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


and he ought to be in bee, and wen; down
again to The library, he stole ACROSS in
| MS stocking feet to his brothers. chamber
and found il on the easel in the usual
place, the doors locked over the por-
trsit."
"a queer story!" unused Hollis.
Gan ugly business. II half tee boy
tells is true, his mother has lied in,
tsmously. 1 SIN very uneasy and wxn'
son19oody to share tee responsibility
Will you tell Mrs. Phelps or Salome: o.
shall II"
/. hurt he- moro than lie could have
guessed to gee tie sharp shiver ihst rsr
through him ct the question. II seemed
out jlst to her Steady miud that the
chance Ct dong either ct them 9 SERVES
should be eff red him first.
A sullen srgsr clJuded his handsome
face.
"I'll no. mix myself up IN the matter"
he growled. "As likely as not it is sill {,
fabrication OF rhs boys, sud We should
get ourselves iato mess repeating il.
an s!ck % death OF seceets sad p!ots!"
He strobe acouS the rooms like g
moody bear in cage, finally, stepped s,
her table; spoke hard and dogged!y:
|
that-msn-Has somehow mixed Up in
the Quar-el-if there WAS any qusrrel.
hsve dropped pretty low down IL tint
scale OF In.Dhood in the past few hours.
Blu: hhvsn't got to the depth OF mean
splriieaness ina. would make ne
oRer myself to him 90 a 60
between from his first to his
last love. Il he needed NE. And
rs,I no NJ o..
wi hout ny acting rs szimmer!n fang
ont the tortured fellow in aLspsem CT
osiD. "U5e your own discretion, Anna;
to pick himself up. WON'T you!" with &
sorry attempt at self ridicule.
He returned 10 his room, where Shere
were no roses tonight, end being only
tweoty, three yesrs Old, laid bis miserable
head down upon the lsw psPers he hac
No. touched all the evening, and cried as
&c had when he got his fathers letter
saying tina. his mother was dead, and &c
"must bear the will CT providence With
much Resignation"
AIMS, twenty-one years Of ags and ten.
der hearted, had her cry, toe, all alone.
Then she quilted her needle neatly in the
hem CT 8 napkin, AID. Holding il up, pU.
sside her Workhssket for her writing
desk. Before she slept che wrote out
for MIS-. Phelps in detail the story she
had told Hollis.
CHAPTER XVIII.
He Tss swimming tor MD life In swift |
channel that bore him down, Gown-aHaJ |
from the vile who stood on Que shore CT I
the narrow stream, sometimes SC Rear !
!hs. lie almost gTGgped her outstFetchsd |
bands. On the olner bank lowered some |
thing-olack, iormless and grizzly, which |
likawife followed TIE gtream, and ever
and anon reached out for him |
Ssrsr Cling, painting, struggling, he thus
foated sld fought, helpless 10 reach the .
One and chide the other, until, IN q last
agony, he saIk into blank nothirgCess,
with last wild call on his wife's name
Thep, he 81 On his bsck in the middle
II burning desert, piniored hands aad
'eet, the uu"iLkiDg sun staring
Town upon lin. COppery exhglations
;himmered on the horjzor, erd
iickered upward from the red saEds;
lis head WAS bursting ind his tongue
baked with the cruel hest. Shriu, teas
ng bells rang necessarily in his ears; he
Flowed aud Eched, se WITH fire Ia bis
,ones; every pore had Its pain. Only
sls head Was free TO move. sud, rolling II
:om side to eide, be could watch the Up
,roachron one hand, CT the white-To5ed
lgUre with succortRg arms held toward
lin, the light eta great love and pity In
Ter f.ce-srd on the other, the stesdy
woop CT TIE horrid shape that might cut
trip the sngel feet.
Again, he vas bound, Prome!heus-rke
o rock In mid ocean. The freeing
waves g!ssed his limbs with ice; the
Ioom Of the surge desfened him; the tide
Vas rising higher and higher, ID walking
owsTd him from opposite directions were
be two flglres-one all mercy, the other
Il despaiy-snd his paraiyzed throat
you'd no. give forth the scream thst
you'd, he knew, hurry hsr 20 his falTa
ion.
Then-snd this terror occurred cf:erest
( sii-he was fSllipg! falling! falling!
own sn abyss. With the tnWerd ewtft-
esq CT light, the two winged forms sped
oWnwcrd after him, and the irer z:ed
orEor OF his Calculations ss 10 which ,
7ould grssp bin first, swallowed 20 the .
reed OF striking the unknown bottom Ct
be Chssm.
They were always IN eight, aiways con-
ending, as Michel the ercaaDgel and
stan for the Crest Prophets budy-tor {
le possession Ct his pain hacked frame I
nd for the soul cruclfi.d with bit.erer
agulsh. /
Sometimes she ctsEed him wafer, ; g
CO., sparkling drsught thst caught the
fiction Ct her fsce-snd the grinning, h
risly fspd struck down the cup and SUD .
ituted scalding poison.
he spoke bu. one word IN ten days i
uring which his wife watched by his :
llloHs or one side, and Geath ca the
her. Sometimes, tie lips oriy made q
re eYleoles the parchGd tongue could T.
D. sound; sometimes ne whispered l.; =
screamed it shrilly and hys-
rically, as might O panic-strickep =
oman: a
madeline! Madeline! Ms1ellre!" v
She WAS ever within call. Even while e
IT Recognizing her, and praying that she c,
d nourlshmsnt tom no other hand u
er voice Of command restrained the
sntic efforts to escape from tide, from m
e, from poisoD-continualiy from tie
sex. formless thing even she could LOT C,
i've away.
Paul, Hollis, or Rufus Lee or Rex Lup- CT
n WaS 8: hand, oy day and by night. e;
Islike ard Jealousy stood alo9f In the D
'ful precincts OF the arena where life bl
d death strove for mastery. Except in
o brief interview between mother and dt
o, shortly after the recsll CT rne latter, to
which Saloms's betrothal WAS men. Dc
med ss settled matter, and he WAS too
1ch engrossed by thoughts OF his 81
.her's peril to Cfer more than g passlre at
clsmas!en Of surprise-the subjsc. Tad d.
t been discussed with anyone. The
not soN rr.4 49, g. -. a.