The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-08-10

dicott's dog killed some Of the Jarvis
chickens, and Jarvis shot the dog. En-
dicott rode over the Jarvis land and
Jarvis swore out a warrant against
MIN Tor 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.
I "Of course, Mr. Lester, l don't know
all the steps In the affair: but on
Christmas Eve. just year later, there
came great knocking at my door, and
stood Jarvis, with such a face as had
never seen on man before. He
stamped in and flung a sheet of paper
down on the table.
Read that. he said, in a stified
voice. Read that, man! Oh. that
should have bred a harlot!"
Il was too astonished to reply, but
picked up the paper and read It.
It was a note from his daughter-I
forget the exact words--but she told
MIN that she had secretly married Boyd
win his consent, and prayed for for
giveness. They were going far away, she
said; she would not see him again for
q long time, and hoped he would think
kindly of her. It was a touching note,
Mr.. Lester.
The good mans voice choked and he
paused to regain control of It, AS for
me. thought Of that other note had
read few hours since.
He was like 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 she 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: he had
his buggy at the door, and we drove
away to the Fanwood station. There
the agent told us that Miss
Jarvis had taken the Afternoon
train for New York There was
no other train for an hour, SO
we waited. Jarvis tramped up and
down the station like a wild thing.
And then, Just before the train was
due, there came q telegram for him.
It was from his sister and stated that
Mary had reached her home unattended
and was very i'll.
THAT settled the matter, so far as I
was concerned. I drove back home
again and Jarvis went on to New York.
Unfortunately, In the first rage of his
discovery OF his daughters flight. he
the affair, and it leaked out, but was
gradually forgotten. Mary Jarvis, after
long illness, went with her father
for 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
dldnt guess until afterward. He be-
came more grabbed and irritable than
ever; he seemed to be whitening away
and his face grew to haunt me. ii was
SO harried and anxious l suspected
that he had become involved in bust
ness troubles Of some sort. for the
country was on the verge of panic,
and once I tried to approach the SUBJ
Ject to- offer him any help could. hut
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 a way
that he could not repudiate-and the
man who had bound him was Hiram
Jarvis"
The speaker paused and leaned back
for moment in his chair, his face
very stern.
'That was his revenge" he added
But / doubt IL he foresaw how bitter
IL 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" ! asked; where was
hep"
He was killed two days after that
Christmas eve in a railroad wreck
somewhere In the west-I have for
gotten exactly where. His body was
brought home to Scotch Plains and
buried there"
In the west?" I repeated. what
was he doing In the west?"
Il don't know" answered DIR. Schuy-
Ter. I've never been able to under
Were he and Miss Jarvis already
married." Or did they expect to be
married afterward?"
WELL" said DR.. Schuyler slowly.
II inferred from the note that thew
were already married. But may have
been mistaken in thinking so. l know
And you say that you've never been
able to understand why, after all, they
did not go away together-why Miss
Jarvis went to New York and Endi-
colt to the west?"
DR.. Schuyler hesitated.
III course, ne said after mo-
ment, the most obvious explanation
is that Endicott deserted her: and
yet that would have been so unlike
him, for he was not vicious or selfish
fellow, Mr.. Lester, but generous, hon
orable, warm hearted, despite his other
faults. which were merely, / think,
faults of youth. I've never believed
that he deserted her. Perhaps. at the
last moment, her courage failed; or
perhaps there was a mistake of some
sort, misunderstanding which kept
them apart"
pondered It for a moment, then
put 1t aside. That was not the mys-
terry I had set myself to solve.
. well, Miss Jarvis evidently got over
It," / remarked, "since she afterward
became Mrs. Lawrence
THAT Is one way Of looking at It,"
he assented; "but I've always thought
that she was so far from getting over
IL that she never greatly cared what
became OF her afterward."
Was II SO bad as that"
1t was as bad as It could possibly
be. She did not return from Scotland
for two years and more. 1t was about
a year later that she married Law
renee, who was a business associate
or her father, and lived here at Eliza
beth. / had been called to the pas
torate of the church here and per-
formed the ceremony"