The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-06-24
THE FREE TRADERS

sible while old Leboeuf, bustling |
.r- side the house. brought out some flo,
N and bacon that the gang had left b
m mind, and proceeded to prepare mea
ia Father McGrath listened, utterir
a sharp expletives which sounded r,
NJ markably like clipped oaths, deprive
a. OF their harmful characteristics by tn
). alteration of an occasional consonan
Q AYE, and I'm no surprised" he sale
"Tis but what I'd have expected. Blu
O still, what can we do. Anderson? TIL
laws the law, whether of God or mon
:. an that compact ye made WI Rathwa,
q has ma blndln' power"
, II can arrest him for attempted
/, murder"
The priest laid hand on his Shout
der. Eye Gamma do that, lad" he an
swered. There's ma court In the land
would convict him. In the first place,
though ye meant only to save the
lassie from him, there's ma jury would
believe 1t. They'd say that compact
by which ye were to get his wife for
the mine stinks In the sight o. heaven.
Aye, and they'd say We arrested him
to get the wumman. Aye, and, fur
thermair, We Gamma shame her by
bringin her into court as witness.
Ma, lad, yen cen ha' to let It go.
I'VE fought guild fight for her, lad,
but there's naething more to do. Nor
can ye arrest him for hootch-sellln',
for that wud be meexin' up public
duty WI private vengeance Yell see
1t, lad when ye grow COOL
The shrewd, hard, common sense
seemed to turn Lees heart to stone. |
He knew Father McGrath was right. |
There was nothing he could do.
He could not even attempr the
arrest OF Pierre and Shorty for the
dynamltlng without bringing the whole
story into publicity. And he knew
well enough that, pima facie, 1t looked
simply like an attempt on his part to
possess himself Of the wife of another
man.
Then there was the dlscredlt that
such. case would bring on the police.
But as he stood there, feeling his
asst hopes gone, Leboeuf laid down s
Ills skillet and came toward them. The
I'D man had overheard all that had [
passed.
Listen, Messleurs," Leboeuf said. I
now can tell you what I know.
ave known Jim Railway under many
ther names, since, when he was
Dung man. he first came into this
istrict to sell drink to my people,
IMessieurs, many years have gone
years-since he came TO
AXE Mlsquash, where my people had ,
neir tepees. He was a friend to us.
lie trapped, and, If he sold a little
hisky, that was between ourselves
GU understand, Monsieur. And he :
as my friend.
zone day we both start to take rho
IRIS from our trap lines. His line
ms east and mine runs west.
ave my woman In my tepee. A
'ung wife, Messieurs, much younger
an myself. In one week 1 return. l
tepee Is empty. My woman is
ne. So, too, my furs.
Later learn. She has gone with
lthway. He keep her six weeks
len ne drive her away into the for
[. She dare not return to her own
opie. SO she go south to the cities
the white people. Long search for
:, but l never find her. You know
at happens to our women In the
les OF the white men, Messieurs
Then my heart becomes hard. like
stone AS for her. she Is nothing
me no longer But some day I find
thway again, and then kill him.
Well, Messieurs, many years ago
lie mere l work for my master no
Pelly. He trusts me. He tells
the secret that he has come here had
hide. He shows me the mine that bef,
has found. And for years we worL EST.
ogether, taking out the gold. He In :
It me to take a share, but gold 10 esco
ling to me, now that I have tbe ono,
'nse IN my heart. 1t shall be all rom
him and Mam'zelle Joyce some "y
:, we'r
hen PATHWAY comes. NV peonIe man
caught him doing another ,sucb a In,
lg' out my master tells them IN Rr
I've, and because they love INV rife
10y uo not inJure him. So the pulle
Is laid upon me also. his ,
ut tell my master what Ratb. at
did to my woman. and he turns AT,
In time to save Mam'zelle Jovce flee I
him. He shoots him through tho along
And Railway smiles and tells from
he has learned the secret that show,
'ring my master to die. the
tier that my master is as hIs ser going
And again say, let me KIN Leb
and again my master saw, M 1T Is
"e ooeys pathway In fear. only he pr
ouid never show him the mine And
Is for Mam'zelle Joyce. terrup
ght after night Railway follow, the nj
Ut always he loses us ar rho comml
g stone for he cannot come near said.
to discover the secret without broken
seen. Then Mam'xelle Joyce zoe. And
to school, and after that Rsth Estelle
Ives my master no peace. Ana 1t was
ne oetrsys him, thinking that had br
iny MASTER has been hung for Faith
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