Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-09-02

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His eyes glistened with love for the
woman who was again to be his help
meet.
I'm afraid to. Jennie" he told her
after a pause. 1.-THE bulls been after
me all day"
"When can you come, Bill?"
"Soon's l see the young man. l
gotta reach him first and then III send
for you or come for you"
lis he far away?'
EYES,"
"How you going to get there?'
'Work my way
She loosened her waist and pulled
out roll of bills.
II brought this for you, Bill" she
said. II know'd you would want
some got 5000 in the bank now and
there's $780,"
He hesitated about taking the
money.
"You gotta take it, Bill" she said
1T will bring you back to me sooner
and you can pay it back in no time"
III tOOh P1VV VI lu0 UlOuCys
"Boston Ed" tapped on the door and
then poked in his face.
"How's the old folksT he asked.
They smiled at him in gratitude for
his kindness.
'The party breaking up?"
YES; you get Jennie home safe for
me. l gotta slope out Of town." said
Bill.
Husband and wife embraced and the
old probationer slipped from the room,
made his way through the geshculat-
ing deaf and dumb patrons of the
saloon and disappeared into the night.
In his mountain refuge there were
hours Of loneliness which beset John
Nelson. He realized that the more he
achieved in life and the greater grew
his love for Molly Bryan the more ter
rible would be the reckoning for him
should the police ever corner him.
The oppressiveness of these hours be-
came such that he looked about for a
mental occupation that would serve
to drive from his thoughts the fear
that seemed to fasten on him with
tighter grip as the weeks passed.
In the Dark Corner he was the only
man with money and sufficient warmth
and food and shelter sound enough to
make actual physical existence bear
able in winter. The poverty CT the
mountain families was but little short
Of the poverty of despair: Many of
them lived through the seasons with
never the possession of money, getting
their food from their patches Of open
ground and their clothes by trading.
The majority Of the people about him
could not read. Some of them had
never heard of Christ. As he had turn
ed to the poor in the mill section of
Greenville, he turned to the mountain
GERS Of the Dark Corner. With one of
his negro servants he made excur-
sions from his castle, going from
cabin to cabin, finding out what was
needed most and giving freely. On
these Samaritan trips he carried q
pocket Bible, and when he could find
an excuse for so doing he would read
to them the message that packs the
book from Genesis to Revelation that
the mercy of God shall endure forever.
On the edge Of his estate he built a
pine church with tiny spire tipping
the tree line. Here he provided a pull
pit for the mission priests and circuit
riders who travelled the mountain
paths. Here he made a place for the
word of God and not for the word of
diet or q conference.
The snow of the first winter in his
mountain home began to fly. and Mel.
son made trip into the city to secure
the copies Of the Herald he had com
mfssioned newsdealer to save for
him. That night. before a log fire in
his study. he spread the copies Of the
Herald on large table and arranged
them In order of their issue. He dis
covered the reply Of Hawkins:
KIDD. K. December.-Bill.
The old convict had managed in
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on. He was coming to him, he of all
the men who could help him, the only
man he could trust with his secret.
Into Bills hands he would give the
wealth he had acquired. give it freely
gladly. that he might spend it in the
hunt for the man whose arrest and
conviction would take from him the
disgrace put upon him by the law that
had worked abortively.
Hope that had practical reason back
of it filed him. Molly was nearer to
him than she had ever been since the
day he first saw her sweet face and
heard her lovely voice. He felt as ii
he could 60 to her even then, for he
was filed with confidence newly born
BY early spring he would finish bis
most important invention, new knit.
ting machine that would replace those
already made. He would put up q
knitting mill in conjunction with the
textile mills and have his own plant
He could bring Molly to his castle until
the day came when Bill would bring
in his quarry.
| Molly and her father had made thu
trip to his home and workshop once
during the previous summer. Nelson
had kept sacred the chair she had