The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-01-06

ana during TINT time they never left
/ me alone. No inquiry was ever made,
4 1or the man was supposed to have left
IL the country No one suffered by his
death, and at last II made up my mind
i to Keep the secret for fathers sake.
After his death I was glad I had. But
4 Mr.. Sage has never trusted me. He
4 came here tonight in d frenzy and
4 charged me with having told you. He
4 imagined that he saw d reference to-
the crime in the attack upon him il
u to-day's Enterprise, and he wanted to
4 buy me oft buy my silencen' &
Her eyes flashed s.He seems to feel.
4 somehow, that if he can once get me
i to accept money he will be more sure
or me. His rage, because I refused,
q brought on the spell you saw. Now
& have told you everything. Promise me
that you will never breathe a word Of
4 this to a human being" >.
lie Gid not reply at once: cit is a
horrible thing" he said at length, ''but
i It is nothing in which you are specially
concerned" .l'1.
:. Nothing in which I am specially
concerned:' she repeated in amaze
ment. when I witnessed it, and nv
own father was possibly the MUIR
4 derer?'
! Nonsense! How could he be? If
the mans skull has been fractured by
the fall, he wouldn't have regained con-
sciousness
"You haven't promised me yet" she
exclaimed, in sudden alarm. 'Oh, Al
vim, don't put it in the paper! Don't!
1t would kill me!'
He had never seen her so excited.
She was usually so calm.
You are nervous and overwrought,"
ne replied, evasively. "You must lie
down and get some rest.''
She read the truth in his face.
rs nothing sacred?' she asked, bit
terly. Unjust this monster you work
Tor be fed with my hearts blood?"
You are growing hysterical and Civ
ing yourself 4 great deal of unneces-
sary alarm. For your own. good I
must ask you to go to bed at once
l must return to the Office Immediate
~; L came home to get some notes
L had forgotten, and I've barely time
to get through before the paper goes
to press
Once in the streets he fairly ran
along them ir haste to get his work
done before the paper went to press.
1t was tremendous SCOOP Sage
was candidate for reelection to the
United States senate and was the owner
Of rival paper. The election would
i take place in two weeks, and the
i Enterprise had been making a very
bitter fight against him. This black
page IN his history would be power
f1ll weapon in their hands; but there
was no time to be lost. A slight COM
junction for what he was about to do
BarstoW promptly crushed by ready
sophistry of justification. This coup
detat just at this time would be of
incalculable benefit to him. He would
be advanced, perhaps to the dazzling
position of special writer Surely this
prosperity would console his wife for
the grief she would feel at the publica-
ton. Besides, was it not the duty Of
newspaper to expose crime?
EIe glanced at his watch as he dashed
into the building. A full hour remained
in which to get his copy ready In the
local room group of beIated reporters
locked up in surprise as he hastily en-
tered the night editors room. .-,..
'Barstow must have q good: ,one,",
|
The fortunate man did not reapDear.
He sent for the artist and gave him
q rough outline Of the tragedy, with
instructions to rake what he could
out Of it. Then he set to work furious
~. Within the hour the article was
ready for the press This done, he
dropped YEARLY on lounge and fell
asleep.
It was Q o'clock when he awoke
His first thought was for copy of the
paper. Yes; it was all there; a sensa-
ton with a vengeance. There was
even drawing Of the tragedy, with
Senator Sage in the act of firing at
the PROSTATE form Of his victim, and the
figure of girl and Il man in the back
ground. The well known features Of
the murderer were unmistakable.
Barstow's next thought was for his
wife. The papers must have been
delivered two or three hours earlier.
He hurried out and went directly home.
An aunt of his wife's met him in the
hall.
BE prepared for the worst" she
said, sternly. 1.-THE expose in the paper
has been too much for her. If you
wrote it then you brought this misfor-
tune upon yourself"
"What misfortune? What are you
talking about? Where is my wife?"
he asked in rapid succession.
"She has lost her reason. You didn't
know it was in her fathers family"
she added, as he staggered back. "They
all have terrible tempers, or else they
are quiet and deep like her, and these
sometimes go mad
A horrible laugh rang through the
house. He pushed the woman to one
side and rushed to his wife's room.
She sat on the floor, rocking her body
backward and forward as she gibbered
and pointed to the morning Enterprise
in her hand.-The Argonaut.
A Big Plank.
About election time we hear q good