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and ber protector frcm the hard work
and the blowBfhe bad beccrre to used
to receive as ber share. She "learned'
him tbe oemes cf many tbirgs tbey caw
and after fbe ceased to be at all afraid,
his funny pronunciation taught ber
tbe trick of laughing, which Eomebow
she bad nerer learned before. That day
of the parade Wulil swore that Hans
should not leave hie work cor take the
team, for any Euch fooliebnee. "I haf
tell Mfgrjie," was his answer, and tbe
two walksd tbe Eix miles to town for
Maggie'B first holiday. The truth wae,
Wahl was afraid of Hans, for he was
euch a terribly etrorg fellow, stronger
even than Sam, who had given him that
terrible blow a year back. HanB was
good help and took low wages without
any kicking. So Wahl only f wore and
let Hans do as he pleased.
When Maggie was taken sick Hans was
much concerned. His first question in
the morning was "Maggie? and often
duriDg the day ho came to tbe bouse
only to ask again. When he found that
they were paying small heed to her at
night, he got tbem to let him watch
beside her many nights. When the doc
tor came Hans waited to bear how the
child wae, while WabI swore because of
the bills to pay, and Mrs. WabI, wiping
her eyes with the corner of her greasy
apron, complained of the bother Maggie
was making.
One evening the doctor told Hans
not tbe father or mother, that Maggie
could hardly livn through the night.
Somehow Hans understood. That night
he watched beside her, and when she
awoke and spoke his name'he took her
wee little band with a touch as gentle
as a mother's. In the morning, when
she lay- 1I quiet and still after tbe rest
less fever, he went out to the field to
work, bard, hard. to stop that tight
feeling in his throat, and rest bis eyes
on the great prairies which he bad come
to love as they must alwas be loved,
dumbly. How long he reraembed that
beautiful spring day!
When he came in at soon time, WabI
was just driving into the yard with the
long black box, and HanB went to carry
it in.
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Three days later the crowd of loafers,
larger than usual, gathered around the
station to see the train go through.
They were not pitching quoits or "raes
lin " but stood in a group talking
quietly.
"The clerk said he wouldn't bury a
dog in that there coffin,' Pete Haskins
was saying. "Wahl wouldn't even let
him fix the broken glass.'
"By osh!" 6ajd Bill Crowine, "if I'd
been in Hans' place I'd smashed the
hull thing to pieces, too."
"I'd rutber seen bim hammer Wahl
that way," Bob,Aker8 asserted.
"They say he never got his senses, if
he everhad any." Pete again remarked.
'T never wanted to see a man killed, but
I declare I'd give my northeast eighty,
jest to have seen old Wahl git his rich
deserts."
So they talked on, of the particulars
of "The Bloomfield Tragedy" as the
city papers had said.
The sight of that dusty old coffin,
with the broken glass and tarntehed
trimmings had been too much for Hans.
He had taken it from the wagon and
looked at it for a moment. Then he
grasped it with one hand, hurled it
against tbe side of the barn, and turned
to meet Wahl, who was coming at him
with a club. Hans bad never fought
before in his lire, but now ,
Then when it was over, and he had
helped the boys carry their father into
the house, he bad jone soberly but as
fast as the ponies cculd travel to get the
doctor, and a good coffin for Maggie.
Her funeral was the largest ever seen in
Bloomfield. Her father lay in the .next
room, unconscious, and tbe next morn
ing, he too, was dead. That was the
story they talked over and over in
Bloomfield.
'Make way there, boys, I've got my
man." And tbe burly sheriff came
through tho crowd, with his hand on
Hans arm.
But th? boys only crowded nearer,
trying to show HanB in some way that
tbey were on bis side. He only said
Good bje."
"1 suppose," said Peto Haskins, after
tb train was out of sight, "I suppose
we fellows ought to help him out of
this somehow."
'Fifteen years at hard labor.' that
was tbe Eentence of the court. I worder
what Hans thinks of, as he sits in hia
cell -after the day of "hard labor." Does
he think of the great wide, free prairie,
of the sunshine, gleaming bo softly on
the hills, of that beautiful spring day,
and Maggie? I wonder if he thinks of
anything else.
Floha Bullock.
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