Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
CHAPTED XXI.
PICTURE FROM THE PAST.

"The fact is" said Bennett, Il have
mt quite known what TO make OF MI.
t'arnhAm since he's been back on this
de II the herring pond. OF course,
asn't been well, but that would
be enough to account for the
Ha/him. Did you see him, may
"a. Stanton, when he was III
And?"
Informed him that l had done so,
sthinking it best to volunteer the
vSTatement that l had only met MIN
once. 80,
..And did he seem like himself?"
This was rather turning the tables
upon me. / was not prepared to an
swer many questions, but without hesl-
tation replied to this one, saying that,
in nv opinion, Farnham had seemed
uncommonly jolly and well.
Bennett looked thoughtful. HE got
home in Denver at hight, he SAID,
"after telegraphing from New York he
was coming l went to call at his re-
uuest-another wire-not letter-and
he saw me in bed. Mr.. Farnham is so
fond of plenty of light and noise, as
rule, but in his bed room he had re-
fused to have the electricity turned
on, and there was only lamp on the
table. as far as possible from the bed.
/ called out, How do you do? in my
usual tones, but he answered me al
most in a whisper. There was some
important papers which had been walt
ing for him to sign, and l had taken
them with me, thinking he'd be anX-
ious to attend to them-he was al
ways so keen and prompt in business
but he seemed quite angry when sug-
gested it, and said he wasn't to be
bothered about anything of the sort for
a week.
Next evening l saw him again for a
few moments, and there was the same
dim light, the same whispering. He
was going away again Immediately,
he informed me, and when | objectcd
that he didn't seem up to travelling he
answered that when there was a lady
n the case there was no question of
man being up to- things. l might
END his letters to the Santa Anna
Hotel, San Frisco, he went on, until
urther notice, which I should receive
y telegraph in about ten days if his
Jams went well. Just as l was going
e said, kind of laughing, and yet
hrtly in earnest too: Well, Bennett,
you don't hear from me at the end
that time, you'd better begin to look
> up. The game that l mean to try
Id win rs a dangerous one. There
e othe3s who want the lady besides
Now if there was town on the face
the earth that Mr.. Farnham used to
tie, that town was San Francisco. 1t
S because he hated the journey, and
er wanted to take it again, that he
ID his mine out in California to the
glish gentleman, Mr.. Wildred. l
lldn't have supposed that there was
Foman alive would have got him to
70 -ssrrr --17 Iae eisa4efScG, and i used to
Ink, too, that Mr.. Farnham didn't
are much for women; but no doubt the
onger one lives the more one learns,
and the more surprises one gets in such
matters. / needn't say much about his
being away from Denver for few days,
even at the office, he limited to me; and
with that we parted. Next morning
early he left, and not line have l had
except a wire, merely announcing his
safe arrival at the Santa Anna Hotel"
= l listened in silence. Before Bennett
: bad finished speaking my thoughts
were far away-as far as San Fran
cisco.
"By Jove.'I exclaimed aloud, with
pulsed to bursting in the little veins at
my temples, The Santa Anna Hotel"
DO you know it, Mr.. Stanton?" in
quired Bennett, evidently surprised at
my sudden vehemence.
Il was there once many years ago."
] said. The name has brought back
an old association to my mind which |
had thought was lost
I knew now where / had seen those
strange light eyes of Carson Wildred's,
and what was the deed with which they
had connected themselves in my mind.
After all, perhaps, ! 9ad not come to
. America for notkiSg
\ My memorl kavelled back over a
space of ter Ears. | had then come
~ to SaD2ncisco after an eXpedi-
kpt/nstant wilds with party of
Is shooting grizzlies in the Rock
had stobped at the Santa Anna
4otel, a small hostelry lately built,
Rhaving an Engl lsh landlord, and there
fore greatly ftequented by English
men.
On the night of my arrival there had
been a great disturbance in the house.
Three men who had been stopping at
the place got quarrelling over a game
of cards which they were playing in
private parlor. Two, who were the
hosts, and were entertaining the third,
had set upon him with intent to kill,
being accused of cheating. | and sew
eral of my friends had run out from the
billiard room, hearing yell for help,
just in time to see a man in evening
dress stagger, bleeding, from the oppo-
site door. I'm killed! That devil has
murdered mel he exclaimed and fell
forward on his face.
At BENEFITS ention of the Santa
Anna Hotel the hole scene had come
up before me as Sividly as though it
had been enacted hut yesterday. The
open door, showing a brilliantly light