The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-03-22

ana SIZE VIII Stay li Say Ni0lANa'
"Oh. very Wen be said wlth as
sumed indifference
Hotchkiss just then escaped from
Rlchey's grasp and crossed the room.
did you ever wear glasses" he
asked eagerly
Never" Sullivan glanced with
some contempt at mine.
I'D better begin by going back a
little" he went on sullenly. Il sup
pose YOU know was married TO Ida
Harrington about five years ago She
was a good girl, and thought a lot
Of her But her father opposed the
marriage he'd never liked me, and he
refused to make any sort cf settle.
ment,
4 had thought OF course, that there
would be money. and it was a bad day
when I found out I'd made a mistake.
My sister was wild with disappoint-
ment We were pretty hard up, my
sister and |"
was watching Alison Her hands
were tightly clasped in her lap. and
she was staring out OF the window at
the cheerless roof below She had
set her lips little, but that was all.
You understood, OF course, that I'm
not defending myself, went on the
sullen voice The day came when
old Harrington put VI both out Of the
house at the point of a revolver and
/ threatened--l suppose you know
that, tool threatened to kill him
My sister ana had hard times
after that We lived on the contin.
ent for a while | was al Monte Car
10 and she was in Italy She met a
young lady there, the granddaughter
OF steel manufacturer and an heir
ess, and she sent fer me When got
to Rome the girl was gone Last win
ter was all in-social secretary TO
an Engliahman, a wholesale grocer
with new title. but We had a row,
and l came home. | went ont to the
Heaton boys ranch in Wyoming, and
met Bronson there. lie lent me mon
ey, and I've been doing his dirty work
ever since
Sullivan go, up then and walked
slowly forward aud back as he talked,
his eyes on the faded pattern OF the
Office rug.
II you want to live in hell" he
said sayagely put yourself in anoth-
er mans power Bronson got into
trouble, forging John Gilmores name
TO those notes, and in some way he
learned thar a man was bringing the
papers back to Washington ON the
FAer He even learned the number d
his berth, and the night before the
wreck just as was boarding the
train, got a telegram
Hotchkiss stepped forward once
more Importantly
Which read / think Man with
papers in lower ten, car seven. Get
them.
Sullivan looked at the little man
with sulky blue eyes.
1t was something like that, any
how. But It was a nasty business
and it made matters worse that he
didn't care that telegram which
must pass through a half do7eu hands
was more or less discriminating to me
Then, TO add TO rhe unpleassntnes.
OF nay position, just after We boarded
the train was accompanying M,
sister and this young lady. Miss Wes
"a woman togched me on the sleeve
and ! turned 70 face-my wife.
That took away my last bit o
nerve told my sister, and you car
understand she was in a bad way, too
We knew what it meant Ida hat
heard that was going
He stopped and glanced uneasily a
Alison
Go on, she said eoidly. TT is tor
lote to shield me The time TO hay,
done that vas when was you
guest"
We'll ho went on his eyes turned
cargdlly away ifom my face, whicl
mast have presented certainly any
thing but a pleasant sight Miss
West was going 10 DO me the honor Q,
marry me, and"
You scouudrellr ! burst forth
tbrusting past Alison Vests chair
"You-you Internal cur"
one OF the detectives got up an,
stoou between us
"You must remember Mr. Blakeley
that sou are forcing this story irou
this man These details are unDleas
ant. but important You were goln
to marry This Young lady be 1ahl
turning 10 Sullivan although you q.
ready had wife living
20 was my sisters nlan, and / wa
in bad way Tor money n i coal
marry secretly. a wealthy girl ana g
to Europe is VAS unlikely That ida
that Is, Mrs Sullivan would hea
OF r.
So # was more than q shock 20 Sc
my ~iie on The train. ana 70 feaiiz
irom her face Thai She knew what aa
going "a don't know yet unle.
some OF The servants wen. neye
mind that
II meant that the whole thing ha
gone mp. Old Harrington had carrie
gn Tor me- tor yeats and the sau
train wouldn't hold both oI rs. {
course. ] inonghl thai be was In I'll
coach Just behind our