The Press., 1915-07-14
fnations of Delilah.

nations of Delilah.
 It was we'll had announced that I
 had money. for I learned that Mo girl in Hobson, and bait was needed
 to draw him away from her. My funds
 succeeded. Belle very soon informed
 me that she had promised to marry
 him-provided gave my consent.
 held an interview with the proposer
 in which told him that Belle was the
 apple of my eye and wouldn't give her to any man who couldn't give a good account ef himself. But when he
 came to his account of himself ac-
 cepted it without asking for references and told him that l would give my daughter the money l had brought | with me for dowry and that I had plenty moro In Missouri, where I had como from. asked him when he in- tended to be married, and he said the sooner the better. l told him would
 talk with my daughter. but she might do as she pleased in the premises. | 1 conferred with Belle. and 1t was
 she who laid the plan we carried out. Having been already married to him,
 she had no objections to marrying him again, As his wife she could the more easily enable me to land him. and she did not see how she could do so except
 as his wife. All possible suspicion of her or me would be averted by a mar | riage ceremony.
 Mccormick being in great hurry for the ceremony, after pretending to demur at the suddenness of the affair
 I consented that 1t should take place | at once. A justice of the peace was | called in, and Belle, after embracing | me while I wiped forced tears from my eyes, stood up with the man be- similar circumstances before, and the justice performed the ceremony. As soon as it was over wiped away some more tears, and, taking out the packages of blank paper. each faced with a bank bill, I handed them to the bride. She threw her arms around me, then, tossing the packages on a table, turned and embraced her hus- band.
 It was arranged that the pair were to spend their honeymoon at the tavern, and the landlord had prepared the best chamber In the house for them. Belle had arranged with me that I should take position in the hall near the door of their room, and by signal she would indicate that she had secured the groom's arms. Then 1 was to en- kx~y, kh< al,. ,I<~v- AoI i,, a1 hand and make the capture. The sig nal was to be fit of coughing on the part of the bride.
 The pair had been in the bridal room for about fifteen minutes when heard the signal. l turned the knob of the door and threw it open. The groom was standing near the door. Belle was beside the bureau on which lay two bulldog pistols. which she was examining with feigned curiosity. I sprang between her and him, a re- volver In each of my hands. and told him that if he moved finger he was a dead man. Belle took up the bull dogs and also leveled them at him.
 You don't know me. do you?" she 
 We've been married before The first time didn't know you. This time l know you well. Tn. gentleman who has been playing my father is the sheriff of Union county. l saw you come into this town to play some more of your games and laid trap for you. Reckon you won't marry any more wives"
 She burst into flood of tears, while l motioned the man to leave the room, and marched him downstairs, with a pistol pressed between his shoulders. The landlords surprise was sight to behold When I told him that I had captured The Eel he swore that the villain should not leave the town alive Rushing out, he spread the news of the capture, men came run ming in, and a cry was raised:
 Hang himr'
 break the law so often and had defs d officials, seeing himself disarmed in the face of infuriated men. some of whose relatives had been his victims, turned pale, shivered and begged for mercy.
 "No mercy for you" cried man whose sister he had married. You showed no mercy to any one else. and you'll get none yourself. and don't you forget it!''
 He was so slippery that I was not very sorry when a posse took him out of my hands and ended his career at the end of rope attached to the limb of a tree. Belle, or Sarah Simpson, had not made up her mind to this and begged that he be spared. but the men would not listen to her.