The Winslow mail., 1922-11-24

Sfare come soon, and then through tle
| cane he come. Oh, won't you please
| be kind to me and 60 at once!"
Kind TO you? God bless you, l
WOULD die for you."
"Oh, you make love soon But
won't you please 20 now Quick, hear
something"
| "You>hear my heart. Let me stay
ten minutes. and then 60"
"Ah, hut why would you give me ten
minutes Of fesrf'
Z, Heasawe that her anxiety was .real,
| and his heart xmote him for cruelty to
| tIis dazzling creature whose father he
would hang with a rope brought from
| the. North.
Yes. l will go. / wanted to tell you
| something. but my regret at going is
SO deep that forget what it was. But
/ must come again when the sun is not
so low. No, tell me please, when that
shall be?''
"Never would man before talk like
this to me -. But if YOU must come
when | beg you no, let it be next
Thursday. My father then will be in
the hills to buy cattle"
This is Friday, and that will be a
week, lacking one day. You have set
doomsday for my return"
"If you come before, you will not
find me. And now it is the good-by"
She drew back quickly through the
inf t1,n fri Of fol
cane he went, parting his way to the
canoe that lay nosing the messy bank.
Only now that she was gone and
night had come did he remember-re-
member that this girl who had be-
witched the swift minutes with him
was the daughter of his sworn enemy
Stepho la Vitte.
A voice called him as he was ours
ing himself for a traitor to his fathers
memory. On a point of land he saw
three men standing. One of them
beckoned him, and he turned in to-
ward therli Zone of them spoke::i
Would you be kind to set us
across? The night he comes. and we
would not be lost in the swamp. We
will get to the river. Would you,
please?"
Yes, hut don't know that my ca
noe will hold four. We Aay get
ducking.''
He pulled alongside and steadied the
canoe while they got in. Now he pad
died carefully. The man who had
talked. and whom the other two adj
dressed as TOneZ, requested to he set
on hushy shore where the water WAS
SO shallow that the canoe was almost
stuck in the OOxe. With his paddle
Drace propped his craft steady, for
them to get ont. Tonez got out-and
with the quickness of cat snatched
rope from beneath his coat and
threw a moose about Braces arms.
Then the two men in the boat threw
themselves upon him. There was "A
hard struggle in the canoe and then
out into the water. bat they brought
Now they made haste to tie him Sc
curely. The canoe was dragged
ashore Drace stretched o;it in it. and
now they took 1t on their shoulders
| end hastened through the tangled un-
derbrush. He had fought hard. but
had not cried out. But as he was
| carried along, he swore bitterly at
himself for not looking at first with
! suspicion on the bruies who now had
him in their power.
spy said 'ronez. +But YOU steal about
no more. The carpetbaggers. they say
You hraSe2 and YOU say Yes. / am
brave Then they say, You find old
Stepho.' And vow go to find HIM He
Is, not at home But his men, they
come just in. time
"Ym are liars I WIS"
.'Ah, yan come. wifi fhe Joke To
morrow. we VIII laugh. VIII you? No,
you will not laugh"
Drace lay quietly tngginx Mt the
ropes that bonnd him. If he could
spring out free. what a scattering he
would make of them. They stopped,
entering some sort Of doorway. and
rested the canee on the ground Tonez
lighted candle. and Drace saw that
he was in All old cabin, almost ready
To fall Flrey rolled him out on the
foor. face down. and beneath his arms
they passed the paddle of the canoe.
so that he could not turn over. Then
the others went out, leaving Tonez
holding the candle
'Does the kind gentleman know WHY
they gone? They go to get the dry
rushes and the dead bark. For why?
To make the fire. 1t is not cold, no?
But they will make the fire of the cab
in. andAwhen the morning come. there
will he the ashes of the Kind gentle
man: and the people they will say:
'Ah. he lie down to sleep, and burn
up