The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-03-17

17r'T-a. VoolIy directed HIM TO the spot
did not know what had happened.
! nor did | dare return. In the morning
/ learned all. when my grief for your
situation and remors for my act
prompted me to confess. but my COW
a.0tce overcoming tins impulse, | per
sutded myself that YOU could not fail
to prove your Innocence, and That l
need mo- suffer for my deed. | there
fore returned To Paris. None knew l
had been in England. l had not given
my name at the hotel. and l assured
myself should never BE- suspected.
ON reaching Paris | immediately
started for Rrindisi, whence l tele-
graphed to YOU. The d~astardly part |
had played in permitting YOU to bear
the blame, followed: but again and
again | told myself your Innocence
could II must be proved without my
confession. And then l hoped that now
being free you might give me the love
ii had been my lifelong desire TO OBJ
tain, SO when the woman MezZa y
peared | felt convinced the blame
| might be shifted on her husband. who
| had returned to his OWL
country, where he woul probably nev-
err be found AND his hope proving
false. Bostock's confession assured me
you need not suffer nor l confess.
Imagine then my despair on find
ing YOU would not believe him guilty,
that you would nave his confession
proved. and that YOU loved him. l
mated 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. and
| said such words To you as | would
now give all the world to have left
unsaid. Then came news of the see
ond operation and his recovery, when
resolved tn SpT Vnn and him free
from all imputationS OF guilt by my
confession, and then to evade the dis
grace and punishment | have not The
courage to face.
Il know my life has been q waste.
and l feel it might have been other
wise. but | owed pleasure too much
and tasted happiness too little, for the
happiness l sought in my youth | WAS
never able to gain. | see now the fault
was wholly mine, for had my love for
you been great. and strong, and noble.
it would not nave failed to win your
own. l have brought trouble. SORROW.
and disgrace upon you, and little as l
deserve your forgiveness | hope you
will not refuse ii. made, as it is, in this.
my last o
3 merciful. and pardon me. is the
last request of one who. though he has
deeply wronged you, loves you with u
| deeper and better love than he has
" wv " ! wv W VIZ Civ
you will not withhold it from me Fare
we'll. dear Olive, farewell. God bless
you now and forever
He read through the letter. which he
carefully sealed. and then. that it might
reach her without fail next morning.
ne Went out and dropped IT into Il
neighboling letter box. AS it fell with
d thud into the receptacle. it seemed
as If he had sealed his fate. Feeling
his way through the dense fog, he re-
gained his study and then sat down to
write a second confession. giving the
necessary details which would prove
the truth of his assertion. This which
was intend for The public, he directed
to George Coris.
Everything was done now ave the
most important of all, but from this
he did not finch: all preparations had
been made. From a drawe in his desk
he took a bottle of chloroform, and held
it between him and the light. There
was more han sufficient there to send
him into a sleep from which in this
life there could be nc awakening. He
thought it strange he shout feel so
calm and collected now. in contrast to
the disturbance he a suffered before
finally resolving to seek death.
The strong odor of the drug nearly
intoxicated him as he raised it to his
lips and then sat it down once more,
lest he had left undone anything which
he might remember and wished to do
when it was too late. No, nothing had
been forgotten. and with regret he rec
ognized that there was nothing to de-
lay his last moments. He took the
bottle again, lifted it slowly, then with
a sudden effort boldly swallowed its
contents. His life had now practically
come to an end: the drug must soon
begin to paralyZe his brain.
AS he passed a mirror he started at
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phantom. Their he deliberately looked
into the glass at the face which a little
time hence would Dear small semblance
to its present aspect. He could not
help recognizing that it was comely,
while his rounded throat and broad
shoulders showed strength. And he
remembered how women had smiled on
him, how men had welcomed him, how
readily friendship had been extended
to him, how the world had been "a
pleasant place to him. the world he
was voluntarily quitting.
He crossed the room to a couch on
which he flung himself. thinking now
of Olive and of the surprise which
awaited her next morning when he
would have gone-where? He closed
his eyes wearily. u presently opened
them without being able to tell how
long they had been shut, and all UNI
willing to lose a m OF the con-
SSlouSlCSo nat WIS Iell 10 MIN. OllVo
would surely feel sorry, and she would
forgive and pity him, and remember
him when others forgot. A warm,
soothing feeling was passing through
his veins; he felt himself sinking
through an abyss OF darkness. and then
suddenly started to wax efulness as II
he had received q shock
And now came the terrible con-
sc~iousness that he was going to his
death, that nothing could save him,
that he could retain his fading senses
no longer.
Then he became absorbed into dark
ness, silent, yet surging as if with hid
den life-a suffocating and appalling
darkness through which he sank down,
and down, and down to death.
Continued Next Weekly
English Good Enough.
New York Times: Professor Adolpl.