Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-10-22

For time Mashkaugan glared at
him, not realizing how strangely he
was looking. In his mind q strug-
gle was being fought. By this time
all supernatural fears had left him
and there remained but the knowl-
edge that he stood confronting the
man he had sought to kill.
Lorimer was defenseless before
him yet stronger. His mere presence
caused the voyageur to cover.
The instinct of self-preservation
was strong. A few lies were enough
to protect him, or the mere with
holding Of the truth. Yet also there
was the pressure of conscience that
had given no rest, that made him
feel pitifully weak and small as he
realized that Lorimer had en-
dangered his life to save him. There
was also fear that those dreadful
obsessions might return.
wait" he implored. "Wait but
an instant. My head is still dazed,
although / am not crazy"
The prospect of prison walls re-
turned to him-ghastly to a man Of
the Wilderness To one Injured to the
crowds Of cities Jail is bad enough,
but to one whose life has been spent
In the freedom of the painless north;
on the great, wide stretches of swift
rivers; on vast lakes; in camps
where the air has never been defiled
and the water is sweet and cool; in
the breezes that have travelled over
q thousand miles of glittering ice;
over wide, messy forests, the walls
Of prisons mean inexpressible tor
ture.
II shall never go back to It," he
swore and glared again.
II am perhaps also dazed," Lori
mer said gently, "for I need not tell
thee what my journey was through
that awful wilderness, with nothing
to eat but handfuls of sodden, mil
dewed flour. Other terrible things
have happened to me, so that now /
am man to whom there is no mean
Ing in life but to care for little
baby" Gc
He stopped, as he was coughing
terribly, and put his hand to his side.
Just then the little one began to cry.
Lorimer took it up, wrapped in the
skin OF q caribou cali, and held 1t
against his breast until 1t ceased to
wall.
"Here is all that have left Of the
happiness that was mine," he said.
"Thy face shows much sign Of suf-
fering, Mashkaugan; but l doubt if
ever such pain as mine has been thy
portion"
"Thou canst still have all the hap
Mashkaugan. ~ am the only one
rible must have been thy journey in
4 hn ACI yhn
could have made it. see now that
I followed thy track, made yester-
day, that was as the path of a drum
ken man. l would that knew may
some time reach place of safety, as
thou hast, and the child sought for
yesterday when saw thee and fled,
thinking it was thy ghostW
"Upon earth a mans soul is within
his own keeping, Mashkaugan. The
only way to find happiness for 1t Is
to keep it clean and undefiled."
At this moment the hunchback felt
that he was no longer master of his
own words. He could no longer pick
and choose them to tell whatever he
was minded to. Compulsion stronger
than his will swayed him now and
the food Of his words came unre-
strained.
T am accursedW he cried. "I
sought thy death For days and more
days, for a week and still other
weeks / watched and watched, look
ing for some way toSsend thee to thy
doom SO that no other man might
ever know that / had done it!
"Traveling up the river, studied
the White Rapids, that had already
been the death of one man, and when
we returned / followed thee, ready
to push thee into that awful Dlacel