Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-09-08

god job 81 e willie / L about It. Idon1
ZEE ZEE n sses e e s s1fg 9oa assys se.t s,sS.ains up
every yell,," Slsid Augusta, With an in:
ward sinking ofthe heart; II will 60 and
get ready"
Accordingly ahe adjourned into the hut
and removed the body Of her dress and
turned down the flannel garmsnt under
meath 1t In such . fashion - to Leave q
much Of her neck and shoulders bare q II
to be seen when . LADY has on . moder-
stely low dress. Then shs came out
again. dressed, or rather undressed, for
the sacrifice. Meanwhile Bill had drawn
out the ink bag of the cutie, had pre-
pared . little round fragment Of wood,
which he shafpened Ike . pencil by run
ming It against . stone, and hld put q
Keen edge on to . long white dsh bone
thet:h b had selected.
Nov. NJ. Bill. I am ready" said Au-
gusta. seating herself ~resolutely upon .
fat stone and setting her teeth.
tiful pair Of shouldersf' said the sailor,
sGsRsss e. tin & The 81 sn .,{,st ezp II s. Of s s.a
s rsf : Is BIT z & material NJ ;I' to work onvs aso oaa
Fang me II II ANT almost . pity to mark
emil Not but that high class tattooing l.
an ornimint to anybody, from . princess
down; and In that you arc f~ortunit, miss,
fof I laznt tattooing from them e. can
tattoo. I did"
Augusta bit her lip and the tears anne
into her gray eyes. She was only q NO
man and had . woman's little weakness.
md, though she had never appeared in /
low dress in her Life. she knew that her
bust was one Of her greatest beauties and
was proud Of It. It was hard to think
that 3he would be marked al her Life With
this xidiculous wi1l-that ID, II she escaped
land, what was more, for the benefit Of
o young man who had no claim upon her
That was what she said to herself, but
- abe said II something In her told her
that II was not tSue. Something told her
that this young Mr.. Eustace Mseson had
. claim upon her-the highest claim that
. man can have upon . woman, for tho
truth must out-she loved him. ttseemed
TO have come home to her quite clearly
here in this dreadful, desolate place, here
In the very shadow Of an awful death,
that tbe did love him, truly and deeply.
Aid that being 90. she would not have
been what she was--s gentle natured, de-
voted woman-had she not at heart re-
joiced at this opportunity Of self sacrifice.
even though that self sacrifice was Of tho
hardest sort. seeing that it involved what
all women hate-the endurance Of aridicu-
lous position. For love can do al things;
1t can even make its votaries brave ridi-
Guile.
go on" she said. sharply. land let us
81 SY u weii, miss. W WHAT'S Is II toto. old
0AnEIoSnAn4 INT ~ rhoRk Uou 6un~SU
"fieave Ill my property to Eustsce H.
Meeson; that's al short Is I can ret It,
and, II properly Witnessed, I think That it
viii cover everything" said Mr.. Meeson,
With . feeble air Of triumph. Anyhow,
Inever heard OF Q will that is to carry
about two millions being got into nine
words before"
Bul poised his fish bone, and, next Sec
ond, Augusts gave . start and. Q little
shriek, tor tho operation had begun.
"Never mind, miss" said Bill, consol.
tnSly; you'll soon get used to It."
After that Augusta set hAr teeth and
endured in silence, Though it really hurt
ful Of tho artistic effect and the per-
nanence Of the work than Of tho feelings
Of the subject. Fiat fperimentpm In
corpore viii, he would hive said had be
been eonYersant with the classics, With
out much consideration I'll the corpus
ytlup: SO he pricked s9d dug away With
hI4 ish bone. which hsdipp1i continually
d the cutie ink, and With The shsrp niece
Of wood, TIL Augusta began to fee1 per-
fectly sick.
Fol three hours the work continued,
and at the end Of that time the body Of
the will was fpished-for Bl was ! r&pid
YoFker-;belng written In wedinm sized
letters right ACROSS her ivory shoulders.
But the signatures remained to b afaxed.
Bill asked her II she would like to let
them stand over tllths morrow, but this,
although she felt faint With the pain, he
declined to do. She was marked how,
marked with the ~ineffeceable mark Of
BID, 30 she. might as we'll bS marked to
some purpose. Il she put of the sigping
Of the document tn the morrow Il might
BE- too late. Nj. MsesQn might be dead,
johnnie might have changed his mind.
Or . hundred other things, 50 she told
them to 60 on and finish Il as quickly a.
possible, fos tAsr2 was only about two
l., Fortunately, NJ: Meeson was more or
less acquainted With the formalities that
are necessary tp the execution Of Will,
namely. that thS tesfetor and the two
y .'t ssss atS Sseul4 h. 81 iI ;sg7 kn n ta r.! grIssnee
third person held the pen between
the the ~ te't t.sSs i; fingers Ind assisted
some one signed for the testator IN his
Ing from this knowledge, he came to the
concusion-afterward iustiAed In the
great case Of Meeson vs.. Addison and
Another-that It would be sufficient II he
indicted the first prick Of his signature
and then. kept his hand upon Bills while
the rest was done. This accordingly he
did, %umkly running the sharp bone 20
deep Into the unfortunate Augusta that
she fairly shrieked aloud, and than
keeping his hand upon the sailors
arm while he worked In the rest Of
the signature. ~. Meeson." When
Y was done the turn Of johnnie came.
Johnnie had at length aroused himself to
some interest in what was going on, and
bad stood by Watching all the time. since
NJ. Meeson having Laid his finger upon
Augpsts'a back had solemnly declared the
writing thereon to b his Last will and
i~estamept. As he (Johnnie) could not
tattoo, the Same process was gone through
With reference to his signature as In tho
sase Of Mr.. Meeson. Then Bill Jones
hgned bis own name, ~ the second wit
ness to the viii; and Just Is the Light
went ont Of the sky the document was
finally executed-the date Of the execu-
ton being alone omitted. Augusta got up
OF the dat stone whore She had been seated
during this torture for something Ike I've
hours, and. staggering into tho hut, threw
herssR down upon the sell and went Of
into Q dead faint. Il was, indeed, only BY
. very strong exercise Of the will that she
bad kept herself from fainting long be-
fora.
- lso BE CONTINUED -
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