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Show W RAZING OF HERMIT'S CABIN SHOWS THAT RAILROAD WRECK WAS CAUSE OF HIS LIFE OF LONELINESS IN OKLAHOMA While razing an old shack on th tt hs9 I'tvl We-ton un til, workmen found . a time-worn, no.th eaten diary ' hich at last clears up tb- mj te-tU19. te-tU19. riou.-- ui.- anl ib ath ol Henrj Mar-jde Mar-jde tin, an a-ed recluse who was found 001 dead In his l .-ro.:ii cabin ral f months ago. That a trick of fate (9 I tvhlch wrecked the truln and killed the girl , h.j was on hei w to be- jU'n ""Ti.- his wife i bunged the II 1 t$t Martin was the t ib- unfo I lb' P i h5ely v.-ritli up; din Jlnrtln moved to Heywood. a 11- ,f rti"! tl. i..v. n ni i fn i ti.-en ira ago (tl Old iiti7.ens of ihe lllage remem-u-- v.r.u. uco.i to meet the one train which passes through the town every day and after all of the passengers lid alighted would hobble hob-ble away to his cabin which was located In a clearing a mile from the village. This was the only time that he appeared In public but the day was never too Cold or rainy to keep him away from the railroad station. All efforts on tho part of the towns people to become acquainted wllh him proved futile He would not speak of his p"st ami callers at his shack receled but scant welcome. wel-come. Once a month he visited the supply store, where he bought household necessities for the oom-lng oom-lng month, but he always paid for the articles although hfl had no occupation oc-cupation and where he got tho money upon which to exist will always al-ways remain a mystery. The diary Which was discovered tells a remarkable story, a story of "What Might Have P-een," had his sweetheart lived to have become his wife. The first page of the diary begins With the lines, "Nell will leave tomorrow to-morrow and in a few hours wo will be together forever. The little rone oovered cottage of which we have dreamed so long Is waiting for her and I know that she will be pleased." The new page was evidently written writ-ten after he had been Informed of his sweetheart's death. Waiting for the train that was to brimr her to me, the message amu that Nell was dead. Killed in a wreck while only a few miles from me There Is nothing now for which to live. The past Is a blank, the fuluro holds nothing for me. 1 am going to seek where I can live alone, where I can forget if that Is possible." reads the diary. The rest of the diary tells of his coming to Oklahoma and settling In the Clearing where ho lived until his recant death. It tolls of his going go-ing to the train each day in tho hope that she would sometime come as she was to have como. 1 must go to the store today. I am almost out of food,'' was tho last Urea written in the diary. It is thought that Muitin became ill shortly afterwards. He was found lying upon his bed with the picture of a beautiful girl In his hands. Even In death his la-t thoughts had been of her. An Investigation In-vestigation failed to develop any information that might lead to where ho had come from or whether ho had any relatives. The body was burled In the cemetery at Heywood Hey-wood where It lies today in an un-marki un-marki d grave. What wreck It was that cost him his lift's happiness and who the girl waf, will never be known for the secret died with him. Eut tho waving pines in the little burying ground at Heywood moan gently in the breezes ac If In sympathy for him whose life was truly an example exam-ple of "What Might Have Bean." Forbidden. Sho wore a determined look as she entered the drug ftore. "Look here, young man, if a tall man with a red mustache comes and asks jou for u prescription, you're not to let him havo It." 'Really, madam, I" "No, you musn'i let him havo It on any account. He's come hero for a month, and says he wants something to improve his appetite. He's boarding at my establishment, voiing man." And with a muttered threat tho seaside landlady passed frm tin shop, leaving the druggist's assist ant pale and trembling. |