And he was a Methodist! But he was clean mad about her--because of her good looks in the first place, and because she wouldn't have anything to say to him in the second.

He vowed he'd have her--and he got her!" "How did he bring it about ?" "Oh, it was an iniquitous thing! I'll never forgive Rose West.

You see, dearie, Abner Moore held the mortgage on the West farm, and the interest was overdue some years, and Dick just went and told Mrs.West that if Leslie wouldn't marry him he'd get his father to foreclose the mortgage.

Rose carried on terrible--fainted and wept, and pleaded with Leslie not to let her be turned out of her home.

She said it would break her heart to leave the home she'd come to as a bride.