The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-05

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in. Nobody in the house but Nom
and she looks awful. Sick again?"
Before, Faith, bewildered, stricken
with new terror, could answer, there
came the chatter Of banging kitch.
en- door, the sound Of small feet fly.
ing through the dining room. JOY
in . trailing nightgown, her round
face paper white, her sharp gray
eyes starting from her head with
terror, catapultcd herself against
Faith.
Saith. Dads going to whir
Cherry! He's got his razor strop!
He says he's going to skin he,
alive! They woke me upi"
"Whcre are they? Quick, Joy!
Where arc they? Don't stutter like
little idiot" She shook the child
ruthlessly.
''Out in the shcd!" Joy nanted, un.
holy joy at this tremendous excite.
ment shooting like darts Of lightning
through the very real terror in her
eyes. "Hc drug her out Of the
houscl And he's got his razor strop
Faith! He slid the bolt in the shed
and told me he'd give me licking
! too II l didn't 60 in the house and
/ stay thcrel He looks awful, Faith +!
Soon as Nom was asleep, he jerkcd
her up out Of her chair and drug
"That1l don Joy!" Faith flung of
her sisters c1ingir~ hands, and ran
toward the kitchen, her face As white
as Joys.
"Guess we'd better go along, Hath.
away "Long" Lane said gruffly.
dads a peaceful citizen mostly, but
when his dander's up, he's liable ia
do sometime he'll regret" E
For the second time that day Faith
flung herself upon a locked door
behind which Cherry Lane was
screaming for help. Long, red wclts
upon the tender flesh Of her little
sistsr!. The skin of her own body
crawled ut the thought.
.Dsd' It's Faith! Let me in
sH4sc. ri ysaaAend TO this
Longs" voice was suddenly that Of
I a grown man. He hurled his tall
body against the filmsy double doors
Of the shed, which gave almost i'm.
mcdiately.s
Cherry Icy on the dusty floor Of
the shed, once used as stable b,
previous tenants, and now serving
| As coal and wood house. In thu
Pickering light Of a lantern swing.
inc from rafter they could pla1nly
see the print of mans hand. on one
delicate, apricot-tinted cheek, ant
across her bare forearm lay a long
angry welt, left there by the vicious
lash Of the razor strop which jim
Lane held aloft in . trembling hand
"Get up off that floor and TAXI
your beatingi" Jim Lane was saying
when the doors were burst open
Get out Of here. Junior, or I'll givt
You . dose Of the same medicine
Get out, Faith!" he ordered thun
derously, - his oldest daughter
, stumbled into the shed and fluni
herself to the floor, TO gather heI
4 shuddering. sobbing sister into hc1
| arms.
.That'll BE- enough. Dad" Juniol
STROBE to his father and snatched tn!
uplifted strop from his hand
| NCherry's not kid any more.
licking or two when, she was . XII
might have helped, but Il wont d
any good novO You'll be ashamed o.
yourself for this, Dad"
"Cherry, Cherry!" Faith had hel
sister in her arms. was kissing th.
cruel welt on her arm, the 3ivid print
Of her fathers hand on her. face.
Jim Lane glared wildly about him
then staggered, brushing his eyes
- II to 'dispel the red mists Of rage
Then he looked With bewildermcnt q
the hand which had bees raiset
against his slaughter. He began t.
So@eSshins s. com over IN. me- ~, =,
me-all Of o sudden Hsr mothers
more when she was = child. Never
me" IA s.
Again he brushed : rough, knuckl,
hand over Ms eyes, then seemed 4
realize for. the first time that Boil
Hathaway. was standing hear tn,
wrecked doors Of the shed, "Tha1
you. Hathaway? I'm sorry you 60
let n Tor this. Made - 1oq1 Of my
self, l guess. But when i Saw whst
she'd done Ito. her, mother-Almos
killed her, running away With . mar
riGd man like that--then coming
home O. perky as ever, lying ant
grinning and not . bit sorry-well
SIR, Somsthing, come over me. Bu1
she needed . licking, Hathaway
BY God, she needed 2 licking! But
1 guesG she needed Il ten years ago
and it's too lste to begin how"
"Nr. Lane" Bob Hethaway came
forward slowly, his blue eyes fillet
with sympathy Cor 4hs bewildered
ashamed 1ather, n came over thil
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