The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-01-19
Between Money
and Love
BY H. M. EGBERT

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west Mounted Police reined in his
horse before Monsieur Pouillard's cot
tage on the Beaver river. He fastened
it to a sapling and knocked at the
door. A dark-halred, dark-eyed French
girl opened to him, and flung her arms
round his neck with a cry of joy.
1T is thou, john" she murmured,
rapturously, and with the kiss that fol-
lowed, John Waterford forgot his hun
dred-mile ride across the prairies in
the bitter wind.
Soon they were snugly gathered
round the stove: the corporal, Louise,
and Monsieur Pouillard, and exchang-
ing news.
And so one month will see us all
married people," said the old French
man, winking at Waterford, while Lou
Use blushed divinely.
Corporal Waterford's period of serv-
Ice would expire with the last month
of the year. He was not to re-enlist,
for, with the savings of his period of
service, he was to open trading store.
The three would live together, but
Louise would become Johns wife.
"But it was long ride here from
Edmonton, my friend" said Monsieur
Pouillard. what brought thee be-
fore next week, when we expected
thee?"
why, l am going to Toronto" an
swered Waterford. "a little matter of
business, so / thought would look In
on you two before / started"
Neither Louise nor her father asked
any questions. The word business"
kept them silent. Waterford would
be the last man In the world to d.
vulge the secrets of the police. They
had no doubt that he was going to
take in some criminal for trial, though
they imagined 1t must be an unusual
case that required his presence in To-
ronto.
But 1t was not a police matter at
all. AS Waterford rode away on the
next morning he was sick at heart.
Presently he refined in his horse and
pulled notebook from his pocket, in
which was newspaper clipping. He
read 1t to himself aloud:
"WANTED-News of John Water
ford, formerly OF Highbury Hall,
Stockton, England, believed to be In
the Canadian Northwest Any person
who can inform Messrs. Lawson and
Jones of No. AZ Orpington street, To-
ronto, of the whereabouts of said John
Waterford will be rewarded"
The clipping had been placed before
the corporal by his captain.
This seems to refer to you, John"
he had said "If you want to, take a
weeks furlough and run in to Toron-
to-"
The captain looked at him searching
ly, for he knew that Waterford was a
gentleman by birth, and surmised that
he had come into his fathers property.
Waterford knew that, too. His fa-
Their had died few months before
killed in the hunting field, in his
eighty-second year. And John was the
only son. And the Waterford estates,
together with the mining royalties,
brought in nearly thirty thousand
pounds annually.
But John was thirty-four, and it was
fifteen years since he had seen his
father. They had quarreled bitterly
over a woman whom John had wanted
to make his wife. His father had
ordered him never to enter the house
again while he was alive. With SIM
pie literalness John had obeyed. And
to add to the poignancy, the woman
had promptly thrown John over, for
she could not afford to wait an indefi-
mite number of years to get possession
of whatever the old baronet might
leave to his son. The estate was not
entailed
And Sir James had left him every
thing John had read that and read,
also, that the heir was being sought
for. After a dozen years in Canada,
years of privation and hardening, John
had come into his own.
A year before he would have re-
joiced at the prospect Of returning to
England. But during the past year
pretty Louise Pouillard, with her shy
eyes and endearing ways, had come
into his life, and he was dubious now.
He knew that If he took her to Eng
land her life would be made wretched,
She, the prairie rose, could not flour
ish among the English roses, the prod.
ucts of a thousand years of civiliza-
ton and breeding. True, he might
claim the estate and then go back to
Louise. But he knew the weakness of
his own nature; he knew how strong
is the tug of the home land upon ones
heartstrings. If he went home he
would never go back to pretty Louise
and Canada.
He took the train at Edmonton and
in due course arrived at Toronto. An
hour later he was standing in the pres
| ence of Mr.. Lawson.
81 am John Waterford" he said.
! Mr.. Lawson looked at him gravely
"Of course you can produce some evil
dence," he said. mot that 1 doubt
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