Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-12-18

or the old block in her, 40 you mink
for moment that begged the help OF
one before whom I had to sacrifice my
pride for the sake of enabling you to
still further carry out your schemes!
No! Ten thousand times nop She
stamped her foot as if she were COM
handing subject and looked her ia
ther steadily in the eyes. ST came to
save you from yourself, father. did
not come to help you to cheat the po-
lice. You must do as bid you and quit
this place for good. You may excuse
yourself as you may, but you are COM
hitting an injustice on me. Would you
have done this had my mother been
alive?"
She had never spoken like this in her
life before to her father, and he stared
at her wonderingly. There was one who
had died when Marie was a mere child
whom he had often seen live again in
the girls eyes, and now he saw the
mother live and speak in the person of
the woman Trembling, he passed one
hand before his eyes so that he might
shut out the sight. But her voice still
rang in his ears. and he felt like one
who is detected in a crime. Perhaps
Gabriel had never realized the error of
his ways as he did then. AS for Fran
co.'s, who was bachelor and a good
hearted man, though he secretly admir-
ed her spirit, he could not comprehend
her scrqples. But women to Francois
were mysterious and inexplicable crea-
lures at the best, and he had long since
given up trying to understand them.
Though he thought in his simple, hon
est way that there was nothing SO par
ticularly dreadful in being tyrannized
over by such girl as this particular
one before him, still he felt thankful to
Providence that he was yet a bachelor
and free from the annoyances of petit
coat government.
"But,' argued Gabriel weakly and
irrelevantly, it won't do to leave the
whisky yere S'posing the p'lice git it,
we're goners both. We can't cache it,
for in this snow they'd spot it only too
quick. We must git a rustic on and git
through with it. Francois can't go on
hisself"-
sTenez vous la?'' interrupted, Fran
co.'s. 81 kin !"
"Now listen" said Marie; "there is
only one thing you can do. Put all the
wretched stuff on one wagon-if half Of
it did not belong to you, Francois, I'd
make father spill it-and you, Francois,
%o1>o - oprxubora o,,+ of +bo NOV Won
father, had better go back and on foot
to the ranch, for tomorrow the police
will make back and find you there. If
you are found without contraband goods,
they cannot interfere with you. I shall
take the empty wagon in two hours
time from now, and going back cut my
own tracks. The police will at once
follow up the wagon tracks, and will
make straight for the Medicine Hat
ranch. Knowing every foot of the way,
it need not take long, but it will take
SO long that they will not be able to go
farther today. By tomorrow you ought
not to care who finds you"
"Good girlP' said Francois in adj
miration "Mon Dieu What smuggler
you would have made u
Poor francois It was the only com
pliment he could think Of just then.
Men are such stupid creatures some
times. However, this proposition just
suited him. He could push on up Will !
low creek and round by the head of the |
now that he knew where the |
police were, without any fear of inter |
ruption, and with four good horses he /
could make Walsh some time that night. |
He knew every foot of the ground. AS
for Gabriel, he could do without him.
1t were better that he should go home, |
and when the police found him there it |
would be better for both Of them. They |
would not know what to make of the |
affair. The girl was good, brave girl, |
and what she had done and what she
offered to do was what 80 girls out Of |
100 would neither have thought of nor |
yet attempted. Francois loyalty second
g her :..;s'c ss::,,::..ss.. t+;e.c.
ITO be continued.l I