Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26
The Honor
Of the
Big Shows
Blu JAMES
OLIVER CURWOOD.
Author Of The Danger
Trail"
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CHAPTER XIV.

= stand, Il am going to tell
you something which l have told to
but two other human beings. 1t Is
the story of another mana man from
civilization. like you, who came up
into this country of ours years and
years ago and who met a woman, as
you have met this girl at Oxford
House. and who loved her as ron love
this one and perhaps more. II is sim
gular that the case should be 50 SINH
lar m'sIeur. and II il because Of this
that believe our Blessed Lady gives
me courage to tell II to you. for this
man, like you. left a wife and two
children when he came into the north.
Msieur, | pray the great God to for
give him. for he left a third child.
unborn.
Jan leaned upon his hand 80 that It
shaded his face.
nc 10 not 90 much Of that as OF
what followed that am going to tell
yon. m'sienf.- he went on. ut was a
beautiful love on the woman's part.
and Il would have been q beautiful
lore on the mans part II It had been
pure For her he gave up everything.
even hts God. .as you would give mp
everything and your God Tor this girl
at Oxford House. M'sieur. VIII
speak mostly Of the woman now. She
was beautiful. She was one OF the
three most beautiful things that God
ever placed In our world. and she
loved this man. she married him. be-
lieved IN him. was ready to die for
him. 10 follow him to the ends of the
e1rth a. our women Will do for the
men they love God In heaven! Can
you not guess what happened. m'sieurf
4 child was borul.
So Iefcely did Jan cry out the
words that Thornton jerked back az
though q blow had been struck at him
rom out of the gloom.
"A child was born. repeated Jan.
and Thornton heard his nails DIGGING
ID the table. That was the frst
curse OF Coda child: Carton. beasts
% c&fri0n. that Il what We cali them
beasts OF carrion and earrion eaters.
breedert ~ devils and sin. Mr. God!
Ihat b what happened child was
horn with tbe curse az God upon hlmr'
Jan stopped. his mills digging deep
~. bis breath escaping from him 40
though Dc hsd been running.
rflown N your world he would have
erown ND man. be continued. speak.
lng more calmly. II have heard that
slnce. But here II Is difYerent The
curse never dies. II follows. day after
day. year after year. And This child.
more unfortunate than the wild things
was born one Of them. II the winds
had whispered the secret nothing
would have come near. him. The In.
dian women would sooner have touch.
Cd the plnoue. He would have been
an outcast. despIsed rs he grew older.
pointed at and tainted. called names
which are worse than those called TO
the lowest and meanest dogs. That il
what Il means to be born under that
curse-~np hera.'' ~.
He waited Tor Thornton to speak. but
che other sat silent and moyeless across
the table.
.The curse worked swiftly. m'sieur.
4 Il came frsf-in remorse--to the man.
IL gnawed at his soul. ate him alive
and drove him from place to place
with the woman and the child. The
purity and love Of the woman added to
his suffering. and at last be came to
know that the hand OF God had fallen
upon his head. The woman saw his
grief, but did not know the reason for
Il. And 30 the curse FIRST came to her.
They went north-far north. above the
Barren Lands, and the curse followed
there. II gnawed at his life until-he |
died. That was seven years after the
child was born.
The oil lamp sputtered and began to |
smoke. and with q quick movement |
Jan turned the wick down until they |
were left in darkness.
.M'sieur, IL was then that the curse
began TO fall upon the woman and the
child. Do you not believe that about |