The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-11-04

ana staring eyes
Don't look so frightened, child.
There was something of the old musical
.---s, --~N "S'h ~
sweet in her cars. With the memory
She shuddered through all her frame
"Do you hate me as much as that?"
facing her and looking down on her
with half-amused eyes. "Wcll, was a
brute, but We ID been such fools"
He paused, as if waiting for her to
speak.
"Let me look at you-you haven't
crown younger. And you really
Thought me dead? Well, had a mar
row chance for it. Look" He turned
lis face and showed the track of bull
let across the temple and side of his
,cc. 1.-The officers knew better, but
icy let it go at that-they didn't care
to report a successful escape"
Still She stood mute.
Cant you speak? a man might think
you were not glad to sec him."
sit is such a surprise, she half whis-
pered, with rigid lips.
''No doubt Is that fellow going to
marry you? | happened to be in the
ighborhood last night and got the
nefit OF that sccne-nice thing for a
IN to he looking at-his own wife,
o. I'd a great mind to send Il bullet
through his head"
"IIe did not know. He was as inno-
cent as ! was"
'Oh, no doubt-quite. No, Helen. that's
not fair. | always did do you justice
in my heart, in spite of your internal
temper. You've kept straight, | know
But what came here for to-day VS. to
ask what he meant"
He did mean that I should be his
wife"
We'll" doubtfully, the law frees
you. If he's going to marry you, l sup
pose it's all right"
80, Payne, can't you see?--it's all
yer. How can | marry with you liv-
lg? was happy for the first time in
II these years" piteously. Il have
Jeen so hopeless, so dcspairing, and it
seemed as if might live on forever"
where's the baby?"
Dead" with a little moan.
A faint culver crossed his face. ''Its
a good thing, may be. And so you
won't marry because l happen to be
alive? And you don't love me, either.
Women are queer things. If I'd been
sure that he meant honest, I'd have
kept out of the way. A man can't see
his own wife imposed on, even if he has
gone back on her" half deprecatingly
What are you going to do?" wildly
'Must go with you?"
$50 with me? No, thank you.
shall get away from here shortly.
had business here, and ! give you my
word that | did not know you were
here when l came. But we shall finish
up shortly now, and then I'll be off
And look here, you shan't be fooled
again. I'll make certain that you are
told when do 60"
She had been standing all the while
He came close to her now.
Cant you give me a l1iss?" STOPPING
his still handsome face toward her.
80, no-no," she shrank back SILVER
ing.
"And your husband, tool You tool
it much more coolly the other night,
with a careless laugh. ''Well, good
bye. / shan't see you again, mos
likely. Keep straight Helen. know
men better than you do. He's hand
some fcllow-not much better than
was before | got this beauty-marlx
though-and just as likely to be no bet
ter sort"
She sank down on the floor as he wen
out. BY and by she pulled down tn,
pillow from the couch near by, and la,
there sobbing and shivering. Sam LIE,
coming in for directions for the evening
meal found her with closed eyes, an,
fancying her asleep spread shawl owe,
her and left her, following the device,
of his own N"~''t ovor the cook stove.
Continued next week.