Connecticut western news., 1899-03-02

| tered the church. limping on a crutch. his head swathed in bandaGes, his face battered out of all recognition.
 Thrown from his carriage while l driving, be said And only Dr. Hardin knew that Martin Dome had waylaid him in the woods and beaten him al most to death.
  In the city of Knoxville the young couple were living happily. but it was noticed that Mrs Crawford was always tired and i'll. that her step dragged and that the light had gone out of her eyes Of Martin Dome only one thing was certain-that he was somewhere in the mountains and that be had joined the noonshiners and that the officers were after him.
 One night Dr. Hardin and his two boys were found unconscious by the roadside, clubbed into oblivion by White Caps.
 Martin Dome, " said everybody Yet beyond his hate there was no evidence against him.
 It was known positively that he had left Tennessee and gone into Texas, and every one felt happier.
 We're waiting for him; he'll find us here when he drifts back, said the old doctor with a quiet smile. At sum- rise the next morning the villagers brought home the dead body of his old est boy. shot through the heart in . fight, and the fight had it's origin over the jilting of Martin Dome by Ellen Crawford
 Two years had gone-two years of hopeless waiting and watching by the father. robbed of all that had made the sunshine of his old age His hair was white now. his step was feeble and halting, his voice was weak and tremu- lous His 65 years had changed to 70.
 But one day yellow envelope was put into his hand. It was a telegram that bore the signature of T. E. Lake, . private detective:
 "l have found your man hiding in a saloon," it said. ''I have him fast. Come to Knoxville or send Crawford and swear out the warrant for his ar rest"
 Crawford and the father stood in the office of Commissioner Broyle, awaiting the arrival of the detective and the po- lice with their quarry They came pres sntly. and the enemies stood face to face. The faces of the father and the husband gleamed with hatred of the man who stood before them in rags that would scarcely hold together unshaven, un- kempt, haggard, poor and i'll, with the hunger of many days and nights.
 And then all started to their feet as graceful little figure that they knew stood in the doorway with hand uprais- ed. light in her eyes such as her hus- band had never seen there.
 "Send that man awayP
 These were her first words. Her fin ger pointed at the detective
 He shall not harm a hair of Martin Domes head ''
 Father and husband strode toward her and grasped her by the arms.
 'Girl, do you know what you say do you know what this meansp" cried the doctor.
 "I do, !" she answered. "He must not be arrested"
 Lake dropped his hold of the prison CT. stood with his mouth wide open and stared at the woman.
 ''Let me be sure that understand this clearly, said the husband after pause. Let me know that 1 am not mad or dreaming This is the situation as clearly as can make out: This man has ruined your father. be has tried to kill me, he has brought about the death of your brother, yet you say that he shall not be punished. !"
 'I mean that if he be punished will go with him to the end of the world," she answered, looking at Dome with all her heart in her eyes. What care l for what he has done? He loved me and we were to have been man and wife be- fore you and l ever met. The wrong has been my wrong. The fault has been my fault from the beginning. It is all a mistake-all dreadful mistake.
 Her eyes softened and her voice melted into tears as she gazed upon the broken man before her. And he was weeping like baby.
 'I thought thought-you had for gotten the old days when we were ohil- dren and all in all to each other" he sobbed.
 "I never forgot" she softly said. "Now, father. take me home. am tired of living this life"
 Will the husband kill the man who holds the love of his wife? Will Dome kill the man who robbed him of his sweetheart?'' ask the men.
 What fools men arel She wasn's worth the trouble. say the women.- New York World.