Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-17
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! f"ALr. - own HrsrwE sN rS." 4.
Enragcl, disappointed. careless now
at the secret which hail lost IL, value to
him, hewas ready tO Use il - a weapon
toerush. the helpless girl whose only
uilcnSe was her relationship 40 the vic
tim WHO. lial l,Siaied him with the
ignoblc impulse of revenge. he was re-
solved that the daughter should feel his
power. from wlhrh the mother had
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'NhCn I say her husband Mr..
Quest pursued. IL don mean the lately
dcccased-your adopted fdihcr-but the
original article in both eases. her first
husband and your father. You are not
well enough nc Iuantcd with your own
history, Aliss-shall | still say Oliphant?
to knowthft she i; your mother in
truth. Such is the case. however, and
! am prepared To prove it. You are
shall tell YOU WhO you are, my dainty
and upliltcd young lady?'
The pcrccptiblc Snccr stung her. She
had lrsicncdi an amazcmcut. Incredibly.
with half-thOught for an instant that
the man had gone mad. But there was
ring Of truth, a savage carn',tness in
what hV said which was convincing i'm
itself. SP faced him, YcryCpalc, but
without shrinking. [-ttC,
lyon have saiat,thcr too much or too
little. Mr.. Quest. Go on To the end "
Her mothers daughter he NUT
teycd-rNncalh lis brcftfR Aloud: You
Won't feel inclincd to believe it Just mt
first, but, 6s 7 Said before, I've the proof
To back il. Do you chance Go rcmem-
her my telling a fragment Of history
that last evening when / called ri the
house ON Walnut street. when YOU were
all IN the library, ~ sum OF money
left by q man who had been hung for
murder, one Rodney France, whose heir
was starting out to find? ] was emil
ncnily SUCCESSFUL i'm that undertaking.
aud haSciDdisPutable pTooftO show that
You are that heir. You will remember.
also that Mrs. Oliphant tainted dead
away at the mention Of her first huS-
bands name, quite i'm accordance with
my expectations, since l knew at the
time what repeat, that she committed
the deed for which he suffered the pen
atty. Shall tell YOU how / knew il,
Miss Dana France?-to give you ut last
the name which is rightfuliy yours"
all" INV
lie looked ut her doubtfullv.
Death itself could scarcely strike her
more CHASTITY than this he was telling
her. His first passion at having been
dctraudcd Of his lawful prey was begin
ming to wear itself out, but no feeling
OF either pity or rtmorsc came To him.
81 happened TO be an eyewitness to
the deed. No matter why was in the
bank that night; ,ras there, unsus-
pcctcd by any one, when She came to
make terms with the partner. Tendykc.
who had her in his power. There's no
denying that he was hard on her. He
wasau old lover. and b. had made n
wager 81 fifty thousgnd slollars that he
would take her away from her
husband. lie had wound ND the
Affairs of the bank, and was going to
dccamp with the funds that night, lcav-
ing the worst Of the blame Ia fall upon
France He gave her one chance to save
her husband-by going away with him
and she agreed 10 IL, he thought she
did. but IL the man hadn't been blind "a
an idiNi, he ought 70 have seen that She
was y to mischief when she said
the worls. Her promise was TO
leave her husband and stay with him
until death should part them. and she
had the pistol IN her fingers ut that
minute with which she shot him dead
The next | saw 4 all. bud WASN'T the.
only witness To the dccds Thcyflbln't
hear aAksy turn in thetlo-sr or sec IL
open, but -dhl--and B..lney France
came in -tuNt inltialn to'lsar his wifc's
rrurIfS'-,- Sr,vt-to-Scc frcrHrr-f-hc pistol
was stllSpoking in her handvwhcn she
looked up to SEQ hnH lthere--his own
pistol. rs was proved ut tho hearing
She fell down, as dead far The time a. il
size had been shot herself go
usmade a search through the rooms
I've thought since IL was TO remove
any signs-tf her being there and YOU
may b. sare. " had kept myself hid
den before, didn't show myself then.
Well. along about midnight he went
away. taking his wife with him. She'd
only come Ont Of one faint to 60 into
another, meanwhile. and l haven't n
doubt but he carried her every step OF
the way home. IL wasn't long alter
ward UNTIL got out myself. / don't
mind saying that 1 had n fright that
night which made an honest man " me
for the .restof my dfHys. / was only n
boytlrcu, and ~Tfrait of my life il it
should be found ont that j was there
that night thinking thatJ the murder
might be laid to me. ! knew what
justice meant when il lay between the
pieh and the poor, and before daylight
came Lr,NRs twSntyWmiles rRway. /
didn't follow u2the c6hrse oEthe trial:
in facts 20 AVOID knewinx. ANYTHING
about il, for fear I'd be taken as a wi!--
ness. IL nothing worse. I 'prigged a
wipe aad got myself sent up for three
months. t4NVhen I came ont went back
to Riverton. and found that he'd given
himself APP and been hung l0E- tho muir
der, and no one there knew what had
become of his wife. kept my eyySi
knowledge to myself, for had an III. 1
that the day would come when would
make il tell.
And the Zine did come. knew
Mrs. Oliphant tbe first time eat ewes
on her-knew that my hold on her was
worth fortune to me-but there were
some things which couldn't under
stand. Power Oliphatt was supposed
TO have married Miss Rose sanger
ford, and my first impression was that
Mrs. France had deceived him by tax
ing that name. Research showed me
that such could not have been the case.
Rose-Sabgerford and. Mrs. France were
two distinct people. I won't enter int,
details, but i struck n cleW when /