Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-18

dicott rode over the Jarvis land and
Jarvis swore out q warrant against
him for trespass-mere persecution, the
villagers thought it-and there were
other differences Of a similar nature,
which were ended only when the boy
went back to school.
"Of course, Mr.. Lester, / don't know
all the steps in the affair: but on
Christmas Eve, Just a year later, there
came a great knocking at my door, and
when I opened 1t, there on the step
stood Jarvis, with such a face as I had
W. seen on a man before. He
stamped In and flung a sheet of paper
down on the table.
Read that!'. he said. in q stifled
voice. Read that, man! Oh. that /
should have bred a harlotI"
II was too astonished to reply, but
l picked up the paper and read 1t.
1t was a note from his daughter--I
forget the exact words-but she told
him that she had secretly married Boyd
Endicott, knowing that she could never
win his consent, and prayed for for
giyeness. They were going far away, she
said; she would not see him again for
a long time. and hoped he would think
kindly OF her. 1t al a touching note,
Mr.. Lester.
The good mans voice choked and he
paused to regain control Of it. AS for
me, I thought OF that other note I had
read q few hours since.
He was like a man crazed," con-
tinued DR.. Schuyler, at last He
wouldn't listen to reason he demand
ed only that I accompany him, while
he sought his daughter out and made
sure that h and young Endicott were
really married. He swore that he would
follow them to the ends of the earth
that he might see them welded with
his own eyes. A heavy storm was rag
Ing. but I could not deny him; ne had
his buggy at the door, and we drove
away to the Fanwood station. There
the agent told Is that Miss
Jarvis had taken the Afternoon
no other train for an hour, so
we waited. Jarvis tramped up and
down the station like q wild thing.
And then, just before the train was
due. there came e. telegram for him.
1t was from his sister and stated that
Mary had reached her homo unattended
and was very Ill.
was concerned. I drove back home
again n Jarvis went on to New York.
Unfortunately, in the first rage Of his
discovery Of his daughters flight, he
had given the ervants some hint of
the affair, and 1t leaked out, u was
gradually forgotten. Mary Jarvis, after
a long illness, went with her father
for a visit to Scotland, and did not re-
turn to her home at Scotch Plains for
nearly three years. She was greatly
changed-older and with an air Of sad
ness which never quite left her.
Her father was changed, too. He
had left his daughter at his old home
in Scotland and hurried back-why l
didn't guess until afterward. He be-
| "a ma moro ora hha1 and irrito h1a +ha,
ever; he seemed to be whitening away
n his face grew to haunt me, il was
SO harried and anxious. I suspected
that he had become involved in bust
ness troubles Of some sort, for the
country was on the verge of a panic,
and once l tried to approach the sub
ject to offer him any help l could, but
he stopped me with such ferocity that
/ never tried again. Then, suddenly,
came the news that Endicott had been
caught with Fisk in the ruin Of Black
Friday; but while Fisk saved himself
by ~repudiating his obligations, Endi-
colt had been bound In such q way
that he could not repudiate-and the
man who had bound him was Hiram
Jarvis"
The speaker paused and leaned back
for a moment in his chair, his face
very stern.
THAT "a his revenge" he added.
But I doubt II he foresaw how bitter
1t was to be. For Endicott shot him
self; the place was sold and the widow
and her daughter came to live here In
Elizabeth, where they had relatives"
but the boy" I asked; where was
he2"
HE was killed two days after that
Christmas v in a railroad wreck
somewhere in the vest have for
gotten exactly where. His body was
| hrnl10ht hnrpn RI Cnnfnh D1.E--
buried there"
I'm the west?" I repeated. What
was he doing In the west?"
1T don't know" answered DR.. Schuy-
Ter. I've never been able to under
stand IT,"
"Were he and Miss Jarvis already
married afterward?"
WELL" said DR.. Schuyler slowly,
IT inferred from the note that thew
were already married. But I may have
been mistaken In thinking so. / know
that her father did not believe It."
And you say that you've never been
able to understand why, after all, they
did not 60 away together-why Miss
Jarvis went to New York and Endi-
colt to the west2"
DR.. Schuyler hesitated.
"Of course" he said. after a mo-
ment, the most obvious explanation
Is that Endicott deserted her: and
yet that would have been SO unlike
him. for he was not a vicious or selfish
fellow, Mr.. Lester, but generous. hon
orable, warm hearted. despite his other
faults, which were merely, I hin
faults Of youth. I've never believed
that he deserted her. Perhaps, at the
last moment. her courage failed: or
perhaps there was q mistake Of some
sort. misunderstanding which kept
them apart"
I pondered It for a moment then
put 1t aside. That was not the mys-
terry I had set myself to solve.
We'll, Miss Jarvis evidently got over
1t" ! remarked, 'since she afterward
became Mrs. Lawrence"
That Is n way Of looking at It."
he assented; but I've always thought
that she was so far from getting over
1t that she never greatly cared what
became OF her afterward."
Was 1t SO bad as that"
1T was as bad as 1t could possibly
be. She did not return from Scotland
for two years and more. It was about
a year later that she married Law
renee. who was a business associate
OF her father. and lived here at Eliza
Detn. l a been called to the pas