Gunnison news-champion., 1921-01-28

re-s 20 him-~~e7
-ran'' say that do. Hsnisy. -1.cs-
~ Wnsr's II al ahoui-ihe giriT
Mostly. ! recson. an 81 of .
sir7a - money down Fast Tbs Is
hou The Kid blew u 20 me. II s-rrns
ar sruy officer named Cariyu bout
H. line the Civfi var closed ran
svry With . R~S@ Churchill down IN
yr--uia. and married her. All he
---at for uas the giri. an he never
svrr Enev she was rich. only ihHt n-r
fa-uy obje9fed 70 him. an that fhev'd
r-ra % skip oct. reckon. msyhs.
.ha didn't knoR u herself 81 the time.
nor fhs rest o. the Churchill family.
10 they didn't make no great effort
% md her for Snrne while Then.
uHs.r they 0faned a vii they flSc0v-
z-rf that most ali the Churchill for
'--e had been lesi 10 this Rose. snd
hey naturally heoorn' mighty inter
-s'ef Cornslius Is ! understand.
u-s the brother % Roses father an
o.. property vas pu; IN bis hands As
trustee on behHlf Of the girI. Maybe
ts was a straight enough guy general
" speaking hut hs hrd syreciei to
.Df most % this foagh afier the siri
sklruei out. an Wa consequently al
mighty hot Naturally he wanted TO
Keep the srur. az lie DIDN'T make no
great effort 10 iOrais the helress BY
the time he did learn who she had
married. Rose died, leaving n daush-
ter. BY the terms Of the will II she
died childie<S the entire estate revert
81 20 Cornelius. and he wasn't the
sort O. guy 10 lose that Kind o het.~
An this soldier never suspected
r.hlnET'
Not thing. He Wns colonel by
'l- lime ont at some frontier post.
rrd left his baby to the care Of some
raatiyes In the East. There wasn't
o.. fuss made an so Churchill soTier
.,.' Affairs slide along. He had the use
~ the money an begun to think
here never wouId be no trouble. OF
-w1r~c be kept n line on the husband.
ha' lost trace of the Kid entirely"
Yer mean the colonel never even
Fnnw'd he'd married a rich glrlf"
50 u seems. I reckon she didn't
even know IT. his wife. But after
while some inkllnG of the truth must
have reached him. for he went East.
and began to make inquiries through
lawyer. when Churchill heard about
this he got scnred. reckon he'd
played Ill with the trust funds by
that time. an with the husband on his
'rall got mighty desperate. Meanwhile
the daughter was In some convent
srhool, and not TO be found. Cariyn
struck n hot trail all right. hut. be-
fore he could take any action, was
shot and killed In street fight with
some rouChs In Sheridan. Nobody
knows for sure Just how II happened.
but It's my opinion Churchill got up
the row Just TO get him out o the
way. !; all happened sudden. an un-
expected. the only fellow with the
colonel az the time being an old ser
seant. named Caiiins. Calkins was
shot himself hut got away. and took
care of Carlyu tlll he died. maybe an
hour later. Enyhow he kept the fei-
lows from getting hold o any papers.
an reckon the colonel give him IN
idea OF what was up"
what make you think so?'
THE way he acted afterward
Churchill had got Carlyn out OF the
way hut he couldn', locate the girl.
He didn't suspect the sergean, at first.
nor for a long time He was foxy
guy. and stuck to the army for severni
years, never maxim move. just
pnyin for the girls schoolin'. hut
never goIn' near her. Then, when
everybody had quit wn,chin' him. Cal
kins took his discharge papers, and
skipped out. takin' the girl with
him."
-I1ow could he do that7"
That's wha, 7 asked MackIin. an
he said they'd finally found out that
durin" the time between when Cariyn
was shot. an when he died. he'd
signed paper maxim Calkins the
girls guardian. an gave him the key
to . deposit box In Kansas City. where
all his papers was. A lawyer named
You see the colonel didn't hnve no
near relatives, an he an Calkins had
been soldering together for years; he
soFter trusted the sergeant to play
squsre. an he sure didi"
THE h-i he did, Never made
peep for the money. did he1 An Just
hid OUT all round the country with
the girl. don't call that playin' very
square"
.weil. II was. Just the same. d-d
square. II you ask me. II was what
Weeks advised him to do. after he
vent to Virginia. an got peep at q
copy Of the will on file. This girl had
no legal rights TIL she was Of age
see. Churchill knew this, an he
didn't do much O. anything else fer
ten years. but try to get bis hands on
her. Old CaIkins was mart enough
to fool him. The colonel had money
enough in the deposit box. % they
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