Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-03-12
the sick, and fighting the demon drinA
which frequently assailed him.

Chaudiere was filed with festivity
As the militia came noisiiy into the VIII
lage Charley rescued man and his
frightened horse from death. The man
proved to be John Brown, now become
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 "a raging thirst and questioning
himself about Resale. Could he mar
ry while his wife VAS still living?
Should he tell her all and let the law
separate him from Kathleen? But
Resale was a Catholic and the
Church opposed divorce.
Just then a bottle of whisky fell
from the pocket of q drunken "habi-
tant' at his very feet With an un-
comfortable impulse he seized 1t and
drained It. 10 Portugais followed him
as he staggered home and Charley in
his delirlum recognized him as the
murderer he had pleaded for. He
took 10 by the throat, then fell 10
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 Ind
hardly finished speaking when the
cure, the seigneur and the Able Ros-
| slgnol entered with two constables.
The able charged Charley with the
theft, which he stontly 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 of laudanum from his pocket,
but as he was about to uncork 1t, Rosa
lie sprang from behind a curtain cry
ing, 'If you 60, 80 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 Rosalle's
eyes. It was the first time he had
yielded to power outside himself.
The cure was planning to give the
Passion Play MT the Indian Reserva-
| ton of Four Mountains Mt 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 Tint itshad been
dastardly Of him to win her love, when
he could give her only the empty hand,
the hopeles hour the secret sorrow
In return. He fought his old enemy
with desperate resolve.
s'he week before Easter he went to
Montreal with JOS dogs and sled. In
the dead of night he entered the white
house on the hiii where Kathleen was
living, made his way to a 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 o the house across
the lawn towards the river where the
gate was open. Her life was In his
hands. For moment he hesltated ;
then noiselessly stole between her and
the gate, closed ard locked 1t. Her
husband, not fifty feet away, called to
him.
flush She's asleep" Charley whis-
pered and disappeared, unrecognized.
Rosalies father died soon after this
and she was III for weeks. The Pas
sion Play brought unwelcome crowds
to Chaudiere; the last three days
strangers were prohibited. AT the
final performance Resale chose to
take the part of Marie Magdalen. Git
was an act of expiation. After the
play ended she received nbsolution.)
Far away under the trees sat man
In misery unreasonable. IL waa
Charley. That night he wrote for a
long 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 a
match and threw 1t on surplice. Soon
cries of "Fire" were heard. Charley
and 10 saved the sacrrd treasures.
Resale went back for the little cross
and Charley dashed In and rescued
her.
BY his eloquence the people were In
duced to give one fortieth of their
possessions for q new edifice. The
money collected was placed In his
charge and locked In his safe under
the parish seal. While he and 10
were keeping guard over II, Billy
Vantage, John Brown and three other
rogues, having learned where the
money was, entered the tailor's house
to steal 1t. Billy shot Charley, 10
killed Johrs Brown, two Of the other
men fired at 10 and killed him. The
seal was found intact. Resale helped
bind up Charley's wound and the cure
was preparing to give him the sacro-
ment. Suddenly the bandage slipped
or did he purposeIy let It slip7-and
he died faithful in his love for Rosa
lie. She lived, rejoicing In her MEM
ory of him and In her lifelong serv-