Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-19
BY SIR GILR-RT Parker
Author Of "The Seats Of the Mighty"
THE Money Master" etc.

! he had never loved any girl or wo
! man. To be in love would be a new
and piquant experience for him. He
did not know love, but he knew what
passion was. lie had ever been the
hunter, This trail might be dangerous
too, but he would take his chances. lie
had seen her dislike of him whenever
they had met in the past, and he had
never tried to soften her attitude
toward him. lie had certainly whistlcd
but she had not come. Well. he would
whistle ngain--a different tune.
/ "lou speak French much 2" he asked
almost eagerly, the insolcncc gone from
his tone. "Why didn't | know that"
! ~ speak French in Manitou." she
replied. "but nearly all the French
speak English there. and so speak
more English than French"
/ Eyes, that's it." he rCioinCd almost
anErily again. '"Thc English will not
/ learn French, will not speak French
They make MS learn English. and"
"If you don't like the flag and the
country. why don't you leave it," she
| interrupted. hardening. though she had
meant to try and win him over to
| Ingnlby'S side.
His eyes blnzcd There was some
thing almost real in the man after all
"Thc English can kill us, they can
grind Us to the dust" he rcioincd in
French. but we will not leave the
land which has always been ours. We
settled it; our fathers gave their lives
for it in thousand places. The Indians
killed them, the rivers and the storms
the plague and the fire. the sickness and
the cold wiped them out. They were
burned alive at tn" stake, they were
| hHyCd; their bones wcrc broken to
/ pieces by stonr>-but they blnzcd trials
with their blood in the wilderness frop
! New Orleans to lIudSon's Bay. They
paid for thr.land with their lives. Then
the English came and took it. and since
that timc-onc hundred and fifty years
We have been slaves"
"You do not look like slave" she
answered. land YOU have not acted
like slave. If You wcro to do the
things in France that you'v done here,
you wouldn't bc free as You are today. "
"What have | don"?' he asked
darkly.
"Iou were the cause Of what hap
pcncd at Iiarhn2on's last night"-hc
smiled cvilly-''you are rgging on the
roughS to break up the Orange funeral
today: and there is all the rest YOU
know so well.
I "N'hat is the rcSt I know 50 wcll?"
lie looked closely at her, his long. mon
grel eyes half closing with covert
scrutiny.
"Whatcvcr it is, it is all bad and it
is all yours.
'Not ALL" he rctortcd cooIly. "lou
forget your gypsy friend. He did hi,
part last night. and he's still free.
They had entered the last stretch OF
wood in which her home lay. and she
slnckenod her footstops slightly. She
felt that Sh" had been unwisc in chal
longing him; that she ought to try per
siStCntly to win him over 1t was re-
pugnant to her. still it must be done
even vet. She mastered herself fol
Ingolby's sake and changed her tactics
"As you glory in what YOU have done
you won't mind being responsible for al
that's happcned,' she replied in more
friendly tone.
She made an impulSivc gesture to-
ward him.
You have shown what power you
havc-iSn't that cnough?' she asked
"You have made tn" crowd shout
'Vivc Marchand You can make
everything as peaceful as it is now up.
set. If YOU don't do so, there will b'
much misery. If peace must he got by
force. then the force of government vii
get it in the end You have the gif
Of getting hold of the worst men here
and YOU have done it: but won't yOl
now master them again in the othcI
way? You have money and brains; VIII!
not use them to become leader o
those who will win at last no matter
what the game may be-
He came close to her. She shranl
inwardly, but She did not move. Iii
grpcniSh eyes were wide open in tn,
fullness of Cloqucnce and desire.