Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1912-09-12


! - my story could he hid fo,..,ve,. -
r. bax. - Miss Grace and ME alone I
/ 60 60 : 'iot been blameless. For that rea.
roa. was willing freely-not through
O - -. 20 do what | could in the wav
: - fanlshinent TO myself and salvation
but now as this thing comes
~ can no longer shield her or nv.
-, OF any OF you. Wen have to 90
70 the bottom now, -
|, hung out on the table tha
roh which had brouebt With ne -
-. 'hat morning to Grace Sheraton
n, sAe ragged hide. holding writings
a go 1here By my hand and that OF
nis' said. must be shown ~
you al Colonel Sheraton. | have haep
eas sfaVeiy at fault. | was alone FIR
some months in the wilderness with
- woman. loved her very
4 Anuch. forgot your daughter at that
1,,iie because found / loved her less
force Of circumstances i lived
win ehis other woman very closely for
soAhe months. We foresaw no smme-
uia'e release. / loved her and she
,ofeo me-the only time knew what
'o's really meant. admit IT, We
made this contract az marr;ovo IL
a"een Us t was never enforced. We
never Were married because that CON
.raet was never signed by Ms both
Here 1t is. Examine IT"
= Jay there before Us. 7 saw fts
words again stare up at me. I saw
again the Old pictures Of the great
mountains and the cloudless skv and
the cities Of peace waverinp IN +ha
TAR horizon. / gazed once moro unop
'L"t olHerent and more happy world.
When saw. blurring before INV ewes
Tue words. Il. John Cowles-I. Ellen
MeF1Wether. take thee-take thee-for
oetter' for worse-till death do us
part saw her name, ELLEN"
Harry, said I, turning ON him
swiftly. Your father is old. This Il
Tor you and me, think. / shall be 1T
your service soon"
His face paled. But that of his IA
Their was now gray. very old and gray.
Ireachery!" he murmured. 'Treach-
erys You sighted my girl. NV God
SIR she should not marry you though
she died. This He put out HIS
hand toward the hide scroll
No." | said to him. "This is nfne
The record of my fault belongs To ne,
me question for you is only In regard
to the punishment.
We are four men here" I added [
presently, 'and 1t seems to me that
nrst OF all We owe protection to the I
woman who needs it, Moreover. I re- I
peat that. though her error f. not |
mine. II was perhaps pride or sorrow I
or anger with me which led her ID her
own fault. It was Gordon Orme who /
told her that | was false to her and t
added lies about me and this other a
woman. 1t was Gordon Orme. Colo
nel Sheraton. do not doubt. sir. | b
'onnd him in your yard here at mid a
hight when last was here. And, sir. b
here was a lght-a light I agreed
With your daughter that it was with I
ut question light that some servant p
lad left by chance at window" :
| wish never 10 hear again such h.
sroan as broke from that old mans n
ips. He was sunken aud broken \.
when he put out his hand to me- Y,
Boy" said he. have mercy. Dor III
i've. Can you-could you II
Can you yourself forgive this?" I :,
answered, pointing to the scroll Il II
dmit to you | love Ellen Meriwether
ct and always will. Sir. if | married I'd
our daughter, 1t could only be to leave m
Ter within the hour" tn
Colonel Sheraton said Or. Bond
1t seems TO me that we have no quar- r.
Ell here among ourselves We all th
rant to do what Is best done now to q,
Jake amends for what has not always ne
cen best done. Mr.. Cowles has given "a
very proof we could ask-we could to
0t ask more Of any man-you have no lib
light TO ask 50 much. He wishes, at ne
reat cost TO himself, | think, to do ali
hat he can To save your girls hapg,i- th,
ess and honor. He admits his oVn is
1ult" He looked ut me. s3ivagely au
baking a finger. but went on: AS it I
hances, | am curious In other profes Sh
ons than my own sometimes read I
the law sometimes, again in theolo- "Y
7. literature wish to be an educated CHI,
ian so far as | may be. since uni sh:
arsity education was denied me- Now. no
say to you. from my reading in the Go
W, strong question arises whether for
lie two who wrote this covenant. Of ado
arriage are not at this moment nann Ii
Id wife! There is definite, mutual ais
'omise, consideration moving from sha
ch side. the same consideration in 500
ch case. the promise from each bear hay
z the same intent and value and trie
lying the same qualifying clauses. n
he contract il defnite-it IL dated. T
is evidently the record Of unani- blat
ous intent an identical frame OF roo
Ind between the two making 1t at IS
at time. IL IL signed and sealed In Jusi
II BY one party, 10 doubt in his own cho
nd. 1T Is written and acknowledged 81