The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1908-03-22

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Isn't he deadT' Glenister inquired.
mo The doctors have brought him
In. and he'll get we'll He's like half
the men In Alaska-here because the
sheriffs back home couldn't shoot
straight There's something else. I'm
not a good talker, but give me time
and IN manage it so you'll understand.
I tried TO keep Helen from coming on
this errand. but she said 1t was the
square thing and she knows better
than /. It's about those papers she
brought In last spring. She was afraid
you might consider her a party to the
deal, but you don't, do your He glar-
ed belligerently, and Roy replied with
fervor:
Certainly not. Go on"
'sweiI. she learned the other day that
those documents told the whole story
and contained enough proof to break
up this conspiracy and convict the
Judge and Mcnamara and all the rest,
but Strive kept the bundle In his safe
and wouldn't give It up without a price.
That's why she went away with him.
She thought it was right and-that's
all But 1T seems Wheaton had sue
ceeded IN another way. Now, I'm com
ing to the point. The Judge and Nc
Namara are arrested for contempt Of
court and they're as good as convicted;
you have recovered your mine and
these men are disgraced. They will go
to jair'
Eyes, for six months. perhaps" broke
in the other hotiy. "but what does that
amount 10? There never was a bolder
aYfr toll
cruelty unjust They robbed a realm
and pillaged It's people, they defiled a
court and made justice a wanton. they
jailed good men and sent others to
ruin: and for this they are 10 suffer
how? BY paltry fine or q short I'M
prisonment. perhaps. by an ephemerai
disgrace and the loss of their stolen
goods. Contempt of court is the ac-
cpsation. but you might as well con
Wet a murderer for breach OF the
peace. We've thrown them off. it's
true, and they won't trouble us again,
/ but they'll never have to answer for
their real iufamy. That viii go un-
/ punished while their lawyers bubble
over technicalities and rules Of court
I I guess It's true that there isn't any
/ law of God or man north of fifty-three;
/ but if there is justice south of that
/ mark. those people viii answer for
/ conspiracy and go to the penitentiary
"You make it hard for me to say
what | want to. l am almost sorry
we came. for / am not cunning with
words, and l don't know that you'll
understand" said the Bronco Kid
! gravely I'VE looked at it this way:
you have had your victory. you have
I beaten your enemies against odds, you
have recovered your mine. aud they
are disgraccd To men like them that
last Wpl outIive ana outweigh all the
rest; but the Judge is our uncle and
our blood runs in his veins. He took
/ Helen when she was baby and was
father to her III his selfish way. low
/ ing her as best he knew how. AnG
she loves him"
Il don't quite understand you" said
Roy.
And then Helen spoke for the first
/ time eagerly, taking packet from her
bosom as she began:
This viii tell the whole wretched
story, Mr.. Glenster. nd show the plot
in all its yileness. It's hard for me to
betray my uncle. but this proof is
yours by right to use as you see fit,
and | can't keep it."
do you mean that this evidence will
show all that? And you're going to
give it to me because you think it is
your duty?"
at belongs to you. / have no choice.
But what / came for was to plead and
ask a little mercy for my uncle. who
is an old, old man, and very weak.
This will kill him"
He saw that her eyes We're swim
ming, while the little chin quivered
ever so slightly and her pale cheeks
were flushed There rose in him the
old wild desire to take her in his arms,
yearning to pillow her head on his
shoulder and kiss away the tears, to
smooth with tender caress the wavy
hair and bury his face deep in it till
he grew drunk with the madness Of
her. But he knew at last for whom
she really pleaded
So he was to forswear this yenge-
ance, which was no vengeance after
all. but in verify a just punishment
They asked him-a mana mans man
"a northman-to do this, and for what
For no reward, but on the contrary to
INSURE HhnSch idStiIlS DltleTncSS. ne
strove to look at the proposition calm
ly. clearly, but it was difficult. II only
by freeing this other villain as well as
her uncle he would do a good to her
then he would not hesitate. Love was
not the only thing. He marveled al
his own attitude. This could not be
his old self debating thus. He had
asked for another chance to show
that he was not the old Roy Glenister
Well, it had come, and he was ready.
Roy dared not look at Helen any
more, for this was the hardest moment
he had ever lived.
You ask this for your uncle, but
what of-of the other fellow? Yor
must know that il one goes free SC
Will they both. They can't be sepa
rated
"It's almost too much to ask" the
Kid took up. uncertainty. but dom
you think the work is done: l cam
help but admire Mcnamara, and nei
Their can you-he's been too good al
enemy to you for -and-h.
loves Helen
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