The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-20

1t, Resale sprang from behind a cur
tain, crying, If you go, go also"
Footsteps were heard and he promised
not to take the poison. The able came
to announce that he believed Charley's
denial. His great temptation still re-
NAMED but he found help in Rosalie's
eyes. 1t was the first time he had
yielded to power outside himself.
The cure was planning to give the
Passion Play at the Indian Reserva.
ton of Four Mountains at Easter and
asked Charley to translate the German
text and to make some drawings for
the costumes. He did so. About this
time Rosalie took her crippled father
to the hospital at Montreal and was
gone some months, which were months
of misery for Charley. What could he
do? He felt that it had been dastardly
of him to win her love, when he could
give her only the empty hand, the
hopeless hour, the secret sorrow in re.
turn. He fought his old enemy with
desperate resolve.
The week before Easter he went to
Montreal with JOS dogs and sled. In
the dead of the night he entered the
white house on the hill where Kath.
leen was living, made his way to a
secret cupboard and removed two
packets: one contained his mothers
pearls worth ten thousand dollars and
the other a thousand dollars in notes.
AS he turned after restoring the panel
Kathleen stood before him in her
nightgown. She was asleep. Charley
followed her as she walked out Of the
house, across the lawn towards the
river where the gate was open. Her
life was in his hands. For moment
he hesitated; then noislessly stole be-
tween her and the gate, closed and
locked it. Her husband, not fifty feet
away, called to him.
Hush! She's asleep" Charley whis-
pered, and disappeared, unrecognized.
Rosalie's father died soon after this
and she was i'll for weeks. The Pas
sion Play brought unwelcome crowds
to Chaudiere; the last three days
strangers were prohibited. At the final
performance Resale chose to take the
part of Marie Magdalen. ct was an
act of expiation. After the play ended
she received absolution.) Far away
under the trees sat a man in misery
immeasurable. 1t was Charley. That
night he wrote for a long time; then
put the paper with the pearls and the
money inthe safe. That same night
John Brown lay drunk in the church.
He lighted a match and threw it on a
surplice. Soon cries of Fire" were
heard Charley and 10 saved the sac
red treasures. Rosalie went back for
the little cross and Charley dashed in
and rescued her.
By his eloquence the people were in
duced tn give one fOrtieth of their
possessions for new edifice. The
money collected was placed in his
charge and locked in his safe under
the parish seal. While he and 10 were
keeping guard over it, Billy Vantage,
John Brown and three other rogues
having learned where the money was.
Billy shot Charley, 10 killed John
Brown. two of the other men fired at
10 and killed him. The seal was
found inact. Resale helped bind up
Charley's wound and the cure was pre-
pairing to give him the sacrament.
Suddenly the bandage slipped-or did
he purposely let it slip?-and he died
faithful in his love for Rosalie. She
lived, rejoicing in her memory of him
and her lifelong service for the poor
and suffering of the parish.
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