“MOLLY, DEAR!" SYNOPSIS. — Looking Big Muskeg, a seemingly impassabls swamp in the path of the Missa- tidbi railroad, Joe Bostock, bullde: of the line, and Wilton Carr chief of engineers, are conside the difficulties. A rifle shot ly kills Bostock and breaks Car- ruthers’ arm. Handicapped as he is, Carruthers determines to carry the body to a station of the Hud- son's Bay company, where McDon- ald is the factor McDonald's daughter, Molly, sees Carruthers struggling in the muskeg and drags k from the BWI e+ : ith his L over ring instant- Carruthers. and exer- urbed bY objects or sav Weakened by his wou tions, Carruthers Is the appearance of Tom Bowyer, Bostock's business rival i per- sonal enemy. jowyer insults Mol- ly, and Carruthers strikes !} After Bowyer leaves, Carruth declares his love for Molly. promises to be his wife. CHAPTER I|I—Continued. —— suffused wit with had h red and It was rescue known His eyes were his face twisted vident that he from his window above what Molly was doing. He dragged himself out a word and looked in at Wilton, lying unconscious on the bed. “I 8 bring him in, Molly mumbled } “Ye can't fool with tricks like that, It's a trick { ye've thocht of between ye. Ye'll cast him out again, aye"—hi voice vi- brated with fury—"ye'll « cast him out into the snaw, or ye're no longer daugh- ter of mine. Molly caught at “You Enow wi at ing!” she cried. “He And Joe Bostock is dead without, Tages blood on Dreust: There has been & dreadful cident" He grasped her flercely “Joe Bostock dead!” “Who killed him?" “I don't know, carrying his body a the muskeg. I saved “Aye, can McDonald with slow brought more trouble The body hall wot le in this house, nor Will uthers’ neither Mark lass! wait him out to keep . Jostock compe no daughts or of mine.” “You're mad!" fl nantly, With a swift to the door and, of wind b assion, the and had seen past her with. er font vax el dead. wrist by the he answered “Ye've one ee i lew a whirl I tO assume form of a fantasmal wreathed itself uttered a cry clutching at the “Will you let out in the snow?” stretching out her frozen body. ruthers shal freeze to would fn Perhaps it was the the 1 HEY mind. Joe's to Molly's. cint ught back sanity For a moment he 1 face, then raised his And then, mumbling and the counter dent eyes at edge, he hin caning | | fit ¢ 0 to the edge of Big Muskeg, and had fol- lowed them across the portage to factor's store, where they had Thelr story staggered Wilton. On the face of it, it seemed an impossi- bility, for no one else could have fired the shot. Yet, had either of the done so, It was the least likely thing that he would have returned to braze: out a concocted tale, ¢ Wilton was too weak to cross-ques- tion them; he resolved, matter should be mes however, that probed to inwhile decided to ab. suspicions of and stairs, CHAPTER 111 Bowyer Comes—and Goes. Wilton would not remain In longer than two days. His hane not suffered much, but his feet were badly inflamed and swollen, arm would take weeks to mend. he could not rest, and insisted that he must return, travel. Molly almost cried with vexation and alarm as she found that his deter. mination was unshakable. By the strongest persuasion she induced him to remain over the Sunday. As for McDonald, he sulked in his bed and said nothing. Wilton had recovered consclousness fate on the afternoon of his rescue. That same evening his own sleigh bad appeared at the portage, with the two halfbreeds. Weak as he was, Wilton insisted on seeing them, He was convinced that one of the men had fired the shot by accident, and had expected both of them to take fright and vanish with the sleigh into the wilds. He was startled by thelr protestations of Ignorance. They swore that neither of them had left the camp until the afternoon, and per- sisted in their statement that they had pot heard the discharge of the rifle, Following up their employers. they tind discovered bloodstalns on the un. derbrush, according to thelr story, They had picked up Wilton's tracks It was aft lying ernoon on which Molly through the win- the men on the Sunday on his bed, he saw gleigh approaching the two had dow a recognized walked with the driver Tom yer and Lee Chambers, the onstructional engineer who had once employed by Joe Bostock, had left hi the New Northern, He w at Tom Bowyer's er- rand wa: » suspected that, learn . » y AE insisted, store, who Bow. Iatter a as been wyer had of the come Mis- come mood inmhbers, He was hambers arm round her toward In his flanne his lo vot | relea ne rogues ac é furtivenéss of weaker aps realize tuttered Wi inued, keeping ness ped his just in f w - fom's eves face to the gi if) ri's. “We' look “Not re to have a und.” continued uch instruction ing Ane t think Missatibl if you did, story about coal de. operty? But perhaps awyers call a leading night out be right All the Wilton Wilton while that he joked he fixed with his staring gaze And found himself wondering how Jowyer knew. The man was as sly as a fox, for all his effrontery, and that was strength. He gave the impression of being one kind of rogue, whereas he was quite another, as many had dis- covered to their cost. There were few resourceful and cold-blooded men, even in the Prairie city. “I heard you and Joe had come up.” continued Bowyer, “So 1 dropped In to have a chat with him, though it's taken me fifteen miles off my road Planned to ask him to sell out his valuable holdings, maybe" Molly, who was standing behind Bowyer, looked earnestly at Wilton, He dared not signal to her, but he caught the answering message in her eyes, as If telepathically conveyed. “I won't tell him,” she meant to say. Wilton's heart went out in intense gratitude, It would have been un- bearable to have had to tell Bowyer that Joe was lying behind that thin partition of pine. It wouid have been blasphemy to have let Bowyer's gloat. ing eyes fix themselves upon poor Joe's body, “You've had a long drive for noth. ing, then,” said Wilton curtly. “Mr. Bostock isn't here” “I't say good-morning to the fac. tor, anyway." “No, you won't,” answered Wilton. “Mr. McDonald is too (ll to be seen.” “My father has had ¢ “stroke, " sald taking Wilton's cue. Bowyer stared at her and, as she they heard the factor's volce anbove, ralsed in Irritable Inquiry, “Mr. McDonald's mind is affected.” sald Wilton. “He cannot you, 1 am Mr. Bowyer, 1 mun speak- ing for Miss McDonald” Bowyer grinned vic “Well, I guess we'd better have the dogs he sald, Chambers went out, Wilton whether the two suspected spoke, See ROI'TY, ously . Lee mo- later Bowyer turned to him. “You're next to Joe Wil," sald In his smooth “So, as isn't here, I'd like to have a word or you. You'll lostock, voice, ntly, th pass it on to him, eh?” Without waiting for Wilton's he walked toward the room at back of the store. “I want the Missatibl, ( he began, entering, and turning facing Wilton. “1 guess | a mistake In letting that I throng! I'm lookl ahead in our time, +, but branch lines Joe appar two wi reply ‘arruthers” round wrislature, day-—not dgy—these I always meant ' will to have concern of Joe's hanging But I gus Joe the money, and cheap some day. “Well, I was right. You Muskeg, and you to loop it. Tell And say I'm g to have Tell him he won't forever of men forget that—and ask thunder will go ahead the Missatibi Joe gone!” He could 1 the raw more Joe mine. rgsed couldnt can't the money them who In on when Bostock's 10t have Sure y had the Bowyer did knov was playing with him, “You be i" Je «h ing his suppresse mome d—d message to yo tock's You'll in the Missatit t that y 510 !™* sneer flitted “Seems to n good man) I" he shout in Wilton v for Miss McDonald, and now Joe Bostock. Though, maybe, right to spenk for both Yas appes noes a foul insult, half vl Jocosely. furt He Got No Further, for Wilton's Fist Shot Out and Landed Fairly on Bowyer's Mouth, mouth, Wi "hy } Bowyer's ton put all the ie could muster into the ibled ar upon the floo ton in stupefaction. to his feet and ran at whirling. ut before he him Molly came running by Lee Chambers. She tween them, “You coward !™ she eried. “Are you going to strike Mr. Carruthers in that condition? You coward, Tom Bow. yer!” “He struck me,” yelled fury. “He's the coward, not L till he gets well! Just wait! you, Carruthers!” sat conld in, fol sprang lowed be. lowyer In Wait I'l fis and then, without a word, pushed past Molly and strode from the store, Chambers at hig heels. A few minutes later the sleigh was whirling back along the southward road New Northern. Wilton groaned with pain in broken arm, caused by the his body as he delivered the blow, an instant the room swam about him. Then the scene cleared, and was holding him, Her eyes, fixed on his, were with pity. and a maternal yearning over him that touched him unspeak- ably. Her face was very near his Syn, Wilton realized of a sudden what he had known In a dim way even before his fourth arrival at the portuge-- that Molly McDonald was the one girl in the world for him, He drew her to him and Hips to hers, Then, because not very well versed In mang of the world, lu spite of his thirty his wns hent he CENTRE HALL, PA. VOenrs, he looked ns if he had comm ted an unpardonable Insult, But Mol ly opened her shut lids, and the eyes that smiled into Wilton's did not show signs of anger, nor even of surprise “This Isn't Winnipeg, WIL" she sald, with a little happy catch in her voice, The marvel of their ured them in each oth were hardly ture, It was that there that love transfig- They ire of AF rors depir- not until realized the prepare she became practical once “Why must you go tomorrow?” asked, wistfully, “A message could be gent to Kitty—" “It's more than that, Molly,” said Wilton “It's the line {tself—Joe's work—that is at stake, and I got work to be at the shareholders’ meeting on Monday 1 this sight, Hw Molly wis supper to more, she vo You see, it's on to explain, our route to cross big orning went out t} VOSS or he a bes n found, wi en our pi lans, harder propo. 1 atic We as tao inte change Big Muske; than e's forty where wi few feet And you can' down, runes trusted even Hq that to wante the i { He gave it's She listened vealed haps er in breath ns he re per rath revelation of himself than truism of the dead “That's what the Missatibi meant to Joe.” said Wilton. “That's why we to fight to keep it out of Bow. hands. 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