The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-10-24

brown and roughly curly-was thin
ming and shiny and screwed into a
tight knot. Her complexion was
coarse and oily, and she was gross,
stc1id and entirely repellant to a man
of fastidious tastes. Her mind had
never risen above the gossip of the
store and corners. AS this picture
grew, so correspondingly faded the
idea which as a just man had attacked
him, hat he had done wrong in rum
ming away from her. 1t was with a
sort of pride he recollected in all these
years he had never failed to send reg
ular remittances back to her and the
child. For there had been one, but
it had not appealed to his restless
youth and still slumbering emotions
of fatherhood. His lawyer relieved
him of the delicate task of forwarding
the allowance to Bessie, Mrs. Abbott.
When he ran away be had changed
his name to Packard and she had new
er traced him, though his invaluable
legal man had once careleSSly con-
veyed to him the impression that a
vindictive and spasmodic search for
her strangely missing husband was
now and hen made by his clients ben
eiciary, Mrs. Abbott. Packard had
thanked his legal man gravely with
out vouchsafing any information on
corning the recalcitrant husband to
his expectant legal man, and had gone
to his club to offer up thanks that his
trail was covered.
Dr.. packard, the scientist, the ia
vored, the admired by the lovely and
gracious women of society and by
men of affairs-what had this man in
common with the hot-headed boy of a
quarter of a century before, whose
name was Abbott and who had been
a fool? She could never find him.
With a short sigh Dr. Packard set
down the retort he held and reached
for the glass of water he had drawn
some moments before. The day was
warm and he was thirsty. He drank
every drop before he emerged from
his mental wanderings and stood
blinking as one whose sleeping eyes
have opened suddenly on a glare of
light. Then he stumbled, sat down,
| anu SIdTSU SIuplu1y at IAO SupIy
glass. Two feet away from where it
had stood was another glass similar
in shape, filled with a colorless liquid
One of those glasses had held water,
the other had been filled with a solu-
ton he had made of a peculiar, color
less, tasteless poison. And he had
drunk one of them.
There was a dampness on his fore.
head. If it was the poison he hat
swallowed he was a dead man inside
an hour. Then of a sudden he squared
his shoulders and laughed harshly
with relief. Hastily he reached for thu
other glass-he could test its contents
and the suspense would be yer. AS h
grasped it his trembling hand shifted
the glass slipped into the sink and tn
contents disappeared down the drain
The man groaned. 1t had come Oh
him so suddenly, he had awakened t.
the everyday world so abruptly he hal
not had time to get his balance. H
was not in a normal condition to fac
such a catastrophe and he sat clutch
+. ing the table edge with starting eye
and a CHASTITY face. He did not wan
to die-he would not! A blind PAM
had him fast as he realized there wa
z no use calling for help. No one coul
save him. With nerves tingling he sa
l waiting for the first twinge of pain, hi
Imagination lending hideous aid t
reality. In a few minutes everythin
t would be ended for him If it was tn
poison he had swallowed and some
thing of his old, dominating will cam
, back a he rapidly adjusted his poir