The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-11-21
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rnoreS ! I1nClCu, @oO PSIu6pS COfICCtly ,s.t even the face of the help who admit
 ,,d me looked more troubled than was
 ,;gh,. and finding that Lang was ia his oSu room, half counting house. hall s,uiy, l went directly to him. lie was
 seated al his desk, his head leaning on hs hand; but no papers or books were there to give him even the show of being oocupied. His air was that of a deiected, hooelessly broken-dow man, as differ eni from the cheerful GAbriel Lang had kuoWn as a corpse IS from living body He looked up at me with sad smile, and ere could speak said: :: "So you have come again, Tom, like good fel- loW as you are l am glad you have done so. don't want 10 go mad, or SAoot myself hut shail do one of the tvo. or both, and perhaps shoot some one else at the same tune, unless can releve my brain. So will tell you all need hardly repeat what said ;every-
 thing that friendship suggested, k.
 and told him that if it lay in the po~er
 of any human being to help him, would
 sacrifice every dollar to do so.
 "But dollars will not help me, " he said,
 with the same sad smile "and yet
 shall have to part with good many.
 But would gladly spend ten times as
 many could l at once close, and then for
 get this feariul- But you shall hear
 He paused, as If to nerve himself for the
 narrative, and indeed it required some
 effort to reveal the story he had to tell
 Emust condense it, so will oLly give the
 substance of what l heard.
 Gabriel Lang and his wife had been
 sweet.hearts when they were boy and
 gul ' and as they grew up, always thought
 to be married early. The friends on each
 side were agreeable. But misfortunes
 fell on Gabnels family; and although
 such disaster is less fatal to the hopes of young persons in the United States than
 almost anywhere else, yet it is always
 bad for them. The Lang family were obiige to remove. A removal ID this case meant a journey of thousand
 miles and it was some time before any improvement in their fortunes took place.
 During this time another lover ap.
 peared for Milly, the girl to whom Lang
 was attached. This admirer was not only bold in his suit, but unscrupulous in the means he took to forward it. The postmaster also must bGve been in league with hum for all c ibriel's letters were intercepted, with all the earnest ap- peals to break hts strange silence, which Milly wrote. One of them also procured the insertion of several apparently insig- uihcant paragraphs in the local papers of the district to which the Lang family bad gone; but these paragraphs were full of evil meaning for those left behind. ID hne the stranger won her parents over and in desperation. believing her sell 10 be deserted by Glbriei, the girl accepted him. They had been matried about year, when the postmaster was discovered to have been gully oi defal- cations, and he fled the town. Then a letter reached Mi ly, referring to many others which had been sent to her cruel silence; and saying als that the writer oi course Gabriel only renewed the cor respondence because he was now pros- porous, was able to return to the east and wished her to know that he was as devo- ted to her as ever-that he was un- changed and unchangeable.
 The agony this letter caused, the treachery il revealed, almost killed the 2rl. When she recovered, her manner had the subdued shrinking air which sull marked her She bitterly reproached her husband, who was not a man calcu lated to keep her love and respect, apart 1T m this m alter, and every semblance of happiness fled from their home For another year she lived the life of of d captive while be broke through ali re s'rainis, and finally was obliged to fly, as his associate had done. but for a still graver crime the law called it murder lie shot man six months after, he was himself killed in a western territory, in similar fashion, and some one-his pre- Tous associate, it was supposed - sent a newspaper, containing full account of the catastrophe, to M,lly's friends.
 Gabriel also heard of 1t. He had pre-. viously learned from sister ot Milly of the subtle treaceery which had beeu pracnced. At once he came back to the est where he found Miliy leading the h'e If a recluse. or a nun, aud sinking in health from day to day. He would not be iepulsed, however. They had both been deceived Milly had been guilty of no fault, and he demanded her h and as recompense for all he had suffered. Al ter some time she married him, and they experienced the most perfect happiness Now, however Gabriels voice faltered here-the scoundrelly associa,e had 1eap- peared his party being in power, some services he had rendered them, with some partial restitution he had made, secured him from prosecution Blu, he had come as a messenger from Mnly's first hus- band, whose death was ruse to screen him from pursuit as he had again been engaged in fatal brawls.
 He was alive, but dared not come back to the east, where, indeed, he had no wish to appear. He had no desire, he said, to disturb the wedde bliss of his dear Milly he had found another more to his taste out west. Bat he did want money II Lang would give a good sum down, and forward a little more as his wife's old fiend r. quired it, the first hus- band would rem i, incog but he must