Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-02-02
Gales aud Ssetfhes.
THAT NIGHT.
CHAPTER /.

Maine with his hand he flung behind hin
half the coat, saying as be did so; No
you are not going to run away. Iou
will be cooler without that
For while the two men stood face to
face. Neither could see the other
At length the pause was broken by
Maine.
"What have you to say to me ?'
Il do not know that there is much &c
say. There may be something to do
No rejoinder.
This is very quiet place for meet
ing, and there is hardly Il quieler place in
the world than the bottom of one of these
drains at the side of the road
Il don't wonder at your thinking of sui
eide. But / advise you to consider"
THANK you | am thinking of nothing
of the kind"
"Henslow. you re fool !"
Maine, YOU'RE "A villain - The grip
on the young mans arm tightened, and
Henslow shook him slowly and sgnlii-
cantly.
will YOU listen to me and keep your
temperP"
Go on. I'll keep my temper and I'll
keep you until you are done. Don't he
long. or may part suddenly from both. y
He swayed the young man slightly in the
direction OF the drain.
IL know you some years, and you know
me. | know your violent temper | know
your suspicious nature, and from my soul
pitied Alice Hill when she married you. $
Go ON p muttered Henslow in warn
ing voice. go on fast. Skip that kind
of thing"
"She and were friends as children.
She and | were friends as woman and
man. She and / have never been any
thing but friends
''Ha-ha-ha Nice friendship indeed Go
on, John Maine! There was sardonic in
credulity in his tone.
81 had known her father and her moth
er before you came to this neighborhood
You never saw her mother. She was
dead before you came. Her father, when
he was dying last year. married to you
though Alice then was, made me promise
that | would always be friend to her"
John Maine, my boy, mind what you
are saying -
Il am saying what is true. He knew
your violent temper. He knew she and
you were not living as happily together
as you might. He told me he dreaded
something like what has happened for he
knew her quick temper, too. He knew
her fiery, ungovernabie oulbursts, and he
told me, that she would run away from
you, and his prophesy has come true"
And did he prophesy she would run
to you2
''She has not run away to me. The
morning she came to Daisy Farm, think
she was little disturbed IN her reason.
She spoke wildly and and acted wildly
l impiored her TO go back; 4 put horse
in the gig TO bring her back but she
went down on her knees and begged OF
me to let her stay. think she was mad
l think she is not quite responsible for her
acts. / let her stay. | called up old
Nellie. gave Alice in charge to her. and
from that moment Daisy Farm has been
her home. / lett it then, aid have not
entered 1t since, or seen your wife, except
tor few moments this evening.
you're liarr
"Take you hand off; don't like being
heidi
you're liar | say"
With a sudden backward spring the
younger man drew the body OF Hune,OM
forward then throwing downward all the
weight OF his own body he succeeded IN
bending almost 10 the ground Selling
an ankle OF Henslow's III each hand WIN
a supreme effort of The muscles in the
back he raised the man bodily in the air,
two feet off the ground. sprang pace
back, SO MS to swing the man cigar vi hun,
and held the ankles until the head had
swept halfway round in the are. let 20,
and as the other fell heavily on his back
Snpuh hall luft hal
Maine leaped upon hun, and. before re-
coyery from the shock was possible, secur-
ed bis hands back with his braces.
Henslow was haIi-stunned, aud did not
struggle. When he recovered he sat up.
Maine assisted him to his feet. and Tor a
long time neither spoke.
''Henslow,' at length began the young
man, "dont allow your temper to lead
you into any more trouble. Surely owe
you no grudge personally. Sne is one of
the best women in all the world. | know
her falling 1t was the terror of her
parents. When | heard you and she were
to be married / felt inclined to come be-
tween you.
but you waited until after we had been
married, you cowardiy scoundrel. lutte
my hands! Loose my hands, | say or
shall throw myself upon you and grind
you to death on the road"
He struggled wildly to no purpose.
did not come between YOU and her
Your own shameful violence caused all
the evil. Do you know what she raved
of that night she came ? Do you know
the bar you have placed between her and
you? Do you know what made her fly
from your house that nightP Or were you
so carried away by your fatal temper as to
be unconscious of what you did, unable to
recall what you have donep"
The bound man shuddered slightly, but
made no reply.
"She was sweet girl, Henslow, when
she married you and if YOU had not an
inirmity such as hers, il you had been
more gentleman, you might have stolen
the dangerous fire out of her nature. But
you two were fire and tow. You famed
one another into violence. and in the enc
on that dreadful night, you so far iorgo
your manhood as to raise your hand anC
STR"
mo. no. not that did not. DON
say that. Maine, you know my CURSE
Forget what | have said. Forget and for
give. | am sorry, deeply sorry for al
that has happened here tonight. / will dc