Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-02-27

no matter If dislike and disgust took
the part OF love in her breast.
Then the wonderful freak Of fortune
that brought Airline in contact with
an eccentric old aunt who was exceed
ingly wealthy.
1t was the old story-Arline's mother
had married beneath her, and from
that hour had been as dead to ner
relatives; but when kind Proyl-
dence threw the forlorn young girl I'M
der the housekeeping carriage horses
Of the dowager Lady Wallis. and she
later on discovered that this lovely
creature was her own flesh and blood,
a sudden love for the girl sprang up
in her withered old heart, which re-"
suited in her adopting this niece as
her sole heiress.
Two years later Airline was bereft
of her eccentric, but kind relative, and
found herself once more alone in the
world this time possessed of a most
bountiful fortune.
Then it was, with the abruptness OF
a cannon shot, Captain Brand ap-
peared upon the scene.
He had a thrilling story to tell OF
his vessels laundering in a gale on
the African coast, his narrow escape
from drowning, of being cast ashore,
found by wandering Arabs, taken into
captivity, sold some years later to
tribe of the Great Sahara, so that he
finally drifted to Dahomey where,
through the assistance of the faithful
woman he had been forced to marry,
he eventually made bold and success
full escape, though his companion gave
up her life in throwing herself in
front of a spear that was meant for
him.
Airline accepted it all as gospel truth,
and would have at the time believed
even a much more miraculous series OF
adventures could such have been by
any means invented by this modern
Munchausen.
This was before she knew Captain
Brand so we'll
She spent money with a liberal hand.
He was enabled to indulge his love
for fine clothes to its full bent. He
smoked the finest cigars, drank the
most expensive liquors, and she feared
ne frequently INDUCED in gaming.
Thus a year went by.
Captain Brand had ceased to beg for
money. He demanded it as his right,
and in sums so large that Airline was
growing alarmed.
He had tried to influence her to
make her will leaving all her wealth
to him; something might happen to
her, though Heaven forbid, and she
would not like to think of the great
property going to strangers while her
poor papa was left unprovided for.
Airline refused to do as he requested.
within warning her against
it.
Some time after the dreadful sus-
picion had flashed into her brain that
Captain Brand was having Will
forged to suit his ideas governing the
case.
Even then she had not realized what
this might portend. How should an
innocent trusting young girl DESTROYS
Of bestowing all reasonable benefits
upon the man she had come to believe
was her father-how should she sus-
pect that this ungrateful man could
,onspire with unprincipled confeder-
ates to actually take her life, yet by
sucn means as would make it seem
cruel accident?
While in Antwerp he had professed a
keen desire to visit the dungeons of the
Steen. and yet always made it appear
IS though she were the one most
interested in the abode of ghostly
memories.
An expedition was accordingly
planned.
Airline never could tell just how it
anne about. She remembered Captain
Brands enthusiasm in leading her
ieeper into the recesses, and how he
suddenly disappeared while she was
some object of interest;
low she waited for him to reappear,
until, growing alarmed by the dimin-
shing size of her candle, she had en-
to find her way back to the
,arty: how she tripped and fell, losing
Ter light. Then she cried out in terror
Is the awful darkness closed around
le-, but no answer came.
Then she realized that the others had
zone; that this cruel-hearted man she
allied father, had deserted her, pre-
ending to believe. no doubt, that she
lad gone above with a portion of the
,arty upon whom the horrors of the
dungeon soon Dalled.
He could also take it for granted
he had gone away with her new-found
rierds, and not show any alarm for
ours.
1t was a cleverly concocted and dia-
olical scheme, which had for its ulti-