Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-26

70 BEE you looking SO mucn like yourself
Mrs. Phelps. Waet have to say is nc
news &c him, IS he will testify, Mrs
Pnelps. We talked the matter over, PFC
and COP, exclusively, IS ons may say
the night he wss taken Ill, and agreed tt
rsfer it to you"
81 must insist" Mrs. Phelps had no
resumed her seat, although her visi.ol
had settled herself st ease In q loungin.
chair. 81 must insist-" advancing q
sne spoke-"thaty lou say what you wish te
me in the Iext room. My husband Is ex-
tremely weak"
Allow laugh rippled through the room
Isabel looked up, The brown, velvet eyes
rxdientlV ssucy. Sac did not offer to
stir.
she always was, my dear!I bsg your
pardon!" sill laughing; "5ut your unex
pec!ed confession is go charmIpgly
uatve! 1t clears the way-bresks the
ground for me-does away with the need
OF preamble and all tbs. you know. Ia
deed, my sweet friend, 1t is not worth
while for me to go to the tronbis CT eI-
changing this delightful chair for smother
Wnen | have so short time to st.y. And
have no secrets win q vile from hus-
bahc, nor vice versa, IS be car sell you.
Il is my ior.e-one OF them.
to BE- business like. HAYS the
goodness, piease, TO glance ever
ibis document, which I su willing TO
take M A fred DaVid,' SIS Rogue Rider
GOOD, CT Mrs. Mslspscp F.Uche.t would
Miss Msrioa Bsysrd from Mr.. r chaTd
for her Albany journey. This" cfeIilg
4 a M ~ her
20 the same "
In tie speeches. anguish of this, the
supreme moment CT his life, Richari's
gsze rested Only on hia wfe. Al hla
other ssnses vera merged in tia. one
long, passionate farewell. BE had nsd
els last loye-look, his las. sGl:le-per-
haps the last sentence he would
ever hear from her WHOM he had vror gad,
deceived, outrsged-yet beside whom eli
other women were 81 this instant rs raper
puppets in his sight. From tee horrible
hesrt-swooD he felt stealing Cvar him, be
prayed tina he might never Ieyivs-.ha.
he might Gle, then srd there, Win Der
last Kiss yet wsrm upon his lips.
AL this he ftl', not tough, in ore
Ign mig r=sa Ct conscious mleeyy, be-
fore no saw To-, composed fe1rares
change. A scorrful smile soreAd from
the eyes downward 10 the i'm noGto;
her voice, clesr and cclc, lola CT Gxhxust-
less reserves of will power.
~ am willing TO believe that you do
not u1d5rstald what you ask OF ne, Mrs
Ldpton Il is true, taat ss ny friends
eXacuTlX, and 30 spp3iIted OF We will
Souad IN her desk, dated 8 year before hcr
death l hGTee right to examine her papers.
n In 70 .b-t
De copies CT such, WIth2u. irq aiciBg fur
her into the circumstances inst plsced
then IL your haudS. How Cid you come
oy these, and how long have you kept
Them 70 YOURSELF"
Tee intrieVsnte had expected fight, srG |
wes rot b0ashed. Uar bridges were
burned behind her, the river creased !
S1e had nothing TO lose.
al tCCh the original OF this from the !
pocket Of Ma-ion BsYsrd's hsI.-ourned |
gown. OF this-from the waste paper |
b .sket into which Mr.. Phelps lad |
cramued 1t, after tearing i. iGto small |
pieces"
"WhIIe tie writer lay ce.d il The
house, sufpost?"
IL an not ashamed to own it,"
81 hsrdly expected that you wouIi
COW. The sr2nGiy poised tesd. the di.
listed nostrils, Inc cuyves of n1auta snd
oEoT3 were tie mein of disdairfui
goddess. "Kaow,rg, as I do, tie qqitk
nass ct your perceptions, had right,
should know me better thar
TO imsglne that, IN the exsm.na
len CT 81 affair so serious as you imnIy
his 20 be, would be pus CT with what
nsy be forgeriss-espsc!allv st.er van
have owned ny what means you ob.siDed
them. Tie motive thst urged you to
iRrloin srd copy letter in the ciraum
.tances Indicated, would, II need were,
carry you further, sud investigate the
Ct whatever you wished 70
lsve me believe. Here is mT ultima.ura
Il will not SO much as touch those pa
osrs. When you produce the originals,
0ill re'd them In the hearing Of any Wit
.esses whom you msy select. Allow ne
% rerest the suggestion that Mr. Pael2s
8 altogether unfit to listen to sai.a ine
elk. We will walk Tito the other room,
yon please"
Mrs Luptop sat perfectly sill, With.
nut 3 symptom Of discontinue. SF$I
"Mr Paelps cannot deBY The eu.hST III
lefty OF mp proofs CT tie rtlationsR4s,ts
Xs ed between him and Miss RsyaY1 ras
o the moment OF her DEATH" she SAM
scing him. "It be can, lie. him spesEN3
His wife's hand wss ever his mouta4h
second.
No. enc word, Rchsr You shsn :
ot be humbled by submission to tsss =
0 degrading to you ard me-. HavssysI p
o humsni.y, Mrs LuptoL? Cannot yst sSslll
hs: you are endangerirg bis Ffe H&3,s
ringing this wretched business into, &H )
lex room2 What motive have yug
himf AS bis W;fe-sst&ds
urse-I Will rot permi: It! besI 4
ommaDd you 70 leave the rooml B.ine
our original documents TO me, down
tetrs, with twC-tsn-5Hsrty witnessee
you will, including your step son and
~ daughter, AID read them aloud, or =,
ave them read to. US. VIII you 20, b
oW2" n, !;
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