The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-07-14


handsome and we'll to do. She was
liked by all who knew her, and we de-
cried her sudden marriage to the hand
some stranger who had appeared among
us only a short time before. However,
We hoped all would turn out well, con-
trary to our forebodings. He seemed to
love her, and she plainly wOrshiped
him.
"All went we'll for few months, and
we were ready to acknowledge having
misjudged the man when he left as
suddenly as he had come, and with
him disappeared practically all her
wealth, which, it seems, she had turned
over to him to carry on his business on
larger scale He was hunted for ev-
erywhere but had left no trace, and
after nearly year of fruitless effort
on the part of her friends and the po-
| lice the search was given up. The poor
| little woman was Frustrated with grief,
and her life was despaired of. But she
was brave, recovered and was ut the
time of my story earning living by
writing for the magazines. She en-
dcarcd herself the more to her friends
by her fortitude, and there We're some
among these that never gave up hope
Of finding the man who had so fOully
deceived her. was especially incensed
against him, for she was so close and
dear a friend of my family that we al
most felt her to be one of us. and when
ever clew to his whereabouts had
presented itself had followed it up re-
lentlesSly, and more than once, as
aftcrwArd found, | nearly had him. but
he had always succeeded in slipping
learned one thing-he had determined
enemy who would never let him rest
till he found him.
"And here he was ut last. 1t was n
wonder to me that. after hearing my
friends account of 'Hargrave,' l did
not recognize him Immediately in spite
Of his false name and the changes he
had made in his appearance. Should
denOunce him then and there? There
would perhaps be some difficulty in es-
tablisling his identity. | glanced at
my four kings. No: would wreak
vengeance upon him in subtler way.
avoiding scandal. yet none the less
surely rghting the wrongs my friend
had sustained at his hand. To beat the
cards l held he must have either n
straight flush or four aces. | reason
ed that since he had drawn two cards
the former was out of the question:
and for both four kings and four aces
to appear on the same deal seemed un-
likely in the extreme. Such things oc,
cur only in stories. He had probably
held three of kind and had drawn a
pair thus completing full house.
Since l had asked tor three cards he
felt sure he had me beaten: hence the
supreme confidence that caused his re-
, quest. had him at my mercy.
, would ruin him. Would take off the
, limit? Rather.
"Ue raised me $40. went him So
a better. He replied with 500 more.
, was by this time nearly as excited a
I he and was bent on running him. Ii
! order to accomplish this l had, Of
, course, to get him to wager on his hart
! all he possessed, which should have
+ been in the neighborhood Of $4,000
+ 1t was time we had reached higher fig
4 ures raised him $500 amid the prot
4 cstations of my friends.
He looked at me, and there was OF
@ his face the fiendish joy felt by MAJ
n when he has hated victim by thu
* throat. A glance Of mutual recognition
st passed between us. 1t was eviden
z that neither would give in while h
% had a dollar left. I had difficulty In ne