Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-09-03
ALL FOR LOVE.
TIE STORY OF JAMES SAMUELs' LIFE

One of those stories, so prolific in the
West romantic in the extreme, full of
love, Jealousy, attempted murder and Il
happy linale-has just been made pub
lie in Denver, Col. The hero, William
Samuels, is one of the wealthiest men
in the state, and it is from his lips that
the story comes, corroborated by his
wife and brother James. -Four years
ago the two brothers lived in the beau
tiful Chester Valley, Pennsylvania,
Herbert Samuels, the father, was a
well-to-do farmer, owning a splendid
tract of land, where he dwelt with his
wife and two boys When the latter
were old enough he sent them to school
and then to college. During their alb
sence brother of the father died and
he took into his family the dead mans
child Hattie. When the two brothers
returned from college, aged about
twenty three and twenty-five respect
lively, they found their cousin, a beau
tiful girl of twenty years, installed in
the house. OF the brothers James, the
elder, had light hair and eyes and was
of quiet and wen demeanOr, rarely, if
ever, known to be angry, and being
a general favorite not only at home
but throughout the entire community.
In marked contrast was the character
and disposition of William, the young
er brother. who, of a dark, almost
swarthy complexion, with hair and
eyes as black as coal, was fiery and
quick to anger, and although naturally
well meaning had had numerous en-
counters, both while attending school
and since his graduation.
Since the time, three years ago,
when James and William finally re-
turned from college and found their
lovely cousin domiciled at their home,
they had both been violently in love
with her and both had made every
manifestation of the feeling, but so far
the cunning witch had avoided show
ing the slightest preference for either,
treating them as brothers rather than
lovers. This state of affairs ranked
as a thorn in the breast of the hot
headed William, whose feelings of bit
terness and jealousy toward his brother
grew until they amounted to almost
positive hatred. Time and again he
sought quarrels, but James more even
temper prevented anything of a serious
character until one bright afternoon in
July, when, upon the return of the
elder brother and Hattie from ride,
the younger, who watched with
ferocious, dangerous glare in his eyes
as his brother assisted his cousin to
alight, then followed him to the
barn where he was embarrassing the
horses and attacked him with the vilest
abuse, using epithets so strong that he
was at last compelled to reply in the
same spirit.
Words were followed by blows,
when William. blinded by passion,
seized heavy wagon spoke and dealt
bis brother a stunning blow, telling
him to the earth, as the blood gushed
from a CHASTITY wound in the head
At once realizing the terrible thing
that he had done, and believing that he
had killed his brother, complete re-
vulsion of feeling came over him, and,
casting a last hurried look at the pros
trate form and the white upturned
face, he fled. After several days of
continuous travel he arrived at an
obscure mining camp in Colorado, hop
ing that, buried in the wild Businesses
of the Rocky Mountains he could shut
out from his vision the ever present
horrible sight of the face of the brother
slain by his hand. Entering upon the
pursuit of miner he sought by few
crish industry and the hardest kind of
hard work to forget his one horror, but
in tho dark recesses of the drir ~
which he was working, in the gloomy
corners of the cabin in which he slep
syerywhere and ALWAYS it haunted him,