Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-17

rms action Resulted IN the master |
return to us, great curse to the
household: for in all matters of con
tention. though MIR Henry might be
right, the master had the trick of set
ting him in the wrong. He stnl de
manded money, and, to satisfy him.
the entail was broken and a great
piece Of land sold; and all the while
he ceased not 10 lay siege 10 the heart
Of Ms, Henry, carrying 1t on SO Defy
that I scarce knew il she was ay are
Of it herself, she whom ] doubt not
still loved him.
This brings me TO the night when
he laid the most unhearahle of insults
on Mr.. Henry. 81 never knew WON
an, said the master, who did not
prefer use. nor--I think--who did mon
continu, to prefer me to you" Al
which Mr. Henry cody struck him or
the mouth.
"a blow :" cried the master Il viii
not take blow FROM God Almighty !
must have blood for this!'
They fought beyond She shrubbery
l bringing the candles for them. From
tie arsr Mr. Henry showed himself
/ She stronger, which so surprised and
confused the master that he tried foul
play, but got only the length Of MIR.
Henry : sword through the body. lie
fell, apparently ifeless
Mr. Henry shook with sohs. I led
him into the house, and told the old
lord and my lady; bpi going back to
bring in the body, | f0dnd it gone. A
good radiance I Thought, whether dead
or alive but the nights work threw
/ air Henry into Il fever, and his mimi
! was never again the same clear mind
as of old.
/ The old lord died end TO my lady
ana Mr.. Henry, now M lord was born
ii boy and TO that boy my lord became
a slave. which had not been so with
his first child, katherine, He would
pass by his wife Ms trough she were a
I dog before the hearth to come at the
boy. Without doubt ,his was in the
nature OF judgment on my lady, she
! vino bad been SO cold so many years
to every mark OF his tenderness; but
20 me il was nonstrCus. and was EN-.
3,ldened much as l loved him. to say
so; but my saving SO only served to
send MY lord sick to bed and to earn
fo.' me from my lord the word that
was no better than an old maid
This brings me Ia that morning in
/ April 1I64 that the master returned
1 10 US again, this time with an Indian
servant With his return NY lord and
lady, I urging them on took ship for
New York, where my lady had prop
eIty through ner father. This voyage,
SO / thought. VIII at one stroke rid
them Of the master and weave them
closer together.
Twenty days it cook the master to
learn vhete they had gone where
upen he also sailed for New y ork. and
/ on the same ship, praying that she
would 90 down. even with myself
with ber, #. it would but take
the master also. looked forward
with woe TO the day he shortd set foot
in New York; hut ouc ship Was slow
sailer, and ether ships which sailed
later arrived before us; SO it hap
pened that my lord had word of the
masters coming and prepared for him.
There was suspicion of more than one
murder. it seems to the masters hand
during the earlier stay he made in
America, and SO ROW be found it a bet
Ter business to leave New York and
hunt in the wilderness for that treas
ure which he bad buried so many
years before,
Al this tjlae all the evil the master
had done seemed borne in flood upon
my lords brain lie became moody
and took to drink There has been
talk that he connved with the crew
which the master had hired for his ex-
petition bribing the leaders to make
way with his brother. There is no
evidence of that. but it is true that the
masters Indian servant 10 save his
life, as he said did barry him alive,
with the intent to resurre,t and re-
store him later by the agency Of some
secret oriental trick.
My lord and a party, I being u II,
followed the master and it was when
the East Indian was lifting his body
from the grave that we came upon
Item ] Thought for moment thar
he eyelids fiuttered. Others say that
tie lips stroVe to speak. that his teeth
~howed through MS beard which mag
have been. for ! was busy elsewhere,
for at The FIRST disclosure % the dead
mans eyes my lord had fa.len to the
ground When l raised him ne was "a
corpse
! buried him there; my lady laid
an equal stone to each; and there
where they died, side by side. they lie
ia this day.
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