Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-13
A RACE WITH DEATH,

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'FThat is not true-not true at all
[ gave you no er cOlragement, cried
MilIy, hotly Il couldn't have given
you any. because L am engage |. !"
/ engaged What! To that en-
| gineer fellow"
THAT is no concern of yours. I
| have gi en- you Lether right nor rea-
son TO question me about it, or to
to insult me, as you've just done. I"
she faltered.
! Her father, for his fathers sake
| had shown this Bastable much kind
| ness since his toming to WOfstOn, and
! MIlIy had been aS p easant to him as
she was to everyone. Her winning
/ manner he had taken for encourage
ment, and had had the audacity to-
night. upon me 9tlng her in a lonely
| lane where she expected her tiance, to
snatch kiss.
! "You're an arrant little fiirt, and
have ruined my life" he cried thick
ly, Selling her in his arms.
! Hardly had he done SO when he
was wren he'd aside, and thra>hed
| with a stout stick SO fur Ously, 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 Basta ble's body
was mere mass of bruises before
MillY could hold her lovers arm. He
| flung the fellow from him TO the
ground, little ashamed Of the as
sault upon man ph sically so much
his inferior as BaStable.
Ia h06 Of
| with Milly before Bastable raised
himself to sitting postu e, at the
moment that Milly was looking ound
anXiously in the fear that he was SER
iousIy injured.
81 GU william" he yelled. you'll
pay for this Both o you! Both of
you Both of you" he reiterated,
with such concentrated malignlty in
his face and voice as made MilIy
shudder.
or 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 well to
dread. BaStable. a vindIy tive brute
naturally, had received such punish
ment under such circumstances as
might have fired the meekesJ 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 deseryedly thrashed
while in the act Of a dastardIy as
sault upon her, was an injury and an
] ignOminy to be wiped out only with
blood. He brooded ugOn his love, his
hate, his jealousy, and his revenge,
till you might rather say these pas
sions posses ed him than that he pos
sGssed them.
| Another passion also, which fed all
| these-the passion for drink-now
mastered him 50 entirely that he was
hardly ever sober
Well, therefore, might MillY dread
a demOniaC so posse Sed with mono
mania of revenge; and this dread
made her consent to an Immediate
| marriage with Arthur Munro, who
could not otherwise be persuaded to
quit Worston. He would return to
his home only if she returned with
him as his bri e,
/ Accordingly the wedding was not
only fastened, but kept secret, and
the wedding itself w S kept strictly
private in Difference to MillY's dread
of Bastable's vengeance upon her
lover And her precautions would
! probably have precluded all she
feared, but Tor the merest accident.
/ The carriage with the bride and
| bridegroom in it drove up to the
station at the very moment Bastable
was in the act of quitting it.
lnh 1fN6
Leigh" whithe they were bound
on their honeymoon, he asked the
coachman, when they had entered
the station.
"a wedding?"
something of the Sort" the man
answered gru1y, as he turned his
horses round.
Meanwhile MiIly cried, clinging to
Arthur's arm almost convulslvely, =
ooh, Arthur He-he has heard
of it He here saw him."
"Who dear"
''Mr. Bastable."
chilly darling, you've got that
brute on the brain What can he
do here at midday in crowded sta
tion?"
Turning to a porter. he asked. -
''N hi b is our train?"
''She's there in the siding, sir;
she'll back up when the locals gone.
LET me put you into a carriage.
dear, while l look after the lugga e."
So saying, he hurried her to a car
riage near the engine, and got in
!. with her to d spose OF the wraps and
other Ii hit articles on the seat and in
the rack.
At this moment Bastable who had
. do g2ed them TO the Carriage. pissed
! its doors unseenland walked on toward
the cad of the platform, gnashin h $
: teeth tn the impotent fury Of a
: Gagged wild beast. If only he had at
that moment the revol er he had
/ bou hit to shoot this man tn, he
could do it now; but in few min
: utes more Munroe would be carr ed
! bayond the reach of his re enge, TAX
, ing her with him "a his bride.
! Here he stopped opposite the ex-
press engine. and stood star ny at it
without seeing it, his nostr IS dis
tened. his lips parted, his teeth
clenched, the ma of his hands
! buried n the palms, VIII lie his eyes
). Clared with The lurid ] ~ hit of mad