Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-07-29

2O's,-N$-N3
i She raised herself on her pillows
again and looked downward, playing
with her singers. She spoke very
fast, but the words are burned in on
my Nbrain.
You must know, then, dear VIII
by" she began, that daddy did not
always do as he should. He gambled.
as L told you. We had less, and less
money. Sometimes he would come
home with great deal. Then we
lived well. and he bought me lovely
clothes. Then, when it was gone.
and we had not enough for food. he
would reproach himself dreadfully.
Sometimes he would leave me at the
hotel for days and go away alone.
When we moved to sort of a pen
sion, kept by an English woman. he
did the same. Tt was very lonely
there for me. But always when he
came home he would bring some
money, so i bore these absences for
the results that would come to Us
we needed money so much. One day
he came in more fush-I mean with
more money than usual. We had .
| splendid time. We feasted and went
on long drives and he took me to the
theater, and things were gayer than
ever they had been. Then one dav.
one dreadful day, when all our mon
| ey was spent and we were feeling
rather poor, the English consul
walked in. He came to our parlor
without knocking. He opened the
door and came up to daddy and he
just said Where is Robertson?' Dad
dy turned white. Oh, 1 shall never
forget it, never! Dear daddy! II
loved him even if he did do wrong,
and l love him still''
The girl was shaken with a par-
oxysm of dry sobs. She writhed and
groaned. "Oh daddy!" she murmur-
ed, dear, dearest daddy" 1 tried
to soothe her. "No, let me finish"
she said, sitting up and speaking
very fast. 81 must-I must get this
over. We had servant, an English
man named Haughtry. He had been
with daddy. He had heard the fight,
had seen the blow. For, dear Wibby.
there had been fight and blow.
Unless daddy gave him money
Haughtry, l mean-he said that he
He came in just as the consul had laid
his hand on my father, and stood
looking threateningly at him over the
consuPs shoulder. Then dear old
daddy got up-oh! oh! / was there!
[ was there! and had to see-I had
to see! Sir he said-you know
daddy's courtly manner, he was ever
craftsmanship he said, not rails
ing his voice at all, you have the adj |
vantage of me, but I'll be damned if |
L won't soon have the advantage of |
you With that, before anyone knew
what he was intending, he drew his |
revolver and shot himself through |
the heart
Eugene Darlington took his own |
life?" Yes, yes, remembered now
to having heard something of the
kind, but we always supposed it was |
after the death of little Amaranthe |
and because of his despair at her
less.
Again she shook with those con-
vulsive sobs. Her face was flushed.
Her features twitched. "And that
man, that Haughtry, he it is who has
bounded me ever since. That is
where all my spare money has gone,
all that | make by my nursing. He
follows me everywhere. 1t was so
in England, it has been so in America.
He told them at the hospital in Lon
don that my father was a gambler
and thief, that he had killed a man,
and then killed himself. Where
eversI go he threatens to denounce
me, and / have lived life of the YER
lest torture. And now he has found
me even here. l had a little money
besides the amount which 1 gave you
to take care of. He insisted upon
my giving him that last night. It
was our voices that you heard. 1
declared that he should not wiring
from me my last sou. When 1 went
back into the room after my attempt
at bravado with you, he was still
there: He seized me, and 1 know
not what-gave me some OF that
dreadful stuff perhaps, she point
ed. to the handkerchief-":I do not
know. Perhaps he has my money.
perhaps not. Do look, dear Wildly.
the corner of the top drawer. have
been too i'll. Oh! how my head spins
round and round. Oh, if he has TAX
en- 1T, and my mothers diamond pen
dant, what shall I do?'' ran to the
chiffoniere. opened it. There
was nothing in any corner, either
front or back.
Il am afraid it is gone" said /.
hat 11 / =