Connecticut western news., 1922-06-22

fading glow in the west:
 Tt is terrible how things can work | together to break the heart and will l of a woman. Write to Harry and tell him that he must not come to see me again. I have promised to marry an- other man."
 "I hope it isn't Davis" said Samson. Tt is Davis"
 q don't like him. I don't think he's honest"
 r. But he has been wonderfully kind to us. Without his help we couldn't have lived We couldn't even have given my father a decent burial"
 Has he been out here to see you?'
 'No."
 And he won't come. That man knows how to keep out of danger. l don't believe you'll marry him."
 "WhyY'
 Because I intend to be a father to you and pay all your debts" said Samson.
 The doctor called from the door of the cabin.
 Bim said: "God bless you and Harry!" as she turned away to take up her task again.
 That night both of them began, as they say, to put two and two together While he rode on in the growing dusk the keen intellect of Samson saw a convincing sequence of circumstances the theft of the mail sack, the false account of Harry's death, the failure of his letters to reach their destina- ton, and the fact that Bim had ac- cepted money from Davis in time of need. A strong suspicion of foul play grew upon him and he began to con- slider what he could do in the matter.
 Having forded a creek he caught the glow of a light in the darkness, a little way up the road. It was the lighted window of a cabin, before whose door he stopped his horse and hallooed:
 Il am a belated and hungry traveller on my way to Chicago" he said to the man who presently greeted him from the open doorway.
 Have you come through Honey Creek settlementT the latter asked.
 Left there about an hour ago."
 Sorry, mister, but I can't let you come into the house. If you'll move off few feet I'll lay some grub on the choppin' block an up the road about half-mile you'll find a barn with some hay in 1t, where you and your horse can spend the night under cover"
 Samson moved away and soon the man brought a package of food and laid 1t on the block and ran back to the door
 "Tll lay a piece of silver on the block" Samson called.
 "Not a darned cent" the man an swered. "I hate like p'ison to turn a feller away in the night, but we're awful skeered here with children in the house. Good-by. You can't miss the barn. It's close ag'in' the road"
 Samson ate his luncheon in the dark ness, as he rode, and presently came upon the barn and unsaddled and hitched and fed his horse in one end of 1.-the beast having drunk his fill at the creek they had lately forded- and lay down to rest for the night, with the saddle blanket beneath him and his coat for cover. A wind from the north began to wall and whistle through the cracks in the barn and over its roof, bringing cold weath- CT: Samson's feet and legs had been wet in the crossing, so that he found 1t difficult to keep warm. He crept to the side of his horse, which had laid down, and found a degree of con- fort in the heat of the animal. But 1t was bad night, at best.
 i've had many a long, hard night, but this is the worst of them," Sam son thought.
 There's many a bad night in the history of the pioneers, its shadows falling on lonely, Unmarked roads, cut by rivers, creeks and marshes and strung through unnumbered miles of wild country. Samson was up and off at daylight in a bitter wind and six inches of snow. It was a kind of work he would not have undertaken upon any call less commanding than that of friendship.
 He reached Chicago at noon, having had nothing to eat that day. There was no such eager, noisy crowd in the streets as he had seen before. The fever of speculation had passed. But there were many people on the main thOrOughfares, among whom were Europeans who had arrived the autumn before. They were changing but the marks of the yoke were still upon them. In Chicago were the vitals of the West and they were very much alive in spite of the panic.
 Samson bought some new clothes and had a bath and a good dinner at the City hotel. Then he went to the office of MT. Lionel Davis. There to his surprise he met his old acquaint- ance, Eli Fredenberg, who greeted him with great warmth and told of |