The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-17

from him.
I'm not going to run away
he said, with quiet, unnatural
calmness. | shall tell yon the
truth. | shall tell Senator Mallon
everybody here-and, through
them, the world
He spoke in a low, tense voice,
and managed TO convey the inn
preston that he pitied Mary
Leslie.
II don't know you, and yet you
may have known me There may
have been a time when | was all
the world to you. But [ do not
know. | cannot say"
He passed the back of his right
hand across his brow slowly.
II don't even know who | am
from where | came my own
name. My memory is only five
years old He punctuated that
with a smile infinitely sad. so
you see, | couldn possibly I'M
der any circumstances, know you
now. You say you knew me six
years ago? Five years ago | lost
my memory. Whisky destroyed
it--utterly. All the life had lived
all the places | had seen, my whole
personal history, all the thoughts
of my brain--everything was
wiped from my consciousness abb
solutely and entirely. | say, all
the thoughts. There was one that
left it's shadow, "a ghost, a com
pelling terror, oalsmy mind. That
was the knowledge that whisky
had dealt me this terrific blow.
He spread out his hands and
smiled lightly. THAT is why / 10
not like whisky. He spoke vev
gently. a do not believe / eEer
knew yon--ever knew yen Eerv
well. / don't think / ever dill Bqs
/ cannot say
On the end OF that sneFs
only Edith s~hndierag er -
she sank into the ehaEr bEle h4s
Mrs. Kane bent over her. sae ses
her from the view oil 4E as
Edith's grief had a -aga# ard
immediate effect ON sm5sh- IL
wheeled np0n Maas0ra- and he
moved. there WAS IN ans g1Hs,a and
in his face all his customary bril-
liancy, all his aiertres All ar
dent strength
What I do beiev he sssd n
ringing tones. * THAI sha ss4ass'
side instigated this qsaoae sasne
to discredit me In she ewes of eosn-
gress and the eonntss Tsy tas1nk
they can defeat the E-aos@anpsaS Fnr
which / stand BY branding me a.
a man with a criminal past lion
foolishlv they have pianneds Even
il they could prove rae gsa5st. IF
the most revolving. the rrcst de-
graded, conduct. they would E
sure merely their own downfall /
am only one. a unia. an 5rfsrite
NAL traction, in the great Sara 81
public opinion against which shes-
fight In vain
Mallon put UP 4 hand 10 later
rl1pt hin... He disrsgarded him
You will hear me nowt Jsook
at me as / ANA miserable naau. d
makeshift, one who does not know
his own identity Back Of me
there is hung, from the heavens ID
my heels, a wall OF darkness from
behind which namelesg horrors
may spring upon me in the twin
klinge Of an eye. Instead of nie1n-
cries to socthe my soul. 4 have
the sword OF suspense To torture
my mind. Instead of the Lessons
of experience to light my way, |
entertain weird creatures 0f self
suspicion that drag me back Look
at me as amLthis miserable
man, unknowing and unknown
Think Of il
He paused and stood 4 moment,
his arms outspread, d statue Of
woe, q man upon whose head the
bolts of the worlds anguish had
fallen. Waller laid his hand on hia
shoulder, but he shook it Oh. His
apiritwas aflame, brave, III rebel.
lion. He asighting against Thu
other side. HE w8s possessed With