The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-11-15


al don't want that you should under
stand" said Ingot, with more of his old con-
fidence than he had betrayed that day
"You know just as much MS you are fit to
bear. Come, III 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.
all must" she whispered. promise
II. But give me time-a little time"
81 will give you time-a week If you'll
promise that, honest and sure Come what
will, whether he lives or dies, you'll marry
me at the end of a week. Say that and I'll
believe you and take the risks
II WILL will,n promised the poor girl,
Historically wringing her hands. How could
she do otherwise when the life OF the
brother she adored hung upon her wordsl
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. :.
Ingot left TO call Sarah, whose brother
had arrived and taken his place in the sick
ROOM
miss Carol is quite broken down. want
you to put her to bed and keep her quiet,
he advised, and turned away into Lyman's
den, whore he threw himself into an easy
chair before the glowing CRATE.
~ don't know how it is, but that girl can
wind me round her little finger when she
likes. don't begrudge the week If it brings
her to me willingly, and she'll keep her
word now she's given it. She never prom
ised out and out before, only left tho idea
that she gave in as she believed, but now
there's not loop-hole left her. Lyman
wasn't quito 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 l TO know
but he did!r
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 banki The book
keeper had held the opinion hitherto that
the extra work was only meant to keep
down an uneasy conscience, but it occurred
10 him now that he might himself be placed
in an embarrassing position if Lyman had
left confession for Mr.. Evcrlcigh.
lilo had no scruple about searching the
desk of the injured man. 1t was easy for
him to invent an excuse for obtaining tho
keys to 1t, and five minutes after his search
began thick envelope, which was adj
dressed to Althea Everleigh, lay in his
hands.
made UP mostly OF moonshine, but with
enough Of unpleasant fact in 1t to make it
safer thcrc,n he muttcred, as he consigned
the missivc 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 q 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 inconsiderables part of Hiram
Ingot's former pleasant dreams, and his
brow cloudcd over at the prospect Of relin-
gushing his golden hopes.
"After all, it's the girl want more than
the money! he unused. I'D rather have
Carol without it than Miss Everleigh with
1t, for all her beauty and pride" .ti
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 rcfrcshmcnt 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 hendi There was no
sign TO tell, but weight like lead lay upon
her heart.
Only once had there come any thing like
O 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.
az thought you cared more for a fellow
Oh, thcrci do you sect He has come back
from the grave-from the grave-to punish
me for the trust betrayed. Keep Oft;
tell you, keep OIL
He sprang up in the bed, screaming and
waving back the spectcr which his fcvered
imagination had conjured, then clasping his
hands to his breast fell back heavily, swoon-
ing, Carol thought, but in moment more
he began babbling with only now and then
an Ineligible word or sentence.
g Edson-Edsoni Confound the young
jaclfanapes why must he rake up that pack
age. You can't have her, Ingot-pll die first
You'll find every thing made straight, Mr.
Everleigh. tell you, it isn't stealing when
man only takes his own"
And SC on and so on for hours at q stretch,
while the restless head rolled, and then he
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 he'd him
In its clutches in a day or two more, 1
fancy, had there been no other trouble, and
IL no dies / can't conscientiously swear that
the wound killed him." he coniided to In
got.
"You think he will die, theni'
"There's no telling. lie stands chance,
unless blood-poisoning sets in. He seems
to have been young man OF exemplary
h..oits, and that much is in his favor"
fngot made the most Of this report TO
Carol, who never asked a question, She
lrelt down by the bedside after he left
her and laid her check against Lyman s
burning hand,
sob, my brother, you did mean to save
me ct frightful cost, but things have
changed now, and will save you. For you
viii live, dear, live to redeem the past,
know"
Needing nothing that went on outside Of
that chamber. she did not know how often
Althen had ,sme 70 be met by the one an
swcr--" Mise Carol would see nobody"
And, indeed the poor child would have
shrunk from such q meeting had the matter
been left TO fnr.
And meantime, as the weeks wore ON, q
a.. ...l...I lnI If1..1.r nuOnonfnu ftaoIf