The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-02-18
the sick, and fighting the demon drink
| which frequently aSsailed him.

lage Charley rescued a man and his
frightened horse from death. The man
proved to be John Brown, now become
ia Quack doctor and advertising his
nostrums by singing comic songs.
Charley, hiding behind some trees,
heard him telling the story Of his old
friend champagne Charley" All day
he had been fighting a fierce battle
with n raging thirst and questioning
himself about ROsalie. Could he mar.
ry while his wife was still living2
Should he tell her all and let the law
separate him from kathleen? But
R0salie was a Catholic and the
Church opposed divorce.
Just then a bottle Of whisky fell
from the pocket of a drunken "habi.
tant' ut his very feet. With an I'M
controllable impulse he seized 1t and
Grained it. 10 POrtugais 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. ROsalie
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
cure, the seigneur and the Able Ros-
signOl entered with two cOnstables.
The able charged Charley with the
theft, which he stoutly 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 a year. Meantime Charley took
a vial of laudanum from his pocket,
but as he was about to uncOrk it, Rosa
lie sprang from behind a curtain cry
ing, "If you go. 1 go also" Footsteps
were heard and he promised not TO
take the poison. The able came to
announce that he believed Charley's
denial. His great temptation still re-
manned but he found help in Rosalie's
eyes. 1t was the first time he had
yielded to a power outside himself.
The cure vas 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 Rosalie 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 q secret cup
board and removed two packets; n
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 n%ightgown.
She was asleep. Charley followed her
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 it. Her
husband, not fifty feet away, called to
him.
Hush! She's asleep" Charley whis-
pered and disappeared, unr%ecOgnized.
ROsalie's father died soon after this
and she was Ill for weeks. The Pas
sion Play brought unwelcOme crowds
Chaudiere: the last three days
strangers were prohibited. At the
final performance ROsalie chose to
take the part of Marie Magdalen. ct
was an act of expiatiOn. After the
play ended she received absOlution.)
Far away under the trees sat a man
in misery unreasonable. 1t was
Charley. That night he wrote for a
time; then put the paper with
the pearls and the money in the safe.
That same night John Brown lay
drunk in the church. He lighted q
match and threw 1t on a surpliee. Soon
of Fire" were heard. Charley
and 10 saved the sacred treasures. |
went back for the little cross
md Charley dashed in and rescued
her.
BY his eloquence the people were in
1uced to give one fOrtieth of their
,OSSessiOns for a new edifice. The
money collected was placed in his
'harge and locked in his safe under
he parish seal. While he and 10
we're keeping guard over it, Billy
John Brown and three other
having learned where the
money was. entered the tailor's house
o steal it. Billy shot Charley. 10
Tiled John Brown. two of the other
hen fired at 10 and killed him. The
cal was found intact. ROsalie helped
ind up Charley's wound and the cure
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