Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-20

viii not be many years itnaeina
he ne, must .pose--lndeed. he must be DR.
You amaze met said the comma.
core, But ooncedlng that what Won
say If true, do you not think we have
ilau our reVenge2 As Elierton the man
WIN ieaNe the country very soon, and
Gods name let him gol And lei us
rest satisfied In having forced him into
NE that IS worse than death. ask
this FOR the sake OF the two noble
women whose lives have been blasted
by their associations with this man
Howard laughed again. folded his
arms, crossed his legs and, with his
eyes on the ceiling said:
Commodore West, knowing how YOU
have suffered at the hands OF this man.
l did not think you could be so easily
satisfied; but II you are content with
what has happened. ] am not Let me
seei II Is now nearly twenty-four years
since his man brutally murdered my
brother at Tucson, Arizona About the
same number Of years have elapsed
since l, prosperous young miner who
had never carried pistol and never
had quarrel with a man, registered
an oath, before heaven, that all the
years of my life should be devoted to
hunting into the grave the murderer
Of George Howard He still lives, and,
II matters not to me whether his name
Is Ellerton or Morton or Martin.
whether he is rich or poor, whether
he stays in California or journeys to
the uttermost ends OF the earth, l shall
follow him up with the same persisten-
cy that has marked my past, nor rest
satisfied till earth has seen the last
Of him. A score OF times during my
long pursuit ! could have walked up
TO this man, being absolutely sure OF
who he was. placed my pistol to his
breast and killed him; but that would
not suit my purpose. watched him
changing from a hunted cur into a
position of comparative responsibility,
and reioiced at II, /
saw him rising, step by step,
sometimes by means that were honest.
but more frequently by methods that
We're In harmony with his nature from
poverty TO opulence, and from opuleuce
TO honor and wealth. ! saw his daughter
growing into beautiful womanhood,
| saw him surrounded by the syco-
plants who are drawn by wealth as
flies are to honey; / saw him, under
his last name, becoming one of the
great money factors of the state and,
indeed OF the nation; and at all Of
this | rejoiced, for / knew that the hour
M 9h., hishe,. NE ,,n,ifi,r he bad NJ
tainad the ,,reatar ANA more terrible
,9nst he Tho fail when thr fan came
The nrst biow has been struck; the sec
nn1 hlow ig pendInR and II will need
no mira blow TO complete my workr"
my God. man. exclaimed the COM
modure "you arc lneNorabler' The
mans present position should satisfy
your vengeance. Think OF his wife
and daughter"
mo. commodore, l cannot think OF
the wife and daughter. or II | should
do so. and | confes have at times.
r,~ thr 'nughter Is an angel and the
nay SIGHT by the face OF my own dead
brother, DO not try to change me,
for u would be a waste Of time. The
work TO which l have given the best
years of my life rs now near compile
ton. and there Is no power on earth
that can stay my hand"
Let me lmplore YOU said Ralph,
speaking for the first time, that in
anything you may hereafter do you
will so far as possible. save the In
dies IN whom my uncle and myself
are so much Interested"
II can promise that said Howard,
for let me assure YOU SAID MI
Holmes, that II 1t had not been for
these same ladies'. respect and sympa-
thy for whom has averted the blow
Il would have fallen before this, and
Col Morton would have been dead
man the night you arrived at Buenu
Vista, and Imagined that | was Lore
Pelham
CHATTER XVII.
n v.uu Ia, reu.ambprad that I'm on,
of Tho last messages sent to his part
nor. French In san Franclsco. Col Nior,
I'm ra,,uested him TO send on mum,
M, 40 ar,nod retoiners who were Il
come nomfnally to work on In,
lana The night that Or. Euerlon'.
boJy. Inv cofiinel In the library. thes,
mon rreched Iuena Vista without at
tractinp attention. and were secretet
Ia me 1arpe vaults under the house
From these vaults a spacious TUNE
lod down for about d hundred yard,
Io Inc little hay In which the colonel
Vnrhts and the boats OF the fishermen
,vore snchored This subterranean pas
sage had cen commented ON by tn
neirhbors at the time the house wa
| being constructed, some years before
and The colonel had explained by say
ing he was very fond OF yachting ans
that the passage would enable him q
| reach or come from his boat no mat
] Ter the darkness or the condition o
| the weather.
one part of the basement was BE
| aside for the wine cellar and as tn
/ house was built Oh slope. the apart
ments on the lower side needed no ar
tlhcial light I'm the daytime; and som
OF them We're useu ng me S ~, NY 81,