The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-11-10

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uzsr II
- Heard a Sad and Pitiful Narrative"
threatened exposure If he did not pro
vide for him. Indeed, for a time, he
did 81 Then he realized that Lucien
was the ruling passion in this lonely
WOman's life. He found out where
the child was hidden. and threatened
to take him away. Anne was frantic.
The positions became reversed.
Where Arnold had given money for
Lucien's support, as the years went
on he forced money from Anne Wat
son instead until she was always pen.
niless. The lower Arnold sank in the
scale, the heavier his demands be.
came. With the rupture between him
and his family things were worse.
Anne took the child from the home
and hid him in a farmhouse near
Casanova, on the Claysburg road.
There she went sometimes to see the
boy, and there he had taken fever.
The people were Germans. and he
called the farmers wife grossmutter.
He had grown into a beautiful boy,
and he was all Anne had to live for.
The Armstrong; left for California,
and Arnold's prosecutions began anew
He was furious over the child's dis.
appearance and she was afraid hs
Mould do hAr an, L,,rt Oh 1oex A..
big house and went down to the lodge.
When | had rented Sunnyside, how.
ever, she had thought the prosecutions
would stop. She had applied for the
position of housekeeper and secured it.
That had been on Saturday. That
night Louise arrived Unexpectedly
Thomas sent for Mrs. Watson and
then went for Arnold Armstrong AT
the Greenwood club. Anne had been
fond of Louise-she reminded her OF
Lucy. She did not know what the
trouble was, but Louise had been in
a state of terrible excitement. Mrs.
Watson tried to hide from Arnold, but
he was ugly. He left the lodge and
went up to the house about 2:30, was
admitted at the east entrance and
came out again very soon. Something
had occurred, she didn't know what:
but very soon Mr.. Innes and another
gentleman left, using the car.
Thomas and she had got Louise
quiet. and a little before three Mrs.
Watson started up to the house.
Thomas had a key to the east entry,
and gave it to her.
On the way across the lawn she
was confronted by Arnold, who fol
some reason was determined to get
into the house. He had a golf-stich
in his hand, that he had picked ur
somewhere, and on her refusal he had
struck her with It. One hand had
been badly cut, and it was that, pois.
oning having set in, which was killing
her. She broke away in a frenzy OF
rage and fear, and got into the house
while Gertrude and Jack Bailey were
at the front door. She went upstairs,
hardly knowing what she WAS doing.
Gertrude's door was open, and Hal.
sey's revolver lay there on the bed.
n picked it up and turning ran part
way down the circular staircase. She
could hear Arnold fumbling at the
lock outside. She slipped down quiet.
~ and opened the door: he was in,
side before she had got back to the
stairs. 1t was quite dark. but she
could sea his white shirt-bosom. From
the fourth step she fired. As he fell
somebody in the billiard room
screamed acH rem Whon the alarm
was raised e'n 80 ia' no time TO
ger u~re'c'rs. .1.alfa. in ,re west wing
rrfil - -a.-9 ON tho
o"' upstairs
and = ~ an nm.
per window, going down again in time
to admit the men from the Greenwood
club.
If Thomas had suspected, he had
never told. When she found the hand
Arnold had injured was growing
worse, she gave the address OF Lucien
at Richfield TO the old man and almost
500. The money vas for Lucleh S
board until she recovered. She had
sent for me to ask me if would try
TO interest the Armstrong; Ii the
child. When she found herself grow
ing worse she had written to Mrs
Armstrong, telling her nothing but
that Arnold's legitimate child was a,
Richfield, and imploring her to recog'
nize him. She was dying; the boy
was an Armstrong, and entitled to mis-
fathers share uf the estate. TFe pa
pers were IN her trunk ct ~Surnyslde.
with letters from the dead man that
would prove what she said. II was
she who had crept down the circular
staircase, drawn by a magnet, that