The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-03-16

Ine TINE TIE SNU VIII CIuScu, run
away with Rose Churchill down In
Virginia. and married her. All he
cared for was the girl. an he never
even knew she. was rich. only that her
family objected to him, an that they'd
hite to skip dit. reckon. maybe.
she didn't know it herself at The time.
nor the rest O the Churchill family.
for they didn't make no great effort
10 find her for some, while. Then.
when they Opened a will, they discov-
cred TINT most ali the Churchill for
tune had been left to this Rose. and
they naturally becom' mighty inter-
estcd. Cornelius. as understand.
was the brother of Roses father an
the property was put in his hands as
trustee Oh behalf of the girl. Maybe
he was straight enough guy general
ly speaking. but he had expected to
get most of this dough after the girl
skipped ont, ar was consequently al.
mighty hot. Naturally he wanted to
keep the stiff, an he didn't make no
great effort to locate the heiress. BY
the time he did learn who she had
married. Rose died, leaving a daugh-
ter. BY the terms of the will if she
died chlldless the entire estate revert
ed to Cornelius, and he wasn't the
sort O. guy to lose that kind O. bet"
"An this soldier never suspected
nothng?"
Not thing. He wis colonel by
this time, ont at some frontier post.
and left his baby to the care of some
relatives in the East. There wasn't
no fuss made, an so Churchill sorter
let affairs slide along He had the use
of the moLey. an begun to think
there never would be no trouble. OF
course he kept line OH the husband,
but lost trace of the kid entirely"
Yer mean the colonel never even
know'd he'd married rich girl?"
$50 it seems. / reckon she didn't
even know it, his wife. But after.
awhile some inkling of the truth must
have reached him., for he went East,
and began to make inquiries through
il lawyer. When Churchill heard about
this he got scared, l reckon he'd
| played HI with the trust funds by
nhat time. an with the husband on his
trail got mighty desperate. Meanwhile
the daughter was in some convent
school. and not to be found. Carlyn
struck hot trail all right, but, be-
fore he could take any action, was
shot and killed in street fight with
some roughs in Sheridan. Nobody
knows for sure just how it happened,
but it's my opinion Churchill got up
the row just to get him out O. the
way. 1t all happened sudden, an I'M.
expected, the only fellow with the
colonel at the time being an old SER
geant. named Calkins. Calkins was
shot himself. but got away, and took
care of Carlyn till he died. maybe an
hour later. Enyhow he kept the fell
lows from getting hold O. any papers,
an reckon the colonel give him an
idea of what was up"
what makes you think SOP"
''The way Ire acted afterward.
Churchill had got Carlyn out of the
way. but he couldn't locate the girl:
He didn't suspect the sergeant at first.
nor for long time. He was a foxy
guy, and stuck to the army for several
years. never maxim move. just
payn' for the girls schoolin'. but
i never gOin' near her. Then, when
everybody had quit watchin' him. Cal
kins took his discharge papers. and
skipped out, talSin' the girl with
him."
How could he do that?"
"That's what I asked Macklin, an
he said they'd finally found out that
durin' the time between when Carlyn
was shot. an when he died, he'd
signed paper maxim Calkins the
girls guardian. an gave him the key
to a deposit box in Kansas City where
all his papers was A lawyer named
Weeks. at Sheridan. did it for him.
You see the colonel didn't have no
near relatives, an he an Calkins had
been soldering together for years; he
sorter trusted the sergeant to play
squire. an he sure did,"
1.-THE HI he did. Never made n
peep for the money. did he? An just
hid out all round the country with
the girl. don't call that playin' very
square"
well. it was. just the same. id
| square, if you ask me. 1t was what
Weeks advised him to do. after he
went to Virginia. an got a peep at n
copy of the will on file. This girl had
no legal rights till she was Of age
see! Churchill knew this. an he
didn't do much O. anything else fer
len years. hut try TO get his hands on
her. Old Calkins was smart enough
10 fool him. The colonel had money
enough in the deposit box, so they
could live ON it qu;etlike. an the SER
geant never wasted a cent. He just
naturally lived for that girl. till about
a month ago. He was smart enough
not even to trust her; she never knew
what they was hidin' from"
Hank touched a match to another
cigarette IMPRESSED with The story