Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-21


ought to be In bed, and went down
10 the library, be stole across in
cking feet to his brothers. chamber
knd II on the easel In the usus
The doors locked over the por.
ueer story !" mused Hollis.
ugly business! II hail tue boy
10 true, his mother has lied in'
sly. lam very uneasy end wan
body to share the responsibility
Bou tell Mrs.. Phelps or Salome? o.
~"
hurt her more than he could bev'
ICED to see the sharp SILVER that raj
)ugn him as the question. II seemed
last to her steatY miud that tn
hre 6f dong either OF them eeIVic
buld be d:Ied him first.
4 eulien anger civudsd his handsome
e.
F'I'll not mix myself up in the matter
growled. GAS likely ae not it is sill
kb.ication OF the boy's, snd we snoult
In sick o death of SOCKETS sad plot. :"
Hs strobe aoous the rooms Ike
moody bear IN csge, fl 1allv, stopped q
her table; spoke Lard And dogsed'J:
"That picture would seem to show tina
thas-msn-was somehow mixed up il
the qusrrel-if there wss cry quarrel.
have dropped pretty low down in tn.
scale OF manhood In thu past few hours
Bus haven't got to the depth OF mean
splrisetless that would make me
offer myself to him IS 60
between from his DIST 10 his
last love. II he needed me And
he dossu't. He'll get tie cresru CT life
without my acting ss skimme1!" haos
out the tortured fellow in u sspasm CT
psin. "Use your own discretion, AIMS
| have none tonight. Give man time
to pick himself up. won't you." vita s
sorry attempt st self fiticule.
He returned TO his roou, where there
9ers 70 roses Tonight, sDd being only
twenty three years old, laid his miserable
head down upon the law papers he hsd
lot touched all the evening, and cried IS
le had when he got his fathers letter
saying that his mother WAS dead, and lie
'must besr the will OF ptovidencs with
much resignation"
AIMS, twenty-ous years CT sgs and ten.
Ser hearted, mad her cry, toe, all slone.
rnen she quilted her needle neatly In the
lem CT napkin, and. folding 1t up, put
Iside her workosskst for her writing
lesk. Btfore she slept she wrote cut
or MIS-. Phelps In detail The story she
lad told Hollis.
CHAPTER XVIII.
he was eWtmmiDg for his lie IN swift
.hannel that bore him down, 6own-Sway
rom the wife who stood on one shore OF
he narrow stream, sometimes so near
hat be almost gIssped her outstretched
lands. On the other bank lowered some
formless and grizzly, which
ikeWiee followed the stream, and ever
md anon reached out for him
'.r1Dgling, painting, struggling, he thus
Ioated ana fought, helpless to reach the
me and chide the other, until, in last
gony, he sank into blank 1othio sness,
With last wild call on his wife's name,
Then, he lIy on Ills back IN the middle
1 3 burning desert, pinioned hands and
Get, the unwinkipg sun staring
own upon Tin. CoppeIy exhalations
himuered on the horizon, and
ickered upward from the red sande;
is head WAS bursting and his tongue
sked with the cruel heat. Slriil, tess
og bells rang necessarily in his ears; he
10 we'd and 6ched, IS with ira in bis
ones; every pore had It's pain. Only
ID head was free to move, and, rolling II
.om side to side, he could watch the sp
roach, On one hand, Of the white-rooed
CURE with succoring arms held towsrd
I'm, the light Of Q great love and pity in
er fsce-and on the other, the stesdy
80 hn har hat ,irh
trip The angel feet.
Again, he was bound, Prometheus-rke
} rock in mid ocean. The freeing
-avss glased HE limbs with ice; the
DOM Of the surge desfened him; the tide
as rising higher and higher, srd, walsirg
,werd him from oppositeId clioDs wtre
ie two fisures-one all mercy, the other
il despaiI-Snd his paralyZsd throat
'ould not give forth the scream that
'ould, he knew, hurry hsr to his salva.
or.
Then-and this terror occurred of.enest
all-he wss falling! falling! falling!
own sn sbyss. With the inward swift
ess of light, the two winged forms spsd
ownwErd after him, and the trer z.ed
orror OF his calculations es 70 watch
'ould grasp nim first, swallowed 10 the
read Of striking Inc unknown bottom Ct
le chasm.
They were slwsYs IN Sigh, always con-
,ndiug, es Michael the archaugsl and
.tsnlor the Great Prophel's buoy-ior
re possession CT his pain rsCksd frame
ad for the soul cruclf.d with bit.erer
ngulsh.
Sometimes she cfsred him wafer, 9
Dol, sparkling drsught thss caught The
Election Of her fkce-and the grianing,
rally fsnd struck down the cup and sub
tinted ecaldtDg poison.
He spike but one word Ia ten Days
ufing which his wife watched by his
illows on one side, and death on the
ther Sometimes, the lips only made
.e sylebles the psrched tongue could
ot sound; sometimes he whispered it;
,metimss, screamed II shrilly and hys-
,ricslly, as might q panic-stricken
omsns
Madeline! Madeline! M.deline!"
She WAS ever within call. Even while
ot recogDiz ng her, and praying that che |
ould come, he would take his medicine |
d nourlsnmsnt tom no other hand |
er voice of command restrained the |
antic efforts to escape from tide, from
re, from poisop-continualiy from the
sex, toimless thing even she could not
i've sway.
Paul, Hollis, or Rufus Lee or Rsx Lup-
n was at hand, by day and by night.
islike ard jealousy stood elocf in the
vful precincts of the arena where life
ID death strove for mastery. Except in
,e brief interview bstween mother and
N, shortly sfssr the recall OF the latter,
which Sslome's betroshal WAS men.
,ned es . settled matter, and he IVES too
UGH engrossed by thoughts Of his
TIERS peril to CHER more thsa . passing
clsmatisn OF surpriss-.he subject had
L been discussao with anyone. The