Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1919-10-24
CHAPTER XXI-Continued.
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IT,
Il went to New York to get my
snare. l wasn't going to be ousted. I
who had been one of the discoveries
1 don't know how much Carson paid
Louis, but L meant to demand half. ]
thought he had the money in his
pocket.
Il followed him all that afternoon
after he had left Carson's office. /
watched him in the street. At night
ne went to room somewhere-at the
top OF a tall building. l followed him.
when l got in found a woman there.
Louis was talking to her and threaten
Ing her. He said she was his wife.
HOW could she be his wife when he
mad married Jacqueline Duchaine?
Il didn't care-it was no business
or mine. l couldn't see them, because
tnere was a curtain in the way. There
was no light in the bedroom. There
was light in the room in which T
was. L put it out, so that neither of
them should see my face. She might
have betrayed me, you know, Simon.
HE spun round when the light went
out, and pushed the curtain aside. 7
was waiting for that. had calculated
my bloW. l stabbed him. 1t was a
good blow, though it was delivered in
the dark. He only cried out once. But
the woman screamed, and a dog flew
at me, and I couldn't find his money.
So / ran away.
And then there were only three of
us who knew the secret. Then Simon
died and there were only two, and now
there are only Hewlett and 1, and he
Is dead, poor fool, and I have my gold
mere. For Gods sake give me a knife
Simon :"
His fingers tore at my sleeve in his
last agony, and / was tempted sorelv
And it was his own knife that had
The irony of it!
de muttered once or twice and cried
out in fear Of the man whom he had
slain. heard him gasp a little later
linen the hand fell from nv sleeve
And after that there was no further
sound.
"Paulw
II was the merest whisper from the
wall. l thought it was trick of nv
own mind. l dared not hone.
Paul! Dearest"
tms was no fancy born of a de-
Hrious brain and the thick fumes of
dynamite. 1t came from the wall =
little way ahead of me. / crawled tho
three rect that the little cave afforded
ana put my hands upon the rock fool
ing It's surface inch by inch. There
was crevice there, not large enough
10 nave permitted bird to pass-tbe |
merest assure.
Jacqueline! Is that you. dearp" 7
caileo. You are not hurt, Jacoueline2 ."
am lying where you left me, dear.
Paul, II heard"
You heardY I answered d,,ur
"hat did 1t matter now?
why didn't you tell me, Paul? Hut
never mind. 1 am so glad, dearest
Gan you come through to me?"
struggled to tear the rocks awav.
peat and bruised my hands in vain
against them.
Il will come when II grows 1;oh+
Jacqueline," I babbled. "Wbon ~
grows lightr -
one dld not know that it would never
gro" llght for me. Again I flung nv
ser against the walls Of my prison.
Datterlng at them till the blood drinned
from my hands. Again and again
hung myself down hopelesslv ond
men trled again, clutching at every
fragment that protruded into the cave
ana at last, when my despair had
mustered met grew light.
FOR sunbeam shot like q finocr !
through the crevice and uuivered unon
the HoOr Of the cave. And overbood
where l had never thought to cool,
where had thought three hundred
leet OF eternal rock pressed down on
'he' saw the culver Of day through
nair a dozen feet of tight packed debris
from the glaciers mOu n.
raised myself and tore et q ord
sent 1t flying. thrust my hands among
.ne stones and tore them down like
A'oil TOlCen rOOf.
heard shout; hands were reached
io"n TO me and pulled me up. and 7 d
was on my feet upon a hillside. look 4
ing into the keen eyes Of Pere Antoine v
ana the face of the Indian souaw 6
And the Eskimo dog was barking at \
my side. - n
only one thing marred the happi-
ness OF our reunion, and that was the a
oss Of Jacquelines father. h
we had talked much over what had
lappened, and ten days later. when Il
'acqueline had recovered from tho s
mock and from what proved to he
'i'er all, only a fesh-wound, we had "
listed the scene of our rescue bv tho I
I'D priest. ~ '''e 3
Inc charge of dynamite which Tn, =
'roi& mad set exploded, as it hapnennd n
that part which buttressed tho .
,n'ire structure, and combining with .
ne pressure of the glacier above ~, -