The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1915, Page 9

LLL . ; a wi a ea = ame aa (The Evening World Daily Magazine. Saturday. August 28, 1915 Se v Not? .« «<i w By Maurice Ketten| pai mri Mun Ml TN OM = A Soldier of the Legion Sal Nas Tie NEW By C. N. end A. M, WILLIAMSON A ane wpon the mowrioine he bed 4 were | wae buried at try Heme, + Oyeee os rn ne at me guengae. Rd mel bumping a2 he spoke moment mr feel fort ane tame Lerew © hope be words ther the deere overneed. he ehewe ONRETE ‘ Drewie shoe ane!” (very wot) aiken the expe eee at one) S & “How T | anewered, starved. omy friend,” be mented @f smpenniiie one, there wae a * he me piss 4 fy fad oerre inexorably friends ence we Were bore ether r The olf, riddied wilh tunnels on@ ig . enon out by He fume } & streams. — saree of Aree ce f beneath that Fe | bullreaged the entire structure, om bins oth the we of the wiarior ebove, had thrown (he moun- if Pierre, where le Lerousl i 3 ta pered iain om ite ede, Ailing the jake with S, e ¥ mayen? be anewered. terestening bem A several million Lote of we and oo neh no » Then there were erating ali traces of the chateau, Ii Bhai | eurrender to bim or shall “ " od f | us io the evoret whien ley buried benesth ite waters. * Lerous hea ter lumber - re a . ne, mentee” be nie ore aguin. aroun bad formed ¢ lumeer com: Tees was Pere ou Con ‘vr, suppose you bac Me te Prey ‘sell, and soon Simon cane, ie formed Bie was to search tor 4 noth- chaine whole bad been changed heither giacter nor cataract, and the a Wage] to twice ite sine and apent (he money 1, slept peacefully beneath ite dinbie lead bim w you Hie da- you what to say, All Oniah w! Me walked past me poterieesiy, « tenuous shadow, and his bearing was an fd Vinten a i ea Sees ee aso Ei ate he gives bn be thought be covering of ice and snow om . Ae proud as that of bis race had been * could get more out of Carvon. "to be CHAPTER XVII. 4m the long ago, when they were lords went (9 him and oid the secret, That se nad ae icy fan Where thelr while masters ruled, He made four of ue—four of us, where concn entered the passage at the back of the WHY WHY NoT WAY Not . wld have been only wo.” utaide and doge = able. Surrender. mine, through which | had come whe: Not DECOLLETE Beans awd did you do? | asked, DON'T & hether 1 shat) Lencountered Lacroix the Bret tim PJ ah \t was like conducting @ post. s now whether I shall with his gold. | 1 ; COATS 2 EAR RINGS lupen 0 musterere estpem Diable, monsieur, don’ heey Paul.” HO! to live, Paul,” she went on. And as ue passed J thought | saw of . 1 went to New York to get my © stove in your house?” v~ MY “But now things have be- Lacroixs face peering out at me | SLEEVES share, 1 wasn't going to be ousted-1 well known voice to Pere An! Then, as Jacqueline and I a) come much clearer than they tar ac shadows of the ca 1 4 ps one of the discovercre, Than, as Jacqueline And fr = | were, When you wanted to take me (iarted toward ui, Then 1 sag only “ fe" sprang toward lis with outetgetebed through the tunnei | knew that YOU piaying me tricks; | thought it had . ey hands that @ripped ours and wrung wore wrong, | knew that even if we created that apparition out ot my } pocket them yatil we eried out In pais. found my father | must still send you thoughts ile But | was stu to ane the eee- 1 went back to Jacqueline and after be had left € pened away, my dear, God dove not moan ay sent ein ti carhebes bare watehed him J ond man, who rose and advanced te. for us wo be for one another. Don't fade. I bad my revolver in my hand, L ‘se [he went to 8 room ward me wie 8 rowd amile, For you see why? It is because there is but it was not loaded threw the| top of o tal at # Presently {| was telling my , the blood of a dead man vetwoen as GHIrIdges upon the Moor. |”) twin, “Wen | got ta | found a woman oop tor that part. which roore, a b (Aas cannot hereiped away. fore u voice hailed me from the tun- t, ~ threatening He said obo waa bis tlaalely soncerned anreelt and 3 “That is th use of our misfor- y . stow could ahe ow Y which I gave only as tunes here, and they will never end, "M. Howiett! Are you prepared to } he bad married Jacqueline Du- ep sGue ' o ou can beat Leroux—because speak with Leroux 7 1 ot _ A look of incredulity deepened to a ele It was Raoul’s voice, and I an- n't care—tt was no business of ate shrewd old face, till at the 06d, of that. Ho it could never DAV® DOOD. swered yor ree I couldn't see oe. ny $s buret ows oxpleatvely ob tet ; : You, 1 knew that last might when LA moment later Leroux came trom there waa a CUFLALD In te Way. eeere Howlett, 1 didn't think | wae ® WF iey by you, and 1 was Uhwking of it the tunnel toward mo. I got down ty ye a he in the room in which I 4&mned fool before—t beg your par- and praying bard that 1 might eee from the barricade and met him at oa Put it out eo that neither of 40m, miss, If any man haid told me ; clearly bed at the teen, antl cho meio them should wee my fa Ba hye dy gt Hh 4 Her voice broke of from weakness, and played between wi | | PANS beter ae when a Mgnt went ' and for w loug me eve lay there, and Hewlett,” said Leroux, you | pe, tj Pushed the ourtain aside, I {nett have ied to f I clasped her bund and waited, and have madea good hahi. Dy heavens, ‘was waiting for that, 1 bad calou- ty. i My wyes searcued the space beyond JOU ie Ue ve erm oe . lated my blow, I stabbed him, att eer" F the bags. iiuw long would they de = “what terms?” I asked, was @ quod blow, though it was lay? “The suine as before.” the dark, | tle only, erie employment without offering any res. Prowently Jacqueline spoke again, | “You planned to murder me,” T an- and a dow flow at me, and I coulda bl affair and ey nels of Calo bee “Doe yu awe 1, 4 dunt cuss OWSTEd, . 4 his money. So I ran away. 01 lito tw sucn'a good wing as it wed | "Yes that is true” answered Le. And then there were only three of oe to meen, she oud, “Ab bok thar b Sent than fom What than ah ati us who knew the secret. Then Simon CUuiu bear & real deal Lia A would Denne Of bd w ‘4 ey are tae NOT died and there were only ay eet Olive ware WWougut unpussiuie, Libinx Mbt. I am no murderer, I am WHY ‘ow there are only Hewlett and Land 1 could yieid Ww tacvus und be bis man ¢ Pere And, within busi Pel A Boo 6 1a dead, poor fool, and | have my Wile (o save your lie, Baul” proposed rod focal to my dy ji ee Ek-A- . gold here.’ For God's sake give me ® the Nov Jucdusines’ ive, my duty is | had no other way. Besides, you WAISTS ? < j ie fy tore at say sleeve tn bis with i, ther, He neeus me, and had me in your power. Now you are “ last agon pied ould ne chatead now 1, on tat oe et ete uure gluwn ay arong. “I thought then that you were in, yi Athan.) 80a tony vet Abd, (hougu be oigut come to ao Carson's pay, That if I let you e» —_ Tio muttered once of twice and bari, 1 cuunot aim. Ang you You would betray—certain | things | — cried out in fear of the man whom must leave me, Paul, vecause—be- YOU might have discovered. But you| _ i ain, I heard him gasp Cause of Wour i® beiween us You Came herp because you were infatu- ad tell bim so, ated with M ten, to me, ‘Then the hand fell from jeded Dubois, Did 5 Bee And after that there was | gwo drive you must go to Leroux a'Epernay. Well, I I had reached the verge of the cata- then, with a last convulsive effor' * he said In a monot- wait there, that he might not die my slee You luve me, Maul can afford to let you go; for, though ract and stood beside the little plat- Leroux swung Plerre off his fee! ‘olce, “You have killed both alone, o further sound, use I was jous “Aiways, Jacqueline,” I whispered, ™Y ae ye 4 ery out loudly for your form, raised him high in the air, and tried “Give me a knife!” he mumbled - “Paull” mine and ole young bride Bhe put her arms avout my neck, death am a business man, and I And then I saw Lacroix again. I to dash his body against the pro- — And, with the eweat still on his in, clutching at me. “A knif It was the merest whieper from the in the olutehes of that scoundrel, “[ love you, Paul,” sue suid, “it ¢an suppress them when it has to be was sure of it now. He was peering Jecting rock at he tunnel's mouth. forehead, he stood looking malicious- Ffewlett! Don't leave me to die like wall, I thought it was @ trick of my Simon ipreas, who killed my seems 60 Ousy to Bay it in the dark, done. In brief, M. Hewlett, you can after me from among the rocks, -and, But still the Indian's fingers held, ly at me. a this! Bring Pere Antoine and my own mind. dared not hope, brother? And I not eay that they id it used to be so Hard, And I want 69 when you choose. ts as I turned, he was scuttling away end as his consciousness began to , “If you had let me go” he sald, mother. I want to tell her—to tell “paul! Dearest!” were in the Chateau Duchaine?” to tell you something. 1 have always ‘M. Legoux,” I answered, “I will into the tunnel fade Leroux staggered and slipped; “you Would have died just as you her!—— This was no fancy born of @ de- ‘Well, there may be a chateau remembered @ good deal more than #&y something to you for your own I followed him hotly; but he must and with a neighing whine that burst are going to die." He muttered in his delirium until j-jous brain and the thick fumes of somewhere,” Caraon replied. “In you believed, Uniy it was #o dear, sake, and Mme, d'Epernay's, that I have known every fissure in the cliff, from his constricted throat, a shriek | 1 saw the face of the cliff quiver; his voice died away. I thought that Gvnamite, It came from the wall a t t thete probably is, This — that comradeship of ours, that 1 would not deign to say to any other for he vanished befoi that plerced the torrent'’s roar, he slid [saw an \inmense rock, half-way Up, he would never speak But jittle way ahead of me. I crawled the a'Bpernay, who is said to be myself remember any- ntly thi hth down the cataract, Pierre locked in leap into the air and seem to hang fford sell the Thing except that 1 bad you. fnen I reeched the 5 his arms. tb Pierre locked 10 ‘vere; then the ground was upheav- three feet that the little save aforeed ‘Bom, eet ike werid fie any (aes: os) ‘And do you know what | admired be: I cried out in horror, but leaned &¢ beneath my feet, ae Marea re you with me, ing tts surface Inch by indh, Th jand dollars, and from what I kaow pol ged Bee to ete aca eucet . = ut- any passage there. forward, fascinated by the dreadful frightful roar tho rocky walle awayed whispered. tn hie, and he Wie & orevice there, not large enough of Leroux I am ready to believe that How true you were! lt waa that, dear, Merviutuc, and when they ;gAtd at, that moment I heard Le- syoucle, 1 saw the bodies lide “Ai liye rivulet became a cataract giuttned at It with feverish force, 0,have permitted a bird to he would try, to bog it if It really ee “ mM be J roux's voice halling me. wn the straight Jet of water, as a Ato! ‘ iett,” merest ure, ¥ ree rome NeBOr Bee cenitinbetea ives fe gave bp ay eve apart- sblewlett, I fon’ kaow what Wasa Gor rent ed bin @ column of bie ener over ie on fae my Be ‘You, wilt pave Tene ehoaeat that seneeene! Is thet you, dear? I emia tae i it Bt. ne +“ ‘ sessed me to take e wrong ir » eel, and plunge into the biack cal- / ol be was {renaway in horror. Lcould not be- "I can tell you no more,” I answered, thfouRh that tunnel @ hundsed tines stood the mocking and fantastio f CHAPTER XX. the tak f tried to kill yew, Hewett.” dered Backs, |, SBMt Row Abeet heereer de ee Meve that It was true—and yet 1 knew “Do you believe what I have said to tie P Ne ana at: eee nine inne eee meee T paid nothing, and he repeated ,, e = i at Mg Big 4 eee sae AS wie ° Ho swung round petulantly, and at them high into the air, and the sec- Full Confession. qtorisly: between his wasps: "T “You are not hurt, Jacqueline “That,” answel ae And Leroux wae waiting there and ” "Ho Jooked hard into my faof, that moment a she © Sioee ous S ope cataract caught them and flung Richio apenatranlé 1s Sled to nih You tewlett, Are you | “Lam lying where you left me, dear. cisely b+ if Tee get hold of you found me, I did not want to leave #y bara inte my, fer, aig, tne darkness and stood Ie fron them back toward the Old Angel. pent about tried to leave me to die alone in the Paul, II heard’ again, Mr. Hewlett. re You, but he told mo thore was Pero gl) the difference [ly tie Word tee eee ener cued the path . Thelr waters played with them and me, and « thick air that 1 going to low “You heard?” I anewered dully, is Haile, | Duchatne! Antoine's oabin close by, and that you “ang at that moment, in apite of ail eee Ole ae yes path spun them rvund, caught them, and breathed with great gasps nT snewored. “Tt dosan't mat. What did it, ener new? oe aaa anouted fe old priest. » aeepalr, See ae ere cyou had sitlen my Zell something that was not far frou Leroux looked at iin, aud an oath avout them ‘aa, they bobbed eed that hardly brought rellef to tor, Lacroix.” And really, It did Det her mind, "1 am 80 isd, dear: about ave inches and made J money as well, But 1 never believed “Maven joward the man. pez Droke from his lps as he read the danced their devil's Jig, walat high, 10 my choking throat And & matter, 1 1 in you hie vols et! Can you come:through t me?” line what she took to be « bow. that, and I only taunted you with It 94. arry you? I others’ purpose upon his face, Squar- one another's arma. voice out of the darkness crying cease- wan’ te ls dead. TL otruggied to tear the rocks away; “Pleased to make your acquain., to drive you away for your own sake.” “Kod. , routed, tng bis mighty shoulders and clench- At laat they slid down into the lessly in my rambled on aie, T thought t—you 1 beat and bruised my hands io vain tance, mien” he * e drew me weakly toward and . ing his fists, he leape; " depthe of the dark lake, r * 4 would know S@ainst them. joean' matter. guess Logit BE spaighin tg ae ORE de, ana tere in thac embrace.’ And still the Help me! Help mel died, too, Bp ose Net 1 edto mur. “Soon,” 1 muttered, “Boom, Can a'Bpernay, was lying to “Bend lower. Bond very near. DO nis wheel and Amaaane k tention ie iy By lacy nt ematewithe oh jounding their 1m that Lem pganiote mr a fer you. I blew up the tunnel!” roy, rane Bia PO dale oy Ee wanes 6 00, 8 Solan n the train go- ar mo! 2 vii 01 5 Fd sefpornven, I u rr ae his dreams: fem ge Neem Mut, when he had loud, triumphant, never ending tune, awful scenes as vi \y as y He paused a wht! éawn now.” secur then. However, I ay aw fo, , ( 1 was runing down tho tunnel had beon etched in phosphorus before waa dyin t ne word more,” I continued. “Mme, bled to his feet with a bellow- i @ tunnel hi eon thought he “L will come when it grows ligh' mine if aan joe At frat for teen for a’Epernay is very ill. She was struck fag chalienke, Pierre was in front of S€ain. I was running to Jacqueline, my eyes, 1 saw the last struggle of he took up the confeasion, cee Tenaetnetee Sabie, POL ft, look at your gold you thame> because I had no right— PY one of those bullets that you fired him again. but something diverted me. It WAH Pierre and Leroux, and 1 pursued La- “There wan nearly @ quarter Of & efoae uae though I did not remember who he Seen She, door, Walt!” for he hed wnat are you be fort” roared from among the trevices of the fodhs croix along the tunnel. I saw the oliff ton ot rome enow. You ,8be did not know that yew was at the time, the shoc een ve. The Leroux, but in a quivering voice that with the same evil smile. I knew ling f rd, and the rock poised !n the Hewlett. Lidar > eat. That night—lying in my Wound cannot have plerced a vital d like his own, “Get o 4 oN IRePERE LOEWarE, Ot went about #o blindly, Hewlett, myself @ wedding ring from my finger an hy] better bring the “sn. Indian still blocked the pas- thereby. Hel * and never ceased. that night here, that?” 7 4 4 Ld Ail finish now,” he answered, my bands on him and strangle him, to my feet. 1 found that | could move jong aro Ui, Tam to dlact server, 808 Pen opual “You come here one, two year ago,” too, and fling him down and staid iny limbs freely. I tried to rise upon For it seemed immeasurably | ‘tole then } ‘a Next time etter than go! lood dripped from my bands. Agailo ee I shall be glad to have another 1 Sung myself down hope- took round. nd now, Hewlett, if you tried again, clutch: want @ job at five thousand « year ment that protruded ¢6 start—to start, mind eens eur roux is hid- where Pierre continued. ‘You eat up home his features out of human semblance. my knees, but the roof struck my to me as wel ” fair and tell ee from my heart and tell you, Geer Te CHAPTER XIX. Of M. Duchaine, my master. Old M, But he eluded me aud darted back head | stretched my arma out, and , “It wae stored there” he ald. himself.” ined pies ae teri “go to Leroux,” she Tarcnate iecie, Duchaine my master, too. T belong into, the lif °° | Ut touched the wall on either’ aide “We had brought it up from St; Morte MET Te sunbeam shot like) a ANKSr myc™tek Jacauetine alip her, and . here. You eat up all, come back, eat 0' of me, ace in through the crevice and quivered up- eee Pr eae ou will, Jacqueline?” WENT back toward the cave, UP some more. Then you sell Mile, 4/4 not mean to let him go. | | 4 must have been stunned by the intended to begin mining aa noun ae op the foor of the cave. And over- Pygeey myer ng oO tier “Ves, he said, “Because we ‘Ses Leonie ; Jacqueline to Louls d’Bpernay, You | Werolx was running toward the concussiom of the landslide, By @ Louls returned. And when ho Ue. head, where I had never thought to tng have fo and now we are beaten, | Be ber bring myself ‘nade her run ‘way to New York, 1 gold mine. Ho made no effort t0 miracle 4 had not been struck, meant to Kill you both Mooi you it seek, where I had thought three hun- '"f he answered, “he'll the see Jacqueline, ask your diable when your time come, @ ny - “Help me! Help me! fo) ou : | dred feet of eternal rock pressed Pantowed my head, I knew that she Instead, I paced the tunnel Your diable wait, I walt. Mile, cesses of the caves, but ran at full 1 tried to tind the voice, I crawled was here because I thouaht ¥o% gown on me, Law the quiver of daY jecaus, py ae 0 pes een M4 spoke the truth, Slowly the passions to and fro, wondering what Jacqueline come back, Pees ad inte the tunnel Ieading ts thtee feet toward it, and the wall meant to kill me, hut T meant t0 ki) through halt @ dosen feet of ght: Ane running 68° Cleared from my own heart—passion my i1¢4 going to be in future, @bl0 again, He say wait oi Bee ne ite chetens. 9 Stopped me. But the vole wae the you when, you had made Ao end of Dackad. debris from the glaciers Oe Sorseiee . assion of love. I knew al wee Now your diable tell me he send you ear the el Came from under the Wal. m or mouth. Oona eiemeyanquianed,. For, now Lees than three weeks before no hero to-night because your time come, held er ae Neat the entrance and about me in the darkness, and my hand you!" he anaried, “Why did you not “"y'yyiyod mynelt and tore at It and Au tight,” he said, turning away tt Tcqueline lay there #0 Weak, $0 thought of love had etirred me, and 4nd all finish now. He struggled in my grasp and {Outed something damp. f wuipped let me go heara him gasp 20Ut, it Sving. 1 thrust my Bands with a shrug of his shoulders, "Ua: hattivss, and thinking all our past Jacqueline was undreamed of Now , TheD @ roar burst from Leroux's screamed co of He paused, and I bh niin ASP among, the mtones an Vrentical ua ever, aint you? ‘Think tt Was but a dream, there was nothing ahe entered int h lps, and he flung himself upon the 'Go back! For the love of God, go @ ten. ce for breath. His Angers clutched down Ike the tiles from @ rotten over, my son, Glad to have met you, but to yleld, 1 could not fight any nvered into my heart and twined Indian in the same desperate way as hack, monsieur!" be shricked. “Lat y,0 pene was only the face. Where my coat sleeve again and hooped roof ; 4 Mr. Pricet, and ae I'm always busy tance herself inextricably around tts roota, I had experienced, and in an instant me go! Let a6 go!" he body and limbs ought to have been themselves round mine like clawe of [heard a shout; bands were reache Pd Ne and I will atert fer Even though, by some miracle, the ‘That I should love her till I died I the two men were struggling at the "Ite fought 0 desperately that he Mis Only rock. The ince Was OB MY gtegl down to me and pulled me up. and T fore this afternoon.” tunnel lay clear before us, to MOV aig not doubt at all. edge of the platform, slipped out of my hands and darted {0@ pf 4 Wall of ruck: pinning down wt had a knife-once,” > .esumed, WAH on my feet upon a hillelde, looks ye oque eee. ae oak e her mount death. So 1 would yield, “"s10.' 100) worde had been in the Pierre had pulled the Frenchman into the mine again, taking the tun- yonq . relapsing into hia deliric” “out Lief ing into the keen eyes of Pers AN yiook my head. 1 didn't want Tom to save her life, and with me Leroux Pear way nig a- out to the middle of the ledge and waa nel which led toward the Old Angel 7 °)"N oocniged the voloe now. It wae it behind me, and the pice got it, tolne and te face of the to witness It, But a word from Pere Balght dea} as I oy ‘séiol ied es a bear trapecye- wed a Bing fo Farce ie over neuf Tarous and thence wound back toward tho that of Philippe Lacroix. Ian't It odd, Leroux,” he rambled on, SANaw. Fkquimaux dog wae bark- Antoine changed the hostile tenor of ” 1 “ 0 “uman the bags and want down toward ain before the cave “At mon Dieu! Help me! Help ‘that ono always leaves something 1,2'a4 my aide, my thoughts to warm and must go, before that old, insatiaple Sl and with the other he beat “T caught him ' behind when one has killed a man’ ones streom. savagely upon his enemy's face, 80 where Jacqueline lay. I wound my } : / : a said, “dorbtless Fait betore Thad reached {t @ dark longing for her arose jn me again. that the blood covered both of them. rina around him. A dreadful muspl Pav Gar lied, fo perent the mrende FVt bn Dar eae Mate Shee fe CHAPTER XXI. you know what day this is? figure sipped from among the shad: fo pg eC A ee 1A bp Olear~ But, Pierre did not seem to feel the clon Was creeping into my Jfnind suffering Was pitiable I forgot my was dead, did you, Leroux, for all The End of the Chateau ‘Tom started, “Why, good Lord, tt Mf iw sucks and came tow ows, He made no attempt to fight me, fwn trontine » Med , ate . ek * mie day,’ isn't tt? tne: and by tho faint starlight I aaw loving, eraclous presence, her sweet, | Leroux, one-handed. was at @ die- but only to escape, and his face vas iny erin Were teint Caen Ware tana Hiveigtt’ le taas bapet inom: oe LY cos tlie marred tun CHE Rte aeeenee - xce of Pierre Caribou her tenderness advantage. He gras; is antag- y 6 . nue ’ a ] ‘ hod, i 3 Nab} ra the fice of Terre Cor Plerre acem- ‘all these were for Leroux Noth oniat again and the death grapple "tative pot he howled. “An, you Of Hk shove him, and under the tach table? You knew enough to wend me happiness of our Yeunton, | “Ki'4 a Digger day for uy" + eat’ one of those are m figures of Ing remained for me except my mem- bean. eet cad awieear aa wil! repent it! Monsieur, let toe wot Shave’ he eed thet tha aden aie to Jail, but hed Wie. ei eat and that was the loss of “77% iotea at me in his eirewa t; he might have come tn ey bent a now | will give you a half share in the a Rane I fi a : ‘ tong ago, but not to-day, or ot! {ould nave to make & rreat deal Loroux was forcing Pierre's head and gold. What do you want with me?” PYRE sac icned (hansath ihe faaufareneee. Aerribiy. VEIe te Gere, Teenie [A are ves COTE Pia GaP BODE rere sas aay my life, ad always believed shoulders backward by the weight of — What did I want? I did not know. bay and gold whi rt a ” yee er tay od me and held me by both that life was only a prelude to greater his bull's body. But the Indian's sin- Tt mart have been the same inating’ Dake Of earih and Kold which he had ‘vThere is nobody here, Philippe” I what had happened, and ten days ,,,"G00d luck to you both” he sald. ehoulders, and he drew me into the and finer things. 1 wae not sure; l ews, toughened by years of toll to tthat leads one to stamp upon a nox- "were grinding out hie life, He was Salt, trying to soothe hia Agony of tater, when Jacqueline had recov. “vax Mr. Dupole, f guess 0 Saat recesses of the rocks and bent bia am not sure to-da! but if the life steel, held ¢ and just Leroux, fous insect. I think it was hie Joy dying—and he could not take hi soul, ‘hat @ poor and stained soul piteh ow mn that le to come is not the real: of our unfuifilled d wirened old face forward to it was, travelling into the next world ered from the shock and from what you? fon confident of victory, shifted his feet in the hideous spectacle beneath the treasures to t place to whieh bi ing with : then nothing and inclined forward, Pierre changed oataract that had made me long to just go, alone! There le nobody but me, proved to de, after all, only a flesh | Alfred Dubois wie ariprae PHN. monsleur, so you did not obey matters here. 1 was thinking of that his grasp and caught him by the kill him Itch one hand come through the Philippe!” 7 wound, we had visited the scene of Our hands again: Lut his onset wee old Pierre Caribou and stay in the as I paced the tunnel. And in that throat. But now a dreadful fear was dawn- tiny opening In the wail and grasp at ., "You lie!” he raved. “Louls ts hereto. tesoue by the old priest age fercclous because b : vo." he sald. way I felt that, in a measure, Jaoque- Leroux's face blackened and bia ing on me. me. He has come for me! Give me your i" J us every now and then (o slap me I did not know that you line wae still mine, es started out. His great chest “Jacqueline!” I screamed. “Who is it? he mumbled, “Is that Knife, Hewlett, It ls for him, not for The Indian woman had met him aa on the back and blow hi 8 nose tt would return,” L answered, “I thought, “Everything that is free,” she bad heaved, and he tore impotently at hi n her.” he replied. Hewlett? For God's sake, kill me. He deseryed to die, He tricked she was returning home and had told Ye ony le petite, Madeleloe og t we could find the same road thaf*sald to me, and enemy's strong fingers that were ‘Ah, mon Dieu, wili " me after we had found the gold, Ho him of our danger, and he had start. be here!” he shoute tem you had taken. dreams.” ‘That part was mine; and shutting out alr and light and con- you never let me go? It Is too late!” I crouched beside him, but I did not tricked me twice, He told Leroux, ed out before dawn, to find that there that was bis Giana, volew ne “Never. mind.” the Indian an- that could never be taken away. aciousness. They rocked and swayed; Suddenly he grew oalm, know what to say or do. I could only thinking that he would win his grati- was no longer any entrance to the (THE END.) " ' . at