The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-03-07

poured INTO IL; that was the last of his |
rec0llecnons. Afterward he learned that |
ne had been weeks in 4 brain fever.
w hen he had recovered, some of his old !
friends, thinking to do him honor, made an |
evening party for him. To this party came |
his love, and her husband--his betraver |
When she gave her hand to welcome him |
home, and looked in his eyes, he knew that |
she, too, had been betrayed. Again the |
molten lead seemed poured upon his BRAIN
Turning to leave the room, fate placed in
his path the man he now hated with a
deadly hatred. With one blow of a knife, |
he laid him dead at his feet A few hours
later, in the desperation of trying to escape,
ne killed two other men. Then he eluded
hi. pursuers, and got back to California.
Since then he had reveled in murder and
every species Of crime. Once he had seen,
in the streets of Sacramento, the woman be
loved. Up to that moment it had never
occurred to him that she was free. Follow
ing her to her home, ne forced himself in
to her house, and reminded her of their
former relations. She had denied all knowl-
edge Of him, finally calling upon her hus-
band, to satisfy him. The husband ord. red
him out of the house, and he shot him.
| Then the Nigilantes made it hazardous to
remain in California. He hed TO the noun
tains, where he was nearly starved out,
when | took him in and fed and clothed
| him.
Such was his story. Ny blood curiled
| in my veins as | listened to the recital of
| his atrocities. In Gods name, | said,
who are you-what is your manner Il
am Boone Helm
W no was Boone Helm, | asked
One of the greatest desperadoes that
ever was on this coast. He met his fate
| afterward, up east of the mountains
/ w hat did you do with him? What
couid you do with him.
You ought to have shot him while YOU
had him, my husband suggested.
Il didn't want to shoot him. He said
! if | had been a coward, | would have shot
/ him. To confess the truth, the wretch had
appealed to my sympathes. | don't think
he had ever been sane since he had felt the
molten lead poured into his brain |
knew somebody was sure to kill him, be
fore long; so, when morning came, | called
Edwards to open the gate: and, when 1t
was unbarred, escorted my visitor out, tel
ling him that there was not room enough
| III that part Of the country
for both Of us, and the next time | pointed
my rife at him it would be to shoot |
never saw him again
Then he did not modest the Chinese
camp
No. Edwards got his four hundred
dollars and went home to Boston,
There fell a silence among us, and
through my open door, | could see that
the cabin was nearly deserted. Ella seemed
wearied, sighed, and made movement as
if to 90.
w lat about your Guardian Angel my
husband asked, \ on have not told us about
her second coming.
always say that she didn't come; OF
else | say that she came, and drove hcl
away. That is proper; isn't it now?
gIancing at me.
But want to know if you have seen
her-if you have never met her anywhere
in the vorld-snce that time. | have d
right to be curious-yes, or no:' | urged
langhlngly.
low do you feel now?-wi'h a light
laugh and peculiar change of expression
%, better, Il great deal better 10 be
perfectly cured | only need to hear the Sc
quel.'
/ may as well tell it, l suppose. II
Wouldn't want my wife to know it, Didn't
think Of meeting her when l came down tc
Frisco. You see, I've been in Oregon Il
, long whichever travelled on a railroad il
my iife--wanted to see something Of the
great outside world-and so, ran down t.
the great city to see the sights. The first
thing l did, | went up to Coltax, on the
invited me to take a ride on the en9ine--i
special one. Now, | knew that he meant tc
aStOnish me, because he thought | was
green; and didn't know, really, how fast
the thing ought to run. But we came
down the grace with a speed that was ter
riic more than mile minute, the en-
gineer sail. When we got to Lincoln the
fellow asked me, with his superior sort Of
smile, How | liked that rate of trav-
el:' | told him liked ttat pretty well:
but, suppose, when You want to make
time you can travel al considerably more
accelerated rate of loc0motion?'
How we laughed at the natural GrOllery
Of the man-the deliberate utterance-the
unsopi-ticatei air While we laughed he
prepared himself to finish his story.
1t was only day before yesterday he
said, that met her. | happened to be
Ill the parlor Of the hotel when she came
In. At ilrst | WASH certain Of It's being her
bat, as | watched her, | became certain of
It, And she recognized me; felt certain
OF that, too. 1t was in the early part Of
the evening, and had to wait until the
people IN the parlor would disperse. She
saw what was waiting for, and stayed,
too; she toIi me with her eyes that she
TeRtem6trea After awhile, she went to
the piano, and played and sang Kate
kearney.' Then | WAS satisfied that she
would not leave me before had spoken to
her. As soon as the opportunity came, we
confessed oGr5eyesr
v as she married? Was She happv?
She was married, yes. Happy? she
! told me, as she had once before, that she
was content She said 1t with "a sigh
as she did the first time; and | doubted
her, as did then. But they are putting
out the Lights. There is always, in this
world, somebody going around, putting out
our lights. Goodnight.
Goodnight