The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-10-14

taught me, more torcibly than all the
sermons lever listened to, the futility,
81 man's hopes and the instability 81 lis.
happiness. ::si
was seated one morning az break
fast when q friend Of Ferrier' !. ! barrris.
ter ike himself entered my room
Though slightly known to ii ne, he had
never called on ME before, and as he
was pale and visibly agitated i saw that
i y n serious was wrong. He sat
down Y without leaking, and i noticed5
that his hand was trembling. Presently
he spoke the word .Ferrier,'' but. was
unable q unwilling to proceed with
what he b was about to say. ISwaited Il
short time and then asked:
n NE" z anything the matter with Fer
Srierp' Ri.
Have you not heard n 5ss5s..
g. q :
'He Is dead, O. dying. 30 has COM
iEmitted suicide. y
! uttered an exclamation 81 horror,
I but was too astounde led to say more. ss
1T is terrible. i he said; but he has
inflicted this blow not on himself alone,
but vi J On q all who were associated with.
him lli What will the world say Of our our
steaching now, when our leader has
taken this means to solve the problem
of lifep Wei shall meet, think, with.
well merlted cont tempt. You orthodox
fellows will have good; reason to- tri-s
umph.
S5.. It is not such q cause as this,,, re-
piled, (which will enable US to triumph. q
Scarcely had the visitor left me when.
q note was brought to me. Though.
5hardl legible, 4 recognized Ferrier's ).
handwriting as read these words:
Please come to me Of once; am dy-
ing RIB 3
E.hnrrfed from the house without de-
lay, and, entering q cab. told the driver
TO take me as quickly as he could to
the address which q gave him. On en-
tering Ferrier's house 7 was met by a
doctor. 5
He is very anxious to see you,' he
said, sbut will be unable to speak to
you. He has not another hour to live
His poor wife I inquired, 4..how
81 she bearing / up beneath this terrible
trial r.,
...She was with him when lie commit
ted the rash act. She has never been
conscious since, and it is feared she
will lose her reason: e q
@ I was then conducted to Terriers
bedside. Death was implanted on his
;facei and there was a 3bandage beneath
that mouth from which I had SO often
heard the winged words Of persuasive
eloquence On seeing me he smiled
and stretched out his hand toward
mine, but tried sin!Yain to speak. Then
making d sign for the writing materi-
ais, which had been placed readiness,
e pencil and paper we're given him
He was propped up and began to, write,;
which he did with app parent difficulty.
After writing for some time he sank,
back exhansted Then be made q sign.
that I should take the paper, which 1
did, and immed iately afterward he ex-
PRED. 1.
Or seeing the first words be had
written knew he d I'D wished me- to
retain the paper, SO ! folded ii up and
on my return home read as follows.
Thissis meant for your eyes alone
and during my Wife's lifetime, what /
tell you must never be divulged. Dur
ing the last vacation I went for: a rest
to 9 quiet part of Wales, and there I
formed an acquaintance Of gentle
man of good family, but poor, who
WAS leading a secluded life. He had an
only daughter and between us mutual
ttachmentsq quickly sprang up, but on
my prop sing for her hand her father
refused to- permit her to marry me-.
When + pressed him to state the rea-
sons Of his objections. he at length
told me that her mother had inherited
q faint Of insanity which id her early
years had nearly led to q fatal act.
All SYMPTOMS Of the disease, however,
had passed away il her twenty-fifth
year. II view 81 his daughter marry
ing he said he had consulted an emit
inent Paris specialist who for some;
time had had her mother under his
care. His daughter had never at any
time manifested the least signs Of mem
tai arrangement, and, owing to her
sound health the physician was of
the opinion that she would enjoy al.
most perfect immunity from the malady3
and @would transmit no faint to her chill
:dren. But till she was twenty-five, the
age when her mother had recovered, he
would not consider she was beyond the
reach Of danger. On learning that I
:corresp onded with the physician and
was told BY him substantially what /
had salread heard N othing that I had
learnt seemed to offer any bar to our
marriage, and, yielding to my solicitas
tons, her father ct last gave his con-
sent. He was in . weak state Of health,
and the knowledg es that his daughter
might be left without a protector made
him more disposed to grant my prayers.
When on our honey moon we passed
through Paris, and I then called on the
physician and told him / had married
the young lady regarding whom / had
been in correspo ndence with him.