Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-01-20

he meets him. He fears for the girl
Marie-aDd unfortunately he is right
in his fears. For she has her mothers
nature
1t was many years ago, nearly
twenty. / think, and before came
here, when Capt. Jules Dupont was a
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 i'll
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
RE, 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 /
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.
1.-The women recall her mothers
fate, and their dislike has made her
secretiye and solitary. And it is lone
ly here, and Ste. Marie so near. Mon
sleur Askew, you saw the girl Nanette.
She is from st. Joseph, of decent par
ents, who mourn for her. She was
lured from her home to Ste. Marie,
and | have fears that some one is
using her as tool to get the girl Ma
RE Dupont into his clutches. But what
can | do save watch and wait?
Therefore, Monsieur Askew," con-
tinued Father Lucien, much agitated,
Il 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 yields
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 to
keep the brandy and the dance halls
out of st. Boniface, for l hear it being
said that one of the Duvals boasts he
will open dance hall there"
"No brandy shall be sold on the ST.
Boniface property, Father Lucien."
II am glad, monsieur" answered the
cure. "But Simeon Duval and his
brother Louis boast of Brousseaus
protection, and they are dangerous
men,"
''You have my promise" said Hilary,
''that they shall not sell liquor in St
1 Boniface. And by heaven I'll smash
any man who tries to corrupt my peo-
ple!" he added, with a vehemence that
surprised himself.
Hilary slept poorly that night. Trou-
BILE seemed to be thickening about him.
Had he, indeed, the power to handle
these wild people whose very tongue
he could hardly understand?
Then, out of the darkness. there
rose, in vivid portrayal, the face of
Madeleine ROsny. He admitted now
how much she meant to him. enough
TO make any venture worth the while.
He thought of their last meeting; and
in spite of it he dared to dream of a
happier one to come.
Before he fell asleep he had decided
to go to Quebec and try to secure
some jobber to take over Leblanc's
lease. At the same time he would
look up the land records and get an
accurate idea of the extent of the
Rosny seigniory.
Enthusiastically, he put his plan
into practice two days later, when the
down boat arrived, instructing LATE to
hold up the dynamiting till his return,
LATE saw him off, and he had hardly
arrived on board before discovering
that Morris had embarked at Ste
Marie. Hilary suspected him of hav.
ing learned of his plan and spying on
him. The two men eyed each other,
but did not speaF.
Hilary put up at the Frontenac and,
having business with the customs office
with reference t. a shipment of ma.
chinery, small matter requiring a re-
fund, he called there, and was disgust.
ed to see Morris coming out of the rev.
enue department in conversation with
the assistant chief
He failed entirely in his attempts to
get a jobber to suitcase Leblanc's
tract. There were plenty of small men
willing to do so on the installment sys.
tenn, but none willing to risk an imme-
date investment on q territory with
such a reputation as S. Boniface had
unjustly acquired.
Hilary knew he had to thank Morris
for that. He returned ia st. Boni-
face next day with only one thing &C.
complished. He had seen the land man
and ascertained that the upper reaches
of Rocky river had been surveyed and
that the creek was wholly on his own
land. He found. too, with some sur
prise, that large island out in the
Gulf was part of the Rosny domain.
1t had not appeared on Morris rough
map.
LATE, who met him at the wharf,
locked worried.
I'm glad you've come" he said, as
they drove to the mill together.
Things We're pretty bad on Saturday
night"
They're striking?"
mo. Mr.. Askew. That's the bright
est point in the situation. MACPHERSON,
the foreman, tells me that its called
on. Brousseau's dropped that maneu-
yer. for some reason of his own"
What's the trouble, then?"
Il guess Brousseau's off on another
tack. Mr.. Askew. All the hands was
over to Ste. Marie on Saturday night
by special invitation from Simeon Du-
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