Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-05-21


mthctic hand on his shoulder. after
what my brother said in his letter kin
Jest understand how you feel about
This here terrible business; but LOO be
h&Ned So queer for some time aforc
tlat
"Mr Myers said Alec, nterrupting
yAe flow Of the old mans words. Il
came 10 YOU to got the whole story. be
cause | know YOU were her friend and
knew Just how hard her life WAS with
chat old man But before YOU say any
moro | want TO tell YOU that no mat
Ter what YOU SAY or what anybody SAYS
know She is as Innocent 81 that crime
as | ann; and, though all the world
may say different I'm going to marry
her now. in the Ia Of the world, IL
she'll have ME.
"Awoll, my boy, it's all your own
funeral that, an don't know rs like
Nou any the less for Sticktn up toy
Ter, but I'll begin at the heGtnnin' an
tell yN all | know way back as far as
last Christmas, An II there's amy
thing in what | tell ~ hurt your feel
ms or shake your faith IN the poor
sirl why, beg your pardon aforc
land as 1t were The truth is the
TRUTH and II You must have Il YOU
must D."
beginning with her rescue from the
Nnowdritt, Joshua, touching on It as
drlcatcly as he could described the
81 tvln NbnAr,n u-ht,~h uA
90 after that, aScrihing II to some alb
CREATION of mind consequent upon hHr
suffering in the storm that night.
Nothing of the kind, Mr.. Myers, 4"
said Alec. producing letter from his
pocket book doubling down II portion
OF it and handing 1t to Joshua
"Road that read what my poor Girl
says there. That's - letter Your
brother had to give me when | re.
turned from Lake ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
kok. 1t had been detairrd on the way
up rs letters often are "
II can't see without my specs said
Joshua, Jest read any little bits YOU
want me to know
Alec proceeded to explain
You know the old man intercepted
my letters, at least felt sure of it and
had to pay an Indian to como down
and find her out and give into Yer own
hand my letter which | told her that
had written twice also mentioned
my suspicious.
THE Indian came all right" said
Joshua sin fact, some incline to think
1t was m Indians decd
Ale" shook his head
81 thought Of rnat myself for a min
ute or 80, but now | can't lhink SO
Anyhow. here is part of her answer to
That letter | sent by the Indian She
says When | heard ON Christmas day
that YOU had written several dimes to
Mr. Myers and that YOU were well and
enjoying yourself all the time | was
pinng for word from gu; and when
| thought YOU had forgotten me. or
had only been fooling when you said all
yCu did and kissed me down by the
wood. seemed not to care for any
thing any more hurried up my work
and Went to all the parties that were
going in the village | used to dance all
night just TO try and drive away the
thought Of you. but | never allowed
any man of them to see me home My
dog was my only escort going ana com
ing; but all the same my heart was
slowly breaking, until got your dear,
dear letter from the Indian
Nov, think O. that" exclaimed
Joshua winking hard to dispcl the
moisture which had sprung to his
eyes IAN We never to think what
allied her all the time poor girl"
But wait" cried Alec with eager
anxiety, hear what she says after
that; When | read it and saw that,
instead Of forgetting me or fooling me,
you had really written again and again
and that YOU really loved me truly, |
was like to die with shame OF myself
to think | had mistrusted you and you
all the slime loving me SO faithfully
Yet ] could not believe my father could
ever do such "A cruel thing as that to
me; no, though | knew his wicked ana
cruel things TO other people, because i
hard and being help to HIM In every
v9y. But when went to the post.
Office and found it was really true |
was just stunned at first After com
ing up the road made up my mind not
TO stay with him any more and then
there was another thing that decided
me never to sleep another night under
such a wicked roof One night | met
man whom my father had put out II
his home by the foI eclosure OF mort
gage. The place was sold, bht he did
not get all the interest he had calcu-
lated on getting. This mans wife
dieC and he took 20 drinking after and
struck father one day In Toron 0, for
which he was Jailed think the poor
man went sort Of crazy brooding over
his wrongs but anyway this night, as
| went home from a surprise party,
here he was providing about our house
in the moonlight and when | asked
him what he wanted he told me who
he was and | knew him again, He