The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-12-07
thAt Miss beaumont cared q picaytno

that Miss Beaumont cared picayuno
for him-so people said-but 1t amount
ed to the same thing. The captain got
disenchanted and went back. to tho
frontier ard married puxom half
breed, and Miss Agnes pinned In single
blessedness. Women hold these things
terribly hard against each other"
At early dawn Miles was ready and
waiting for the Judge. When that gen.
| tleman came he had two constables In
! plain clothing with him. They Went
| to Mary Gilbert's first, and took the
| two women with them to Ashcroft.
| A close carriage stood at the hall
door, and Forrest stopping his own
horses in the shadow Of great sy-l
ringa bush, drew Rosalle's hand within
his arm, and assembled the broad stono
| steps. =
Just then the house door opened, and
| Agnes Leslie, accompanied by couple
of rough-looking men, came out. AS
her eyes lighted ON Rosalie she sprung
forward and fixed vise-like grip on
her arm.
Here she is, DR.. Eames" she cried,
dragging the young girl forward. "Oh.
take her away at once! I do not feel
that my life Is safe n moment while
she is at liberty. There Is never any
knowing what an insane person may
dor
"Stop a moment, my good sir" said
Judge Forrest, laying a firm hand on
DR.. Eames arm, as he was graspinS tho
| terrified Resale. "Who are your and
by what authority do you attempt TO
, control this young lady's movements =
! IT am not responsible to you, sir,
| returned the doctor haughtily, and L
| have the authority of Mrs. Bronson
! Beaumont, her fathers widow, to take
l her away to an asylum, OF which
!, have the management, for treatment
: for insanity"
"Of Mrs. Bronson Beaumont" said
q the Judge slowly; land who Is Mrs.
u Bronson Beaumont, pray?"
Agnes came forward with stately
n mien, her dark eyes cleaning cold and
Q cruel
@ II am Bronson Beaumont's widow
l, she said haughtily-"I was married to
Is him only half an hour before his DEATH
d You went through the wretched
L farce of marrying a dead mani! sale
t the Judge, still in that calm deliberate
a tone, which carried SO much weigh
It with it when heard from the bench
l "and when that farce was enacted
~ Bronson Beaumont had been q corps
n, for the full space Of sixty minutes
~ And in the name of this outraged com
90 monwealth, arrest you, and Justh
ed Eames, otherwise known as John Stai
vs. buck, on the charge of conspiracy to dc
ny fraud. officers, do your duty"
eel And before either of the astonishe
er conspirators could lift hand in sell
IL defense, they were secured and hel
Nv in the safe custody of the constables.
ed And it was Courtney Miles who lie
We Resale Beaumont into her father
nd house, and who stood with her besjt
De- her dead, and whispered words
re cheer and comfort which came fro
the heart--the heart of man wi
in loved her with the great and deep To-
ole of his manhood, and who when Z
lis twelve months had passed made h
er- his wife, and went to live with b
Sc in the stately house at AshcroN
nj As for Agnes, she put an end to
life in prison; and DR.. Eames is servi
ace out a sentence passed upon linn in
Ind previous count, for unlawfuliy dcta
my ing patient at his so-called asylum
his When his term Is over, no Will
arraigned for the attempted abducti
vas of Resale Beaumont.