The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-28

SHE GRABBED AT HIS COAT TAILS
BUT MISSED.
Never You We're at the Hole-in-the-
Wall eating hard crabs and drinking
lager beer with Harriet Worthington
Slower and I can produce seventeen
witnesses to swear to it,"
"S'deathi Then some body has SIAN
dered me Mabel, get on your 81 hat
and SO Jacket and come with me. I will
prove that my enemies have consDired
to work my downfall. Come
Henry didn't think she'd walk mile
through slop and rain to settle the mat
ter but in two minutes she was ready.
His cold bluff didn't work, and they had
scarcely reached the corner when he
made a bolt for it. She grabbed at his
cOat-tails, but missed. and next moment
he was half block away.
May the vengeance Of heaven fall
upon him." Kissed the beautiful girl
through her clenched gold-illed teeth.
Her prayer was speedily answered. IN
crossing the street Henry lodged an
ice wagon to jump i'm front of a moving
street car. and all the motorman heard
spair as the cruel wheels cut the young
man into eight pieces and stacked them
up ready for the coroner's inqrest.
NOW ana LneN the ulIul
shone through the pine treetops and
lighted UP the face of Ethel Drayton rs
she waited.
She was not waiting for her ears to
set frOst-bitten TO bring Il pink rose to
them put for Archibald Mainwarning,
the populGr clerk of the Red Front drug
store.
They loved. but alas, a hard-hearted
parent had forbidden Ethel to marry
without his consent. She had wept ard
tod h. 81 0A
finally consented to elope with Archie.
That evening at O'Clock was the hour
set. He had saved up ST., and they
were to fly to some island in the Pa
cifc ocean and live on love and green
cOccanuts
Nine o'clock had come and gone. Nine
o clock at night means nothing to
woman fifty years old who is darning
socks while waiting for her old man to
come home from the corner saloon, but
to d young and beautiful girl waiting
to elOpe it means much. Footsteps
wers heard at last but they turned out
to be those of a wandering mule. a
voice seemed to call to her from out Of
the darkness, but it proved to be a boy
on his way to the grocery after jug
of molasses A rustic in the bushes
gave he- hope for a moment, but WHEN
"a hog stepped forth and gave grunt
her heart became like lead.
He has made a guy of me- sighed
Ethel as tears filed her eyes and her
cold feet grew colder. Yes, Archie
has tOyed with my heart, and there is
nothing for me now but death I had
q feeling that it might be so. and that
is why I brought along this corkscrew.
Seei 1 jab it into my heart and twist
it around and die as brave girl
should"
Ten minutes later Archie arrived. He
had been detained at the store to put
up a prescription for a rheumatic old
lady, and had run all the way to the
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heap on the snow with the cOrkscrew
still clasped in her hand. He saw at
once that all the patent medicines in
the world would not bring her back
to life. and with wild hal" on his
Trembling lips he seized himself by the
hair and broke his own neck and fell
dead beside her They were not buried
i'm one grave, but their souls met in
the better land and knew naught but
happiness
The purse-proud Colonel Stivers sat
i'm his library with a frOwn on his
marble brow. and now and then he
gritted his teeth like man sitting
down on a carpet tack. Presently a
footman carefully opened the door and
hoarsely announced:
Thomas Jones. of the Jones family,
my lord"
Let Jones enter" was the stern re-
ply.
Forty-two seconds later a young man.
with two watch chains strung across his
noble breast, stood in the presence of
the grim man Of destiny. If the young
man shivered q little YOU must not
blame him. He was still wearing his
summer socks. and he loved the proud
mans daughter Molly with a terrible
lo-a-
Young man." began the Colonel. after
he had tortured his victim for several
long mRutes by looking at his toes. I
understaad that you want to make my
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