The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08

Be Thou . husband to the widow, and . father b the fathexles4 knov Thee, and give my spirit into Thy handsL Ac- cept of my soul, forgive mine enemies, lay not this deed to the charge of them that commit but finally receive us all to Thysel6 for the sake of Thy dear son"
 When this prayer was completed, the seven men silently and solemnly toek the doomed man, adjusted rope around his neck, tied it to . limb sf the oak and drove the horse from under him, end a dark form was dimly outlined dangling in the deep gloom of that Thanksgiving night.
 AS the men were going to take the re- mains to bury them, light Sootssep vas heard, and then soil voice said:
 Willie l Willie! Where have they got you, my husband1 thought 1 heard your voice out here. Answer me if you arc here if is your own Nellie"
 My Cod!' exclaimed the captain, she has followed us"
 "l told you 1 saw a woman back there, " whispered the man who had seen the form in the road when they had first captured the colonel
 Yes; it is Colonel Wilder's wife. What have you done with him? Where is he2 What is that I seer Oh, am I too late? God help me, and have mercy on you if l am. Yoa have killed my loved one. Listen to me, whoever you are. Heavens vengeance will overtake every one of you for this nights work, and wife's curse will follow you to the end of your lives. May your hearts be torn by the anguish of a sudden and 6nal separation from those you love most dearly may all that you love and hold most dear be the instruments of your deepest anguish Go; leave me with my dead but know yoc that God will as- suredly not forget you. Col" and in the deep gloom the men, feeling that it would be useless cruelty to stay longer, left the awful spot in silence, none of them feeling that any reply could be made to the wife at such mo1aens.
 But as they got few yards from the spot their blood was almost frozen by
 
 wild, piercing shriek, and the sound of a EAliing body. Captain Berkley hastened back = assist the fallen woman, why lay beside her husband in a swoon. As he attempted to raise her, she struggled, and exclaimed:
 "Are you one of-of-that band Ta-
 "Yes, madam and no one more deeply regrets, or is more grieved at the of"
 @Away! Do not touch me! will 1et live to find out who you are-and nov that my husband has been avenged he who never harmed any one in his fife. Be gone from my presence.n
 CHAPTER III.
 It was four years since the tragic scene narrated in the last chapter. The country lad just been reconstructed south of Mason and Dixon's line, and things were to settle back into the channels trough which they flowed before the var." The country was going crazy over he presidential election, and sectional ines were be,ng drawn very closely by 'eople vho kept asserting through its 'apers and representative orators that
 we are united and all brethren again. Those who were reared in the south, ven though they had been what was allied *loyal," were joining with those rho had entered into the confederate rmy with all their souls, and thus as- isted to form what we are pleased to call he @solid south." The exceptions to his were the few men who went against heir own people for the sake of the small 1 fhoe that was to be gained by thus join ng with those who insisted on military nd despotic rule.
 In the then small town of Dallas, on l he east side of the town, was fine 1 esidence, approached by broad avenue hat vas shaded by elm, cottonwood and | oplar trees. It vas built of concrete, nd was very imposing in appearance. his was the residence of Mrs. Nellie arothers. Her husband had been killed , the war; and on account of some circumstances surrounding is death, she had applied to the Texas 'gislature and had been granted the ght to assume the name of her father, nd was known as Mrs. Carothers.
 In the magni6centiy furnished draw ,g-room, she was seated in close con- ersation with young man who appeared be about twenty seven or tventy-eight