Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-12-07

remember how loved you? Think,
then, how have suffered"
'tHe wrote her a letter expressing
his amazement and utter bewilder-
ment. He photographed her of his In
ability to return at one. No answer
came. He photographed again and
again-messages that, coming from
MIN, so far away from her, were like
broken whispers of despair. No an
swer reached him. He returned to
6nd her-gone. To his frantic in
quiraes he received no other informa-
ton than that she had left suddenly.
without word; that her brother ac-
companied her. and THAT they rers
bound for trip around the worli.
He, as we'll, went on a trip around
the world; there were few countries
he did not visit. But he never again
saw the woman he loved. In despair
and misery he buried himself in a re-
mote town in Germany"
"That was hard case" muitere1
one OF the mel at last, and the 9th.
ers acquiesced.
II have a story that would make
an excellent second chapter to IT,"
announced one CT the men, briskly.
"It happened about two years ago,
at that very hunting club in Canada
that was talking of the otter even
Ing. You remember the eIk's head
OF mine? Well, that was the time 1
got 1t.
"One night new member appear
ed at the club. He was a man of
about forty, tail and thin, with not
much pretension to looks, though he
had most interesting face. 1t was
stern and self-contained, yet anxious,
Is If his whole being was shuddering
under some torturing Thought.
about every other night he used
to receive letter in a woman's hand
writing. 1t was always the same,
and he used to finger over these let
ters, sometimes reading them again
and again. Once We had been sitting
for some time without speaking,
when he said suddenly: I used to
think I was brave! I am one of the
greatest towards that ever lived
81 waited for an explanation He
offered none. I must have dozed for
a while. Suddenly I recovered con.
seriousness. could swear had heard
| @
| w lNtb Is 1t. dSkeu
Nothing he answered. and left
the room abruptly.
Next night we were again togeth-
er, but not as before. That day he
had shot himself, poor fellow-wheth-
er by accident or intent I never
learned. He knew he could live only
few hours, and he had some thing
he wished to tell me. bent over him.
and he. clutching my hand, gave di-
rections, to be carried out after his
death.
During that long. fearful night,
between the agonies of death, he told
me of his sister, whom he loved with
all the intensity and devotion of Ills
strong nature
Helen, he called her. She had
fallen in love with man whom he
considered unworthy of her, and
whom he so diStrusted. that, a month
before the wedding day, learning he
: was summoned west unexpectedly on
business, he resolved to follow him
without his knowledge.
Here the dying man said to me
with sob: 4 found what I then
thought to be unmistahable evidence
that he was interested in an adven-
turess. I returned to Helen. I told
her, and, as I spoke the words, she
seemed to die before me, and an.
other woman looked from her eyes
"Man.' he said. I was mistaken
; DO you understand? found out when
it was too late. and There was nc
trace of him. I have been a coward
"a coward-for 1 could not-tell-
her-what -I-had-done!'
"He sank back on his pillow, and
did not speak after that. Befors
morning The was dead"
The hwo storytellers rested thei1
eyes upon each other across the Ia
Il BILE.
"Is she still ignorant?" said thu
: first. His voice trembled, and he wa
: white to the lips.
Eyes. she lives here in this city a:
the Hotel B. / have called upol
her, but 1 could not tell her. Tel
, her of so great mistake? 1t is to-
) late"
} ct is not too late!" said Wetherby
81 will tell her! Boys" he said, "yo
} will pardon if"
But they let him say no more. an
: moment afterwards he was gone
, to finish the story.--Ehe Traveller.