Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-05-08

she answered directly; "you have de-
liberately been false
Cant you see," protested the man
drawing nearer to her, chow much I
love your"
"Oh, that; yes I suppose that is
true; as far as you can love any one
Will admit that you do love me-"
SO far as can love any one?" be
renc2ted after her. "Giye me a chance
and I'll show you"
But you haven't told the truth
about Mrs. Newbold You have caIum-
mated the dead, you have sought to
shelter yourself by throwing the bur
sen Of a guilty passion upon the weak
er vessel; it isn't manlike, it isn't
Armstrong was a bold fighter. quick
and prompt in his decisions. He made
smother effort to set himself right. He
staked his all on another throw of the
dice, which he began to feel were
somehow loaded against him.
You are right" he admitted. won
dering anXiously how much the woman
really knew. 'Tt wasn't true, it was
towards act, I am ashamed of it
I'm SO mad with love for you that |
scarcely know what l am doing, but
l will make clean breast of it now.
loved Louise Rosser after a fashion
before ever Newbold came on the
scene. We were pledged to each 9th
er; foolish quarrel arose, she was
jealous Of other girls
"And had she no right to be?"
oh, [ suppose so. We broke if off
anyway and then she married New
bold, out of pique | suppose, or what
you will. thought I was neart-brok-
en- at the time, it did hit me pretty
hard; it was five or six years ago; l
was yOungster then, l am a man
now. The woman has been dead long
since; there was some cock-and-bull
story about her falling off a cliff and
her husband being compelled to shoot
her. l didn't believe it at the time,
and naturally I have been waiting to
get even with him. I have been hat
ing him for five years, but he has
been good to you and we will let by
cones be bygones. What do I care
for Louise RosseP, or for him, or for
what he did to neE, NOW! am sorry
that / said what / did, but you will
have to charge it to my binding pas
sion for you. can truthfully say that
you are one woman that have ever
craved with all my heart. l will do
anything, be anything, to win you"
1t was very brilliantly done; he had
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mitted much, but he had withheld
the essentials after all. He was play
ing against desperate odds, he had no
knowledge of how much she knew, or
where she had learned anything Ev-
cry one about the mining camp where
she had lived had known of his love
for Louise Rosser, but he had not sup
posed there was a single human soul
who had been privy to its later devel-
opments, and he could not figure out
any way by which Enid Maitland could
have learned by any possibility any
more of the story than he had told
her He had calculated swiftly and
with the utmost nicely, just how much
he should confess. He was a keen
NlICSu C1GNSI ndL anu he w DIS uSulIuS
for what he held most dear, but his
eagerness and zeal, as they have oft
en- done, OVERRIDE his judgment, and
he made another mistake at this juno
ture. His evil genius was at his ell
bow
'You must remember" he continued,
that you have been alone here in
these mountains with man for over
month; the world
what, what do you mean?" ex-
claimed the girl, who indeed knew
very we'll what he meant, but who
would not admit the possibility.
cts not every man." he added,
blindly rushing to his doom, that
would care for you or want you-aft-
er that"
He received a sudden and terrible
enlightenment.
''You coward" she cried, with up
raised hand, whether in protest or to
strike him neither ever knew, for at
that moment the door opened the Sec
ond time that morning to admit an
other man.
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