The Mena weekly star., 1910-09-15

Now. this thing was not done in q ccrner. The news of 1t was carried over the United States and spread even to foreign lands. The world read 1t and marveled again. A newspaney carrying an account of 1t fell unde, the eye of a lonely man in San Fran. cisco, who had just returned from n long voyage in northern seas. The name "Charnock" caught his eye first. and then Langford saw the name of the woman he loved. He read with avidity. appreciating as none could better do than he from his tra,ne. business acumen the scope and yet the feasibility of the undertaking. He had wondered cynically what would be the career of the man in the Uni. ted States. He knew the value. as did every business man, especially ey. cry man with large transportation in- terests like his, of the Charnock es. tate. He would have wagered tha, Charnock would lose his head aa ninaty-nine men out of hundred would have done, and that intoxi. cated by the sudden touch of the material world which was at his feet he would have gone the usual pace: i: and he would have won his wager had 1t not been for the immortal memory of the woman they both loved. he felt bitterly enough
 He sat alone in his office in the great building and pondered over the account in the paper. He had been mistaken in the man. He was really worth while. He was worthy of the woman. If he had not sworn an oath, given his word He hesitated, smil- ing bitterly. The woman alone could release him. Should he sail down to the island with that paper and tell that story. He had waited too long. The army surgeons of Alaska had told him the brutal truth; that he had but few months to live and that If he had anything to do before he went out into the beyond, he had better do it quickly. No, he could not go down there and tell her and get released from his promise.
 Yet how Charnock would revel in such news as he; and he alone, could give him. He loved Che woman and he hated the man. He could not bear to think that tho man should have what was denied him. He could not bear to think of the woman he loved In another's arms. And yet he loved the woman. As he pictured Charnock happy. so he pictured Kate sad, fret ting out her life on that island as he had fretted out his on the ship. And he could make her happy by a word If he broke his oath and was false to the plighted word he had given her. Should he do it for her sakef Would she forgive hims He would be past forgiveness when she knew.
 Which was the stronger, his love for the woman or his hatred for the manf If be spoke at all. 1t would be Tor her sake, naught else Would the man understand that, would she! Whatever happened. he had possessed her; she had been his for brief hours Did he have the strength now to give Ter to someone else even though he were deadf Being dead, would he know.
 The struggle racked and tore him in his heart He could come to no de cision, at least not then. What he would do later would depend upon cir cumstances. Ono thing he could do and that was to go and find the man Attending to such matters as were most pressing and taking the precau- ton to make his will. strange will. at which his attorney ventured to remonstrate unavailingly. at last he started on that journey across the con tinent In his private car. He left the car at Suffolk. Virginia, and with a motor which had been transported with him he ran up the west side O. he inlet until he came to the manor house which local guide, picked up oy the way. pointed out to him.