Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-17

heard something of his college esca-
pades while l was at the seminary. but
the first time l saw him was when he
came home for the HOLIDAYS. He was
a handsome boy. dark, with a face
n a showed his breeding: but he was
the widest, most untamable l ever
Knew. When he came walking into
church with. his mother, it used to
amuse me to see how MI. Jarvis would
glare at him; he considered him a
firebrand of he'll. and didn't scruple to
say SO. And young Endicott would
stare back-at Jarvis. as l thought,
but L saw my mistake afterwards.
"Ihere was more or less trouble of
a personal kind between the two. EN-
dlcotts dog killed some of the Jarvis
dlcott rode over the Jarvis land and
Jarvis swore out Il warrant against
MN Tor treSpaSS-mere persecution, the
lilagers thought it-and there were
other differences of a similar nature,
which We're ended only when the boy
went back to school.
"Of course, Mr.. Lester, I don't know
an 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 it. there on the step
stood Jarvis, with such a face as had
never seen on a man before. He
stamped in and flung a sheet of paper
~ ~ SabO
voice. Read that, man. Oh. that /
should have bred a harlot."
Il was too %astonished to reply. but
I picked up the paper and read it.
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
glveness. 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 was a touching note.
Mr.. Lester.
The good mans voice choked and he
paused to regain control of it. AS for
me, l thought of that other note 1 had
read a few hours since.
He was like "A man crazed." con-
tlnued DR.. Schuyler. at last. 'He
wouldn't listen to reason he demand
ed only that l 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
ms own eyes. A heavy storm was rag
ing. but / 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
train for New York. Ae There s,.e' was
no other train for an hour, so
we waited. Jarvis tramped up and
down h station like a wild thing.
And then, just before the train was
due, there came q telegram for him.
1t was from his sister and stated that
Mary had reached her home unattended
and was very iii.
That settled the matter, so far as I
was concerned. l drove back home
i q Cr1JN and "a fy.iC ,,r, 49, -
Unfortunately, in the first rage of his
discovery of his daughters flight. he
a given the servants some hint of
the affair, and it leaked out. but was
gradually forgotten. Mary Jarvis, after
a long Illness. went with her father
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 I
didn't 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. it was
so harried n anxious. 1 suspected
that he had become involved in busi-
ness troubles OF some sort. for the
country was on the verge OF a panic.
anG once l tried to approach the sub
Ject to offer him any help could. but
he stopped me with such ferocity that
l never tried again. Then, suddenly.
came the news that Endicott had been
caught witt Fisk in the ruin Of Black
Friday: but while Fisk saved himself
by regulating 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 sneaker nQ1Yco6 ond 1oo~oI I....
for a m in his chair, his face
very stern.
That was his revenge" he added.
But doubt II he foresaw how bitter
1t was to be. For Endicott shot hfm-
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" was
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?" / repeated. what
was he doing in the west?"
Il don't know," answered DIR. Schuy-
Ter. I've never been able TO under
stand it,"
"Were he and Miss Jarvis already
married OR did they expect to be
married afterward?'
well" said DR.. SCHUYLER SLOWLY
Il inferred from the note that they
were already married. But NAV have
been mistaken in thinking so. / know
that her father did not believe it,"
And o say that you've never been
able to understand why. after all. they
Jarvis went to New York and Endi-
colt to the west?"