Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-13


song, sung in fine voice and seconded
by guitar music, came to us over the
babel of voices and the clinking OF
glasses. The woman shut her lips
hard as she listened.
It's Tyrone singing she said. then
returned to her story. "A girl NAV
buy mans attentions" she said.
with averted face, "as ! learned, and
IL bought his" Then she laughed
recklessly. You know the story. 1t
is as old as time" forcing herself
TO look me squarely in the eyes.
We'll, | bought his, neither caring nor
knowing of the morrow, for | was a
verdant country girl who knew moth.
ing of the world, and | took his coun.
terfeit coin for pure gold. Well. he
shall get ii back, with interest-com.
pound interest" she muttered, smiling
wolfishly, as she fondled something in
the bosom of her dress.
There came time of tears for me.
OF course" she continued, for man
like he was flattered with the atten-
tons which were lavished on him:
however, | was quite well satisfied
with the attentions he bestowed on
me, believing the tales he told me.
and planned the home he promised
me in the big, beautiful city / had
never seen. Thus the days slipped
by, and they were for me glimpses of
paradise"
The spring came, gloomy and cold,
and with it an end of my dreaming.
We had attended social party in a
neighboring town, and were returning.
when the team we were driving went
OF a wrecked bridge, one which had
been undermined by the spring floods.
| screamed when | felt myself fall
ing, and the next instant found myself
bosom deep in the cold, muddy water.
held down by the buggy top, the
horses struggling madly until they
drowned and lay still. had just real
lied my position, when in the black
darkness / felt hand clutch my neck
and drag me down, when | knew that
my lover was under the water at my
side. / do not know how, with the
dying horses wrenching the buggy
about, and the water of the stream
rushing over us that / got his head
above the surface of the water; yet l
did, he choking and almost suffocated,
then with only his mouth and nose
clear l held his head in my arms,
close against my bosom AN the rest
of that horrible blackness of night,
and cold and storm, and feeling the
drops on his face he begged me to
raise him still higher, but my arms
were powerless to move him. So the
long, dreadful night passed, while
grew insensible from the cold. which
froze my very heart, until in the gray
of the morning we were rescued by
party that had set out to search for
us so soon as 1t was known that we
had not returned home.
When two weeks later / had about
recovered from the effects of my ter
rible experience, George Seymour was
gone, and from that day to this | have
hunted him. | went to the city. only
TO find that he was unknown there.
and after living. some way, for several
| started on further search.
and since then l have gone from city
to city and state to state Baby died
VIXEN ii was a few months old and
that made il easier for me to travel.
and at last, in this God-forsaken
place" She looked off across the
room, over the heads Of the people.
10 where the handsome man was sing.
ng a ribald song. mis- swarthy beauty |
enhanced by deep potations-"I found |
George Seymour, alias Bill Tyrone,
md She drew the covering |
rom her bosom, when ! saw a Span. |
sh stiletto, the pearl handle OF which |
vas but a shade whittier than the soft |
1esh on which il lay.
Again she motioned to the waiter.
Make ii whisky this time. Jim." she
'rdered. Here's "A toast" she said.
when our glasses were before us.
Here's TO man. the best and mean.
ST thing on earth next to a bad WON.
IN. Drink"
The obseQuies Of Bill Tyrone were
cry largely attended, as he was the
most popular faro dealer Clifton had
yer known