The border vidette., 1900-01-06
HIS SCARLET
 SHAME /! Or A Chapter from tbe Life of a Livinq MephistOpheles.
Concluded from last week.

! lsssness. saying had clothed and fed
 him for years, etc. He would not listen but took me by the K of my neck and threw me out of his office q weigh about 120 pounds and he is a giant in strength and stature.l From that hour my heart was filed with a { frenzy of rage and despair. I was in-
 sane. I determined to kill this scound-
 rel who had ruined my life, and would have done SC but just at this critical time my son returned to Sacramento He saw the condition I was in, begged me not to do anything rash but to come away to southern California, and he, who still loved me in spite of every thing, would take care of me. For his sake I gave up my vengeance but it was a terrible struggle: it was like giving up life itself
 A prominent attorney of Sacramento to whom 1 told this, said jury could not have been found in Sacramen to that would have done anything to me if had killed this man.
 l now wont to ......... and quietly told him I was willing to leave town if he would make some settlement with me. This was the state of mind he had long tried to bring me to. He talked very grandiloq uently about it being a debt of honor that he owed me, and that he intended to pay me every dol lar of it, etc., saying he would make his home in Sacramento, and If would go away Immediately he would give me what money he could, his note for the res:, and would send mo what he could from time to time until it was all paid, asking as a special favor that I give him six months to get start.
 l then figured that ho had received about ;$I2,OO0. He objected to this say ing 1 had my living also of this money. I retorled by saying the interest of this money would have kept me, and besides man is supposed to support his wife. However, We compromised at SI0, 000. He then gave me a paltry $40 % to take me out of town and his note for the $IU.0UO. With that [ had to be content and left Sacramento, coming to Southern California. Soon 1 received letter tfOm d friend in Sa- cramento, stating that . had left for MexIcO never to return, having borrowed money nom all his friends. The nervous strain that had been put upon me, the suffering that 1 had en- oured, together With Luis last plece of news, brought on d terrible illness, my mind Was utfec ted for some time, but 1 slowly crept bacK to fife to tna my self transformed into an old WoL.an with halr as white as snow.
 During the four years that have elapsed since 1 left Sacramento, I have not received any money, nor one wor q of any kind from. .... 1 lost track of hIm for some tune, but learned of hlS whereabouts thrOugh his prOpensi ty for getting hls namo In th5 paCers. SInce then, 1 have wrItGen many JInes, begging him 10 send me a lew dollars. as ne could spare It. He only ignored my letters.
 1 do not seek to palliate my own for hls sake 1 siuued, and surely he Is not the one who snouId have punished ne for it.
 With regard to .. ... ..... transac- ions in Sacramento in connection with others, 1 will mention one or two. It would take a good sized book to tell every thing. A Mrs. Ogock had q ranch about 70 mics from Sacramento. w
 -. persuaded her to trade the prop erty for an imaginary rducn which ne claimed to own ill PIacer county. She deeded her place to him but failing to get any thing Ill return, had hIrl arrested for obtaining property under false pre- tenseS Grover l.. Johnson Was her attorney and prosecuted the Case with mucn vigOr thut ---......... decided the ranch back to her to keep out of jail. The records of the oacrumen,o 0 courts viii show up this Case. ..... reY engful vlndlcaLIve spirit is shown in thlS, that he was JUbusun'S most bitter enemy after thIs, and sought to injuro him in every way possible. While as to poor Mrs. Stack .. .. cou.d