Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-09

punish Lucas Cullen. First, he
would marry me. 1 loved and be-
lieved him; perhaps he believed him.
SELF in those days; l was very young
and he a young and-we went to
a priest"
Barney began to make his way
toward her. Now she was stripping
her soul before these gaping people.
not to punish Lucas Cullen, but to
acknowledge him, her son.
Lucas Cullen learned of II, but
gave out h a his guest had gone or
a hunting trip" she pressed on. He
followed and finally found us. His
money, of course, was an influence;
l had nothing: De Chenal owed two
million francs. Lucas Cullen made
his escape easy. 1 was under age:
legal necessities had been ignored.
He married De Chenal to his daugh-
ter. gave him money and packed
him off. 1t was easier than before t.
make me an outcast. The next
spring. my son was born"
Mother" Barney cried, forbid
ding her as he stepped toward her
under the light. From the other
side of the room, where she had
been, women called her name. But
SHE ulu NOT near them.
This is my son!" she cried, her
hands clasping Barney's. MY son
lost to me that summer of his birth
because l was made an outcast but
nov now restored to met"
So her son caught her in his arms,
as her strength collapsed: with the
aic of some woman, unknown to him
l.ut who lovingly called her Agnes"
and kiSSa6 hpr nhnak hn hnrn hiS
mother through the door at the back
of the DON and away from the hub
hub behind them to where they
could be quiet and alone.
CHAPTER XVIII
A week later Ethel was in Chica-
&C, rejoining Barney and Cousin Ag-
mes and learning hat Lucas Cullen,
Senior, had mysteriously disappear
eG He had not been seen after leaS-
ing the seance.
Ethel and Barney married six
weeks later, at the old house at st.
~E"orentin.
Bennett and Julia and their mothcs
came up for the service, after which
Farney and Ethel went west. Agnes
returned to Chicago soon after the
Cul,ens went back; and old Sarah
Cullen remained at St. Florentin
alone with the Indians until July
when. after weeks of drought. the
forest fires, which had rested for
many years, swept through the tin
der-dry slashings and second growth
OF the peninsula and burned the old
house to the ground. So Sarah re-
treated, perforce, to the home of her
older son to pray and wait.
TDrOughOut the western forests
also drought prevailed that summer
Here and there the flames sudden
ly burst on two sides of little vii
ages. all but cutting off escape,
and in n of these places-so the
telegraphed news related a huge
old man, strange to the settlers but
dominating in name and plainly
expert in ways of fighting forest fire,
placed himself in command and
turned away the flames from the
town.
He himself worked tirelessly IN
the fire lines with ak and spade:
and when word came that W. of
his men were missing and probably
had fallen and were lying overcome
by smoke and gases, close in front
OF the flames. he went in and brought
out one man and returned for the
other and never came back.
Days later. when the fire had
burnt out, and men were able at
last to go through the black, smol-
dering region. they found his re-
mains beside those of the man for
whom he had returned. Identified
ton was not easy; but soon the
wires carried to Chicago the infor-