The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-05-13

E. His sentence will be a nominal on
rs Quite probably II will be impossible
d produce the witnesses required to col
= Wet at all. In such case he will 6
l. free.
I "He has acted ill-advisedly. FL
e should never have fed. His bes
course will be to surrender. He vii
I find himself a free man in a littl
while. instead of a hunted outlaw
VIII you unite with me In persuadint
him to surrender"
She shook her head. "We always
told him that-my mother and l." she
answered. But the thing had crazed
him, he hated civilization after 1t hap
pened. He was insane upon that sub
ject. He will never surrender
Let me try to picture to you what
happened, and the treachery and faith
lessness that have always pursued
| him. When my father fed from the
law he came here and settled with my
mother I was born here. For long
time we were very happy. My father
trapped. and in those days this was
one Of the richest fur districts In
Canada.
But my father was an educated
man, and in his heart he was always
chatting against his exile. He always
cherished the hope some day to take
us south where 1 could be educated
properly. Then In an evil day he fan
cied he had discovered a gold mine.
1T became a mania with him. He |
would tell no one where It was, except
Jacques Leboeuf, an old servant whom
ne trusted. They used to go off by
hight and work it together. My father
vas always talking about the gold he
lad collected. He wanted to deyelop
he mine, to sell 1t for a fortune, but
10 was always afraid Of being dis
overed, and he put 1t Off and put #
IF; and neither my mother nor ever
elfeved In the mine.
Then In an evil day a man called
athway came up. He was a small
Risky peddler. He had committed
'me crime against the Indians. He
Id been beaten, pursued, and was
III dead when my father saved him
ON their vengeance. He took him
ana FED and protected him. Rath-
~ learned Of the mine, and was al
ays searching for 1t, but neither nv
Their nor Leboeuf would tell him
lere 1t was. Once he tried TO spv
them, and Leboeuf had him by the |
'oat and would have killed him II
rather had not interviewed IN |
lie.
My mother died. Railway grew
and consequential, lived here.
ped my father with his traps. and
ugh for long time my father did
know 1t, continued debauchinp tbe
ians with his whisky. When I was
1rl of seventeen he began to take tel
ice OF me. He said he loved me.
idn't know much about love. but WI
lew 1 hated him. Then one dav nv wi
er came in from the woods lust in
TO protect me from him. and no
halfway through the arm
lie was aiming again to shoot him P
ugh the heart, for he was terrible ed
n his anger was reused, when recc
way standing facing him. with Swa
lrm dripping blood, coolly told him oiac
Knew that my father had COM =.
ID one murder already. and tbot -:
acts were In his possession. writ. Had
Town and left for safety with they
IN the south. The change in nv Sy
r was dreadful. He dropped his year
ne seemed almost demented His meri
for my future, conflicting with k,an
'ars 1or the present and his fears trea,
runway, broke his will. ~
Ter that, PATHWAY stayed on and great
~ they were always talking 70. Kiln
; and halfway threatened nv samp
) out still my father refused m and
MIN the mine, in spite of his
s. My father wanted all of the If
or met was his manic Sene,
.e Leooeuf came to nv father -
1ered to kill Railway, but NV -
refused, and Lebouef. who wa. 0f
10 MIN, never thought of dis ~
his strict command.
L happened before the Frao
were organized in Montreal,
ready the hooch sellers were
'osether. They had estab-
number of posts, one of them
ie Mlsquash, miles away.
journey north of here. Rath-
Ut u Lake Misquash to confer
81" AS soon as he was gone. -
her seized the opportun,tv 20
ated. '' ~
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