The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-06-16
CHAPTER VI.-CoNT1NUED.


"You may possibly think that Mig
non did not treat you quite fairly in chat
old matter With Varick,'' he began.
~ bet me see theletter." a~R~%
&Oh, lit is quite at your service, Of
coiirse, 7 IN Fan injured tone. s.liut if
you 5coWld hear me-Powers above us!
Has the man gone madpp NJ
Well might lie ask Without open
ing the folded sheet, Rodney tore itinto
strips, and minced up the pieces, scat
tering them upon the stone floor Of his
cell. ono $50 grow .1llr,moN
'Let us understand each, other" he
said, then. Il have declared myself
guilty of this crime. Il haveno desire to
escape the consequences which attend it
the worst cOnsequences--buta / tell
you, if you drag my wife's name into the
affair, it will be the worse for YOU
The complacency of his nearer was
fairly broken at last. Va &C.
You must be fool to take such a
position" he cried, angrily. 1.-The
world has certain amount of sympathy,
always, for an injured husband. Your
only chance. to escape the, hangman' $
moose is to show that the safety and
peace of your eonnubial life were inn
'periled by that" mans pursuit of your
wife. Her chaI'acter need not be COM
promised. Many an innocent woman
has suffered before this from the perse-
cution of villain. He had been her
sutton before-that can be proved. He
followed her here, imposed upon you
under a false name, had hidden schemes
calculated 30 injure You both, and In a
tit OF frenzy provoked BY you discovery
of the same, you shot him dead A
black enough case as / said before, but
no jury will convict youY of more than
manslaughter on such evidence as
that"
''And ] refuse to avail myself of such
evidence, refuse utterly! and forbid you
to take step toward producing it, if
you cam
: Almont fixed his keen. teold eyes on
the young mans face.
''See her, France, You drive me to
think that something worse than sup
posed has occurred. What was it?
There is trouble between Mignon and
you, deeper trouble than appears at first
sight. Certainly you are not mad
enough TO believe that she was false to
youP'F - = AZ W DAt .
Rodney turned on him, the flame OF
some consuming passion leaping to his
eyes "a iNE8EgNa "a sggfH EAkN
&'There is trouble trouble SO deep
that you, with all your shrewdness, can
not reach it, Let me alone to follow
my own course. / sent for YOU for
quite another purpose. want you to
watch over Mignon, and keep my situ-
alton from her; to take her away from
here as soon as she is able to travel.
No one, / think, will have the hardi-
hood to carry the factslto her in her
present. state =
lit would make very little difference
if they should" res pended SAlmont,
gloomily. "She,does not even know
me. If you. are so bitter against her
for the mere fact of having once had
Varick for lover, that you can not pun
ish her sufficiently without throwing
away your life, would it not be wen "a
consider your case, with the necessity OF
her punishment removed? The chances
are less than even that she viii live
through the trial" 2 p a - =
Impenetrable gloom swept over the
face Of Rodney France.
cit is all one to me. Living or dead
my wife and1 have parted, forever - x
In that Fcase, thought Mr.. Almont
cynieally, II was hardly worth while be.
stirring himself for man who was fool
ishly resolved upon not being saved. =
Its principle of mine never to in
terfere withanother PERSONS game, " h,
was accustomed to assert. and he car,
ried the rule into practice even here.
He heard Rodney denounced on al
sides, heheard the murdered man laudeC
as q type OF Christian virtue, and
thought with Shakespeare. What fools
these mortals be, " but he never betrayed
the thought. 'af..tr h4.
Twelve days after the commission OF
the crime. the Criminal Court of the dis