The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-25

have to stand before the community
shamed-deserted 6y her husband His
friends would dasown him and desp3se him
How should he go? Never TO leave her
believing he had abandoned her. never
With the community thinking he bad bSen
a seOuadTei
Texas Jack was man OF experience.
Texas Jack Seoame a confdAnte. and
Texas Jack solved the tangle. The hat
VIII blood upon It. the beef steak. and the
couplins-pin were 70 ten a story % muT-
der. Brown was 20 get on a Missouri Pa
csfic train going east Jack al once MAS 20
notify Mrs Brown Brown was not q
mind to think OF the Slashea hat That
was Texas Jacks conception. II was Texas
Jack who cut the hat and arranged the
blood Clever identined as human bioodl
and scattered the beef steak Il was Tex
- Jack waoua Mr. and Mrs Hale CONVEY
saw that night bent on this MISSION. a
business BroNn. mentally craEed. vac1bat-
lnE and unsteady. cogld not perform
Brown boarded the train. went. Bound
for Mexico. traseiins irreguiarly Tor fear
OF detection.
Among the first callers was Texas
JACK. He called on Mrs Brown
daily Not urul whole week had gene
did he pass hts important message Nos
unul Then had he the opportunity. f,er
that last call she knew her husband Was
not dead. but had run away, Before that
she had been a. times de..rious. she al
ence recovered
She could not 81. ne community. she
fei, that she had been abandoned. she
could not confess 81. She would not Or
d3nassly she would not believe the stranger.
Texas Jack bat ne brought a note.
Then Texas Jack disappeared ana iolnca
Brown and they jourueyed 20 "a mountain
range near Giuaymas. In western Mexico.
There they mined for gold They fegrd
none Brown. always conscience-striCken.
always yearnins. wasted away Texas
Jack nnany consented TO return. With most
Of their money gone. they hohoed u back
across the continent Brown. knowing the
condition ne must face what he must
fslgn became weaker and weaker aud al
last demented In Oklahoma. then Just
opened. Texas Jack left Brown. starved
and emaciafed and mentally collapsed.
after Two months trsve, ne reached home.
There never was a scar upon his head
Texas Jack was killed In the raid % fhs
Dalton gang or Coneyviile. he being oas
OF the outlaws.
Brown. after his return. concealed his
story He despised himself FOR hls folly.
He could not tel, the story without making
all his friends despise sin. II be con-
fessed mat Jack had nxed The hat ~
would have been the 5u,; Of the Nhole
community. II he hat had not been axed
he Willingly would have faced The conn
munity IN a confession confession that
he could not stand the coralns bankruptcy.
and had run away.
But ,ry AZ much as ne could 20 conceal 81.
IN conversations with intimate friends IN
after years he gave ne story up. nrss
through the occasional use OF spanish
terms for edibles. and through hts detailed
descriptions Of he pomcErunate and citron
groves and general scenery near Guaymss.
his minute knowledge 81 Mexican liquors
and Mexican customs out - feeling fo~
himself and hls pitIahle experience. he Ma
never encouraged 20 make the confession
publicly and ne never WIZ. lie went away
rentally disordersd lIs came back uaen-
,ala. collapsed impclcd by The hom.ng IN
stinct Of an animal
That is one mans key 20 ;he mystery.
He IS free 10 confess rhsf Hems
Of g. Is theoretical and nuppos nous.
he does No, expect 81 % stop controversy.
The man who believed that Brown was
assaulted ard secret~d md escaped Nil az
WAYS 50 believe Nothing could ehsnrs
him. not even further confession from
Brown 'rhe man Who believed 10 ran