El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-22

! pope. and late one night after Char
7 ley had gone TO bed. heated It red hot
and rushing upstairs, dropped IL on
I Charley's bare chest. ROsalie from
under the tailor's door at that un-
usual hour and suspectng something
wrong saw through the shutters what
{ the man was doing She FASTENED
through the kitchen and upstairs but
{ too late 10 stay the tailOr's hand BE
turned and fell headlong and died soon
after, calling Charley n black infidel
from hell"
Resale took the cross to the postof-
flee and Afterwards restored IL to the
church door Chaudiere believed ti'at
the taiiors death was due TO the in
fidel. and was ready to mob him. but
the cure took his part and urged the
people TO pray that he might be
brought into the fold.
Charley lived on in the tailor's
house and continued his business, Civ
Ing most Of his earnings 10 the door
and the sick. and fighting the demon
drink which frequently sssailed him.
II was St Jean Baptiste's Day.
Chauciere was filled with festivity.
As the militia came noisily into the
village Charley rescued a man and
his frightened horse from death The
man proved 10 be John Brown. now
become duack doctor. and adVertis-
ing his nostrums by singing comic
lees, heard MIN telling the story Of
s old friend "ChamDaEne Charley"
al day he had been fighting a fierce
battle with a 20 cling thirst and cues
tioning himself about Rosslie. Could
he marry while his wife was 1fvinr2
Should he tell Ter all and let the law
separate him from Kathleen? But
ROsalie was Catholic and the church |
opposed divorce
Just then a bottle OF whisky fell
e-arn4 Il =
tant' II his very feet With an uncou-
troliabl impulse be seized IL and /
drained It 10 Portugais followed |
him rs he staggered home and Charley [
in his delirium RECOGNIZED him as the 4
muro erer he had pleaded for. He took I
10 BY the throat. then fell TO the floor. /
For five DAYS 10 struggled to save his /
ne and then carried him back TO |
Nadome Mountain Resale came n
warn him that ne was SUSPECTED Of !
stealing the gold vessels from the
cathedral in Quebec and irving TO J
blow up Government House. She had j
hardly finished speaking when the I
cure. the seiCneur and the Able R0s-
- 7,-aol entered with two eonstables.
The able CHARGED Charley with the .
theft which he sfoutly denied 10 (
called the ahhe aside and confessed II
his crime in order to gave his friend.
ornising to give himseif I'D at the
end OF a wear. Meantime Charley took
H. 2
hut as Re was about TO uncOrk It I
Rnsalie s"rang from behind a crlrfa m
crying. IF you 20. 20 also Foot
stems were heard and he promised not
TO take the poison The able came
to announce that he believed Cher
iews denial HIS great termination
still remained hut he fannd helm in
Rosalia's ewes It was the first time i
he had yielded to a power outside
himself
The cure was planning 10 give the
Passion PLAY al the Indian reserva-
tiou Of -Four Mountains at Eae+er and
asked Charley to translate the Ger
man text and TO make some drawings
for the costumes He did so About
this time Resale took her criDDied
father to the hosDital at Montreal
and was zone some months. which !
we're months OF misery for Chariev.
What could ne do Re felt that II
had been dastardlv OF him to win her
love. when Re could give her only tha
emuty hand. the homeless hour. the
7ecret sorrow in return. He f1nght
his old enemy with DESPERATE resolve
The week before Faster he went to
Montreal with los dogs and sled IN
the dead Of might he entered the white
house on the hill where Kathleen WIS
'ivinT. made his way 10 secret cf7p-
board and removed two packets. Ono
1onf"i ped his mothers nearis. worth
$4,000. and the other thousand dol
lars IN notes. As he turned after re-
storing the panel Kathleen stood he
fore him in her niehtgown She was
asleep. Charley followed her as she
ra liked ont Of the house. across the Z
lawn towards the river. where the ,
~ate was omen. Her life vas in his
bonds For 2 moment he hesitated: