The herald., 1897-01-17
from the reighborhood. The effect ,

from the neighborhood. The effect ot
| his absence on the girl was evident
| She became pale. listlesS and hardly
! spoke through the day. But she knew
| Der father too we'll to oppose or reproach
| him.
one stormy day a well-mounted
| stranger rode up to the Trimble cabin
and received the usual invitation:
Light. stranger, and come in outen
| the rain"
| He did. announcing himself as DR..
| Willard Harvey of Dubois county, Tenn,
visiting some friends in the vicinity He
| was a handsome man about 30 and at
| once made himself at home. The coarse
| homespun frock could not hide the Sc
ductive grace of Eutawa Trimble's
| form nor the pallid beauty of her face.
| But she was cold and impassive, ap-
| parently unmoved by the admiration of
| the strange guest. He came the next
| day, bringing medicine for the sick
! mother and several illustrated books
for the girls. He had been in Europe,
! and Eutawa began to listen with pleas
ure and wonder to his animated de-
| scriptions. At last he spoke to the father
and said he would like to have the girl
| if she would give a willing consent and
| he would try to make her future happy.
| After passing q sleep1ess night Eutawa
! accepted Harney and he rode away jubi-
| liant.
In Southern Indiana there was no
| family more prominent, politically and
! socially, than the Harneys, and the
| news of the doctors engagement threw
| his relations into something like con-
sternation. To bring a cracker girl out
| of the brush into their select circle was
terrible But the doctor was rich. with
fine plantation and some sixty slaves,
| and his own master. Sc he brought his
bride home. No countess of the old
regime could have taken her place with
! more nonchalence, while her beauty
amazed the family. But she made no
friends and treated her husbands re-
lations with utter Indifference. She was
rot happy; the only passion that had
ever stirred her cold nature was her
love for Pollock. and this was as in
tense as ever. lie was now an outlaw,
fleeing from the officers, but it was
krown afterward that he had found his
way to Indiana. and, lurking in the
vicinity of Harney's home, had met his
wife. After this her decadence was rapid
and before the year was out she began
to hate her husband. This he saw and
resented He learned of the Pollock
episode in her life ard swore to kill the
scounorel on sight. She met Pollock
for the last time, to warn him of his
danger, and, no doubt, 10 taEe means
W Jly Win nm.
Shortly after this DR.. Harvey was
coming home late one dark night from a
professional call, accompanied by a lad
that was to take back some medicine.
The boy opened the gate and the doctor
was riding through, when out of the
darkness came a flash and report, and
Harney dropped off his horse. A load
of buckshot had struck him in the back.
The shape of a mounted man was seen
for an instant wheeling his horse. The
boy had his rifle and fired. There came
! a yell, an oath ard all was silent.
The boy dragged the body to the front
door of the mansion. 1t was unlocked
and he set the dying man inside the angle
of the wall. Although much frightened
he was possessed. Suddenly a
light came glancing from above, and,
turning the angle of the wide stairs,
came a woman, her long hair hanging
down. and white as a sheeted ghost 1t
was Mrs. Harney. She raised the lamp
above her head and glanced into the OBJ
security below A short year before she
had crossed the threshold of the door a
bride, loved and honored, and now the
bright brown eyes glanced without
love or pity at her dying husband ten
steps away. Suddenly the lamp was
extinguished and she was gone.
The cries of the boy brought help, but
the doctor was dead. John Harney, his
brother, had been told about Pollock,
whom he knew by reputation. The boy