The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-09-27
A RACE WITH DEATH,

"Ihat is not true-nOt true at all.
l gave you no er couragement," cried
Mllly. hotly. Il couldn't have given
you any, because l am engaged"
Engaged. What. To that en-.
gineer fellow"
THAT is no concern of yours.
nave given you neither right nor rea.
son to question me about it, or to-
to insult me, as YOU'VE just done
she faltered.
Her father, for his fathers sake
had shown this Bastable much kind
ness since his coming to Worston, and
Mllly had been as p easant to him as
she was tn everyone. Her winning
manner he had taken for encourage
ment, and had had the audacity TO-
night. upon nesting her in a lonely
lane where she expected her tiance, to
snatch a kiss.
"YOu're an arrant little flirt. and
have ruined my life" he cried thick
ly, seizing her in his arms.
Hardly had he done SO when he
was wren he'd aside, and thrashed
with a stout stick so furiously, that
the blows fell like rain without num-
Der and without direction on all parts
OF the head, face, and body. The
young engineer laid his blows on with
such fierce force that Bastable's body
was a mere mass of bruises before
Milly could hold her lovers arm. He
flung the fellow from him to the
ground. a little ashamed of the as.
sault upon a man ply sically so much
his inferior as Bastable.
He had walked many steps away
with Milly before Bastable raised
himself to a sitting posture, at the
moment that Milly was looking round
anXi0usly in the fear that he was SER
iously injured.
"a on william" he yelled. you'll
pay for this. 10th OF you. Both of
you. Both of YOU" he reiterated,
with such concentrated malignity in
his face and voice as made Milly
shudder.
For days and days after, she was
haunted by the remembrance of the
hate in his face. and with the horror
of the revenge upon her lover it por-
tended. Ana this she did we'll to
dread. Bastable. a vindlctive brute
naturally, had received such punish
ment under such circumstances as
might have tired the meekest of men
to revenge. He really loved Milly
Hartman with all the love which his
gross soul was capable, and to be
thrashed by his successful rival under
her eyes, and deservedly thrashed.
while in the act OF a daStardsy as.
sault upon her, was an injury and an
ignOminy to be wiped out only with
blood. He brOoded uion his love, hi:
hate, his jealousy, and his revenge,
till you might rather say these pas
sions posses ed him than that he pos
sessed them.
Another passion also. which fed all
theSe-the passion for drink-now
mastered him 50 entirely that he was
hardly evcr sober.
Well, therefore, might Milly dread
a demoniac SO posse sed with Il mono
mania OF revenge: and this dread
made her consent to an Immediate
marriage with Arthur Munro. who
could not Otherw Sc he persuaded t
quit WOrstOn. lie would return f.
his home only if she returned with
him As his bri G.
Accordingly the wedding vas not
only fastened, but kept secret, an(
the wedding Itself VS. kept strict,
private in Difference to Mil!Y's dieaC
OK Bastabl2'S vengeance upOn heI
lover. And her precautions wOult
probably have precludcd ali she
feared, but TO- the merest accident
The carriage with the bride anc
bridegroom IN it drove up to The
s%tation!at the very moment BaStablt
was in the act OF quitting il.
Seeing the luggage labeled
LEIGH" whithe they were bouLo
on tier honeymoon. he asked The
coachman, when they had entered
the station. -
"a wedding?"
"~SOmething of the Sort" the maj
answered gruify, as he turned hi
horses round.
Meanwhile Milly cried. clinging t
Arthur's arm almost convulsiyely, -
"Oh, Arthur Iie-he has hear(
OF it! He's here l saw him"
"WhO, DEAR"
mi. Bastable."
"Milly darling, you've got tina
brute on the brain What can hi
do here at midday in a crowded sta
tom"
Turning to a porter. he asked
''Whi>h is uur train?"
She's there in the siding. sir
she'll back up when the locals gone
Let me put you into 4 carriage,
dear. while l look after the luggage
So saying. he hurried her to a car
riage near the engine, and got in