Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-07-12

fideuce than he had betrayed that day.
sYou know just as much as you are ut to
bear Come, I'll be easy with you. Tell me
that you will marry me, say tomorrow, and
won't urge the thing now. You don't LOOK
fit to stand, that's fact"
Her eyes roved everywhere about the
room before they settled upon his hateful
face.
al must" she whispered. "Ipromise
it. But give he time-a little time"
81 will give you time-a week if you'll
promise that, honest ard sure. Come what
will, whether he lives or dies, you'll marry
me at the end of week. Say that and III
believe you and take the risks"
81 will WILL promised the poor girl,
Historically wringing her hands. How could
she do otherwise when the life OF the
brother she adored hung upon her words'
She was only conscious Of one impulse, to
get out of the presence of this man who
tortured her-to hide with her bruised and
broken heart from all the world.
Ingst left to call Sarah, whose brother
had arrived and taken his place in the sick
room.
Miss Carol is quite broken down. want
~ou to put her to bed and keep her quiet"
he advised, and turned away into Lyman's
den, where he threw himself into an easy
chair before the glowing CRATE.
Idon't know how it is, but that girl can
wind me round her little finger when she
likes don't begrudge the week il 1t brings
her to me willingly, and She keep her
word now she's given it. She never prom
ised out and out before, only left the idea
that she gave in as she believed, but now
there's not a loop-hole left her. Lyman
wasn't quite so bad as took him to be in
his cold-blooded plotting. The wonder Is,
so long as he'd made up his mind to take
that way out of his scrape, that he didn't do
something in the way of making restitution
to Everleigh. Hang it ALL how am to know
but he Gid.''
With this new thought in his mind, Mr.
Ingot was no longer quiescent. He sprang
up and began pacing the room, casting I'M
easy and speculative glances about him.
What had Lyman been doing during those
long night hours at the bank. The book
keeper had held the opinion hitherto that
the extra work was only meant to keep
down an uneasy conscience, but it occurred
to him now that he might himself be placed
in an embarrassing position if Lyman had
left a confession for Mr.. Everleigh
He had no scrupe about searching the
desk Of the injured man. 1t was easy for
him to invent an excuse for obtaining the
keys to 1t, and five minutes after his search
began a thick envelope, which was ad-
dressed to Althea Everleigh, lay in his
hands.
"Made up mostly Of moonshine, but with
enough of unpleasant fact in it to make it
safer there" he muttered, as he consigned
the missive which he had opened and
glanced over, to that bed of glowing Goals.
This little incident robbed Mr.. Ingot Of
the light spirits which Carols concession
had given him. 1t opened up a problem
which he had not yet contemplated. There
could be no doubt but that Carol would
insist upon making the restitution
when she should recover from the
shock and horror of the time. Now, the
idea of wrestling fifty thousand dollars from
Lyman Childer's unwilling hands had
made no inconsiderable part of Hiram
Ingots former pleasant dreams, and bis
brow clouded over at the prospect OF felin-
gushing his golden hopes
"After all, it's the girl l want more than
the money" he unused. "Td rather have
Carol without it than Miss Everleigh with
it, for all her beauty and pride"
Through the dark days that followed, In
got remained in the house He took the
reins of government in his own hands, and
in every way possible spared the stricken
girl who had crept back to her place by her
brothers bedside, only leaving it when he
came and led her away, commanding the
rest or the refreshment which she never
seemed to feel the need of herself.
What was she thinking of as she sat
there through the long, weary days, far into
the gruesome nights, with her mournful eyes
resting always on the face which pressed
the pillow, now pale and drawn with pain,
now flushed with fever and wild with de-
lirium, as the sick man raved and tossed in
the grip of the fever tiend. There was no
sign to tell, but weight like lead lay upon
her heart
Only once had there come any thing like
CLEAN Of consciousness or reason to Ly
man, and then, waking out of fitful slum-
Der, he fixed his burning eyes upon her,
with wistful smile trembling on his lips.
"Why, sis, what a time you've been COM
ing to me-" he murmured reproachfully.
al thought you cared more for fellow.
Oh, there! do you see, He has come back
from the grave-from the grave-to punish
me for the trust l betrayed. Keep off;
tell you, keep ff!''
He sprang up in the bed, screaming and
waving back the specter which his fevered
imagination had conjured, then clasping his
hands to his breast fell back heavily, swoon-
ing, Carol thought, but in a moment more
he began babbling with only now and then
an Ineligible word or sentence.
Edson-Edson! Confound the young
jackanapes. why must he rake up that pack
age. You can't have her. lngot-rll die first.
You'll find every thing made straight. Mr..
Everleigh. tell you. ii isn't stealing when
a man only takes his own"
And so on and so on for hours at a stretch,
-
would relapse into stupor which had little
rest In it. The doctor was of the opinion
that his fever was not so much the result of
his wound as of some intense mental strain
or nervous shock which preceded it.
"There was no injury to the head, you
see. This brain fever would have had him
in its clutches in a day or two more,
fancy, had there been no other trouble, and
If he dies l can't conscientously swear that
the wound killed him." he confided to In
got.
"You think he will lie, then!n
"There's no telling. He stands chance,
unless blood-poisoning sets In. He seems
to have been a young man OF exemplary
habits, and that much is in his favor"
Ingot made the most of this report to
Carol, who never asked question. She
knelt down by the bedside after he left
her and laid her cheek against Lyman's
burning hand.
s'Oh, my brother, you did mean to save
me at frightful cost, but things have
changed now, and viii save you. For YOU
will live, dear, live to redeem the past,
know
Needing nothing that went on outside of
that chamber, she did not know how often
Althea had come to be met by the one an
swer-" Miss Carol would see nobody
ind ho Child