Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-10-08

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generous to say that? Are you 30
indifferent that you think everyone
else is Indifferent"
II know you are not Indifferent
you couldn't be. But you must be
true to yourself. Will you 20 to the
captain now?'
II thought of doing that at first"
she began. 1T seemed to be what I
ought to do. But when saw what
would happen; that I should be
Obliged
Il 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 do?''
IL wrote 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 difficulty?''
"sYe-es; that is, I tried to. But why
mustn't I 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
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done your responsibility ceases. There
are plenty of people who can identify
me if am taken to New Orleans
1T is very dreadful" she muir
INJURED; "only you don't seem to
realize it at ALL
Don't I? You must remember that
have been arguing from your point
of view. 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.
II 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?"
ut is more than fair. I can't un-
| derstand."
'Can't understand what?"
"How you can do this-how YOU
could do what you did last night, and
yet"
He finished the sentence for her.
-"And yet be a robber of banks. I
suppose it is bit puzzling- from
your point of view. But there are
many things indivisible by any rule
of two. May go now?"
She suffered him, and when he was
gone she went to her room to re-
write her letter. She finished it. and
hurriedly 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 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 Orleans
in time, to have procured his arrest
at Greeneville; but when the Mis-
issippi town was passed, and many
others farther on, he began to fear
that she had recanted, and to bewail
his broken ideal.
He had no means of knowing that
her letter had lain on the clerks desk
until Cairo was reached, but such was
the pregnant fact, and to this over
sight Griswold owed his first sight of
the St. Louis landing.
1t was at the landing, at the very
end of the long period of suspense,
that Charlotte saw the final act in
the drama.
The swing stage was poised in air,
and two men dropped from its out
ward end and dragged the mooring
line to ring in the levee pavement.
And then, while she looked, there was
scuffie of four, a darling. away of
one of the jules men with a small
bundle and one of the attackers in
hot pursuit, followed Immediately by
the surrender of the other The
great eye of the searchlight over her
head swung slowly shoreward, and
she saw the prisoners face and the
CLINT of metal when the officer hand
cuffed him.
Whereupon her eyes filled and she
saw no more. For, when all was said
clasped the manacles upon the wrists
of the man who was ON his way to
punishment.