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"The farmer's hones! fiU-o sliaded over
for a second. "lie's be'n steady ever
seme the nlghl you broiiKht liim home,
bIx weehK straight. I'm kind of both-vri-ri
itlniut tomorrow he wants to come
in for show day, and seems if I luidu't
any call to Pay no. I reckon he'll have
J to take his chance and us too. Seems
more like we'd have to let him, loiif as
we got lilin not to come in last niht
for KcUko llalloway's lecture at the
courthouse. .Say, how'd thai lecture
strlko you? You jclvo Ivi-ilf,'' a Illicitly
fine send-off to the nudlcnrc in your in-trwliu-llnii,
bill I noticed you spoke of
him as 'a thinker,' without sayln' what
Jcind. I didn't know you was as cau
tions a man as that! Of course I know
. Kcdno Is honest"
Harkless sighed. "Oil, he's the best
we've got, Mowlder."
,y- r "Yes, 1 prestime so, lint" Mr. Itmvl-
0dor broke olT suddenly as his eyes
opened in surprise, and he exclaimed:
"Law, I'd never of expected to see yon
set tin' liere today! Why ain't you out
oi Judge Hrlseoe'sV" Tills speech seem
ed to be Intended with some humor, for
Bowlder accompanied It with the loud
tnughtor of sylvan timidity risking a
Joke.
""Why? What's golnjj on ut the
fudge's?"
"Goln' on! Didn't you see that
Strange lady at the lecture witli .Minnie
Urlseoe and the Judge and old Klsbeo?"
Tin afraid not, itowlder."
They couldn't talk about anything
else at the postolllco this mornln' and
x Tom Martin's. She come yesterday
en the afternoon accommodation. You
onght to know all about it because
when Minnie and her father went to
tbo deepoe they had old Flsbee with
cm, and when the backboard come
through town he was seltln' on the
rtck seal with lier. That's what stir
red the town up so. Nobody could Jig
ger It out any way, and nobody got
much of a good look nt her then except
Jwlri Ijeiiuett. He said she had kind of
a new look to her. That's all any of
'em could git out of .liulil. He was in a
sort or a dreamy slate. Hut Mlldy Up
" too You know Mlldy? She works out
at Brlbcoe's"-
"Yos, I know Mlldy."
. "She come In to the postolllco with
tho news this lady's name was Slier--wood
and she lives at Kouen. Miss
TIbbs says that wasn't no news -you
could tell she was a city lady with both
your eyes shut. Hut Mlldy says Fisbee
wnB gotn' to stay for supper, and he
come to the lecture with 'em and drove
off wilh 'em afterwords. Sol Tibbs
says ho reckoned it was because Flsbee
was the only man in Car low that Hrls
cocs thought had read enough hooks
to be smart enough to talk to her, but
Miss Sellny says If that was so they'd
have got you Instead, and so they had
to nil Jest about give It up. Or course
ercrybody got a good look at her at the
lecture they set on the platform right
behind you and Halloway, and she did
look smart. What got me, though, was
tbo way alio wore a kind of a little dag
ger stuck straight through her head.
Boomed a good deal of a sacrltlco Jest
to make sure your hat was on right.
You never see her at all?"
"I'm afraid not," answered Harkless
absently. "Miss Hrlscoe stopped me on
the way out and told me she had a
visitor."
"Young man," said Howldcr, "you
better go out there right away." lie
raised the reins and clucked to the gray
maro. "Well, she'll bo mad I ain't in
town for her long ago. Hide in with
me."
"No, thank you. 111 walk In for the
sake of my appetite."
"Would u't encourage it too much
livln. at the Palace hotel," observed
t Bowlder. "Sorry you won't ride." He
gathered the loose ends of the reins in
his hands, leaned far over the dash
board and struck the mare a hearty
thwack. The tattered banner of tall
Jerked Indignantly, but she consented
tomovodown tho road. Bowlder thrust
his big head rtirough the sun curtain
behind him and continued the conver
sation. "See the White CapB ain't got
yon yet."
"No, not yet," Harkless laughed.
"Beckon the boys 'druther you stayed
to town after dark," tho other called
bnck. "Well, come out and seo us if you
gtt any spare time' from the Judge's."
He laughed loudly again in farewell,
and Iho editor waved Ills hand as Bowl
der finally turned his attention forward
to the mare. When the llop.itlop of her
boofs had died out, Harkless realized
that Iit day was silent no longer; It
was verging Into evening.
no dropped from tho fence and turn
ed bis face toward town and supper.
Ho felt the life and light about him.
heard the clatter of the blackbirds
above him, heard tho homing bees bum
frr saw the vista of white road and
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by tln Immclics (if the jjrov a vlstn
of Inlinltrly Htrutvlilng Ileitis of green,
lined hurt; mid tlicrc with wooiIIiiihIh
mid flat to Iho horizon line, the village
lyliiK In their lap. No roll of meadow,
no rise of pasture, land, relieved their
serenity nor shouldered up from them
to bo ealled a hill.
A farm bell rani; in the distance, a
tinhlhiK coining Hiiiall and mellow from
far away, and at the lonesomenesH of
that sound lie heaved a long, mournful
slfili. The next Instant ho broke into
InuKhter, for another bell rani,' over the
lie slopped Ut exchange a word.
fields, the courthouse bell In tho square.
The lirst four strokes were given with
mechanical regularity, the pride of the
CUA'Mlinn who operated the bell being
!o produce the effect of a clockwork
bell, such as he had once hoard in the
courthouse at Kouen, but the ilfth and
sixth strokes were halting achieve
ments, as, after -1 o'clock he ofton lost
count In tho strain of the effort for pre
cise imitation. There was a pause after
the sixth; then a dubious and reluctant
stroke, seven; a longer pause, followed
by a final ring with desperate decision
eight! Harkless looked at his watch.
It was twenty minutes of (1.
As he crossed the courthouse yard to
tbo Palace hotel on his way to supper
he otnpped to exchange a word with
the bell ringer, who, seated on the steps,
was mopping his brow with an air of
hard earned satisfaction.
"Uood evening, Schollolds'." he said.
"You came In strong on the last stroke
tonight."
"What wo need here," responded the
bell ringer, "Is more public sperrlted
men. I ain't kickiu' on you, Mr. Hark
less no. sir; but we want more men
like they got in Kouen. We want men
that 'II git Main street paved with
block or asphalt; men that Ml put in
factories; men that '11 act not set
round like that old fool Martin and
laugh and pollywoggle along and make
fun of public sperrlt, day In, day out.
I reckon I do my best for the city."
"Oil, nobody minds old Tom Martin,"
observed harkless. "It's only half the
time he imiiis anything by what he
says."
"That's Just what I liato about him."
returned the bell ringer in a tone of
high complaint. "You can't never tell
which half It is. Look at him now!"
The gentleman referred to was stand
ing over In front of the hotel talking
to a row of coat less loungers, who sat
with their chairs tilted back against
the props of tho wooden awning that
projected over the sidewalk. Their
faces were turned toward the court
house, and oven those lost in medita
tive whittling had looked up to laugh.
Mr. Martin, one of his hands thrust in
a pocket of his alpaca coat and tho oili
er softly caressing his wiry, gray chin
beard, his rusty silk hat tilted forward
till the brim almost rested on the
bridge of his nose, was addressing
them in a one keyed voice, tho melan
choly whine of which, though not tho
words, penetrated to the courthouse
steps.
The bell ringer, whose name was
Henry Scholleld, but who was kuown
as Schollelds' Henry (popularly abbre
viated to Schollelds'), was moved to in
dignation. "Look at him!" he cried.
"Look at him! Everlastingly goin' on
about my bell! Well, let him talk.
Let him talk!"
As Mr. Martin's oyo fell upon tho
editor, who, having bade tho bell ring
er good night, was approaching the
hotel, bo left his languid companions
and crossed tho street to meet him.
"I was only oratln' on how proud the
city ought to be of Schollelds'," ho said
mournfully as they shook hands; "but
bo looks kind of put out with mo." He
hooked his arm In that of the young.
man and detained him for a moment
ns the supper gong sounded from with
in tho hotel. "Call on tho Judge to-
night V" he asked.
"No. Why?"
"I reckon you didn't see that ladv
with Minnie last night."
"No."
"Well, I guess you better go out there,
young man. She might not stay here
long."
t'UAPTEIt II.
TIE Briscoe buckboard rattled
along the elastic country road,
the roans setting a sham mice
as they turned eastward on
tho pike toward home
They'll make the eight miles In
three-quarters of an hour," said Judge
Briscoe proudly. He turned from his
duughter at Ills side to Miss Sherwood,
who sat with Mr. Flsbee behind them,
and pointed ahead with his whip.
"Just beyond that bend wo pass through
Six Crossroads."
Miss Sherwood leaned forward eager
ly. "What did you mean last night
after the lecture," she said to Flsbee,
"when you asked Mr. Martin who was
to be with Mr. Harkless?"
"Who was watching him," ho an
swered. "Watching him? I don't under
stand." "Yes; they have shot at him from
the woods at night, and"
"Hut who watches him?"
"The young men of the town. He
has n habit of taking long walks after
dark, and he Is heedless of all remon
strance, so the young men have organ
ized a guard for him, and every even
lug one of them follows him until ho
goes to the olllce to work for the night.
It Is a different young man each night,
and the watcher follows at a distance,
so that he does not suspect."
"But how many people know of this
arrangement?"
"Nearly every one in the county ex
cept the Crossroads people, though it is
not Improbable that they have discov
ered It."
"And has no one told him?"
"No; lie would not allow It to con
Untie. He will not even arm himself."
"They follow and watch him night
after night, and every one knows and
no one tells him? Oh, I must say,"
cried the girl, "I think these are good
people!"
' The buckboard turned the bend in the
road, and they entered a squalid settle
ment built raggedly about a black
smith shop and a saloon. "I'd hate to
have a breakdown here," Briscoe re
marked quietly.
Half a dozen shanties clustered near
the forge, a few roofs scattered through
the shiftlessly cultivated fields, four or
Ave barns propped by fence rails, some
sheds with gaping apertures through
which the light glanced from side to
side, a squad of thin razorback hogs,
now and then worried by gaunt hounds,
and some abused looking liens groping
about disconsolately in the mire, a
token topped buggy with a twisted'
Wheel, settling Into the mud of the
middle ot the road (there was always
abundant mud here In the driest sum
mer): a dim face sneering from a bro
ken window Six Crossroads was for
bidding and forlorn enough by day.
Tho thought of what might issue from
It by night was unpleasant, and the
legends of the Crossroads, together
with an uusliapeu threat easily fancied
In the atmosphere of the place, made
Miss Sherwood shiver as though a cold
draft had crossed her.
"It is so sinister!" she exclaimed.
"And so unspeakably mean! This is
where they live, the people that hate
him, is It? Tho White Caps?"
"They call themselves that," replied
Briscoe. "Usually White Caps are a
vigilance committee in a region where
the law isn't enforced. These follows
aren't that kind. They got together to
wipe out grudges, and sometimes didn't
need any grudge Just made their raids
for pure devilment. There's a feud b
tween us and them that goes back into
pioneer days, and only a few or us old
folks know much about it."
"And lie was the first to try to stop
them?"
"Well, you see, our folks arc pretty
long suffering," said Briscoe apologet
ically. "We'd sort of got used to the
meanness of the Crossroads. It took
u stranger to stir tilings up, and be
did. He sent eight of them to the peni
tentiary, some for twenty years."
As they passed the saloon a man
stepped into the doorway and looked
at them. He was coatless and clad In
garments worn to the color of dust.
His bare head wus curiously malform
ed, higher on one slim than on the oth
er, and though tho buckboard passed
rapidly and at a distance this singular
lopsldeducss was plainly visible to the
occupants, lending an ugly significance
to his meager, yellow face, he was
toll, lean, hard, powerfully built. He
eyed the strangers with affected lan
guor and then, when they had gone by,
broke Into sudden Joud laughter.
(To bo Continued )
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