Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-07-24

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II thought it would be best to get
away. You see-no one knew my
name here-I went over to Fritz's
about the first thing-where-where 1t
happened. o know; and no n knew
was coming-except her-and she
didn't know when. had them fooled
all right. 1 hear they called ms the
Unknown-to BE identified by the
scar"
Carter nodded.
"Pm-glad the old name shan't be
dragged in the dust-no one shall ever
know" went on the sufferer. And
I'll go down through history as the I'M
known outlaw-who came to your
quiet viflage-killed a mani wish
they could know how he deserved kill
ing-and then killed another, and was
finally tracked to death-by dogs.
Thank God! my mothers dead-and
all the folks. But what will she-she
will never know, never hear-My God!
what will she Think"
Then through the trees, gladstone
and gay as the twitter of the birds,
came the sound of a woman's voice
singing. 1t startled the silence of the
woods, and a greater contrast to the
tragedy which had just been enacted
there could not be imagined.
The outlaw had raised a haggard
face.
DO you know what that means?' he
cried hoarsely. DO you know what
that means, man? It IA that she
is coming-that l am going to see her
onc more-before it is too late!"
The trilling voice was becoming
louder. Carter went from red to
white as he listened. Then suspicion
became certainty, and he broke out:
1T can't be-because-that is my
sisters voice!"
Then she is your sister. 1t is the
song | taught her-over at Albany
where I met her"
"She visited there" murmured the
other DULY. my God!" he cried as a
clearer understanding of the situation
was borne home to him.
The dying mans face had under
gone a change. Already lined from
the agony he was suffering. and damp
with the dew of death, it became an
awful sight to behold.
DO you understand-don't you
see?" The words fell from his stiff
lips almost inaudibly. For the love
of God, man." he broke of-"don't let
her know-keep it from her, and yet
and yet-let-me see her"
For a moment Carter stared. then
the nearing voice warned him into
action.
She shall never know" he said.
answering the eyes which looked up
into his as t~rustingly as a dog might;
"and yet you shall see her"
A little later, in answer to a whistle
from Carter, there burst into the cir
Gle formed of fallen logs and under
growth, and hidden by trees. the fg.
ure of a girl. She was bareheaded and
flushed, and the love of life burned
from her eyes. The concluding strains
of her SOM trembled for an instant on
her parted lips. then died there.
Don't be alarmed. but there has
been an accident" her brother was
saying. See. dear. he was coming to
you. But he carried a weapon-the
man-hunt, you know-and the weapon
fell ~accidently to the ground. 1t went
off"
But even before he had finished
speaking the girl had turned a deaf
ear to him, and with the sublime cour.
age of womanhood had pushed him
aside until she herself pillowed the
sufferers head. Her hands were busy
ministering the hundred and one little
attentions a woman has at her com
mand and of which a man knows moth.
ing; only a touch, a caress. here and
there perhaps, but only those Of us
who have experienced know.
Carter. after receiving the lightning
look of gratitude from the dying
mans eyes, had turned away. But frag-
ments of the whispered colloquy
reached him.
Don't grieve. dear" murmured the
woman. though grief had already
burned it's imprint in her own staring
eyes. 1T might be worse. Yes, dear,
think, for instance, If o were dying
a death such as the poor outlaw you
were tracking must die-think. too.
how much worse it would be for me.
You die respected of men. and loved
always
Carter never knew how long after.
ward 1t was-as time is counted-that
he heard a faint gasp. then a woman's
cry. But the sound told him that all
was over and that to n more exis-
tence there had been written FINS"
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