Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-30


should stand between you and myself:
| swore that would have you, and
would bend you as it pleased me--ol
break you Yes, you've reused a Turk
ing fiend in me, and I'll stick at moth
ing now. First, let us understand
each other in regard to Dandy Chatter
4 He took a turn or two about the
room. with his head bent, as though
undecided what to say or what to leave
unsaid, At last, going to his former
position near the table and standing
there he began to say what he had to
say.
You loved Dandy Chatter -. oh
don't interrupt me; you would say
you love him still, Supposed knew
that, from your own lips, as we'll as
from what saw and heard when you
were together. wonder If you would
love him noy-if you could see him 2
q don't understand you," she said,
in a low voice. why should not?'
"Because-well, because he wouldn't
look NICE" he responded, with grim
/ laugh. TN word-because he's
dead!"
Through the mind of the girl there
floated the words the little man who
had accompanied Harry had spoken:
"One is dead-the other is liying!"
but she said nothing; she was almost
afraid to speak, because she wanted
so desperately to hear what he had to
say in explanation of that mystery.
'.Yes-he's dead. He stood in my
| way--hlocked up the path which led
| to my desires More than that, I had
made tool of him for years-had
used him for every mean and petty
thing did not care to soil my own
hands with. He might have told tales.
Do you know what did with him?'
She looked at him with a face Of
horror, and slowly shook her head.
'.Look round these walls-look at
this miserable place in which you
stand. 1t should have a value in your
! eyes, for it has heard his death-scream.
| Within a dozen yards OF it, on the
bank of this river--at night struck
him down And I'd strike him down
again tonight if he stood alive before
me- And you-you thought to defy a
man who felt the killing of that puny
lover of yours no more than he would
| have felt the killing of rat?"
| He had felt it, though, and he felt it
| still; or why did his hands tremble in
| their grip of the table, and why did
he glance for a moment, with that
| blanched face, behind him?
She, too, began to fear him now as
she had not feared him before; looked
i about her wildly as if for a way of es-
| cape.
"Ah! you shake and tremble now, do
| you?" he said, mockingly. You'll
| tremble more when you know what I
| intend to do. Think of it. You're here,
| far away from any houses, and YOU
may scream your heart out and no one
| will hear you. Whatever love felt
! for you is gone-turned to hate in
stead. BY Heaven, pretty Miss limo.
cence"-he brough his fist down heav-
| lily on the table-'syou shall daily with
| me for an hour or two for the first and
last time, and then go join your lover
| in the river!''
He darted round the table toward
her, but she evaded him, screaming,
and made straight towards where
Philip stood Ogledon, in his mad
rush, tripped and fell; and, at the same
moment Philip caught the girl, swung
her round in the darkness where he
| had been standing, and stepped out
| into the light.
1t was all done so rapidly that Ogle-
don was on his feet and had actually
| come on with blind rush before he
saw who stood In his path, and even
! then he had no time to stop himself
scarcely time even to cry out. In q
moment Philip had him by the throat
! and had him forced to his knees;
bending over him and looking full into
his ghastly face he spoke the first
words that rose to his lips; reassumed
for moment, that character he ahad
taken upon himself near that very spot
but week or two before.
Dandy Chatter is dead-is he;
Struck down by your hand from be
/ hind in the dark Do vol
look in his eyes now--in this place
where you killed him-or will you still
Iscry that Dandy Chatter has come back
from the grave?" Is
The face into which Philip Chatel
looked suddenly changed horribly
mouthed and chartered at him. in some
i unearthly tongue, and the head Eel
a backwards. He felt the body rela.
and drop under his hands; heard {
sort Of gasping cry; and then it s1id
out Of his grasp to the floor. At tht
same moment the door was flung oper
4 and the place seemed full of people.
In front of them were some consta
i bles and, just behind them, the face
of the Shady I'm. Philip had a din
idea that Madge had come out into the
Light, and was bending over the pros
4 trate form Of Ogledon. He knew, too
a that handouts were on his wrists, ant
u that he was strongly held by a couple
d of men. Some others had gone to Og
a ledon and were raising him up.
es AXE me, !" he cried, reckless
u II; 81 don't mind now: my Innocence
4 Id proved. Look to that man III
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