The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-09-27
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CHAPTER WI.-continued.
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"Fvenzied Finance"

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CHAPTER Vl.-continued.
Bob's face showed unspeakabie
terror and o%ntreaty; tho eyes we're
bursting from their sockets and were
riveted On hers as those OF = man in
q dungeon might be liked 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 groan that had first
brought me to him. Beulah Sands had
half turned her face until her eyes
gazed into Bob's with a sweet, child.
ish perplexity. | looked at her, sur
prised that one whom / had always
seen SC i%ntelllgently masterful should
be passive In the face of such an
guish. Then, horror of horrors! /
saw that there was something missing
from her great blue eyes. / looked;
gasped. 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 godlike, all that
was human. Their soul, their life
was gone. Beulah Sands was a dead
woman; not dead in body, but in
soul; the magic spark had fed. She
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. l passed my hand
across my now damp forehead. |
closed my eyes and opened them
again. Bob's figure, with clasped. up
lifted hands, and bursting eyes, was
still there. There still resounded
through the Don the awful cultural
groans. Beulah Sands smiled, the
smile of an infant in the cradle. She
took II beautiful hand from the pa
per and passed 1t over Bob's bronzeo
cheek, just as the infant touches it's
mothers face with its chubby fingers.
In my horror | almost expected to hear
the purling of a babe. My eyes in their
perplexity must have wandered from
her face, for l suddenly became aware
of a great black headline spread
across the top of the paper that she
had been reading:
FRIDAY, THE 13TH."
And beneath in one of the col
umns:
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN VIRGINIA"
1.-THE Most Prominent Citizen Of the
State, ex-United States Senator and
Ex-Governor, Judge Lee Sands Of
Sands Landing, While Temporarily
Insane from the Loss Of His Fer
tune and Millions of the Funds for
Which He Was Trustee, Cut the
Throat Of His Invalid Wife, His
Daughters, and Then His Own. All
Three Died Instantly"
In another column:
"Robert BROMLEY Creates the Most
Disastrous Panic In the History Of
Wall Street and Spreads Wreck and
Ruin Throughout the Country"
A hideous picture scared its every
light and shade on my mind, through
my heart, into all my soul. A fren-
zied-inance harvest scene with its
CORY crop; In the center one living
dead, part of the picture, yet the
ghost left to haunt the painters, ole
of whom was already covering before
the black and bloody canvas.
Well did the world-artist who wrote
over the door of the madhouse: Man
a suffer only to the limit, then he
shall know peace" understand the
wondrous wisdom Of his God. Beu-
lah Sands had gone beyond her limit
and was at peace.
The awful grooming stopped, and an
ashen pallor spread over Bob Brown
ley's face. Before | could catch him
he rolled backward upon the floor as
dead. Bob BROMLEY, too, had gone
beyond his limit. / bent over him
and lifted his head, while the sweet
woman-child knelt and covered his
face with kisses, calling in a voice
like that of a tiny gi,l speaking to her
doll: Bob, my Bob. wake up, wake
up; your Beulah wants you" AS
placed my hand upon Bob's heart and
felt its beats grow stronger. as
listened TO Beulah Sands childish
voice. joyishly confident as II called
upon the one thing left OF her old
world, some of my terror passed. In
It's place came a great mellowing
sense OF Gods marvellous wisdom.
thought gratefully OF my moth.
er's always ready argument that the
law of laws, of Gods and nature. is
that Of compensation. had allowed
Bob's head to sink until II rested In
Beulah's lap. and from his calm and
steady breathing l could see saat he
mad safely passed a crisis, that AZ
asst he was not in the clutches OF
al a. had at FIRST feared