Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-26

jest as puch as Lady Jane here Lady
Jane the sister OF the proprietor of the
Saints Repose. administered drinks
and she's played this stacked hand on
us, has gone one better on the sly"
Pierre" said King Kinkley, you're
on the track of the secret, and appear
to hev the excess of the lady; blaze it
blaze it out"
Pierre re Joined: 81 know something;
but it is good we wait until ten O. ock
Then l will show you all the cards in
the pack. Yes, So"
And though there was some grum-
bling, Pierre had his way. The spirit
Of adventure and mutual interest had
thrown the Frenchman, the Irishman,
and the Honorable Just Trafford, to-
gether, on the cold side of the Canadian
Rockies; and they had journeyed to
this other side, where the warm breath
from the Pacific passed to its CONCEAL
ing in the ranges They had come to
the Pipi field when it was languishing
From the moment of their coming its
luck changed; it became prosperous
They conquered the Valley each after
his kind. The Honora ble-he was al
ways called that-mastered its re-
sources by series of great lucks" as
Pierre termed 1t, had achieved for
tune, and made no enemies; and but
two months before the day whose Incl
dents are here recorded, had gone to
the coast on business Shon had won
the reputation of being white man."
to say nothing of his victories in the
region of gallantry. He made no
wealth; he only got that he might
| spend. Irishmanlike he would barter
tho chances of fortune for the lit of a
voice or the clatter of pretty foot
Pierre was different Women, ah,
mol" he would say; they make men
| tools or devils"
His temptation lay not that way.
| When the Three first came to the Pipi
Pierre was miner, simply; but nearly
all his life he had been something else,
rs many devastated pocket on the
east of the Rockies could bear witness;
and his new career was alien to his
,ou. Temptation grew greatly on him
At the Pipi, and in the days before he
yielded to it he might have been seen
at midnight in his hut playing solitaire.
Why he abstained at first from practis-
ing his real profession is accoun ted for
| III bNO ways. HC Idtl tcO SOlIlt Ol lHt
sweets of honest companionship with
the Honorable and Shon, and then he
mad memory of an ugly night at Par
Ions Drive year before, when he
,tood over his own fathers body shot
20 death by accident in gam bling row
which owed its origin to himself These
,hings had held him back for time;
out he was weaker than his ruling
passion.
The Pipi was young and compare
lively virgin field; the quarry was at
lis hand. He did not love gain for its
)wn sake; it was the game that en-
.hralled him. He would have played
lis life against the treasury of a king
lom, and, having won it with loaded
iouble SKIES, have handed back the
poll as an unredeemable national
lebt.
He fell at last, and in falling con-
quered the Pipi Valley; at the same
ime he was considered a fearless and
LIBERAL citizen, who could shoot as
,traight as he played we'll He made
IN excursion to another field, however,
Vt an opportune time, and it was dur
ng this interval that the accident to
lie returned but q few hours before
this quarrel with Shon occurred and in
he Saints Repose whittier he had at
,nce gone, he was told of the accident
While his informant related the Incl
Dent and the romantic sequence of
Shons infatuation, the woman passed
the tavern and was pointed out to
Pierre. The Frenchman had not much
axcita bleness in his nature; but when
ne saw this beautiful woman with a
touch of the Indian in her contour, his
pale face flushed and he showed his set
teeth under his slight moustache. He
watched her until she entered a shop
On the sign board of which was written
written since he had left few
months ago-Lucy Rives, Tobacconist
Shon had then entered the Saints
Repose; and we know the rest A couple
Of hours after this nervous episode, Pierre
might have been seen standing in the
shadow of the pines not far from the
house at Wards Mistake, where, he had
been told, Lucy Rives lived with an old
Indian woman. He stood, scarcely NOV
ing, and smoking cigarettes, until the
door opened. Shon came out and walked
down the hillside to the town Then
Pierre went to the door, and, without
knocking, opened 1t, and entered. A
woman started up from a seat where
she was sewing and turned towards
him. As she did so, the work, Shon
coat dropped from her hands, her face
paled, and her eyes filed with fear.
She leaned against chair for support;
this mans presence had weakened her
So She stood silent save for slight
moan that broke from her lips, as the
Frenchman lighted a cigarette coolly,
and then said to an old Indian woman
who sat upon the floor braiding a
basket: Get up Il5ni, and go away
: quick"
/ Ikni rose, came over, and peeed into
o the face of the half breed. Then she
IS muttered: II know you-I know you
The dead has come back again" She
I caught his arm with her bony fingers
y as if to satisfy herself that he was flesh
n and blood, and, shaking her head dole.