The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-04-30
CHAPTER v.
DRIVEN FROM EDEN.

| An ex-conv.ct,
| As if he had been dealt sudden and
| terrible blow, as the yindictive Ralph
Prescott spoke those words, Paul Dalton
staggered under a fearful shock.
| His face became the color of ashes,
his eyes expressed the wrctchedness and
| despair of man lost utterly, and, clutch
ing at a chair for support, he gasped, III
| quivering, agonized tone:
1T has come at last. The blow has
| fa1en,"
Farmer John stared at him with Won
dering, half-belicving face. Ruth. with
| little cry of terror, more at his bearing
| than at the accusation, seemed unable
to rally from tho shock it gave her.
Only the rcvengcful, excited Prescott
was alive to the real issue of the mo-
ment.
DO you scc:' he cried in ieerins, ex-
| ultant tones. lie dares not deny it.
| Let hinl dare say it amt true, I'll
prove What | say-Ill prove it now and
here"
Il neither affirm nor deny it. Let me
pass.
The words were sob. With dazed
| eyes, his face void of misery, Paul
Dalton CROPPED blindly for the door.
closed The crafty Prescott himself
was amazed He had counted on tri-
| umph, but the victory had come too easy
to him. The victim had submitted with
out Il struggle. He had not even afforded
him an opportunity to gloat over his
downfall.
Farmer John had sunk to a chair,
| fairly overcome. lie had housed not
-: !, -
| of his only child, but a man rocking with
the priSon-rot - branded as a wretch,
with his hand against every man, and
| every man : hand against his own,
Choking down her dread, her unr"r-
tainty, her anguish, Ruth managed TO
| totter II her feet
Father, she walled, L love him
An awful frown darkcned the brow OF
+; John Elicit.
Silence" he ordered sternly. Speak
| that mans name in my presence again
and l disown YOU. Meet him, even adj
| dress Il single worl 10 him, and ! curse
you. And trusted nina thief. a con
Wet"
1t is false. Father. father" cried
Ruth, can you think it true wh,n YOU
remember his goodness? His ia e is
not the face Of a criminal, and his words
| Il me oh, my heart is breaking, break
| ing"
Why, he did not even deny it, NUT
tered Elliott.
He dared not, burst out Prescott
| Let him Try it. / have a man at tho
| village who knows him was in the
F! same cell with him. He was cage for
forgery, AMI pleaded guilty to get II
| light sentence. Well II" OF hlm, MI. III
mott. Lucky 10 get MN away without
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