Connecticut western news., 1921-05-05

It was St. Jean Baptiste's Dzw
 Chaudlere was filled with Sesrfwsay- As the militia came noisIly Into the vYI- lage Charley rescued man and him frightened horse from death. The namm proved to be John Brown, now became a quack doctor nnd advertising Aim nostrums by singing comic souxx 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 Rosslie. Could he mar ry while his wife was still livfnxT Should he tell her nll and let fhe law separate him from Kathlecnf Duf Rosalie was a Catholic and thm Church opposed divorce.
 Just then bottle of whisky nem from the pocket of a drunken ehnbA- tant" at his very feet. Wirh an wm- controllable impulse he seized # a@A drained 1t Jo Portugais followed ham as he staggered home and Charley M his delirium recognized him as tNe murderer he had pleaded for. EM@ took 10 by the throat, then fen a@ the floor. For five days 10 struggan6 to save his life and then carried AAm back to vadrome Mountain. RossaAm came to warn him that he was amm- pected of stealing the gold vessels tram the Cathedral in Quebec and trying On blow up Government House. She tmaN hardly finished speaking when Nh@ cure, the selgneur and the Abbe nmw- Signol entered with two constabsem The abbe charged Charley with as@ theft. which he stoutly denied. 1@ called the abbe aside and confesmdM his crime in order to save his frtcaz4 i promising to give himself up at 0Am end of year. Meantime Charley ksak l a vial of laudanum from his pocAans. but as he was about to uncork At, Ramm- lie sprang from behind a curtain uv- ing, 'If you go, I go also" Foo&shrw@ < were heard and he promised not a@ i take the poison The abbe came as announce that he believed Char7ewrm denial. His great temptation stflt ra- mained but he found help in RosaIs<Am yielded to power outside himself.
 The cure was planning to give thm Passion Play at the Indian Rcservm- ] ton of Four Mountains at Easter sm6 asked Charley to translate the Ger man text and to make some drawimHw for the costumes. He did so. About this time Resale took her cr4ppaea i father to the hospital at Montreal ssad was gone some months. which weEe months of misery for Charley. waamk could he dor He felt that itshad beem dastardly of him to win her love. wAem he could give her only the empty hand the hopeless hour, the secret sorrow in return. He fought his old cneany with desperate resolve.
 The week before Easter he went ~ Montreal with Jos dogs and sled xm the dead of night he entered the waaA&m house on the hill where Kathleen wmm living. made his way to a secret caw~ board and removed two packets. cssa coutained his mothers pearls usxxA tan thousand Collars and tts Uenw ~ thousand dollars in notes. As he turue4 after restoring the panel Kathleem stood before him in her nightgown- She was asleep. Charley followed her as she walked out of the house, acrosn the lawn towards the river where the gate was open. Her life was In hts hands. For a moment he hesitafed. then noiselessly stole between her and the gate, closed and locked t Her husband, not fifty feet away, called tS him.
 ''Hushl She's asleep" Charley whts- pered and disappeared, unrecognized
 Rosalie's father died soon after this and she was i'll for weeks. The Pms sion Play brought unwelcome crowdw to Chaudiere; the last three dayx strangers were prohibited. At the final performance Rosalie chose h0 take the part of Marie Magdalen. Nt was an act of expiation. After tho play ended she received absolution-l Far away under the trees sat man in misery immeasurable. It wzw Charley. That night he wrote fer a long time; then put the paper with 1 the pearls and the money in the safe That same night John Brown lny drunk in the church. He lighted m match and threw 1t on a surplice. Soon cries of "Fire" were heard. Charley and Jo saved the sacred treasures Rosalie vent back for the little cross and Charley dashed in and rescned her. ...
 By his eloquence the people were in- duced to give one fortieth of their possessions for a new edifce. 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 1t, Billy Vantage, John Brown and three other rogues, having learned where the money was, entered the tailor's house. to steal it. Billy shot Charley, Je 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