The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-04
GRIM ROMANCE MAY YET
HAVE HAPPY ENDING
Woman Dreamed that Supposed
Husband Was Still Alive and
This Led to Locating Him.
NORTHWOODS TALE

HULL, Quebec. Jan. 3.-Shirley Ogilvy.
was hunting in the north. lie and his
companions came across a moose peculiar
in having a good deal of white about it.
one ear. half the pendent bell. and part Of
the cheek being Of that color.
For six days he and his guide pursued IL.
During the hunt they had several opportun-
tiles of getting other moose, but they re-
fused to allow themselves to be diverted
from their chase.
They were finally successful. strangely
enough through some perversity of the
creature. which. after being alarmed one
morning. turned in its tracks and walked
In a leisurely manner right up to the guns
of its pursuers- So the moose was killed.
Ogilvy was dilating upon the size OF his
quarry 10 his friends after his return. when
one Of them. a game Inspector of some
sort, asked him what had been done with
me meat. There is a rule in force that
hunters must not leave the OffaI or meat
of deer lying about in the woods for the en-
enlargement Of the wild ca%rnivOra.
y we gave the meat to a queer old chap
we discovered living as a hermit in a tiny
nut up on the side Of a stony mountain"
he answered. He appeared to have moth
ing but an ak to depend upon, no gun, no
traps. and scarcely any clothes to his name.
he had contriVed some clever deadfalls for
catching hares and managed somehow to
snare cartridges.
THE moose meat was a regular godsend
TO him. L should say, and as We were on
our way down we left him a few warm
socks and other things We didn't need. He
looked like a regular old Robinson Crusoe,
only his furs were not stitched. but lust
pegged together"
Ogilvy told some more details about the
old man, and mentioned that he was
French and had lost two fingers off his left
hand. Then the game warden seemed sur
prised.
See here, Ogilvy," he said, 1.-The parson
and L have been pieCing together two parts
OF a story, and by all that's wonderful 1
believe you've found out the last chapter
of it.
You know l was until lately connected
with the Dominion police force. and that's
why the parsOn came to me with his end
OF the tale, thinking l might be able to help
him out a bit. y woman Of his congrega-
ton was in trouble. She had lived as a
WIDOW In that part Of the town for three
years. making a living for herself and
young child by sewing and washing.
1t seems that a young chap called Louis
Michel had proposed marriage TO her, and
after a long consideration she had accepted
him. Since then she had been troubled
with dreams about her dead husband
"Again and again in her sleep she had
seen him alive, though greatly changed in
appearance. Somehow the impression had
sunk into her soul that her husband was
not dead, and she had become excited
over il.
Her husbands name was Octave Trem-
blay. He had a quarrel with Michel one
night and hit him on. the head with an AK.
Supposing he had killed him, he disap-
peared, and it was believed he had commit
ted suicide.
Mrs. Tremblay had been married only
six months then, and was greatly attached
to her husband. This Michel had been
counting her for three years, but she had
given him little encouragement out OF re-
gard for her late husband.
But Michel was not killed. He was
carted down to the City Hospital, and after
a long sickness recovered and was dis
charged, though he will always have to
carry about with him a silver plate with
which the doctors riveted the broken parts
of his skull together. 1 did not take any
never imagined that Tremblay could be
alive still until the parson came to me with
the widows talk about her dreams.
The description Of Tremblay tailed eX-
actly with that of Ogivy's hermit, especial
~ as TO the missing fingers.
The whole business is as plain as a
pikeSta1 nOw,' went on the eX-detective.
IN bet anything that little woman's
dreams have been straight as could be-"
Couldn't we do something to prevent an
Enoch Arden kind of business arising out
of it?" said one OF the party.
No! The law has no kind of claim upon
Tremblay now" said the eX-detective.
Enough came out of my investigations to
show that Tremblay acted strictly in self
defense to avoid a thrust of Michel's knife,
and the warrant was Cancelled long ago."
There was wealth enough represented in
the little gathering at the Victoria Club
that night to finance a much cOstlier under
taking than the one suggested, and prelim-
inarieS were arranged for a relief expedi-
ton to start next day. For fear of possible
disappointments Mrs. Tremblay has not
been told of the discovery of the hermit.