Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-04-13
AVENGED AT LAST;
Or, a Worldwide Chase.
A STORY OF RETRlBUTlON.
BY WABASH"
lcoPYR6Br. isp0.l
CHAPTER XXI.

"'Tis not my will that evil DO immor-
tai" 1t Is we'll for us that. while on
this earth every .hing good and bcauti.
full is short-lived, passing speedily away.
evil and wrong arc also but question
OF time, and have their end. "All
things come to him who will wait"
Leon Vclasquezs power OF evil had
spread itself over long and busy life
time-had held full sway from tho day
he had entered his teens until his hair
was turning gray With tho exception
OF tho few years when he posed rs an
honest merchant, his active mind had
always been bent on evil. lie had
caused tho innocent to suffer for the
guilty; had robbed men OF the hard
earned accumulations OF years. and
women OF their virtue; had stained his
hands In blood until murder camc as
natural TO him as tho killing Of q bull
lock TO butcher; he had drawn better
natures down to evil and made crimo
the study OF his life. But tho day Of
retribution was fast closing In upon
him. Tho murder OF Mario Dclaro was
soon to 10 avenged, and before long no
would realize tho awful justice OF the
old Mosaic lava life for life. ="
And yot how poor q recompense.
Robbed OF her life happiness when 1t
was just beginning to assert itself, all
that the victims widow received in re-
turn was tho knowledge that rotribution
had finally overtaken tho ono who had
robbed her Of her treasure.
And, compared to Valasquez, what
fearful price had she paid to secure re-
venge.- Tho best part OF her life had
been spent: wasted, In fact, In running
to earth monstrosity who had ut last
fallen into her hands through sheer &C.
cident las the greater part Of the world
would say), though there are those who
would sec In such an accident the won
dcrful machination OF an unrelenting
Ruler, who has said: Vengeance Is
mine"
Never until now had Vclasquez re-
Elected on the possible results Of the re-
pulsive acts OF his life. His immunity
from discovery had only tended to
harden his soul and he had ever been
prompted by ono impulse only-grced
for wealth-which when acquired had
never brought him any genuine pleas
ure. He had never once stopped TO
think OF tho price his victims paid to
satisfy his own insatiatc desires. He
had been absorbed In self and had lived
n life in which none others shared
part But now that the hcllish conceits
OF his debascd mind could only spend
themselves on four prison walls, he was
forced to think.
Leon Velasquez, running riot as one
OF the most active OF the devils en-
missaries, had never paused to think Of
the exactncss with which Gods mills
grind all, had mover thought It worth
his while to consider that those who es-
cape tho mills the longest arc In the
end ground moro quickly and relent-
lessly. He was In the mills now and
the great stones wero beginning TO re-
solve; so closely, so surely increasing
the speed OF their revolutions every mo-
ment never TO cease grinding until tho
Rrist should be flnc as the finest powder.
His nights grew restless, Sleep al
most forsook him. and the little
snatches OF mapping which he did
sometimes secure wore only htful
slumbers disturbed by horrible dreams
which brought to his mind In turn.
like a moving panorama, the scenes OF
his devilish acts Bold rs he had boon
through life. be now shuddcrcd under
the shadow OF tho gallows. and so fear-
ful was the mental torture that at times
he wished that the end might be speedy.
When the bolts shot into their SOCK
on across his prison door al hope fed.
and he knew full well that he would.
after all these years Of liberty. moet the
p1nnlty Of his greatest crime. From the
hour Of his arrest he had boon moody.
md entirely ceased 70 speak to those
Who approached him. lie neither ox-