The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-04-17

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friendship had not extended to Gerald
", They were antagonistic.
s'Send Tor Gerald y yes, now she can
zs sem Ior MIN % openly. What travesty
on g m i.l what traYesty on a
Swoman!'' Z" :%s. 1 y '.,'.,t 40 !
S he crossed over to the sea wall and
STOOD With the heaving waves before
MIN, but seeing only the broken and
Ir1ghtened figure of the beautiful wom-
an a. 70, ne had just left and the striking
but bamefully weak countenance Of
Gerald, the younger brother Of Magnus.
Magnus! .5. - "a -.
Z. The physicians eyes, which We're
hardened alI11' to all sights, grew strangely
blurred as he let surge up in his mind
memories n Of the wrongs, the sorrows,
the ceaseless miseries Of the life Just
gone out. There came an exultant
flush as he pressed the little bottle I'M
his hand. In that lay means of re-
yenge; power to repay all the betrayals
OF the silent banker for bringing JUS
tlce down to earth. 1t was certainly
his duty at the inquest to tell without
reserve all he knew. He was the only
person who had power to authorita1
lively dispose Of the future Of the wid-
oW OF Magnus Weatherman.
The knowledge buoyed him up with
barbaric gladness. There had always
been rebellion In his blood when those
violent eyes Of hers had softened only
at Gerald's step, had frightened only
at Gerald's delicate compliments, had
besought only Gerald's approval or for
giveness. They had simply spoken toll
GRAFTON in Magnus' direction, and Drj
Raymond recalled the night he had
spent with her husband, when he hadj
just for the once, broken down in his
iron sterness and craved human SYM
pathy along with the weaker ones on
earth. He had never forgotten that
night. He would testify at the inquest
and preserve the bottle.
DR.. Raymond walked briskly down
the drive to meet his carriage. There
was concession in his head. He found
himself saying. ITO what end?' and
then he stopped again and SURVEYED
the facts coldly. Should he testify full
~ at the inquest rapidly he saw the
result; great newspaper sensation, a
notorious trial, the complete, final and
just agony Of a wicked but luxurious
and retiring Woman-dishonor for her.
maybe death; wreck and ruin at any
rate. Who would be served? And
then there was Magnus Weatherman's
child. His life demanded RECOGNITION
IN the same measure as his fathers de-
manded revenge. On the other hand
DR.. Raymond smiled agrimly, slowly,
While his coachman wondered at his
strange actions as he walked up and
doWn-on the other hand, was there
not finer and more perfect revenge,
a more lingering penalty for her sin i?
he knew Gerald Weatherman, he knew
him to the dregs Of his shiftless, cow
ardly, dishonorable soul; knew Just
how he would torture the shiverine
woman in yonder when his base pas
sion for her had run itself out; she was
one of the dainty ones of creation.
marVelously led astray by her mis-
taken love; when once he became her
husband and she comprehended Ger
aid Weatherman, life would be to her
a hell surprising imagination. And
the child, Magnus' child, would be
spared q stain upon his name.
DR.. Raymond looked up almost cheer
fully. He stepped into his broughman
and said: '.Home.'' Then he unlocked
the treacherous little bottle and as he
Woo A1ohAJ u1Vcu dIOuS uclu IL upside
down out of the window till the pow
der was gone. Next he broke the bot
tie and threw it away.
YES" he said, with 4 weary droop
Of the head az be saw once more the
silent, qesertc~u chamber in the Wealth
nome, with the still, patient fig
ure of the murdered man on the couch,
s'it is much better to send for Gerald
-Dranoll, in Chicago News.