The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-11

to avert 1t by act or at cost?''
The major WITH eyes piercingy on miser-
able man. replied with one pregnant sentence.
Then forced your wife to suicide?"
No he began but before another could follow
Miss Tuttle respondent in beauty and beamng with
life, broke in with fervid cry: sss
You wrong him you wrong by a sugges-
ton 1t not her husband but conscience that
forced her to this retributive Jeffrey might
proved obdurate and blind to the
nifty of her guilt l do not
cent of influencing her
at finding she had taken her punishment into her own
hands,
Mr.. Jeffrey please question: insisted
the major Whereupon the latter with
earnestly
II did nothing to influence her condition
do so. was benumbed-dead. When me
it in words mutered in seep-I thought
was laborng under fearful nightmare;
persisted, and questioned her,
was like man turned instantly into stone, for
intolerable throb Within everything passes
by like young seemingly SO inno-
cent and light hearted Gentlemen you
thought guilty of wife's deahthis young fairylke
creature to whom ascribed all the virues
Ing willing that should think willing face the
dstrust opprobrium was
sister, the noble whom you--rather
than that the full known and
be given up execraton. We thought we
could keep the secret-we felt keep
we took an oath-in French-n the carraee1u;tb +he
detectives opposite kept kept
it. But it all useless tiny bit of hang
ing to feess splinter and all efforts, all the
and of weeks gone naught world will
know of her awful deed-and II
He still loved her That apparent in look
word he uttered We marveled silence
were glad when the major said
THE deed an unprecedented one on
her part Is that why her honor you
and you reputation if not the
life of the who to it?"
Yes, it unpremedtated; hardly realized her
you must know her heart thru, all this areadf,,
business we have her words to show
spent the last miserable writing. The
few lines which showed the captain have
lie The real letter. telling terrible truth
kept for myself and for the sister who already
Oh! we did everything could" again he moaned:
but it was in vain; quite in
There were signs of subterfuges now, and we
ALL unless except aDurbin, yield credence
Durbn gives name he has
once heard associated with
And this Pfeifer contracted to her? "A man she
had secretly married while schoolgirl who at this
very critical instant had found his way to the house."
you shall read her letter. meant for me- for
me ony-but you shall see it. / cannot tain Of him o. ~
her crime 1t unable to think of
anything else since first those from her
lips in Sleep hirty-six hours before with
the inconsistency suddenly broke forth
into the details he shrank from
She *muttered. lying there that no bigamist
That she had killed she married the
other Killed him IN the old house and by the
ancestors had taught T. risen on nv elbow LIST
ened with the sweat oozing my forehead but not be-
heving her. any more than believe such
words uttered in dream by darling of your heart
But when with a long-drawn murmured muir
derer and raised her fsts-tiny fists hands which had
kissed thousand tmesand the air an aw-
full terror seized and grasp and hold
them down. but hndered by inner recol
under which I could not speak, gasp nor move OF
course it dream horror aboring under
nightmare of unmaginable thoughts but was
to hold back; and again and her
resumed its old found
myself staring at her almost If true-what she
had said-that word-that awful which no woman
could use with regard to herself in unless
something echo from the discordant
weeks married life, like doubt
In my shocked and rebellous breast till
dawn nothing in that Frightening seemed real
not her face lying buried in its youthful upon
pillow, not the objects weknown priced which we
were surroundednot mysef-most of ALL myself
the icy dew oozng from the my hair was
real unless shat shape, persistent
which lowered in the shadows Of
eternal separation between my WIFE was thing
which could be caught and strangled
chatter like madman but did
did when, in the bright, sunlight her eyes
slowly Enclosed and she started to bending
her, but not with my usual kiss or glad good morning
question he smile which
slowly to her lips too piteoust
waited till after breakfast Then while seated
where she could not face, whispered the ques-