Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-02-13


Father Lueien half turned him over
and, uttering an exclamation, pointed
to the shoulder, from which fresh blood
was slowly yelling. Lafe saw that
Hilary was alive; he breathed very
family, but his face was the color of
death, more bloodless than that of
Madeleine. The cure began cutting
away the coat, then the lining, which
would not come with it; then the shirt.
He looked up.
Bring some water" he said.
LATE hurried out. the few curious
lumbermen gathering in panic and
scurrying before him. AS he stood
among them. shouting, a window in a
nearby house went up, and woman
handed out a pail, three parts full.
Lafe took 1t. AS he re-entered the
shanty the crowd slowly gathered be-
hind him again. He hurried into the
stable. The cure took strip of the
girls petticoat. dipped 1t in the pail
and began to cleanse the wound, purs-
ing his lips and shaking his head the
while. LATE could see that the wound,
1t was still bleeding. 1t was impossl-
BILE to do more than clean It superb
cially, owing to the need for haste.
Having done this, Father Lucien made
pad and placed it in position, while
Madeleine, working with steady fingers
which gave the lie to her face, began
to wind the strips over 1t round the
chest. All the while she worked her
face was agitated. and yet composed,
and only the tortured eyes betrayed
what she was suffering; but when the
| wound was bound she broke down.
1T is my fault" she cried in French,
sobbing despairingly. x warned him
and he would not hear me, and / rode
away. knew it long before and
would not believe it. / have killed
him"
The cures hand fell on her Shout
der. LATE noticed, too, and thought Z
significant afterward that, wild though
| her words were, and untrue, he did not
then deny them.
Madeleine looked up and, meeting
| his eyes, grew calm. Lafe stepped for
ward bent down and gently raised Hill
ary's head from her knee He placed
his hands beneath the shoulders, sup
porting them, while Father Lueien lift
ed the lower part of the body, and thus
they carried the stricken man through
the shanty toward the buggy
The cure made p motion to Lafe to
enter. "You and Mademoiselle Rosny
| win drive to my house." he said. "As
there is no room for ne, walk. / give
you the key, because my housekeeper
is gone to bed ana must not be fright
ened."
mo, to the Chateau" said Madeleine
Rosny. "Do you think he shall go any
where else, monsieur, when he is like
this?"
Her voice rang proudly, the tone adj
mitted of no opposition. The cure was
silent.
LATE drew Hilary into the bottom on
the buggy and crouched there, sup
porting the head and the upper part
Of his body. But Madeleine, watchful,
uttered a low cry. A little blood was
leaking through the bandage. She
FASTENED to the other side of the rig
and began adjusting it, while the cure
turned toward the crowd, which was
looking on in panicky silence, broken
only by low words and mutterings.
"This is a bad nights work that you
have donel - he cried. "You shall pay
for ii, every man here, and the assas-
sins too. / know them all"
The man who stepped forward was
/ the foreman of the mill, by ma. ne Mac
Pherson, a decent workman and a de-
scendant of one of Wolfes Highland
/ ers VINO had settled along the coast
and perpetuated their names and
something Of their stanch character,
/ If nothing else Of their race survived.
eve are not all guilty, Monsieur Tes-
sler," he said. 81 knew nothing Of this
until the deed was done, or / should
have used every effort to prevent it.
These people asked me to speak for
them. They say that they broke down
the stable door and saved his life when
he was about to be cut to pieces"
Il Ills III CElCA II dtilCI 1IA@iEhs
scornfuily. "His life hangs by thread !;
and If he dies his mErderers shall
| hang for 1t. And you are guilty equal
| ly" he continued, addressing the
crowd, which seemed TO melt under his
burning tones. you left him lie there
and bleed to death. And listen fur
ther. You think that Monsieur Askew
brought the revenue officers to ste.
Marie. DO not hate ste. Marie more
than he? Yet even would not bring
the officers here until had used every
means to clean up the evil there. IT
was Monsieur Morris who brought
them, for he told me So"
There was a sensation at the priests
words. An excited babble broke out.
Madeleine, who had just completed
the bandaging, halted with one foot
upon the step Of the buggy and turned
4 To the lunberueu