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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1912)
SkZJSzz vHiS a w.Bt. .ft)bE0, -Tiflumi stisfc.s, -- wi:.Vsr VrrT't2itXTSSt7i."' i - jit .- -fHBsni,,, . SM1MJ t Mf" 5r . it: fr f jk- . ..'4 ..I W O- f s5o i t"1;1 ssEanait w ft t J SYNOPSIS. i7.n,5 nc?f nt tho openlnR of the story Is i.V.iln tno. "brnry of nn old worn-out J,1. J"? Plantation, known ns tho Unr pny. Tho plaeo la to bo sold, and Its history nmf that of the owner, tho QtilnturdB, Is tho subject of discussion by jpnntlinn Crenshaw, ii business innn. a Mrnnuor Known us Dladen, and Bob vancy, a farmer, when Hannibal Wnyno Ilarard, a mysterious child of tho old iputhern family, makes his appearance. Yuncy tells how ho udopted th boy. Nu thntilrl Ferris buys tho Barony, but tho Qulntarda deny any knowledge of tho hoy. Ynncy to keep Hnnnlb.il, Captain Murrcll, a friend of tho Qulntnrds, ap pears nnd nsks questions about tho Bar ony. Trouble nt Scratch Hill, when Han nibal Is kldnupcd by Davo Blount. Cap tain Murroll'n ugont. Yancy overtakes Blount, gives him a thrashing and secures tho boy. Yancy appears before Squire Balaam, and Is discharged with coats for the plaintiff. Betty Malroy. a friend of tho l'urrlses, has an encounter with Cap tain Murrcll, who forces his attentions on her, and Is rescued by Bruco Carrlngton. Betty sets out for her Tcnnessco home. Carrlngton takes tho same stage. Yancy and Hannibal disappear, with Murrcll on their trail. Hannibal arrives at the home of Judgo Blocuin Price. Tho Judgo rccog of Judgo Hlocum Price. Tho Judge recog nizes In the boy, the grandson of an old tlmo friend. CHAPTER VII (Continued). "I3oy, don't bo nfrald. Look on me cb a friend," urged the judge. "I reckon I'll be glad to stop," an EWcrcd ilannlbnl. "Such conlldcnco Is Inspiring. Are you hungry?" "Yes, Blr," replied ilannlbnl. "What do you Bay to cold tlsh?" tho Judge smacked his lips to Impart a relish to the Idea. "1 dnro swear I can And you somo corn bread into tho bargain." He began to assemble the dainties ho had enumerated. "Hero you arc!" he cleared his throat impressively, while benignity Bhono from every featuro of his faco. "A moment since you allowed mo to think you wero solvent to tho extent of fifty cents" Hannibal looked puz tied. "I wonder If you could be In duced to make n temporary loan of that llfty cents? Tho sum involved Is realty bucu n. ridiculous trlllo 1 don't need to point out to you tho nb eoluto moral certainty of my return ing it nt an early date." It wna not tho loss of his money that Hannibal most feared, nnd the coin passed from his possession Into his host's custody. 'Thank you, my boy! I must stop down to the tnvorn when I return, please God, wo Bhdll know more of each other." While be was still speaking, be had produced a jug from behind tho quilt that screened his bed, and now took himself off into tho night. Left alone, Hannibal gravely seated himself at tho table. What the Judge's larder "lacked In variety It more than rundo up for In quantity, nnd tho boy 'was gratcrul for this fact. Presently ho heard tho judgo's heavy, chudllng step as ho camo up the path from tho road, and a moment later his gross bulk of body filled tho door way. Breathing hard and perspiring, tho Judge entered tho shanty, but bis eagerness kept him silent until he bad established himself in bis chair beside tho table, with tho jug and a cracked glass at his elbow. Then, bland and smiling, he turned toward hla guest. "My tendcrest regards, Hannibal!" and he nodded over the rim of the cracked glass his shaking band bad carried to his lips. Twice the glass was filled and emptied, and then , again, his roving, watery eyes rested meditatively on the child. "Have you a father?" he asked suddenly. Han nibal shook bis head. "A mother?" "They both of them dons died years and years ago," answered the boy. "I can't tell you how long back It was, but I reckon I don't know, much about It 1 must have been a small child." "Ho a small child!" cried the Judge, laughing. He cocked his head on one side and surveyed Hannibal Wayne Hazard with a glance of com ic seriousness. "In God's name what do you call yourself now?" "I'm most ten," said Hannibal, with dignity. "I can well believe it," responded tho Judge. -"Where did you come from?" "From across the mountains." ."And where are you going?" "To west Tennessee." "Have you any friends there?" "Yes, sir." "You'vo money enough to seo you through?" and what tho Judge Intend ed (or a smile of fatherly affection becamo a leer of Infinite cunning. "I got ten dollars." "Ten dollars" the Judgo smacked bis lips once. "Ten dollars" he re peated, and smacked bis lips twice. (Tho purple flush on the Judge's race, where tho dignity that belonged to age had gone down In wreck, deep ened. He quitted bis chair and, lurching somewhat as bo did so, began to pace the floor. "Take me for your example, boy! You may bo poor, you may poBBlbly be hungry you'll often bo thirsty, but through It all you will remain that splendid thing a gentleman! K Cotjm( Perhaps you'll contend that tho old order Is overthrown, that family has gone to tho dovll? You are right, and thoro's tho pity of it! Tho social fabric Is tottering 1 can seo It tot tor" and ho tottered hlmselr as ho said this. "Well, I'm an old man tho spoc taclo won't long offend mo. I'll dlo presently." Ho was so profoundly moved by tho thought that ho could not go on. His voice broke, nnd ho burled his faco in his arms. A sym pathetic moisture had gathered In tho child's eyes. Ho slipped rrom his chair and stolo to the Judgo's sldo. "I'm mighty sorry you're going to die." "Bless you, Hannioal!" cried tho Judgo, looking wonderfully choerful, despite his recent bitterness or spirit. "I'm not experiencing any of tho pangs of mortnllty now. My dissolution ain't a matter of tonight or tomorrow there's some llfo In Hlocum Price yet, for nil tho rough usage, eh? I think you'd better go to bed." "I reckon I had," agreed Hannibal, slipping from his chair. "Well, tako my bed back of tho quilt You'll tlnd a hoe there. You can dig up the dirt under tho shuck tick with it which helps nstonlBhlng ly. What would tho world say ir It could know that Judge Slocum Price makes his bed with a hoo!" Hannibal retlrod behind tho quilt. "Do you Bnd It comfortable?" tho Judgo asked, when the rustling of the shuck tick informed him that tho child bad lain down. "Yes, sir," said the boy. "Have you said your prayers?" in quired tho judgo. "No, sir. I ain't said 'em yet." "Well, Bay them now. Religion Is as becoming In the. young as it Is re spectable. In tho aged. I'll not dls- "His Grandson Is Cask of That turb you tonight, for It Is God's will that I should stay up and get very drunk." CHAPTER VIII. Boon Companions. Some time later the Judge was nwaro of a step on the path beyond bis door, and glancing up, saw the tali flguro of a mnn pause on his threshold. A whispered curse slipped rrom between his lips. Aloud he said; "Is that you, Mr. Msbaffy?" He got no reply, but tho tall figure, pro pelled by very long legs, stalked Into tho shanty and a pair of keen, rest less eyes deeply set under high, bald head were bent curiously upon him. "I take It I'm Intruding," the new comer said sourly. "Why should you think that, Solo mon Mnhaffy? When has my door been closed on you?" the Judge asked, but there was a guilty deepening of the flush on his face, Mr. Mahaffy glanced at the Jug, at tho half-emptied glass, lastly at the Judgo lilmsotf. THE PRODIGAL JUDGE 5UOHAW KESTZR. UtSTHATtONS BVD.MELVIU if it, rtCcsta Nteu Co "You 8eotn lo bo raising llrstrato hell all by yoursolf." "Oh, bo roasonnblo, Solomon. You'd Bono down to tho steamboat land ing," Bald tho Judgo plaintively. Uy wny of answer, Mahaffy shot him a contemptuous glance. "Tako a chair do, Solomon!" entreated tho Judge. "When did I over sneak a Jug Into my shanty?" iiRked Mnhnffy sternly, evidently conscious of eutlro recti tudo In thlsmattcr. "I deploro your cholco of words, Solomon." said tho judge. "You know damn well that If you'd been hero 1 couldn't have got past your place with that jug! Hut let's deal with conditions. Here's tho Jug, with somo liquor left in it here's n glass, Now what more do you want?" Mr. Mnhnffy drew near tho table. "Sit down," urged tho judge. "I hopo you feel mean?" Bald Ma haffy. "If It's any satisfaction to you, 1 do," admitted tho Judgo. "You ought to." Mnhaffy drew for ward a chair. The Judgo llltod his glass. "What's tho news from tho land" lng?" Mnhaffy brought his Hat down on tho tabic. "I heard the boat churning away round back of the bend, then I saw tho lights, and sho tied up and they tossed off the freight. Inen sho churned away again and her lights got back of tho trees on the bank. There was the lnp of waves on the shore, and I was left with tho half dozen mlscrablo loafers who'd crawled out to see tho boat come In. That's tho news six days a week!" Uy tho river had como tho Judgo, tentatively hopeful, but at heart ex pecting nothing, therefore immuno to disappointment and equipped for tall- Curtain, Now Asleep In My Bed." uro. By the river bad come Mr. Ma haffy, as unlit as tho Judge hlmselr, and for the same reason, but sour and bitter with the world, believing al ways In tho possibility of Gome mlr aclo of regeneration. At the Judge's elbow Mr. Mnharfy changed his position with nervous suddenness. Then bo folded bis long arms. "You asked If there wsb any news, Prlco; while we were waiting ror tho boat a raft tied up to the bank; tho rellow aboard of It had a man he'd fished up out of the river, a man who'd been pretty well cut to pieces." "Who was ho?" asked tho Judge. "Nobody knew, and be wasn't con scious. I shouldn't be surprised If he never opens his lips again. When the doctor had looked to his cutsthe fellow on the raft cast oft and went on down the Elk." It occurred to the Judge that he himself had news to Impart. He must account for tho boy's presence. "While you've been taking" your whiff of life down at the steamboat landing. Mahaffy, rT been expert- mmmmmmmmmmm onclng n most extraordinary coinci dence When I wont to tho wnr or '12, n Hazard accompanied mo nH my orderly. Ills grandson in back or that curtain now asleep In my bed!" Mnhnffy put down hln glass. "You wero liko this onco bqforc," ho Raltl darkly. Hut nt that Instant tho shuck tick rnttlod noisily nt somo movement of tho Bleeping boy. Mn haffy quitted his chair, and crossing t.ho room, drew tho quilt aside A glance sufficed to asauro him that in part, nt least, tho Judge npoko tho truth. Tliero was n hoof-beat on tho road, it camo nearer nnd nearer, and pres ently sounded Just beyond tho door, Then it censed., and n volco said: "Hullo, there!" The Judgo scram bled to IiIh foot, nnd taking up tho cnudlo, staggered Into tho yard. Ma haffy rollowed him. "What's wnntcd?" nsked tho Judgo holding his cnntllo nloft. Tho light Bhoweil a tall rellow mounted on a hanilsonio bay horse. It was Murrcll. "Havo cither of you gentlemen seen a boy go through hero today?" Mur roll glanced from ono to tho othor. Mr. Muhnffy's thin lips twisted them selves Into a sarcastic smllo. Ho turned to tho Judgo, who spoko up quickly. "Did ho carry n bundlo nnd rillo?" ho nsked. Murroll gave eager assent. "Well." said tho Judgo, "ho stopped hero along nbout four o'clock, and asked his way to tho nearest river landing." "Hannibal " tho Judgo's volco and manner wero rather Btern. "Hanni bal, a man rode by here Inst night on a big bay horso. Ho said ho was looking ror n boy about ten years old a hoy with a bundlo nnd rlllo." Thero was nn awful pauso. "Who was that man, Hannibal?" "It wero Captain Murrcll." Tho Judge raised his fist nud brought it down with a great crash on tho ta ble. "Wo don't know any boy ten years old with n rlllo and bundlo!" ho KItlll. "Please you won't lot him tako mo away, Judgo I want to Btop with you!" cried Hannibal. Ho slipped from his chair, and passing about tho table, seized tho Judgo by tbo hund. Tho Judgo was visibly affected. "No!" ho roared. "Ho shan't hnve you. Is ho kin to you?" "No," said Hannibal. "Ho tried to get mo away from my Undo Liob." "Whoro Is your Undo IJob?" "He's dead." And tho child began to weep bitterly. The Judge bent and lifted bltn Into bis lap. 'There, my son " bo said sooth ingly. "Now you tell mo when he died, nnd all about It." "Ho wore killed. It wero only yes terday, and I can't forgot him. I don't want to but It hurts it hurts terrible!" Hannibal burled his head in the judgo's shoulder and sobbed aloud. Presently his. small hands stole about tbo Judge's nock, and that gentleman experienced a strango thrill of pleasure. "Tell me bow ho died, Hannibal," he urged gently. In a voice broken by sobs, the child began the story of their flight, a confused narrative. The Judge Bhuddered. "Can such things be," bo murmured at Inst. Then ho remembered what Mahaffy bad told him of the man on the raft. "Hannibal," he said, "Solomon Ma haffy, who was here last night, told mo he saw down at the river land ing, a man who had been fished up out of the Elk a man who had been roughly handled." "Were It my Uncle Dob?" cried Hannibal, lifting a swollen face to his. "Dear lad, I don't know," said tho Judge sympathetically. "It were Uncle Dob! I know It were my Uncle Dob! I must go find htm!" and Hannibal slipped from the judgo's lap and ran for bis riflo and bundle. "Stop a bit!" cried the Judge. "Now, if It was your Uncle Dob, he'll come back tho moment ho Is able to travel. Meantime, you must remain under my protection while we Investigate this man Slosson." It was Saturday, nnd In Pleasant vlllo a Jall-ralslng was in progress. During all the years of Us corporato dignity tho villago hod never boasted any building where tho evil-doer could be placed under rostrnlnt; benco had arisen Us peculiar habit of dealing with crime; but a leading citizen had donated half an acre of ground lying midway between the town and the river landing as a site for tho pro posed structure, and tho scattered population of the region bad assem bled for tbo raising. (TO BE CONTINUED.) , Turned Her Gold Into Nugget. Mme. Couly of Romortln, France, who had concealed $400 in gold In nor kitchen grato during a brlof absence forgot all about It on her return, and lit a fire which converted hor whole fortune Into a gold nugget BOY KILLED Br CMS LOSS OF ARM AND LEG RESULT IN DEATH. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATI; What Is Going on Here and There That Is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Lincoln. Following tho amputation of his right arm and right leg, lleorgo Krtimmaok, u 7-ycur-old boy died ou Wednesday morning nt ii local hospit al. Tho accident occurred Tuosduy afternoon when (leorgo with soveral other boys was playing about a flat car in the .Missouri Pacific yards. Tho car whb ono or u long Btrlng on n nhlu track, and when struck by n hwIIcIi engine, young Kruminack fell off and beneath the wheel j, ono I ruck pausing over him. Asphyxiated by Gas. Lincoln, Neb. Itov. llnrrlson I'rcs. son, u ploncor preacher of Methodism In Nebraska, and MIbb Gladys Whit lock, aged fourteen, aro dead, nnd Mrs. II. T. Whltlock, grandmother or tho girl and housekeeper for Mr. Presson, Is seriously III, as h result of gas es caping from a detective fixture In tholr home nt CT2 South Nineteenth Btreet in this city. Carried 1,600 Feet by Tornado. Uroken Uow. A tornado Btruck the Goutheant part of tho county last week nnd did much damage Tho Algernon school hotiHo was completely wrecked. In It nt tho tlmo wero twolvo children and tho teacher, Miss Clara Mills. Tho building was lifted while they wero In it and carried a distance of 1,500 foot. Floods Caused- Great Damage. Fremont. That the damage to Una along the Plntto river between Omaha and Columbus, where) tho receding fioods left a coating of Band, amounts to botwoen $500,000 anil $1,000,000, Is tho entlmato of a Fremont man who: has been over the sltuntlon closely' slnco tho flood, and who knows tho value of tho land. Drops Dead During Pool Game.' Auburn. John Collier, aged CO years, fell dead while engaged in a pool game hero. Ho wuh In uppurcnt good health, went to tho rack and counted tho balls and thoti Bank to the lloor. He wbb lltfed to tho counter, but wan dead boforo a doctor could bo called. New Monastery at Humphrey. Humphrey. Work bus begun on tht new $30,000 Franciscan monastery at this place Tho work of tearing down tho old building will be hurried, and Iho now building completed bororo fall. For tho present tho priests will live iu tho school building. Hastings. Tho first forward step In tho movement inaugurated by the Chamber of Commorco to remove tho graveB from tho old cometery In tho city park to Parkview was taken whon tho council ordorcd tho preparation ol nn ordlnunco to prohibit further In tcrmonts In tho old burying ground. Fremont, Neb. A watch loBt by Miss Georgia Smith during tho festi val last fall was found'by Henry Peters In nn nlleywuy. Mr. Peters restored tho tlmcploco to Its owner. Though It had lain In tho snow all winter, it was undamaged. NEW8 FROM TH 8TATE HOU'iE All effort to retain Commandant Yates of the university cadets In hli present position has been practically abandoned. Chancellor Avery tt.lnks that he has dono everything Id his power to got tho war department to chango Us decision that Captain Yates must rejoin his old regiment, and bo dropped the matter. In view of the recent calamity at Mornlngslde College in Sioux City, la., tho executivo commltteo of the board of trustees has offered free tuition to any students of that institution who may wish to attend Wesloyan for the remainder of the school year. Commissioner McFadden has Just Issued a bulletin to hotel men of the stato urging their cooporation In sup port of the sanitary measures and ask ing a careful porusal of .the copy of tho hotel laws which accompanied the bulletin. Governor Aldrlch has appointed Su porlntendent A. L. Cavlness of the Falrbury city schools to be u member of the state board of education to suc ceed Dr. Shellhorn of Peru. The ap pointment Is to tako effect Juno 25. Major Julius A. Penn, Twolfth United States Infantry, has returned from Missouri, whoro he conducted an inspection .ir militia companies for the war oonrtmont. Ills Inspection of tho Nebraska national guard Is completed. October 8 and 0 havo boon decided upon for tho Gorman day celebratlen at Lincoln this fall. Graham Taylor, tho sociologist who visited Lincoln last March In tho In terests of the Men and Religion For ward Movement, has written to Gov ornor Aldrlch to explain that his stitte nient recently published In the Mur rey magazine, of which he Is associate editor, was written in the hopo ol; re curing noeded reforms at the Nclirua ka penitentiary. Dr. Taylor and iho governor wero tho participants in a rather heated controversy whon the former waa in Lincoln. DOES YOliR BACK ACHE7 Aches and Twinges Point to Hidden Kidney Trouble. Hnvo you n Inmo back, aching day nnd night? Do you fool n shnrp pain after bending over? 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