St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-26

AAC iOoC anu CSSdl GU ~ Take iltI Ill HIS
arms, but all at once she fell back, and
he saw the glitter of something white
in her hand.
Don't touch me or will kill you on
the spot! L know you; | saw you when
you were serving the man who blighted
my life under the most faithful prom
Ises. If you advance step l will drive
into your heart the dagger L have re-
served for theirs
He stopped and stared at her. She
looked more beautiful than ever, and
he resolved not to let the prey escape
him.
Settling back in his chair, he told her
all he knew of the two men with whom
her life was so thrillingly connected.
They were both in New York and both
were in good circumstances. The rebel
captain had come North after the war,
and settled in the metropolis, and fate
had brought to the same place the
Union officer who had blighted Tracy
Fowler's young life. She listened
without once interrupting him, and
when he finished she merely said:
I'VE will come back to the bargain
some other time.''
But you are going to keep it?''
Il never break my promises"
Half an hour later Nick Cation stood
on the pavement thinking of his inter-
view with
The Mountain Tigress.
lie suddenly remembered that she did
not promise to become his mistress, but
he said to himself with a laugh:
If any harm befallS either Knight or
Burton will know who to blame, and
will have her in my power. That is as
good as promise: she won't escape
me-
A week later the city was somewhat,
startled to learn that Capt. Robert
Knight was found dead in his rooms on
Fourteenth street, and when Cation
went to the house and looked down into
the dead mans face, he smiled as if he
could have told something about the
sudden taking off. The astute doctors
who came to see what had taken off the
eX-S0ldier said that heart disease had
done the work, and the body was taken
to the cemetery and laid away.
THAT is One-the first link in the
chain L am weaving around her" said
Nick Canton, and that night when he
met a friend and talked about thou
sand and one things, he thought of the
tragedy of Fourteenth street.
The next day he discovered that
Tracy had moved her quarters, and he
not give him any information regarding
her new ones.
''She will turn up again, but il she
does not l will hunt her down and hold
her TO her agreement. The woman is
mine and L don't propose TO be cheated
by her."
The week that followed Capt Knights
burial was drawing to close when a
man known as Lewis Burton, and an
eX-rebel officer, was discovered to be
dying in his rooms on the BOwery. He
had lived alone since coming to the city,
and those who knew him said that the
only person he feared was woman
whose lover he hanged I'D Tennessee
during the war. The papers got hold of
this, but did not make much out of it.
for the doctors said that Burton had
ruptured bl0Od-vessel in fit of excite
ment, and died almost al9ae.
Il can begin now" saiu Nick Cation,
drinking a glass of wine in his own
apartments, II can fiud this woman
whose secret / hold and force her to
share the fine rooms with me. OF course
l don't intend to make her my wife-I
wouldn't become the husband of muir
deress; that is out of the question; but
her beauty caught my eye in Tennessee,
and l am still at her feet"
Fowler was vain work. The once belle
of the Cumberland mountains had van
ished as if the earth had opened and
swallowed her, and he was nOnplused.
Cation continued TO look for Tracy; he
haunted the place where she had been
seen. and finally, OH certain preteXt,
employed the best detectives to look for
her. 1t was all in vain.
Il wonder if she could have gone
back hOme?" he said one night. 'She
has accomplished her revenge, and NAV
have taken notion to go back to the
old place. 1t is worth while looking for
the trail there, and L will go South and
see."
Cation babe adieu to New York and
disappeared. He turned up In the re-
giOn where the girl used 10 live. but his
first inquiries were rather disappoint-
ing. No one had seen anything of her.
and, indeed, she had been forgotten bv
many.
Cation found himself at last near the
spot where the woman was born. He
had aIighted from the cars at a way sta
ton and made his way across the
mountain by a lonely road to the girls
home. The shades of night had fallen,
and he stood under a treeswOndering
how far he was from the nearest house.
the region was not entirely unknown
to him, for lie had SOldiered there dur
ing the war. and by and by some scenes,
at first strange, became
Startlingly Familiar.
Goods! remember this very tree"
he suddenly exclaimed. Here is where
the guerrillas hung the girls lover. aud
down yonder must stand the old house."
He threaded the path down the mount
o,,A chi
tumble-dOwn Shanty which at one time
had been a well-to-Io dwelling. Cation
stopped and studied the scene Every
thing was still and ghOstly. He saw the
tree which stood in front of Tracy FOw-
ler'S house, and recalled some of the
scenes of the war which had taken
place under its boughs.
''Great Godl" he cried, drawing back,
with his eyes riveted on the house. LAS
| live, the girl has come back"
At that moment he caught sight of a
female figure which emerged from the
old house and stood in the moonlight.
1t was Tracy Fowler. as beautiful and
Queenly as when he saw her last, with
her hands clutched and her eyes on
fire. She had come out of the old home
and was looking toward the mountain,
where she had told him slept her babe
the child of her one guilty passion.
Cation drew back when he saw the
woman advance toward him. and for a
moment he was fearful of discovery.
But she had not found him out, and
came forward with her figure proudly
erect. Cation stole after her along the
dusty mountain road, which gave forth
no sound of feet, eager to see what
would be the outcome of his adventure.
The mountain tigresS led him a short
chase. for all at once she stopped and
bent over little mound, barely discern
IDLE in the soft light.
MY work is done, and | have come
back to thee, Pearl" cried the woman.
81 Have Found and Slain.
They never knew how they died
the doctors didn't; but l told the rebel
and his enemy why the ayenging hand
cut them down. They looked once