The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-01-23

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Why, looking at her, did his face
change-soften. harden? WHY did his
hands tremble 50? 1t was over In ar
instant: yet l had caught a glimpse
of his secret, understood
1T was nothing" he said: II was
glad to do ft|I was deeply pleased
When that message came this morn
Ing"
You've been kinder to me thar I de-
served she said; and l more than halt
agreed with her. How, with his eyes
before her, could she fail to under
stand! Perhaps she did understand
was never sure.
IN the first place. then. Miss Croy-
uoh, ne went on. IN a different tone,
now did your father succeed in getting
your sister away from T~remafne?"
They had gone to Paris she an
swered, and in two or three DAYS
Edith had awakened from her dream
she saw something in the man which
! lerflled her, and she wrote a pItifu, LEFT
Ter TO ather who went over to Paris
az once, and finally succeeded In Inv
ing the mar off. Father paid him
$1,000 francs. | helieve-perhaps It was
the fact that he knew he was not really
Edith's ~husband-that he nj,nse,r bnss
committed a crime-which made him
take IT. He agreed to leave the country
ana IN the following December he WROTE
!ather that he was about to sail for
martinique In a ship called he Cen
.aur. ne said he intended to buy a
in Martinique n make that
his home. In February. we learned
that the Centaur had been lost with
all on board. After eight years. If
seemed certain that he was dead and
iadlth felt free to marry again"
early indiscreticn?"
"Certainly-and forgave IT. "a anv
good man would" '
Pardon me for asking the question.
Mss Croydon; but 1t was necessary
maina was as 1T sy y2p !1Egt learned that IRE
One night nearly two months aco
Edith brought his letter to me, She
was Wild, distracted. ready to kill her
self-that Is what ! have feared every
gay since. She loves MFR. Deiroy Mr.
Godtrey; and yet she believed herself
.le WiIe OF another man. He demand
Su .nat sne meet him In that apartment
mouse. knew she could not bear such
a meeting. and yet he must be seen.
oliered TO go In her stead: / had some
Wild Idea OF appealing to his better ma
lure, OF p~ersuadfng him"
she stopped. silenced by her own
emotion. ="
That, CT course. would not have al
tered the fact that your sister was his
Wife observed Godfrey.
;. NO, that was the terrible part of
it; nothing could alter that. There
must, OF course. be a separation. b,,t !
we we would solve that problem !
after We had settled the other Go r
Went. He opened the door to me- !
q never seen him. and / confess his |
appearance and n were not at all !
What l expected. He did not look in
me least like a s%coundrel. nor did he
act like one. He listened to me with
attention and eening respect. He even
aDelred moved oh T lrn~r - =. i
a hypocrite he was: I know that he
was laughing at me. that lie was nlan-
nlng something deeper, more vfllainous
had brought 1 ZOO with me-al that
we could gather together at the mo
ment-and / pressed it upon him ,,re-
ing MN to take it and go away and
we would send him more. He pretend
ed to refuse the money, to protest that
IL was not in the least what he wanted
but l compelled him to take 1t. And
Just as 1 was hoping that I prevailed
with him. the door OF the bedroom
opened and a horrible drunken man
out.
We'll. Vic he cried. so this Is tn,
sal. Is It? She's a likely piece. /
wouldn't give her up. Vic. no. not fer
ten thousand
GO back to bed. you drunken
cried Tremaine, and he o him
roughly by the arm.
But the other shook him off.
Don't lay your hands on me. Vic,'
cried. Don't dare lay your hands
On mel
II saw the very devil spring into Ire
some weapon. and picked up a piece
Of pipe that lay beside the radiator
saw the action and Iurched
heavily toward him.
Coin. t use that on me, Vicc' he
asked. You'd better try it.. and he
MADE n HnAGGE a VHr.arr ioaE -, Ext y 4-Ft
snatch the pipe away. You try it on
an I'll blow YOU game like I did once
down at Sydney
he struck at Trennaine again. but
latter sprang away and in an In
stanth had brought the pipe down mon
his head. Thompson fell like a log.
then that fendish look flashed into
ace q second time. he
snatched out a revolver-I dirnly I'M
what was coming-indeed.
my own revolver in my hand and
I fired at him, but my shot went wild,
while his -"
She stopped and buried her face In
her hands, overcome for the moment
by the terrible spectacle her words
had evoked.
took down her hands :
He put his pistol away and stepped
over very close to me.
Miss he said apiidaiiv- ~
Will be Well for you to say YOU dial
know me. ! have committed NO
was the aggressor-what
did was done In self defence. One
thing more-your sister has nothing
TO fear from mel shall never bother
her againI promise you that
He was gone In an instant md
n the tanitor came and YOU and
h detectives"
Godfrey nodded thoughtfully.
That supplies the motive. Lester"
hN. said Il have felt h a my explain
alton Of he crime was not quite ade-1
quate. But II was not only desire for
revenge h a urged Tremafne on-itl
was also the knowledge that Thompson |
knew of his first marriage and threat
with = word. to wreck his plans
a second time."
Yes. I agreed. and sat silent, pom
Why did you take the clippings.
Miss CROYDON asked Godfrey after i
From hi you read OF them, I sus- .
pected how vitality they concerned my |
sister. That was a secret, I felt, which i
must pc kept at n hazard. 1t was
done without consideration, on the |
spur Of the moment. or I should never
courage to do it at all