Motion Picture Story Magazine (Aug 1911-Jan 1912)

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38 THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE THE QUARREL taineer, tho, while he was still prostrate, a bullet from a weapon fired by unseen hands had brought the victor down and enabled Hayes to escape. This story could be regarded as partially true, as it had been told before it had become generally known that Langdon had died from the effect of his wound, but consideration of all the facts pointed to Hayes as the assassin. He was a Fester on his mother's side and inclined to reversion to her family type in spite of all his father could do to make the young renegade fit to live among decent people. During a regenerate period he had sought the hand of Justice Miller's daughter in marriage, but Jennie had declined to form any such alliance. Hayes had drifted back to the drunken and half-vicious moonshiners from inclination, only to come forth at times and renew his suit in a brutal fashion. Anse Langdon had protected Jennie from the drunkard 's persecution and she had married her protector. From that moment Hayes had dogged the steps of the manly young husband with a besotted idea of avenging a fancied injury. In the interest of his family, Langdon had avoided a clash on several occasions, but had finally been forced to fight. He had thrashed Hayes by the latter 's own admission, but there primary evidence ceased. Proofs were lacking that Hayes fired the fatal shot; his weapons were of large caliber, whereas the bullet found in Langdon 's body was a small one, but his guilt could be inferred from all principles of logic and the experience of mankind. With a small amount of presumptive evidence in hand, Schuyler followed the path of fugitive Hayes from one point to another so swiftly that the trail grew warm in two days and rounded up near Jennie Langdon's cottage; the murderer had gone back to the scene of his crime to note what steps were being taken for his