Beadle's Dime Novels No. 126: Old Jupe — page 78: what you’re looking at

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~ 80 OLD JUPE. a all, from beginning to end. Mary is innocent and you are guilty.” “Then why do you ask for proofs? You'd better take your wife on trust.” . “J only wish to satisfy the world. I demand a written statement.” “At my expense!. Really, sir, that is cool.” “Take your choice between that and being arrested, on suspicion of forgery and passing counterfeit money. I have no doubt that, upon my return to the States, I can obtain overwhelming proof that your husband was connected with a gang of counterfeiters, and that you assisted in getting the spurious coin into circulation.” “You are welcome to try it. All that, will not clear your wife. I shall still continue to swear that she was one of us.” “Then you refuse to confess ?” “ Most decidedly.” “T shall place this matter in the hands of the officers of the law.” She made him a mocking courtesy as he turned away. “That game is up,” she muttered, as the door closed. ‘I don't believe he will say any thing to the officers about me. Me will go home and get his wife pardoned out, if her time does not expire too soon to make it worth while, and they'll live together again, as happy as two doves. Fortunately, ?m in California. I can do something yet.” She knew that, unless Bryant ruined her reputation by tell- ing of her guilt, she could yet make a brilliant marriage. Ter passion for the man who had twice humiliated her was turned into hate, She had hated Mary, before; now she bestowed the same fecling on both. But to go back. When Luke had announced, the morning after Jupe’s ar- rival, that he must return immediately to San Francisco, his party concluded to break up and go with him. Eyery mile of the rough journey back to the city appeared, to Luke, equal fo a hundred ordinary miles... If he could have annihilated Space, and found himself once more on the banks of the Missouri, by the sacrifice of all his fortune, he would have done it. When he reached San Francisco he learned that he comiclbooks.conn