The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-28

In am Hear he Had #oR $500 rom
Me.
1--WE got a sort q FEELING that I
have either seen y0G before or seen
y0ur picture in the papers.
say Jim. that's Just the way it
strikes me, added one o4 the men.
And nae. too, replied the third.
Gentlemen. am I among friends?'
I ssked.
Ha, hal knew it! recognize
your face now explained the owner
of the mill. on are the man who
tried to blow up a Colorado mine
with dynamite three or four years
ago
You are mistaken, but if I felt
that I could trust you would reveal
my Identity and ask you to keep my
secret
"Thess looked at each other for a
moment and then promised. and when
j had taken another swig OF cider ard
got a comfortable seat on an empty
barrel, beganss -iz e1a
Ten years ago was worth $40
600 In cash. 7 had a place in bust
ness and social circles and my future
had rosy look. one night I attend
ca an old-tash1Oned candy-puu at the
house Of wealthy man named SOM
ers, and it was then and there that I
met his daughter Eurydice.'
What the devil did they want to
name her any such name as that for p
groWled one of the men.
Joe, YOU keep quiet cautioned
the owner of the mill.
But they could have named her
Sally or Susie just as we'll
Well, as they didn't you will have
TO make the best Of it 5 Go ahead,
stranger
81 was smitten on sight con
unued. Before the evening was over
loved Eurydice Somers with my
whole soul, and had reasons to be-
Heve that she had been attracted to
me. Two weeks later we both told
our love On the night we pledged
our love her father asked me to play
few games Of poker with him
OF course I joyfully consented. In
an hour he had won $500 from me.
Inen L caught him cheating and de-
nounced him as a rascal. 1t was very
foolish Of me ] ought to have let him
cheat me right along and pretended to
rejoice over it. OF course, he got mad
and turned me out of the house. and OF
course Eurydice had TO side with her
father. Thus my cup of bliss was
dashed to the earth
The story starts out mighty. good
mighty good, said the cider mill
man In two weeks you fall in love,
become engaged, play poker. discover
a rascal and are busted up. Go ahead
and give US some more
" 1T was a great shock to me, and ]
determined to travel for a year and
try to forget Eurydices Before L could
make my arrangements her father
busted the bank in which I had my
money, and aVgolze one morning to
ma that I hadn't a--dollar. His re-
ValEe didn't stop there. Some one
had broken into church a few DAYS
before and stolen the bell out Of the
cupola- he charged me with being tbs
thief and had me arrested. OF course
j prove my innocence. Of the charge
and he then claimed that I had Dor.
roWed g thousand dollars OF him undei
false pretenses and I was flung intC
jail
BY thunder, but he was NEAR
mani said the cider mill man.
Walls dunno, said the GROWER
II anybody had called me al cheat
should feel ike revenEin' on hina-'
Let htfn git along to the blood and
murder part observed the third man
speaking Tor the first time.
7 was bailgd- out of jail. and whei
tFe suit came of was victorious. Tn
father Of my brozeu-hearted Eurydic
had Others tricks up his sleeve how
ever A tin neadfer was robbed on tn
highway ana he got the man to. swea
two cows pcisonad' and he got a ma
70 swear that had been -seen hshin
for Dullheaos near she pastftre. Som
one broke anto tne nousa OF a. widoY
and threatened her lie aN carried @.
her Ga9lslzin saCdnh ana new pair q
shoes and nay enFfslE get the WiGOl
to say that the F6bbe legs claset
resembied mine ~ hen-8 had cieare
myself Of these charges he elaine
that I was Insane and had me sent t
an ssylum. You see, he was de
termined to down me-
He surely was, and III had bee
SIN your place z should have felt Tx
knocking his blamed head or Ho7
did the gal Paradise take ft9fs
90 'Eurydice died of q broken hear
within six months. On her dying be
she sent me weird that she would wa
for me in Heaven. i had been i'm tn
insane asylum three months when
escaped. I was just as sane as any c
you three but the attendants wouldn
believe me- Whenever insisted tha