CHAPTER XVIII—Continued
Gn
But If Leboeuf did not quite under-
stand what Lee was trying to tell him,
ae understood enough to send him
nto a flaming fury. He shook his
ists. He danced. His face grew red
with blood. He seemed transformed
nce again Into that monstrous, ape-
ike creature with whom Lee had en-
zaged in that desperate duel in the
*hasm,
“We must save her, Leboeuf,” Lee
:xclaimed., “We must go at once.”
“We must go at once, Monsieur.
But one cannot return that way. There
8 only one way into the mine beneath
the stone. No one can breast this
*iver. I shall show you. But walt!”
He disappeared within a small cav-
arn in the mountain, and reappeared in
1 moment or two carrying a rifle.
“Now, Monsieur, there is no time to
fose, I shall pick them off one by
Eh, my little Joyce in the hands of
that devil!
me in a dream
harmed. Still,
that she shall not be
it was the
that I should
him, and he has
times in dreams also.
Monsieur!”
Lee, feeling recuperated, despite the
throbbing of his bruised scalp, fol-
towed the old man along the
coping of rock beside the cataract.
nlive,
warned
Eh,
me many
this way,
In
back, becoming out-
] spurs the mountains. The
toar of the cataract grew faint behind
tem.
zradient into a level plain.
iosed about them.
Then, when they had been proceed-
ing for about half an hour,
and t
imazement, he found himself standing
of the main river whicl
He
half a
rocky walls fell
- of
The forest
suddenly eame to an end » Lee's
ildenl; .
near the bank
\
through Siston lake. could
been mo
flowed
'
we than mile
house,
heard sudden
motor Lee ground
In an instant old Leboeuf
had pulled him down behind the shel
er of a
Then
Again
rang
lee triad
would have
river, the
circled him
aout
month,
Next minute
mid
not have
from the
jut they
hing the
his teeth.
log
the throb
boat.
FOCK.
heard
her
they scream
and again
out.
Jovee
agonized cries
he
the
en
tried to ery
to to his
flung himself
Indian's iron
And, as he
hand
feet
into
leap
but arms
in answer, a closed over his
boat
contained
fides: there
the hottom
Joyce:
that they
lake.
motor
tne
It
into
VAY
=omething
bont,
stream
and his three
huddled in
the undout and
itedly
no doubt
was were
for Siston
all the while
Ans
" nd
Joyee ser
in the Indian's
cry out, but he
1
i
Lee struggled
tried to
move or utter a
and
sound
Think of her!” Leboeuf
“It
do
Is useless
to betray yourself,
We
You understand? You pre
And suddenly reason came }
He nodded and
him.
what we
cnn mise?”
ack
1L.oe, Leboeu?
eased
But t}
knocked
»ld mar
boat, now
up Lebouef’'s hand as the
hundred
in the middle of the &
Leboeuf d at him reproachfully.
“Monsieur, I could have killed him.
1 do not err at the mark, Monsieur.”
rk.
Agni was about aim,
some yards
om them
100K
to take
Lut Lee caught the rifle in his hand.
“No, no, Leboeuf not he
ieft to the mercy of those three men.
So long as Rathway lives there is a
shade of hope for her,
derstand?
he
She must
dian. He lowered the rifle.
dumb the two
watched motor boat
them and disappear around the curve
of the They looked at each
other,
helplessness men
the
shore,
“If any harm has come to her,” sald
Lee, “1 swear that I'll kill Rathway
like the hound that he Is.”
"Good!" Leboeuf nodded vigorously.
"Some men are like the earcajou, Mon-
sieur. Yes, he must die. He has
done harm enough for one man, and 1
think le bon Dieu, who Is so patient,
has grown weary of him. jut what
will you do now, Monsieur?”
“Go to Siston lake. Take her away
or die there”
“Very good, Monsieur. That was
my own plan also. But it is a journey
of a night and a day, Monsieur, and it
Is necessary to eat, also to take food
with us”
Lee was for starting immediately,
but Leboeuf persuaded him. They
were to return to the log house, to
see If any provisions had been left
behind. If not, they were to go
through the mine and to Leboeuf's den
in the rocks, which could be reached
by fording the edge of the subterran-
ean stream. It gave access in one
way, but not in the other. And Le
hoenf's decision proved a fortunate
one, for at the door of the log house
they met Father McGrath, his rifle
ueross his back, *
“Think God I've found ye, Ander
son!" Le cried. “I couldna sleep all
the n'cht for troublin' about ye and
that pulr lassie, So before the dawn
I stirted off to mak’ sure that no evil
thing had happened beyond what
couldpa be avoided. But what has
happened, and whaur Is she, and that
band o' skunks?"
Lee told him as concisely as pos-
sible while old Leboeuf, bustling In-
side the house, brought out some flour
and bacon that the gang had left be-
hind, and proceeded to prepare a meal.
Father McGrath listened, uttering
sharp expletives which sounded re-
markably like clipped oaths, deprived
of their harmful characteristics by the
alteration of an occasional consonant.
“Aye, and I'm no surprised,” he said,
“Tis but what I'd have expected. But
still, what can ye do, Anderson? The
law's the law, whether of God or mon,
an’ that compact ye made wi’ Rathway
has na bindin' power.”
“I can arrest him for attempted
murder.”
The priest lald a hand on his shoul
der. “Ye canna do that, lad,” he an-
swered. “There's na court in the land
would convict him. In the firrst place,
though ye meant only to save the
lassie from him, there's na jury would
belleve it, They'd say that compact
the mine stinks in the sight o' heaven.
and,
her by
witness.
the wumman., Aye,
Ye canna shame
her into court
get
bringin’ a8 a
Nor
arrest him for
wud be meexin’
private vengeance,
when ve grow cool
shrewd, hard, common
to turn Lee's heart to
tnew Father MeGrath
There was nothing he could
He could not even attempt
arrest of Plerre and Shorty for the
dynumiting without bringing the whole
into publicity And
well enough that, prima facile,
simply an attempt on his
possess himself of the wife of
man
Then
ye
that up publle
Ye'll gee
lad,
Ty
ae
it,
sense
seemed stone,
do.
he knew
it looked
part to
like
another
that
se would bring on the police,
feeling
gone, Leboeuf lald down
and came to
had ird
there was the discredit
¥
such a ca
+ 1 4 il
But as he stood there. his
3
Inst hopes
wird them. The
that
skillet
man overhes all
Messieurs,"” Leboeuf sald,
you what I know. |
y
tel
can
other names, since was a
young man, h into
this
people,
have
he ea
Ie ople
friend to
“Messiours,
by-——twentsy
Misquash, where my
He 1
many years
years—sin me
1 ’
JRKe
CHOPS, us
By
Victor Rousseau
(Copyright by W. OG. Chapman.)
WNU Bervive,
“Yes, Monsleur. It was near the
rocking stone, Rathway had followed
him and demanded knowledge of the
entrance. He threatened him with
Ms revolver. My master drew his
and Rathway fired. My master dropped
dead. Rathway flung his body over
the cliff into the mine not knowing
that it was the mine. He thought
that It would never be found."
Lee turned to Father McGrath.
“I'm going to save her now,” he cried
exultantly. “I am authorized to take
any necessary action In connection
with Pelly's death, and I propose to
put Rathway under arrest and bring
him In to Manistree. Leboeuf, you
will swear in court you saw this mur-
der?”
“I saw it, Monsieur, from the tun-
{ nel, but I could not have stopped It,
| the entrance. Afterward I was afraid.
I am old now, not like I was
| Rathway stole my woman from me. 1
{ was afraid of him. And my master
| comes to me In dreams and says, ‘Not
yet, Leboeuf *
{ We'll both probably killed, but
| I'm going If I have to go alone.”
" with Monsieur,” an
swered Leboeuf quietly,
get
will go you,
But—"
Father
think
ranscally,
“Two of us against six.
“Haud harrd, mon!" cried
MeGrath “Wull 1 too old,
ye, to bh arrest that
murrderous peddier
that nest o
“You, Father?”
“
he
elp ye
and
skunks wi’ ye?”
hooch
oot
answered the
hacky
rifle
mysel’.”
surely a
Khe
me hiring
priest,
that
me 1
doot na, Anderson, but the three oo ns
can guid
sjves”
“And
boeuf,
TE
aye,
“Twas impulse
made this wi
render a account oo our
gee, Monsieur,” sald old
stepping toward the house
He stooped and picked up the rifle
Father McGrath had gi
yen
irselves,
And
Messiours,
In I return.
My woman
Has gone
weeks
iy } for
irn to her own
uth to the cities
six
the
her. You know
ur women in
Messleurs
the
white men,
heart
for
hard,
is
But some day I
and then I kill him.
“Well, Messieurs, many years ago 1
my master,
me, He tells
becomes
As
no longer.
again,
her, she
here, I
Pelly. He
work for
trusts
He shows me the mine that
And for years we work
it together, taking out the gold. He
to hide,
me, now that I have the
It shall be all
nothing to
for him
“Then Rathway comes,
master tells them to
and because they love my
¥
“But I tell me master what Rath-
way did to my woman, and he turns
back In time to save Mam'zelle Joyce
from him. He shoots him through the
arm. And Rathway smiles and tells
him he has learned the secret that
can bring my master to die.
“After that my master is as hls ser.
vant. And again I say, let me kill
him, and agaln my master says no,
And he obeys Rathway in fear, only
he would never show him the mine,
which is for Mam'zelle Joyce,
“Night after night Rathway follows
us, but always he loses us at the
rocking stone, for he cannot come near
enough to discover the secret without
being seen. Then Mam'zelle Joyce goes
away to school, and after that Rath-
way gives my master no peace. And
at last he betrays him, thinking that
when my master has been hung for
the murder, the mine becomes Mam-
‘zelle Joyce's, and he will marry her
and it will be his own.
“And 80 a policeman comes here
that was during the war. But my
master could not ba found, for he was
dead already. You see, Messteurs,
Rathway thought perhaps he would
not be hung after all, since it was so
long since my master killed his enemy,
and so the mine would not be his: and
so—he murders him.”
“What's that?" cried Lee, starting
toward Leboeuf.
“He kills my master, Monsieur.”
“You saw this?
A
He Stooped and Picked Up the Rifle
Father McGrath Had Given Lee.
{ had let it fall in the snow the night
{before when he was surprised by
| Estelle. The weapon, nearly hidden
[In the drift beneath the window, had
| escaped the notice of the gang. Lee
{opened the breech and found six
| rounds In the magazine.
“We'll ha’ six round aplece, and if
| we're prrudent, we won't need that
many.” sald Father McGrath.
ha' six In yours, Leboeuf?”
j rifle, an old Winchester, However, he
pulled a handful of cartridges out of
his pocket.
“That's good enough,” sald Lee.
After packing a little food to suf.
fice them on the journey, they started
along the trail. Some little distance
from the house, however, Léboeuf
showed to Father McGrath and Lee
the prints of double horse-tracks,
going and returning.
Leboeuf stooped and examined them.
“It is the horse of Rathway's woman,”
he pronounced.
And with that Lee recalled his in.
terrupted conversation with Estelle
the night before. “You don't have to
commit murder to get her,” she had
sald. But Joyce's appearance had
broken off thelr conversation,
And he wondered what It wad that
Estelle could have told him, and what
it was beyond jealousy of Joyce, that
had brought her in Rathway's wake.
Father McGrath turned to him, “By
the way, Ind, there's more than six
there's nine or ten of that h—I's crew,”
he said.
CHAPTER XIX
Flimsy Bars
Rathway confronted Esteile with
bitter hate In his look as she came up
to him.
“Well, where have you been?” he de-
manded roughly.
“What's that to you?" Estelle re.
torted,
“See here! You think I'm going to
*
have you prowling all round the coun-
try, doing God knows what, when I'm
keeping you here?’ His eyes roamed
over her, He saw that her clothes
were splashed with muddy snow. He
saw the fatigue in her bearing. ’
“By God, you followed me!”
cried.
He seized her flercely by the wrists,
Estelle looked Into his face, laughing
contemptuously, Rathway's eyes fell,
He swore under his breath.
“You think you can frighten me by
violence, Jim? You ought to
learned by now that that doesn't pay.
Which did you bring back, the girl or
the gold?
he
her contempt,
ping outside the house, d--n
Suddenly he changed his
“Both!” he cried exultantly. “I've got
“You
you!"
|
“Jim! Jim, dear. If 1 could
to belleve what you're saying"
“Oh, I guess you in believe me,
Stellan,” Rathway answered easily,
“I'll have to keep her here a week or
80, just to show McGrath I'm not run-
ning away. You see, there's Ander-
son's accident. He fell down the cli
killed at once, of course: and if 1
wis away now, they'd think
there'd been foul play or something.”
“You—you swear it was an aceldent,
dare
to go
“Sure It was! So you soe, Stella,
I've got to keep her here a little while,
we'll away from here for.
get
here, where no one can find it."
His rage broke out again. “I've had
of tongue!” he eried.
"I'll have no spies in my camp.
could put a rope around my neck with
what By God,
sense should
your
You Estelle, a
tell
Know,
common you
Cross I've never treated
You'll have enough
on for the of
me, you
Hive In comf
your life if"
“What
rest
rt
have you done with Ander
Estelle
where
trouble.”
son nsked quietly
“Anderson's he'll cause no
further
4
“Yor
mean you killed b
after your agreement?
“D—n ys You heard that, did you?
Rathway, turning
fear. “No, 1 didn’t kill
He
You
shouted
met wit
he
Oo work
cont!
together
#8 One
trf to cre
with
inds out of Nath
iaced th on hi
Gu've never gone
followed my advice
kn I'm
in the world
Ww the onls
’
“Aye” he
me old Peliy's mine
I've got the gold! I've oo
¥
teil you!” he. cried exo
“I was wrong
g. then
n
of fact
know this
n of yours
And what
matter and no
is
inst
what it'll
pleading now
Grath
mean to you”
“You
learns the truth,
ntry ags
What do you
know
lathway :
inst yon
Jim,
“Son
mean to do?
an to do!”
could not
what I me
but he
her
Estelle
raze
Inid her hand on his arm
ever have pity on any
me in your life? she asked.
“Oh, maybe, when I was young and
“Did you ever feel respect for any
a
telle! Don't try to ride the moral
horse when It's just plain jealonsy-
one female jealous of another
all it Is.”
“It's not, Jim.
what you're planning to do,
And you'll regret
Jim, 1-1
NOORE-™
He leaped back and swore violently
at her. “Cut out that talk, I tell you!”
he shouted, almost beside himself.
“Jim, listen—just listen. I guess
I'm not what anyone would call a good
woman, but I was like that girl once,
and—I can’t bear It, Jim. Jim, I'll do
anything in the world for you If you'll
have pity on her. It may be there's
Jealousy, too, but it's much more—
much more for her sake-—-and for
yours."
Estelle was working herself into one
of her hysierical frenzies, Rathway
grew crafty. It Is not easy for a man
fo fool a woman, except when she is
in love with him. Then It isn't very
hard. And Estelle was desperately
eager to be decelved.
“See here, Estelle,” sald Rathway
gently, “you know if I let her go what
would happen. [I've got to keep her
here till I know there's going to be
no come back. I've got to see this
thing through. She'll come’ 10 no
harm at my hands.”
stelle looked at him eagerly. “Jim,
you mean that?" she cried. “You
swear that you mean 1t9",
“I mean more than that. You
know me and you are partners,
through thick and thin, for a good while
now, though we've had our quarrels,
Well, I won't deny what you sald
about an infatuation. But I'm gotting
to see things reasonable. And you're
my old partner, Stella.”
What a fool the woman was—all
women were! She was clinging to
him, looking up at him with that ab.
surd expression on her face that had
once set his heart leaping. How he
hated beri
“Oh, Jim, you've made me happler
than I've been since—since you seemed
You do care for me a
little, Jim?" she asked, nestling
him.
“As much as ever,” answered Rath-
And, she twined her arms
his he bent and kissed
It kiss of Judas. But
Estelle again her love
lifted her lips to his in
way, HR
neck,
to feel
made him wince at his
go and stay wit}
tonight, Jim, dear.” she
that there's
uid of”
Rathway
aid
waiaq,
her nothing to
by
surprise, man
aged to keer his
when Estelle had
he broke
countenance, but
departed for the hut,
into aln
She h
O8t maniacal curses,
ad tricked him with
innocence!
* again he found himself in
: the
uid
IHG take
walt till take
Joyce ceria iat
wonid
Griunity arose to
He gnushing fury
this fool of
.
at the end!
wus unbearable
| caught a second
neelf enmeshed
in
#8 web of gnf i
yet 1
reseen things, fi
140
bars between ther
ile ghe
Khe carr
1 such
ation with
if Lee, upturned and white
her
in the current, stared
if wo" & ii
he would return
into his chair save
And
again
vhile
He could
onflict in his 1
men mu
They were drunk
they had never acted tha
raged
hear his
} hut
He must act that night
He must act soon. He must gag that
cat, Estelle
And the face of Joyce rose up be.
He went back,
He waited a minute till the liquor be-
“Jim I”
He started. His hands leaped to his
pistol as two shadows glided in through
the doorway. Shorty and Pierre ad-
vanced openly toward him.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
— worisn—
Eggsactly!
“Herman Finck, whose only fault is
that he is always witty, happened to be
walking up Baker street with Page,
and, stopping in front of Elliott &
Fry's, the well-known photographers,
they noticed that there was an exhibi.
tion of country-life photographs in the
window, and that in a basket in the
center of the window were a couple of
dozen of the best new-laid eggs! This
being somewhat unusual for an estab-
lishment of this king, Page sald:
‘Eggs! Why on earth should a pho
tographer put eggs in his window? To
which Finck replied: ‘1 really don't
know ; I can only suppose that a hen
has gone In for a sitting’: which is an
example of quick wit I can hardly im.
agine has ever been excelled."—From
“Chestnuts Re-Roasted” by Seymour
Hicks.
A Good Bag
The old country mansion had been
turned Into a clubhouse and the sur
rounding syivad park into a golf
course. The members were extraordi-
narily proud of the luxurious club with
the previous owner's hunting trophies
still adorning the walls,
One day a player was showing a
visitor round the place.
“I say, this is fine," sald the stranger,
as he stepped Into the ocak-paneled
hall. He waved his hand in the diree.
tion of the mounted heads of stags
caribou and moose. “Tell me, did they
Kill all these fellows with golf balisy”
HOW TO KEEP
WELL
ceili
DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN
Editor of “HEALTH”
(2, 1928, Western Newspaper Union.)
DISCOVERING THE
LAZY BUG
OOKWORM disease is caused by
the presence in the bowels of
many little worms. These worms are
called hookworms, because they have
fine, sharp hooks in their heads by
which they fasten themselves to the
lining of the bowels, so that they can
suck blood from the victim's veins
These worms are only about an inch
long and about as big as a fine hairpin
The amount of blood whlch each
worm can suck Is not very great, but
when the unfortunate person who has
these worms has hundreds or thou-
sands of them to feed, the loss is so
great as to make the vietln pale and
weak, just like any other form of
hemorrhage,
Hookworm dt has heen
to be common among
nd tunnel workers
Q wits d 2 .
switzerland »ut it
RE Se long
the min
known min
ers a in Italy and
was not supposed
1900, after
this
hiarge of Porto Rico, the
to exist in this country. 1
the
country {OOo (
surgeon general of the army sent Capt
Balley Ashford down
on the health of the p
that, in beautiful, tropical
dise, there was not
such as is ordinarily .
a great many natives were pale,
less without energy. that
of were lay eaters”
yi
n
Spanish-American war, when
I '
there to
He found
pars
repor
Tent
»
that
and
them
an
Doctor Ashford
of hookworm
hookworms
the surgeor
Porto Rico
our ki
Then Dr. Charles W
ited States Publie
Were
remember how
NEeWEDH DOTS, years ago, poked
at Doctor Stiles as the discoverer
azy bu But Doctor Stiles
i rut Aes #1en
ler Foundation
d began wor
overnment and
healtn
out 1d hookworm
rr
irs have
ugh
the skin of the
>» a swelling and erup-
ited
SLC,
)
dew Itch, cow
hookworms
of the
avoid
in
fore
are
of
ooted paris
where they numerous
GROWING PAINS
NE of the time-honored superst!-
tions of mothers is that children
Just how did
idea originate that growth was
painful? Growth is a natural normal,
healthy process of the body. Pain is
unnatural and abnormal. Any pain
anywhere, at any time Is a sign that
something Is wrong. Any child tha:
has a pain In an arm, a leg, or the
back that is anything more than tem-
porary has something wrong some
where,
Pain is the body's danger signal,
Just like a red light on a ralircad
track. Never run past 8 red light, Is
one of the most Important rules the
engineer must learn and obey. Don't
neglect a palin, is a role that every
mother and nurse should heed. There
are no such things as “growing pains”
If a child has persistent pain any-
where, It means, generally, that there
is some kind of Infection somewhere
that is producing polsons that are Ir
ritating the nerves and causing the
pain.
This Infection may come from the
bowels, due to constipation. It may
come from Infected teeth or tonsils It
may be the first symptoms of rhen-
matism or heart disease. But rheuma-
tism and heart disease In most cases
are the result of Infections
Enlarged and diseased tonsils and
adenoids are responsible for most cases
of rheumatism. This disease is espe
clally common In the spring snd fall.
It first ghows itself by vague pains in
the Joints and muscles, later by swell.
Ings, redness and tenderness In the
Joints. The germs or poisons In the
blood cause irritation, not only of the
Joints but also of the lining of the
heart. This irritation may be so se
vere as to produce little ulcers on the
heart walls and valves, which, even if
they heal, form sears which pull the
valves out of shape and out of posi.
tion, leaving the child with a per
manently disabled heart which he has
to live with the rest of his life,
Any child who has “growing pains”
or any persistent pain should he care
fully examined for infected teeth and
tonsils. The heart should be carefully
watched, as the great majority of cases
of heart trouble begin in childhood