Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-03-24

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only posipOned.'
"'Arc Won madY he questioned,
that you would destroy a life so
full of promise 7 Listen, Charlie.
She loves You. and your slrangt
conduct is causing her acu'e dis.
tress. Even tonight she expected
lOn'
" Traitorv | exclaimed. DID !
not hear you tel her of yonr love,
that you should thus taunt meg
"'Net mine, Charlie, but yours
he answered calmly. q was TOO
good friend to both not TO inter
fere. l left my heart behind me,
old fellow, and only spoke tonight
b, cause tomorrow ] had determln-
ed TO set out for The East to bring
back my brde. In fact. lbe moon
is shining 80 clearly, ! think will
ride part Of the distance tonight,
leaving my horse at tie rail- Dad
station, and You eau send for it to.
morrow. VIII YOU not bld me-
good by and God speed7'
"SlIenily | clasped his out
stretched hand, my heart too full
to spe K.
"'One moment he added. Il
received today one thousand dol
lars, half of which l leave with you,
to 90 on with tie improvements
we have talked Of DO The best
\ on can with 1t. old fellow and
haye a welcome vixen | come back.
not ou'y for yonr old friend, bn
the tie wife VIII is TO come So
far o share his lO'.'
"How happy were my waking
dreams that night. ! cannot tell
you. A grrAC load seemed lifted
from my my hear. AT last ! h id .
fnture-a future Meta might BE- in
duced to share. had thrown m,
self. dressed, on my lounge, ano
not until the lark bcgar this morn
ing carol dli my excited brain a.
'oS my tired eyes 10 close in sleep.
"I was sleeping still, heavily,
when lOnd kpuck at my door
arouse me. Hastily springing mp
aud opruiug it, I found, to my
mazrmrut, a sheriff AMI hls men
" no violence he said. 'You are
arrest ed in the name OF he law
An. for ~ hat oilense3'
7 e murder OF your friend,
+. a,I Graham =
"PAl- and brathle~s, ~t.gcert d
back. Il ger Graham murdered
Roger, " ho bad .av. d my hie, an'
gwen ne 0tck b aud apIines'
nut feA hours neinre2
The plciuIr Wis too much iol
ne ! woOued aNat. awak, n
i to fnd myself il frlon'S cell
accused of The mnrder Of m' dear
est friend, the motiye, gain an'
Jealousy.
The five hundred dollars he haC
gwen me were found IN my pos
session; ny horse absent from th'
stable, wandering IN the woods; on
barrel OF my revolver emptied, ib'
bullet fitting the hole in lis TEN
Pile.
"EveR the lawyer summoned fn
nv defense shook his head. NJ
trial was merely a matter Of form
The inry were not out haitian honr
Their verdict, murier in the ti's
degree; the sentence, TO be hange'
bv The meek until life was extinct
Once Meta came to me, but Sh
was so changed, so worn, that !
was more bitter pang than deai
to look upon her. In that silen' cel
VT tod each other TIE story ri on
love-'he love which proved ne
death. DistTangbt with terror 6
the end quietly creeping on me da
/ Ivy day. her heart broke. Nv dar
I ing died one week before, 10y mel
clful prOvldence-whioh. ass
seemed then bul mockery-my Il
! nocence was proclaimed.
$ "The man who had done th
deed, a common telon, lay at I'll
point OF death. a. d on bis de- 'rhre
h made the confession vhlcb save
i. my life. nov rendered barren OF r
!. lOl. He had known OF the sum
money in Rogers possession; b.
followed nd murdered hin, the
flrd-on v when le knew his 90
# life was already TO be made fnriel
r with some touch of ielIOw'leelin
, revealing the tru h.
~ II cannot now wonder, e
themeu, that | hesitate AT sayiI
the word which Will swear awi
the f. of man perhaps AS i'm
cent as | thank you for yo
, pa lirnce IN listening TO my story