Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-04-12


'Jemson = he called.
The buTy in the
below Are you all right down theref'
"AI right, SIR responded the keeper, with
an evil grin.
Take good look at her. You see we caught
her at the safe. Would you know her again {!
You bet 1 would affirmed the burly fell
Remember she is the thief yo1 saw in
| ask you to look at this degraded woman,
that you also may be witness II occasion
hene her rn pdn BY Ret the Rs
her forward the better to meet my gaze. z4s3s-
Her dazed eyes stared into. mine, then
cleared and grew bright she Je f ba aeI paho
You lie' she exclaimed passionately. Il
am no thief but, ah-Hamilton Glencoe, you
know who l am -
She turned to me. Her voice sank to pain
II ask you to believe me. Circumstances
are against me, but am the victim OF
plot. Believe >, me, assist me- l appeal to
/ stood undecided, in agony.
VERY pretty, indeed sneered the master
of Glencoe, very theatrical. Well done for
/ saw the diabolical fury in his face, paled
with passion and hate. Distrust and dislike
There is a mistake, l cried, cor wrong
here. believe in you.
Tears filled her eyes. Then you must
know / thought this man gone from Glen
and forced Know my way sbe is this
house. l have seen her, but not closely
enough to speak to her. If | could talk with
her she would come away with me-from TINS
evil mans influence. He has wife my
three years 1 have tried place after place
"a lie," cried Glencoe savagely, and struck
her fair across the face. She staggered ana
/ caught her in my arms;
choked with a sob of fury as 1 saw the mark
crimson on her face.
In that moment the door burst open. A
dress was disordered, her wrists were bleed
ing and blood was on her mouth
Elise she cried with voice of shame
and longing as she put her arm around the
They kissed and sobbed, murmuring fond,
turned and spoke to the master of Glencoe
t aap as IS the
worth the candle? am slck-slck OF sucn
life
I've tried to accomplish for three years.
Dear, our =, dead mother
about your life With her last breath she
sent love and forgiveness if you would
Leave Hamilton Glencoe. O, Elise, if i l
Glencoe. THAT man is DEVIL, she breathed
slowly "he possesses such power over me
that when he beats me creep to his feet IKE
dog; See this' She slipped up her sleeve
when this affecting scene is over let me
know broke in Glencoe. And you, Mr.
Chatterton, if you value your neck you'd bet
ter keep silent about this
"I'lI settle with you," cried bitterly. "I'll
Kill. you, as sure there's God"
Annette Archer stepped before me and
looked me searchingly in the eyes; My dear
sister is pure as an angel, she SAID SOL
EMMY. "She needs friend
81 am her friend and servant, it l may be,
replied, and taking Eise's hand l kissed it
Annette turned to her sister.
"Elise, he Dragged to me of his plot to dis.
grace and ruin YOU Once, with the aid of
the keeper, to convince this gentleman tnat
you were the accomplce of burglars, footing
the house, he could coerce you and cause you
to cease trying to me- Elise. he spied
after night. You thought he was gone away
He wished you so to think, rightly guessing
that you would try to enter the house,
She wiped the blood from her bruised and
pitfully trembling mouth.
"Ah, these weary, weary years. nave
longed yet dreaded to go to you, Elise: IN
worthy-but I love him. l think of all the
pain you have endured, my sister, of the
Shame and misery l have caused our moth
er-I will atone -
and fell, the revolver falling from her help
less hand.
great cry of anguish, hardly human,
leaned from the throat of the master of Glen
coe He threw himself beside her, beseech1ng
her to speak, entreating us to help; tor
gushed from his lips. But the woman who
had loved not wisely but too welP' was quite
dead
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