The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-02-05

And There in the Entrance Joyce Was
Standing, Watching Them-and Him,
Approaching.
schoolhouse. And there in the en-
trance Joyce was standing, watching
them-and him, approaching.
She looked up at him gravely as he
drew near, and she knew at once from
the look on his face enough to make
the breaking of the news less of a
shock to her. But the tears rolled
down her cheeks as he told her of her
fathers death.
Joyce, darling, I can't help feeling
that it's the best thfng-in the enc"
said Lee. cat least his sufferings are
at an end"
al think so, too, Lee she answered
calmly. "And now 1 know that-some-
howl have always known my father
was no longer alive. The bond be-
tween us was very close, though was
away from him so many years"
Lee told her about the discovery OF
the mine and his encounter with Lee
boeuf, slurring over the story of the
Indians attack on him. Then Joyce
caught sight of his hands, and was all
sympathy and dismay, and took him
into a hut and bathed them and ban
daged them.
Father McGrath had gone to visit
an old Indian in the neighborhood, and
the two talked a long time, and then
ate a simple meal together in the pres
ence of the children, who stared at
Lee over their soup dishes out of their
large, black eyes.
at is strange, the mine being so near
the house." Joyce said. "You know
Mother and | were never quite con
WINGED that there was a mine. we
we're never quite sure that my father
hadn't a delusion on that subject and
that Leboeuf, who was devoted to him.
wasn't humoring him.
"Old Leboeuf must have beer living
there for a long time. He had some
grudge against Railway, you know
He would have killed him once, if my
father hadn't interviewed
She reverted to her fathers death
and Lee was reluctantly compelled tc
give her the particulars.
HE may have suffered a stroke anc
have fallen over the cliff" he said
at any rate, his death was instan
taneous You may be sure he did moi
suffer" =.
; 1t was when he spoke of his dis
coverv of her mothers grave tina
+ Joyce showed signs of breaking down
..She was m such 8 long time" sh'
psid "She was r~aralyzed, and Their
was nothing that could be done TO
= her. When she died my father am
Tehoenf carried her body away int
the forest by night. They would neve
tell me where she had been Durlee
and I remember 1 used to proWl aDou
the house. always hoping to discove
ber grave. l suppose that was a par
of nv fathers madness, in a Il
wanted her to be near him where II
was working"
< If was after dinner that Lee opene
d he subject nearest to his heart
TT Dear, YOU know what l want t
to ask he said. win you let me TAX
Won south with me before the SHOWS
Of And will you let Father McGrat
Re marry US before We start?
k. ooh. Lee-when9" she asked.
le "Today, dearest"
ooh. not today, Lee!'
D. "TomorrOw. then? And We'll sper
el our in the log house, Ju
d., for q dav or two of happiness togeth'
before taking up the trail. know
will ALWAYS be your home, Joyce, al
that we shall often come back hel
IN now that the ~unhappiness OF the pa
is over" :,
ed "Wait, Lee !" Joyce was wrinkllng n
4orobaad in that manner that alwa
re- distressed him so much. Il want
tie oek Won something: Have you reaI
told me everything-from the til
Ids u,hen 7 had nv fall from the hor
ed until 7 awakened in the forest wi
gh Won? Or have you-hidden somethil
lid from me-out of consideration t
me me?"
"Why do you ask that, dear?"
nat "Recause II feel that You hay
ow Lee. 1 don't know why. It's Just
vas instinct have. And if there is son
thing more, l should like to be TO
err because-because 1 have a feeling tn
at it may help me to recover that part
to NV life that is still a blank to me.
:. Lee felt in a quandary. 1t was !
tic nossible to wish to keep anything fr'
and ~.Tovce; and yet he felt that she oua
use never TO know the incidents of II
asst day and night al Siston lake.
ted "If you don't want to tell I
the DEAR Joyce went on.
In Lee had to tell her then, and q
the minimizing the affair In all but