Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-29

any information from me you must be
more explicit"
1T Is no use prevaricatng. madam.
You cannot deceive me. for l act upon
certain knowledge. l know she Is In
this house."
u know neither You nor your wife,
nor do | desire to do So"
yet you knew IN May Rivers"
what has that to do with it,"
Only that May Rivers is now May
Gridley-my wife,"
"Impessible!"
The man showed his white teeth in a
snarling smile.
Are you John Gridley:"
THAT is my name"
And you mean to tell me that May
Rivers has actually married you?
Why. man, l tell you that she hates
you-there is no one OF whom she
stands sc much in dread"
cause and effect sneered Gridley.
'She is my wife"
Take care what you say. May
Rivers is now in this house, and the
truth or falsehood of your statement
can easily be a~scertained."
Il know she is in the house, and
ANhNC lhS jun ht. htiC lonos "
cannot detain her against my will. I
beg You will IL her TO be informed
that l am waiting TO take her home"
'.She cannot 90 with you. For the
last week she has been confined to her
bed"
THAT may or may not be true; but
go with me she must and shall."
go with you she shall not. You
may talk till doomsday, but am mis-
treSs here!'
And think proper to encourage a
wife to desert her husband. A pretty
mistress, truly"
silence, sir! Leave the house this
minute"
Not without my wife. Do you know
you are acting illegally in OBTAINING
her."
Acting fiddlesticks. The laws of
heaven are higher than those of men;
and whether illegal or not. from this
house she does not go. 1t would be
certain death TO her"
AT all events, / must see her"
AT all ven you must do nothing
of the sort. You may buster as You
will and it went brighten me. for |
have lived long enough to know aud
understand those who seek to intimi-
date the weak and cringe to the strong.
Your wife-if May Rivers is your wife
lis in this house. but you shall not
see her. There. that is quite plain.
Do what you like"
You shall repent this conduct.
madam! l will move all the powers of
heaven and earth to revenge myseifII''
answered John Gridley f~erociously.
"YOu pervert my wife's mind you
keep her here for your tine nephew To
make love to. Under the guise of
friendship for her, you nourish plans
which"
John Gridley had worked himself up
into a passion, when Miss HenwoOd
interrupted him by saying deliberately
and coOily. MIR. Gridley. there are two
exits from this room-one by the door,
unaided, one by the window, assisted
by my servants. Choose which you
prefer, but do not speak another word,
or / shall make the selection for you
John GridIey was cowed. When in
one of his passions he could return
buster for buster, and oath for oath;
but he could not reply TO the calm.
contemptuous words of scorn which
Miss HenwOod uttered as he shuttied
past her TO the door.
He glanced at her from under his
scowling brow with n look of unmiti-
gated hate. but he spoke not a word.
With nothing more than a muttered
he slank away out of the room,
preferring the door to the window.
1t would have been a bad thing for
a dog or a horse to be his property at
moment. when he emerged from
the grounds of Blackjack into the high
road.
Tie worst of his evil passions We're
riot within him. Such pas
sions as caused him to beat the poor
idiot boy about the head with the
cudgel when he was senseless and in
of Offering any resistance; !
such passions rs made him shake his |
and defy the whole village OF An
nadale; such passions as had made
him push the girl who loved him so
away from him with cruel yio-
lence.
He was going back into Chichester
to meet the coach by which he could
70 Portsmouth, to mediate upon
wickedness, to make new plots
to undermine Mays peace Of mind.
IF she dies!" he thought.
Then, the next moment, he stamped
Ills lOot uuBIits oh tHt SiVuhu. 1
..She shall not die," he cried with
oath, until / have had my revenge
for the trick she played me-"
That is what hurt John Gridley-the
idea that he-the clever and model
young man-should have been duped
by Il girl over whom he believed he
had absolute power. Not that May
had any object in view beyond her own
escape. but to her husbands distorted
Imagination it seemed like a carefully
matured plot 10 bring insult and dis
grace upon him.
Miss Henwood was deeply affected
by the news that May was already a
wife. She VAS not angry with the
girl. for she was just: but she
could not choose but sigh for her hopes
and chances of the future TO be thus
dashed away.
DR.. Rose was still in the house, and
to him she told the Whole story.
He received it professionally. That
is to say, he neither moved, laughed, |
nor frcwned; hut. with 4 wise
ana somber air. something between a
Justice on the bench and an owl in an
hrrh Estapnd ottapfiyaly |