Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-12-12

shs snail have some sort OF chanc4
again, but my identity must, OF course
remain concealed forever"
Lord John was awfully cut up by the
ahair, which proved more than q nl u1p
days talk The story assumed protean
shapes, and was told in every club
room, saloon and public place. It fur
nished the basis for columns OF spicy
comment in most of the local and city
journals Of she state, and the main
facts We're telegraphed far and wide
The old Colonel tried to seize him bJ
the throat when they first met atten
the expose, and his feebler mothe,
rushed between, and soon after tainted
on the floor, while his sister simply
ignored his existence. They all OF
them went too far. It was the public
disgrace and the being talked about fai
more than the treatment of the poor
little factory girl that the old Colonel
grew wild over. And Lord John, after
swearing at his relatives and the com:
munity at large, went West without
more than $40 in his pocket. And ne
went alone.
Mary Beeton moved to little village
on the eastern slope Of the Alleghanles,
overlooking the blue and broad Sus'
quehanna, and here for nearly veal
she gained a scanty subsistence by her
needle, steadily living down reproach,
but still in many ways a social outcast,
for the story had followed her footstepa
with it's acoustic med ampllticatlons
Though she guessed itnot her footsteps
were watched by friends who We're VOL
satisfied with what they saw, and 80 re-
ported to the young Creole heiress.
Then there came to her letter say
ing, 80 long as you, Mary Beeton, CON
tinue to live good, pure life, and Sc
long as you try to help others, you VIII
each month receive $50 from an I'M
known friend who advises you to ga
to some distant region where you ara
not known at all and where you can be-
gin life under another name only COM
municate your moves to the enclosed adj
dress, lawyer in New York"
She went to Western Nebraska, on
the very frontier, became Mary Atwood
and school teacher at that People say
she was greatly admired and had host
of offers, but she never encouraged them.
The fact is it Was Lord John she had in
her mind all the while. But he was
away off on the Rio Granle and going
to the dogs fast enough; and the old
Colonel was dying, and Augeyine Dutof
had just married and gone to Europe.
Then, suddenly, circumstances took
Mary to Denver for q visit to friends.
Quiet, ladylil1e Miss Atwood she was
now, and the past seemed to her each
year more like bad dream. A few
weeks later, as some tourists drove
into mountain town, shots were
heard then shouts, and horses yalloping
away; disturbance had evidently oc-
Cured.
"What is ito" they cried, and the Ia
dies of the party shuddered with fear.
"Only cowboys from the Rio Grande.
of them is badly hurt and is apt to
die"
"An' it'll serve him right" said by
stander. Hes been a terror these five
years; ever since he cum to the noun
tains."
well, said another. "tlat's all right.
His times short But I'm kinder sorry
to hear him calm fur mother and fos
Mary"
There was moments pause. Then
Mary Atwood spoke mp. II must see
this poor man." And after expostulating
with her in vain they took her to bis
presence.
Lord John? Yes the wreck Of him,
SCARED by knife-t;'rust and bullet,
wounded now 50 that life seemed impes-
sible, and Showing in every feature the
result of dissipation.
Mary turned to the little company,
some friends, some strangers. Her
eyes frightened, sac spoke III a firm,
clear tone:
"!lhi3 is John Lord, q gentleman Of
good family" she said. He promised
to marry me, but failed to keep his
promise. My place is by his bedside.a
It was close shave, but Lord recov-
cred, and married Mary, and she has
made quite respectable citizen out OF
what was rather crooked material, to
tell the truth, for a man doesn't spend
five years as reckless desperate with.
out getting some habits and principle.
that nothing on earth can destroy.
They live on 8 Colorado rancho, and are
happy in that free and inspiring land
beneath the snow peaks of the Rockies,
G.. II. s.