The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-07

Bernard move slightly as if coming to himself he struggled franticafiy. m have the dog yet" he cried, .'0nly let me get at him with the knife"
 Hold on there. Whatn thunder r ye about. yer darned Portageer said e rough voice, and a rougher hand caught Dick by the throat just as he succeeded in getting his ,eg free IL was Abel Stebbins, the doctors hired man, who. as usual. had been on watch He was armed with a pitchfork. which he presented at Dicks throat in a busi- nesslike manner.
 Dick was taken to the doctors house. followed by a crowd of people who in some manner had been awakened and turned out half dressed Bernard went along in daze. hardly compre- hending what had happened. Dick was defiant at first. but his manner changed to one of appeal when he realized his position. The doctor sent the crowd away. Abel harnessed up the buggy and the doctor drove his prisoner across the State line before morning and saw him on board train en route for port to board Q ship for South America
 Bernard and Abel went back to the scene of the attempted murder. where they found a small crowd collected. Among them was Silas Peckham, who was giving directions for stripping and skinning the dead mustang.
 Abel" said Bernard, take off those things and carry them to Mir. Venner's. If he doesn't want them. keep them for yourself. One thing more. I hope no one will lift his hand to mutilate this noble creature Abel. after you have taken off the saddle and bridle bury him just as he Is. Under that old beech tree will be a good place.. Ana before the moon set the wild horse or the Pampas was at rest under the turn at the wayside. In the far village among the New England hills
 All he girls stared hard at Elsie Ven, ner when she took took her place in school as usual the next day, but she gave no sign. When the session was over she asked Bernard if he would walk home with hvf. Bernard was starteled by this request, but compiled
 T have no friend" said Elsie all at once as they walked along. Nothing loves me. cannot love anybody. They tell me there is something in my eyes that draws people to me and makes them faint. Look into them. will your sl1
 "Beautiful eyes, Elsie,s replied Ber- nard. something very piercing. but soft now. I am your friend. Elsie. Tell me Wnat can uo VI theAAe S~@A life happier"
 Love mel" said Elsie. Bernard turned pale and trembled. He saia something about being her friend for- ever. ending with. Give me your hand, Elsie."
 She gave him her hand mechanical- ly. It seemed as if a cold aura shot from 1t along his arm and chilled the blood running through his heart.
 1lo-r EH laN~ xmrau seemed nothing especially the mates with her, but her vital forces seemed ebbing away. There was none of thS old fierceness about her now. Hei eyes had ceased to shine with that bale full gIeam On the fourth day sha asked that Helen Darley be sent to her and Helen came and stayed with hef till the end, which came peacefully after weeks of sinking. The wild. unhuman principle which had poisoned her nature before her birth had died out in Elsie, but had taken life itself along with 1t. Even the btrthmarh around her neck had vanished when she lay dead.
 It had been a great comfort to Dud- ley venner to have Helen in the house during his daughters illness, and now when she proposed to return to the institute he made her a proposition that she return as Mrs. Venner after fit- ting time should have elapsed. He Ionged for sympathy and companions ship after the perpetual terrors or eighteen years. And Helen. who had been strongly drawn toward Dudley from the first, consented. A week or two later Bernard Langdon resumed his medical studies, and eventually became the eminent Boston phyaicfaa of that name, with a wife who once wrote her name Lefty Forester
 one of his most notable achievements was q thesis "unresolved Neb1lae in Vital Science" which attracted im- mense attention and quickened medical thought throughout tho world. And the foundation for this thesis was the old story of Rockland. whose horror time could not lessen--the story of the rattlesnake that had come down from "The Mountain" one day and crawled into the hallway of a mansion house and there had bitten a young wife. Powerful remedies saved her life for the time; but soon thereafter she died. after giving birth to a daugter. And that daughter was Elsie Venner.
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