The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-14

know what we were going to do, Mo Maxim and I, but we were both agreed that you needed killing. And he swore that he would marry Lucy anyhow, even''-
 ''Narry her!" sings out the doctor, ''but we were married"
 'Dave,'' Colonel Tom says very slow and steady, you keep saying you were married. But it's strange. It's right strange about that marriage''
 "eBut, Tom," says the doctor. '@that letter she wrote you from Chicago must"-
 ''Do you know what Lucy wrote2' interrupts Colonel Tom 'sI remember exactly It was simply: Forgive me. I loved him so. I am happy. I know 1t is wrong, but I love him so you must forgive me-"
 'But couldn't you tell from that we were marriedT' cries out the doctor.
 ''She didn't mention it. says Colonel Tom
 ''She supposed that her own family had enough faith in her to take it for granted says the doctor, very scorn- G1l, his face getting red
 ''But wait, Dave,'' says Colonel Tom, quiet and cool. Don't buster with me- There are still a lot of things to be explained. And that marriage is one ef them.
 '"To go back a bit. You say you got to the house somewhere around 10 o'clock that evening and found Lucy gone. Do you remember the day Of the month";
 cit was Nov. IA, 1SSS."
 ITy C41n 1oY <no% to Chicago at o'clock of that very day. And went at once to the ad dress in Lucy's letter. got there be- tween 2 and o'clock She was gone. My thought was that you must have got wind of my coming and persuaded her to leave with you in order to avoid mccullough didn't see how you could know when I would get there, either, when I thought 1t over."
 "And you have never seen her since" says Armstrong, pondering.
 'tI have seen her s1nce,'' says Colonel Tom, tand that Is one thing that makes me say your story needs furth- CT explanation
 "But where-when-did you see her?'' asks the doctor mighty excited.
 ''I am coming to that. I went back
 
 year I heard from her."
 Heard from her?''
 "By letter. She was in Ga1esburg, H., if you know where that is. She was living there alone, and she was almost destitute. I wrote her to come home. She would not but she had to live. I got rid of some of our property in Ten nessee and took enough cash up there with me to fix her in a decent sort of way for the rest of her life and put it in the bank. I was with her there for ten days; then I swent back home to get Aunt Lucy Davis to help Be in another effort to persuade her to re- turn, but when got back north with Aunt Lucy she had gone.'' "Gone?n
 'sYes, and when we returned without l her to Tennessee there was a letter telling US not to try to find her. We thought thought-that she might have taken up with you once again" ''But, my God, TomI' the doctor busts out "You were with her ten days there in Galesburg! Didn't she tell you then-couldn't you tell from the way she acted-that she had mar rted me? Didn't you ask her?''
 'Ask her? No. Can't you see that there was no reason why I should ask her? was sure, and, being sure of it, naturally didn't talk about it to her. You can understand that I wouldn't, can't your In fact, I never mentioned you to her. She never men toned you to me-"
 ''You must have mistaken her, Tom. '
 ''I don't think it's possible, Dave," said the colonel. '1 tell you that there's something odd about it-mar- r1ed or not, Lucy didn't believe herself married the last time saw her" / "But she must have known," says the doctor, as much to himself as to