Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-08-29

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II ,piu not gor'
or her tourney to Berne. everything.
he wrote, has SO far gone we'll TIT
world knows, through the papers, thai
| Lord Harry is dead. There will be now
For this purpose. as his widow is the sol'
heiress and executrix, it will be necessary
for her to place the will and the pOlicie!
of insurance In the hands Of her husba nd ;!
lawyers. SO that the will may be proved
and the claims duly made. Forms will
have to be signed: The medical certifcat,
| of death and the forms attesting the buria
are already in the lawyers hands. The
sooner the widow goes to London the bet
ter. She should write to announce hel
arrival, and she should write from Pari:
as if she had been staying there after hel
husbands death.
81 have only to remind you, my deal
I Linville, that you are indebted to me IL
the sum Of $4,000. or course, I shall be
very pleased to receive a check for this
! sum in full as soon as you have touched
the amount due to you. / shall be IN
| Paris, at the Hotel Continental, where you
may address me. Naturally, there Il no
dssirs foS coRcsalment. and Il the Ipsur
/ ance Companies desire any Information
| from me am always ready and willing to
! afford it,"
Lord Harry gave this letter to his wife.
She read it, and laid It open in her lap.
"Must it be, Harry? Oh! must it bel"
'There IL no other way possible, dear.
But really it is nothing. You We're not at
Passy when your husband died. You had
been IN London-you were In Brussels
anywhere: when you arrived it was all
over: YOU have seen his headstone. DIR.
Vimpany hsd him in his care; you knew
he was iii, but you thought it was tri-
fling matter which time would cure; you
90 tn the LAWYERS and present the Will.
iney nave tne PolIcies: anu VII, uo e' s;l.,,
anything. The only thing that you must
do is TO get complete rig-out Of widows
weeds Mind-th will not be the
slightest doubt or question raised. Con-
sidering everything, you will be more than
Justified in seeing no one and going no.
where"
Hugh's letter breaking in upon her
FOOLS paradise had awakened the poor
wornac to her better self. She had gone
80 far with the fraud as to acquiesce in
it: but she recoiled with horror and shame
when this active part was forced upon
her.
.'Oh. Harry!'-she burst into tears. 81
cannot-I cannot You ask me to be a
liar and a thief-Oh! heavens!-a vile
thiefl'
thieves. It is too late to begin crying
nowI'
"Harry'-she threw herself upon her
knees-''spare me! Let some other woman
go and call herself your widow. Then l
will IN and hide mVSplf "
Don't talk nonsense. Iris" he replied,
roughly. 81 tell you it is far too late. You
should have thought Of this before. 1t is
now all arranged"
81 cannot CO." she said.
You must go; otherwise all our trouble
NAV prove useless"
"Then / will not goI'' she declared,
springing to her feet. Il will not degrade
myself any further. Twill not gop'
Harry rose too. He faced her for a mo-
ment. HIS ewes dropped. Even he remem
bered, at that moment, how great must be
the fall of a woman who would consent to
play such part!
"You shall not CO." he said, unless
you like You can leave me to the conse-
quences Of my own acts-to my own deg
radiation. Go back to England. In one
thing Gully spare me. Do not tell what You
know As for me, l will forge letter
from yOu-''
Forge letterI''
!. alt is the only way left open, giving the
lawyers authority to act, and inclosing
the will. What will happen next? BY
whose hands the money is to reach me l
know not yet. But you can leave me, Iris.
Better that you should leave mel shall
only drag you lower"
"Why must YOU forge the letter. Why
not come with me somewhere-the world
is large!-to some place where you are not
known, and there let us begin new life?
We have not much money, but can sell
my watches and chains and rings, and we
shall have enough. Oh, Harry for once
be guided-listen to mel We shall find
may be happy yet. There is no harm
done if you have only pretended to be
dead: nobody has been injured or de-
frauded-"
Iris. you talk wildly Do you imagine,
for one moment, that the doctor will re-
lease me from my bargain"
What bargain"
"Why-of course he was to be paid for
the part he has taken in the business
Without him it could never have been
done at all"
you are to pay him some of the money"
she said, conscious that such agreements
belonged to works Of fiction and to pOlics
courts.
Certainly have to pay him q good
large slice out of the money"
at is fifteen thousand pounds. Is it noti
How much Is to be paid to the-to the doc.
tori"
We agreed that he was to have the
But as thought that seven thousand
i've hundred pounds was a sum of money
which would probably turn his head and
bring him to starvation in a year or two.
told him that the whole amount was four
thousand pounds. Therefore he is to have
TWO thousand pounds for his share. And
I'iite enough, too"
.Treachery on treacheryr' said his wife.
fraud on fraud! Would to God" she
added with a sigh, shat you had never
met this mani"
II dare say it would have been better for
me, on the whole. The replied. But then,
my dear, q man like myself Is always
meeting people whom it would have been
better not to have met. Like will to like,
suppose. Given the active villain and
he passive consenter, and they are sure
meet. Not that throw stones at the
worthy doctor. Not at all.
We cannot. Harry" said his wife
We cannot, my dear. Bien entendu,
Well. Iris, there is no more to be said.
You know the situation completely. You
an back out of it il you please, and leave
ne. Then l shall have to begin all over
gain new conspiracy far more danger
,as than the last Well, shall not drag
-ou down with me. That is my resolu-
ion. II 1t comes to public degradation
,nt it shall not. Iris, promise you one
ling" For once he looked as il he meant
t. Death before dishonor. Death with
ut your name being mixed at all, save
With pity for being the wife Of such =
:,.n"
-,gain he conquered her
Harry" she said. Il will GO"
NATTER LII. -"oF COURSE THEY WILL
PAY"