The Detroit times., 1912-07-27
ch,APTER VII.
The Tragedy In the Cabin.
(Continuedi.


of the ROYAL Mounted Down In Chi
cago I've got father, Philip Egbert
Steele, a banker. who's worth half a
dozen millions or so. You're going
down TO him as fast as dog-sledge and
train can carry you. and youll give
him this note, II says that your name
is Johnson, and that for my sake he's
going to put YOU on your feet. so that
Il is going TO be pretty blamed com
Portable for yourself-and the noblest
little woman I've ever met. Do you
understand, ThorpeP
He looked up Thorpe's wife had
gone TO her husband. She stood now
lalf in his arms, and looking at him;
as they were they reminded him OF a
couple who had played the finale in q
drama which he had seen year be-
fore.
There is one favor which you must
90 me. Thorpe he went on. Al home
| am rich Up here I'm only PM
steele. OF the Royal mounted. I'm tell
irg you so that you won't think that
I'm stripping myself when make you
take this. It's little ready cash, and
check for a thousand dollars. Some
day, If you want TO. you can pay II
back. Now hustle up and get on your
clothes. imagine that your friends
are somewhere near-with the sledgt
that brought me up from lie Pas TO
morrow, OF course. | shall be com
pellai TO take up the pursuit. But 4
YOU hurry | don't believe that | shal
catch you
He rose and put on his hat, leavins
the money and the check on the table
! The woman staggered toward him, th'
man following in dazed, stunned sor
OF way. He saw the womans arms
reaching out TO him again, look IL
her beautiful face that he would never
forget
In another moment he had opened
the door and was gone.
CHAPTER VIII.
Another Letter For Philip.
From beside his prisoner III th'
deep gloom Philip saw Thorpe ant
his wife come out OF the cabin min
ute later and hurry away through TIE
night Then he dragged the 6uar1
into the prison, relocked the door
left the key in the lock. and returned
TO Hodges office TO replace the o'c
clothes for his uniform.
Not until he stood looking GoWr
upon the dead body again did te'
enormity OF his own onense begiI
to crowd upon him. But ne was no
frightened nor did he regret villa
he had done. He turned out th'
Tight. sat down, coolly filled his pipe
and began turning the affair over
detail by detail. in his mind. He hal
at least, followed Inspector Mac
Gregor's injunction-he had follows
! mis- conscience. Hodges had got VIA
he deserved. and he had saved a MAJ
| and a woman.
But in spite OF his first argument
he knew that MacGregor had no
| foreseen a tragedy OF this sort, an
that, in the eyes of the law. he wa
guilty of actively assisting in u
| fight OF two people who could NJ
possibly escape the penalty of jus
tice-if caught But they would nt
be caught. He assured himself Q
that. smiling grimly in the darkness
! No one at Wekusko could explsl
what had happened He was posltiv
| that the guard had not recognize
him, and that he would think ore c
Thorpe's friends had effected tn
rescue. And MacGregor-
Philip chuckled as he thought c
the condemning evidence in his 20!
session. the strange orders whic
would mean dismissal for the inspe'
tor. and perhaps a greater puEisl
ment, If he divulged them He woul
be safe IN telling MacGregor some
thing of what had occurred in tn
little cabin. And then, as he sat |
this grim atmosphere of death,
thought came to him Of M'sieur JaI
ette's skull, of Bucky Nome, and c
the beautiful young wife at Lac Bail
If Mrs. Becker could know OF thi!
too-if Bucky Nome, buried som'
where deep in the northern wilde
ness. could only see Hodges as he la
there, dead on the cabin floor T
the one IL would be a still create
punishment, 10 the other a warrin;
And yet, even as he thought OF ia
colonel's wife and OF her flirta.io
with Nome. a vision OF her fac
came to him again. filled with IL.
marvellous sweetness, the purity, an
the love which had enthralled hIr
beside the campfire In these M
ments IL was almost impossible fo
him TO convince himself that she ha
forgotten her dignity as wife eve
for an hour. Could he have been Nil
taken? Had he looked at her wit
eyes heated by his own love, fired o