Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-12
DAILY STORY
A PAIR OF CUFF LINKS,

left school, Join him i'll his camp in
the mountains. Louise Tfprlow was a
girl graduate of two weeks standing
when she alighted from an Old fash
toned stagecoach, sprinSing at the
same time INFO her father S.armS. Her
arrival was Witnessed by &ny Deck
ard young man who helh, Il position
on her fathers engineeringjstaff.
There Were perhaps Il Hundred peo-
pie i'll the camp, some' of, them living
in temporary buildings, Others in tents.
Louise was assigned Il tent beside her
fathers, and the ou of door life
brought the colorIinto her cheeks'as Il
peach will ripeu in the sun. She had
her mandolin with her. and Guy deck.
ard avas the poSspSSOr of Il fine voice.
When, he was not professionally en-
gagedS they WOULD be sitting on camp
chairsSmaking music for the others or
taking iIong walks to different points
in the mountains from which they
could obtain commanding views.
The current, of young love runs rap
idly. and one evening not two weeks
after Louise's arrival while sitting in
the moonlight on a cliff which formed
Il natural perch to the camp the couple
gagement ring the young man slipped
the ring of his class at the scientific
school on her finger, to be. worn until
he could procure one more appropriate.
1t was also agreedtbetween them that
he should wear pair of gold cuff
links Louise wore at the moment he
told his story
Had Louise been under the care of a
mother instead of Il father the lady
would have been well aware of what
was transporting. Not so. John Thur
low. He was not only blind to the
wooing: but, although thetcouple Haunt
ed their exchanged love tokens under
his very eyes, he did not see them.
When Louise confessed and Deckard
asked for her hand the father awak-
ened to the fact that his daughter was
no longer the child he had supposed
her However, if he had to give her
up he was not averSe to giving her to
his valued assistant.
One day when Deckard returned
from some work he had been doing at
a distance he wore Il troubled look. and
Louise noticed that her links were not
in his cuffs.
''Where are they?" she asked.
~ can't tell you
do you mean that you have parted
with them:"
Not willingly"
Louise drew the ring he had given
her from her finger and handed it to
him.
The agoniZed look in his eyes fright |
ened her. He recoled, refusing to |
touch the ring.
Give me till tomorrow evening"" he |!
said in a husky voice, land 1 will either |
wear your token Or
WHAT"
He did not finish.
The next morning Deckard mounted |
a horse about to depart Louise was |
standing near, troubled at his appear
ance. and stepped toward him to say |
something; but putting spurs TO his |
horse, he rode away, throwing her n
kiss. All day she waited his return |
There was evidently a mys-
terry about the affair, but she was too
young. too little familiar with the
and the people, 10 even guess
what it might be. Had she suspected
the danger into which she had sent her
lover she would have chung TO him be-
fore the whole camp rather than let
him go.
Evening came, and he had not re-
turned. Louise sat on the cliff watch
ing for him and at length caught sight
Of hOrseman coming. Her heart leap
ed for joy, thinking that he was Guy.
But as the rider passed through a field l.
Of light cast through canyon in the i
by the declining sun she |!
saw that she had been mistaken. Then
4 sudden fear seized her. We are |;
prone when worried to look for bad
news, and she felt that the coming H
man bore bad news for her
Slowly he wound his way up the |,
steep side of the mountain and, reach
ing the camp, rode up to her fathers |:
tent. The two men conversed in Il low
tone, and Louise saw her father look
at her and turn pale. She darted to
him and threw her arms about his
neck.
)ened TO Guy?"
1t was useless to try to conceal the |
secret Guy Deckard's dead body had e
been found with a knife hole in his
breast part way up the mountain near IS
IN inn by the roadside. Il
Mr.. Thurlow would have sent his
laughter elsewhere, but it was not
,nly impossible, but she needed him to !
sustain her No clew was found to the
and both Louise and her
'ather dreaded if there should be
discovery it would be a painful one.
Mr. Thurlow took her with him often
when visiting different parts of the
work. hoping by this means TO divert
Ter mind. One day they were lunching
It a little tavern when a Mexican girl
bringing them some frnit. AS
he set the dish on the table Louise
ell against her father, trembling.
Stretching an arm, pointing a finger to-
ward the waitress. she cried fiercely:
1.-The murderessw
..yyhrz do HAT child y,