The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27

! know, b. at last with q sudden resO-
! luton he rose to h S feet. bent his knee
again at the pew door and turned up
, the aisle. His attention was instantly
caught b a man whom he recognized
with a chill Of sur, rise. who roe hast
lily from eighboring pew and mr.
ried toward the door of the church.
| " hat was Alexander Trask nOtori-
Ously .co1er. doing in the church:
! BARLEY O'Mearas judicial mind was
| quickly made up. What he did might
! ha been done by another man on i'm
pulse. With the lawyer his action was
! the result OF train of easOniny con-
| duo ted from beginning 10 end with
electric rapdity. Trask had no more
than emerged from the pew in hi,
/ flight when Lawyer O'Nleara set d lwn
/ the aisle after him on the dead run.
Tra,k, pale with terror. fastened his
pace, but ONeara vertcOk him Just
outside the doc. 5 upon the steps. The
fugit We turned. AID made a desperate
attempt to disarm his pursuer with Il
SIN le and careless char. but the law
yer caught him by both wrists, and
/ exclaimed:
I by God Trask. YOU know what ha
become of Frank 1illinyhas,."
/ T'rask did not faint or fail down: he
tre.nbled little as the blool rushed
into his face and flushed the roots Of his
hair, and on his compressed lips cam,
the old. bitter smile which had APP
p,ared when he tried to tel hi, friends
of his discoveries. The pause of
second ensued, which seemed minutes
long as he held his friend captive. AID
then tear, rolled down fro Trask's
eyes, and he said in a low voice:
hartley. you are good man. | am
"a sale in your hands as if [ trusted the
powers that you have been worship
ing"
! Tie lawyers heart seemed about to
burst as he dropped Tra>k' wrists an
co, cred his face with his hands. The
few worshiper5 in the church. dis
turbed by the fight and pursuit, came
out and stood looking curiously on.
Ira * put his arm through that of the
lawyer and said in u kindly, steady
voice:
Come. hartley, let us not make a
scene here. The church is nothing to
me- but to you it Is much. Come, we
will go where nothing can be profaned
to M roOm-and talk our trouble
over like friend. Don't shudder. Bart
Icy, Or try to draw away from me: you
are q good man and m, friend. and you
will go away from my room more my
friend than ever before. { me- WHY.
BARLEY. since Frank disappeared there
has hardly been an hour when | haven't
seen You. | have followed you alb. ut
like Il ghost, for | feared everything.
My mind narrowly csc ,Eed becoming
unba 'anced, ana 1 had to keep near
you to preserve myself. But it is all
clear row. ana perhaps it would have
been better if | had told you about
this befO G: for | am no murderer,
| Ia Nd
stand the term. saw frank Thing
hast die, it is true; but it was u SELF
inflicted death. Come. we won't say
ans thing more until we get where the
walls have had their ears stopped with
excelsior"
Turing this strange speech Trask
had boon leading O'Meara away from
the church. and by this t:me the law
yer had ceased to make any resistance.
The two had chan yed places to a de-
gree. OAleara was not and icverishly
excited. He wanted to run. up the
stairway to the elevated railroad: he
was sick with Impotence and fear
! Trask, who should have been the anx-
lou, man. was singularly quiet, self
pos. csSed and reasonable. When they
had reached his room he made O'Alear;,
sit down while he stool and proceedc
!. to say in grave. IN oderate manner:
1T was in this room. artley, that
Frank Tillinghast met death De- pite
M warning, he threw my hard Il
knowledge t, the wind and looked or
black. Death came ut once, before
| Frank had time to acknowledge that
r no was cJnvinc, d.
:. Across the room from O'Meara some
| thing stood concealed from view by a
sheet. Tra-k stepped to it and pulled
, the sheet away. There stood revealed
, Il piece of mechanism that bore a
rough resemblance to Il photographers
/ camera The walls. however. We're O
t differently cOIcrcd glass. anu We're no.
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