The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-06-03
FROM A FAR COUNTRY
BY ALLAN iNGllS.
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Copyright, 1916 by W. G. Chapman)

The prison gates closed Denlnu Lar
rimore He was free. Nobody had
come to meet him except the report
ers, but that caused Larrimore no dis
tress. OF course Laura would not
have come to the prison gates. She
had pride, and, though he had been
unjustly condemned, Laura was not
going to publish her shame before the
eyes of the newspap Per men.
Larrimore had done no wrong
True, he had beggared few score Of
women and trusting men who had put
their all in his wildcat scheme, but
then everybody did things like that
every day in the course of business.
The five years in the penitentiary that
he had served had been a gross injus-
tice. Larrimore felt no degradation,
He meant to repeat his trick, but
more craftily, in order to secure the
funds to start things going again.
Still, he was thinking, as he sat in
the train, lot of things which dis
tressed him. and yet he could not
shake them out of his mind He had
gone to the metropolis twenty years
before, a gawky farmer boy, TO make
his fortune. He had become wealthy
in an incredibly short space of time,
for Larrimore was quick TO adapt
himself to the dubious ways Of finance,
In ten years he was married and had
house on the avenue,
He had married the daughter of his
employer. He had not loved Laura
exactly, but she had thought he had.
After his marriage he seldom went
home. He made his old mother an
adequate allowance, but he had not
seen her for three years before he
was sentenced. With his connections
he could not afford TO have it known
that his mother was an illiterate Old
woman. Laura had never seen her;
Larrimore had been ashamed 10 let
her know.
Still there had been trying episodes,
which, as a man Of the world, he had
found difficult to explain to his wife.
For instance, old Mrs. Larrimore's
letters. The old woman had been
growing lonely. She wanted to come
to town and live with her son. OF
course that was impossible, and he
had told his mother so frankly. But
Laura had seen one of the ill-spclIed
letters, and LarrimOre had been
ashamed.
you see, she never could learn to
spell very WELL" he explained to his
wife I'VE are of good family, but
mother was always the Ounce at
school"
The look in his wife's eyes when he
apologized for his mother had vague
ly annoyed Larrimore.
After his conviction Laura had come
to sec him regularly each three
months. Three months before his sen
tence expired she had told him that
she thought it would be no use their
living together. The house had been
sold, and she was living then in a
clearinghouse. Larrimore had not
answered her, because he meant to
go to her as soon as he came out Of
prison and explain that he would be
a rich man again within a year and
that he could provide her with every
luxury. That would alter his wife's
decision, he knew.
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