Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-02-17

It was St. Jean BaDllSIeS Lay, Chaudiere was filled with festivity As the militia came noisily into the viii l lage Charley rescued q man and his frightened horse from death. The man proved to be John Brown, now become q quack doctor and advertising his nostrums ny 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 q fierce battle with a raging thirst and questioning himself about Rosahe. Could he mar " while his wife was still living? Should he tell her all and let the law separate him from Kathleen? But Rosalie was 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- controllablc impulse he seized it and drained it. Jo Portugais followed him as he staggered home and Charley in 1 his delirium recognized him as the murderer he had pleaded for. He took Jo by the throat, then fell to the floor. For five days Jo 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 hardly finished speaking when the cure, the seigneur and the Abbe RoS- signol entered with two constables. The abbe charged Charley with the theft, which he stoutly denied Jo called the abbe aside and confessed his crime in order to save his friend, promising to give himself up at the end of year. Meantime Charley took 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, I go also.' Footsteps were heard and he promised not to take the poison. The abbe came to announce that he believed Charleys denial. His great temptation still re- mained but he found help in Rosalies eyes. It was the first time he had yielded to a 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 1 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 a secret cup board and removed two packets; one contained his mothers pearls worth ten thousand dollars and the other a l 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 it. Her husband, not fifty feet away, called to him.
 Flush She's asleep" Charley whis- pered and disappeared, unrecognized.
 Rosaie's father died soon after this and she was i'll for weeks The Pas sion Play brought unwelcome crowds to Chaudiere; the last three days strangers were prohibited. At the final performance Rosale 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 immeasurable. It was 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 it on a surplice. Soon cries of Fire" were heard. Charley and Jo saved the sacred treasures. Rosalie 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 a new edifice. The money collected was placed in his charge and locked in his safe under the parish seal. While he and Jo were keeping guard over it, Billy 1 Vantage, John Brown and three other rogues, having learned where the money was, entered the tailor's house to steal it. Billy shot Charley, Jo killed John Brown, two of the other men fired at Jo and killed him. The seal was found intact. Rosalie helped bind up Charley's wound and the cure