Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-03-18
the sick, and fighting the t.emonS.s,


himself about Resale. Could he mar
ry while his wife was still living?
Should he tell her all and let the law
separate him from Kathleen? But
kosale was Catholic and the
Church opposed divorce.
Just then bottle of whisky fell
from the pocket of a drunken "hab
tant" at his very feet. With an un.
comfortable impulse he seized 1t and
drained 1t. 10 Portugals followed him
as he staggered home and Charley In
his delirium recognized him as the
murderer he had pleaded for. He
took 10 by the throat, then fell to
the floor For five days 10 struggled
to save his life and then carried him
back to Vadrome Mountain. Rosale
came to warn him that he was sus.
pected of stealing the gold vessels from
the Cathedral In Quebec and trying to
blow up Government House. She had
hardly finished speaking when the
cure, the seigneur and the Able RIOS.
sign0l entered with two constables
The able charged Charley with the
theft, which he %outly denied. 10.
called the able aside and confessed
his crime In order to save his friend
promising to give himself up at the
end of year. Meantime Charley took
a vial o. laudanum from his pocket
but as he was about to uncork 1t, Rosa.
lie sprang from behind curtain cry.
Ing, "If you go, I go also" Footsteps
were heard and he promised not to
take the poison. The able came to
announce that he believed Charleys
denial. His great temptation still re-
NAMED but he found help in Rosalie's
eyes. 1t was the first time he had
yielded to power outside himself.
The cure was planning to give the
Passion Play at the Indian Reserva'
ton of Four Mountains at Easter and
asked Charley to. translate the Ger
man text and to make some drawings
for the costumes. He did so. About
this time Resale took her crippled
father to the hospital at Montreal and
was gone some months, which were
months of misery for Charley. What
could he do? He felt that it'had been
dastardly of him to win her love, when
he could give her only the empty hand
the hopeless hour, the secret sorrow
In return. He fought his old enemy
with desperate resolve.
The week before Easter he went to
Montreal with JOS dogs and sled. In
the dead of night he entered the white
house on the hill where Kathleen was
living made his way to secret cup
board and removed two packets; one
contained his mothers pearls worth
ten thousand dollars and the other a
thousand dollars In notes. As he turned
after restoring the panel Kathleen
stood before him in her nightgown.
She was asleep. Charley followed her
as she walked out of the house, across
The lawn towards the river where the
gate was open. Her life was In his
hands. For a moment he hesitated;
then noiselessly stole between her and
The gate, closed and locked 1t. Her
husband, not fifty feet away, called to
him.
flush She's asleep" Charley whis.
Dered and disappeared, unrecognized.
Rosalies father died soon after this
md she was Ill for weeks. The Pas
sion Play brought unwelcome crowds
10 Chaudiere; the last three days
strangers were prohibited. At the
inal performance Rosalie chose to
AXE the part of Marie Magdalen. Ut |
was an act of exe!ation. After the
,lay ended she received absolution.) |
Far away under the trees sat man
n misery Unreasonable. 1t was
Charley. That night he wrote for a
ong time; then put the paper with
he pearls and the money In the safe.
That same night John Brown lay |
Trunk In the church. He lighted
match and threw it on surplice. Soon
'ries of "Fire" were heard. Charley
md 10 saved the sacred treasures.
losalie went back for the little cross
md Charley dashed In and rescued
Ter.
By his eloquence the people were in
luced to give one fortieth of their
for n new edlfice. The
money collected was. placed in his
barge and locked in his safe under
he parish seal. While he and 10
rere keeping guard over 1t, Billy
Vantage, John Brown and three other
ogues, having learned where the
honey was, entered the tailor's house
0 steal 1t. Billy shot Charley, 10
illed John Brown, two of the other
len fred at 10 and killed him. The
cal was found intact. Rosalie helped
ind up Charley's wound and the cure
ras preparing to give him the sacra-
tent. Suddenly the bandage slipped
r did he purposely let 1t slip?-and
e died faithful in his love for Rosa
e. She lived, rejoicing In her men,
ry of him and in her lifelong serv-
,e for the poor and suffering of the
arish.
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