything
and telling all his plans. He was ycry
IfanAliar with his lad now. ia had
planned the bog for a c~ca,nDcrr,
patch, and had already nego.,ltedsfci
1.-THE bushes. He had trimmed upTth.
berry bushes in the garden hinsel
Iduring his various holiday trips, m,
had arranged with a fisherman t
dump a few haulings OF shell-fsh 81
lone field where. he thought that KIM
OF fertilizer would be effective. III
had determined to use his hundred
dollar graduation present in fertilixe
and seed. II would not go far butt
would be q beginning. The workssh
would have TO get ON other Wy
to 1t himself until late in the sun;
mer probably. and there was q gfee
deal that ought to be done IN III
early spring. He would hayeA.tosssb
Icontented to 20 slow OF course. IN
must remember that unskilieds tabdra
always expensive and wastefuI: sti1
w0uSd SNk4iya be al he scoald ut. Jtil
h0Mashe would fesd md houfe W.
lunsklled labers was problem