The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-03-16


and summoning all my presence OF
mind, coolly directed him to the spot.
| did no know what had happtneo,
nor did 1 dare ret.rn. In the morning
| learned all. when MY grief for your
situation ard n for my act
prompted NE to confess, but my cow
ardice overcoming this impulse, : per-
suaded myself that could not fall
to prove yonr Innocence, and hat T
need not suffer for my deed. I there
fore returned to Paris. None knew I
had been in England. l a not given
my name at the hotel, and I assured
myself l should never be suspected.
"On reaching Paris l Immediately
started for Brindisi, whence I tele-
graphed TO you. The d~astardly part I
had played in permitting YOU to Dear
the blame, followed: but again and
again I told myself your innocence
could and must be proved without my
| confession. And then I hoped that now
| being free you might give me the love
it had been my lifelong desire to OBJ
tain. So when the Mezza ap-
peared + felt convinced the blame
might De shifted on her husband, who
l suppose had returned to his own
country where he would probably new
er be found. And this hope proving
false. Bostock's confession assured me
you need not suffer nor 1 confess.
Imagine then my despair on fnd-
| ing YOU would not believe him guilty:
hat you would have his confession
proved, and that you loved him. L
| hated him for the noble example he
had set me, and because he had sue
ceeded where / had failed in winning
! your love. All this drove me mad. n
I said such words to you as I would
! now give all the world to have left
unsaid. Then came news or the sec
o11H nnopatio,, nr3 Li- ,o,.> ~I~o~
/ resolved to set you and him free
! from all imputations of guilt by NV
confession, and then to evade the dis
grace and punishment I have not the
| courage to face.
Il know my life has peer a wastc,
and l feel it might have been other
wise, but I loved pleasure too much
and tasted happiness too little, for the
| happiness / sought in my youth | was
| never able to gain, see now the fault
was wholly mine, for had nv love for
you been great, and strong, and noble,
it would not have failed to win your
own. | have brought trouble, sorrow.
and disgrace Upon YOU, and little as I
deserve your forgiveness l hope you
| will not refuse it, made, as 1t is, in this,
! my last hour.
BE merciful, and pardon me, is the
last request of one who, though he has
deeply Wronged YOU, loves Won with =
deeper ana better love than he has
| ever felt before. I die in the belief
you will not withhold it from me. Fare
well. dear Olive, farewell. Coo bless
! you now and forever
He read through the letter. which he
| carefully sealed, and then. that if might
| reach her without fail next morning
he went out and ronned + i,to q
neishboring letter box. AS If fell Win
a thud into the receptacle. it seemed
! as If ne had sealad hic fata J]-aaIino
his way through the dense fog he re-.
| gained his study and then sat down ia
write a second confession. giving the
necessary details which uo7,ld 6ro,,o
the truth of his assertion. This when
was Intended for The nubIic he directed
to George Coris.
Everything was done now save the
most important OF ali. hut from this
he did not finch. ali nrena lions had
been made. From q drawer in his desE
he took a bottle of chloroform. and he'd
it between him and tbe light There
was more Than s,,facient t,ere n send
him into a sleep from which in this
life there could be no awakening. He
thought it strange he shouId fee, 81
calm and collected now in CONTRAST To
the disturbances he had snfferad bafore
finally resolving to seelx death -
intoxicated him as he raised + 70 his
lips and then SAT if down once move
lest he had left ,11done snufhin. 1mhin1,
he might remember and 1y;shn6 ~ AZ
when If was foo lata No nnthi,g ba ad
been forgotten and m;tb rearet ts ra "o
oenized thar there was notbine ~ do
Law his last moments He tonl, tha
bottle apain liftnd - s,ou.1u w., r,ith
2 sudden afrort ho,diw sM,unS,aa is
contants III ifo ~ Is
come tn an onI. ,ha dr, 49, m"st 10y
hegin to n.raJnza HE hr.i5 - 'ooiA
&c he >na sseS . ,,;,ror u ha 9 +,r4oa 80
his raaaetion &c tbn,,ab ha hod go .eu O..
nhanto,n Tban he dsiihnr. ~ 1eeitaa
80 ~ ,.a = ne ne asioeiateiy looheu
tive henea az" ,vo,,ia - ne, 80 soo W.. - q is.ie
~ its nresant asn eat i Iaa seilnidnee
ha1n ~reroenizina th.t 90 n.y.
,.,hiJa his ra,,saa !. Maa eolnely,
shn1,idars sbo,uaa - liza. ana p,oau
remembered how women had sn3iled IN
readily friendship had been extended
TO him, how the world had been a