The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
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) BY ALvAH JORDAN GARTH !,

Copyright. 1915, BY the Western News
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4 ooh, Mr.. Randall! / hoped should
see you to tell you Of my earnest con.
CALCULATIONS" 1 \
I. Anice Burdell, sweet and radiant
as the lovely flowers that spangled the
/ garden plat just beyond the gateway
with shining eyes and futtering smile
emphasized the sincerity of her words
you mean regarding my appoint
ment as president Of the villageT'
asked Cressey Randall.
Yes" she answered, but unevenly
now. II just learned of the honor 50
unanimously bestowed, so greatly de-
served" t,.s.
MAY l come in for few mo-
ments?" asked Randall, and Anice led
the way to shaded garden seat.
II shall not accept the position ten
/ dered," he said II have come to
speak to you three words. Then I am
going away and we shall never meet
again. That is best-it Is the only
wat-I love you" .
! Into the bonny face Of, the beauti-
full girl there flashed an expression Of
overpowering agitation. Then she
crimsoned, her glance fell and with
bowed head she listened to the
strange addendum, to the words that
swept away the Joy the preface had
brought. frs>
t'When l came here = stranger, two
years ago" recited Randall, II found
a welcome, encOuragement-frie
! Oh, most blessed Of all, found you
| No one asked as, to my past. l was
given honorable employment by the
kind-hearted people. i was treated as
a trusted and cherished friend. It
reused all my manliness and graft
| tude., Step by step have been ad-
vanced. honored, until every link Of
| my old life, broken and forgotten,
was a new being in new world
! "Your old lifeT' inyoluntarily MUIR
INJURED &Anice, fearing she knew not
J what.
yes. To you only can speak Of
have been the guiding impulse Of my
life. / came here from a five-years'
sentence in an eastern penitentiary
| and the charge against me was
! proven" -@ ,.....
The girl did not shrink from him.
Her frame quivered, her hands
clasped more rigidly, but into that
| angel-like face there came an express
! sion of plying sorrow and sympathy.
II was the adopted son of a man
of wealth, Robert Leeds" continued
Randall. Il repaid his generosity by
becoming q member of wild, reck-
less set, and one morning after a wine
party, where gambling was intro
duced, awoke in a strange hotel
with everything a blank from the mid
night previous. Before the day was
over I was arrested. accused of hav
ing given check bearing the forged
signature Of my benefactor. had no
remembrance of having signed it. My
me. My patron disowned me, and I
was sent to prison. When my SEN.
tence expired l tried to get as far
away from my old life as possible. L
fancied that two years of repentant,
manly effort to redeem myself had
blotted out all that past. Yesterday
upon the street I passed man rec
OgnizeG He was the lawyer who
prosecuted me. Is my benefactor
pursuing me because of resentment,
or from mistaken sense Of justice?
/ can remain here no longer. I have
sinhed and l must suffer and atone
for it. am going away, and I have
to tell you that do so, loving you,
and that the mere memory Of your
helpful regard for me will never fail
to keep me safe in the straight path"
n Her eyes were full Of tears, both
hands We're claspcd within his own.
Suffer? but not alone. Atone? you
have done so nobly already. You
must go away? Them will 90 with
you T.
Lou Iuestu--- u. sH,..# E..s5; E..t r. 81
"That no true woman who reads
your soul as do could fail to love
you all the more after your brave,
open confidence l would glory in
sharing with you burden long since
made light as air in the sight Of God
and his holy angels. True heart and
redeemed soul. i would go to the ends
of the. world for you, with your
One hour later when Cressey Ran
dali entered his office, the life cur
rents we're momentarily chilled as he
found seated and awaiting him the
man whose. unexpected appearance
had warned him that his double life
was about to be exposed.
"This is Mr.. Randall" spoke the
lawyer. rising. II come on a mission
from Mr.. Leeds !
1.-THE purport Of which can fully |
surmisa' interrupted Randall. LET |
us waste no words. have satisfied !
the law .g-