The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-09-13


81 know you are not Indifferent
you couldn't be. But you must be
true to yourself. Will you go to the
captain now?'
81 thought of doing that at first"
she began. at seemed to be what I
ought to do. But when 1 saw what
would happen; that l should be
Obliged
81 understand. We must guard
against that. You must not be
dragged into it. But since you can't
go to the captain, what will you dog"
'T-I wrote a letter to Mr.. Gal
braith."
''And you have not yet sent it?"
"No; otherwise I shouldn't have
spoken to YOU"
''To be sure. But now you must re-
write it, without signing it, and send
it. I suppose you have described me
SO the officers will have no ditficulty?"
"Ye-es; that is. tried to. But why
mustn't / sign it? They will pay no
attention to an anonymous letter;
and, besides, it seems $3.50 cow
ardly."
"They will telegraph to every river
town within an hour after it reaches
New Orleans; you needn't doubt that.
And as for it's being cowardly, it is
nothing of the kind. 1t is your duty
to point me out, and when that is
done your responsibility ceases. There
are plenty of people who can identify
me if I am taken to New Orleans"
eft is very dreadful" she muir
mured; "only you don't seem to
realize it at ALL"
"Don't T? You must remember that
have been arguing from your point
of view. l shall escape if I can do
it without taking advantage of your
candor."
BY this time her fear of him had so
far departed that she asked him what
he would do.
81 shan't try to run away. So far
you have bound me by your frank
ness. When the officers appear, my
parole will be at an end Is that
fair?"
sit is more than fair. I can't I'M
derstand.''
Cant understand what?"
GLOW you can do this-how you
could do what you did last night, and
yet"
He finished the sentence for her.
-"And yet be robbcr of banks. 1
suppose it is bit puzzing-from
/, your point of view. But there are
many things indivisible by any rule
Of two. May l go now?"
She suffered him, and when he was
gone she went to her room to re-
write her letter. She finished it. and
i hurricdly gave it to the night clerk,
and straightway knew that her peace
of mind was wrecked for the remain.
der of the voyage.
Such, indeed, was the fact. After
time enough had elapsed to admit OF
the letter reaching New Orleans she
became a coward of landings, fear
ing lest she should see him taken.
Nor was Griswold without his
nerve-wrenchings, though as the voy
age grew older he began to take
heart of grace. In the ordinary
course of things, Miss Farnham's let
ter should have reached New Orlean.
in time to have procured his arres
at Greenevile; but when the Mis-
issippi town was passed, and man,
others farther on, he began to fea1
that she had rccanted, and to bewai
his broken ideal.
He had no means of knowing tina
her letter had lain on the clerks desl
until Cairo was reached, but such wa!
the pregnant fact, and to this over
sight Griswold owed his first sight O
the St. Louis landing
1t was at the landing, at the yer,
end of the long period of suspense
that Charlotte saw the final act il
the drama.
The swing stage was poised in air
and two men dropped from it's out
ward end and dragged the moorins
line to n ring in the levce pavement
And then, while she looked, there wa
n scuflle Of four, n darting away o
one of the jules men with small
bundle and one of the attackers il
hot pursuit. followed Immediately b,
the surrender of the other. Th
great eye of the searchlight over lie
head swung slowly shorewartl, ant
she saw the prisoners face and tn
. CLINT of metal when the officer hand
; cuffed him.
Whereupon her eyes filled and sh
saw no more. For, when all was sait
1t was she and no other who ha
/ clasped the manacles upon the wrist
, of the man who was on his way t
punishment.