Copyright Chapman. CHAPTER XIV ifn The Best Laid Plans Father McGrath had insisted that Lee should remain as a guest at the mission during the two following days, and he insisted on supplying him with an outfit of clothing. He asked their plans and Lee told him. “The best thing In the wurrld,” he sald. “Ye'll be safe at the house, and diona ha’ any fear of those de'll's they darena interfere wi’ ye the noo. long, for ye must he oot o' the range before the heavy snaws begin.” Lee and Father McGrath had a long talk together that night. Lee told him the whole story of his encounter with Joyce in the range, the dymamiting lake und rescue of the girl, culininat ing with their flight into the forest and Joyce's loss of memory. At first the father | terrupted, and kept giving istened and in clamations of amazement but he fell Lee went tion ; story on ow into silence, puffing at his stove and us pipe beside the Lee intently. wn he when Lee had ended. canna understand it For, look yeu, Anderson, it this was a country ¢' a base man could do what he pleased "Tis true they sell ti but that's fra’ woinen and attempting I'here's something that we havena hit upon.” Next morni looking at said, /KINAZ as If whanr isna Savages, ir feelthy hooch deeferent ba at the so kt scl g Lee slept late that it was the recitations of the ool children acre the aroused him, ‘rom his voice direct RS open space that bed he Joyce's led happily at the he morrow was hi lay, and ali } 1 3 } ’ they uty « threat they § { areughn Arnis am their life t« ind more to woods, planning nore rather gether. Mat thnt to wilderness S00 happiness consisted of the wilt in a city. She had period of as a preliminary the wilds, She would the her medica re qdnred training only turning into They decided that would make their homes there, Lee resigning from the police the following spring. They would take up work under Father Me- Grath, enlar the house, a garden; in time would flock in, the whisky traffic would go-—they dreamed for hours until the advent of night sent them homeward. Next afternoon an old Indian and wife requisitioned for wit. his nesses: and in the little schoolroom, In to they ae log create to come settlers were the presence of the entire population of the settlement, which of the children, two half-grown girls. and a young boy, with an aged squaw or all the great small pox epidemic of four years before which had decimated the region Father McGrath performed the simple ceremony that united them, taking the ecold ring from his own finger, and handing it to Lee who put It on his bride's, And lee, looking at Joyce with a new wonder that was almost fear, covered the purpose that had into the range. It was for this, and this slone, that he might find not only his love, but that comrade of his heart's desire whom he had sought all the days of Lis life. And in Joyce's confused and blush. ing face, In her eyes as she raised them shyly toward his own, he read thelr mutual happiness, With Joyee's arm drawn shyly through own, and his shoulders neliing from Father MeGrath's hand lasp, he left the schoolhouse, Out. ide, the horse sjood harnessed to the gh, which was loaded with the sup- lee handed Joyee inside and followed her. Father MeGrath took the box seat of the big sleigh, which hind originally functioned in the Mreets Wf wome provincial elty. Father Me- (i wth had driven it to his destination tv a detour round the range, with all « worldly goods packed inside it, The journey wis a slow one, the fiorse slipping on the frozen snow and plunging through the crusts that had formed over the surface, It was even colder than before, and there seemed no doubt that winter had set in at consisted ft Wo- legacies of dis- sent him his last. All were glad when the log house came Into view. Father McGrath got down, flapping his arms. Lee helped Joyce out. They set down the supplies. “I'l help you In wi’ these goods” sald the priest, “but I wilna come in- side. to me, Mrs. Anderson,’'——Joyce looked adorably confused at the “and tell me tales aboot your hus. band, because all the are alike, as ye ha’ yet to learrn, and ye're in the trap o' matreemony noo, the pair o ye—tied fast, and there's side o' delth unfasten men can “Gulid-bye and guid luck to ye” added, extending a hand to each. 3ut in the middie of that hand- listened And at the night wind stir Lee too, the trees; ominous, the It died away more yet very out of distance, The two men watched that in utterance Per. tiie WAVES other's faces with a surmise vent it came able, Lee to meet heen figures there, listening which of the nye to the sound engine, louder None 8 word. Then came into view, near ig the hank. It contained four men Ing Rathway And ough Joyce was his inseparably, apidiy hree uttered the boat » of them was jee ited for the sensation ching his heart ather MeGrat! he's some steady ed the neares tr ns he drew ne ar the a wry, triumphant ingly at Lee at Father MeGrath eskion at Jovee, and girl to his er, standing a ? w er tel In ile. He looked m noked lronicalls But th 1 in the ere Was pos anticipated tant look he cust Lee the abate } $ it i drew side, his arms little in front of t the sight of er to protect from Rathway Father “Ye ha' friends “Yeo we've McGrath st na James onned here Rathway !” the So ye business wil’ my he cried ken verra weel agresment entered into can take versel' and your de'il's crew awa’ !” “Ave? sneered Rathway, regarding the priest with Ironic banter. “But I have followed you and this party here were not at the mission, plan to stay.’ want?” hecause you It's not my “What do you manded. “My wife, Rathway returncd, stretching out his hand te place It on Joyee's shoulder, With a loud ery Joyce leaped back, staring about her as if she did not know where she was, Lee lot his clenched fist fall. The situation was too big for physical retort. “Ay, my wife, Father McGrath" Rathway said again. “Married me two years ago in Montreal. And there's the certificate.” He held out a document. Father McGrath's first words before looking at it were characteristic: “*I'is the first time I've hearrd o' the mon and na the wumman keepin’ the marriage lined, James Rathway.” Lee was holding Joyce, who swayed in his arms. “What does he mean?” he kept repeating. “It's some trick. Tell them it's a trick, Joyce!" ut Joyee seemed neither to hear nor to understand anything Mean- while Father McGrath, who had been examining the paper, handed it back with an ironical bow. “Mees Pelly that was, was united in the bonds of holy matrimony wi' Mees. talr Anderson here these three hours gyne,” he sald. "I'd tak her wuurd against your own and ca’ that a forrg- ery.” But the priest's face shone deathly white in the moenlight, “Aye? sneered Rathway, pointing a long finger at Joyce, “Let her deny it if she dare!” Joyce sald not a word, She lay In Lee's arms as if she had been mortally stricken. A deadly fear began to creep over Lee, over McGrath, Behind McGrath de to Rathway third mun easily. “And that's a lee, anyhow, Father McGrath scornfully. Rathway bowed, sneeringly, In turn “Permit me to go on, Father; belleve or disbelieve, It makes no difference, He sent his girl away to school to Montreal, Soon after, It was discov. ered that Pelly was wanted for an old murder" “Lee Number Two,” said the priest, ‘““I'was you betrayed hlmn—I1 ha' nae doots o' that.” “He fled the Rathway. unruffied. friend, fearing that his daughter might come to harm In Montreal, I went down there, saw her, and offered to make her my wife. She consented with alacrity—" é “Oo, aye, and we'll just cut out the alacreety,” sald Father MeGrath In abysmal disgust, “because didna, and If she did, It ill becomes you to say Shorty and grinned and Plerre and a shifted un- , 9" sald country,” pursued “As his only she 80, “She married me the Virgin, as this { And It was agreed continue her mission studies for a | certain period before coming { with me as my wife. 1 proposed i build a comfortable for her Siston lake and go Into the fur busi | ness “Fur? shouted McGrath, “The only { fur traded at ye've put on the tongues and stomachs | of your victims, ye cheap poison-ped i diin' hooch-hound !" tathway went on as If he had not heard the Insult: “Last when {| she hag completed her course, she started north to As 1 at the Church certificate proves, that ghould she to to nome at you've ever in is wh month, meet me her from Little This man ordersd them away shooting.” | of my men to escort Falls. They met with and he under threat of He “At { they her her turned lee with a scowl! Mrs, went to Rathway's urg request away to in the violence not reach the became but walted that no As she did sure ir camping igre, they and ack her horse him after only an ac “They hro | where I had just returned gOMe ident her to ht igh man “What Deo You Want? McGrath De. manded. followed them, attacked and stunned i me from behind, stole a boat and two | packs, and her away, and ap wars to have been living a tramp's i In the woods with my wife ever | since.” | lee, who was still holding | started, but Father McGrath | his hand. *“Na', na’, let him i his lying story,” he sald. “That's all,” said Rathway. “In took iife Joyce, held up feenish spite of all, I am willing to forgive the past and tgke her back. She was un | conscious when this man got her inte | his power. He shall pay for what he { has done, If there's law in this land- but this poor girl has been more sinned { ngalnst than sinning. I'm willing to acknowledge her ns my wife still, And 1 defy you, Father McGrath, to In tervenes.” Father McGrath walked a step or two toward Joyce, who was standing, encircled by Lee's arm, her eyes cast down. She raised them to his face in mute appeal. “My child, there's only one thing t ask of ye. Did you marry this mon? Can ye remember?” Joyce shuddered, and she Jooked at the priest hopelessly. “Yes, it is true,’ she answered. “1 married him.” A cry broke from Lee's lips. He re leased Joyce, and stood looking at her t with the expression of a man who has received his death blow. “Yes, it's true, it's true,” sald Joyce She was speaking now with the calm. ness of one for whom nothing matters “He came fo me with the threat that he had my father in bis power and would betray him unless I married him, it had been the terror of my ather's life for years, that some day he would be arrested for that old murder, “And therefore—=yes, 1 married him, but 1 insisted that I was to finish my conrse before I lived with bim as his wife. Then, last month, he wrote to me that he would wait no longer, gnid my father, whom he had Le'sed to escape across the frontier, Had re. turned to the district, and that he would notify the authoritios unless I came up to him immediately. “And so 1 started, and-—and God knows I could bear it no longer, and that Is why He mercifully gave me forgetfulness I” And, shuddering, standing where she leptic, “So leed there, too!" erled Father McGrath to Rlathway in white- hot wrath, “Ye've proved yersel' a triple leear the noo, for Pelly's deld—" “Dead? shouted Rathway. “Ave, deid these mony months, and ye claimed he was alive, and In your ghe remained was like a cata- ye of this pulr girl ye've deceived ut he broke off, and Rathway made no reply, but watched him as he strode to the spot where Joyce was standing (iently he took her hand In his and be- gun to whisper in her ear. And all the while and yet It seemed silence in numerable conflict man against man, law, man against God. Then Lee eried out In a tone so wild that even Rathway and Rathway's aen appeared awed by it: in the Joyee, tell that for this trick that has been pl Tell that you will away with me!” silence, thut in against there was if through powers were ns man of God! nothing “She's mine sight me you care i y Ge iathway stepped forward, covering Lee istol, “By he “I'll vour brains out If you meddle with with a p 1 uven,’ ie BWwWaore court In this guilty. will hold me i gare y He w and lee geemed to be aware of him. ux holding out his to Joyce, she was trembling lookin irresolute Father Girath was holding her © still hands and wlilspering In her ear. came over Lee's was replaced by a wil d at the priest, who step. but it was Joyo Lee Jan was you twa must Lee turned 1 name, She tottered even than ] in ion rit ymused, sha merciles any human element; the laugh that he kiss of some nobler beast hns file Wis the hyeia gives over that it supplanted “Put his of house, Pierre! Fling It eut Into stow I” he shouted, chuckling “What, your pack, Is 1? Never mind, we'll let him keep it. Can't the devil out into the snow to freeze. He'll go to Juil later on for stealing it.” He strode up to Joyce and clapped his hand upon her shoulder. “Joyce, my dearie, have you said goedbye. to your sweetheart?" he asked. “We'll make this place sur headquarters for a tittle honeymoon before going back to what d'you say to that?” The gir! shrank under his lathway saw it and scowled he turned toward Lee, with triomph, “You-take yourself away with your stolen and don’t let me catch you hanging round my wife again!” he shouted. “Or I'll shoot you like the dog that you are. And, barken, Mr. Anderson! Don’t you ever dare to show your face among decent men again, or I'll have you jailed!” Father McGrath strode forward, his face working with emotion. “Aye, James Rathway, ye're feeling your triumph the noo” he cried, “and the yellow cur's come to the top In ye. But yell remember that there's a higher power sometimes makes hash of een the best lald plans, James Rathway I" Then he strode to standing, and my the turn poor Siston lake touch. Put his face alight goods, where Lee was clapped his hand on his shoulder. “Will ye nae come back the maesion wi’ me this night, Meostair Anderson?” he pleaded. But Lee stood like a stone, appear ing not to be conscious of the priest's question, while Rathway, with an evil smile, put his arm round Joyce's waist and led her, unresistant, toward the log house, followed by his three aides, And to MeGrath that was the most awful moment in his whole career, and all the manhood In him vrged him to fight, fight to the death against this human sacrifice. It was only his life. time of discipline that held him at Lee's side. And, looking inte Lee's stony face, an Immense pity swelled up tii his heart, The door of the but closed. Lee {0 quivered and gtarted as the priest's hard fell on his shoulder again, “Lee, lad, ye'll come back wl’ me” Father McGrath pleaded. An inarticulate sound like that of some animal broke from Lee's lips. And, shaking himself free from the priest's friendly grasp, he picked up the rifle and the snowshoeg, and went slouching off In the direction of the forest. Father McGrath took a step or two toward him, then, shaking his Mend, watched him as he made his way over the frozen ground into the turned Sighing, the priest back te He gathered up the reins; an impulse of sudden fury, fist townrd the house, the sleigh, with his log of the frozen valley, bathed In moon “If I werena a priest of God, and be- brings all things right In His 1 i ye guid time accordin' to weel, houn are” CHAPTER XV Joyce Fights a Good Fight Joyce let Rathway nd insid her rine i in ‘+ » ' ’ $.1 aton under the pressure his i ¥ arm the large room he re h he eased os i" wl y pack!" “hy Shorts WHE attending him, and pin i og 1 and then get cand ROME over the window ithway and The gi girl shuddered as the the man's had seen it so many times revealed She fearful dreams, and ail the 1 WARY through the range. When she had nst hit would r; but now the And she stood quite hope ign intervene to save he biow had fallen 4 » r hands crossed on her breast, valting for what was Then tO COme is rage Curses from what ce gir he honeymoon ane Spas ¥ hetler pre WOrRt incer her It He wan understand we possible no more ay. And suddenly upon his knees and began in them seized pressing upon “Forgive me!” he stammered mad with jenlousy. 1 know you You weren't to blame I love you, Joyce. I've always been mad about you, you know that. when I lost m§ head, your father shot Won't you forget this other man this Anderson? He's after that took you away. m me you mine, upon you in the rang “Forget him, Joyce. 1 love you. shall be a rich woman this life here and go south, me, Joyce?” “No,” she answered, “I don't love you. 1 have always hated you." “By heaven, I'll show you!” (TO BE CONTINUED.) What One’s Eyes Tell We are told that the eyes of the In tellectunl man are gray, and it is a fact that most men of genius have gray eyes. Brown eyes are said to ex press temperament rather than intel lect. Although brown eyes flagh with an ger, light up with joy, and change swiftly with jealousy, blue and gray eyes Can express greater sadness, says London Tit-Bits Green and black eyes are supposed to be the most wicked, Becky Sharp's green eyes played an important part in her various conquests, The “samp” in modern fiction usual ly possessed flashing eyes of either green or black. Actually there are n black eyes; dark brown or dark gray black In certain lights More Advice People don’t care fur free advice, Soll your stull te a megarine.~Loule ville Courler-Journal HOW TO KEEP. WELL seman DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN Editor of “HEALTH” OOO000Q (@, 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) Mr has heen written about the lighting of schoolrooms, offices and workshops, but little has been sald about lighting the home. Yet the home is the place where most of US artificial and Gone, for The when is required reading is necessary spend our evenings, kind most of the Hght of some wliere Proper lighting also nll the ording wold tasks way in win is much to f ade e OF vi fort Since the Invention of electric light, bulb i188 forins of linve lescent electric iy replaced all In other all cit most the Pn sed which { hiting the best form of buth gives a far o than either gas or the is not strange emphasis has heen isnid on the ht ir somethi intensity of Yet god s Lian yw ng more F ¢ 3 on of § rather of 1 « A field and ing requires It is not a light is, but fliluminates the a quest How how suited i o the bh n eye, had the Unshaded its of any 4d are for illant Even glaring have the eves ce the of light Obs leet a table shade fo » also bath the not uch softer git But o gk to keep the o the eyes ghis she haded si x nid throw | eyes aha ad gf CunHH00D and youth ways been considered } in dangerous and have nl the nos But in knowledge greater oan have so reduced the amount of disease emong children that the death rate is constantly decreasing. Given a healthy childhood, the individual shouid have enough surplus energy and resistance to last through early adult life. But hy forty this capital Is spent and, un less care and good judgment are used, the man or woman finds that just at the time when they should be in thelr prime they have already laid the foun of future trouble. This problem of the conservation of health in middie life is recognized as one of the most important questions in the health field. In a recentSarticle in the Texas State Journal of Medi cine, Dr. William M. Brumby. state health dfficer, discusses it at length, Although the average length of life has been remarkably lengthened since 1880, he says, It has been largely through the prevention or reduction of disease of infancy and childhood. The amount of heart disease, apoplexy, paralysis, Bright's disease and cancer have doubled in the same period “There is something radically wrong,” he says, “in the habits of our business men. judging from the Increase of chronic diseases after forty” Heart disease leads in the actual number of deaths, although stomach disturbances cause the greatest amount of sickness, Fat, Doctor Brumby says is fatal after forty. Lightweight people live the longest, Few persons live to be over eighty who overweight. The best safeguard against the dis eases of widdie life and the best assur ance for old age is a regular periodic health examination, not postponed une til you begin 10 feel hadiy, hat made every six months or a Year, 10 learn, early and far In advance of any dis ense, what shape your bly is in ana how you are standing the wear and tear of your Work, You wouldn't run your esr year aft or year without an overhauling, Why walt until your bedy begins to Knock before giving It any care? ’ periods life creased dation fire
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