Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-20

his head as though there were a
great weight upon it.
Gentlemen" he said, this wo-
man."
Her fingers grew up tight along her
cheek, and were clinched. He paused
| long.
Il come to the conclusion" counsel
said, that she lied" Why? Per
chonce for the noblest of woman s
reasons, TO shield another"
He grew intense and terrible; he
swept the whole room with his burn
ing eye of scorn, and cried:-
Let me recall, then, her testimony,
her sacrifice, the hallowed perjury or
her woman's heart She does not
deny that the murdered man was not
her husband. She swears that this
| defendant knew her secret, and was
forever bounding her and her com.
| panion in their hiding, demanding and
| receiving from the murdered man o
tribute for his silence. She swears
that en- the fatal night this prisoners
intrusions had gone so far beyond en-
| durance that her paramour rebelled
and when defendant once again de
handed tribute for his silence, there
then ensued bitter quarrel, leading
| to struggle, in the midst of which
; this prisoner drew his weapon from
his pocket, and before her eyes fired
the fatal shot and, fed.
Gentlemen, is there not in this
very tale an admission which eA,
| plains her reason for inventing it?
Secret? Anal" He shook his hand
in air; his face was deathly pale, ana
his eye was again the daring one
that had looked into the California
sun. What secret? What secret is
this that turks behind the painted
/ the canvass of fabrication, hold
ing within itself the germs
, secret, locked in the bosom of this
| woman, sealed by the thin and cum
ming lips of this defendant, you with
never know. But see! He wrested
from them tribute for his silence. Who
who, gentlemen of the jury, could eve.
feared. And if they feared, and fear
ed to such a degree that they would
pay thus heavily for safety, was there
not then pursuing them, or ready to
+ pursue, some being who inspired that
fear, some being" counsel's voice
was hoarse and his tall body bent far
over toward the jury, some being
whom these two had wronged, ready
: for vengeance breathing out of the
black night of this unbelievable
mystery fire of hate and death, like
pursuing ligtnings from the bosom Of
! the midnight storm-ready, therefore,
, to slay?"
! Flung upward like the eucalyptus
cree, when the wind has passed, his
tall form Strengthened. The woman
had gripped the tables edge; she
seemed stunned.
! And if pursuing" continued coun
/ sci for the defense, again with great
WEAKNESS, perhaps finding at last.
In spite of conceaIment, in spite o.
tribute, in spite of shame, repentance.
misery, and woman's anguish-per-
haps successful at last! Who knows
what form of man emerges at length
from out the shadows behind them,
man loving her still, loving her still
with all his soul, trampled and poison.
ed though to be? Who knows what
lonely figure stands upon the shore at
Newport bay at night, the goal before
him, and the wreck of life behind!
See; yonder is the island, small
blacker spot in his worlds blackness,
yet thereupon for him, the lurid fires
of hell. He enters his beat and
rows thither; the night breathes
damply on his ruin; the night en-.
velops him in clinging wells of gentle
ness; yet here upon this island, here
in these lonely cottage walls. still
glow for him the lurid fires of hell.
He lands. He walks straight up the
hight. A beam of light issues through
the crack of the door; he opens. and
stalks in
Counsel for the defense was trem.
bling; over the face of counsel for the
defense fed horrid pallor. The wo
man seemed as though, at the very mo-
ment when she must scream, she was
turned to stone.
THE lamplight falls upon him.
The door is closed. Behold revenge!
Behold the mighty retribution, glar
ing upon them, it's eyes set in rock.
Yet even as she gazes on him, dumb,
there rushes into her woman's orbs
a food of terrible relief. To the bot
tom of the pit has her suffering ami
her shame descended, and up out of
the bottom thereof her repentance
and her love arise. Behold, with all
her heart, still she loves him. And he
glazing upon them with the eyes that
are set in rock with all his wretcheo
and poisoned soul, he loves her stin.
And as he stands, the wretch who
stabbed them both springs up, AMI
fearing death, plunges upon the dread
ed apparition. And the apparition,
drawing his weapon, fires, and Stays
her slavery and breaks her chains,
and fees
The jury marked how the fingers