Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-31

Il bought 'em last night" explain
ed the doctor, "and we're going to
leave for the south to-day"
"Giving up your hunt?" asked
Philip.
mo, it's ended" replied McGill
in a matter-of-fact way "It ended
at Pierre Thoreau's cabin. Falkner
was the third man to work out my
experiment."
Philip stopped in his tracks, and
the doctor stopped, and turned to-
ward him.
But the third" Philip began.
The little doctor continued to
smile. ...
There are more things in Heaven
and earth, Philip" he quoted. than
are dreamed OF in your philosophy.
This love experiment has turned out
wrongly, as far as preconceived theo-
ries are concerned, but when ! think
OF the broader, deeper significance OF
1t all am-pleased Is not the word"
what can't see" Philip was
stopped by the doctors lifted hand.
"You see, am relying on your
word Of honor, Phil" he explained,
laughing softly at the amazement
which he saw in tho others face.
Its all DO wonderful that I want
you to know the end Of 1t, and how
happily 1t has turned out for me
and the little woman waiting for
me back home. 1t was I and not
Falkner who cried out just before
you turned the lamp wick down. A let
ter had fallen from his coat pocket, and
1t was one of my letters--sent through
my agent. Understand? sent you for
| the ice and while you were gone told
him who was, and he told me why
had never heard from him, and why
he was in Pierre Thoreau's cabin.
My agent had sent him north with
five hundred dollars as first pay
ment To cut long story short, he
got into a card game in Prince AL
bert-as the best of us do at times,
and as result became mixed up,
in quarrel, in which he pretty near
ly killed man. They've been after
him ever since, and almost had HIM
when we found him, injured by a.
blow which he received in an ugly
fall earlier in the night. It's the
last and total wrecking OF my
theory"
"But the girl" urged Philip.
Were going to see her now, and
she will tell you the whole story as
she told it to me-" said the doctor,
as calmly as before. "Ah, but IT'S
wonderful, man-this great, big. hu-'
man love that fills the world! They
two met at Nelson House. as l had
planned they should, and four
months after that they smashed my
theory by being married by a mis-
sionary from York Factory. / mean
that they smashed the bad part Of
it, Phil, but all three couples proved,
the other-that there exist no SUCH
things as soul affinities, and that,
two normal people of opposite sexes,
II thrown together under certain en-.
vironment, will as, naturally mate as,
two birds, and will fight and die for,
one another afterward, too. There.
may not be one in ten thousand who
believes it, but I do-still.
"At the last moment the man in
Falkner trfumphed over his love and
he told her what he was, that up
until the moment he met her he
drank and gambled, and that for his
shooting a man in Prince Albert he
would sooner or later get term in
prison And she? tell you that
she busted my theory to a frazzle.
She loved him, as now believe
every woman in the world is capa-
BILE of loving, and she married him,
and stuck to him through thick and
thin, fed with him when he was
compelled to run-and her faith In
him now is like that of child in
Its God.
For a time they lived in that ca
bin above Pierre Thoreau's, and per-
haps they wouldn't have been found
out II they hadn't come up to Fort
Smith for a holiday. Falkner told
me that his pursuers would surely
stop at Pierre's, and 80 we fixed up
that little scheme to get rid of you
80. that you would in no way be to
blame for what happened. He told me
where I'd find his wife. By this
time he has good start for the
States, and will be there by the
time get his wife down."
Philip had not spoken word. AL
most mechanically he pulled the
photograph from his pocket.
"And this" he said.
The doctor laughed as he took the
picture from his hand,
'Is Mrs. William Falkner, Phil.
Come in. Pm anxious to have you
meet her"