The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-29
a few weeks before the wedding day.

u iSW WINS OCAOiS CAiO WOuuAhE u0yA
''Some one on business, Julia"
asked Mrs. Dunbar, looking up from
The morning paper.
"Y-e-s'm. expect he wants help
He looks kind of shabby"
lie is not a gcntltman?"
81 should say not, ma'am and he
isn't a tramp eXactly-kind OF be.
twixt and between
Il will see him." said Mrs. Dun.
bar, and she laid aside her paper and
left the bright fire burning in the
CRATE a lutte reluctantly. She had
laid aside her M lrning now that she
was engaged to another mau, and
wore a pretty breakfast gown that
was suitable to her petite stature,
and most becoming.
When she entered the little recep-
ton room where the caller waited,
she saw a thin, emac ated man shah
billy dressed and bearing many marks
of privation-and she saw, something
else, a likeness in his profile that set
he heart to beating with an awful
fear. When he rose and confronted
her She fell ba>k. and with whitening
lips gasped out the name:
'Maurice Dun arr"
eyes. Maurice Dunbar returned
from the dead" was the answer
Then she tainted, and mercifully
knew no more.
Again, ] ichard Lester, a bowed
and miserable man, was seated in his
o lce alone in the gloom and depres-
sion of approaching night, and of his
W unhappy thoughts. Before him
was the one letter he had re eived
from her since the cruel necessity Of
parting had come upon them. 1t
contained the ring with which they
had plighted their troth. He had
written Il mad and hasty reply, in
which he had urged her to fly with
him, and offered her the devotion of
a lifetime, and she had come to him
and rebukei him with broken heart.
''Do not make it harder for me-"
she said in that brief final interview.
''YOu can do n thing to help me, if
it is not wrong. This money really
belongs tO-to-my husband, but l
think God has made me his almOner.
As long as he believes the money to
be mine, | can control him and COM
pc, him to live like a gentleman, and
perhaps help him morally. Ii he has
it he Will 60 to instant ruin. Will
you help me keep the secret? He
shall have every comfort, but he must
take all at my hands. Can YOU do
this legality"
No, he could not, but for love Of
her, concluded to keep silent and
let her believe it was right. so he
pays the annuity regularly and asks
God to forgive him if he does evil
that good may come.
A strange sequel to this was a call
on one occasion from Maurice Dun
bar him elf, who, we'll dressed and
cared for, presented the appearance
of a gentleman, a moral phase OF de-
%velopnent which was the effect of
his faithful laDorS.
II have come" he said as he fol-
lowed his card into 4he presence of
the lawyer, 'tO consult you on a mat
ter of Importance upon which l re-
quire legal advice"
ale has heard of the beQuest."
thought Lester with a sudden fear.
but aloud he said calmly: 'Please
state the circumstances as briefly as
possible"
And he listened to another phase
in the complicated life Of the N
he loved.
Il wish to inquire" proceeded
Maurice Dunbar, whether Il a
who marries under an assumed name
Is legally married or nOt::"
EYES," he said after a moments
thought; ''yeS, by the law Of this
State Il man who marries under any
name is legally married. l assume,
thcn," continued the lawyer, ''that
you are interested in such a case?"
II am personally interested. The
name by which l am known, Maurice
Dunbar, is not my own name. l have
been troubled with some doubts. My
wife is a lovely Christian woman and
| feared | had done her a wrong in
marrying her under a name that was
assumed as a matter Of convenience.
There is no disgrace attached to it,
but when L renowned my family l
left off the old name. | shall keep
the one | have until l die"
He paid a liberal tee and left the
stunned and dazed a of law with
another cOmpleXity to combat. 1t
only remains now for the real Maurice
Dunbar to appear and claim his in.
her. tan e. tica Globe.
The kotOrJ Courteous.