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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1919)
---.—— I I .- I I The Finding of Jasper Holt BY Grace TAvingston Hitt Luts Author of "Marcia Schuyler”, "Phoebe Deane*, ' The Obsession of Victoria Gracen", etc. »... . II I. — All morning while the train glided over the level plain he was going over hts recent experience; going back to the moment when the girl entered upon his vision and looked at him with that clear, direct gazo that trust ed him; thinking over ever;*detail of his finding her in the darkness and peril; the miracle that he and not some other should have found and saved her; recalling every Incident of the bez'jtifui wearisome way by which they had gone home together; and the wonder of the girl’s faith in him, her love for him—his love for her. Any one watching the absorbed si- i lent man sitting alone, his head dropped hack against the seat, his hat drawn down over his eyes, the lines of gravity deep upon brow and lip »rd chin, would have Judged him for a much older man than he was, so ma turing had life thus far been to him. And now, the task that was before him was to find Scat hi in—If, indeed, he were still in the land of the living—or some evidence that he was dead, and to know beyond a question of doubt what had become of those paper, and Just how far Harrington had been re sponsible for the theft. He loathed hts task, yet felt com pelled by some Inner urging to finish It. Almost hie soul revolted to the ex tent of giving tip the case and letting his -nemlea triumph over hint. What to him now was his silver mine, since he Ind found her-and lost her for ever? Why not let his property go and leave Hawk Valley forever, where his refutation had undone him in his greatest opportunity? Why not go to some now land where he was unknown and begin all over again? lint his soul was too strong and true for that He must face Ills mistakes in the place where he had made them and undo, if might be, some of the harm he had done. He had to do in1..; wneiuor ne womu or no. 11 wub right that he should find his papers anil make good his cinira. It was a part of the true living he had set him eeU from this time forth. He had promised to let people see that he was trustworthy and this was the first step. If Harrington and bis men go', tbctr way he would be branded as a thief and a liar aguin and the old ro utatlon only fixed the firmer. It vrzs toward evening when they paused the scene of the late disaster and the long rays of the sun rested over the river and valley where peril and death had brooded. A temporary ■way had been made for the tracks, all signs', of death and disaster swept ha..lily out of sight by the wrecking train, and the tide of travel was al ready rolling calmly on again. A t<u-j.ru) of workmen, like ants carrying grains of sand over a wall, were at work on the broken bridge, and the passing traveller looked cheerfully across and got no hint of fire and fear and sudden death. Even the trainmen had had their orders and answered g uffly In brief sentences, when <nertlon0d about the wreck, turning it urr'llghtly as a small thing, until they heard that here was one of the almost victims of the accident. Then they looked sharply a second time and stole •hack to talk In low tones with guarded •sentences about where the blame mhovl 5 lie. But no one kuow much «bout the details, after all. The con du reluctantly admitted that the vie:ires, those who had been saved, had been taken to the nearest, city and4 disiribuied among the hospitals. That y -.s all. He implied that there were many victims who had not even that •comfort. ' So, on to the nearest city went Jas per Holt, arriving shortly after sun-* •daw i and began his search among the x KoirSnw .•ialiol rail road office and got ail the infor jnaUon they could give him. Three days and two night Jasper 'Ho!r arched, in hospitals and raor jiue. and even private homes. Wiiere e. ;• he could, learn of a person who hr 1 been through the accident he vent to see it they knew any clue to i the ; tan lie sought, but not a hint did % Jhe find * jt was entirely reasonable to sup pc?," ibat Scathliu had lost his life in the Ure or the river, and to feel, that further search was unnecessary. * But Jasper Holt, standing at the window of his hotel room and" looking out on the busy streets of that western city towr.vd evening of the third day,, ©rijiki not feel it so. More and more it fsfcame necessary to find that man. ©, ifce sure of his death. Tho three days of visiting hospitals and viewiug Filtering and death had graven tho sad lines even deeper in his hue. strong face. It began to seem now to him that he might ovon have a duty towkrd that loathsome creature Scath lin, though heaven knows why any Bilk thought should have entered his head, seeing he was the injured, not the Injuring. But the more he thought afeapt it the more he felt that he must search further. To look any longer in the city was absurd. He had already covered every clue that he had found, and the railroad author***! were beginning to grow t weary of this assiduous young man with the firm jaw and the blue gray eyes of steel who steadily demanded the missing man. They offered to send him back to the scene of the accident with a man to help him, and author ity to get assistance from thetr work men to search the river and vicinity. This offer Jasper finally accepted and the next morning was on his way back. The last time Holt had seen Scath tin he had not really seen him at all, he had merely sensed his presence In the darkness. They had both been sleeping— Seathlin with the relaxation of one who no longer needs to be on the alert, Holt with half his senses on guard—when the crash came. Splinter Ing glass and a rush of cold air brought Holt clearly to himself. The car had been turned on end and was sinking, sinking down with cneak and gron; and the two men were thrown together for a monet into the aisle, clinging tc the arms of the seats. Holt had heard the terrible oaths with which Scathlln was wont to embroider his speech ever on calmer occasions. They sounded now like a challenge to the Almighty The younger man had reached out a hand in the darkness to strike the other, and had uttera single sentence "Cut that out!” but the profanity con tinued, and Scathlin had struck him a blo\y blindly across his eyes which bo wlldered him for a second and made the confusion more black and terrible Then he had been aware that Scathlir was scrambling up over the arm of the seat to the window, and was aboul climbing out. The red glow from out side flared up and showed Scathlin’f bulk against the night, his head and shoulders already out of the window the stream of oaths not so distancl now because they were flung to the outdoor world. It was then that he realized thal Scathlin was escaping from him and he must not let him get away. Ever in such a situation he remembered bis long quest, and pulling himself up by malu force, caught Scathlin by th< foot. Suddenly he remembered the curious actions of Scathlin the day be fore, and his fumbling with his shot strings afterwards. The shoe Holt held in his firm grip was laced and tied ir a hard knot, but Holt's knife was ready and he cut the string in several places Scathlin did not stay for shoes. He loft his footgear readily in his pur suer's hands and made good his escape but Molt, forgetful of his peril for the moment, searched In the shoe and fonnd a folded paper. It was too dark to toll If the paper were ono of those he sought. He put it safely in his pocketbook for further investigation, felt in the shoe carefully once more to make sure there was nol another, and then climbed out of the window after Scathlin. But when he dropped into the .nelee belowe he could not see Scathlin anywhere There were some rocks far belof. and down there he had thought he saw ti white face as he first looked from the window before he leaped, when the firo broke out with a flare. But aftei he had dropped and found himself ir the water he could uot quite locate the rocks again, and while ho was search ing he saw another victim drop and sink and rise again, and he went to her rescue. So had Scathlin had his wisti and escapod from the train before they reached the region of Hawk Valley Holt and his assistant searched the scene of the wreck until tho younj man was convinced that further searci: there was useless, and sent the mar back to the city. Then ,he dropped dpwn the rive rbank and talkod wltt one or two moil on the wrecking crew while they were waiting for the con slructiou train to come and bear then back to their camp, and here for tin first time he got a clue. They hac found a man down on the rocks will a broken leg a whole day after th< others had been taken to the city hos . pita!. Some bushes had hid him alu j no one had noticed him till they heart 'him groaning and cursing. A man wh< pi'id he bad a shack "up a piece” hat taken m in his wagon. He had prom Ised to get a doctor and fix the mai up. The man himself had begged then to shoot him. He was almost out o his head with suffering Their vagm description tallied with Scathlin' rpught appearance and Holt becam convinced he, had found hie man. Making the best he could out o l heir indefinite directions, for the; really had not much idea of the local ity of that shack themselves, Hoi started off in search. He found Scathlin before nightta! that same day, lying alone and moat ing with pain and fever in the d< serted shack. The householder ha ! gone away at dawn on business, pro* islng a speedy return, but had he come back, and Scathlin, his broke ! bone set rudely by an unskilled ham | lay suffering torments. When Hoi pushed the door open and looked, ip. h ■ started up with a yell, his eyfes pri jlrudtng in fear. He thought that Ho iwas dead in the fire of the wrecl and this was his spirit come to deman I account. j It was only when Holt laid his cool | hand on the dirty, crusted brow Jnd i spoke in his quiet voice of command, that Scathlin settled back, the terror ' still in his eyes, and consented to be still. He began gradually to realize that Holt was there in the flesh, and that not for retribution either. He had not succeeded in escaping his captor. He never could do that.’ But his cap tor would not be a tormentor. That was plain. He had heard that Holt was “square” with his men, but had never believed it. Now he had oppor tunity to judge for hhnself. And so cultning and contemptible was the creature that when he was once as sured of the fact that Holt would not strike him when he was down, he at once set about to take advantage of it. It was as if he had found a spot of honor wherein Holt was vulnerable, and there upon his bed of pain, in his loathsome helplessness, with no one to relieve him but Holt, he attacked that one pregnable spot of Holt's fort ress. Day and night he moaned and fretted. Hour after hour he demand ed this and that, whining like a baby and cursing like a demon by turns. The householder did not return. It is possible that something ill befell him in that lonely plain over which he Journeyed skirting the desert; it is probable that he had had enough of Scathlin's complaints and was glad to escape from his unwelcome guest. However it \ws, Holt was there alone with him for many days, nursing him as tenderly as a woman might have done; bearing with his varying moods; washing him, feeding him, cooling his hot forehead. Only once did Scothlin lapse from his role of pampered pa tient and beg with terror and abject humility in his eyes and voice, and that was the day when Holt declared his intentto not going after a doctor. : Scathlin was sure that Holt meant to ! desert him, and he cried like a baby, | swore like a mad man, and then plead ed and promjsed cpntritely. Butjt was ! all of no avail and Holt left him for a i few hours, with a supply at hand I for every need, and went for a doctor, ! Scothltn’s cries and curses followed ! him as far as he could hear, and some I thing like pity came into his heart for i the poor, wicked old criminal, so that I he hastened his steps with all his ! might. j When he returned four hours later j with a gruff but kindly doctor, the j cunning look came back into the little beedy eyes and the bristly old Jaw 1 grew stubborn and seuftsh again. He | saw that Holt's honor still held and he meant J.o get the worth of his money put of hun. The doctor came every few days i after that and Scrthlin improved rap 1 idly, growing more arrogant every j day. ; Holt went about silently for the most part; nursing the patient, fifpk ing his meals—there were a tew sup plies in the shack and Holt had bought more when he went for the | doctor; besides there was game to be hadfor the shooting. There was some thing about his set. stern face even In ilia gentleness that sometimes shamed Scaihlin a id silenced him for a while. It was as if his mind was far away on higher things, and Scathlin’s petty tor ments did not reach up into the rare fied air where he really lived. Once when he was getting better and sitting up Scathlln attempted a story, so vile and low that the devil himself must have originated it. He laughed immoderately as he told it. honing to break the stern sadness of Hol't face, which fairly made him frantic to look at. hut Holt looked at htm wtth a kind of pity for a second, and then the sternness grew terrible. ! “Scathlln, cut that out, you beast!” he said, and left the cabin for the open air. It was that day that Holt had a struggle with himself to stock to his Job. There was no longer the necessity that brought him. The papers, the rest of them, wherever they were, were surely not here. Holt had gone over every inch of Scathlin's clothes and possessions, and there was no place where he could possibly have hid them about the shack that Holt had not looked. He had watched Scathlln by night and by day when he did not know he was being watched, and he wt»u PAnvInffid flint Rpatlilin nn longer protecting any papers of his. The one which he had taken from the toe of Scathlin’s shoe had proved to be his own and most important. What Scathlln had done with the rest he was not sure, but it was probable that he had given some of them to Jean with the wallet which he had, of 1 course, recognized, when he picked it up and handed it to her. It was also possible that the man who owned the ■ shack had, by some means, been 1 wheedled into taking the papers back 1 to Harrington. ' Every circumstance ' made his speedy return to Hawk Val 1 ley advisable, and yet here he was 1 chained to this helpless, peevish old ’ man, who when he was done with him, - would, if he could, stab him in the ’ back for all h\s had done for him. 1 Ifanything of all this passed through Holt’s mind as he paced up aud down f alone outside the cabin, he kept It to r .himself, and it made no mark upon his • face. Just as patiently and just as t kindly He waited on that ungrateful old creature, all the time seeming to 1 live himself on a higher plane and - breath a higher air! and the old maa -1 hated him for it. 1 And so as the days at last came .- when the patient coaid walk about a t little, the beady old eyes took on new a canning, the grizzly jaw grew more [, set, the whining complaints became t more pitiful; and when Holt urge* b i that now the time had come when the) i- might go home without harm to the t reo'iding limb, Rcathlln’s eyes fillet i, with fear, and he whined and beggei 4 for just a little longer. For once more | the vision of the stark tree against the ^sky, the swinging body, the retreating | backs of Holt’s men, haunted Scath-. lln'a memory; and his terror returned with each day of his recovery. One day when Holt had gone at last to a settlement to procure a wagon and some other necessities for the journey, he returned to find the cun ning old ingrate gone! At first it seemed only a relief from a disagreeable task, and he would •have - let him go, only again there seemed that innos 'sense fighting a" task -hich made him go out and search. >r he knew the weak leg coul not .rry the man far, and hej felt too that he mus keep hold of! Scathlin and take him back to face what he should find awaiting him li HawkValley of good or ill. He migW need the old man for a witness. And so he drew him from his crouch ing shelter, spoke to him firmly, and made a compact with him, for he rec ognised his fear. That night saw the, two again on their way to Hawk Val ley. Scathlin was to have shelter and food, and work when he was able, but in return he must abide by certain rules. Scathlin, relieved and cunning still, uromised eagerly, with many mental reservations; ad so the pil grimage at last was ended, and Holt was going back—back where the girl he loved was staying — the girl he loved, but might not see! CHAPTER XI. There had been no fuss made over Jasper Holt when he was born. They handed him an honored name from some firce old warrior of a forebear, relegated him to a fourth story back nursery with a trained nurse, and loft him to himself. His mother "paused long enough be fore returning to her interrupted social' career to look him over, declare that lie uau muc ejeo auu duo uouctcu hid hair was going to curl; then she was wv all owed up in the wojjd from which she haci refuelantly~s)epe rFa s i d tT. She had little use for a son eicep to dress him in velvets and Lord Fauntleroy collars and make of him a toy to amuse her guests. Until he reached that stage she saw very little of him. Of his stern father he saw less. He was immersed in business. He was rich, but wTiat of tha!? He had to make more riches to keep the social whirl fed. The baby had a face and form worth noticing, oven in his first days. The great blue eyes that had attracted his mother’s flitting attention, could be gray sometimes, and had in them depths of light and wisdom that fairly startled his practical nurse. He had thebrow of a philosopher, and gold hair rippled around the fine little head like a halo. The old warrior namesake must have bestowed upon him that, firm chin beneath the cupid’s bow of the lips, and aur -in angel had lent him that smile! But as he grr- er there came into his eyes a « .ineas that was almost pathetic at ;es. He was an affectionate child, eujte embarrassing his cold, reserved nurse with his dem onstrations, but winning the utmost devotion I ways from all who had to serve him. He was not a good boy in the con ventional acceptation of the word. He sweetly serenely had his own way in everything from the time he could walk and talk. He would neither eat what he did not like, nor wear what he did not fancy. He did not take kindly to his mother's velvets and1 curls and lace collars. He always dis appeared hopelessly when made ready for a dress parade. He would fight ny bully on the back streets who un dertook to cheat the tittle lame news boy. and he was always trying to take the part of some weak dog or child. Ho could run down the street with the swiftness of a swallow, his pockets full of sharp stones, and hit every electric light in the block as he ran, and he was forever taking the blame frankly of all the broken windows and looted : garden plots in the neighborhood. In these days his acquaintance with his father was limited to severe inter views in which stem threta and scath ing reprimmls mingled with a galling sreasm were delth abundantly, ft was as ills clear eyes iuuruu sieauny, nn fraldly, into the angry steel ones of the man that his young faee hardened, his warrior chin toot a firm set, and the light in his faee was deadened by a stall of pain. He was growing wise and lei ng his faith in the love he had taken for granted in both father and mother. It was at that time that ho lived mostly upon the street, and companioned with boys of the rougher class. No one but his nurse knew it, | and she hut seldom. She was only too 1 gh.il to have the time off duty. was when they discovered a child ; ish plot .he neighborhood to mob I the president of a defaulting bank in ] which the hard working parents of some of his playmates had lost their all, that Jasper was taken hold of by the law as leader and financier of the whole enterprise. Bravely, proudly, he took the whole blame, exonerating the other boys, and dclring himself in stigtor ofe tho affair. His father paid a heavy fine to hush it up and took his si in charge. A i merciless whipping was the beginning of that interi iew between them, which the son received like a gentleman. But when it was over he lifted reproachful eyes, steadied his qulcerlng warrior chla and said determinedly: “But all the same, father, 1 think I was right! That man had been stealing those poor people’s money!" (Continued Next Week.) - " ' 1 ' ’ i ♦ * ■" constitution. The last forbade the manu i factum, sale, importation, exportation or transportutt. of Intoxicating liquors witiiln the ' 1 States after one year j 1 from Ha rati a lion; that Is, after Jaaa-. 1 rxy, US#, __ l Principles For Employers. F/ora the Indianapolis News. Twelve principles of industrial rela tions have been indorsed by American employers as represented In the mem bership of the United States Chamber of Commerce. A canvass of a referen dum vote announced today showed the proposal for a national employment system to have been the only article of IS which failed to receive the two thirds majority. Underlying the cardinal principle that "the public interest requires ad justment of industrial relations by peaceful methods," were those declar ing “the right of workers to organise;” that "industrial harmony and prosper ity will be most effectually promoted by adequate representation of the parties in interest;" and that indus trial relations agreements “should bo faithfully observed.” Other declarations approved were that wages should be “reduced only when the possibility of reduction of costs in all other directions has been exhausted;” that every man is entitled to an opportunity to earn a living wage and that "wages should be adjusted with duo regard to their purchasing power.” Fixing of a basic day as a “device for increasing compensation” was de clared to be a “subterfuge that should be condemned.” About Knox’s Resolution. When the Senate has had time to study the resolution, with its inconsistencies, its dangerous proposals, its insults for our friends and its consolation for our foes, w care convinced it will vote It down. • Indianapolis News. Rep. Senator Knox clearly sees that neither France nor Great Britain would ratify a treaty without a league of some sort, or a full equivalent therefor. The equiva lent that he offers is the declaration of a new policy that would commit this coun try to co-operation with "our chief co belligcrents for the defense of civilisa tion,” and to war in association with them if war should^c necessary. Springfield Republican, Ind. The present Knox resolution, if adopt ed, would involve an attempt by ttia Senate at usurpation by seeking to inter fere with and control the treaty making power in a stage which does not offi cially concern it. It would be an over weening performance by a body* of men d^in^raticallyunre)iresentaliy« Si $9 American TiSopIe Try 11# to assume the full direction of our foreign relations. Mr. Wilson, confronted by such an arro gant declaration, would be bound to safe guard the constitutional prerogatives of his high office by throwing himself In opposition to it with all his constitution al resources. The Knox resolution might well have distinguished more clearly be tween that which is abstractly desirable and that which is actually attainable. As the proposed declaration is drawn the two things are intermingled. Philadelphia Record, Dem. The German propaganda has annexed the republican side of the Senate, with the support of a few democrats who would sacrifice anything to annoy, harass and embarrass the president, who as a member of the peace conference is under the obligations of honor not to make the treaty public till the peace conference so orders. Louisville Post, Dem. The whole thing gives certain senators who hope to get the republican nomina tion for president a chance to make speeches in furtherance of the candida cies. It also gave the handful of recal citrant democrats, with Reed and Cham berlain in the lead, an opportunity to vent their temper against the national administration. Chicago Daily News, Ind. The Knox resolution should be thor oughly debated. A dispassionate discus sion of the alternative it purports to of fer should bring about its decisive de feat. New York Times. Ind. This resolution which Mr. Knox has had the hardihood to propose for the adoption of the Senate is dangerous not alone to the peace of the world and ts our good relations with the powers en gaged with us in negotiating the treaty; it is, we feel well assured dangerous tf, the republican party. There is abundant evidence that the people of the United States ucslre a prompt peace as ardent ly as the people of the European coun ties. and there is evidence thtbt n© very great part of them hold that' view of the League of Nations covenant to which Mr. Knox gives such unseemly expres sion. We are confident that they would deeply resent: the adoption, or even the serious consideration by the Senate, of the resolutions which the senator from Pennsylvania has most unwisely been moved to introduce. New York World, Dem. Unless the Senate has gone crazy the Kuox resoution will never again see the light of day; but its introduction was a msehlevous and miserable proceeding; A Poets tars. For hours went wailing by The summer wind last night— I could not win my car From following its flight, From seeking to make clear The burden of its cry. So dread, for June’s rose days. That voice which swept the dark! It seemed the child of haze In autumn, late and stark, When all the leaves are shed And roses long time dead. For hours I heard If moan, That wild nocturne of June, Now wandering away, As if it would attune Its chant elsewhpre; then stray Hither with restless tone. Now sharp it broke, now low, In sudden tenderness; As ripples coyly flow Where beach waves cease to press*— Then, like a mist-drowned sail, I lost its way ward trail.' —William Struthers. Vacation. And now the city dweller dreamt* ef speckled trout in mountain stream* nnd rufous deer that roam the glens, When summer comes with brassy skies who does not long for things like these, for outings where the mountains, rise or in the shade of lordly trees? And surely men, who toil and spirt fo* wearthy months, and give their best when rattled by the city's din, should have one month of helpful rest. Orw month of loafing in the dells, when nature docs her smoothest work, am* man would come back wee lg belts, t* do his stunt as shippi lerk. One month of camping In l* ild, the of fice chairs all left 1> at, and man would then be re on iled to his dem nition, beastly grind. One month of trapping grizzly bears, of catching cod fish in tire sea, of chasing bobcats to their lairs and mail would* do the work of three. Though earnestly we work ers try to plan out fine vacation schemes, the cost of living la so high we have to take It out ia dreams. The grocer and the butcher still insist on having all we earn, so we pass up the wind swept hill, the woodland and the brae and burn. The iceman and the plumber come to tell how much they think we owe; in vain the scented breezes hum, wc can't enjoy them g they blow. ^ _ _ DOCTOR URGED > AN OPERATION Instead I took Lydia E. Pink* ham’s Vegetable Compound and Was Cured. Baltimore, Md.—"Nearly four years I suffered from organic troubles, ner- . vousness and head- .y aches and every month would have to stay in bed most ofj the time. Treat ments would relievo me for a time but my doctor was al ways urging me to have an operation. My sister asked me to try Lydia E. Pink fa a m’s Vegetable y Compound before ff consenting to an yj /operation. I took // / five bottles of it and *' / it haa completely * cured me and my work is a pleasure. I tell all my friends Who have any trouble of this kind what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com giund has done for me.’—Nellie B. rittingham, 609CalvertonRd., Balti more, Md. It is only natural for any woman to dread the thought of an operation. Sd many women have been restored to health by this famous remedy, Lydia E. 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Miss Georgia Hamilton, who was once thin and frail, reporting her own experience, writes: "Bitro-Phosphnle has brought about a magic ti-aasn.rma.Uoo with me. I gained 15 poun<f3 and. never > tfore felt so well." CAUTION:—Although bltro-phoaphate Is unsurpassed for relieving nervousness, sleeplessness and general weakness. It should not. owing to Its tendency to In crease weight, be used by anyone who does not desire to put on flash. The worst use that can be made of success Is to boast about it. Cutlcura Comfsrts Baby's 8kin V When red, rough and itching with hot V baths of Cuticura Soap and touches of % | Cuticura Ointment. Also make usa \ now and then of that exquisitely scent- i ed dusting powder, Cuticura Talcum, one of the Indispensable Cuticura Toilet Trio-—Adv. ' ’ fil® The Sword is his who gkds It on. Bests. Kctratoa. Scafbaa. they lire. Smart, Itch,or If Burn, If Sere. Irritated, 3 _ . _ Inflgmed nr Granulated. , use Murine often. SafeInfant or Adult ;1K.. At all DrunieU. 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