Jackson County journal., 1919-10-10

| O Ills idoI refuge. Before
had grown quite dark [ had barricade,
Jacqueline and myself within a plac
the size Oa hall bedroom incloset
upon three sides with rock.
And there I waited for the end.
| sat beside Jacqueline, holding he
mana with one of mine, and my re
volver in the other. There was a fain
nutter at her wrist. I fancied that l.
had grown stronger during the pas
half hour.
But I was unprepared to hear ha,
Whisper to me, and when she spoke
was alert in a moment.
PAUL." she said family.
"Jacqueline y
Paul! Bend down. T want =
speak. to you. Do you know I have
been conscious for long time, nv
dear? | have been thinking. Are Won
distressed because of me?"
MY dear!" l said; and that was al,
that | could say. l clasped her cold
little hand tightly in mine.
You must leave me, Paul. becauso-
because of what is between us. Yon
must go to Leroux and tell him so
You love me, Paul?"
Always, Jacqueline," I WHISPERED
ohe put her arms about nv neck
Il love you, Paul." she said .1t
seems SO easy to say it in the dark
ana 1t used to be SO hard. Do Won
kho" what | admired and loved Won
Tor, even when you thought nv mind
unstable and empty? How true Won
were! 1t was that, dear. It was your
honor. Paul.
Ihat was why. when I remembered
everything that Creadful night in the
snow, the revulsion was so terrible I
ran away in horror. / could not believe
tlat II was true-and yet / knew it
was true.
ana LerOuX was waiting there ano
round me. l did not want to leave
you, but he told me there was Pere
Antolne's cabin close by, and that Won
would come to no harm. And he made
me oelleve-you had stolen my money
as Well. But 1 never believed that
ana only taunted you with it to drive
you away for your own sake"
one drew me weakly toward her and
went on:
Now that we are to part forever
anu perhaps [ am to die, 1 can sneak
10 you from my heart and tell Won
dear Kiss meas though | were vonr
wife, Paul.
80 you will go to Leroux." she
added presently.
is that your will, Jacqueline?"
Yes, DEAR she said. Because ve
nave fought, and now we are beaten
Paul"
l bowed my head l knew that she
spoke the truth l knew at last +hat
was vanquished. For. now that
'acqueline lay there so weak. so helm
ess, and thinking all our past was
'ut dream, there was nothing but to
'lelo. Ifcould not fight any more.
SO | left her and climbed cross tha
'ags and went down toward the
stream.
out before l had reached it q dark
lgure slipped from among the sbad-
'Ws of the rocks and came +ouor7
,e' ana by the faint starlight l saw
ne face of Pierre Caribou!
ne stopped me and held me by both
houiders, and he drew me into the
ecesses of the rocks and bent his
'lzened old face forward toward mine
An, monsieur, 50 you did not obev
10 Pierre Caribou and stay in the
ave." he said.
flerre, l did not know that Won
you'd return" answered.
Never mind" the Indian anSuoroa
JOKING at me strangely. 'All finish
o". Dlable take I.eroux. His time
ONE. Diable show me!''
HoW?' | answered, startled
All tnish,' said Pierre inexorah1v
nd, as | watched him a superstitions
sar crept over me. He, who had
even when he gave the com
laho' now cringed no longer. and
!ere was a look in his old face that
had only seen on one mans before
my fathers the night he died.
P1erre, where is Leroux?" T whfs-
cred. "Shall I surrender to him or
lall fight?"
mo matter" he said once again.
VI sleur, suppose you go back to
'selle, and soon Simon come. His
aOle lead him to you. His diahle tell
- WHAT TO say. All finish now!"
ne walked past me noiselessly, a
nuous shadow, and his bearing was !
PROUD as that of his race had been
tne long ago, when they were lords
mere now their white masters ruled.
(TO BE CONTINUED ,