The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-09
az you looked on other children?--

oh. hav" pity: Hush"
y Scapcgoat--
Don't. don't: | will go back She
was a his feet.
/. "A child to grow up with no thought
%: evil and one day the world 10 fling
L tender name in his face
20 my Cod: my Cod"
She groveled on the floor The priest
sighed and raised her to her feet. Whar-
ton pressed forward. but she motioned
him away.
Don, come near me. Clyde! am
going back" The tears were coursing
pitifulIy down her face, but she made
no effort 10 wipe them away.
After all this: You cannot: I will
not let You
Don't touch me" She shtvered and
drew back.
Il will: You are mine! Don't you
ed upon the priest. 'Oh. what a fool I
was 70 ever let you wag your silly
! tongue! Thank your God you are not
common man. for I'd But the
eh: Well, you have exercised It Now
get out Of my house. or Ill forget who
and what you are!''
Father Roubeau bowed. took her hand.
and started for tho door But Wharton
cut them Off.
"Gr ;,, You said You loved meT
And you do now
Say it again"
II do love you. Clyde; l do
There. YOU priest" he cried. You
have heard it. and with those words on
her lips you would send her back TO
live Il lie and hell with that man."
But Father Roubeau whisked tho
woman into the inner room and closed
the door. NO words" he whispered TO
Wharton. as he struck a casual posture
on Il stool. Rem embcr. for her sake.
he added.
The room echoed to a rough knock at
the door: then the latch raised and Ed
; win BaUtham stepped In.
! Seen anything OF my wife," he ask
, ed. as soon as salutatious had been e1-
! changed.
TWO heads nodded negatively.
Il saw her tracks down from the
cabin" he continued tentatively. land
they broke Oft, just opposite hers, on
the main trail"
His listeners looked bored.
! And II thought
she WAS here" Numbered Wharton.
The priest sllenced him with a look
| Did you see her tracks leading up to
this cabin, my SON." Willy Father Rou-
beau--he had taken good care to ohlter-
an hour before
II didn't stop to look. r.. Hts eyes
rested suspiciously on the door to the
other room, then !nterrogated the priest
The latter shook his head: but the
doub. seemed to linger.
; Father Rouheau breathed a swift, ST.
lent prayer, and rose to his feet III
, you doubt me. why He made AS
though TO open the door.
A priest could not do II. Edwin Ben
than had heard this often. and believed
il. "Hf course not. Father" he inter
I posed hurriedly. II was only wonder
Ing where my wife had gone. and
Thought :,ayhe-t guess she's up at
| weather, ISN'T it, Heard the news"
Flours gone down 10 forty dollars a
hundred. and they say the che-chaa-QuaS
ara flockius down the river in droves.
But must he going: so good-hye.'
The door slammed. and from the win
dow they watched him take his quest
up French Gulch.
! frw weeks later. Just after the Tuns
! !;iEh-wat~r two men shot canoe Into
! ~, Id stream and made fast 10 n dertlict
! pine. This frightened tn" painter and
; j"ried tn. :raIl "rnft along a. would
Z 4 ,ow-hoat. Father Rouhcau had been
! directed TO lear" tho Upper Country
and return 10 his swarthy children at
! Minnnk The white men had come
! among them. and they we're dnr"tiuG
| too ,!ttl" time TO fishing. and too much
J. 70 a certain deity whose transient hahi-
, tat WAS 1T countless black bottles Male
mute Kid also had business in the Low
or Country. so they journeyed together.
: But one. in all the Northland. know
! the man Paul Roubeau. and that man
was Mniemute Kid Before him alone
did the priest cast off the sacerdotal
garh and stand naked. And why no: =?
These two men knew each other. Had
they not shared the last morsel Of fish.
the last pinch OF tobacco. the LAST and
! utmost thought. on the barren stretches
! OF Rering Sea. in the heart breaking
rnazes OF the rGeat Delta. on the terri
bile winter journey from Point Rarro"
TO the Porcupine'
Father Rouheau pucfed heavily at his
! tratl-~orn pipe, and gazrd on the red
disked sun. poised somhr"ly on the
edge ot the northern horizon. Male
mute lid would up his watch It wan
midnight
cheer IN, ola man" The KID was
evidently gathering tar broken thread
God surely will forgive such lie. Let