Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-09-26

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CHAPTER VI.--contlnued.
Bob's face showed unspeakable
terror and entreaty; the eyes were |
bursting from their sockets and were |
riveted on hers as those OF n man In |
a dungeon might be hxed upon an |
approaching specter OF one whom he
had murdered. His chest rose and
fell, as though trying TO burst some
unseen bonds that were crushing out
his life. With every breath would
come the awful eroan that had hrst
brought me 10 him. Beulah Sands had
half turned her face until her eyes
gaxed into Bob's with q sweet, child
fish perrlexity. I looked at her, sur
pFIsed that one whom I had always
seen 10 intelllgently masterful should
be passive in the face OF such an
giish. Then. horror OF horrorsl !
saw that there was something missing
from her great blue eyes. l looked;
lgasped. Could It possibly be? With
a bound / was at her side. gazed
again Into those eyes which that
morning had been all that was intel
lIgent. all that was godllke. all that
was human. Their soul. their life
was gone. Beulah Sands was dead
woman; not dead in body. but in
soul; the magic spark had fled. Sho
was but an empty shell--a woman OF
living flesh and blood; but the -cita-
del Of life was empty. the mind
was gone What had been a woman
was but a child. passed my hand
across my now damp forehead.
closed my eyes and opened them
again. Bob'B figure, with ciasped. up
lifted hands, and bursting eyes. was
still there. There still resounded
through the room the awful cultural
.groans Beulah Sands smiled. the
smile of an infant In the cradle. She
took one beautiful hand from the pa
per and passed Il over Bob's bronxeA
cheek, just as the infant touches Its
mothers face with its chubby fingers.
In my horror almost expected to hear
the purling of a babe. ny eyes In their
perplexity must have wandered from
her face, for / suddenly became aware
of a great black headline spread
across the top Of the paper that she
had been reading:
"FRIpAY, THE 18Th"
And beneath in one of the col
umns:
~TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN vlRoiNlA'
sThe Most Prominent Citizen Of the
stats, ex-unIted States Senator and
Ex-Governor, Judge Lee Sands Of
sands Landing, While Temporarily
aReane from the Loss Of Ills For
tuns and Millions OF the Funds foI
Which He Was Trustee, Cut the
Threat Of His Invalid Wife, Hid
Daughters. and Then Hls Own. ~
Three Died Instantly
In another column:
Robert Browniey Creates the Mos
Disastrous Panic In the History o
Wall street and spreads Wreck ans
Ruin Throughous the Country"
A hideous picture scared It's ever,
light and shade on my mind, through
my heart. into all my soul A fFen
Eied-flnnuee harvest scene with II
CORY CROP In the center one living
dead, part of the picture. yet tn
ghost left 20 haunt the painters, on
of whom was already covering befor'
the black and bloody canvas.
Well aid the woEldartist who wrOt
over the door of the madhouHe: -Mai
can suffer only 70 the limit. then b
shall know peace. understand th
wondroue Wisdom OF HIS God. Beg
Ian sandE had gone beyond her IlTni
and was at peace.
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