The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1915-09-10

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soa | fpand Il kArdsr 10 pMra0n hEns
For the rrsl rIns III eAf long se
quaintanca. let laEsrnoe Rthertdgs
leave me, without any attempt az con
ciiiati0n. IN.
II only haA haiiea there. n. "
sight at my enpix study. had nUs
conceived the mad notion a. waylaying
him at the bridge for the handsNahe
I ilataSsd. might have been d hSpps
naAu nos. and 0ilver~-But why dwAll
upon these Eight.haveh eens. What
happened was thla;
DISTURBED In mind, and bnGing my,
self alone In the house. Oliver hAytag
svfdantly gone cat while We two we're
alsaatlag. ! decided to follow out thu
Impulse | have mentioned Leaving
By the tear. I went down the lane 20
the path which servss as q short lsut
to the bridge
That did this unseen by anybody
Is not 10 strange when You consider
the hour, and how shs only person
then living In the lame was. In all
probability. In her kltchen u would
have been better TOR NE, little a. !
might have recognised II at the time
had she been where she could have
witnessed both my going and c6mins
and faced me with the fact
John scoville. In his statement. says
that after giving up bis search for his
little girl be wandered up the ravine
before taking the path back which led
him through DARK Hollow, This was
false. "a well As the story he told OF
leaving his stick BY the chestnut tree
In the gully at foot of ostrandef lane.
For vas on the spot. and know
the route by which he reached DARK
Hollow and also through whose agency
the stick came to be there,
Read and learn with what tricks the
devil beguiles us men.
! was descending this path, heavily
Swallowed. as you know. By a sKIrttng
Of closely growing trees and bushes.
when Just where II dips into the Hol
low, heard the sound Of hasiy foo,
come crashing up through the under
brush from the ravine and cross the
path ahead OF me A turn in the path
prevented me from seeing the man
himself but as you win perceive and
as perceived later when ctrcuu'-
stances recalled Il TO my mind. had
no need to see him 10 know who II
was or with what intent he took this
method OF escape trnm the ravtne into
tho fields leading to the highway. SEQ
villes stick spoke for him, the stick
which | presently tripped over aud
mechanically picked up. without
thought OF the desperate use TO which
was destined to put II,
Etheridge was coming. | could hear
his whistle on Factory road. There
was no mistaking H. II was unusually
shrill one and had always been
cause OF irritation to me, but at this
moment II was more: II reused every
antagonistic impulse within me. He
whistling like a gslliard, after a part
Ing which had dissatisfied me TO such
an extent that had come all this dis
lance to ask his pardon and see his
old smile again Afterward. long aft
erward, was able TO give another
Interpretation to his show Of apparent
selt-satisfac,ion. but then | saw moth
INK but the contrast II offered to my
own tender regrets, and my blood be-
gan to boil and my temper rise to such
point that recrimination took the
place OF apology when In another mo
ment we came together In the open
space between the end OF the bridge
and Dark Hollow
RIO RE CDNTINtTEDl