Emmons County record., 1911-02-02

had though Of course, that there
would be money, and il was a bad dag
when | found out Ia made a mistake
My sister VAS villa With disappoin,
menl We We're 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 al
thu eheerless roof below She had
:, her lips . little. bnt that was all
You understand OF course. that In
sullen Voice The day came when
cld Harrington put us both out OF the
house at the point OF a revolver. and
| threatened-I suppose you know
thar, tool threatened to kill him.
My sister and | had hard times
after that. We lived on the contin-
. ent for while. was al Monte Car
young lady there, the granddaughter
ot steel manufacturer and an heir
ess. ard she sent for me When | got
10 Rome the girl was gone. Last win
ter was all in-social secretary TO
an Englishman. a wholesale grocer
With new title bur we had row
and ! came home. | went out to the
Heaton boys ranch i'll Wyoming. and
met Bronson there He lent me mon
ey. and Eve been doing his dirty work
ever since.
(, Sullivan got up then and walked
slowly forward and back as he talked
his eyes on the faded pattern of the
I Office rug.
Ii YOU want 10 live in hell" he
1 said sayagely put yourself in anoth-
er mans power Bronson got into
trouble, forging John Gilmores name
4 to those notes. and in some way he
! learned that man was bringing the
papers back to Washington on the
/ Filler He even learned the number of
! his berth, and the night before the
! wreck. just as | Was boarding the
train, ! got telegram
Hotchkiss stepped forward once
more Importantly
Which read | think Man with
papers in lower ten, car seven Get
i them.
Sullivan looked at the little man
with sulks- blue eyes.
/ IT was something like that, any
/ how But ii was a nasty business.
and it made matters worse that he
didn't care that telegram which
must pass through half dozen hands
vas more or less discriminating TO me.
Then. to add 10 The unpleasantness
of my position. just after we boarded
J the train was accompanying my
sister and this young lady, Miss West
"a woman touched me on the sleeve.
and turned TO face-my wife,
That took away my last bit of
nerve told my sister, and sou can
understand she vas in a bad way, too.
w. knew what it meant Ida had
h.1,rd that was going
lie stopped and glanced uneasily at
Alison
Go or. she said coldly lit is too
late to nn:sid ne The time to have
! done nat was when was your
gnes..
.'Naii" he Went on, his eyes tarned
/! cav W.. away iiOiil my lace, WQ1cn
must nave presented certainly any.
thing bu- a pleasant sight Miss
Wcsl wa. going 10 do me the honor to
/, MARRY me, and
Nou scoludrel,M burst forth
thils .sls, past Alison Vests chair
ieu- sou internal eur.
one Of he detectives got UP and
sod letwcen MS.
You must remember. Mr. Blakeley
that yoii are forcing this story from
his man l'hesc details are un9leas
ant but important You were goina
% marry This Young lady" he said
tuning 10 SislliSan although yon al
| ready had wife living
III Was my sisters plan. and wa.
IN 2 bad way Tor money If coulc
marry. secretly, u wealthy girl and &,
20 Europe II @aa unlikely that Ida
that is, Mrs sullivan would hea
/ Of it
g So II was more than 4; shock TO Sc,
9 my wife ON the train. and to realiz,
: from her face that she knew what wa
going on don't know vet nnles