Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-01-16

"Ah, Monsieur Askew," said the
cure, stopping to thump his stick upon
the shingle, "there is a story there.
So he looks at every man when first
he meets him. He fears for the girl
Marie-and unfortunately he is right
in his fears. For she has her mothers
nature.
sit was many years ago, nearly
twenty, 1 think, and before 1 came
here, when Capt. Jules Dupont was
fisherman in st. Boniface. He was
married to Marie Letellier, who was
much younger than he, and gay and
thoughtless. People said it was an ILL.,
made match; but she loved him, and
they were happy.
when he left his young bride to go
sealing off Newfoundland the tongues
wagged, but he trusted her, and when
he returned there was the child Ma
| rie, and warm welcome. So three
years passed.
when Jules Dupont returned the
fourth year his wife was gone. With
whom? Nobody knew. I know more
| than anyone in st. Boniface, but I
never knew. Some wanderer from the
south shore and six months later she
was back with the child, pleading for
forgiveness. He sheltered her until her
| death soon afterward. Since then his
fear has been that Marie will have in
herited the mothers nature. He
never makes voyage but he returns
in fear and haste. And he wishes her
to marry Jean-Marie Baptiste, who
loves her-but you have seen tonight
to what her mind is turning.
| "The women recall her mothers
fate, and their dislike has made her
secretive and solitary. And it is lone
ly here, and Ste. Marie so near. Mon
She is from st. Joseph, of decent par
ents, who mourn for her. She was
lured from her home to Ste. Marie,
and I have fears that some one is
using her as tool to get the girl Ma
rie Dupont into his clutches. But what
can do save watch and wait?
Therefore, Monsieur Askew," con
tinued Father >Lucien, much agitated
81 implore you to prevent this evil
from spreading to st. Boniface. 1t is
Brousseau who debauches those poor
people there. 1t is he who is RESPONSE
bic for all this evil. He cares nothing
for the people, so long as he wields
their votes for his creature in the par
lament at Quebec. And this, mon
sieur, was chiefly the cause of my
visit to you tonight, to urge you tt
keep the brandy and the dance hall.
out of st. Boniface, for hear it bein.
said that one of the Duvals boasts b,
will open a dance hall there"
"No brandy shall be sold on the 81
Boniface property, Father Lucien."
II am glad, monsieur" answered tn
cure. "But Simeon Duval and hi
brother Louis boast Of Brousseau'
protection, and they are dangerou
men,"
"You have my promise" said Hilary
"that they shall not sell liquor in s.
Boniface. And by heaven I'll smas
| any man who tries to corrupt my pee
, pie! !" he added, with a vehemence tina
surprised himself.
. Hilary slept poorly that night. Tror
BILE seemed to be thickening about hin
Had he, indeed, the power to handl
these wild people whose very tongu
| he could hardly understand?
] Then, out Of the darkness, ther
rose, in vivid portrayal, the face {
! Madeleine Rosny. He admitted no
how much she meant to him, enoug
] to make any venture worth the whil
He thought of their last meeting; an
in spite of it he dared to dream of
happier one to come.
3 Before he fell asleep he had decide
: to go to Quebec and try to secur
some jobber to take over Leblanc
|, lease. At the same time he woul
= look up the land records and get a
: accurate idea Of the extent of tt
: Rosny seigniory.
Characteristically, he put his pla
r into practice two days later, when IL
Y down boat arrived, instructing Lafe
s hold up the dynamiting till his retur
Lafe saw him off, and he had hard
|, arrived on board before discoverir
that Morris had embarked at st
e Marie. Hilary suspected him of ha
ing learned of his plan and spying {
e him. The two men eyed each othe
r but did not speak.
Hilary put up at the Frontenac an
: having business with the customs off,
with reference to a shipment of m
t chinery, small matter requiring a r
fund, he called there, and was DISCUS
n ed to see Morris coming out of the re
d enue department in conversation wi
the assistant chief.
n He failed entirely in his attempts
S get a iobber to suitcase Leblanc
S tract. There were plenty of small m,
willing to do so on the installment sy
TEN, but none willing to risk an imm
date investment on a territory wi
such reputation as ST. Boniface h,
unjustly acquired.
Hilary knew he had to thank Morl
for that. He returned to st. Boz
lace next day with only one thing 6
compllshed. He had seen the land m
and ascertained that the upper reach
of Rocky river had been surveyed a
that the creek was wholly on his oy
land. He found, too, with some S,
prise, that a large island out ih t
Gulf was part Of the Rosny donna
1t had not appeared on Morris rou
map.
Lafe, who met him at the wha
looked wOrriad
I'm glad you've come" he said,
they drove to the mill togeth
Things were pretty bad on Saturd
night"
They're striking?"
mo, Mr.. Askew. That's the brig
est point in the situation. MacPhers,
the foreman, tells me that it's call
Off. Brousseau's dropped that man,
~ yer, for some reason of his own"
'r- whats the trouble, then?"
Il guess Brousseau's off on anotf
ce tack, Mr.. Askew. All the hands "
lk over to Ste. Marie on Saturday mis-
hit by special invitation from Simeon I
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