The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-03

Hoyts cleverness and well

Kane, why should it require
shrewd1res3 to get you3acquitted?
Why, doesn't your innocence
speak for itself?"
An I innocent 2"
And then the warden had to
tell them the time was UP, and
Avice had to go away with that
strange speech and that strange
look on Names face, indelibly
Impressed on her memory.
Am / innocent? ~ If he were,
why not say so; and, il he were
not, why not declare it to her
and tell her the circumstance,
which must have been such as
to force him to the deed.
But out IL the sunshine, out
side that awful chill of the
gloomy jail, Avice's soul expand
ed to her new knowledge like a
flower. Kane loved hcr All
other good in the world must
follow, Suddenly she knew he
was innocent. She fought back
the thought that she knew it be
cause she knew he loved her. She
knew he would be freed! And
fought back the thought that she
knew it because she knew he was
hers.
From an apathetic, hopeless
inaction, she suddenly sprang to
activity. She would find a way
to save him without Hoyt s help;
then she would be free of her
promise to the clever lawyer.
But how to go about il? 1t
was one thing to feel the thrill
OF determination, the power Of
an all conquering love, and quite
another to accomplish her set
purpose.
Hoyt came in the evening.
With the canniness of her new
found love, Ayice approached
the subject in a roundabout way.
- saw Kane this afternoon, :"
She began.
"You did! You went to the
Tombs? 2"
Eyes; Leslie, that man is in
nocent. -
" Indeed! [ wish you had the
task of proving it to the G.. P.
instead Of me. Avice, things are
not going well, Whiting is saw
ing up something; [ don't know
quite what. But | confess to you
| am afraid of his coming rev
Citations.
what do you mean? Has he
evidence that you don't know
of?'
tim not sure. He may have,
and he may only pretend it to
brighten me. =
But you promised to free
| Kane''
"And I will if I can. But,
dear child, | am but human. 1t
would take almost miracle to
clear that man from the network
of circumstantial evidence that
trips us up at every step. | as
sure you | am doing my best, and
more than my best. You believe
that?'
"Of course l do" and Avice
studied the earnest, careworn
face that looked into hers.
And you also know why.:''
Eyes" came the answer in 9
low tone.
"Not because [ believe him in
nocentt, though / 90 believe hin hin
so, but because Of your promise
That is what makes me work fol
his release as, [ dare to say, nc
counsel ever worked before, THAI
is why l fear the result as | have
never feared anything in my life
Because Of my reward if win
Because of you, you beautiful
prize, that | shall deserve when
conquer the fight!''
Leslie, could no one else free
Kane but you?'
''Ne! thousand times no
Who else would use every means
honorable or not! Who else
would jeopardize his legal stand
ing, forget professional ethics
resort to underhand methods
fearless of censure and oppro
brium, so he but win his case
And all because a girl holds N,
heart in the hollow Of her littl'
white hand -
Avice was amazed and almos
frightened at his vehemence
What was she, she asked her
self, that these two men shoult