The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-02-01

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twice and yelled for the police. They
caught me, and I had a gun In my
clothes too. The mex morning he came
to see me In the station house-to iden-
tify me, he said. Then he told me he
was going to send me up for highway
robbery, but he was willing, for your
SAKE and Christine's, to say nothing
about the past, or anything. He did
swear me into the pen, and l kept my
mouth closed. But, Mary, l am not a
thief at heart-I never was one. What
ever l did that was crooked in the old
days was due to whisky. It's a habit
men have, l know, blaming everything
ON whisky, but-but, oh, say. Mary. you
know l wasn't that sort of a man when
married you"
"You are not to leave this house,
Tom, until you have promised" she
said firmly. All the time he was
speaking she had stood like a statue
before him, never taking her eyes from
his distorted face.
"Oh, I'm not, eh7 Well seer"
what are % going to do to Colonel
GrandY'
I'm going to- he checked himself.
I'm going to beat him to a jellyp'
You mean you are going to murder
him?' She shuddered as she said 1t.
NO." he said with grim humor. I'm
only going to help him to die"
The time had come for the strong APP
peal. She laid her hands on his should
ers.
Tom, have you thought Of what 1t
will mean, not to me. but to Chris
timer"
"She knows by this time that I'm
an ~ex-convict. 1t won't hurt her to
know I'm even worse"
"She does not believe you were
guilty. She always has said you could
have been a good man II you had let
whisky alone"
HE told me- went on Braddock,
that he had won your love. He lied.
l could kill him once for that lie. He
told me that you and he were going to
sell Christine to a certain French
nobleman who already had a wife and
family. He lied again. l could kill
him once more for that lie. He told
me-
Don't! Don't, For Gods sake
don't tell me any more" she groaned.
HE laughed at me because Of the
drunken bargain I had made with him
had turned out TO his credit. after ALL"
1.-The salef'
Yes
He looked away. The expression In
her eyes cut him like a knife.
II ought to have been shot for that,
Mary. he said.
"You owe me a little happiness and
peace. Tom. after all these years"
"Oh, I'll go away all right. This Is
the last time you'll ever see me-"
at isn't that that | ask. There was
a time when we were happy, you and
I. lie not forget the old days, before
ycu-I mean when we were working
together. 0 and I. to get control Of
the circus. No that / liked the life
God knows | did not!-but that we
were striving for big, good things. r.
She went on eagerly. you are
obsessed by this idea of vengeance.
You say you are going to end your
own life as well. You will escape the
consequences, as any coward would,
and you are not Il coward. Who stays
behind to suffer all the pain and
anguish? Not you. oh. no. am the
one-as If you had not already done
enough. Christine and /! We
Il won't listen to your he cried. his
breast heaving.
You are listening, You can't help it.
Come. You must sit down here beside
me. This is the one. great. solitary hour
in your life"
He drew back and permitted an ir-
relevant question 10 break from his lips:
why didn't you divorce me?'
Because | married you, Tom, that is
why, I'll always be your wife. IL
can't live with you, but r.