Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-04

ulu hoC WANT 10 XIII you so mllcn
as to inflict upon you the most
barbarous fortunes! My poor
Marie, what a martyrdom she
must be enduring!
LAS you were not back, Flor
ence and l wandered about all
morning to have news of her: first
around the prison, next to the po-
lice office and the law courts.
And it was there, in the magis-
trates' corridor, that | saw you.
At that moment you were men
tioning Marie Fauville's name to
a number of journalists and you
told them that Marie Fauville was
innocent !; and you informed them
of the evidence which you pos
sesscd in Marie's favor.
"My hatred. ceased then and
there, Monster. In one second the
enemy had become the ally, the
master to whom one kneels. So
you had had the wonderful cour-
age to repudiate all your work
and to devote yourself to Marie's
rescued! | ran off, trembling with
JOY and hope, and, as l joined
Florence, [ shouted, Marie is
saved! He proclaims her inno-
cent! l must see him and speak
to him!' 80.
"We came back here. Florence
refused to lay down her arms and
begged me not to carry out my
plan before your new attitude in
the case was confirmed by deeds.
| promised everything that she
asked But my mind was made
up. And my will was still further
strengthened when 1 had read
your declaration in the newspa-
per. l would place Marie's fate
in your hands whatever happened
and without an hours delay. I
waited for your return and came
up here"
He was no longer the same man
who had displayed such GOODNESS
at the commencement of the in
terview. Exhausted by his efforts
and by a struggle that had lasted
for weeks, costing him so much
fruitless energy, he was now
trembling; and clinging to Don
Luis, with one of his knees on the
chair beside which Don Luis was
standing, he stammered:
"Save her, l implore you! You
have it in your power. Yes, you
can do anything. l learned to
know you in fighting you. There
was more than your genius de-
Tending you against me there is
a luck that protects you. You
are different from other men.
Why, the mere fact Of your not
killing me at once, though l had
pursued you SC savagely, the fact
of your listening to the inconceiv-
able truth of the innocence of all
three of us and accepting it as
admissible, surely these constitute
an unprecedented miracle.
"While | was waiting for Won
and preparing to speak to you, I
received an intuition of it all!'
he exclaimed. "I saw clearly that
the man who was proclaiming Ma
RE innocence with nothing to
guide him but his reason, | saw
that this man alone could save
her and that we would >save her.
All, | beseech you, save her-and
save her at once. Otherwise it will
be too late.
"In a few days Marie will have
ended her life. She cannot go on
living in prison. You see, she
means to die. No obstacle can
prevent her. Can any one be pre-
vented from committing suicides
And how horrible If she were to
die! -. Oh, if the law requires
a criminal I will confess anything
that / am asked to. /. will joy
fully accept every charge and pay
every penalty, provided that Ma
RE is free! Save her! /. i did
not know, | do not yet know the
best thing to be done! Save her
from prison and death, save her,
for Gods sake, save her!"
Tears flowed down his anguish
stricken face. Florence also was
crying, bowed down with sorrow.
Aud Perenna suddenly felt the