The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-10-02

hnps IL was only the desire to talk of
Jacqueline and hear her name upon
my lips and PIerre's.
"Plerre, came here to save Mile.
Jncqueline." / said.
"No can save him." he answered.
mo can fight against Simon"
"What, In the devils name, Is his
power, tbenT' / cried.
"Le dlable," he replied. He may
have misunderstood me, but the an
swer was apt. "No use fight him." ne
said. "All finish now. Old times, him
finish. and my gal, too. Soon Pierre
Carbon, him finish No can fight
simon. Perhaps old Pierre kill him,
nobody else" He looked steadily at
me. II poison him dogs he added.
"WhatT' | exclaimed.
"Simon, him tell me long ago no.
body come TO chateau. So you finish
too. maybe. What he tell you. you
go?'
"Iacrolx Is going to take me to Pers
Antoine's cabin tomorrow morning"
The Indian grunted. "Simon no
mean TO let you CO." he said. "He
mean kill you. You know too much.
Sometime he kill me, too, or l kill
him"
pierre" / said. taking him by the
arm, "what is the Old Angelic Well
Anger"
He stared stolldly at me.
"why you ask that?" he said.
Because Lncroix has been instruct.
ed TO take me by that route" l an
swered.
Pierre shook the ashes out Of his pipe
and rose. "Come with me-" re said.
~ show you-because you frien' OF
Ma'm'selle Jacqueline. Come"
followed him out of the hut. A
large moon was just rising out of the
east but 1t was not yet high enough
to cast much light.
We traversed perhaps milo Of
outer blackness. Then began to see
CLEAN Of moonlight In front OF me,
and though l had not been conscious
OF any turn / discovered that we must
have retraced our course completely,
for heard the roar of the cataracts
| again.
Then we emerged upon a tiny slelf
OF rock some forty feet up the face
OF the wall and quite invisible from
below. It was little above the level
| OF the chateau roof, about hundred
yards away. Below me i could see the
main entrance to the tunnel.
We had a foothold Of about ten
feet on the level platform, which was
! slippery with smooth black ice, and
| laundering over us, so near that i
could almost have touched II had
stretched out my hand, The whirling
torrent plunged into that hell below.
Pierre caught my arm. ms I reeled
sick with the shock of the discovery,
and yelled into my ear above the din.
lie Well Anger he cried. "This
way Simon mean you to go tomorrow.
Lacroix him tell you: Get down, we
find the road He take you up here
and push you-so."
He made q graphic gesture with his
arm and pointed. looked down,
shudderlng, into the black, foam
crested water, bubbling and whirling
among the grotesque Ice pillars that
stood like sentries upon the brink.
"What you do?" he asked. "You 60
to Pere Antoine tonightf What you
| do now2'
1 took the pistol from my coat
pocket.
"Plerre." I answered. 81 have two
bullets here and both OF them are fol-
Simon. Tonight l had him In my
power and spared him. Now am go
ing back and 1 shall shoot him down
like dog, whether he is armed OF
defenseless."
Pierre's face was twitching. "Yor
no 20 back |" he cried. "Simon he kill
you. No use to fight Simon. Hin
time not come yet. When him time
come he die"
"When will II conner" asked, look
ing at the mans features. which were
distorted with frenzied hate.
"I not know |" exclaimed Pierre. %
try find-cards tell me. No Indiar
man in this part country remember
how tell me. In old days many coult
tell. Now 1 wait. When his tim'
come old Indian know. He kill Simon
then himself. Nobody else kill Simon
No use you try"
shook the Indians hands away and
plunged forward into the tunnel again
heard him calling after me; but
think he saw that was not TO be de
tered, for he made no attempt Il
follow me.
(To BE CoNTINUED)