Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-31

the results GnaC would come TO us,
we needed money Sc much. One day
he came in more fush-I mean with
more money. than usual. We had a
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 day,
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, I shall never
forget it, never! Dear daddy! I
loved him even if he did do wrong,
and 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" tried
to soothe her. 'tNo, let me fnish,"
she said, sitting up and speaking
very fast. ST must-I must get this
over. We had a servant, an English
man named Haughtry. He had been
with daddy. He had heard the fight,
had seen the blow. For, dear Wildly,
there had been a fight and a blow.
Unless daddy gave him money
Haughtry, mean-he said that he
would turn evidence for the Crown.
He came in just as the consul had laid
his hand on my father, and stood
looking threateningly at him over the
consuIs shoulder. Then dear old
daddy got up-ohi oh! I was therei
I was there! and I had to see-I had
to seei Sir he said-you know
daddy's courtly manner, he was ever
a craftsmanship he said, not rails
ing his voice at all, you have the ad-
vantage of me, but I'll be damned if
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
l the heart"
Eugene Darlington took his own
life?" Yes, yes, I 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 I 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 a thief, that he had killed man,
and then killed himself. Where
r o0 he fbraofan tO 6enO1Jnc0
me, and I have lived life of the YER
lest torture. And now he has found
me even here. I had little money
besides the amount which I gave you
to take care of. He insisted upon
my giving him that last night. It
was our voices that you heard. I
declared that he should not wiring
from me my last sou. When I went
back into the room after my attempt
at bravado with you, he was still
there. He seized me, and I know
not what-gave me some of that
dreadful stuff perhaps point
ed to the handkerchief-"I do not
know. Perhaps he has my money,
perhaps not. Do look, dear Wibby,
the corner of the top drawer. have
been too i'll. Oh! how my head spins
, en- it, and my mothers diamond pen
chiffoniere. opened it. There
,, was nothing in any corner, either
front or back.
> ST am afraid it is gone," said I.
At that she gave terrible shrek
!. and fell all In a heap in the middle
, of the bed, and ran to soothe her.
: Aunt Jane Mary thumped overhead
!, Glorianna came knocking at the
! door.
ooh! Oh! Do not let them come in,'
she cried. do not let anyone in
The shame of it all! Just you and
me, dear Wibby, just you and mel"
Then the poor thing got out of her
bed and slid down on the floor and
lay her head on my knees. ooh dear
Wibby," she said, edo promise me that
you will not tell soul of what
have told you. Not, soul! Not 8
soul! Promisei PROMISED"
"Bnt," L cried, "my little Amaran
= the, you must be protected! I can
: not let this persecution of you &C
on. They can do nothing to you
y You need not give this man HaughtrJ
g money. He cannot levy his black
I mail here, in my house. I will &c
to President Smith, I will see the
police"
+ ''Oh, not the police!" she murmur
a ed, ''at least not yet, dear Wildly
u Promise me, not yet"
It "But someone must protect me-"
, insisted. 81 cannot have such thing.
s going on under my roof. I cannot
r dear child. I know of an excellent
e person to ferret out the whole thing
Let me go to him"