Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-03-05

began labOriouSly to drag the bags OF
earth into this last refuge. Before II
had grown quite dark had barrlended
Jacquellne and myself within a place
the size of a hall bedroom inclosed
upon three sides with rock.
And there I waited for the end.
I snt beside Jacquelino, holding her
hand with one of mine, and my re-
yolver In the other. There was faint
| fiutter ut her wrist. I fancied that u
had grown stronger during the past
half hour.
But l was unprepared 10 hear her
whisper TO me, and when she spoke
was alert In a moment.
paul !" she said family.
"JacQuellnew
"Paul Bend down. I want to
| speak to you. Do you know have
been conscious for a long time, my
dear? l have been thinking. Are Won
| distressed because of me?"
my dear!" said; and that was all
that l could say. clasped her cold
little hand tightly in mine.
"YOu must leave me. Paul, because.
because Of what is between us. You
must so to LerOux and tell him Sc.
| You love me, PaulT ~
always, JacQuellne," I whispered
She put her arms about my neck.
81 love Yea, PAUL" she said. 1T
seems so easy to say 1t in the dark,
and it used to be so hard. DO you
know what l admired and loved you
for, even when you thought my mind
unstable and empty? How true you
were! 1t was hat, dear. 1t was your
honor, Paul. s.
"That was why, when l remembered a.
everything that dreadful night In tn 4
snow. the revulsior was so terrible. e.
ran away I'm horror. could not belle
that it was true-and yet l knew ~,
was true. 40
| "And LerOuX was wHitng there 6t&
| found me. | did not want to &884
you, but he told me there was Wft511
AntOine's cabin close by, and thattK@
would come to no harm. And he m llI{
me believe-yOu had stolen my mo ftxl
as well. But I never believed tN8X
and only tainted you with it to dr. 81
you away for your own sake" W.
She drew me weakly toward her an
went on:
"NOw that we are to part fOrevet
and perhaps / am TO die, | can speaX =
TO you from my heart and tell you
dear. Kiss meas though we're youl
wife, Paul.
80 you will go, to Leroux," she
added presently.
as that your VIII, JacQuelineY
"Yes, dear" she said. Because VIC
have fought, and now We are beaten.
Paul"
bowed my head. knew that she
spoke The truth. l knew at last that
l was vanQuiShed. For, now that
Jacqueline lay there so weak, so help.
less, and thinking all our past was
but a dream, there was nothing but to
yield. / could not fight any more. -,
SO left her and climbed cross Thu
bags and went down toward tht0
stream.
But before l had reached It dark
figure slipped from among the shhd-
Ows of the rocks and came tn.aeo
> me; and by the faint -Gturhgnt l saw
the face of Pierre Caribou!
He stopped me AMI held me by both
shoulders, and he drew me into the
receSSes of the rocks and bent his
wlzened old face forward toward mine.
"Ah, monsieur, so you did not obey
old Pierre Caribou ard stay in tht
: cayc," he said.
pierre, did not know that YOU'D
would return" answered.
"Never mind" the Indian answered.
looking at me strangely. "All finish
now. Diable take LerouX. HIS tina
come. Diable show me"
"How?" l answered, startled.
"All fiuish," said Pierre ineNorably,
q and, as | watched him a supersiitious
fear crept over me. He, who had
5 cringed, even when lie gave the cont
:, mand. now cringed no longer, and
I there was a look in his old face that
Il l had only seen on one mans before
on my fathers the night he died.
{ pierre, where is LerGuxY l whf4
8 nered. "Shan l surrender to him or
shall fight?"
k mo natter" he said once again.
o "NIsieur, suppose you go back te
d ma'm'sele, and soon Simon come His
diabIe lead him to you. His dia5le teV
y you what TO say. All finish now"
4 He walked past me nOiselessly, a
tenuous shadow, and his bearing was
y ms proud as that of his race had been
Z in the long ago, when they were lords
W where now their white masters ruled
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