Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-03-19


gether here through the winter. We
shaii be happier than Ia the past And
we
The name!" he cried. seizing her
by the shoulders. sTeII me now!
wait no longeri"
The old obstinate look came on Ter
face. Her remorse and pity instantly
died. She compressed her lips anu
was silent.
The name Thou shalt tell me! /
should have beaten thee when thou
vast child. But shall not beat thee
now, for can compel thee TO tell me.
| The name The name!"
She remained silent and utterly aui-
eseent. So strong had the inhibition.
| grown that she could not have told.
had she been willing to do so. save
under the Impulse of some overpow-
ering mental shock. And. armed by
the years, she grew calm as he grew
violens, and her MIND passed under
the dom nation of the old habit.
He let her go and stood beside her.
| pulling at his gray beard and smiling.
Marie had never seen her father smile
| at such = time before. And there came
into her mind an idea which had
never seemed possible, that some day
she might yield up her secret. The
mental inhibition of lifetime was
breaking under the stress.
Dupont strobe toward the door.
| stopped there, and looked back.
Il go now to the schooner" he said.
Il shall be aboard till we sail this eve
ming. If thou come 10 me before | sail
and tell me the name, give thee his
life, one life for another"
what life? What otherg" cried the
girl wildly.
He glarei into her eyes, and the
look in his own was that of a man
deyil-haunte1l.
'Dost thou think | do not know" he
cried, "of Monsieur Askew and thee,
or that Mademoiselle has broken her
betrothal with him because of thee?"
He turned toward her with mcnacing
gesture. "The name I" he Numbered
She covered under his words, ana
the name now trembled upon her lips
But before she spoke 1t Dupont was
gone.
He was gone, and she was alone in
the gray of the morning, watching the
gray sea heaye under a Frightening
sky, as she had watched II all her life
And her fathers appearance in her
room seemed unreal as dream.
All day she watched him from the
cottage. busy about his ship. piIlng the
logs on deck All day she waited
stunned, and incapable of action, re-
peating over and over in her mina her
fathers words, whose meaning was
unintelligihle to her. Yet st. Boniface
remained unchanged in that ruin that
had come upon her, Men laughed
noisily as they strolled from their
work at noon, children shouted at
play; the hum of the mill was a soft
undertone accompanying the horror in
her heart. 1t seemed incredible that
ST. Boniface could know nothing. when
the whole universe was crying out
against her.
1t was late in the afternoon when
she saw two figures SLOUGH toward the
vessel. She recognized Pierre and Lee
.blane. And In a moment she under
stood the meaning of their appearance.
Murder was being planned, against
Hilary, who had saved her. She
watched them go on board, paralyzed
with fear.
Then the power of action, return
ing, shattered the paralysis of will
that held her She ran bareheaded
from the cottage, through the streets
of ST. Boniface, toward the Chateau
She must get help there; her thoughts
turned instinctively thither, as 81.
Boniface had always turned for aid
toward its Seigneur
Madeleine, seated in her room, with
her memories of her dead. heard the
door bell jungle She went down. TO
see Marie in the hall. At the sight
of the girl feeling of repulsion, wild
and unreasonable. stifTened her. but
| when she looked into her face, she
spoke gently.
What is it?" she asked.
"Mademoiselle." stammered the girl.
"they are planning to kill him"
"Whom?"
| Monsieur Askew. who saved me
from Pierre that day. Mademolselle.
have only now learned what they say
-of him and me. 1t is not true. And
they are going to murder him. came
TO you TO save him"
"Nhere is he?"
HE IS going on board tonight. Per
haps he is there now. Pierre and Lee
blanc are waiting for him there"
wait here y cried Madeleine.
She-ran back into the Chateau. put
on her coat and hat. and took a re-
volver witch had lain for many years
unused IN a drawer of cabinet. She
hurried to the stable, harnessed the
horse, and brought the slf'gh 20 the
| door. She motioned TO Marie to enter.
leaped in. and took the reins. and the
two girls started along tbs road
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