Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-09-07
tions she revealed the secret terror
that Was Killing her.

tions she revealed the secret terror
that was killing her.
But perfect love casts our fear and
jealousy, and Laura's husband did
her no injustice. Tenderly he nursed
the poor. shattered wife and mother
back to life again. though 1T was an
almost hopele S task with that name.
less horror ever beside her. One
night, when she was a little stronger.
he led her on to talk OF the past, aud
he was SO loving and so pitiful that
in a flood of life-giving tears she
poured out to him the whole miser.
able story. Then the burden fell
from her life, and she dropped hap.
PLY into the first sweet, healthy
sleep she had had for nearly a year.
She never asked again for her to-.
mentor: she only knew that he had
disappeared from South Staffords-
shire, and joy and peace came back
to her heart and home.
But q day. after the lapse of
four years, she received a dirty, an.
nOnymous letter full of threats and
insolent demands for money. T is
time she went at nee to her hus.
band win the trouble.
"Don't he frightened. Laura" he
answered. II know the fellow. He
is Que Of a gang of four who have
just come to Sackett Village. He
will be in Jail tomorrow night. This
times he shall not escape my v.n-
geance."
He had scarcely spoken when q
couple OF men ran up to the house,
crying;
..Measter! Measter. Here be
Dimmitt's height slewered away ard
there's "a GROWING in.'"
The tron-master leaped TO his feet
and was soon following the evil mes
sengers to the village. He knew
that Sackett was all undermined
with pits and workings ami it was
possible the whole village was in
danger. The disaster was right in
the center of 1t, and he vas not long
in reaching the great yawning
chasm, where the earth had given
way and down which two cottages,
with their Inhabitants, had gomez
AS oon as the master appeared
the pitmen and ironMen gathered
round him. Though all knew that
succor or help was perfectly hopeless.
'Where is Bumby?"
"Here l he. measter."
"What mine was under this?"
'Dimmltt's, measter, worked out"
"Is it deer"
six hundred fect."l
"Dry or wet9"
N1loan wntorU
The master looked blankly at the
black abyss.
"lt's the third .crcwning in,' /
my time. IT. last were in to Cavall's
mine. Six decent families went
down at midnight: they we're dashed
to bits on t. rocks at bottom"
"DO you know who lives in these
two cottages"
lone were empty, thank God.
-Four strange lads that wo ked il
Sackett;s mine, had t'other. they
nobbut worked there q week, they
wor glad to get shut on them at end.
Of it"
"Do you know their names9"
~ know, measter," said Michael
Raine the publican. for they owe me
AOI b WcckS UCcE alU 'UdCC1-L0e
score is ag'n John Todd, Tim Black,
and Bill Yates"
"'Bill Yates? Are you sure?:"
"Sure to certain Of that name,
measter for he said he wor come
special to get upsides VII you"
Then the ironmaster turned
thoughtfully home, and as he kissed
his WIFE, said:
.'Bill Yates is dead, Laura. My
vengeance has been taken from me by
Him to whom vengeance helongeth.
You may rest safely now. darling"
But. oh, Henry, what q destiny
might have been mine"
"Don't say destiny Laura. Cur
choices are our destiny. Nothing is
OURS that our choices have not made
ours"
This is a true story, and I tell it to
many thousands Of young girls with
just al much %earnestness as Laura
told tito her daughters to show them
that clandestlne love affairs are al
ways highly dangerous; for a passion
that is Graded in deceit is pretty sure
to end in sin or shame or sorrow -
N. Y. Ledger.
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