Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-07-31
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The Actors
Daughters
By F. w. ROBINSON
Daughters
By F. w. ROBINSON
CHAPTER XVIII
"'THE MAD DOG.

uYACINTHA NASH looked as re
at last with the same grave
expression with which she had been
surveying Herbert Aston at the mo-
ment of my arrival. Aston was trem-
bling violently, but he did not speak
for awhile. He was content to feel l
was near him, and to hold me tightly
by the arm with his shaking hands.
81 must apologize for intruding
here and coming to see this man, Mr..
Lissamer," she said; "but it was my
duty, after all that has happened"
I bowed.
You heard what he said 1ust
now?" she inquired.
Eyes"
''It is quite true. / was as anxious
he should know the truth as your
self. I have nothing to keep back
from him and you. 1t is all ended"
HE says it was you who"
Tried to kill him." she concluded,
as I paused; ito remove his worth
less life out of the way OF honest peo-
pie. Yes, Mr.. Lissamer, tried"
She said very firmly and without a
trace of excitement in her manner:
to have heard her voice. and without
glancing at her face. would have
been to imagine her entirely unaf-
fected by all that had happend--by
the discovery of the treachery which
she had planned. But her face was
full of set, hard purpose, and her
dark eyes cleaned with fire.
"Horrible!" 1 exclaimed. """H T.
eyes, horrible enough" she as
scented; there is no better word for
It. It has been all very horrible
from the first day of my sisters
knowledge of that wretch"
She pointed to him, and he shrank
from her as he lay there.
HE would have been SO much
better dead" she said, with almost
a ring of pity in her metallic tones OF
voice; che is so completely unfit to
liVe-to get better and become a
curse once more. He is no good In
this world; there Is no good In him
only evil; deep and unutterable
evil. And why should 1t exist?"
"You have no right to constitute
yourself his Judge. much less his ex-
ecutioner," was my reply.
81 am not so certain Of that" she
said, thoughtfully.
"Send her away, doctor; l cannot
bear her here. I am afraid"
lit is as we'll he should be afraid
of something now" she said, scorn-
fully; 1--WE have been in fear of him
for years, and life has been a tor
ment, knowing that he lived. When
1t became plain tome that there was
not one atoms worth Of manhood in
his gross soul, that he was altogether
bad, and would have seen us so II 1t
would have put one extra sfxpence in
his pocket, or one glass more OF
brandy to his lips, I made up my
mind that he should die, If God in
His mercy did not kill him soon for
us. That was a little while ago, Mr.
Lissamer, when he was logging my
sisters steps, whining and shriek1ng
for money to get a drink; striking
her when she had no money for him;
bringing men-great God! such mon
sters-into her home; cursing, SLAM
dering us in his rage; haunting us,
and degrading us by his persecution;
a brute beast one hears of some
times, but very rarely sees. And
there he is, still living to work harm;
and you are trying to make him
strong enough for an Infamous ca
reer again! You! not knowing the
viper you are warming into life at
your hearth"
Nothing, Miss Nash, can excuse
your attempt to kill him.
mo injuries?"
mo"
''Or wrongs?"
'No."
ga minister would say so-per-
haps any man or woman processing
to be Christian, and who can talk
gliblv of the sanctity Of human life,
and knows nothing of its degrade
ton. I have thought Of all that
studied all that" she said, with an
awful calmness; "but this was
mad dog, and had to be destroyed for
his wife's sake-for mine.
did Della
''No, no; don't think any harm of
her." she cried, at once. "She never
guessed or dreamed what was in my
mind. She loved that wretch once
actually loved him, when he was lit
tie more than a child. She married
him, and became his slave. When he
turned drunkard and a savage, when
he Haunted his unfaithfulness in her
face, she loved him still, forgaYe
him, prayed for him as only a wom-
an can pray, bore with all his base
ness, until he became wholly and
awfully unbearable. We hated him
at last, both of us. We fed from him,
and he found us. out, We were al