Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-06

oA bhy oNh aHu InOSJ the DOVE
I've Travelled with shook their fathers
of soon and early. Anyway, you
surely ain responsible for your father rs
doin's, and as for what I done-it was
him and me from the start. " I warned warned
him. He done what he could TO cross
me-he was as bent to run me out and
ruin my reputation and my career as
l was to do the same by him. He got |
pretty far on his way to doin' it. If |
you had felt yourself responsible for
MN, Sales, you ought to've KEEP watch
over him and his doins. ANY time
these pat twelve years, he might have
been jailed--or manhandled-hadn't It !
been for scared woman--all his life |
,, he's been shielded by n woman, he's
been hidin' behind her skirts
Hush! ~ Laurie put up his hand and
moved white lips. Don't speak so
loud. He's dead -
= stood, unmoved.
Il consider you directly responsible
for his death"
II I am, I take the responsibility.
He had ought to have died"
speaker by the arm.
by God! What do you mean?"
Il am sorry-if you loved nim, but
the man to my knowledge caused more
than one death. If l had left him to
the Mil hands that night, he'd have
died worse and quicker. I made him
run where he once refused to drive
to save woman's life. She was
poor young woman with children. She
was took with heart attack, A
stimulant, as you know, IL it had got
to her in time, might have saved her.
called up. doc on the telephone. I
| oagn knI
night, rainin' hard, and he said
Call me up on a night like this for
a case at the Gully the quicker that
rabbit warren dies off, the better"
1t was impossible not TO recognize the
speech-it seemed to be shaped in Sales
very throat. Laurie turned away and
put hand to his eyes.
Tho Mans Eyes Revealed Him
"And that's only one case, man.
could tell you half dozen others.
That wos my Introduction to your
father, and, when left the phone and
came back to that woman and saw her
die, l set my mind TO tracking him
down and Furnishing him for his sins.
II the laws cant protect poor folk, II
the laws is got around by money or
power, then the laws hev to be en-
forced by free men. Amt that the
truth, Laurie? Sluypenkill had been
patient with your father too long; 1t
had been scared of the influence that
worked for him. 1t had been a mighty
: your father, and he was ruined. A
workingman tried to get justice agains:
him, and lie was driven away. If
have been u harder judge It's because
,, I'm harder man. Doc Sales aim
!, the first man -killed-though
! didn't set out to kill him-mind you
and felt that had done Gods work
in KILN. He died from the effects OF
his own living. He died because he
didn't have the nerve or the grit to
take his punishment. 1t wasn't in him
to make fresh start; he had been
pampcrcd too long. A man can't afford
Young Sales had walked over to Il
window and was standing, his hands
clenchcd at his sides. q listened to
his hard breathing, and his heart began
to be disturbed. This was the man
whose friendship he had greatly coveted,
, whose good opinion he had overwhelm-
ingly desired. The man was judging
him, hating him, about--if he did no
worse-to throw him out of his life.
=, @ moved slowly back and forth across
! the room, a storm gathered In his breast.
| III Will De llllIoSNAuic A"i iAS " ~
cept any service from you now,' said
. Laurie presently, without looking about.
| Naturally will leave my practice here.
cant stay. The scandal about my
! father is bound to grow and spread.
Also, 1t will be impossible for me to
form any sort Of association, any tic
at alh with man who Is directly
responsible for his disgrace and death
Mind, you have forced me to admit
Q wild sort of justice In your proceedings
, but.-the fact remalns--thnt, whatever
i nv father did or left undone, he Is
t nv father. And he came to me In MS
trouhle, And died as a consequence OF
the treatment he received. Justice II
D one thing. @ Kinwydden. and violence Is
quite another. Your violence against
n man almost twice your age seems tc
e me cowardly and unjustiiable. My
father'-he choked little--'was help
less in your hands. AS helpless Of
SOPHIE when you tied her to your chair
g and forced her to wait for you. Iha'
i piece of knight -errantry IS as IN,
- comprehensible to me as this one. >,
!. ind our standards of conduct unreconcil'
I ahla To me YOU seem n savage. Il
Won are what the West produces
confess | have no sympathy with the
West
= "Don't you judge the West by me,
f soid q ouickly. Il amt no fair speri'
d S"1n m'n Thc West amt responsible fe1
n me- c"' raised myself" Then, in AZ
!, accent of real despair, he added, y
: wisht could get you to understand
# Iourie faced about, lifted his hcad
= ana looked at the speaker; The eye'
t of the man revealed him, his honesty
y his dignity, his strength. How car
@ man live except by his own knowledge
y IaurjtY | got my knowledge from m!
;, ia | got my feelin' of what - Ilgh
= anI wrong from watchin' Gods way
>. " with men. | can forgive lot of thing
$. thot likely would turn you sick, bu
h heres things | cant forgive; and whel
3. sno them I've got to fight them. AM
is i,ye cot to fight them in my own way
le uot yours nor any other mans, !
lie has taught me to use my hands !
Is lint nv fn,l Doc sipned with M
10 hcad-if he'd done his deeds with HI
i hands. he'd have died long since
WnIn't 1t been for my tyin' up you
: Sonhie gel-where would she be now
y Hadn't it been for my runnln you
:. father out, who m!ghtn't have suitcre
~ and died on account of him? On
90 ,voman I know has been In hell 10
of years. To my way OF th'nklhE, he W" W"
IN the coward and the Dnliy' III na
of rough handling Is what ne hcea'
1t and deserved. ! am E r,Sey Syo,,;
\. savage. But l didn't hurt your sopn,,
I'd rel, She understands. Psrhaps sne
" n savage like me. Your father hhe, m,,
he what to expect from me. ! saved ~, ~,
that night from horse whipping. "a