The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-11-21

II might have known it. She
couldn't be expected to care for me.
Still I had hope. You are not to be
blamed, Kingsley, suppose, but I
think you might have told me you
were in the race too, and not
played fast and loose with me this
way"
upon my honor, Barton, never
tried to win her until to-day. You
see, I've known Eve all my life, and
/ diln't. know l cared anything in
particular for her until commenced
this courtship for you; then I learned
just how dear she is to me. But l
was true to my promise to you
throughout. Eve will tell you SO"
Il wish you all the happiness Ihad
hoped to have" Barton said, when
leaving. ''I entertain no ill-will
toward you. You acted straight
enough, I've no doubt. I'll get over
it some time, but it's pretty hard on
q fellow at first. I won't see her
again. It would just be a taste Of
purgatory for ME, and if she'i the
woman take" her to belt would
make her unhappy, too.
When they met MIN again it was
in a foreign country. Eve retained
her. distrust of him, but Jack was
anxious for a renewal OF the old
friendship, and as Barton seemed to
have forgotten the past and was
more than willing to make one of
their party, they urged him to join
them. When they went home few
months later he soon followed them,.
and took up his abode at the hotel
where they stopped for the first few
months after their return. r.
), Ewes doubt as to the sincerity Of
his friendship had been lulled to rest
by his conduct while they were
abroad, but they had been in Amer
lea again but q short time when she
began to fear and distrust him even
more than she had formerly done.
>"Your prejudiced, that's ALL" Jack
told her. Barton is all right. OF
course, he was all cut up. but it's all
over now. Why, believe he is one
of the best friends I have, Eve"
One. evening late in the autumn
Barton came home complaining of
being nervous and detected.
Come with me-" Jack suggested,
with ready sympathy. "We'll take o
walk and smoke the evil spirits
away" SOS ar
The two men left thd hotel and
walked away towards Howard's
point, q bluff a half mile or more
down the shore. Eve watched their
departure with a strange feeling Of
dread, for which she chided herself
as being foolish and unwarranted,
but which she could not dispel.
An hour later Barton returned
alone.
"Where is Jack?" Eve asked
fercely, meeting him on the porch.
HE did not~care to come in yet. /
left him down at Howard's point.
He'll be mere soon.
Eve turned back into the house,
and Barton passed on to MS own
apartments.
Another hour passed by and still
Jack staid away. Really alarmed
then, Eve threw her cloak around
her shoulders and started toward
the bluff where Barton said he had
left her husband.
All up and down the paths that
wound among the rocks of Howard's
point she searched, but the bluff was
deserted. ''Jack!" she called, softly
at first, then louder and louder as
her fears grew stronger. At last
she thought she heard o faint voice
answer her. She leaned far over the
edge of the cliff and called again:
Jack" There could be no mistake
then. It was her name which she
heard in reply, coming up from the
stretch of sand below.
''Fell over the cliffs, was the YER
dict of the men who answered her
appeal for help and carried him back
to the hotel. HE amt the first one
that has gone just So"
But the next morning they learned
a different story. Barton was found
sitting in his chair dead, and on the
table beside him was o letter ex-
planning ii all.
II knew I should do it some time, !"
he wrote. $50 long as I kept my
senses I was all right, but these
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