The vow of his partner had been broken, and the condition of the girl was such that she could not return to the same circle of friends she had left. A short time after she had died.

The brother said nothing of his horrible discovery, and together they made their way working toward the east. At the point indicated, the brother set upon and tied the other fast. He took him in this condition to the rock, and bound him fast thereon. Then he coolly built a fire, cooked his supper and ate it. Then laid by the fire and slept. In the morning he prepared his breakfast and ate it in the same manner, and never offered a morsel to the man upon the rock. For nine days he camped

there, cooking, eating, and sleeping, and high overhead, up in the blue sky the buzzards sailed round and round and round and looked down and at night the wolves howled from the hillsides. On the ninth day the man on the rock died of starvation and was left for the vultures or the wolves. The brother of the girl moved on into the east, satisfied with his fiendish revenge.

When he reached St. Louis he found that his brother had tried to make all amends, that he had sought and plead with the girl to marry him, but an old aunt had persuaded her to have nothing to do with him. Failing in that, he made a will giving her all his property, which was considerable, at the time of his death.