Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-03-02

shouting back defiant curses mean
while.
They heard a sound of feet upon /
the single behind them, and turned /
quickly. 1t was Pierre, but he was
boiling for the woods. They ran at
him. but he had gained the shelter of |
the trees, and it was growing too dark
to follow. They stopped and looked
back. Leblanc was now quite dis |
lance from the island, and making for
the north shore upon the incoming |
tide.
Lets CO." said Hilary. and he took
Marie gently by the arm. She went |
with him obediently, and Lafe fol
lowed with Nanette, whose lip was
bloody from Leblancs blow
The tide was running fairly for ST. |
Boniface. 1t was. almost dark now,
but the wind had died away and the
stars were brilliant. Hilary, taking |
off his o7ercoat, wrapped it about |
Marie. The girls bewilderment had
yielded to AFFECT gratitude. She
raised Hilary's hand to her lips and
pressed it. Beside her Nanette,
wrapped In Lafe's waterproof, was
sobbing wildly and wiping her
wounded lip. The words that passed
were drowned in the sound of the lap
ping waves before they reached the
ears of Louis. at the tiller.
"Now, what happened?" asked Hill
airy of Marie. "Tell me. and we'll
clap those ruffians into Jail, assure
you. How did they get you into that
boat?"
Marie sobbed out her explanation
but when Hilary gathered, with diff
Guilty from the broken words, STAN
mered In French, that she had gone
aboard with Pierre to marry him in
Quebec, he could hardly believe his
ears.
"And your father knows nothing of
this?" he inquired, when she had
ended.
'He knows nothing, monsieur. All,
monsieur, you saved me before, and
Il was ungratefui. Promise me,
swear to me, that he shall never
| know"
"And you, Nanotte," eS1tinued Hill
airy, addressing the weeping girl,
what have you to say, who lured her
| here, knowing this?"
Il did not know, monsieur" cried
Nanette. "Pierre told me that if /
bring her he would get me back my
sweetheart"
Leblanc, eh?"
"Oui, monsieur. Then he take me
to Quebec, and we get married And
he promised me a wedding ring of
| gold, monsieur"
'And he told you that he was going
to marry Marie?"
"Oui, monsieur, we all go to Quebec
together. Only just before we land
he tell me that we all stay on the
island together first, and have a holt
| day"
''Nanette, Leblanc never intended
to marry you" said Hilary They
were using you to get Marie into
| Pierres power. Nanette-''
He bent toward her and touched
her on the shoulder. She looked up at
him, her lips quiyering, her face pa
/ thetic as scolded child's.
us it long since you left your
home?"
1.-TWO years, monsieur"
"Nanette, you were a child then, like
Marie here? Leblanc came to you and
told you Of the great world outside,
and how he would marry you and be
| kind to you. Two years have passed.
and he has ruined your life, and he
has not kept his promise, and still he
deceives you with his promises. Would
you go back to him?"
"Never, monsieur! He struck me-
see! Not in just anger, as n man
strikes his wife who nags him, but be-
cause he was afraid See where his
fist fell-seel"
"Yet, Nanette, even as Leblanc did
| to you, you would have had Pierre do
to Marie here"
monsieur! / thought he was to
marry her. Pierre told me, if bring
Marie to Ste. Marie no harm is done,
| because he loves her and he wishes to
save her from you, who mean no good
to her"
'From me, Nanette." exclaimed Hill
airy, stupefied.
"Oul, monsieur. and then you go to
Ste Marie to meet her and take her
home. And everybody say Monsieur
Askew loves her, and no doubt he has
wife in his own country"
Hilary looked at her in amazement.
He noticed that LATE was staring over
the side of the boat as if he had not
heard
| "Nanette. il you went home, would
/ your father receive your"
! "Ah, monsieur do not speak of it.
Perhaps he is dead. Perhaps they are
all dead from grief
would you like to go home, Nan
ette?"
"Yes, monsieur will go now, for
( have nothing more to live for. I shall
! so and beg on my knees"
81 shall send you home, then. Nam
cite. But now ask forgiveness from
Marie here. and then thank God that
He has saved her tonight in spite of
all the evil that was against her"
/ Nanette croucheG toward Marie Du-
pont, whGse arms stole round her neck,
and the two girls cried and whispered
/ together. Hilary turned away. he
thought of Madeleine, and breathed a
prayer that their lives might run to-
gether, and that they might strive to-
gether for the right all their days.
He turned back into the boat. Now,
Marie, no word of this nights doings
shall ever pass my lips" he said. "But,
Marie, your life is unhappy There is
a good man in ST. Boniface who cares
for you. Do you think that you could
learn to care for him?"
"Ah, pauvre Jean," wept the girl. /
I have been ungratefuI to him. mon
sieur. And now am not worthy that
he should have anything to do with /