The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-27

! have guessed it. 1t became a matter o
common county gossip that the aristo
| cratic Miss Turner was in love Will
one Of her fathers farm hands.
What will the dear old gentleman say
when he finds it out?" cried the gentry
who had grown up under his eyes They
predicted all sorts of violence, and il
| due course their predictions were fulfilled
Somehow Mr.. Turner, horror stricken
disguised, found cut that his daughter
nourished a feeling of some tenderness
for young Gilligan.
The lumber prince straightway ordered
| the young man off his grounds and out OF
! his house. He threatened all sorts OF
| things. The willful Isabelle was dis
! patched back to school. and her disap-
| pointed father, after raging and swear
| ing for a week, believed the affair." by
| the might of his Will, concluded.
The young couple. meanwhile, decided
| wisely that discretion lay in silence. They
| decided TO keep quiet and bide their time.
| The lovely Isabelle, at the end of a few
months, again returned on a visit TO
her fathers house. She was demure and
calm, and apparently meek, as south
and charming as of yore and apparently
more yielding.
Her father grunted with satisfaction
over her demeanor. He believed that she
had forgotten the son Of his oveTseer.
He was the only one. however, who be-
lieved il. There We're others who knew
Of certain midnight trips 10 the garden
gate. where, in the light of the moon, a
lovely golden head was bent close to d
dark one; where, over the lodge gate,
hands met in soft pressure; where lips
but that is matter for conjecture
In the trunk Of an old tree which had
been followed out by hungry squirrels.
love letters were hid that might, 10 the
eyes Of the curious, have revealed much.
At odd moments Isabelle Turner would
fly out OF her fathers house TO deposit
there a word of love
Just when Mr. Turner was beginning
to reproach himself with having 50 long
forbidden young Gilligan the house he
suddenly discovered once again the secret
that had been open to every one else.
His commands had been disregarded He
swore and fumed again Then. in digni-
fed silence. he prepared TO receive his
daughters guests, house party invited
last Christmas, in her honor.
All the friends about the county except
the one OF all were there. II has since
D,ca revealed that he waited sore st
kealt outside in the dark, catching. by
the tights within. a glimpse OF his be-
loved dancing. whispering laughing with
other nen.
IsaJello Turner knew that he was there
va;cl ias, waiting Al a certain moment
she slipped cut &c Join him. While she
was WITH him her father went 10 the STA
be T. see that the horses OF his guests
we've beng properly cared for.
From that trip he never returned
Two hours LATER a search was made
f3- k.rn. and ne was found near the 5arn.
the tfysting place Of Gilisau ana h.S
&C lghjsr. shot through the neck. The
Y hole county was aroused Il oeclne I
known TIA. the wealthy lumber merchant
had antassnized the young farmer. ;fat 4
he had FORBIDDEN him his grounds The I.
young man had borrowed q gun n the +
ef.V, noon He had returned 4 late taat 4
evenils. remarklne 10 fts lender Is be I
dld 50. You VIII hear from this. Then 4
he bad disappeared into the countcy. }
i-afer lie retgrEed ana surrendered liua-
self,
4 shet IN sels-defeuce." he said I
Eas going hunting. ard had borrow 4
he gun for thrt purpose. Mr. Turner
arc iatn bis garden and found re 1it1
II. carghter- He th-ea tened ne
50 far Isabelle Turner. the only r;,.
less Of the crime. IS silent. She has no,
wen cs-roborated the idea tha; she we
resent when her father vas SHOT sac
.as not given siga TIA. she knows her
over committed ne crime Yet Or her